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.

When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.

Mary Jane took the page from him and began reading it, moving her lips with the words.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

The drummer flogged the gourd with frantic intensity as the dancers began the calinda, a sensual gyration which had long been a favorite of voodoo practitioners and their disciples in the Louisiana slave compounds.

Through the Frankfurt Jewish Kulturbund he began to give sonata recitals in synagogues, with Cellist Emanuel Feuermann.

He began with masks to make the dancer identify himself with the creature he appeared to be.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

A series of conferences with friends and bankers began about this time ; ;

In the final issues of the Englishman, which ended just as the new session of Parliament began, he provided his enemies with still more ammunition.

Having done so, he began to experience all the frustrations of others who attempted to get along with Serenissimus and do a job at the same time.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.

He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.

The process usually began with a tutor boasting about a boy, as Chappell had boasted about Lightfoot, to the higher officers of the college and university.

Woodrow Wilson, with whom he began his years in Washington, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, FDR, with whom he managed a social revolution.

After she had served the detectives coffee and toast ( they politely declined eggs, uncomfortable about their tenancy ), she settled down with a morning newspaper and began reading the stock market quotations.

Stranger, Uncle Randolph began riding home nights with a jug strapped to his saddle, drunkenly singing `` Old Dan Tucker '' at the top of his voice.

Martha picked up the hem of her gown and with eyes closed she slowly began to dance a stately minuet around the ballroom.

David began to shave with great sweeping strokes.

At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.

In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.

On 17 August 1990, the Serbs began what became known as the Log Revolution, where barricades of logs were placed across roads throughout the South as an expression of their secession from Croatia.

By 1860, when the first rumblings of secession began to be heard across the South, antebellum Nashville was a very prosperous city.

In 1946, residents of Baldwin Township's fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh wards began the process of secession.

Modern historians stated that the secession of Sukhothai from the Khmer empire began as early as 1180 during the reign of Po Khun Sri Naw Namthom who was the ruler of Sukhothai and the peripheral city of Sri Satchanalai ( now a part of Sukhothai Province as Amphoe ).

" By the following spring, Tom Morgan ( who also had opposed Kentucky's secession ) had transferred home to the Kentucky Military Institute and there began to support the Confederacy.

After the fall of Fort Sumter and the secession of the Upper South states, both the United States and the Confederate States began in earnest to raise large, mostly volunteer, armies with the objectives of putting down the rebellion and preserving the union, on the one hand, or of establishing independence from the United States, on the other hand.

Mexican families lived in the area when Anglo settlers began moving in following the secession of Texas during the latter half of the 19th century.

After Lincoln called for troops, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and North Carolina promptly declared their secessions and joined the Confederacy, but a secession movement began in western Virginia to break away and remain in the Union.

After the secession of Southern states began, the newly elected governor of Missouri called upon the legislature to authorize a state constitutional convention on secession.

The Croatian War of Independence began when Serbs in Croatia, who were opposed to Croatian independence, announced their secession from Croatia.

He was a delegate to the unsuccessful Peace Conference of 1861 that attempted to settle the secession crisis ; instead the American Civil War began later that year.

In August 1990, the Serbs began what became known as the Log Revolution, where barricades of logs were placed across roads throughout the South as an expression of their secession from Croatia.

In 1991 the Yugoslav wars began with the secession of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Immediately after his election, however, Jackson began working behind the scenes for Missouri's secession.

Immediately after South Carolina's secession in December 1860, Blair, believing that the southern leaders were planning to carry neutral Missouri into the movement, began active efforts to prevent it.

The secession followed several weeks of fighting that began on 27 April, and lasted from 21 May 1994 until 7 July 1994.

They began early in the war as a group of Unionists and Quakers in the Piedmont regions of North Carolina and Virginia where slavery was largely nonexistent and the causes favoring secession were weakest.

When the Civil War began, Dean opposed secession but also voiced opposition to the war.

In 2008, a newsletter by the Fulton County Taxpayers Foundation began circulating that proposed the secession of Buckhead into its own city after more than 50 years as part of Atlanta.

Jackson refused, and began plotting with Confederate authorities to bring about Missouri secession by a military coup.

After having returned to power with the stated intention of maintaining the French Départements of Algeria, de Gaulle, in September 1959, made a sudden reversal of policy and instead began opting for the eventual secession of Algeria.

Soulé opposed Southern secession before the American Civil War, but supported his state, Louisiana, after the war began.

Even before secession was formally accomplished, Virginia agreed to coordinate its state military forces with the Confederacy and began to seize federal property.