He was dead before he hit the ground.

She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The ground was covered with soft pine needles and the slope was gentle.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

Horse smell was very strong, and he could hear the crunch of grain being ground between strong jaws.

Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.

From high in the tree, the whole block lay within range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere visible.

The curb was a line of stone laid edgewise in the dirt and tilted this way and that by frost in the ground or the roots of trees.

Strindberg's remedy for this condition was to tear down the old structures and build anew from the ground up.

Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.

To Pike, silence was tantamount to an admission of guilt, and he determined to get Robinson onto the dueling ground at all costs.

There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.

Adams was not breaking new ground when he claimed that the worship of an unseen power was in reality a reflection of man's inability to cope with his environment.

Perhaps after the soldiers had laid him on the ground, while Joseph of Arimathea was at Pontius Pilate's asking for Christ's body, Nicodemus was gathering his mixture of myrrh and aloes, and the others had gone home to mourn.

It was built by the Pasterns, and stands on the acre of ground that adjoins our property.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.

If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.

Toilet facilities consist of simple pits in the ground, located away from the house, that are covered up when filled.

Energetically, these bands are located between the energy of the ground state, the state in which electrons are tightly bound to the atomic nuclei of the material, and the free electron energy, the latter describing the energy required for an electron to escape entirely from the material.

Craven Cottage is the name of a football stadium located in Fulham, London, and has been the home ground of the association football team Fulham F. C.

Chelsea's training ground is located in Cobham, Surrey.

Bamford describes the system as the software controlling the collection and distribution of civilian telecommunications traffic conveyed using communication satellites, with the collection being undertaken by ground stations located in the footprint of the downlink leg.

Fulham's training ground is located near Motspur Park, where the club's Academy is also situated.

* 1810 February – The Governor of Gibraltar removed the Spanish forts of San Felipe and Santa Barbara, located on the northern boundary of the neutral ground.

The air circulation necessary for the effective ventilation of a mine is generated by one or more large mine fans, usually located above ground.

The army can also now communicate securely with its personnel located at seven fixed ground stations — the barracks at Murray, Taurama, Goldie, Lombrum, Igam, Vanimo and Moem.

The oldest royal polo square is the 16th century Gilgit Polo Field, Pakistan, while the highest polo ground in the world, Shandur, located in district Chitral, Pakistan at.

Potsdamer Platz No. 1 also houses the " Panoramapunkt " viewing platform, located 100 m above ground level, which is accessed by riding Europe's fastest elevator ( 8. 65 metres per second ).

Energetically, these bands are located between the energy of the ground state, the state in which electrons are tightly bound to the atomic nuclei of the material, and the free electron energy, the latter describing the energy required for an electron to escape entirely from the material.

Badlands are located at the western foot of the range, where the ground water level is the lowest and rock formations are the least resistant to weathering.

Instead they relied on the network of ground stations, also called Command Points to communicate with the spacecraft ; all of these Command Points were located within the Soviet Union.

** At 5: 50 a. m. a ground fault gives way, causing the mine and part of the town of Worthington to collapse into a large chasm located in Ontario.

John John Sutter | Sutter plaque at Sutter's FortSutter's Fort is located on level ground at an elevation of approximately above mean sea datum.

There is a water fountain that comes out from the ground for children to play in located next to the lake, surrounded by palm trees and benches.

By being mainly located slightly above, on or beneath the ground, a mass driver may be easier to maintain compared with many other structures of non-rocket spacelaunch.

On 3 November 1936, from Alexandra Palace located on the high ground of the north London ridge, the BBC began alternating Baird 240-line transmissions with EMI's electronic scanning system which had recently been improved to 405 lines after a merger with Marconi.

A beam waveguide antenna is a type of complicated Cassegrain antenna with a long radio wave path to allow the feed electronics to be located at ground level.

The radio waves from an antenna element that reflect off a ground plane appear to come from a mirror image of the antenna located on the other side of the ground plane.