Enough of his life was spent there on the field for him never to like watching the game as a spectator in the crowd.

The night was cold but the crowd kept one warm.

It was a quarter of seven when the crowd washed me up among the other gallants who had established the Astor steps as the beach-head from which to launch their night of merrymaking.

I looked for Jessica to materialize out of the clogging, curdling crowd and, as the time passed and I waited, a fiend came to life beside me and whispered in my ear: How was I planning to greet Jessica??

This was a bitterly fought game, carrying almost as much grudge as a fist fight, with no friendliness exhibited between the teams except the formal politeness that accompanied the setting forth of ground rules and agreements on balls that went into the crowd.

There was, furthermore, the crowd of curious onlookers gathered in the street and a couple more cops to hold them at a decent distance.

The usual congratulatory crowd was conspicuously absent ; ;

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

Even so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators -- unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever -- that this tournament was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player.

Each high note had the crowd in ecstasy so that it stopped the show midway in the `` Mad Scene '', but the real reason was a realization of the extraordinary performance unfolding at the moment.

The two little bangs meant that he was getting impatient to have a crowd of customers waited on and that if he had to he would jerk open the door and drag out, by the opposite door handle which she would be clutching, whichever-the-hell clerk it was who thought she could waste so much store time on the pot.

There was a crowd in the stands for a change and the sun was hot.

Bradman's men were greeted by packed crowds across the country, and records for Test attendances in England were set in the Second and Fourth Tests at Lord's and Headingley respectively ; the crowd at Headingley remains a record, and it was there that Australia set a world record by chasing down 404 on the last day for a seven-wicket victory.

An innovation in William's coronation ceremony was that before the actual crowning, Ealdred asked the assembled crowd, in English, if it was their wish that William be crowned king.

Andronikos was now formally proclaimed as co-emperor before the crowd on the terrace of the Church of Christ of the Chalkè, and not long afterwards, on the pretext that divided rule was injurious to the Empire, he caused Alexios II to be strangled with a bow-string ( October 1183 ).

Alexios II was compelled to acknowledge Andronikos as colleague in the empire in front of the crowd on the terrace of the Church of Christ of the Chalkè and was then quickly put to death in turn ; the killing was carried out by Tripsychos, Theodore Dadibrenos and Stephen Hagiochristophorites.

The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.

Wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield's skull was fractured by a ball hitting his head ( although the ball had first glanced off the bat and Larwood had an orthodox field ), almost precipitating a riot by the Australian crowd.

When the first patrol wagon arrived, Inspector Pine recalled that the crowd — most of whom were homosexual — had grown to at least ten times the number of people who were arrested, and they all became very quiet.

In spite of the success of these first ventures, Gleyre retired from public competition, and spent the rest of his life in quiet devotion to his artistic ideals, neither seeking the easy applause of the crowd, nor turning his art into a means of aggrandizement and wealth.

As the team proudly celebrates on the ice with the roaring crowd, an obviously emotional, shaken and proud Herb leaves the rink to a small, quiet room to have a few seconds of quiet with himself, to take in what he and the team had just accomplished.

About 1, 000 people were present ; they were mostly quiet and it was generally a calm and friendly crowd.

Sole famously walked his men onto the field with quiet but steely determination, to the delight of the partisan home crowd.

In Nazareth, a crowd of mourners from Yazbak and Akkawi's funeral approached the police station and threw rocks and firebombs at it, despite the police's decision to keep all officers inside and out of sight until quiet set in.

Former NFL player Brian Baldinger speculates that some coaches draw out reviews as part of a coaching strategy to quiet the crowd for their next play.

In 1908 Walter Jerrold described the village as " a quiet scattered village and a delightful place far from the madding crowd ".

According to King, the crowd went quiet for a few seconds until they realized the blood was part of the show.

