When dragged through the ground, it leaves a channel deep under the ground, and this acts as a drain.

When the Trojans discovered that the Greeks were gone, believing the war was over, they " joyfully dragged the horse inside the city ", while they debated what to do with it.

When electrification came, Americans began to speak of trolleycars or later, trolleys, believed to derive from the troller, a four-wheeled device that was dragged along dual overhead wires by a cable that connected the troller to the top of the car and collected electrical power from the overhead wires, sometimes simply strung, sometimes on a catenary.

When he then refused to return to the Underworld, he was forcibly dragged back there by Hermes.

" When the roughneck was at last killed by Achilles, for mocking the hero's lament over the death of the Amazon queen Penthesilea, a sacred feud was fought for Thersites ' sake ": Thersites ' cousin Diomedes, enraged at Achilles ' action, harnessed Penthesilea's corpse behind his chariot, dragged it and cast it into the Scamander, whence, however, it was retrieved and given decent burial, whether by Achilles or by the Trojans is not known from our fragmentary sources.

When first offered the project, Cagney's agent was convinced that his star property would never consent to playing a role where he would be depicted as an abject coward being dragged to his execution.

When a koro-pok-guru came to place something there, the young man grabbed it by the hand and dragged it inside.

When very large prey is killed, such as swans, the prey may be dragged pulled along the surface of the water to the shore to be consumed.

When Rome suffered from drought, the stone was dragged into the city.

When they left Germany, the only significant atomic physicist left in Germany was Heisenberg, who dragged his feet on the project.

When mayhem ensued, Krenwinkel dragged coffee heiress Abigail Folger from her bedroom to the living room, fought with her, and stabbed her.

When he was seven years old, he was dragged through various government offices by his mother to wait in line in order for the widow to collect the meager pension which had been allotted to her.

When she refused to comply with Deodato's direction, he dragged her off the set and screamed at her in Italian.

When the driver took a shortcut through the Arab neighborhood of Wadi Al-Joz, a mob of about 40 Arabs surrounded the taxi, smashed the windows, and dragged Grossman out, whereupon they beat him.

When Bank of America acquired Fleet in 2004, its overall Customer Satisfaction Index ( as measured by the University of Michigan ), was dragged down from 74 to 72.

When they tried to seize the ring, they were dragged below the water and drowned.

When they reached the coffin ( in London the graves were quite shallow ), they broke open the coffin, put a rope around the corpse and dragged it out.

A public subscription was taken up for the widows and wounded and raised £ 52, 609 10s and 10d ( the equivalent of £ as of ), When Duncan travelled to a reception at The Guildhall on 10 November, a mob surrounded his carriage in the street, unhitched the horses and dragged it themselves up Ludgate Hill as a mark of respect.

When the Dorsetshire sank, Agar had been dragged down deep and suffered the bends while coming up, with serious damage to his lungs.

When Carlesimo approached, Sprewell threatened to kill him and dragged him backwards by his throat, choking him for 7-10 seconds before his teammates and assistant coaches pulled Sprewell off of his coach.

When their strength gave out, they dragged each other into the water, but not before she placed a curse on all the Lairds of Kiloran.

When they found Laura, she was being dragged from a commune by her adoptive mother Barbara.

When Kneesaa was a wokling, a beast known as a Hanadak killed their mother and Asha was dragged down a river and went missing.

When Norway was dragged into the war, Norwegian sailors had significantly higher wages than other Allied sailors.

When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.

When McPherson pushed blindly through Snake Creek Gap in a potentially decisive movement, the only cavalry in his van was the Ninth Illinois Mounted Infantry, totally inadequate for its role.

Sir -- When the colonies decided upon freedom from England, we insisted, through the Declaration of Independence, that the nations of the world recognize us as a separate political entity.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

When drilling all the way through a workpiece, always place a piece of scrap wood underneath.

When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( Af ), the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments, and very little in others.

When driving rain or mist socked in one valley, Fogg would chandelle up and over to reverse course and try another one, ranging from the Ottauquechee up to Danville in search of safe passage through the mountain passes.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

When I came into being, 15 years ago, I had one primary purpose: to help men and women everywhere to know God better, and through knowing Him better to become happier and more effective people.

When Charlie came up from the beach for his four-o'clock pill, the whole establishment ( gaudy enough when seen through mist and fog ) looked like a floodlit modern painting -- great blocks of dizzy color, punctuated at regular intervals by the glaring white of five community refrigerators.

When the ventricle starts contracting, deoxygenated blood is pumped through the pulmonary artery to the lungs.

When the light from a heated material was passed through a prism, it produced a multi-colored spectrum.

When a beam of silver atoms was passed through a specially shaped magnetic field, the beam was split based on the direction of an atom's angular momentum, or spin.

When King Andrew II, having fulfilled his Crusader vow, took his troops northward, he proceeded through Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.

When the Ark was borne by priests into the bed of the Jordan, water in the river separated, opening a pathway for the entire host to pass through ( Josh.

When it finds prey, it pounces and punches through the snow to catch its victim.

When compressed, the crystal produces a small electrical current, so when placed under the bridge saddle, the vibrations of the strings through the saddle, and of the body of the instrument, are converted to a weak electrical signal.

When a positive voltage is applied to anode of the diode from the circuit, more holes are able to be transferred to the depleted region, and this causes the diode to become conductive, allowing current to flow through the circuit.

When the current through the device is reversed, the electrodes switch functions, so anode becomes cathode, while cathode becomes anode, as long as the reversed current is applied, with the exception of diodes where electrode naming is always based on the forward current direction.

The monochrome combinations still existing in the 1950s are standardized by the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) as capital letters A through N. When color television was introduced, the hue and saturation information was added to the monochrome signals in a way that black & white televisions ignore.

When the work was completed, three dragons rushed against the wall, and while the two of them which attacked those parts of the wall built by the gods fell down dead, the third forced its way into the city through the part built by Aeacus.

When the Olympian deities overtook the older deities of Greece and she was born of Metis ( inside Zeus who had swallowed the goddess ) and " re-born " through the head of Zeus fully clothed, Athena already wore her typical garments.

" When his wife reported to him that his interpreter's wife had boasted of her own husband's greatness, R. Abbahu simply said, " What difference does it make which of us is really the greater, so long as through both of us heaven is glorified?

When you drive a car at night through falling rain, the rain drops illuminated by your car's headlights appear to fall from a position in the sky well in front of your car.

When the transaction involves a delay of weeks or months, as above, it may entail considerable risk if borrowed money is used to magnify the reward through leverage.