In any case, he had no intention of being caught asleep, so he carried his revolver in its holster on his hip and he took his Winchester with him and leaned it against the fence.

It took him a long time to compose himself.

`` Let's go, Marshal '', Brannon said, and took him by the arm.

That long ride the four of you took must've given him a good appetite.

The control tower gave him immediate take-off permission, and the clean roar of the engine that took him off the rough strip spoke well of the skill of Donovan.

Mary Jane took the page from him and began reading it, moving her lips with the words.

when he went home at night, he took her with him in his mind, and she did the things the anonymous Woman used to do, and he did the thing afterwards each time as he used to do.

He was less to see, but Feathertop took him in, too, just to keep the records straight.

John Adams took to heart the advice given him by his legal mentor, Jeremiah Gridley, to `` pursue the study of the law, rather than the gain of it ''.

Oxford, realizing that the law required the issuance of the writ, took the opposite view, for which the Queen never forgave him.

Every day, when the President took his nap, Rob Roy would stretch out on the window seat near him, like a perfect gentleman, and stare thoughtfully out the window, or he would take a little nap himself.

The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.

It took Pike a long time to realize what Woodruff had done, and it had a profound effect on him.

But, in departing, Lewis begged Breasted that there be no liquor in the apartment at the Grosvenor on his return, and he took with him the first thirty galleys of Elmer Gantry.

Blackman arrived a day or two early, and Lewis took him to a department store immediately and outfitted him, luggage and all, and then he took him to a party at the Woodwards that went on until four in the morning.

Woodward took occasion to warn Blackman about Lewis's drinking and urged him to `` try to keep him sober ''.

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

All Captain Gibault took back to Salem were a few items for the town's East India Museum.

After luncheon we took advantage of the siesta period to try to get in touch with a few people to whom our dear friend Deppy had written.

Harold, with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their father, Harry M. Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball program, introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved the way for creation of a catering empire.

A taxi took him back to the bar and grill where he had left his car, and a few minutes later he found a parking place across the street from his apartment.

It still took him another few seconds to remember the job he had done for Frank Ackerly.

The executions took place at dawn only a few hours after Havana radio announced their conviction by a revolutionary tribunal at Pinar Del Rio, where the executions took place.

A few literary men defended what they took to be an emphasis on the poetry at the expense of the drama, but the response was mainly hostile and quite violent.

A few students took a biscuit.

Within a few days after Canovas del Castillo took power as Premier, the new king, proclaimed on 29 December 1874, arrived at Madrid, passing through Barcelona and Valencia and was acclaimed everywhere ( 1875 ).

* Battle of Braddock Down which took place in January 1643 a few miles from Lostwithiel.

Naturally inclined to peace and conciliation, St. Cyril at first took a rather moderate position but ( like not a few of his undoubtedly orthodox contemporaries ) was by no means eager to accept the homoousios ( ὁμοούσιος ) doctrine-that Jesus Christ and God are of the " same substance " and are equally God.

The craters of the moon have been well preserved through time and were once thought to have been the result of extreme volcanic activity, but instead were formed by meteorites, nearly all of which took place in the first few hundred million years after the Moon formed.

The temple and forum together took up the entire space between the two main east-west roads ( a few above-ground remains of the east end of the temple precinct still survive in the Russian Mission in Exile ).

Athenian democracy took the form of a direct democracy, and it had two distinguishing features: the random selection of ordinary citizens to fill the few existing government administrative and judicial offices, and a legislative assembly consisting of all Athenian citizens.

In the first few months of 1953 his sister died from liver cancer, one of his patrons took an overdose of sleeping pills, three friends died at an early age and Caitlin had another abortion.

He was discharged from the field hospital after a few days, and took command of the British contingent of a relief force sent out to help Seymour.

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

In the next few years various others took part in this development of animated cartoons in the United States and elsewhere.

However, it took some years to catch on with other American film-makers, but by 1913, it was starting to occur with greater frequency in the work of a few directors.

Only a few fans could afford more professional printers, or the time it took them to print, until photocopying became cheap and ubiquitous in the 1970s.

After recovering at home, Capra then moved out and spent the next few years living in flophouses in San Francisco and hopping freight trains, wandering around the Western U. S. To support himself, he took odd jobs working on farms, as a movie extra, playing poker, or selling local oil well stocks.

Only a few scenes were actually filmed in Åmål, but these were not included in the final version: the main shooting took place in the nearby town of Trollhättan, location of Film i Väst's ( the company that produced the film ) film studios.

There was something about his face that disturbed me and it took several seconds to realize what.

Casey heard the click of the distant receiver before he could open his mouth, and it took him no more than three seconds to make his decision.

600 meters from the end of the measured kilometre, K7 lifted from the surface and after about 1. 5 seconds, gradually lifted from the water at an ever increasing angle, before she took off at a 90-degree angle to the water surface.

The first " battle " was said to last a few seconds or so, but took a toll, as several white and black lay dead or dying in the street.

The car took 21 seconds from 0 to 100 km / h ( 62 mph ) and the top speed was 112 km / h ( 70 mph )-official top speed of 100 km / h.

The MercatorWeb crawler follows an adaptive politeness policy: if it took t seconds to download a document from a given server, the crawler waits for 10t seconds before downloading the next page.

He took some hasty measurements of its position and direction of motion, and using an old clock and a pendulum with which he took his patients ’ pulses, he estimated the duration of the transit at 1 hour, 17 minutes and 9 seconds.

Starting with 1. 1 or 1. 2 this danger was reduced: if one changed disks without reading the new disk's directory, and tried to write to it, the operating system would signal a fatal error, avoiding overwriting but requiring a reboot ( which took no more than a few seconds, but implied losing whatever data you were trying to save ).

Distributed control meant there was no common point of failure, but also meant that the setup stage lasted for the ten seconds or so the caller took to dial the required number.

The whole descent took 13 minutes and 45 seconds.

All of these events, from the first bullet that killed Ng, took approximately 15 seconds, during which 12 people were killed and 10 more were wounded.

The flight from NAS Los Alamitos, California, to Floyd Bennett Field, New York, took 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8. 3 seconds.

During the 1994 season, Freeman took 1. 3 seconds from her 400 m personal best, achieving 50. 04 seconds.

She eventually took the silver medal behind Pérec, in an Australian record of 48. 63 seconds.

The score was tied late in the game, but with just four seconds on the clock, former Flyer Gerry Meehan took a shot from just inside the blue line that eluded Flyers goalie Doug Favell.

Because of the rule, the officials then estimated that the play took 4. 6 seconds, and because there were 5. 1 seconds remaining when play began, the field goal was allowed to be counted.

The NBA later admitted that the play actually took 5. 7 seconds and the basket in question should not have counted.

Trailing 90 – 83 with two minutes remaining, the Pistons rallied to tie the game, then took a 92 – 90 lead when Vinnie Johnson sank an 18 foot jumper with 00. 7 seconds left in the game ; this shot earned Johnson a new nickname in Detroit, " 007 ", to go with his original, " The Microwave ".

The officials estimated that the play took 4. 6 seconds, and since there were 5. 1 seconds remaining when it began, the field goal was counted.