He was pressed far back into the corner of the car on his hay sacks, the rattling and tinning of the wheels on the rails almost covering the sound of his ocarina.

it was mud in wet weather and dust, ankle-deep, in dry, and could be crossed only at the corner where there were stepping stones.

Mrs. Podger had obligingly pushed things around on the porch to make room for it, and there it was, slung in a vine-shaded corner, the night breeze rippling its fringe with a slow, caressing movement.

The characteristic thing about this church was its Amen corner and the weekly religious orgy.

With shout and slow dance, with tears and song, with scream and contortion, the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering, wailing, shouting, possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force.

To most of those who composed the Amen corner it was a magnificent and beautiful experience, something for which they lived from week to week.

One of the leading members of the Amen corner was cook ; ;

There was only one way to accomplish this: by design, by drawing diagrams and sketches in which he probed the remotest corner of his mind for creative ideas to carry his concept.

And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.

In the corner was the soldier with the white flag.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

It was Giselle, the fille de chambre, come to clean the room, and while she stood before him with ears pricked up and regard all curiosity, explaining her errand, Alex could see from the corner of his eye the doctor doing all he could to calm the displeased bird.

The giant electric signs and marquees were lit up for the first time since blackout regulations had been instituted, and the atmosphere was alive with the feeling that victory was just around the corner.

To get around this quite difficult corner, there is one first aid to objectiveness: prevent the distant sitter from knowing which reading was for him.

There was a small, neon-lighted restaurant and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the intersection as he turned into the quiet, palm-lined street where most of the houses on both sides were older two-story mansions, now cut up into furnished rooms and housekeeping apartments.

He was in his car with his camera and equipment bag in less than two minutes, and it took him only three more to reach the corner, a block from Columbus Avenue.

It was a district of small factories and loft buildings and occasional tenements, and he could see the police radio car as he rounded the corner and slammed on the brakes.

Haney felt like shrinking out of sight, but he was already trapped in the corner with the wiry, dark little man.

I had turned at the corner of the field and I had to look back to raise the plow and then to drop it again into the earth, and I was thinking of the boy and the water anyway, and when I looked again down the furrow, the snake was there.

The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.

The boy was there at the lower corner of the field, and he was in the plowed earth, stamping with ferocity and a kind of frenzied impatience.

* " Often, men help women get to the corner office "— 2009 USA Today article

Speaking in 2009, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced that Chicago would have a surveillance camera on every street corner by the year 2016.

It was the site of the annual Labor Day Weekend Kiwanis Club Chili Cook-Off from 1982 – 2009 ( in 2010, the Chili Cook-Off and Carnival went on as usual, but moved to still-open land across Civic Center Way, on the Ioki property, at the corner of Civic Center Way and Stuart Ranch Road ).

District 1, which covers the southwest corner, is represented by Waterman ; she was elected to her first term in 2009 over W. Charli Yarbro.

District 6, which covers the northeastern corner of the city, is represented by Donald Watkins ; he was elected to his first term in 2009 over Ron Harmon.

District 7, which covers the southeastern corner, is represented by Kermit Williams ; he was elected to his first term in 2009 without opposition.

The first marker was dedicated to the memory of boxer Joe Jeanette on April 17, 2009, and placed at the corner of Summit Avenue and 27th Street on April 17, 2009, where Jeanette's former residence and gym once stood.

In 2009 his successor, Boris Johnson, promised to reinstate the wider view, though also approving a development at Victoria Station which will obscure its right-hand corner.

The Dungeon expansion was released in May 2009 and includes a new region, an L-shaped piece connected to one corner of the board, a new deck of cards called Dungeon cards to be used in the new region, as well as five new characters ( Gladiator, Amazon, Swashbuckler, Gypsy, and Philosopher ).

There are other new developments completed during 2009 including new private flats on the former car dealership on the corner of Rainsford Road and Parkway.

In 2009, the Clippers began playing in Huntington Park, located at the corner of Neil Ave. and Nationwide Blvd.

At the corner of Harper Road is the former site of Pole Position ( 155 – 157 ), which was a motorcycle workshop and racing team HQ that relocated to East London in 2009.

It was found also in a remote corner of Afghanistan in the Summer 2009.

Tiger Stadium ( Detroit ) | Tiger Stadium was in Corktown at the corner of U. S. Route 12 in Michigan | Michigan Avenue and Trumbull Street until its demolition in 2009.

After being vacant for over ten years ( most of which it was owned by the Government of Ontario ), the building eventually re-opened as apartments, after its redevelopment was approved by the Pilot Project's housing committee .. An apartment building on the corner of Queen Street and Dowling Avenue also lay vacant for some time before being expropriated by the city for an affordable housing re-development underway in 2009.

North Lake College-South Campus was opened in Fall 2009 and is located on the northeast corner of Shady Grove and MacArthur Boulevard in Irving, with the primary purpose of providing educational opportunities for those in need of basic academic skills, language acquisition, and job competencies in the under-served areas of South Irving.

Later in 2009, Northwestern University announced plans to construct a new building at the northeast corner of its Evanston campus to serve as Kellogg's new home.

The Hinds Head pub on the corner of Station Road / Burnside Road closed in 2009.

During the second game of the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup against Brazil, Beasley lost the ball on a short corner kick, creating a Brazil counter-attack that resulted in a goal.

In May 2009, the Government of Canada pledged the college with $ 9. 5-million of funding to help reconstruct the Union Bank Building at the corner of Main Street and William Avenue in downtown Winnipeg.

In August 2009 it was announced by Cardinia Shire Council that a $ 80 million retail development would be built at current vacant Council land behind the Pakenham Library at the corner of John and Henty street.

* Genesis Fitness Club ( est 2009 ), located on the corner of Hamstead and Emu Roads ( indoor athletics track ).

Dejan Petković scored eight goals from corner kicks in his career, the last one was on 8 November 2009 for Flamengo against Atlético Mineiro in the Brazilian Série A. Ronaldinho also scored direct from a corner for Flamengo vs Avai on September 1, 2011.