They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.

Sometimes grotesque or misunderstood ( e. g. the opening line in his play Ubu Roi, " Merdre!

It is also known as the Book of the Revelation of Saint John the Divine or the Apocalypse of John, ( both in reference to its author ) or the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ ( in reference to its opening line ) or simply Revelation, ( often erroneously called Revelations in contrast to the singular in the original Koine ) or the Apocalypse.

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

Goliath eventually stopped close to the bow of Conquérant, opening fire on the new opponent and using the unengaged starboard guns to exchange occasional shots with the frigate Sérieuse and bomb vessel Hercule which were anchored inshore of the battle line.

To support the centre, Captain Thompson of Leander abandoned the futile efforts to drag the stranded Culloden off the shoal and sailed down the embattled French line, entering the gap created by the drifting Peuple Souverain and opening a fierce raking fire on Franklin and Orient.

Virgil's opening line for the Aeneid is a classic example of Latin hexameter:

Each madrāšâ had its qālâ (), a traditional tune identified by its opening line.

He coined several phrases that would become clichés, especially " the great unwashed ", " pursuit of the almighty dollar ", " the pen is mightier than the sword ", as well as the famous opening line " It was a dark and stormy night ".

Written a year after Paul Clifford, it appears to be Poe's deliberate mocking of Lord Lytton's opening line.

The start of the 20th century also saw the opening of a short lived railway station on the Drumcondra and North Dublin Link Railway line from Glasnevin Junction to Connolly Station ( then Amiens Street ).

On opening night, he experienced stage fright and stumbled over his line.

With the opening of the new Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas, Sporting Kansas City became the first major-league team to have played in stadiums on both sides of the state line in Kansas City, and may continue to use Arrowhead Stadium for special-occasion games, such as those against well-known international teams.

In 2007, the Laotian Ministry of Transportation entered into discussion with Vietnam to discuss the possibility of opening a new railway line from Thakhek in Laos through the Mu Gia Pass to Tan Ap Railway Station in Vietnam's Quang Binh Province, on the North – South Railway.

This concurs with the name of the hound mentioned in an " Ossianic Ballad ," sometimes referred to by its opening line " Dám Thrír Táncatair Ille ( They came here as a band of three )".

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps ( ACW ) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.

Two years later, in 1857, the European and North American Railway opened its line from Moncton to nearby Shediac ; this was followed by a line from Moncton to Saint John opening in 1859.

* 1996 Gangaw – Natchaung 110 · 8 Linked to isolated northern section of Kalay line ; opening ceremony February 6

The Passover Seder meal is full of symbols of salvation, including the opening of the door for Elijah and the closing line, “ Next year in Jerusalem ,” but the use of matzah is the oldest symbol of salvation in the Seder.

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

The railway first came to Berlin in 1838, with the opening of the Potsdamer Bahnhof, terminus of a 26 km line linking the city with Potsdam, opened throughout by 29 October ( in 1848 the line would be extended to Magdeburg and beyond ).

Play with the ' Reversi ' opening, wherein disks of one color line up parallel to those of the other in the center 4 squares, may still be found among enthusiasts in some places.

Most of the railways were developed during the British colonial period, with the first line from Colombo to Kandy opening on 26 April 1867.

He gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice as long as it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long and poorly delivered.

The album was recorded ar Karekare Beach, New Zealand, which gave its name to the opening track, " Kare Kare ".

One aspect of this was the structure he gave his films, with the final scene mirroring the opening scene, as in the example of A Drunkard's Reformation already mentioned above.

He energetically promoted international trade by opening offices overseas that gave advice and practical help to businessmen.

Indeed, the breadth of his vision gave rise to his grand strategy of conquering Rome by opening a northern front and subduing allied city-states on the peninsula rather than by attacking Rome directly.

The relocation of Union Station to its current location in 1914 and the opening of the Liberty Memorial in 1923 gave the city two of its most identifiable landmarks.

President William Howard Taft devoted a considerable portion of his First Annual Message to Congress ( December 7, 1909 ) to the Liberian question, noting the close historical ties between the two countries that gave an opening for a wider intervention:

" And cabaret, which gave birth to so many of the arts of modernism, may be said to have begun in France in 1881 with the opening of the Black Cat in Montmartre, the beginning of the ironic monologue, and the founding of the Society of Incoherent Arts.

" This serious mistake, which drew wide press coverage, gave Bennett his needed opening to attack King, which he did successfully in the election campaign which followed.

" First, Dolphins defensive back Jake Scott gave his team good field position by returning the opening kickoff 31 yards to the Miami 38-yard line.

On the opening kickoff, a 15-yard facemask penalty on Chargers linebacker Doug Miller gave San Francisco the ball at their own 41-yard line.

Pope John Paul II gave the opening speech at the Puebla Conference.

Public fears about the negative effects of market reforms gave conservatives ( including Li Peng ) the opening to call for greater centralization of economic controls and stricter prohibitions against Western influences, especially opposing further expansion of Zhao's more free enterprise-oriented approach.

This manoeuvre towards Bloomsbury came to little, with Eliot getting £ 50 and unwelcome publicity in the Liverpool Post, but gave Lytton Strachey an opening for mockery.

This gave Colonel Churchill only 1042 days to have everything built and functioning for opening day.

: The films directed by Sergio Leone have a parodic dimension ( the strange opening scene of Once Upon a Time in the West being a reversal of Fred Zinnemann's High Noon opening scene ) which gave them a different tone to the Hollywood Westerns.

Because of the very quiet opening pages of the ballet score, the composer added a brief " Fanfare pour précéder La Peri " which gave the typically noisy audiences of the day time to settle in their seats before the work proper began.

Deng's idea that " some areas can get rich before others " gave rise to an opening wealth gap between coastal regions and the hinterlands.

In the following days 611 KonKow people were murdered and a vigilante group in a compromise with those who wanted the killing to stop gave four determined as ' bad people ' a running start before opening fire and killing two.

In 1990, she gave a concert at the Palace of Culture of Sofia, opening and closing with a Bulgarian song.

In 1789, they gave up this land to New York, thus opening it to settlers.

Entertainment Weekly gave the release a " B +" rating and wrote, " Fans will drool over the extras, including some illuminating deleted scenes ( of particular note is an alternate opening detailing Buckaroo's tragic childhood, featuring Jamie Lee Curtis as Banzai's mother ) and director Richter's commentary, which reveals some colorful behind-the-scenes battles with studio execs ".

Zhao's proposal in May 1988 to accelerate price reform led to widespread popular complaints about rampant inflation and gave opponents of rapid reform the opening to call for greater centralization of economic controls and stricter prohibitions against Western influence.

In his analysis, German critic Paul Bekker states that " The opening sonata-allegro movement gave the work a definite character from the beginning ... which succeeding movements could supplement but not change.