Then the darkness thinned, and there was light again, and then bright sunlight.

Then they were tumbling again, and the big man reached into the same pocket he had gone for earlier, and came up with a vicious switchblade.

Then Katie stumbled, and again he was falling, falling!!

Then Laura took her gently and shoved her off again, toward Fritzie: Amy did not laugh -- this was work, concentration, achievement.

Then he began to crawl again.

Then she looked at the old woman again, her eyes calm.

Then she fell asleep again as soddenly as a person with fever, and when she awoke it was dark outside and the clarity was back in her eyes.

Then again, there's always that lovely old pastime of hooking or braiding rugs.

Then off again, rushing to keep up.

Then we were off again.

Then I shut off the device again.

`` Then again he might not ''.

Then he attacked the two officers again and was again restrained, Slate related.

Then, after many more billions of years, when all the galaxies are whistling toward a common center, this movement will slow down and reverse itself again.

Then I picked it up again and handed it to the old man.

Then again they would stand in circles making other preparations.

Then they suggested Mu ' awiya ( founder of the Umayyad Caliphate ), but the Caliph again said no.

Then they suggested Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ( one the greatest of the Umayyad caliphs ), but again no.

Then a " still small voice " comes to Elijah and asks again, " What doest thou here, Elijah?

Then in 794 Kammu suddenly shifted the capital again, this time to Heian-kyō, which is modern day Kyoto.

Then again, who said bad taste was easy?

Then the ban was enforced again by Leo V in 815.

For example, resurrection of the dead, which is exegetically supported by a verse in Exodus 15: " Az Yashir Moshe ..."-" Then will sing ...", from which is derived that " then " ( in the Messianic Era ) Moses will arise and once again sing as he did at the time of the Exodus.

Then the natural dam on the Goulburn River failed, the lake drained, and the Murray River avulsed to the south and started to flow through the smaller Goulburn River channel, creating " The Barmah Choke " and " The Narrows " ( where the river channel is unusually narrow ), before entering into the proper Murray River channel again.

Then he was on his way at a gallop.

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

Then she saw Ramey and her face was misshapen with bewilderment.

Then there was no saying how many times the marine had blown his nose on the handkerchief.

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

Then suddenly there was a tremendous revulsion of popular feeling.

Then, in some way, this lack of faith in the cavalry became mixed up in his mind with the dragging effect of wagon trains and was hardened into a prejudice.

Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.

Then, all but blind, he said there was nothing in Back to Methuselah --, -- `` G.B.S. ought to have known that '', -- and `` I look at my bookshelves despairingly, knowing that I can have nothing more to do with them ''.

Then he kept Blackman awake for more than an hour while he did an imaginary dialogue between his wife and himself in which, discussing the evening, he was continually berated.

Then, since the auction was being held nearby, he had walked to it.

Then the nigger boy turned back and he was alone.

Then he was asking himself the usual early morning questions: What the Hell am I doin here??

Then why was he assuming the role -- the gesture and the suffering??

`` Then what was it ''??

Then it was gone.

Then he stood back to look at Mr. Jack, who was pulling on his pigskin gloves.

Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques, full of dash and wit and glamor, quoting from the books I read, imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special, after-school class I was enrolled.