On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.

On the social side, the chore Mama had at the formal receptions at the White House thrilled her the most.

On the anniversary of her father's death she poured out with agonized tears her feelings of guilt about not having attended his funeral.

On her first visit the orthodontist will take x-rays, photographs, tooth measurements, and `` tooth prints '' -- an impression of the mouth that permits him to study her teeth and jaws.

On arriving in Tokyo later we were met by Masu who took us immediately to her university, the Japanese Women's University.

On that first day, Blanche literally thought she was going to die, or, at the very least, go out of her mind.

On the morning of Stanley's return, however, her strength left her.

On my way out I told her, `` If you should eh just happen to see your husband, get him to give himself up.

Of course On Thursday, Haney mailed the monthly check for separate maintenance to his wife Lolly, and wished the stranger could do something about her

On the whole, however, one must wonder at just what it is that forces a beloved artist to besmirch her own reputation as time marches inexorably on.

And then I remembered a few years before after their return from a short trip to Rome I had heard her boast, over and over again, `` On the boat people liked me for myself ''.

On the defensive, he added, `` I wish you'd think what it must be like for her to be without Greg, to be a new widow, a young widow ''.

On her way to the airport, on her way to Paris -- you bet, Lucy said to herself.

He leafed through the light reading provided by Mrs. Kirby for her guests: four separate adventures of the Bobbsey Twins ( At the Seashore, At the Mountains, On the Farm, and In Danger ) and several agricultural bulletins on the treatment of hoof-and-mouth disease in cattle, hideously illustrated.

On the other hand, if she didn't remove her own things, it would be difficult to explain to the parade of guests which traversed the apartment.

On the anniversary of her sixteenth year in her shell, Helva was unconditionally graduated and installed in her ship, the Aj.

On August 16, 1837, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter suggesting he would not blame her if she ended the relationship.

On the pinnacle of that mountain, the words of the poem started to come to her, and she wrote them down upon returning to her hotel room at the original Antlers Hotel.

On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.

On the other hand, looking at the larger picture, is it true that pupil assignment has effectively cut off, blocked, or reduced school desegregation to a `` trickle ''??

On November 4, 1952, an earthquake occurred under the sea off the Kamchatka Peninsula.

On the south it ended sharply as though the lava had been cut off there suddenly.

On his way down, Arnulf suffered a stroke, forcing him to call off his campaign and return to Bavaria.

* On March 7, 1998, Daniel Rudolph, the elder brother of the 1996 Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with an electric saw to " send a message to the FBI and the media.

On August 28, Nami and Ahmed al-Haznawi reportedly bothered a Delray Beach resident, Maria Siscar Simpson, to let them through her apartment to retrieve a towel that had fallen off their balcony onto hers.

On the fourth day of the first Test match at Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua during India's tour of West Indies, 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's flick off Dave Mohammed to the midwicket region was caught by Daren Ganga.

On 28 November Teach's two ships attacked a French merchant vessel off the coast of Saint Vincent.

On 5 December 1717 Teach stopped the merchant sloop Margaret off the coast of Crab Island, near Anguilla.

On 9 June the fleet arrived off Malta, then under the ownership of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, ruled by Grand Master Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim.

On 7 June, following hasty repairs to his flagship, Nelson was joined off Toulon by a fleet of ten ships of the line and a fourth rate ship.

On 12 August the frigates HMS Emerald under Captain Thomas Moutray Waller, HMS Alcmene under Captain George Johnstone Hope and HMS Bonne Citoyenne under Captain Robert Retalick arrived off Alexandria.

On 19 December 2005 Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Bimini, Bahamas, with an unscheduled stop at Watson Island, Miami, Florida, crashed off Miami Beach, Florida.

On July 10, the Cossacks fell into a panic, believing that their commanders had run off in the night, leaving them to their fate.

On more modern canals, " guard locks " or gates were sometimes placed to allow a section of canal to be quickly closed off, either for maintenance, or to prevent a major loss of water due to a canal breach.

On August 25, the Indians signed the team leader in home runs, Jim Thome off of waivers.

In his On the Will in Nature, " Physiology and Pathology ," Schopenhauer said that a concept is " drawn off from previous images ... by putting off their differences.

On February 3 and 4, 2001, the first time in his career, Earnhardt participated in the Rolex 24 endurance race at Daytona, the event which kicks off Speedweeks at the track.

After the all-clear, McLean re-appeared and sang “ On the Amazon ” from exactly where he had left off.

On January 27, 2011, almost all internet connectivity to Egypt was shut off by the Egyptian government.

On an Etruscan mirror Thesan is shown carrying off a young man, whose name is inscribed as Tinthu </ small >.

On 8 February 1813 the British ship Isabella, a ship of 193 tons and a crew of fourteen, was wrecked off the coast of Eagle Island ( now known as Speedwell Island ).

On 5 April Captain Charles Barnard of the American sealer Nanina was sailing off the shore of Eagle Island, with a discovery boat deployed looking for seals.