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.

Unlike its relatives, the aardwolf does not hunt large animals ; instead it eats insects, mainly termites-one aardwolf can eat about 200, 000 termites during a single night by using its long, sticky tongue to capture them.

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

The intention was for the 4th New Zealand Brigade and 5th New Zealand Brigade ( on 4th Brigade's right ) to attack northwest to seize the western part of the ridge and on their right the Indian 5th Infantry Brigade to capture the eastern part of the ridge in a night attack.

At 17: 00, Gott ordered 5th Indian Infantry Division to execute a night attack to capture the western half of Ruweisat ridge and Deir el Shein.

* The Australian Army defines the role of the infantry thus: " The role of the Infantry is to seek out and close with the enemy, to kill or capture him, to seize or hold ground and repel attack, by day or night, regardless of season, weather or terrain.

Kearny decided to raid Pico to capture fresh horses, and sent out a scouting party on the night of December 5 – 6.

Tombaugh's task was to systematically capture sections of the night sky in pairs of images.

During the airborne phase of the Normandy invasion on the night of 5 – 6 June 1944, British 6th Airborne Division captured all its key objectives in advance of the seaborne assault, including the capture and holding at all costs of a vital bridge over the Caen Canal, near Ouistreham.

Without a regular army and police force ( which in England was not established until 1829 ), it had been the duty of certain men to keep watch and ward at night and to confront and capture suspicious persons.

Plutarch reports the peculiar customs associated with the Spartan wedding night: The custom was to capture women for marriage (...) The so-called ' bridesmaid ' took charge of the captured girl.

Velvet worms are ambush predators, hunting only by night, and are able to capture animals at least their own size, although it may take almost all of their slime-secreting capacity to capture a large prey item.

Also, the CIA station chief helped to direct the search to capture Lumumba for his transfer to his enemies in Katanga ; was involved in arranging his transfer to Katanga ( p. 158, Hoyt, Michael P. 2009, " Captive in the Congo: A Consul's Return to the Heart of Darkness "); and the CIA base chief in Elizabethville was in direct touch with the killers the night Lumumba was killed.

531 men of the U. S. 2nd Battalion 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment flew over at night from Britain, over Spain, intending to drop near Oran and capture two airfields.

" The capture of Badajos affords as strong an instance of the gallantry of our troops as has ever been displayed, but I anxiously hope that I shall never again be the instrument of putting them to such a test as that to which they were put last night "

The carrion-feeding species only become active at night when they enter the maggot-infested part of the corpse to capture and devour their maggot prey.

They have a better spatial resolution at low light levels than other primates which contributes to their ability to capture insects and move at night. Night monkeys live in family groups of the mated pair with their immature offspring.

Following the Battle of Sedgemoor, the Duke fled and spent the night of 6 July at Downside, a mile north of Shepton, before continuing his flight for two more days before his capture.

He later wrote that he used photography " in order to capture the beauty of streets and gardens in the rain and fog, and to capture Paris by night.

That night Clive launched a daring attack against the French artillery, seeking to capture their guns.

Thucydides tells that in April 431 BC, an armed force of 300 Thebans commanded by two leading Theban generals / politicians were admitted after dark on a stormy moonless night into Plataea by two private citizens who expected the Theban force to immediately capture and kill the democratic leaders and bring Plataea into alliance with Thebes.

On the night of 17 June 1643, Prince Rupert sortied on a raid out of Oxford to capture the Parliamentarian army's paymaster, but while that failed, did succeed the next morning in overwhelming two of Essex's small garrison outposts at Postcombe and Chinnor.

When the American military commanders were alerted to British plans to capture undefended high ground at Dorchester Heights and Charlestown, Prescott was chosen to lead 1, 200 men onto the Charlestown peninsula and erect defenses on Bunker Hill on the night of June 16, 1775.