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.

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

After television, `` La Dolce Vita '' seems as harmless as a Gray Line tour of North Beach at night.

Visitors use this night to tour the numerous antique shops within walking distance of one another.

In addition to performing a set featuring material from Saints of Los Angeles, the band also celebrated the 20th anniversary of Dr. Feelgood by performing the album in its entirety on each night of the tour and re-releasing the album as a special 20th anniversary deluxe edition.

Though Australia has a small population, the sheer number of venues that bands could play in, mainly along the Eastern coast, meant that a band could tour extensively, often playing every night for long periods.

Unsure of his material, on the opening night he improvised a great deal, treating the audience as part of the plot almost, and he continued in this manner for the rest of the run, and on tour as ' Son of Oblomov '.

The band went on a world tour to promote the album, on the last night of which Buckingham and Nicks reunited on stage to perform " Landslide ".

The tour included five shows in Argentina, one of which drew the largest single concert crowd in Argentine history with an audience of 300, 000 in Buenos Aires and two concerts at the Morumbi Stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, where they played to an audience of more than 131, 000 people in the first night ( then the largest paying audience for a single band anywhere in the world ) and more than 120, 000 people the following night.

The single generated welcome publicity following their time out of the limelight, as did a small sold-out tour scheduled around the single release, the final night of which was at Shepherds Bush Empire as part of MTV's " Five Night Stand " festival.

The tour saw Smith pull double duty each night by performing with The Cure and as the guitarist with The Banshees when John McKay quit the group.

Beyond this, the study tour is most famous, even infamous, for what goes on at night, after the classes and sightseeing take place.

( which he could behold every night when on tour with People !).

Beginning during early summer, Perkins was paid $ 1, 000 to play just two songs a night on the extended tour of " Top Stars of ' 56.

On the last night of the tour, Perkins attended a party that turned out to be for him, and ended up sitting on the floor sharing stories, playing guitar, and singing songs while surrounded by The Beatles.

Springsteen occasionally granted the wish, though, such as during the last show of the above-mentioned tour in 1985 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, or on most of the quick American leg of the 1988 Tunnel of Love Express ( it was dropped before the end, and did not appear on the European leg ), or on the last night of a 15-show stand at the Continental Airlines Arena in New Jersey on the Reunion Tour in 1999.

On the eleventh night of the tour, Holly chartered an airplane to fly them to the next show in Moorhead, Minnesota.

After her world tour in autumn 1969, she returned to Italy to perform " Festa negli occhi, festa nel cuore " on a Canzonissima variety night and " C ' est un jour à rester couché " on the Incontro con Sylvie Vartan TV show, recorded in the Gattopardo Club of Messina.

Describing the tour, Stevens remarked that seeing a crowd of over 13, 000 fans each night coming to see them was " such an unbelievable feeling ", and the other members of the group shared an " adrenaline rush " as well as a wave of emotion before going on stage.

He was often the first to call it a night, and when not on tour or on a film location, liked to go home to see his wife and children.

The Studios are also the only major film / animation studio not to run backlot tours to the general public ; however, Adventures by Disney recently offered tours of the studio as a part of their six day, five night Southern California tour.

" In 1850 he promoted the American tour of singer Jenny Lind, paying her an unprecedented $ 1, 000 a night for 150 nights.

The tour swiftly became one of the most successful tours of 2006 in the U. S., averaging about 10, 000 people per night.