When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.

When they were ready to leave, Benson and Ramey walked back around the rear of the trailer.

When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

`` When Konishi gets back with the jeep, I want you to round up two or three Japanese boys.

When everything had been done, Rector went back to his desk to occupy himself with his monthly report until three o'clock.

When you see a needle in my hands you will know the family buttons have fallen off and I have to sew them back on, or get out the safety pins.

When a second quake came, they dashed back to the beach, fearing that they might be buried under landslides.

When she was finished she pushed it back.

When the dust settled, he went back to the Jeep and carefully worked Roberts' body onto his shoulder.

When yuh come back I'll put it out agin till you're both inside ''.

When he handed it back and I had hold of it safely, Pops was looking toward me and I said `` Now '', to Charlie and he swung the short length of lead pipe he'd meanwhile taken from his pocket, once.

He promised nearly 200 Democratic county committee members at the meeting in the Puddingstone Inn: `` When I come back here after the November election you'll think, ' You're my man -- you're the kind of governor we're glad we elected ' ''.

When she came back Eugenia was sitting at the kitchen table with a pencil and envelope jotting down words and figures.

When he looked in the back, Mrs. Gertrude Parker was marking keno cards.

When I came back from church at noon Mrs. Thaxter was turning into the Salter driveway.

And when she returned from taking her guests back to New York she had said, `` All they talked about was Harvie Harvie this, Harvie that When they know the truth will they drop away from me, will I become a nothing ''??

When you get back I'll probly be swimming better than Victoria.

When Bobbie Evans smashed up his car, the Jaguar his wife Linda had given him for his last birthday, and himself quite thoroughly with it, driving back from an afternoon's golf at Oakmont, it seemed to mark the end of a long, miswritten chapter in the social life of the community.

When he was back on his feet again and about to reinstall the fuses, however, he hesitated.

When Mercer looked on helplessly, the half-man twisted over on his side, his pink dusty back turned to Mercer, and wept hoarsely and quietly to himself.

" When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday ; when I am at Milan, I do not.

His advice has remained in the English language as the saying, " When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

When Dido learned of this, Dido uttered a curse that would forever pit Carthage against Rome, an enmity that would culminate in the Punic Wars.

When the Sequani, their hereditary rivals, with the assistance of a Germanic chieftain named Ariovistus defeated and massacred the Aedui at the Battle of Magetobriga, the Aedui sent Diviciacus, the druid, to Rome to appeal to the senate for help.

* Rubenstein, Richard E., When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ ’ s Divinity in the Last Days of Rome ( New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999 ).

When the Dictator was away from Rome, the magister equitum usually remained behind to administer the city.

When Germanicus died at Antioch in 19 AD, his wife Agrippina the Elder returned to Rome with her six children where she became entangled in an increasingly bitter feud with Tiberius.

Ancient resources as well as recent archaeological evidence suggest that, at one point, Caligula had the palace extended to annex this structure. When several kings came to Rome to pay their respects to him and argued about their nobility of descent, he cried out " Let there be one Lord, one King ".

* When in Rome ( 1952 )

When Nero came to Greece in AD 66, he took away over 500 of the best statues from Delphi to Rome.

When Republican Rome turned into a de facto monarchy in the second half of the 1st century BC, at first there was no name for the title of the new type of monarch.

When the Consul Gaius Flaminius was killed during the disastrous Roman defeat at the Battle of Lake Trasimene, panic swept Rome.

When word reached Rome of the disastrous Roman defeat under Varro and Paullus at the Battle of Cannae, the Senate and the People of Rome turned to Fabius for guidance.

When Peter died a martyr, Mark left Rome and went to Alexandria.

When invaders reached the outskirts of Rome, they were repelled by an improvised army assembled by the Senate.

When Henry VIII broke from Rome an era of religious repression began.

He returned to work for the Florentine government in 1365, undertaking a mission to Pope Urban V. When the papacy returned to Rome from Avignon in 1367, Boccaccio was again sent to Urban, offering congratulations.

When Claudius arrived he led the final march on the Catuvellauni capital at Camulodunum, before returning to Rome again for his triumph.

When his will was enforced, Rome responded by violently seizing the tribe's lands in full.

When the Roman Empire was divided into eastern and western halves in AD 395, Illyria east of the Drinus River ( Drina between Bosnia and Serbia ), including the lands that now form Albania, were administered by the Eastern Empire but were ecclesiastically dependent on Rome.

When the Christian church split in 1054 between the East and Rome, the region of southern Albania retained its ties to Constantinople while the north reverted to the jurisdiction of Rome.

When the entourage reached Rome in the autumn of 219, Comazon and other allies of Julia Maesa and Elagabalus were given powerful and lucrative positions, to the outrage of many senators who did not consider them worthy of such privileges.