According to a witness " Ruben Salazar had just sat down to sip a quiet beer at the bar, away from the madness in the street, when a deputy -- ignoring the pleas of a woman outside who begged him not to shoot -- fired a tear gas projectile " at a crowd which went into the interior dimness of the bar, hitting Salazar in the head and killing him instantly.

Likewise, the player with the home field advantage on offense can quiet the crowd with one press of the same button.

Piepsam tries to stop him by force, receives a push in the chest from `` Life '', and is left standing in impotent and growing rage, while a crowd begins to gather.

In the semi-final, Sri Lanka, heading towards a crushing victory over India at Eden Gardens ( Calcutta ) after their hosts lost eight wickets while scoring 120 runs in pursuit of 254, were awarded victory by default after crowd unrest broke out in protest against the Indian performance.

The Nationals took the lead in the first innings by 3 to 2 ; but in the next two innings they added but five runs to their score, while the Forest Citys added thirteen to theirs, thereby taking the lead by a score of fifteen to eight, to the great surprise of the crowd and the delight of the Rockfords.

On one occasion, he spat towards the crowd while fielding on the boundary as he changed position for the final time.

* 2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet ( 20 metres ) from U. S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.

Odysseus ' son Telemachus is about 20 years old and is sharing his absent father ’ s house on the island of Ithaca with his mother Penelope and a crowd of 108 boisterous young men, " the Suitors ", whose aim is to persuade Penelope to marry one of them, all the while enjoying the hospitality of Odysseus ' household and eating up his wealth.

Standing on the Rokin side of the square dressed as an Orthodox Jew, he refused to end a loud conversation on a cell phone during the two-minute silence, then pushed his way through the crowd while muttering unintelligibly and issued an extended loud scream that was heard all over the square.

The idea of using a chainsaw as the murder weapon came to Hooper while he was in the hardware section of a busy store, contemplating how to speed his way through the crowd.

He read his poems while the crowd was permitted to pelt him with eggs, flour, herrings, potatoes and stale bread.

* In 1976 Finnish magician Aimo Leikas killed himself in front of a crowd while performing his Russian Roulette act.

The Czech rector Karel Domin gave a speech to urge the crowd to attack, while the outnumbered German students tried to resist.

The police broke through the crowd and began beating the boy, while the crowd pelted the police with food, rocks, and chunks of concrete.

In contrast to the relatively harmless speech of President Kasa-Vubu, Lumumba's reference to the suffering of the Congolese under Belgian colonialism stirred the crowd while simultaneously humiliating and alienating the King and his entourage.

There he appeared in the marionette theaters and in the motley entertainments — featuring song, dance, audience participation, and acrobatics — that were calculated to draw a crowd while sidestepping the regulations that ensured the Théâtre-Français a monopoly on " regular " dramas in Paris.

It is agreed that while Louis's blood dripped to the ground many members of the crowd ran forward to dip their handkerchiefs in it.

Sound recording of 1954 assassination attempt on Nasser while he was addressing a crowd in Mansheya, Alexandria

The end: Wat Tyler killed by Walworth while Richard II watches / Richard addresses the crowd

The Lieutenant ( Chevalier ) while standing in formation before a parade honoring the visiting royal family of Flausenthurm takes an opportunity to smile at his girlfriend in the crowd.

Fran falls in with a crowd of frivolous socialites, while Sam plays more of an independent tourist.

The league announced a national television deal with sports channel The Score, while a crowd of 5, 100 took in the league's inaugural game in London, Ontario.

The Spurs set several NBA attendance records while playing at the Alamodome, including the largest crowd ever for a NBA Finals game in 1999, and the Spurs continue to sell out the smaller, more intimate AT & T Center ( formerly SBC Center ) on a regular basis.

Stinger is a 6 foot 9 inch bright green bug that walks amongst the crowd during the games and skates on the ice between periods while wearing a Blue Jackets ' jersey.

The police officers, realizing they have killed a Black man in front of an angry crowd, take Radio Raheem's body back to the squad car, while in another squad car, a police officer beats Buggin ' Out.