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He ran on his plump sticks of legs, freezing now and again into the sudden startled attitudes which the camera had caught and held on the paling photographs, all carefully placed and glued and labeled, resting in the fat plush album in the bottom drawer of the escritoire.
A second scene flashed before his mind, the interior of the garage at the new house and the young Bartlett girl turning startled to meet him, the dim dark and the sudden confusion and fear and then the brightness as Mae had clicked on the light.
They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".
Parfitt had this artifact radio-carbon dated to about 1350, which coincided with the sudden end of the Great Zimbabwe civilization.
This was in part due to the sudden switching of troops from the Rhine to reinforce Prince Eugene in Italy, and part due to the deterioration of Baden ’ s health brought on by the re-opening of a severe foot wound he had received at the storming of the Schellenberg the previous year.
Due to the need for so many sailors to work onshore, Brueys had not deployed any of his lighter warships as scouts, which left him unable to swiftly react to the sudden appearance of the British.
Until Henry's sudden death, they had both loved the theater, and she " enthusiastically supported " her husband's theatrical aspirations.
Chicago committed numerous critical errors and were outscored 20 – 6 in a Dodger sweep, which provided yet another sudden and stunning ending to what had once been looked at as a season of destiny.
These sudden departures forced the writing team to quickly develop characters who had previously stood in the background.
I thought he had suddenly foundered, and, speaking to him, was on point of dismounting and leading him, when he all of a sudden fell a-groaning pieteously, hung his head, spread out his forelegs, as if to save himself from falling, and stood stock still, continuing to groan.
His use of routier mercenaries in the central regions had rapidly eaten away his remaining support in this area too, which set the stage for a sudden collapse of Angevin power.
* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.
The sudden growth due to the successful rallies against the Vietnam War meant there were more people wanting action to end the Vietnam war, whereas the original New Left had wanted to focus on critical reflection.
As original reports had it, suspicion fell primarily on Nogaret with the suspicion that his sudden death was caused by poisoning.
***" For since she had not died through fate, or by a well-earned death, but wretchedly, before her time, inflamed with sudden madness, Proserpine had not yet taken a lock of golden hair from her head, or condemned her soul to Stygian Orcus.
Playing records from a boat in international waters, the arm had to withstand sudden ship movements.
Ptolemy V Epiphanes ( reigned 204 – 181 BC ), son of Ptolemy IV Philopator and his wife and sister Arsinoe, had become ruler at the age of five after the sudden death of both of his parents, murdered, according to contemporary sources, in a conspiracy that involved Ptolemy IV's mistress Agathoclea.
Remarkable to many was the sudden exhibition of homosexual affection in public, as described by one witness: " From going to places where you had to knock on a door and speak to someone through a peephole in order to get in.
From the 1970s to 1984, however, Thailand had suffered from many economic problems-ranging from decreasing American investment, current account deficit, a sudden rise in oil price to inflation.
On a nostalgic trip to Washington in 1902 he had a sudden heart attack and died ; Henry Cabot Lodge eulogized him as " a good hater, who detested shams, humbugs and pretense above all else.
President Harding's sudden death led to theories that he had been poisoned or committed suicide.
Early in 929 the joint forces of Duke Arnulf of Bavaria and King Henry I the Fowler reached Prague in a sudden attack, which forced Wenceslaus to resume the payment of a tribute which had been first imposed by the East Frankish king Arnulf of Carinthia in 895.
Robert and his brother had been at odds over the succession, and Richard's death was very sudden.

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A sudden loss of power caused by an interruption to fuel flow would mean that this downthrust was lost and K7's bows would have risen above the 6 ' safe limit.
Even more surprisingly, Venizelos ' Liberal Party lost the elections called in November 1920, and in a referendum shortly after, the Greek people voted for the return of King Constantine from exile, following the sudden death of Alexander.
The area's sudden fame gave Perris the nickname: " the skydiving capital of America ".. On April 22, 1992, a de Havilland Twin Otter crashed during takeoff at Perris Valley after an engine lost power.
This sudden relief from attack Æthelred used to gather his thoughts, resources, and armies: the fleet's departure in 1000 " allowed Æthelred to carry out a devastation of Strathclyde, the motive for which is part of the lost history of the north.
Some situations are fabricated, such as one scene in which the shark fishermen are almost lost at sea in a sudden gale.
The INA played a crucial role on pressuring the British Raj after it occupied Andaman and Nicobar Islands with the help of Imperial Japan, but the movement lost momentum due to lack of support by Indian National Congress, Battle of Imphal and Bose's sudden death.
Despite this, they lost to the Kansas City Wizards after a tied aggregate and a sudden death game.
We whose names are here underwritten: having been called to give our counsels to Mr. Orlando Gibbons ; in the time of his late and sudden sickness, which we found in the beginning lethargical, or a profound sleep ; out of which, we could never recover him, neither by inward nor outward medicines, & then instantly he fell in most strong, & sharp convulsions ; which did wring his mouth up to his ears, & his eyes were distorted, as though they would have been thrust out of his head & then suddenly he lost both speech, sight and hearing, & so grew apoplectical & lost the whole motion of every part of his body, & so died.
His career had a sudden finish, however, when rematched with Montgomery: He lost by knockout in their second bout, and suffered a detached retina.
If a physical system is followed through a fold bifurcation, one therefore finds that as a reaches 0, the stability of the solution is suddenly lost, and the system will make a sudden transition to a new, very different behaviour.
Unfortunately, he lost most of his money when the market took a sudden downturn due to the Great Depression.
During an organized escape to Spain over the Pyrenees mountains, his group got lost in a sudden snowstorm.
As of early 2010, a class-action lawsuit – dealing with a charge that on account of the sudden acceleration controversy, Audi models had lost resale value – filed in 1987 by about 7, 500 Audi Audi 5000-model owners remains unsettled and is currently contested in county court in Chicago after appeals at the Illinois state and U. S. federal levels.
The outnumbered Scots cavalry were easily driven off by the English horse ( the Scots cavalry having lost heavily in an engagement the day before ), the Scots then made a sudden advance with their massed pikemen.
* ( 1978 ) – lost at sea leaving only " a few bits of wreckage " and signs of sudden damage including extreme forces above the water line.
But he lost to capture the kingdom because of sudden expedition of Emperor Humayun.
At approximately 7: 15 am, the driver suffered a sudden heart attack and lost control of the train.
* 1595-( approx ) on 25 April, fifty boats were shipwrecked in a sudden storm and all the working men of Mykines lost their lives ( estimated 200 to 300 men )
The Sting lost the best of three game opener in Tulsa 5 – 4 but in a dramatic return at the Chicago Stadium the Sting turned a 6 – 1 deficit into a 7 – 6 victory, Karl-Heinz Granitza scoring the winner five minutes into sudden death overtime.
With sudden insight, Simon realise that the creature before him is a Sitha man, one of the ancient lost folk.
The loss of Ulyett and Harris in quick succession triggered a sudden collapse as England lost 7 / 34 to be all out for 267.
It was in the course of this work, on 24 November 1884, that Divers lost vision in his right eye as he was badly cut by pieces of glass resulting from the sudden bursting of the bottle with phosphorus oxychloride.
Likewise, a sudden drop in ETCO2 may indicate the patient has lost pulses and CPR may need to be initiated.

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