It was nice then, so peaceful and quiet.

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.

First it was the Nations against themselves, then it was them against the whites.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

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

He looked around in surprise, then noticed that Fred Powell was clutching his chest.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

The finished -- and drastically cut -- product would begin with a hazy longshot of Joyce entering the suds, then bursting above the pool's surface clad in layers of lavender lather, and I had a hunch this item was going to sell tons and tons of soap ; ;

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

Then the darkness thinned, and there was light again, and then bright sunlight.

I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.

It was only then that he turned to look at Penny.

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.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

As he was dying on the voyage back from Egypt, he gave instructions to those close to him that they should not be responsible for making any image of his person, be it modeled or painted or copied, " For if I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial.

This was copied by the US.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

The game data still needed to be copied from ROM to RAM before it could be used, so less memory was available and the games loaded relatively slowly.

In June 1836, French newspaper La Presse was the first to include paid advertising in its pages, allowing it to lower its price, extend its readership and increase its profitability and the formula was soon copied by all titles.

One of many artistic depictions of Saint Anthony's trials in the desert, this painting was copied by the young Michelangelo after an engraving by Martin Schongauer

In its first seven years, the Werkbund came to be regarded as the authoritative body on questions of design in Germany, and was copied in other countries.

The Historia Ecclesiastica was copied often in the Middle Ages, and about 160 manuscripts containing it survive.

It is likely that Bede's work, because it was so widely copied, discouraged others from writing histories and may even have led to the disappearance of manuscripts containing older historical works.

From the 19th century and much of the late 20th century, " Boadicea " was the most common version of the name, which is probably derived from a mistranscription when a manuscript of Tacitus was copied in the Middle Ages.

Copyright law recognises the right of an author based on whether the work actually is an original creation, rather than based on whether it is unique ; two authors may own copyright on two substantially identical works, if it is determined that the duplication was coincidental, and neither was copied from the other.

And while his fame grew, as his orchestra was expanded and his compositions were copied and disseminated, his voice was only one among many.

From the Carolingian epoch to the end of the Middle Ages and beyond, this was the most widely copied work of secular literature in Europe.

The grid pattern was widely copied in the colonies of British North America.

In the early 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children's book of the time, but Frances maintained that the fifth and final photograph was genuine.

As a child Alston was inspired by his older brother Wendell's drawings of trains and cars, which the young artist copied.

Scottish Maid proved swift and reliable and the design was widely copied.

To counter political corruption, he secured campaign laws in 1906 and 1907 that limited political contributions by corporations and forced candidates to account for their receipts and expenses, legislation that was quickly copied in fifteen other states.

The Tales vary in both minor and major ways from manuscript to manuscript ; many of the minor variations are due to copyists ' errors, while others suggest that Chaucer added to and revised his work as it was being copied and ( possibly ) distributed.

The Tales vary in both minor and major ways from manuscript to manuscript ; many of the minor variations are due to copyists ' errors, while others suggest that Chaucer added to and revised his work as it was being copied and ( possibly ) distributed.

Although Brewster patented kaleidoscope in 1817 ( GB 4136 ), a copy of the prototype was shown to London opticians and copied before the patent was granted.