The kid showed for an instant, and his arm was cocked back.

A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.

For an instant John was stunned.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.

in an instant the doctor was stalking across the room with an antique ledger in his hands, thoroughly eared and big as a table top.

It was as though, in that instant, he had felt the flatness of collage as too constricting and had suddenly tried to escape all the way back -- or forward -- to literal three-dimensionality.

For an instant his men hesitated, unable to believe that their lieutenant, the most popular officer in the regiment, was dead.

The room was bathed in light at the instant Muller's second shot came.

All this went through Casey's mind in the first instant, but what held his interest was the fact that these two should be together at all.

There were several missions which demanded instant attention but Helva had been of interest to several department heads in Central for some time and each man was determined to have her assigned to his section.

Both the BIH scale and A. 1 was defined by an epoch at the beginning of 1958: it was set to read Julian Date 2436204. 5 ( 1 January 1958 00: 00: 00 ) at the corresponding UT2 instant.

Bovril's instant beef stock was launched in 1966 and its " King of Beef " range of instant flavours for stews, casseroles and gravy in 1971.

It was released on 6 January 1921 to instant success, and by 1924 had been screened in over 50 countries.

The 120-page book, first published in the United States and then in Britain, was illustrated by Osbert Lancaster and became an instant best seller.

Commercially it was an instant success, and initially received favourable reviews.

An instant rivalry was born, fueled initially by Paul Brown's rivalry with Art Modell.

It was during the Red Terror that the Cheka, hoping to avoid the bloody aftermath of having half-dead victims writhing on the floor, developed a technique for execution known later by the German words " Nackenschuss " or " Genickschuss ", a shot to the nape of the neck, which caused minimal blood loss and instant death.

The Bacardi rum and Coke was an instant hit.

The first UN troops arrived the next day but there was instant disagreement between Lumumba and the UN over the new force's mandate.

The show, which he called Make Believe Ballroom, was an instant hit.

First published as a serial by the Pennsylvania Packet, the book was an instant best-seller ; it is still available today.

This new sauce was an instant success, and was gratefully named in honor of its creators.

But, standard conventional epochs which are not Besselian epochs have been often designated nowadays with a prefix " J ", and the calendar date to which they refer is widely known, although not always the same date in the year: thus " J2000 " refers to the instant of 12h on 1 January 2000, and J1900 refers to the instant of 12h ( midday ) on 0 January 1900, equal to 31 Dec 1899.

Depending on the circumstance, buttons may be designated to be pushed only once and execute a command, while others may be used to receive instant feed back and may require the user to click more than once to receive the desired result.

* On December 19, 2002, AOL Time Warner announced that ICQ had been issued a United States patent for instant messaging.

A new edition ( the first edition was resold in America ), released in December of the same year but carrying an 1866 date, was quickly printed and became an instant best-seller, securing Tenniel's lasting fame in the process.

In December 2005, Blizzard Entertainment and Xfire, a gaming-focused instant messaging service, jointly sponsored a World of Warcraft machinima contest.

* December 26, 1999, a beta version 1. 02 was released which features instant messaging between users, a new skin and anti-virus scanning.

In December 1953, she opened in John Murray Anderson's Almanac which made her an instant Broadway success and for which she won the Donaldson Award in 1954.

The play, which opened on December 15, 1829, was an instant hit.

But a significant simplification of Scarf ’ s argument came when Scarf met Debreu on one occasion in December 1961, as Debreu eloquently described it in his 1983 Nobel Prize lecture: `` Associated with our joint paper is one of my vivid memories of the instant when a problem is solved.

: An accounting period covering the instant of the transfer ( 11. 59pm on 31 December 20X1 )

Robert " Bo " Belinsky ( December 7, 1936 – November 23, 2001 ) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, who became an instant southern California celebrity as a rookie with the original Los Angeles Angels, especially when the fourth of his season-opening four straight wins was a no-hit, no-run game against his former organization, the Baltimore Orioles.

However, he did join Sheffield United on loan for a month, in December 2004, and in January 2006, still unable to break into the first team, he went out on loan again, this time to Gillingham, where he scored five goals and was an instant hit with the fans.

They opened at the Sydney Princess, were an instant success, and in December moved to the Grand Opera House, playing in the spectacular pantomime The Bunyip, followed by a season in Melbourne.

The December solstice occurs when the subsolar point is on the Tropic of Capricorn and the June solstice is at the instant when the subsolar point is on the Tropic of Cancer.

Launched in December 2003, the Guest Rewards Program is tailored to the Canadian market, including special features such as instant redemption for room credits right at the property.

On January 31, 2012, Miramax signed a video-on-demand agreement with BT Vision that gives BT Vision Unlimited subscribers instant access to a range of Miramax ’ s award-winning movies.

" Funkytown " was the first single, and it was an instant hit, climbing to Number One just a few months later and spending four weeks on top starting May 31, 1980.

He was an instant hit, playing on a line with fellow rookies Stan Smyl and Curt Fraser, he led the team in assists ( 31 ) and finished second in scoring ( 51 points ) in his rookie campaign, and added 4 goals in 3 playoff games.

Blokesworld began on Channel 31 in February 2003 and was an instant cult hit.