When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

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

When Beckett's name came into the discussion, the priest grew loud and told me that Beckett `` hates life ''.

When fame came it changed Sandburg only slightly.

When May came the Caravan had already crossed the Equator.

When their levies came shambling into camp, they were all elbows, hair, and beard.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

When the sun came out, Stevie strode proudly into Orange Square, smiling like a landlord on industrious tenants.

When he felt the side of his head, his fingers came away covered with blood.

When his arm came up I ducked away but it caught me on the side of the neck, watering my eyes, and I backed off to cough.

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 they came to Mr. Jack's photograph, twenty by twelve inches in a curly silver frame, Miss Ada said, `` By rights I ought to leave that, seeing he won't take my clotheshorse ''.

When radio came in, it continued the misplaced modifier in its routines as a standard device.

When the therapist came to feel on sufficiently sure ground with him to ask him, `` What is that, Bill -- hello or farewell ''??

When the chance came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day.

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

When a cow came out of a corral in a crouchin' run she was said to `` come out a-stoopin' ''.

When he came to the movies -- more or less by accident -- they were still cheap entertainment capable of enthralling the unthinking for an idle few minutes.

When he snatched it up the voice that came to him was quick and urgent.

When the verdict came in against his young neighbor, Hengesbach said:

When Dr. W. A. Swim celebrated his 75th birthday at the Wilshire Country Club, guests came by chartered plane from all over the country.

`` When you came up to the majors, did you seek out Williams for advice ''??

When I drove a car with tail fins, I had plenty status at the wind-and-water oases.

When galloping, the hind legs move around the front legs before the latter move forward, and the tail will curl up.

When seen from above, a sexually mature female hamster has a trim tail line ; a male's tail line bulges on both sides.

When interrupts occur back-to-back, microcontrollers may avoid an extra context save / restore cycle by a form of tail call optimization.

When a modern ski is tilted on to its edge, a gap is created between the ground and the middle of the ski ( under the binding ) as only the sides near the tip and the tail touch the snow.

When balancing on thin branches, they use their long tail to steer.

When it rains, steam is said to spout from the tip of its tail.

When captured and held, e. g., by the tail, they secrete the microfibrous slime, which expands into a gelatinous and sticky goo when combined with water ; if they remain captured, they can tie themselves in an overhand knot which works its way from the head to the tail of the animal, scraping off the slime as it goes and freeing them from their captor, as well as the slime.

When Ben Rosen of Morgan Stanley saw the program, he wrote that " VisiCalc might be the software tail that wagged the computer industry dog.

When a pair starts slowing down the male will put his tail under the female's body and release it's sperm that is mixed with the eggs due to the tail movement.

When Eeyore lost his tail, Owl found it and used it as a bell-pull beside his door before Pooh found it for Eeyore.

When a ship was lost at sea, Ka-moho-alii shook his tail in front of the fleet and the kahuna would feed him " awa " ( a name for kava, a narcotic drink ), and Ka-moho-alii would guide the men home.

When dissolved in water, slow, spontaneous autopolymerization of acrylamide takes place, joining molecules together by head on tail fashion to form long single-chain polymers.

When viewers are asked to place a mark on the figure at the midpoint, they invariably place it more towards the " tail " end.

When they examine the plane's tail and each see different registration numbers, Sheckly comes to a conclusion: the plane is not real but merely an illusion.

When groundhogs are frightened, the hairs of the tail stand straight up, giving the tail the appearance of a hair brush.

When it comes to the Nebelung, the operative word is long: long, graceful neck and body, long legs, long coat, and long tail.

When it is put into a near vertical dive, the lift from the wings and horizontal tail are no longer balanced and cause the aircraft to return to level flight, tracking across the target unless the pilot applies considerable force to keep the nose down, with a corresponding decrease in accuracy.

When necessary, the Anhinga will dry out its wings and feathers, with the resemblance of the semicircular full-spread shape of its group of tail feathers while drying them out, to that of true meleagrine males lending the name " water turkey " to it.