Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.

Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.

The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.

The sun was noon high and Matsuo perspired until his body was dripping.

He didn't look back and he ran until he was out of sight of the schoolhouse and out of breath ; ;

Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.

Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

His company then carried out a confused retreating movement until it was surrounded by the Germans, a few days before France capitulated.

Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;

But the liaison successfully started in the last days of autumn was now languishing.

In spring and in autumn the run was made for a group of botanists which included an old friend of mine.

Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso.

:“ When in the autumn the English Eleven went to Australia it was said that they had come to Australia to “ fetch ” the ashes.

His wife joined him at Toruń in December, but in April 1712 a peremptory ukase ordered him off to the army in Pomerania, and in the autumn of the same year he was forced to accompany his father on a tour of inspection through Finland.

In the autumn of 2001, after the September 11 attacks, al Jazeera television broadcast a tape they claim was made by Omari.

Arnulf had in fact ruled Bavaria during the summer and autumn of 879 while his father arranged his succession and he himself was granted " Pannonia ," in the words of the Annales Fuldenses, or " Carantanum ," in the words of Regino of Prüm.

Conquering all of the territory north of the Po, he forced the surrender of Milan and then drove Guy out of Pavia, where he was crowned King of Italy, but went no further before Guy died suddenly in late autumn, and fever incapacitated his troops.

The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne ( automne in modern French ), and was later normalised to the original Latin word autumnus.

In the Anglosphere, most notably in Anglo-America, autumn is also associated with the Halloween season ( which in turn was influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival ), and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it, in the U. S. A.

The main composition work was done between autumn 1822 and the completion of the autograph in February 1824.

The sale was completed in November 1851, the price being £ 32, 000, and Prince Albert formally took possession the following autumn.

By the autumn of 1855, the royal apartments were ready, though the tower was still under construction and the servants had to be lodged in the old house.

In the autumn of 1918, as consolidation of the political situation of the republic continued, a move toward elimination of Uyezd -, Raion -, and Volost-level Chekas, as well as the institution of Extraordinary Commissions was considered.

The second census was taken in the autumn 2002.

" The decision to change the name Datsun to Nissan in the U. S. was announced in the autumn ( September / October ) of 1981.

The official birth of the term " stab-in-the-back " itself possibly can be dated to the autumn of 1919, when Ludendorff was dining with the head of the British Military Mission in Berlin, British general Sir Neill Malcolm.

In the autumn of 2001, at the age of four, Dolly developed arthritis and began to walk stiffly, but this was successfully treated with anti-inflammatory drugs.

By the autumn of 1537, Elizabeth was in the care of Blanche Herbert, Lady Troy who remained her Lady Mistress until her retirement in late 1545 or early 1546.

By the autumn of 1559 several foreign suitors were vying for Elizabeth's hand ; their impatient envoys engaged in ever more scandalous talk and reported that a marriage with her favourite was not welcome in England: " There is not a man who does not cry out on him and her with indignation ... she will marry none but the favoured Robert ".

The Foreign Legion's First Battalion ( Lieutenant-Colonel Donnier ) was sent to Tonkin in the autumn of 1883, during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino – French War ( August 1884 to April 1885 ), and formed part of the attack column that stormed the western gate of Son Tay on 16 December.

Among the labour movement, a more marked consequence of autumn 1917 was the rise of the Worker's Guards.

The phrase was spray-painted by an admirer on a wall in an Islington Underground station in the autumn of 1967.