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Then Little Billy began shouting orders to round up the ponies and fill the water buckets and for the cooks to hurry up with the meal.
Then she turned the station wagon around and headed it back down the hill, with the village as her ostensible destination.
Then, with a shrug of pretended indifference, she took a compact from her purse and went through the motions of fixing her make-up.
Then, as he doubled, gasping, vomiting the breakfast he had so lately eaten, Lord straightened him with an uppercut.
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 he took off his wet boots and dropped down into the water to talk with the beasts, needing their comfort more than they needed his.
Then the Bonaventure seemed to disintegrate with a roar of live steam, geysers of sparks and flames, and a dense cloud of black-and-orange smoke.
Then she saw Ramey and her face was misshapen with bewilderment.
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, after overtures to accept a settlement and go through with a divorce, Miriam gave a ghastly echo of Mrs. Micawber by suddenly stating, `` I will never leave Mr. Wright ''.
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, 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.
My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;
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, 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 a full-time planning office will be established in Rome to work with a five-member Georgia Tech research staff for development of an area planning and industrial development program.
Then the Communese reply came back from many mouthpieces with striking consistency.
Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.
Then Angelina turned and with an easy grace walked toward the kitchen.
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, abandoning the studies in the face of their promising outlook for all concerned, B. & O. entered on-again-off-again negotiations with C. & O. which resulted in the present situation.

Then and staring
Then, whether the subjects are looking at you or at their hand or just staring blankly, you can use your left hand to touch their elevated right hand from above or the side-so long as you merely give the suggestion of downward movement.

Then and eyes
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 she went back to the wicker chair and resolutely adjusted her eyes to the glare on the water.
Then she looked at the old woman again, her eyes calm.
Then I have seen the pride of country well in the eyes of these young people.
Then, for the first time since his arrest, a glint of spirit lit Barco's eyes.
Then Jennie closed her eyes, stretched forth her arms, and said: `` Take my hand, Louise ; ;
Then he met the grave eyes of his wife, Anne, from the photograph next to David's.
In " A Village Sketch ," author Miss Mitford wrote: " Then comes a sun-burnt gipsy of six, beginning to grow tall and thin and to find the cares of the world gathering about her ; with a pitcher in one hand, a mop in the other, an old straw bonnet of ambiguous shape, half hiding her tangled hair ; a tattered stuff petticoat once green, hanging below an equally tattered cotton frock, once purple ; her longing eyes fixed on a game of baseball at the corner of the green till she reaches the cottage door, flings down the mop and pitcher and darts off to her companions quite regardless of the storm of scolding with which the mother follows her runaway steps.
Then the limbs, eyes, mouth, clothes, etc.
Then " with real hate in her eyes " she tells Rhett she is going to have a baby, a baby she does not want.
: Matthew 9: 29 " Then He touched their eyes, saying, " According to your faith let it be to you.
Then, all of a sudden, he raised his arms and began conducting, urging the student singers to go full out, which they did, the crescendo building, their eyes locked with his, until the final ' on an ordinary Sunday ' was sung.
Then it was pointed out that " seeing the most submarines " depended not only on the number of submarines present, but also on the number of eyes looking ; i. e., patrol density.
* In the 1939 song Strange Fruit, written to condemn the practice of lynching, the Magnolia flower was referenced as being associated with the Southern United States, where most lynchings took place: " Pastoral scene of the gallant south / The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth / Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh ,/ Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
To accommodate Cibber's voice range the recitative " Then shall the eyes of the blind " and the aria " He shall feed his flock " were transposed down to F major.
Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened ( soprano )
Then the readers reread the remaining of the sentence, fixating their eyes to the next region and the adverb ( the beginning of the ambiguous part of the sentence ).
Then, while sitting on a scaffolding with Maurice Evans, being lit for a special effects scene: They were setting an inky-that's a little tiny spot that was supposed to be just flickering over my eyes.
Then we entered the car, he looked at me plaintively, without lowering his eyes ....
Then, the priest of the community if the lots are consulted publicly, or the father of the family if it is done privately, after invoking the gods and with eyes raised to heaven, picks up three pieces, one at a time, and interprets them according to the signs previously marked upon them.
Then he closed his eyes and stopped breathing.
In " A Village Sketch ," author Miss Mitford wrote: " Then comes a sun-burnt gipsy of six, beginning to grow tall and thin and to find the cares of the world gathering about her ; with a pitcher in one hand, a mop in the other, an old straw bonnet of ambiguous shape, half hiding her tangled hair ; a tattered stuff petticoat once green, hanging below an equally tattered cotton frock, once purple ; her longing eyes fixed on a game of baseball at the corner of the green till she reaches the cottage door, flings down the mop and pitcher and darts off to her companions quite regardless of the storm of scolding with which the mother follows her runaway steps.
Then, in mid 2009, Kellogg's introduced an alternative mascot named the " Sweet Toothasaur ," consisting of the upside down bottom half of an actor's face, with a green felt cap with googly eyes and red paper horns on the actor's chin.

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