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.

If the air mass is colder than the ground below it, it is labeled k. If the air mass is warmer than the ground below it, it is labeled w. While air mass identification was originally used in weather forecasting during the 1950s, climatologists began to establish synoptic climatologies based on this idea in 1973.

During the Renaissance the gambas were important and elegant instruments ; they eventually lost ground to the louder ( and originally less aristocratic ) lira da braccio family.

After centuries, these giornate ( originally, nearly invisible ) have sometimes become visible, and in many large-scale frescoes, these divisions may be seen from the ground.

In the event of a draw, the replay is played at the ground of the team who originally played away from home, with a penalty shootout deciding the winner if the replay game also ends in a tie.

Most notably, he had the Hagia Sophia, originally a basilica style church that had been burnt down during the Nika riots, splendidly rebuilt according to a completely different ground plan, under the architectural supervision of Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles.

To the east of the Tiltyard is a lower area of marshy ground, originally flooded and called the Lower Pool, and to the west an area once called the Great Mere.

In the area of the finds, the ground was originally covered by a shallow, loose soil sitting atop a hardpan layer.

The large, continuously upgraded satellite ground stations, originally installed in 1972 to provide live coverage of the visits to China by U. S. president Richard M. Nixon and Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka, still served as the base for China's international satellite communications network in the mid-1980s.

Some sources state that tachi were originally a cavalry weapon, primarily used on horseback, where it was able to be drawn efficiently for cutting down enemy foot soldiers, and that on the ground it was still an effective weapon, but somewhat awkward to use.

Dressage originally demonstrated the horse's ability to perform on the parade ground, where elegance and obedience were key.

He therefore conceived that, originally, when the Euxine was an inland sea, its level had by this means become so much elevated that it burst its barrier near Byzantium, and formed a communication with the Propontis, and this partial drainage had already, he supposed, converted the left side into marshy ground, and that, at last, the whole would be choked up with soil.

There is a small artificial stream running along most of the walking mall, mirroring the underground springs that originally flowed above ground in parts of the Gulch.

The White Hart Lane ground was originally a disused nursery owned by the brewery Charringtons and located behind a public house on Tottenham High Road ( the actual White Hart Lane road lies a few hundred yards north the other side of the High Road ).

The three wings of the quadrangle have three floors: rooms on the ground and upper floors of the quadrangle ( excluding Duke Humfrey ’ s library, above the Divinity School ) were originally used as lecture space and an art gallery.

In 1797 the body of the sailor Richard Parker, hanged for his leading role in the Nore mutiny, was given a Christian burial at Whitechapel after his wife exhumed it from the unconsecrated burial ground to which it was originally consigned.

Floyd County, originally the Shawnee Indians hunting ground, was conquered for the United States by George Rogers Clark during the American Revolutionary War from the British.

The height of this above ground level is perhaps to protect the precious books contained within from flooding, an event that was all too frequent when the church was originally built.

Each tower was of four stories, and was originally capped by four turrets about above ground level.

The Kimberley diamonds were originally found in weathered kimberlite which was colored yellow by limonite, and so was called yellow ground.

Though he was originally buried in an above ground tomb in Brooklyn's South Cemetery, his remains had to be moved due to excessive visitors.

The ground floor has two large, originally vaulted, chambers, and above are two grand halls surrounded by high windows.

Formerly named " River Aux Echorches ", which means " The River of the Barks " in English, the area that would become Ecorse was originally used as a burial ground for the Native American tribes of the area, and later settled by the French in the last two decades of the 18th century.

The town was originally situated on the banks of the Quilcene river, before being moved to higher ground.

Both evoke Byzantine tradition in terms of their medium, that is, the technique and materials of the paintings, in that they were originally painted in tempera ( egg yolk and ground pigments ) on wooden panels.