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.

The creek to the east of the bridge was filled in with material from the quarries at Cattedown and Oreston during the late 1890s and the ground created became a municipal park, Victoria Park, which was officially opened in 1903.

Although some contemporary Soviet sources stated that Gagarin had parachuted separately to the ground, the Soviet Union officially insisted that he had landed with the Vostok ; the government forced the cosmonaut to lie in press conferences, and the FAI certified the flight.

More controversially, it set the ground rules by which the Church would relate to secular states, both pluralistic ones like the U. S., and officially Catholic nations like Malta and Costa Rica.

The first officially observed human-powered helicopter to have left the ground was the Da Vinci III in 1989.

After the Taliban's refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden to U. S. authorities for his suspected involvement in the 11 September 2001 attacks in New York City and Washington, D. C., a US-led international coalition was formed ; after several weeks of aerial bombardment by coalition forces and military action on the ground, including Afghan opposition forces, the Taliban was officially ousted from power on November 17, 2001.

On the ground, Zinn learned that the aerial bombing attacks in which he participated had killed more than 1000 French civilians as well as some German soldiers hiding near Royan to await the war's end, events that are described " in all accounts " he found as " une tragique erreur " that leveled a small but ancient city and " its population that was, at least officially, friend, not foe.

The Oval, officially currently known as " The Kia Oval ", is the home ground for Surrey County Cricket Club and hosts the final Test match of the English summer season.

This led to the establishment of the main burial ground for the city, Riverside Cemetery, officially opened with the sale of additional plots to the public in 1882.

The ground breaking ceremony for Kuala Lumpur International Airport ( KLIA ) took place on 1 November 1991 when the government decided that the existing Kuala Lumpur International Airport, officially then known as Subang International Airport ( now Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport ) could not handle future demand.

Twenty two years following the end of the Laotian War, on 15 May 1997, the U. S. officially acknowledged its role in the Secret War, erecting a memorial in honour of American and Hmong contributions to U. S. air and ground combat efforts during the conflict.

January 25, 2007, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ( HKUST ) officially named its Graduate School in Nansha as HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School in a ceremony that combined the official opening of the Graduate School and the ground breaking of its Nansha campus.

The ground was officially consecrated in the middle of 819 with rituals lasting seven days.

Starting in 2012 / 13 the ground will be known officially as " The Book People Stadium " after a three year deal with the literary company.

With the exception of the F-14D ( officially retired as of September 2006 ), no 4th-generation Western fighters carry built-in IRST sensors for air-to-air detection, though the similar FLIR is often used to acquire ground targets.

The ground was officially opened on 13 September that year.

Hallam still play on their original ground, Sandygate Road, which is officially recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as " The Oldest Ground in the World ".

* The Green line ( officially Tunnelbana 1, or " Metro 1 ") has 3 line numbers and 49 stations: 12 subterranean ( nine concrete, three rock ) and 37 above ground stations.

On Thursday, April 19, 2007, ground was officially broken for the $ 52 million Tate Student Center Expansion and Renovation project.

On a cold day in February 2007, the seminary officially broke ground.

) a black gown is worn, ending 12 inches ( 30 cm ) from the ground, with a black hood partially lined with white silk ( if graduating, the hood is only put on after the degree has been officially awarded ) and a black mortarboard.

The station is supposedly used as a neutral ground for MI6 illegals ( officially nonexistent agents ) to be given missions by M. A visible track-side line diagram places the station north / east of Hyde Park Corner, which suggests that it is actually Down Street, but for the fact that the real station is some away from the real Vauxhall Cross, and trains still run through Down Street.

The club's previous ground, Brandon Park, was officially opened in 1903 in a friendly against Blantyre Victoria in the month of August that year.

Leyton Orient's home ground Brisbane Road is officially known as the Matchroom Stadium after club chairman Barry Hearn's sports promotion company.

In 1926 Rovers home ground, the Lawn Ground, was officially enclosed and a decade later the committee members at the club bought the field for £ 120 at an auction.

:" In my opinion, an order of the court designed to secure the fulfilment of an agreement peremptorily required before a mixed marriage by the Church, whose special position in Ireland is officially recognised as the guardian of the faith of the Catholic spouse, cannot be withheld on any ground of public policy by the very State which pays homage to that Church.