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For a while there was such shrill girlish commotion I couldn't have made myself heard if I'd had the equivalent of the message to Garcia.
Munch was pleased with the " great commotion ", and wrote in a letter: " Never have I had such an amusing time — it's incredible that something as innocent as painting should have created such a stir.
I thought my horse was about to die, and would have sprung from his back had a minute more elapsed ; but as that instant all the shrubs and trees began to move from their very roots, the ground rose and fell in successive furrows, like the ruffled water of a lake, and I became bewildered in my ideas, as I too plainly discovered, that all this awful commotion was the result of an earthquake.
Her parents had to hide for a while before the commotion died down.
Reles's mother-in-law also testified that Reles and Strauss had asked her for an ice pick and clothesline earlier in the day and, while at the house, heard loud music masking a commotion in the living room.
The Confederation had a political commotion with the murder of Nazario Benavídez, from San Juan, carried out by supporters of Sarmiento.
The king's attitude changed slightly after the Battle of the Square in 1829, an incident which resulted in such a commotion that the king had to allow it.
Local ranchers, who were alerted by the commotion caused in the disaster, rigged up breeches buoys from the surrounding cliff tops and lowered them down to the ships that had run aground.
Eli, who was 98 and blind, was unaware of the event until he asked about all the commotion ; a man from the battlefield had run to Shiloh to report on events.
Squeaker had been in the master bathroom lying on a window sill sunning herself when she heard the commotion as Emily played with the toy.
Along the way, he met the town marshal, who had earlier warned Chaplinsky to keep it down and avoid causing a commotion.
After accosting the hapless old lady again, he watches as Antonio and the servants in a commotion about a Swiss mercenary who had invaded the Duchess ’ s room, and the loss of several jewels and gold utensils.
Hearing the commotion, the Mexican soldiers had lined the walls to defend the fort.
This lengthy march was widely viewed as a public humiliation for the state forces, and angered citizens who had gathered to watch the commotion.
I try to include all this, and therein lies the little commotion about remuneration that my pieces have caused .” < Ref name = Margolles /> More specific to his questioning of art institutions and capitalism, he said “ At the Kunstwerke in Berlin they criticized me because I had people sitting for four hours a day, but they didn ’ t realize that a little further up the hallway the guard spends eight hours a day on his feet ... any of the people who make those criticisms have never worked in their lives ; if they think it ’ s a horror to sit hidden in a cardboard box for four hours, they don ’ t know what work is ... And of course extreme labor relations shed much more light on how the labor system actually works .” < Ref name = Margolles /> Sierra has a displayed interest in visibility and invisibility.
Reportedly, Olague had run into the restaurant from across the street with a gun in his hand to check out the commotion.
The commandos waited until the commotion over the attack had subsided and then returned to the Krait, which they reached on 2 October.
Upon his arrival in Florida by December, he was amazed by the commotion the band had ignited at a Martin Luther King, Jr. parade in Hallandale.
The raiders waited until the commotion had died down before returning to the Krait.

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Early Spring came from her bed, from beside her half-drunk husband, Walitzee, and stood at the entrance way to her lodge hearing the mild commotion, the sound of hushed voices.
On her first day in the House of Commons, she was called to order for chatting with a fellow House member, not realising that she was the person who was causing the commotion.
During the commotion, Winifred ( Barbara Harris ), an aspiring country singer, runs away from her husband, Star ( Bert Remsen ), after he refuses to take her to the Grand Ole Opry.
Here, she's the third maid, Gretchen, and in first season's " What You Need ", appears in the final minute as a woman who, along with her husband, is awakened by the commotion surrounding the late-evening car accident death of Steve Cochran.
A few moments before the commotion, a paper packet lands at her feet as she walks along the darkened terrace.
Hearing the commotion, Carla ’ s son enters the room and believes that Jerry is harming her, prompting him to attack Jerry.
As Fyodor ’ s poor health caught up to him, Sophia immediately erupted onto the political scene, attending her late brother ’ s funeral and causing a commotion while doing so.
Taikoubou, overwhelmed by her guile, was defeated and was about to be thrown into the taibon ( a pit full of poisonous snakes ) along with some of the Kyou clan, when during a commotion caused by them, Buuseiou Ko Hiko saved him.
As MacDonald retaliated by beating her with a piece of lumber, Kimberley — whose brain serum was found in the doorway — may have walked in after hearing the commotion and was struck at least once on the head, possibly by accident.
Hermio tells Isabella that there has been a great deal of commotion as a result of her absence and that Antonio has gone to Fernando's house to find her.
Otoha's feelings for Chikane are further explored ; when she is sent away due to all of the commotion, she confesses to Chikane on how much she cares for her and admires her.
Monet's younger sisters, Nicole and Claudette, heard the commotion and quickly went to her room.
Approaching the source of the commotion they see two men holding a woman hostage with a bag over her head after just killing her male companion.
Dawn hears the commotion and runs to check on her mother.
After she awakens from one, she looks at her dream journal, which includes drawings detailing characters and events from the first film ; during this, she recalls a vision that picks up immediately where the first film ended: after the Tall Man's minions attacked Mike through his bedroom mirror, Reggie heard the commotion and ran upstairs to his aid.

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On hearing the commotion, Geryon sprang into action, carrying three shields, three spears, and wearing three helmets.
Hearing the commotion, Lewis secretly sneaks up and kills the rapist with an arrow from his hunting bow ; Ed grabs the shotgun as the other captor quickly vanishes into the woods.
That night, after narrowly avoiding the Triads, Brian and Charlie sneak back into the nunnery through the window of a rather eccentric nun, Sister Mary, who wakes up and starts a commotion.
Gennini, taking advantage of the commotion started when a victim runs into the station yelling she's been robbed, grabs a gun from a policeman's holster and shoots McLeod several times.
In 1966 Amin caused a commotion when he walked into a Kampala bank with a gold bar ( bearing the stamp of the government of the Belgian Congo ) and asked the bank manager to exchange it for cash.
When Orpheus Descending appeared in 1957, Williams wrote, " n the surface it was and still is the tale of a wild-spirited boy who wanders into a conventional community of the South and creates the commotion of a fox in a chicken coop.
" Despite this, G ' Kar managed to break free and began fighting with the guards, and in the following commotion Mollari escorted Cartagia away from the fight and prepared to inject the poison into him.
On hearing the commotion, Geryon sprang into action, carrying three shields, three spears, and wearing three helmets.
The kids bring all manner of wild animal pets ( frogs, mice, ducks, and even a pig ) into the show, and cause commotion and fear among the ritzy attendees.
In the commotion, Skye manages to get on a liferaft while Keith plunges into the water, at which point he loses consciousness.
However, during the commotion the full moon comes into view and shines down on the camp to reveal that the panther has now entered their campsite and is approaching the three as they look on in horror.
* Only Jon causes a commotion in the room-holding his breath until Liz accepts his invitation for Thanksgiving dinner-while Garfield spends the whole session silently going from denial into shock from being sentenced to a diet before passing out at the same time as a suffocating Jon.
He is forced into the back of a van by Charlie and threatened to stay quiet, only to be saved by Liam Connor ( Rob James-Collier ) who is passing by and hears the commotion.
The Headmaster and Miss Grant overhear the commotion, and Nicholls explains that he was getting the children interested by turning Nicholas Nickleby into a musical.

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