although we didn't expect the attack before dawn, the long cloudy night, filled with the sounds of the industrious insects, seemed endless.

He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.

The fumes of progress are in his nose and the bright steel of industry towers before his eyes, but his heart is away in Yoknapatawpha County with razorback hogs and night riders.

The night before, they had telephoned the Andrus maid, Selena Masters, and she had arrived early, bursting her vigorous presence into the silent house with an assurance that amused McFeeley and confounded Moll.

But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.

He found them near the carcass of a zebra that had been killed the night before, and he circled once, nose to the ground, hair shooting up along his back, as it did when he was after lion or bear, and then he lifted his head and bayed, and the pack joined in, all heads high, and Jones knew it was a hot trail.

At Osaka, Mr. Yoneda had to leave us to get the train to his home, but Mr. Nishima and I had an hour and a half before train time to see Osaka at night.

Shayne turned the handle and jerked the door open before either of the men were quite aware of his presence in the night.

The doorman began to nod his head automatically, then remembered who Gilborn was, what had happened to him the night before.

`` I'll collar Tim before night ''.

The next day, Sunday, the hangover reminded Haney where he had been the night before.

He ran his string of successful conversions this season to 13 straight before one went astray last Saturday night in the 41-8 slaughter of Washington State.

Then, when the case went to the jury, the judge excused one of the jurors, saying the juror had told him he had been accosted by masked men at his motel the night before the trial opened.

The Moiseyev Dance Company dropped in at Madison Square Garden last night for the first of four farewell performances before it brings its long American tour to a close.

Everything was as I had left it the night before last -- her portfolio and bag for town, her lingerie and dress and shoes laid out only her mink coat was missing.

It happened two weeks ago, the night before his father left on a business trip to South America.

She'd been out with Pete the night before and her gay chatter about their date lightened my mood a little.

She had heard about it the night before at her hotel.

That night, after leaving Charlotte's apartment, Richard walked about for a time before returning to his room.

When the solution finally came to him, one night while he was in bed, he was so shaken by its simplicity that he could only wonder why it had not occurred to him before.

When Amphitryon finally returned to Thebes, Alcmene told him that he had come the night before and slept with her ; he learned from Tiresias what Zeus had done.

At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.

If a flame is held before the lips while these words are spoken, it flickers more during aspirated nitrate than during unaspirated night rate.

Examples of prayer which are unique to Luke include Jesus's prayers at the time of his baptism (), his praying all night before choosing the twelve (), and praying for the transfiguration ().

The night before he is to return from leave, he stays up with her, exchanging small expressions of love and concern for each other.

People died, she would have said, in hospitals, or in cars on the highway at night.

Mrs. Eleanor Kowalski, 42, died yesterday afternoon in Holy Cross Hospital of burns suffered in a fire that followed a bottled gas explosion Saturday night at the flat of her widowed mother, Mrs. Mary Pankowski, in the adjoining suburb of Warren.

That night he dictated a final sentence to the scribe, a boy named Wilberht, and died soon afterwards.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

Some have said that Jefferson died from a heart attack after being attacked by a dog in the middle of the night.

He had a successful operation, but his pancreas failed the next night and he died a few days later.

For nine years after his father died, he worked the night shift wrapping bread at a Los Angeles bakery, attended USC, reviewed some movies, and wrote 88 short stories and six novels that were rejected for publication.

One of Thomas ' last poems, " Do not go gentle into that good night ", was a villanelle to his father, who died from pneumonia just before Christmas 1952.

This conjecture is also supported by other letters Galois later wrote to his friends the night before he died.

" However, the legend of Galois pouring his mathematical thoughts onto paper the night before he died seems to have been exaggerated.

BBC Two showed an episode on 8 November 2008 as part of its tribute night to producer Geoffrey Perkins, who had died just over two months before.

In 453, he died of a nosebleed on his wedding night.

In an interview, Hepburn described the last time she and Spencer Tracy saw Bogart ( the night before he died ):

Burke was present on the night Reynolds died, and he was moved within hours to write a eulogy of Reynolds:

On the third day a major hemorrhage occurred and the emperor died during the night.

John's illness grew worse and by the time he reached Newark Castle he was unable to travel any further ; John died on the night of 18 October.

In due course, Isabella and Mortimer had Edward moved by night to Berkeley Castle, where he died shortly afterwards.

Adam of Usk, a one-time supporter of Glyndŵr, made the following entry in his Chronicle under the year 1415: After four years in hiding, from the king and the realm, Owain Glyndŵr died, and was buried by his followers in the darkness of night.

The initial candidates included Cardinals Pole, Sfondrati, Carpi and Ridolfi ( who died on the night of 31 January ).

That night he died, on the 22nd day after his election.

Two of the hostage-takers died from injuries they suffered when the explosives they planted detonated later that night.

In the course of the night, Baader was found dead with a gunshot wound in the back of his head and Ensslin was found hanged in her cell ; Raspe died in the hospital the next day from a gunshot wound to the head.

A connection of the medieval feis of Samhain with pre-Christian traditions was drawn by the " notoriously unreliable " Geoffrey Keating ( died 1644 ), who claimed that the druids of Ireland would assemble on the night of Samhain to kindle a sacred fire.

He died during the night, aged 67, and his spirit was re-united with his wife Downy and the rest of the McDuck-clan as his three children left Scotland.

As Skelly hopped on the running board he was shot three times and died of his wounds later that night.