Then he thought of a time when Clayton's horse had fallen lame in the Gap.

Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.

Then, as he doubled, gasping, vomiting the breakfast he had so lately eaten, Lord straightened him with an uppercut.

Then he noticed that the dry wood of the wheels had swollen.

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

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 suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of another fight, an irrational, an indecent, an undeclared and immoral war with our strongest ( and some had thought noblest ) ally.

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

Then there had been the auction itself.

Then, when he had it pointed down the hill, he stopped to gaze at her through the window.

Then Miss Ada had stood up, rustling and rustling, and gone upstairs.

Then, I remembered that the girls had had a banana for dessert every day for the last week.

Then they had always been romping around him on these walks, yelping with delight, dashing off into the bushes on fruitless hunting expeditions, returning to jump up on him triumphantly with muddy paws.

Then, she was back on her feet, winking and smiling that enormous smile ( she had lots of wonderful big teeth that you never would have suspected she had when she was not smiling ).

Then, they had to get up and be General Burnside.

Then I realized that she had been deliberately showing me, this time, what Granny was like ; ;

Then China promptly went Communist, and Mr. Truman had to fight the interminable Korean war for the democratization of Korea before we learned how far our writ did `` reach in Asia ''.

Then the fact that the lower channel line was pierced had further forecasting significance.

Then we have to be prepared to tackle and deal with them militarily.

Then, in 1995, a deal was struck whereby the Raiders would move back to Oakland for the 1995 season.

Then the loan gradually falls through in a plausible way, and the victim may end up being defrauded of tens of thousands of dollars or pounds, thinking only that the deal simply failed.

) Then in 1838 Captain Langlois, a French whaler, decided that Akaroa would make a good settlement to service whaling ships and " purchased " the peninsula in a dubious land deal with the local Māori.

Then the two generals went separate ways, Huangfu to join in the attack on the rebels north of the Yellow River, and Zhu to deal with the rebels of Nanyang.

Then, in a deal with General Electric, which Edison had been forced to sell, Westinghouse's company went on to construct the Adams Power Plant at the Niagara Falls, with three 5, 000 horsepower ( 3. 7 MW ) Tesla generators supplying electricity to an aluminium smelter at Niagara and the town of Buffalo 22 miles ( 35 km ) away.

Then Immediate set up a short-lived deal with United Artists, who issued two singles using the Immediate moniker ( E-1901, E-1902 ) before signing a deal with CBS to set up a new label series, which picked selective Immediate singles ( using product codes with the ZS7 prefix ) and albums ( using Z12 ) until they had a falling-out.

Then in 1875, the reformed Minneapolis Street Railway made a deal with the Minneapolis City Council where the company would have exclusive access to street rails for 50 years if they could be up and operating in four months.

Then he went to the Imperial Palace and discussed measures to deal with the situation with the Minister of the Imperial Household Yuasa Kurahei and the vice-chief of chamberlain Hirohata Tadataka.

Then we got into the camp, and there was a great deal of smoke and firing.

Then, in 2000, they released Jupiter, receiving a good deal of press.

Then, in April 1996, Isaac Tigrett visited Atlanta with other investors and cut a deal to open a House of Blues in the building in time for the Olympics.

Then in 1995 / 96, with many pundits predicting Wasps could make a run for the title, Rob Andrew took up a lucrative deal to become Player Manager of Newcastle Falcons.

Then, after taking his family on a vacation to the forest for the rest of the month, John makes a deal with Ava to not make any decisions for the month and promised to turn Archie into someone she will love to provide, hunt and protect for her when she has cubs, though she is already involved with someone else.

Then New World bought out Argyle, and cut another deal to switch KTVI, KDFW and KTBC to Fox affiliation.

Then, once in control of Norton, they would secretly negotiate with a South Korean airline for an even larger aircraft deal initially worth several billion dollars, but one that will eventually destroy the company.

Then, in 2005, the 30-year-old flagship relationship with the Michigan Wolverines ' football and basketball programs were dropped due to WJR signing a flagship rights deal with the Michigan State Spartans.

Then a mysterious stranger is killed in a sealed room, and Kindaichi has to deal with headless corpses, greedy heirs, and an entire village too scared to talk.

Then, that autumn, another update was posted on the bands site stating that they have spent the last few weeks recording five new tracks for a demo and that they are currently negotiating a new record deal.

Then the Company sold Cleanaway UK to Veolia of France in a £ 651 million deal.

Then in 2001 they signed a five album deal with Albert Productions, the legendary Australian publisher of AC / DC.

Then soon after they landed a record deal on Brett Gurewitz's Epitaph Records, although they had already previously released the album E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals without a recording contract, Epitaph Records re-released it.

Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones.