A time before the white lightning and the bumming had turned him inside out.

But every time I suggested this to her, Mrs. Wright turned it down and demanded that I go out and punish Mr. Wright.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

Without exception Hino's brothers turned to either one or both of their father's occupations, but Hino showed a talent for neither and instead spent most of his time on the beach where he repaired nets and proved immensely popular as a storyteller.

Watson turned away, sickened for the first time in many months.

Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.

In the spring when penned cattle were turned out to grass, this was spoken of as `` turn-out time '', or `` put to grass ''.

By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.

Only an occasional tip turned out to be a phony, and, like the police, Casey had made a point of running down all such suggestions and he did not hesitate this time.

During that time Alboin turned his attention to Tuscany, but signs of factionalism among his supporters and Alboin's diminishing control over his army increasingly began to manifest themselves.

Gauntlett turned down the role of a KGB colonel in the film, however: " I would have loved to have done it but really could not afford the time.

Before the passage of the lex annalis, individuals could run for the Aedileship by the time they turned twenty-seven.

At the time, a shrine like this might shelter an image of the Crucifixion or the Virgin Mary, but since it is turned away from the viewer, we are not sure what it truly is.

According to Capp's brother Elliot, Alfred had finished all of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw by the time he turned 13.

The Bauhaus was founded at a time when the German zeitgeist had turned from emotional Expressionism to the matter-of-fact New Objectivity.

At the time of his retirement from the England team in 1970, he was the nation's most capped player, having turned out 106 times at the highest level.

He first produced a soluble phenol-formaldehyde shellac called " Novolak " that never became a market success, then turned to developing a binder for asbestos which, at that time, was molded with rubber.

The Athenians arrived in time to prevent the Persians from securing a landing, and seeing that the opportunity was lost, the Persians turned about and returned to Asia.

By this time his interest in writing fiction began to lessen and he turned to creating sculptures from soft rock such as soapstone.

But its long curing time of at least a month made it unpopular after World War One in the construction of highways and bridges and many states and construction firms turned to the use of Portland cement.

The later volumes contain some stories rewritten by L. Sprague de Camp ( like " The Treasure of Tranicos "), including several non-Conan Howard stories, mostly historical exotica situated in the Levant at the time of the crusades, which he turned into Conan yarns.

As a general rule, since that time, the armed forces have not intervened in politics as a body, rather being tossed and turned as ambitious men have shaken the country.

This time Dryope was turned into a poplar tree.

They were at first only ideological constructs, but the tides of time turned them into reality in that same century.

By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

By that time, the Town of Kansas, Westport, and nearby Independence, had become critical points in America's westward expansion.

They left on May 14, 1804, and met up with Lewis in St. Charles, Missouri, a short time later ; the corps followed the Missouri River westward.

The documented westward migration over time has been strongly associated with their roles as traders and hunters in the North American Fur Trade.

By the time the official order to take Nanking arrived from Imperial Headquarters on December 1, both the 10th Army and the Shanghai Expeditionary Force had been marching westward for almost 3 weeks.

This corresponds with the sign of the equation of time, which is positive in the westward direction.

It lies just to the northwest of St. Louis, Missouri on the Missouri River, and, for a time, played a significant role in the United States ' westward expansion.

Since that time, the city has grown westward considerably to meet the freeway's north-south path, although urban development west of the freeway has only recently begun to take hold.

At that time, the University of Iowa and Iowa City at large had not yet expanded westward past the Iowa River.

Prior to that time, the territory now included in Badger Township was within the watershed of the Red River Valley and hence technically a part of Rupert's Land and Assiniboia before becoming part of British Canada as a result of the boundary settlement in the Treaty of 1818, a which fixed the international border at the 49th parallel north from the Northwest Angle of Lake of the Woods westward to the Rocky Mountains.

At the time of colonization by the Dutch it belonged to the matrilineal Lenape tribes, but British colonists did their best to displace them westward.

The community was a westward extension of the city of Wheeling, Virginia ( now West Virginia ), but at that time, settlement on the west bank of the Ohio River was not permitted.

There they discontinued for the first time their westward course and turned south, passing over Portage Prairie .…

It is known that the Mongols had no intentions at the time of extending the campaign westward, because they went to the Kingdom of Hungary to help the main Mongol army in the conquest of the country.

Severely undercutting the training and financial support for the armed forces, Constantine X fatally weakened Byzantine defences ( by disbanding the Armenian local militia of 50, 000 men ) at a crucial point of time, coinciding with the westward advance of the Seljuk Turks and their Turcoman allies.

Because the U. S. expanded westward after its founding, the meaning of the West has evolved over time.

The Ottoman Empire, leading Islamic state at that time, started its westward expansion into the European continent in the middle of the 14th century, until it was stopped by the Holy League, an alliance of Habsburg, Hungarian, German and Polish forces, at the Battle of Vienna in 1683.

Making his way westward in 1854, he lived in turn at Cincinnati ; Belleville, Illinois and Peoria, Illinois where he studied law for a time ; and Chicago where he wrote for newspapers.

At this time, the Bulgarian Khanate was expanding westward, and had already annexed the Slavic tribes of Syrmia and eastern Slavonia.

Relative to the atomic time scale of the U. S. Naval Observatory, the flying clocks lost 59 ± 10 nanoseconds during the eastward trip and gained 273 ± 7 nanoseconds during the westward trip ( where the error bars represent standard deviation ).

At the same time in the Russian part of Ukraine Symon Petliura tried to defend and strengthen the Ukrainian People's Republic, but as the Bolsheviks began to gain the upper hand in the Russian Civil War, they started to advance westward towards the disputed Ukrainian territories causing Petliura's forces to retreat to Podolia.

The journey starts on the East Coast circa 1000 AD and then moves westward through time, following Canada ’ s development from coast to coast.

At the time, the Neutrals inhabited a territory ranging from the present-day Niagara Peninsula, westward to the Grand River valley.

At this time, the attacking forces held a line running from the Bardawil ( on the Mediterranean coast ) southward along the front of the 52nd Infantry Division's entrenchments and then westward through and including the very large sand dunes of Mount Meredith and Mount Royston.