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 he hunkered down on the heels of his handmade boots, peered into the orderly chaos of axle, shock absorber, and spring.

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, and only then, with the Jacksons and Dan as their true guests of honor, did the Harrows take time to catch up on the news.

Then maybe next time he won't be so quick on the trigger ''.

Then he calmly and carefully slugged the remaining five shots into the venomous head -- caught in the wicker back of the chair, the eyes dead on him as the life finally went out of the brute.

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, on July 2, there occurred another incident which set tongues to wagging at a furious clip.

Then she rounded on Weston and cried, `` You always did Wright's dirty work!!

Then Miriam varied the senseless psychological warfare by suddenly withdrawing a suit for separate maintenance that had been pending, and asking for divorce on the grounds of cruelty, with the understanding that Wright would not contest it.

Then he launches into an attack on the Tory ministers, whom he calls the `` New Converts '' ; ;

Then he called on the governor to explain why.

Then I spoke at the ninetieth birthday party of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, who embarked on a fictional trilogy at eighty-nine and who, with The Crisis, had created a Negro intelligentsia that had never existed in America before him.

Then followed a period in which he wrote reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Commonweal, Commentary, had a small piece in Partisan Review, and moved on to Hudson, The Village Voice, and Exodus.

Then let the whole lot be hanged in a public mass execution on July 4, 1963.

Then, to conclude on an indeterminate note: `` Nevertheless, if fallout increased substantially, or remained high for a long time, it would become far more important as a potential health hazard in this country and throughout the world ''.

Then he slipped and went down on his hands and knees in the melting snow.

Then the figure moved on.

Then came their bathroom, and then a bedroom that, judging by the photographs on the walls, must belong to Mme Cestre.

Then Rector, attired in his best blue serge suit, sat in a chair out on the lawn, in the shade of a tree, smoking a cigarette and waiting.

Then she went back to the wicker chair and resolutely adjusted her eyes to the glare on the water.

Then he spread out the last list on the counter.

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