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Just as the bridge looked likely to fall to the invaders, three small groups of militia arrived to reinforce the defenders.
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Just to the south of the car bridge lies the Dumbarton Rail Bridge.
Just before a Tiger reaches the bridge, an American P-51 Mustang flies over and destroys it, followed by more Mustangs and advancing American infantry and M4 Sherman tanks who rout the remaining Germans.
Just across from the Boulevart was an Augustinian friary, which could be used as a flanking firing position on any approach to the bridge, although it seems Dunois decided not to make use of it.
Just below the confluence of the river is the old stone bridge with two arches in the centre of the village.
Just downstream of the bridge were substantial quays and depots, convenient to sea-going trade between Britain and the rest of the Roman Empire.
In the book " Aryshire, Discovering a County ", this sentence appears on page 350: " Just west of the bridge across the Stinchar ( river ) is the farm of Almont, the name probably deriving from " Auld Mound ", being descriptive of the motte hill that lies immediately to the north east of the farm.
Just below the bridge is part of scenic River Walk Park, which spans about a mile of the river.
Just to the west, an arched cantilever truss bridge named the Bryan Bridge is also open to through traffic.
Just north of the bridge across the Hudson to Hadley is the most narrow point of the entire Hudson River, Rockwell Falls.
Just after this scene there's a short sequence of them driving through the MacArthur Maze, an interchange on the east end of the bridge, and then north on a ' barren ' stretch of highway which today is Interstate 80 passing through crowded Emeryville and Berkeley.
Just the other side of the bridge there are boat yards on both banks and the river follows a fairly straight course until it reaches the photogenic “ Hunsett Drainage Mill ”.
Just to the north of it is the A149 Potter Heigham Bypass bridge, which now carries most of the traffic which formerly used the medieval bridge, and provides a navigable headroom of.
In the 18th century the bridge chapel was inexplicably used as a bawdy house and had two further storeys, now removed ; this alternative use has been highlighted in the historical novel ' Not Just a Whore ', by local St Ives resident K M Warwick.
Just about all USA casino poker rooms use KEM ( bridge size ) cards for this reason, leaving the traditional poker size Bee cards for the Blackjack tables.
Just before the demolishing of the Darlington's Bridge, the approach on the New Jersey side had been renumbered to State Highway Route 163, which remains in condition from when the bridge was in use.
Just before the bridge is Priory Mill, a thirteenth-century mill which was heavily rebuilt by Sir William Armyne in 1635, and further remodelled in the nineteenth century.
Just north of the rail bridge on Anglesey is the famously named Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
There were two main elements to Douglas's reform program: a National Dividend to distribute money ( debt free credit ) equally to all citizens, over and above their earnings, to help bridge the gap between purchasing power and prices ; also a price adjustment mechanism, called the Just Price, which would forestall any possibility of inflation.
Just before the bridge are two large ponds, the second one constrained by a grade II listed dam, long by wide, with vertical wooded sluice gates on the upstream side.
Just below the bridge is Warsop watermill, much of which dates from 1767.
Just prior to the start of construction on the Dumbarton Bridge, San Francisco Supervisor Richard J. Welch noted that the Bay Shore Highway would need to be built all the way to San Jose as an escape valve for the additional traffic that the bridge would attract.
Just behind the church lies the old bridge.
Just upstream from the bridge is an ice boom, the Champlain Bridge Ice Control Structure.
Just five years after the bridge opened, a study commissioned by the state legislature was completed to figure out how to provide for the great demand for cross-lake transportation.
Just and looked
: " Just as cold arose out of Niflheim, and all terrible things, so also all that looked toward Múspellheim became hot and glowing ; but Ginnungagap was as mild as windless air, and when the breath of heat met the rime, so that it melted and dripped, life was quickened from the yeast-drops, by the power of that which sent the heat, and became a man's form.
Just when a play-off between the clubs to decide the premiership looked certain, Port faltered against Williamstown to hand Richmond its first flag.
Just from the way we looked they started giving us hell already.
D ' Antonio stated about the cover of Alive or Just Breathing, " I wanted something that looked ' old school cut-and-paste ' for the cover.
Just before his famous flank attack at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Stonewall Jackson looked at his division and brigade Commanders, noted the high number of VMI graduates and said, " The Institute will be heard from today.
