When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

Hez looked up at the high face of Emigrant Rock, official signboard for the Raft River turnoff, and gloated, `` Seems funny that them Burnsides never took time to leave their John-Henry up thar ''.

Prohibition was the law of the land, but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took up drinking in prohibition days, drinking was so gay, so fashionable, especially in the sophisticated Northeast!!

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

The Mercers took up residence in Brooklyn, and Mercer found a regular job in Wall Street `` misplacing stocks and bonds ''.

but unfortunately the rabbit, on no grounds at all, took up toward this neutral object an attitude of disapproval and that made it for the first time, and in the only intelligible sense, bad.

Another force flanked the company and took up a position on a hill to the rear.

She took refuge on a tongue of land extending into a gully, crouched at the base of a thorn tree, and waited for them to come up.

My man, he won't be around a little while, he just fixed me up with this stuff they took out of the Elite.

Madden took up this point with Garth, who shrugged it off.

He took several large swallows, recollected that Docherty had gone up another flight, and decided he would be wise to cover himself by finding him.

He took up a white sheet of paper, dark with single-spaced data.

Meanwhile, fishermen took advantage of them to pull up whoppers.

Kimmell ordered the driver to back up, watched the children safely across and was approaching the car when it suddenly `` took off at high speed '', he said, narrowly missing him.

And it was clear that Adrien was not mistaken, for both Small and Cromwell took no step toward aiding in the sending up of the new topgallant mast till Philip Spencer had given the signal to obey.

Sometimes she took the path that winds up around my cottage to the walk at the edge of the cliff.

In Tokyo Richard took up a life similar to that which he had lived in New York, except that he had replaced his biwa with a friend.

It took him a few seconds to put his thoughts in order, and then he got up from the bunk where he had been resting, sleeplessly.

Under Lincoln's leadership, the Union set up a naval blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, took control of the border slave states at the start of the war, gained control of communications with gunboats on the southern river systems, and tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.

It seems that the Greeks took advantage of the observations of some older civilizations in the East and managed to work them up rationally.

In April 1834, Johnston took up farming in Texas, but enlisted as a private in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence against the Republic of Mexico in 1836.

Pillow took up a position at nearby Clarksville, Tennessee and did not move into the fort itself until February 7, 1862.

Like many other cross-channel linguistic acquisitions, many Britons readily took this up and followed this rule themselves, while the Americans took a simpler rule and applied it rigorously.

He had also acquired additional real estate, including a larger home and a farm where his mother and stepfather took residence.

As such, The Bishop of Bethlehem duly took up residence in the hospital of Panthenor, Clamecy, in 1223.

The following personalities took up a residence in Carson City at some point in their lives.

The Chief of Naval Operations liked the house so much that in 1923 he took over the house as his own official residence.

The town's association with the House of Orange started when William of Orange ( Willem van Oranje ), nicknamed William the Silent ( Willem de Zwijger ), took up residence in 1572

He took up residence with Katrine in Cheshire and in 1869 sold his commission.

In the 1960s and 1970s, film theory took up residence in academia importing concepts from established disciplines like psychoanalysis, gender studies, anthropology, literary theory, semiotics and linguistics.

On 20 June 1792 a number of armed women took part in a procession that " passed through the halls of the Legislative Assembly, into the Tuilleries Gardens, and then through the King ’ s residence.

To support himself, he took up his residence in law at Gray's Inn in 1579.

* 1707 24 December – The first British Governor directly appointed by Queen Anne, Roger Elliott, took up residence in the Convent of the Franciscan friars.

Soviet and East European technical advisers took up residence in Albania, and the Soviet Union also sent Albania military advisers and built a submarine installation on Sazan Island.

He and his family took up his residence there at the White House of the Confederacy later that month.

Later she became a local teacher in Louisiana and took up residence, with her children, at the home of a wealthy plantation owner.

Burgess, who had been given a post as Second Secretary at the British Embassy, took up residence in the Philby family home and rapidly set about causing offence to all and sundry.

During the reign of the Kalhora Dynasty, the present city started life as a fishing settlement when a Sindhi Balochi fisher-woman called Mai Kolachi took up residence and started a family.

The population grew suddenly in the middle of the tenth century when people fleeing the nearby town of Roselle took up residence in the town.

As governor, Paulinus had widened the road to Cimitile and built a residence for travelers ; it was at this site that Paulinus and Therasia took up residence.

In 1149, Eugene III returned to Italy and took up his residence at Viterbo.

The sources do agree that Romulus took up residence in the Lucullan Villa, an ancient castle originally built by Lucullus in Campania.

Khomeini accepted the invitation, moved, and took up residence at the Dar al-Shafa school in Qom.

It was he who nominated Ndiadiane Ndiaye and called for the other states to join this confederacy, which they did, and the " empire " headed by Ndiadiane, who took residence at Djolof.

In the 1920s and 1930s, almost 20, 000 White Russians and Russian Jews fled the newly established Soviet Union and took up residence in Shanghai.

Khomeini, having been exiled from Iran in 1964, took up residence in Iraq, at the Shi ' ite holy city of An Najaf.