Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.

Once her trembling hand, with the pen grasped tight in it, was pressed against the paper the words came sharply, smoothly, as authoritatively as they would dropping from her own lips.

Once in a while they said what a shame it was, with Granny dying, but they all agreed she wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

Once the principle was established, the increase in state-owned vehicles came rapidly.

Once the full extent of this Russian military penetration of Cuba was clear, President Kennedy announced we would take whatever action was appropriate to prevent this, even if we had to go it alone.

Once the question of emancipation was settled to Palfrey's satisfaction, he faced a real problem in placing the freedmen in suitable homes as servants.

Once regarded as an agricultural nuisance, psyllium was sold in the 1930's as a mechanical laxative under 117 different brands.

`` Once, when the editor was just out of the hospital from a gallstone operation, Mrs. Calhoun and the mother of the bride went out to his house and fought it out beside his bed.

Once out in the street, the traffic was a gadfly maze in which he wandered stricken.

Once the figure was 30-30.

Once when she asked why he never went swimming and he answered, `` Don't feel like it '', he was tempted to tell her about being scared.

Once again, there was a negative shake.

Once it was, William thought.

They could still read the opening: `` Once, I was like you, stepping out of my window at the end of day, and letting the winds blow me gently toward the place I lived in.

Once his eyesight recovered sufficiently, he was able to study English literature at Balliol College, Oxford.

Once this was over, a massive development cooperation in the field of health and education brought in numerous civil personnel from Cuba.

Once he was firmly established in the Northern March, Albert's covetous eye lay also on the thinly populated lands to the north and east.

Once righted, Martin managed to drive the Chevy across the finish line.

Once the ship righted herself somewhat after the near-capsize, some slack came on the bowline, and Engineer Shellgren put the engines hard astern, parting the line, and enabling the steamer to escape.

Once and for all he'd finish this marine who would not die.

Once there, the D.A. with devilish cleverness would provide Marshall with headlines: `` Viola's Multiple Romances '' `` Viola Lake an Addict '' `` Downfall of Another Film Idol ''!!

Once crossed, the soul would be judged by Aeacus, Rhadamanthus and King Minos.

Once seen, Artemis punished Actaeon: she forbade him speech — if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag — for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery.

Once the Spanish Civil War broke out, Alfonso made it clear he favoured the military uprising against the Popular Front government, but General Francisco Franco in September 1936 declared that the Nationalists would never accept Alfonso as King ( the supporters of the rival Carlist pretender made up an important part of the Franco Army ).

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 he was in the U. S., he settled in Florida and helped plan out how the attacks would take place.

Once there, influences as various as drama teacher Wilford Leach, the Maysles brothers, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Andy Warhol and Alfred Hitchcock impressed upon De Palma the many styles and themes that would shape his own cinema in the coming decades.

Once, when his younger son Leonid fell seriously ill, Zinaida extracted a promise from her husband, as they stood by the boy's sickbed, that he would end his affair with Olga Ivinskaya.

Once close to the target, the second chamber of the engine ( 6, 000 lb ) would accelerate the missile to Mach 3.

Once track zero was reached, every further attempt to move the head in that direction would cause it to be physically rammed against a solid stop: for example, if the head happened to be on track 18 before this procedure, the head would be actually moved 18 times, and then rammed against the stop another 22 times.

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 one of the lines broke, the troops would generally flee from the field, sometimes chased by psiloi, peltasts or light cavalry.

Once Niger was neutralised however, Severus turned on his ally in Britannia — though it is likely that Albinus saw he would be the next target and was already preparing for war.

Once he had created his collection of syllables, he would pull out a number of random syllables from a box and then write them down in a notebook.

Once, after signing a long-term deal with Warner Bros., Bogart predicted with glee that his teeth and hair would fall out before the contract ended.

Once back in Mosul, he joined a " feeder " caravan of pilgrims heading south to Baghdad where they would meet up with the main caravan that crossed the Arabian Desert to Mecca.

Once King David was established, he told the prophet Nathan that he would like to build a permanent temple, and as a reward for his actions, God promised David that he would allow his son, Solomon, to build the first permanent temple and the throne would never depart from his children.

Once in Confederate hands, Lincoln would be exchanged for the release of Confederate Army prisoners of war held captive in Northern prisons and, Booth reasoned, bring the war to an end by emboldening opposition to the war in the North or forcing Union recognition of the Confederate government.