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

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 more and roared off into the fog, his foot evidently surprising him with the suddenness with which it pressed the accelerator, just as his hand did when he worked.

`` 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 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 set, the anchor tends to break out and reset when the direction of force changes dramatically, such as with the changing tide, and on some occasions it might not reset but instead drag.

Once when she is, in a key scene, finally invited by the male members of the country club she gives a toast citing from the song “ With rue my heart is laden ”.

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 the keys had been pressed they were locked down until mechanical contacts in a distributor unit passed over the sector connected to that particular keyboard, when the keyboard was unlocked ready for the next character to be entered, with an audible click ( known as the " cadence signal ") to warn the operator.

Once a prototype has passed the tests at a certification lab, and that model is being constructed under the control of a certified quality system, the device is entitled to bear a CE mark, indicating that the device is believed to be safe and reliable when used as directed.

Once produced, it rapidly forms a gray-white oxide and nitride coating when exposed to air.

Once again his spirits were raised when the unit under his command received orders overseas to France ; this time his wishes were thwarted when the armistice was signed, just a week before departure.

Once in office, when the Chinese began a buildup in the Kaesong sanctuary, he threatened to use nuclear force if an armistice were not concluded.

Regarding the Major Signs, a Companion of the Prophet narrated: " Once we were sitting together and talking amongst ourselves when the Prophet appeared.

Once the keys had been pressed they were locked down until the contacts again passed over the sector connected to that particular keyboard, when the keyboard was unlocked ready for the next character to be entered, with an audible click ( known as the " cadence signal ") to warn the operator.

Once while he was asleep there, his horses suddenly disappeared, and when he woke and wandered about in search of them, he came into the country of Hylaea.

Once the lex causae has been selected, it will be respected except when it appears to contravene an overriding mandatory rule of the lex fori.

Once this was understood, the various reign lengths and cross-synchronisms for these kings was worked out, and the sum of reigns for both kingdoms produced 931 / 930 BC for the division of the kingdom when working backwards from the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC.

Once on the ground, snow can be categorized as powdery when light and fluffy, fresh when recent but heavier, granular when it begins the cycle of melting and refreezing, and eventually ice once it packs down, after multiple melting and refreezing cycles, into a dense mass called snow pack.

Once again, most Zulu successes rested on their mobility, ability to screen their forces and to close when their opponents were unfavourably deployed.

Once again Massachusetts intervened in his affairs when the General Court ordered deferral of any church at Exeter.

Once again, he escaped, and was at liberty until November, when he was apprehended and returned to Marshalsea, under penalty for escape of £ 1000.

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

Once the figure was 30-30.

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, Deng made fun of Liu by complaining that his partner's only shortcoming was being a dull man ; he spent all his time on reading and thinking except when he is commanding, without any entertainment at all.

Once a woman came to Nahman ben Jacob, complaining that the exilarch and the scholars of his court sat at the festival in a stolen booth 31a, the material for it having been taken from her.