But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

Then the boy straight-armed himself up, twisting at the last moment so he landed sitting.

Mostly the scene was crowded with mourners, such as the dramatic Dell'Arca Lamentation in Bologna, where the grief-stricken spectators had usurped Mary's last poignant moment.

Too often it is thought of at the last moment of new product introduction.

Indeed, from the moment the reports of the coming issue first started circulating in Dallas last January, the inquiries and demand for the stock started building up.

However, its release was cancelled at the last moment at the demand of Judge, who owned approval rights for video releases of the series.

The lightness of modern racquets allows players to use a very short hitting action for many strokes, thereby maintaining the option to hit a powerful or a soft stroke until the last possible moment.

Many historians now hold the position that blitzkrieg was not a military theory, and the campaigns conducted by the German military in 1939 to circa, 1942 ( with the exception of Operation Barbarossa ) were improvised invasions put together and modified at the last moment and therefore was not a proper military strategy.

Naveh described it as an " ad hoc solution " to operational dangers, thrown together at the last moment.

It is therefore probable that this arrangement was made, possibly at the last moment, so that the Athenian line was as long as the Persian line, and would not therefore be outflanked.

Paul says, " We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

Hunnish invasions forced it to move at the last moment to Chalcedon, where the council opened on October 8, 451.

The meetings of the Central Committee and the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union were postponed to the last possible moment because of Andropov's health.

At the last moment, when his immense work was drawing to an end, he encountered a crowning mortification: he discovered that the bookseller, fearing the government's displeasure, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages that he considered too dangerous.

However, at the last moment Charle Steinhauslin, at the time consulate of 26 countries in Florence, convinced the German general in Italy that the Ponte Vecchio was not to be blown up due to its historical value.

At the last moment he noticed children playing in the area, and directed the helicopter elsewhere to prevent their deaths.

In 1529, a war between the two sides was averted at the last moment.

The death of Charles the Bold, the last Valois Duke of Burgundy, at the Battle of Nancy in 1477 was a pivotal, if under-recognised, moment in European history.

After he had bound his son to the altar and drawn his knife to kill him, at the very last moment an angel of God prevented Abraham from proceeding.

At the last moment before the original reality ended, Iceman's fellow X-Men, Rogue and Gambit shared a kiss.

Booth later learned that Lincoln had changed his plans at the last moment to attend a reception at the National Hotel in Washington where, coincidentally, Booth was then staying.

Hitler added that " My only fear is that at the last moment some Schweinehund will make a proposal for mediation ".

When the lit dynamite did not flush, Moon leapt out of the bathroom at the last moment to avoid porcelain toilet shards from the blast.

In his play En Idealist, for example, the " hero " is King Herod whose fight to maintain power is the motive behind all of his acts until he is at last defeated by a show of kindness to the Christ child in a weak moment.

They did not meet-at the last moment, Grand Duchess Olga sent a telegram to Paris requesting to cancel the appointment.

In the care-free indolence of the East he sees the last reflection of the old happy existence, and for that reason he loves it.

The process continues in like manner until 365 heavens are in existence, the angels of the last or visible heaven being the authors of our world.

Historians are divided on the detail of Ælle's life and existence as it was during the least-documented period in English history of the last two millennia.

The amphisbaena has been referred to by the poets, such as Nicander, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and A. E. Housman, and the amphisbaena as a mythological and legendary creature has been referenced by Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, and Thomas Browne, the last of whom debunked its existence.

Instead, the Rockies dropped even further, finishing 72 – 90 and in last place in the West as the Diamondbacks won the division in just their second year of existence.

** Nazarov was Dictator of the Don Republic ( which before, since its founding on 2 December 1917 at Novocherkassk, had been governed by a Triumvirate including the last pre-Soviet Ataman, Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin ) from 11 February 1918 till 25 February 1918 when Bolshevik troops ended their existence

In the last few centuries, they have revolved around the process by which the Homeric poems came into existence and were transmitted over time to us, first orally and later in writing.

The last decades of the independent Commonwealth existence were characterized by intense reform movements and far-reaching progress in the areas of education, intellectual life, art, and especially toward the end of the period, evolution of the social and political system.

The last two Tirthankaras, Parshva and Mahavira, are historical figures whose existence is recorded.

The shroud's origins are still a matter of controversy, but in 1988, a carbon dating analysis concluded that the shroud was made between 1260 and 1390, a span that includes the last half-century of the Templars ' existence.

The 2012 Season marks the third time the Major League Baseball All-Star Game has been played in Kansas City, with Kauffman Stadium ( then named Royals Stadium ) last hosting the event in 1973, the stadium's first year of existence.

The theory hypothesized the existence of very long-run macroeconomic and price cycles, originally estimated to last 50 – 54 years.

Remnants of the Knights of Labor continued in existence until 1949, when the group's last 50-member local dropped its affiliation.

It is one of " the newest native-speaker variet of the English language in existence, a variety which has developed and become distinctive only in the last 150 years ".

Since 1991 – the last year of existence of the USSR – up to 1993 – the last year of rouble zone existence – the rate of inflation was measured in tens, hundreds and even thousands per cent per year.

Most recently, the last principle, adopted in 1985 and generally known as the Seventh Principle, " Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part ", and a sixth source ( adopted in 1995 ), " Spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature " were added to explicitly include members with Neopagan, Native American, and pantheist spiritualities.

UPN quietly went off the air on September 15, three days prior to the launch of The CW ; WWE SmackDown was the last official program ( although some affiliates aired the optional weekend encore block ), ending its existence after 11 years.

From the mutilated state of many of the corpses and the contents of the kettles, it is evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven to the last resource -- cannibalism -- as a means of prolonging existence.

The Great Service was in existence by 1606 ( the last copying date entered in the earliest surviving manuscript source ) and may date back as far as the 1590s.

If Israel's very existence is threatened, some speculate that she would use a " Samson Option ," a " last resort " deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons, may be initiated should the state of Israel be substantially damaged and / or near destruction.

Another example is that his textbook, as late as the 1927 version, unambiguously states the existence of the ether, and mentions Einstein's theory of relativity only in a noncommittal note at the end of the caption under Einstein's portrait, stating as the last in a list of accomplishments that he was " author of the special theory of relativity in 1905 and of the general theory of relativity in 1914, both of which have had great success in explaining otherwise unexplained phenomena and in predicting new ones.

These last four attempts assumed implicitly Girard's assertion ; to be more precise, the existence of solutions was assumed and all that remained to be proved was that their form was a + bi for some real numbers a and b. In modern terms, Euler, de Foncenex, Lagrange, and Laplace were assuming the existence of a splitting field of the polynomial p ( z ).