Just about this time, when everything looked bright, the panic of 1837 came and swept away the entire fortune of his associate and left Goodyear penniless.
Just before the fifth and final pitch to Joe Carter, CBS Sports announcer Tim McCarver commented that Carter ( relatively unproductive in the Series to date ) looked awkward and uncomfortable at the plate.
Just days before suffering this injury, it was reported in the News of the World that Dublin would soon be sold by Aston Villa for a fee of around £ 6million as the club looked to finance a fall its share values as a result of manager John Gregory's heavy expenditure on players.
Just before the surgery that resulted in his death, he eagerly looked forward to this role.
Just weeks after Hurricane Katrina, it looked as though Houston would become the target of Hurricane Rita.
Just when the City game looked as though it might end in stalemate, substitute John Freegard got his head to Jeff Sherwood's long free kick and minutes later had won.
Just as it looked like the Sheepherders were going to face the Fantastics in the finals of a tournament to crown new United States tag team champions, Luke and Butch signed with Vince McMahon ’ s World Wrestling Federation.
Just as it looked like the Sheepherders were going to face the Fantastics in the finals of a tournament to crown new United States tag team champions, Luke and Butch signed with Vince McMahon ’ s World Wrestling Federation.
Just as it looked like the Sheepherders were about to face the Fantastics in the finals of a tournament to crown new United States Tag Team champions, Luke Williams and Butch Miller signed with Vince McMahon ’ s World Wrestling Federation.
Just three schools looked into offering him a scholarship: Northern Illinois, Northwestern, and Iowa.
Just and likely
The James referred to in this passage is most likely James the first bishop of Jerusalem who is also called James the Just in Christian literature, and to whom the Epistle of James has been attributed.
Just a year before his birth ( if the year 358 BC is accepted as the most likely date ), the Paeonians invaded the region.
Just as the constituent species are likely to differ in a wide range of features, so the behavior of their periclinal chimeras is like to be highly variable.
Just as likely to provide frustration as inspiration.
Just like Uli von Bödefeld, she was most likely built by German Fabula Filmpuppen Workshop, and not the Sesame Workshop.
Such songs as " I Grow Old ," " Gentle Wandering Ways " and " Dream On ," along with Valentino-composed tracks such as " Love Is Just a Game ," " This Is Love ," and " Hey, Love ," would have most likely been included on the band's third album for Autumn.
This is most likely a reference to the long running BBC show Just A Minute, which begins each show with " And as the Minute Waltz fades away ..."
Just as with other major reference works, the names " de Crespigny " and " Loewe " will probably come to be terms that refer to these works, and as such will likely be their most enduring legacy.
Just as in the example above, they can facilitate this process by making the entity appear to be in financial crisis-this reduces the sale price ( to the profit of the purchaser ), and makes non-profits and governments more likely to sell.
Just what triggered the 1965 landslide remains unclear ; the two so-called earthquakes were likely too small to trigger the slide and thus the seismic events were more likely caused by the impact of the landslide masses on the opposite valley wall.
Just as people use different banking and brokerage accounts for different financial services, they are likely to use multiple i-brokers for sharing different sets of data ( personal, financial, medical, vocational, etc .).
Just returned to Ireland from Italy, it is likely that Pearce had been working on the plans with Galilei there.
Just Detention International ( formerly known as Stop Prisoner Rape, Inc .) estimate that young men are five times more likely to be attacked, and that the prison rape victims are ten times more likely to contract a deadly disease.
Just before the tenth anniversary of Mel's first appearance on Coast to Coast AM, the moderator of the Mel's Hole website declared the search for the hole was a dead end, and that it would likely never be proven to exist unless Mel came forward with evidence of its location.
Just like his predecessor or contemporary Apollodotus I, Antimachus II did not strike a portrait on his coins, likely since this was not custom in India.
" Just as a society that believes in the negative protection accorded to the press by the First Amendment is likely to enact laws that affirmatively foster the dissemination of the printed word, so also a society that believes in the negative protection afforded to religious belief can be expected to be solicitous of that value in its legislation as well.
Just along the southwest rim edge is a small, teardrop-shaped crater that was likely created by a low angle impact.
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