She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

The young banker looked at him with a certain surprise, and then he said flatly: `` I'm afraid I can't tell you anything in particular about Kent House.

She looked at him in surprise.

If our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or long endurance had the capability to strike at Russia again, and again, and again, those bombers would unquestionably assure our military dominance.

When I arrived at Viola's I was shown, to my surprise, into the kitchen.

One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.

Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

Johnston launched a massive surprise attack with his concentrated forces against Grant at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862.

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

In this capacity, Alexios defeated the rebellions of Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder ( whose son or grandson later married Alexios ' daughter Anna ) and Nikephoros Basilakes, the first at the Battle of Kalavrye and the latter in a surprise night attack on his camp.

Both New South Wales and Tasmania scored surprise victories at home against Victoria in 1990.

Even Schliemann's first excavations at Hissarlik in the Troad did not excite surprise.

Dressed to Kill was a note-for-note homage to Hitchcock's Psycho, including such moments as the surprise death of the lead actress and the exposition scene by the psychiatrist at the end.

He was selected for the squad which competed at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, but didn't kick a ball, something at which critics expressed surprise and bewilderment, even allowing for his lacklustre performance in Belgrade.

Dio Cassius describes this surprise tactic employed by Aulus Plautius against the " barbarians "— the British Celts — at the battle of the River Medway, 43:

Key elements in the " blitzkrieg warfare " at the decisive Battle of Megiddo included concentration, surprise and speed ; success depending on attacking only in favourable terrain, where the terrain favoured the movement of large formations around the battlefield, and tactical improvements in the British artillery and infantry attack.

All this was evidently much to the surprise of the Persians ; "... in their minds they charged the Athenians with madness which must be fatal, seeing that they were few and yet were pressing forwards at a run, having neither cavalry nor archers ".

This time Decius ' army was taken by surprise while resting at Beroe / Augusta Traiana.

) Thus, when Odo returned, he was able to launch a near complete surprise attack on the besieging force, scattering it at the first attack, and slaughtering units caught resting or that fled without weapons or armour.

The two oldest printed Chinese calendars are dated 877 and 882 ; they were found at the Buddhist pilgrimage site of Dunhuang ; Patricia Ebrey writes that it is no surprise that some of the earliest printed items were calendars, since the Chinese found it necessary to calculate and mark which days were auspicious and which were not.

The torpedo boat destroyer's first major use in combat came during the Japanese surprise attack on the Russian fleet anchored in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese War on 8 February 1904.

" He made a surprise guest appearance at David Gilmour's 29 May concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

In February 1702 he was made prisoner at the surprise of the Battle of Cremona.

De Mercy displayed great daring in the first campaigns of the Spanish Succession War in Italy, twice fell into the hands of the enemy in rights at close quarters and for his conduct at the surprise of Cremona ( 31 January 1702 ) received the thanks of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and the proprietary colonelcy of a newly raised cuirassier regiment.

Often he provides punctuation in the unpunctuated text, explaining, for example, " This is a question "; " He says this in surprise ," " He repeats this in agreement ," etc.

Adorno resumed his teaching duties at the university soon after his arrival, with seminars on " Kant ’ s Transcendental Dialectic ," aesthetics, Hegel, “ Contemporary Problems in the Theory of Knowledge ” and “ The Concept of Knowledge .” Adorno ’ s surprise at his students ' passionate interest in intellectual matters did not, however, blind him to continuing problems within Germany: The literary climate was dominated by writers who had remained in Germany during Hitler's rule, the government re-employed people who had been active in the Nazi apparatus and people were generally loath to own up to their own collaboration or the guilt they thus incurred.

Andrew Sarris called it the " directorial surprise of 1961 ," and it became a " romantic touchstone " for college students in the early 1960s.

Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the novel as " an engrossing yarn ," saying " The plot twists will take you by surprise and the characterizations delight you.

Upon their return to the site today known as " Mission Vieja ," the party excavated the bells and constructed a new arbor ; the original wooden cross was, to their surprise, still standing.

" hose of us in Germany were taken completely by surprise ," Helms later wrote.

One track from My Son, The Nut, a spoof of summer camp entitled " Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh ," became a surprise novelty hit, reaching No. 2 on the national Billboard Hot 100 chart for three weeks in late summer 1963.

On July 4, 2012, Clint Black appeared on an episode of Lifetime's reality series, " Coming Home ," which documents service men and women returning to their loved ones in surprise reunions.

Little Criminals ( 1977 ) contained the surprise hit " Short People ," which also became a subject of controversy.

As he characterized his opponents in general as the " pestilent herd of libertine scribblers with which the island is overrun ," it is no matter of surprise that the book made him many bitter enemies.

Bosko made a surprise cameo in a 1990 episode of the television series Tiny Toon Adventures called " Fields of Honey ," in which Babs Bunny, after being told by the Acme Looniversity's mysterious vaultkeeper about Honey ( voiced by B. J.

Faced with record trade and budget deficits, though with an otherwise stable economy, the new Economy Minister, Celestino Rodrigo proceeded to apply " shock therapy ," ordering a surprise halving of the peso's value and, by forcing those who could to stampede towards the U. S. dollar, destroying the fragile financial balance that had been maintained to that point.

A veiled surprise witness for the prosecution appears in the season finale " The Testimony ," and Fallon gasps in recognition: " Oh my God, that's my mother!

Edgar Allan Poe, who had been referred to as part genius and " two-fifths sheer fudge ," reviewed the work in the Southern Literary Messenger and called it "' loose '— ill-conceived and feebly executed, as well in detail as in general ... we confess some surprise at his putting forth so unpolished a performance.

" On April 15, 2006, he ended the mystery and, to the mild surprise of listeners, revealed that, after several weeks of mourning, he had recently gone to the Philippines and married Airyn Ruiz, whose name is pronounced like the name " Irene ," but Art likes to pronounce her name as " Arin.

After a few words, Seijurō says " You're dead ," and Musashi looks down in surprise and horror to see that Seijurō's sword was at his neck.

The term " Bloody hell ", often pronounced " Bloody ' ell ," can mean " Damn it ," or be used as a general expression of surprise or as a general intensifier.

" In an online article at Christianity Today about the announcement, Olasky suggested the move was related to the recent hiring of Dinesh D ' Souza as the college's president: "' It will come as no surprise to you that Dinesh D ' Souza and I have different ideas about some things ," said in an e-mail to Christianity Today.

Kanikōsen In 2008, " A Crab Canning Boat ," a 1929 Marxist novel about a crab-canning ship's crew determined to stand up to a cruel manager under harsh conditions, became a surprise bestseller, thanks to an advertising campaign linking the novel to the working poor.

Douglas later revealed that this had been a great surprise to him — Roosevelt had summoned him to an " important meeting ," and Douglas feared that he was to be named as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

Much to his surprise, von Bek is charged by Lucifer with doing God's work, by finding the Holy Grail, the " cure for the world's pain ," that will also cure Lucifer's pain by reconciling him with God.

Hung added, "... you know, I have no professional training of singing and dancing ," eliciting mock surprise from Cowell, who replied, " No?