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evening and they
On the evening that they were to sail, Lewis himself gave a party, but he was too indisposed to appear at it.
from the early evening lights of them which had first startled Izaak to look at her in an uncousinly way, they had faded to a near-absence of color which had, possibly from her constant looking at the water, something of the light of the sea in them.
Their Majesties, The Queen of Carnival and The Queen of Comus, have jointly issued invitations for Shrove Tuesday evening at midnight at which time they will entertain in the grand ballroom of a downtown hotel following the balls of Rex and Comus.
When on land, they mostly spend the day hidden under stones or logs or in dense vegetation, emerging in the evening and night to forage for worms, insects and other invertebrates.
That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U. S. President Richard Nixon.
On the evening of 22 June, Nelson's fleet passed the French in the darkness, overtaking the slow invasion convoy without realising how close they were to their target.
The boys were allegedly last seen together by three neighbors, who in sworn affidavits told of seeing them playing together around 6: 30 p. m. the evening they disappeared, and saw Terry Hobbs, stepfather of Stevie Branch, calling them to come home.
While filming The Madwoman of Chaillot in France, he phoned home to ask his family if they would like to eat at " Ying's Thing " that evening ; Kaye then flew home for dinner.
They would get up in the morning under the wrath of God and they would go into the evening with the anger of God.
Barnard dined with the Isabella survivors that evening and finding that the British party were unaware of the War of 1812 informed the survivors that technically they were at war with each other.
On the evening of 22 February they were told that they were to be transferred to the main city penitentiary, where they would be safer.
At 8 pm on the evening of 1 May, Goebbels arranged for an SS dentist, Helmut Kunz, to kill his six children by injecting them with morphine and then, when they were unconscious, crushing an ampoule of cyanide in each of their mouths.
Later in the journey the people began running low on supplies and again murmured against Moses and Aaron and said they would have preferred to die in Egypt, but God's provision of manna from the sky in the morning and quail in the evening took care of the situation.
So the next evening she brought Benny in, because they were looking for a replacement for Helen Forrest.
Many of the same people returned from the previous evening — hustlers, street youths, and " queens "— but they were joined by " police provocateurs ", curious bystanders, and even tourists.
Later they talk in a bar, where the next evening he sees her singing " The Crying Game ".
** The Sex Pistols achieve public notoriety as they unleash several 4-letter words live on Bill Grundy's early evening TV show.
On 1 December 1976, Queen were the intended guests on London's early evening Today programme, but they pulled out at the last-minute, which saw their late replacement on the show, EMI labelmate the Sex Pistols, give their seminal interview.
The following evening, after concluding the first set at Butterfield's Nightclub in Menlo Park, California, with his rousing interpretation of " Eleanor Rigby ," Guaraldi and drummer Jim Zimmerman returned to the room they were staying in that weekend at the adjacent Red Cottage Inn, to relax before the next set.
On 31 July, they sent a group of thugs to seize the scenery and props during Act II of the evening performance at the Opera Comique.
Typically, at " Formal Hall ", gowns are worn for dinner during the evening, whereas for " informal Hall " they are not.
Else the reverse may happen in the evening sky after dusk, with Mercury or Venus entering retrograde motion just as it is about to overtake another planet ( often Mercury and Venus are both of the planets involved, and when this situation arises they may remain in very close visual proximity for several days or even longer ).

evening and were
Cows were kept in backyard barns, boys were hired to drive them to and from the pasture on the edge of town, and familiar to the ear, morning and evening, were the boys' coaxing voices, the thud of hooves, and the thwack of a stick on cowhide.
One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.
The evening of our first day we drove with Christopher and Judy Sakellariadis, who were friends and patients of Norton, to dine at a restaurant on the shores of the Aegean.
However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.
The way Eileen and I were hitting it up, we needed ten or fifteen dollars an evening.
Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid out nearby for the lord and master's delectation.
Sometime on Saturday evening, August 22nd, while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria dell' Orso, in Rome, you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and let yourselves into the premises.
We met at Maxine's and decided we were set to stay as long as it took, into or even through the evening, to talk things out.
All the performances of the evening were smooth and assured, and the sizable company, with Mr. Nagrin and Marion Scott as its leading dancers, seemed to be fine shape.
Among the other solo ballet dancers of the evening, Elisabeth Carroll and Ivan Allen were particularly impressive in their roles in `` The Duel '', a work that depends so much upon the precision and incisiveness of the two principal combatants.
Convinced by this that rather than risk an evening battle in confined waters, the British were planning to wait for the following day, Brueys rescinded his earlier order to sail.
The Orders of Morning and Evening Prayer were extended by the inclusion of a penitential section at the beginning including a corporate confession of sin and a general absolution, although the text was printed only in Morning Prayer with rubrical directions to use it in the evening as well.
Community colleges carry on the tradition of adult education, which was established in Australia around mid 19th century when evening classes were held to help adults enhance their numeracy and literacy skills.
When ITV did return, its first evening schedule included a special " catch-up " edition of Coronation Street, in which storylines which would have taken place during the strike were explained away in the form of a narrative chat between Len Fairclough and Bet Lynch.
They began corresponding in the late 1820s and met for the first time in March 1830, when Isaac D ' Israeli dined at Bulwer-Lytton ’ s house ( also present that evening were Charles Pelham Villiers and Alexander Cockburn.

evening and pushed
When we separated that evening Pat pushed a hundred dollar bill into Eileen's hand to help towards a layette.
Initially, rapid progress was made by the Salvadorian army, by the evening of 15 July, the Honduran army had been pushed back over eight kilometers.
About 33, 000 French and 18, 000 Prussians were locked in battle along the Dyle on the evening of the 18th, after which the Prussians were pushed back towards Louvain.
In fact, because his politically conservative commentaries became so popular, WRAL pushed up the starting time of the ABC evening network newscasts ( or, for a time in the late 1960s, NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report ) to give Helms a ten-minute nightly program to himself.
The U. S. 320th and 137th Infantry Regiments pushed out of the Bayon bridgehead and made an oblique advance to the Meurthe River, crossing it by the evening of 14 September.
That same evening, two sick and coughing children are pushed away from the hospital by Mayor Quimby.
Misinterpreting the request, they spend an evening with Parsons, who stays in their company because he believes them to be competition winners, the real ones having been pushed off the road by the Dreamytime Escorts ' van in an earlier scene.
The switch to a general entertainment schedule had originally been slated for June 1, 1998 ; which was then pushed back to June 13, but was delayed again due to technical difficulties unrelated to a tornado outbreak that occurred in the Oklahoma City area that evening.

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