Once more he lifted Jess's gun from its holster, only this time he tossed it into the stall with the frightened buckskin.

Once again life went its serene way -- soirees, fox hunts, balls and dinners.

Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.

Once programmed, it is able to choreograph its motions and gestures with its voice.

Once on course towards the Moon, the crew put the spacecraft into a rotisserie " barbecue " mode in which the craft rotated along its long axis three times per hour to ensure even heat distribution about the spacecraft from the Sun.

Once the operator took his finger off, the player would speed up until its tachometer was back in phase with the master, and as this happened, the phasing effect would appear to slide up the frequency spectrum.

Once the adhesive and the adherend are in close proximity, molecular interactions, such as van der Waals forces, become involved in the bond, contributing significantly to its ultimate strength.

Once the account exceeded its quotas, it was automatically disabled, but the messages were still saved as they arrived.

Once it is built, the builder walks away, and it stands on its own accord.

Once the striker's ball goes through its target hoop, it is again entitled to roquet the other balls once.

Once interrupt servicing is complete, the context in effect before the interrupt occurred is restored so that the interrupted process can resume execution in its proper state.

It lends its name to the 1960 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, which is based on T. H. White's literary version of the legend, The Once and Future King.

Once completed, both the engine and its printer worked flawlessly, and still do.

Once the system can be solved, given an initial point it is possible to determine all its future positions, a collection of points known as a trajectory or orbit.

Once the Euclidean plane has been described in this language, it is actually a simple matter to extend its concept to arbitrary dimensions.

Once the Euphrates enters the Upper Mesopotamian plains, its grade drops significantly ; within Syria the river falls while over the last stretch between Hīt and the Shatt al-Arab the river drops only.

Once set into motion it will oscillate at its natural frequency.

Once again, 90th Light failed to make progress so Rommel called the Afrika Korps to abandon its planned sweep southward and instead join the effort to break through to the coast road by attacking east toward Ruweisat Ridge.

Once more, the Eighth Army had failed to destroy Rommel ’ s forces, despite its overwhelming superiority in men and equipment.

Once in the arena morgue, the corpse would have been stripped of armour, and probably had its throat cut to prove that dead was dead.

Once it was complete, its launch was scheduled for STS-61-G on-board Atlantis in 1986.

Once set-printmaking ink ( usually water based ) is applied to its surface.

Once the Army of Humayun had made its charge and Sher Shah's troops made their agreed-upon retreat, the Mughal troops relaxed their defensive preparations and returned to their entrenchments without posting a proper guard.

Once the available energy has been removed, the remaining hot gases are vented ( often by opening a valve or exposing the exhaust outlet ) and this allows the piston to return to its previous position ( top dead center, or TDC ).

Once fully extended, the tentacles are slowly manoeuvred around waiting for contact with a suitable prey animal.

Once prey is sighted, the bird makes a short, steep dive toward the target.

Once they reach their prey, they touch it very softly with their antennae to assess its size and nutritional value.

Once slime has been squirted, Onychophora will stop at nothing to hound down and devour their prey, in order to recoup the energetic investment.

Once widely hunted for its fur, the cheetah now suffers more from the loss of both habitat and prey.

Once a suitable area is located, a prey species is hunted and used as bait.

Once the shark has come close, a speed burst allows it to reach the intended prey before it can escape.

Once a shark finds its prey, it suddenly protrudes its jaws, while using a tongue-like muscle to suck the victim into its sharp front teeth.

Once the chick has hatched, the parents take turns foraging for their young and sometimes fly long distances before finding prey.

Once the prey has fallen into the trap and touched three " hairs " ( that look like teeth ) within 30 seconds, the leaf closes around the prey and digests it.

Once within striking distance, the bullfrog emits its feeding strike, which consists of a ballistic lunge ( eyes closed as during all leaps ) that ends with the mouth opening, extension of the fleshy and mucous-coated tongue upon the prey, often engulfing it, while the jaws continue their forward travel to close ( bite ) in close proximity to the prey's original location, just as the tongue is retracted back into the mouth, prey attached.

Once the P-47 caught up to its prey, one burst from its eight 0. 50 machine guns would obliterate anything it got an aim on.

Once the prey has become incapacitated, the rattlesnake locates its head by odors emitted from the mouth.

Once an alligator reaches adulthood, any animal living in the water or coming to the water to drink is potential prey, due to the size and power of the alligator.

Once selected, their prey is chased over long distance, often several kilometres, at speeds of up to 60 km / h.

Once inside, the prey will be dissolved by digestive secretions.

Once again Poland dared to reform and improve itself without Russia's permission, and once again the Empress Catherine was angered ; arguing that Poland had fallen prey to the radical Jacobinism then at high tide in France, Russian forces invaded the Commonwealth in 1792.

Once prey had been seized in the jaws, the heavily muscled forelimbs may have retracted, holding the prey tightly against the body and preventing escape.

Once the prey was trapped against the body, Acrocanthosaurus may have dispatched it with its jaws.

Once prey is spotted it will use it hands to grab it or its renowned capabilities to leap and catch it.

Once heavier than about 250 g, the fish no longer become prey for birds and many fish, although seals do prey upon them.