When he had finished he led him and the mare to the porch.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

While Thomas' injured back led him to restrain his mount from its most violent gait he moved quickly enough when he had to.

It was this basic trait that separated Adams from the ranks of professional historians and led him to commit time and time again what was his most serious offense against the historical method -- namely, the tendency to assume the truth of an hypothesis before submitting it to the test of facts.

In addition, he said, he has answered more than 400 messages of congratulations which led him to the comment that he himself had decided he wouldn't send another congratulatory message for the rest of his life.

Smiling at Warren's protestations, the old monk took his grip from him and led him down a corridor to a small parlor.

Slowly, like a man grown old, he took Eli's hand and led him below to the tower study, guiding him to a chair beside the little hearth where a fire still burned.

He hesitated for a moment when Michelangelo asked him to disrobe, so Michelangelo gave him a piece of toweling to wrap around his loins, led him to the kitchen to take off his clothes.

But his business also grew, and we are told that Mr. Brown found it increasingly difficult to devote as much time to his creative thinking as his inclinations led him to desire.

The x-ray data did not permit Douglass to determine uniquely the space group, but a negative test for piezoelectricity led him to assume a center of symmetry.

It would be all right with him, he decided, if his investigation of the fraud, with its probable by-product of murder, led to Garth's door.

She showed no interest at all in the life he had led back home, and it hurt him a little.

After solving a case Poirot has the habit of collecting all people involved into a single room and explaining them the reasoning that led him to the solution, and revealing that the murderer is one of them.

At Antietam, he led his men into the deadly fighting in the Cornfield and the West Woods, and one colonel described him as a " gallant officer ... remarkably cool and at the very front of battle.

These soon became so serious that a league was formed to crush him, and Maurice of Saxony led an army against his former comrade.

Ahmed voluntarily led his nephew Mahmud I ( 1730 – 54 ) to the seat of sovereignty and paid allegiance to him as Sultan of the Empire.

His chief fault was his overwhelming haughtiness ; an over-exalted opinion of his position that led him to insult Chryses and Achilles, thereby bringing great disaster upon the Greeks.

The need for a male heir led him to contract a second marriage to Yolande de Dreux on 1 November 1285.

This apparently alienated many in the legions and led to a conspiracy to assassinate and replace him.

However, his aptitude for sculpture led him to work for Giulio Cesare Conventi ( 1577 — 1640 ), an artist of modest talents.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

Public opposition and criticism have emerged, led by the EFA and gaining irregular mainstream media attention, with a majority of Australians reportedly " strongly against " its implementation.

While the monist forces have led to a fusion between some of the goddesses ( 108 names are common for many goddesses ), centrifugal forces have also resulted in new goddesses and rituals gaining ascendance among the laity in different parts of Hindu world.

After gaining experience as a teamster along the Santa Fe Trail and in Mexico, Carson signed on with a party of forty men, led by Ewing Young which in August, 1829 went into Apache country along the Gila River.

This led to the armies of the Qin gaining a critical edge over the other nations that adhered to old aristocratic systems of government.

He became Prime Minister because in 1994 he was elected Labour Party leader and then led the party to victory in the 1997 general election, winning 418 seats compared to 165 for the Conservatives and gaining a majority in the House of Commons.

The Leader of the Liberal Party since 1946, Vernon Treatt led the Liberal / Country Coalition at the election, which resulted in a hung parliament, with Treatt's Coalition gaining 12 seats and a swing of 6. 7 % for a total of 46 seats.

Advances in firearms technology without the necessary advances in battlefield communications gradually led to the defense again gaining the ascendancy.

Kick returner Dave Meggett led the NFL in punt return yards ( 467 ), while also gaining 492 yards on kickoff returns, rushing for 164 yards, and catching 39 passes for 410 yards.

Running back Brian Mitchell led the NFL in punt return yards ( 600 ) and punt return touchdowns ( 2 ) with a 13. 3 yards per return average, while also gaining 583 yards returning kickoffs.

This was solved during a series of meetings that led to the Royal Navy gaining the UGM-27 Polaris missile and construction of the Resolution class submarines to launch them.

His asceticism was complemented by his charm and generosity to the poor, and his reputation for gifts of healing and insight led many people to consult him, gaining him the name of " Wonder Worker of Britain ".

Fritigern's victory soon led to the Thervings gaining control of much of the entire Balkan peninsula.

The business of making posters led Henri to London, gaining him work that led to the making of the ' Confetti ' poster, and the bicycle advert ' La Chaîne Simpson '.

Westerwelle, the youngest party chairman at the time, emphasized economics and education, and espoused a strategy initiated by his deputy Jürgen Möllemann, who, as chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia branch of party, had led his party back into the state parliament, gaining 9. 8 % of the vote.

The Algerian Revolution ( Thawra Al-Jazā ’ iriyya ;, " Algerian War ") was a conflict between France and Algerian independence movements from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria gaining its independence from France.

The destructiveness of this characteristic led to him gaining characteristics of a warrior, and eventually becoming a war-god.

Al Itahad gaining power in Gedo and elsewhere in Somalia led to the Ethiopian invasion of Gedo in 1996.

In the early 1920s, the College ’ s growth led its president, James A. Blaisdell, to call for “ a group of institutions divided into small colleges — somewhat of an Oxford type — around a library and other utilities which they would use in common .” This would allow Pomona to retain its small, liberal arts-focused teaching while gaining the resources of a larger university.

This led to the developing of fighting tactics destined to establish field supremacy, gaining wealthy prisoners to be ransomed, and minimizing casualties, as it was basically a business.

By way of their English-accented fluent French frontman, France has become their first target market in Europe, which has led to them gaining a huge popularity there, even in excess of their British fan base.

She did not attend her husband's coronation in Poland and led a rather quiet life outside Dresden, gaining some popularity for her stubbornness.

In December 2006 she led an unsuccessful attempt to prevent same-sex couples gaining the right to adopt children, despite having previously been named ScotsGay Parliamentarian of the Year in 1998.

However, the craving for luxury custom-made planets among the Galaxy's mercantile elite led to the planet Magrathea gaining control of most of its wealth, which led to a financial Dark Age.