Harnessing a team to a buckboard, they drove out to a willow-lined creek about a half-mile off, then climbed down and began chopping.

After what seemed several seconds, the open mouth grew dark inside then blood began to ooze from it.

He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.

Lewis looked at him and began to cry, and then, saying that he was going to make a promise, he asked Blackman to call the porter and to tell him to take out all the liquor that he did not want.

He returned to New York to work for The New Yorker, to edit a Western pulp, to `` duck the war in the OWI '', to write publicity for Paramount Pictures and commentary for a newsreel, then he began his career as critic for various magazines.

It began invariably in low tones, almost conversational, and then gradually worked up to high, shrill appeals to God and man.

To win her favors, her husband first took an additional job, then desperately began to embezzle from his employer.

As she had done with Means, she gained rapidly at first, but then Baldy began to draw away.

The doorman began to nod his head automatically, then remembered who Gilborn was, what had happened to him the night before.

`` The trouble with you '', old man Arthur began, and then checked himself.

For another moment we didn't talk, then she began to weep.

Player began with a birdie on the first hole, added five straight pars and then another birdie at the 9th.

But Victoria began yodeling just then and he went home, carrying Sabella in the back of his head, not thinking about her, just knowing she was there, smiling, smelling of peppermints.

He then decided to become a lawyer and began teaching himself law by reading Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and other law books.

Hermes then began to play music on the lyre he had invented.

Huxley began his learning in his father's well-equipped botanical laboratory, then continued in a school named Hillside.

Cuarón began working in television in Mexico, first as a technician and then as a director.

" Gradually and unexpectedly, the song began to be played on the radio, and then be requested.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.

In the 1960s Korner began a media career, working initially as a show business interviewer and then on ITV's Five O ' Clock Club, a children's TV show.

In 1992 a feminist group began a nationwide fundraising campaign and then obtained matching state funds to endow a professorship at the University of Oklahoma Law School in honor of Hill.

He then began to study law and was admitted to the bar in 1837, selling the Advocate the same year.

The split became irrevocable when Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society, began to present the child Jiddu Krishnamurti as the reincarnated Christ.

`` And the boy will be too much under his influence by then.

For this reason, then, poetry tends to weaken the power of control, the reason, because it tempts one to indulge his passions, and even the best of men, he maintains, may be corrupted by this subtle influence.

An important formative influence was his elementary school teacher Mr Tachikawa, whose progressive educational practices ignited in his young pupil first a love of drawing and then an interest in education in general.

However we are told by Longinus that Ammonius wrote nothing, and if Ammonius was the principal influence on Plotinus, then it is unlikely that Ammonius would have been a Christian.

From then on, Buddhism lost much of its influence.

The most well-known example is Angulimala in the Theravadan Pali canon who had killed 999 people and then attempted to kill his own mother and the Buddha, but under the influence of the Buddha he repented and entered the monkhood.

After the death of Pope Silvester II in 1003, the papacy fell under the influence of the nobility in Latium, and then after 1046, under the influence of the German emperors.

Beaux began attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1876, then under the dynamic influence of Thomas Eakins, whose great work The Gross Clinic had " horrified Philadelphia Exhibition-goers as a gory spectacle " at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876.

He then embarks on a discussion of the origins of Greek culture and technology, arguing that most of the important figures in the Greek world were foreigners, and ( erroneously ) that Jewish culture was the most significant influence on Greece.

He was then able to influence the proposals that were put to Parliament and reported back:

Specifically, if he / she chooses to determine the path, then he / she has no influence whatsoever over which of the two paths, the left one or the right one, nature will tell him / her is the one in which the particle is found.

Likewise, if he / she chooses to observe the interference pattern, then he / she has no influence whatsoever over where in the observation plane he / she will observe a specific particle.

I fell in love, that is the only expression I can think of, at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behaviour very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy.

The posting did not appeal to his mother, who wrote to Lord Charles Beresford, then a senior naval officer, member of parliament and personal friend, to use his influence to obtain something better.

Before the revolution Mubarak tolerated limited political activity by the Brotherhood for his first two terms, but then moved more aggressively to block its influence ( arguably leading to its recent rise in public support ).

After Macias ' fall in 1979, President Obiang asked for Spanish assistance, and since then, Spain has regained influence in Equatorial Guinea's diplomatic relations.

Less than a hundred years later, Aristotle developed an almost " biological ' theory of the development of tragedy in Athens: according to this view, the art form grew under the influence of Aeschylus, matured in the hands of Sophocles then began its precipitous decline with Euripides.

El Cid gradually came to have more influence on Valencia, then ruled by al-Qadir.

The University was then the chief seat of Scholastic learning, but already coming under the influence of Renaissance humanism.

Various elements within the gospel, including the importance of the authority of Peter and the breadth of its basic theology, suggest that the author wrote in Syria or Palestine for a non-Jewish Christian community which had earlier absorbed the influence of pre-Pauline beliefs and then developed them further independent of Paul.

The Tsar perceived the very real threat of a scandal and ordered his own investigations but did not, in the end, remove Rasputin from his position of influence ; on the contrary he fired his minister of the interior for a " lack of control over the press " ( censorship being a top priority for Nicholas then ).

By then, the emperors had lost their influence in Italy and Burgundy.

In the earlier part of the century, the teachings of first Martin Luther and then John Calvin began to influence Scotland.

Although the conditions were ripe for industrial unrest — Communist influence in the union movement was then at its peak, and the right-wing faction in Cabinet was openly agitating for a showdown with the unions — the combination of strong economic growth and Holt's enlightened approach to industrial relations saw the number of working hours lost to strikes fall dramatically, from over two million in 1949 to just 439, 000 in 1958.