Guerrillas were only a dozen yards away, charging the house.

Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.

One assessor checked boats only, another trailers and tractors, one mentioned house trailers, and two others referred to trailers without specifying the type.

This will be for the shell of the house only ( roof, walls, and floor ), and does not include the carport or balcony.

Lucien is not the only person in this house who could have put opium in that coffee.

Was it only a few nights ago that they had been standing together in front of the house looking at the moon-washed river??

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

While entrance to the Park is free, Gaudí's house, " la Torre Rosa ," — containing furniture that he designed — can be only visited for an entrance fee.

The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.

To generate power, the average autonomous house needs only one small wind generator, 5 metres or less in diameter.

These deposits ultimately hold not only untapped reserves of gas and oil, they also house important secrets — from clues on past climate change to the ways in which mountains were formed.

By a further act of 1541 — which was not repealed until 1845 — artificers, labourers, apprentices, servants and the like were forbidden to play bowls at any time except Christmas, and then only in their master's house and presence.

The only lower house to have had a designated table was Caven, in the northwest corner beside the alumni table.

Most casinos usually charge only $ 1 for a $ 25 green-chip bet ( 4 % commission ), or $ 2 for $ 50 ( two green chips ), reducing the house advantage a bit more.

They eventually marry, but only after Rochester's mad first wife ( whom Jane initially had no knowledge of ) dies in a dramatic house fire.

Simon's greatest triumph was the victory against superior numbers at the Battle of Muret — a battle which saw not only the defeat of Raymond of Toulouse and his Occitan allies — but also the death of Peter of Aragon — and the effective end of the ambitions of the house of Aragon / Barcelona in the Languedoc.

The house was first broken into only three days after we moved in … The feeling was so close to extreme danger, and the fear was so intense.

Of the several homes that Poe, his wife Virginia, and his mother-in-law Maria rented in Philadelphia, only the last house has survived.

Maximilian and Carlota made Chapultepec Castle their home, which has been the only palace in North America to house sovereigns.

Countries that use this system to elect the lower or only house of their legislature include:

Montag stands outside Clarisse's house and sees that she and her family are the only ones in the neighborhood with the lights on and engaging in a spirited conversation.

Elin leaves Johan and the party, only to return to Agnes ' house to apologize for how she acted earlier.

Once again he was required to compose numerous cantatas, not only for the churches but also for civic ceremonies ; he also gave public concerts, led another collegium musicum, and assumed the directorship of the opera house Gänsemarktoper.

In a notoriously corrupt institution, Melville soon won the reputation of being the only honest employee of the customs house.

He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.

Outside, only a handful of reporters remained.

There remained only the delicate task of maneuvering the laws through the labyrinth of Palace politics and making a small number of policy decisions.

Only in Europe have our lines remained firm -- and there only on the surface.

However, only a very small percentage of all these people has remained in Angola, either for personal reasons ( intermarriage ) or as professionals ( e. g. medical doctors ).

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

Playing 34 matches on tour — three of which were not first-class — including the five Tests, they remained unbeaten, winning 27 and drawing only 7.

" The Germantown school, however, was faltering ; soon only eight pupils remained.

The city remained a Free Imperial City, subject to the Emperor only, but was politically far too weak to influence the policies of any of its neighbours.

Out of the 1, 159 Ainu, only around 100 remained in Russia.

Of those who remained, only the elderly were full-blooded Ainu.

After that, only Philadelpheia and a handful of ports remained under Byzantine control in Asia Minor.

Within a few years, Emperor Manuel died as well, and Saladin remained the only strong leader in the east.

Although this produced a mode 7 that barely impacted upon CPU performance and gave the same visual quality as the BBC Micro, it remained compatible only with software that used the ROM routines for outputting text and graphics and still used 10 kB of memory for the display.

The administrative cities remained economically only of regional importance.

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

Abdur Rahman could only succeed in subjugating Hazaras and conquering their land when he effectively utilized internal differences within the Hazara community, co-opting sold-out Hazara chiefs into his bureaucratic sales of the enslaved Hazara men, women and children in 1897, the Hazaras remained de facto slaves until King Amanullah Khan declared Afghanistan's independence in 1919.

This, along with European diseases, so impacted the Nicoleños, that by 1853, only one living Nicoleña person remained.

Through this treaty, the Marathas controlled virtually the whole of India from their capital at Pune and Mughal rule was restricted only to Delhi ( the Mughals remained the nominal heads of Delhi ).

While the government and parliament moved to Berlin, as a compromise, some of the ministries ( such as Defence and Agriculture ) largely remained in Bonn, with only the top officials in Berlin.

There were several GUI-based BBSes on the Apple Macintosh platform, including TeleFinder and FirstClass, but these remained widely used only in the Mac market.

Marlborough skillfully encouraged this apprehension by constructing bridges across the Rhine at Philippsburg, a ruse that not only encouraged Villeroi to come to Tallard's aid in the defence of Alsace, but one that ensured the French plan to march on Vienna remained paralysed by uncertainty.

He was still only 20 years old, yet now there was an expectation that he would help with the rebuilding of the club as Busby's aides tried to piece together what remained of the season.

A number of biblical scholars suspect that the distinction of the Joseph tribes ( including Benjamin ) is that they were the only Israelites which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had remained in Canaan throughout.

Over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, these amalgamated or were bought by competitors until only a handful of larger companies remained ( see railway mania ).