Not until the words had been spoken did Abel suddenly see the old house and the insistent sea, and feel his contrition blotted out in one shameful moment of covetousness.

During his second week at sea he brought the curious melody out of the instrument and suddenly wanted to force the biwa to remain at just that moment in its history when it had given him pleasure.

Odysseus ’ protectress, the goddess Athena, discusses his fate with Zeus, king of the gods, at a moment when Odysseus ' enemy, the god of the sea Poseidon, is absent from Mount Olympus.

The Athenian people, facing the gravest moment of peril in their history, committed themselves once and for all to the alien element of the sea, and put their faith in a man whose ambitions many had long profoundly dreaded.

American soldiers climbing a sea wall in Incheon during a decisive moment in the timeline of the Korean War.

Tromp, a " sea hero ", was immensely popular with the common people, a sentiment expressed by the greatest of Dutch poets, Joost van den Vondel in a famous poem describing his marble grave monument in Delft showing the admiral on his moment of death with a burning British fleet on the foreground:

Although he found the sea flooding into the U-boat, David remained below directing the initial salvage operations — aware that at any moment the submersible could blow up or sink.

In the 6th century BC the Greek philosopher Thales is recorded as using similar triangles to estimate the height of the pyramids by measuring the length of their shadows and that of his own at the same moment, and comparing the ratios to his height ( intercept theorem ); and to have estimated the distances to ships at sea as seen from a clifftop, by measuring the horizontal distance traversed by the line-of-sight for a known fall, and scaling up to the height of the whole cliff.

Given the very rapid technological changes underway in propulsion ( from coal to oil, from boilers to turbines ), ordnance ( with better fire directors, and new high explosives ) and armor and emergence of new craft such as destroyers and submarines, Mahan's emphasis on the capital ship and the command of the sea came at an opportune moment.

The Union commander of all armies, Henry Wager Halleck stated to Banks that President Lincoln “ regards the opening of the Mississippi River as the first and most important of all our military and naval operations, and it is hoped that you will not lose a moment in accomplishing it .” On December 4, 1862, Banks and his expedition put to sea for New Orleans.

Since all is in flux, to get the most from life we must learn to discriminate through " sharp and eager observation ": for " every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest ; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us, – for that moment only ".

Right at that moment Elizabeth shows her love for Will, and he is pardoned, while Sparrow escapes by falling off the sea wall.

As a consequence of these circumstances, the mission-minded commander would sometimes fire service ammunition ( live gunfire ) across the bows of an errant warship, and in a fiery moment fling his binoculars from the bridge into the sea.

We were in the full enjoyment of it when a heavy sea caught us, knocked us over, and in a moment drenched us and filled even our pockets.

The Portuguese commission recognized the importance of the lighthouse to the sea route to the Canary Islands, but could not contribute to the project at that particular moment due to the involvement in the Portuguese coast signalization, which was absorbing all available funds.

But the Mask of Life possessed a will of its own, and in the last moment evades them all, dropping into the depths of the sea.

In a moment of extreme danger during a terrible storm on the sea voyage back to France from the Crusade, Margaret begged Joinville to do something to help ; he told her to pray for deliverance, and to vow that when they reached France she would go on a pilgrimage and offer a golden ship with images of the king, herself and her children in thanks for their escape from the storm.

The piles are driven deep into the sea bed to reduce the moment on them.

In oceanography, a sea state is the general condition of the free surface on a large body of water — with respect to wind waves and swell — at a certain location and moment.

Other helicopters dropped off their passengers and were then ditched into the sea by their pilots, close to the ships, their pilots bailing out at the last moment to be picked up by rescue boats.

In this battle the allies were in total disarray — partly the result of having been two weeks at sea, including one battle — but mainly because of a curious coincidence: it so happened Spragge, now commanding the van, visited Rupert the moment the Dutch attacked.

A moment later, Xander hears him scream and goes to investigate, finding a ransacked cafeteria, Cameron's skin and humanoid sea creature.

Mark Gatiss: " There was a funny moment when we were filming by the sea and the doubles for Tubbs and Edward and Papa Lazarou were all having a fag.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

Rolling blocks are most often associated with firearms made by Remington in the later 19th century ; in the Remington action the hammer serves to lock the breech closed at the moment of firing, and the block in turn prevents the hammer from falling with the breech open.

At that point, Scholastica closed her hands in prayer, and after a moment, a wild storm started outside of the guest house in which they were housed.

The closest the Barrier has come to closing was on 27 November 2011, then the Closure Team was called out and started to close the gates, but was not fully closed since the surge subsided at the very last moment.

According to the rendering Daphne prays for help either to the river god Peneus or to Gaia, and is transformed into a laurel ( Laurus nobilis ): " a heavy numbness seized her limbs, thin bark closed over her breasts, her hair turned into leaves, her arms into branches, her feet so swift a moment ago stuck fast in slow-growing roots, her face was lost in the canopy.

Rolling blocks are most often associated with firearms made by Remington in the later 19th century ; in the Remington action the hammer serves to lock the breech closed at the moment of firing, and the block in turn prevents the hammer from falling with the breech open.

A magnetic dipole is the limit of either a closed loop of electric current or a pair of poles as the dimensions of the source are reduced to zero while keeping the magnetic moment constant.

When the moment arrived for the recitation of the names of the defunct bishops from the diptychs, the multitude closed in silence about the holy table ; and when the deacon had read the new insertions, a mighty shout arose, " Glory be to Thee, O Lord!

At that moment, the god Ame-no-Tajikarawo-no-mikoto dashed forth and closed the cave behind her, refusing to budge so that she could no longer retreat.

North of Fanø the sand coast has been opened and closed numerous times in the course of history, but at the moment the coast line is closed, and forms a whole again save for two west coast fjords.

However The Griffin is closed at the moment and the The Blois Arms has been for some time.

lie on your back / legs splayed as far apart as comfortable / arms 90 degrees to your body / palms upwards / eyes closed / simultaneously ( with a quick movement ) raise your torso and legs ( legs straight and locked at the knee ) / simultaneously clap feet together and hands together ( arms are straight and locked at the elbow ) / in the moment of clapping, open eyes wide and shout Ra!

In his literary output the past is not treated as something distant or closed – revived characters and events allow making an attempt at understanding not only history but also the current moment.

The sliding doors which make up the walls in a machiya, as in most traditional Japanese buildings, provide a great degree of versatility ; doors can be opened and closed or removed entirely to alter the number, size, and shape of rooms to suit the needs of the moment.

The Holy Doors of the iconostasis are left open from the moment they were opened at midnight throughout all of Bright Week, being closed only at the end of the Ninth Hour on Bright Saturday.

* Water Tower Belvedere ( Revolving restaurant ) ( closed at the moment )

* Fernsehturm Dresden-Wachwitz, Dresden ( closed at the moment )

* Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg, Nuremberg ( closed at the moment )

* Europaturm, Frankfurt ( closed at the moment )

* Fernsehturm Kulpenburg ( closed at the moment )

* Henninger Turm, Frankfurt am Main ( 2 revolving restaurants, closed at the moment )

* Heinrich-Hertz-Turm, Hamburg ( Revolving restaurant, closed at the moment )

After thirty-four hours of lying in state, the doors of the Capitol were closed to the public and Nancy Reagan was escorted in, where she had a moment alone with the casket.