Even so, it took her several days to force Walter to tell her Nicolas's whereabouts.

And, as the others began to crawl out from beneath the desks and tend to those wounded, and mark the several killed, he climbed across the debris to Penny and took her hand in his.

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

It took this colt several weeks to strike a pace.

This time the search took twice as long, cutting down on his extra reading, for he had to pick through several columns of one- and two-line social notes in each issue.

He took several large swallows, recollected that Docherty had gone up another flight, and decided he would be wise to cover himself by finding him.

Fiedler went on to make several other test flights before German pilots took over the Reichenberg missiles.

McClellan, a young West Point graduate, railroad executive, and Pennsylvania Democrat, took several months to plan and attempt his Peninsula Campaign, longer than Lincoln wanted.

It took several years for Augustus to develop the framework within which a formally republican state could be led under his sole rule.

In 392 BC he took a prominent part in the Corinthian War, making several successful expeditions into Corinthian territory and capturing Lechaeum and Piraeus.

" The Athenian admiral Leosthenes defeated Alexander and managed to relieve Peparethus, but Alexander escaped from being blockaded in Panormus, took several Attic triremes, and plundered the Piraeus.

Alyattes drove the Cimmerians ( see Scythia ) from Asia Minor, subdued the Carians, and took several Ionian cities ( including Smyrna, Colophon ).

After leaving school at 17, Ayckbourn's career took several temporary jobs in various places before starting a temporary job at the Scarborough Library Theatre, where he was introduced to the artistic director, Stephen Joseph.

It has been related by an Italian writer and since repeated by several biographers, that Canova was indebted to a trivial circumstance – the moulding of a lion in butter – for the warm interest which Falier took in his welfare.

The Philistines took the Ark to several places in their country, and at each place misfortune befell them ( 1 Sam.

The early censuses were unreliable and took several years to tabulate ; the results were outdated by the time they were calculated.

The army was involved in a number of border skirmishes from 1948 to 1952, repulsing several Greek attacks, and took part in the suppression of the Prague spring events.

The first clashes took place on 2 August, but little action took place for several days, as the King waited for all his forces to arrive and Essex waited for the fleet.

He took a special interest in Morisot, as is evident from his warm portrayal of her in several paintings, including a striking portrait study of Morisot in a black veil, while in mourning for her father's death ( displayed at the top of the article ).

Unlike the immediate acceptance shown in the 1978 movie The Buddy Holly Story, it actually took several performances for the audience to warm up to him.

Boone as seen from Howard's Knob Boone took its name from the famous pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, who on several occasions camped at a site generally agreed to be within the present city limits.

On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.

After the several innovations and reversals, the new forms of worship took time to settle in.

After several efforts, Spanish troops from Peru took advantage of the internecine strife to reconquer Chile in 1814, when they reasserted control by winning the Battle of Rancagua on October 12.

On this issue, then, as on so many in these months, Steele and Swift took rigidly opposed points of view.

It took the U.N. three months to bring a modest form of order to the Congo.

In the following year, he spent five months assisting mentally ill women, before he took an office in the city mental asylum in Frankfurt am Main: the Städtische Anstalt für Irre und Epileptische ( Asylum for Lunatics and Epileptics ).

Of its four stanzas, Housman tells us that two were ' given ' him ready made ; one was coaxed forth from his subconsciousness an hour or two later ; the remaining one took months of conscious composition.

" It took four months to produce, eventually released in October 1918 at 45 minutes long, and was highly successful.

Filming took seven months, followed by three months of editing the large negative.

" Featuring the Tramp and Goddard as endurers of the Great Depression, it took ten and a half months to film.

The first scientific expedition to Clipperton took place in 1725 under Frenchman M. Bocage, who lived on the island for several months.

Peirce took years to write reports that he should have completed in months.

Ratings reached a low of 8 million in February 1973, Pat Phoenix quit as Elsie Tanner, Violet Carson ( Ena Sharples ) was written out for most of the year due to illness, and Doris Speed ( Annie Walker ) took two months ' leave.

" In John Byrne's 1986 origin version The Man of Steel, instead of adopting him through an orphanage, the Kents passed Clark off as their own child after their farm was isolated for months by a series of snowstorms that took place shortly after they found his rocket, using their past medical history of various miscarriages to account for their reasons for keeping Martha's pregnancy secret.

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.

However, it took months to convince him to come to a meeting at the office and further weeks to convince him to agree to work on the premises.

In 262 BC, Rome besieged Agrigentum, an operation that involved both consular armies — a total of four Roman legions — and took several months to resolve.

On May 30, 1985, after nine months of debate, the Constituent Assembly finished drafting a new constitution, which took effect immediately.

When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25 % to 63 %, and increases in corporate taxes.

In 1947 Prisoners of the Sun was interrupted for two months when an exhausted Hergé took a long vacation.

The route took him through Tlemcen, Béjaïa, and then Tunis, where he stayed for two months.

Altogether, the caravan took two months to cross the of desert from Sijilmasa.

In the last months of the war, Goebbels ’ speeches and articles took on an increasingly apocalyptic tone:

The forging of a Japanese blade typically took weeks or even months and was considered a sacred art.

It took many months for his courtiers and advisors to convince him to remarry, but eventually he did, in 820, to Judith, daughter of Welf, count of Altdorf.