When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When the station wagon drew abreast of the dusty dirt road that led up to the porch of the Culver house, Pamela turned the wheel, guiding the car to its familiar parking spot close to the house, and stopped.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When she returned to life in the big house she felt shriveled of all emotion save dedication to duty.

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 were refused entrance to his brother's house nearby, they smashed down the door, broke the window, and threw lighted clothes wet with kerosene into the room.

When the house was about half consumed, his comrade ran to the door and threw up his hands, declaring repeatedly that he did not know the whereabouts of Manuel.

When there was bridge at Edythe's house, the cards shuffled like wet graham crackers and the food probably was wet graham crackers.

When building an adobe structure, the ground should be compressed because the weight of adobe bricks is significantly greater than a frame house, and may cause cracking in the wall.

When the priests emerged from the holy place after placing the Ark there, the Temple was filled with a cloud, " for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord " ( 1 Kings 8: 10-11 ; 2 Chron.

When Solomon married Pharaoh's daughter, he caused her to dwell in a house outside Zion, as Zion was consecrated because of its containing the Ark ( 2 Chron.

When James Bradley and Samuel Molyneux entered this sphere of astronomical research in 1725, there consequently prevailed much uncertainty whether stellar parallaxes had been observed or not ; and it was with the intention of definitely answering this question that these astronomers erected a large telescope at the house of the latter at Kew.

When Miles Gloriosus arrives to claim his courtesan-bride, Pseudolus hides Philia on the roof of Senex's house ; told that she has " escaped ," Lycus is terrified to face the Captain's wrath.

When the player surrenders, the house takes half the player's bet and return the other half to the player ; this terminates the player's interest in the hand.

When playing privately, this will normally be a question of agreeing house rules.

When Griffith was 14, his mother abandoned the farm and moved the family to Louisville, where she opened a boarding house.

When visiting patients, he would have his driver, also a very large man, walk ahead of him to make sure the floor of a house would hold him.

In " The Time Monster " he reveals that " When I was a little boy, we used to live in a house that was perched halfway up the top of a mountain ", explaining, " I ran down that mountain and I found that the rocks weren't grey at all-but they were red, brown and purple and gold.

When the police came to his house, Harold watched as they told his mother that he had died in the fire, and saw her collapse into the policemen's arms.

When his mother returned to work as a lady's maid ( at Uppark, a country house in Sussex ), one of the conditions of work was that she would not be permitted to have living space for her husband and children.

When purchasing a new house the buyer has less legal protection than when buying a new car.

When Rousseau reached 20, De Warens took him as her lover, while intimate also with the steward of her house.

When Marsh called to his aide and the pair rode off down the River Road where the gentians burned blue, Juanita was shaken and trying not to cry.

When the capital was burned in 1893, the sultan sought and received protectorate status from the French.

When elements are burned, the products are primarily the most common oxides.

When the Confucian advisers pressed their point, Li Ssu had many Confucian scholars killed and their books burned — considered a huge blow to the philosophy and Chinese scholarship.

When Nero's Golden House was burned, the Temple of Claudius was finally completed on the Caelian Hill.

When jewelry containing diamonds is heated ( for repairs ) the diamond should be protected with boracic acid ; otherwise the diamond ( which is pure carbon ) could be burned on the surface or even burned completely up.

) When a vote is successful, the ballots are burned alone, sending white smoke ( fumata bianca ) through the chimney and announcing to the world the election of a new pope.

When burned in dry air, it mainly forms sodium peroxide as well as some sodium oxide.

When tobacco is burned, oils from adjoining not yet ignited particles vaporize and condense into the existing cake on the walls of the bowl and shank.

When burned, sulfur melts to a blood-red liquid and emits a blue flame that is best observed in the dark.

When burned with oxygen, hydrogen gives the highest specific impulse of any commonly used fuel: around 450 seconds, compared with up to 350 seconds for kerosene.

When questioned by the police he responded: " Yes ; that is my flag ; I burned it.

When large parts of Uppsala burned down in 1702, Gustavianum, which contained the university library and its many valuable manuscripts, escaped the fire ; local lore has it that the aging Rudbeck stood on the roof directing the work of fighting the fire.

When Arafat's death was announced, the Palestinian people went into a state of mourning, with Qur ' anic mourning prayers emitted from mosque loudspeakers throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and tires burned in the streets.

When 37 try to escape the island, they are burned alive at the stake.

When the Globe burned down in June 1613, it was rebuilt with a tile roof ; when the Fortune burned down in December 1621, it was rebuilt in brick ( and apparently was no longer square ).

When the capital was first moved to Toronto from Newark ( present-day Niagara-on-the-Lake ) in 1796, the Parliament Buildings of Upper Canada were located at the corner of Parliament and Front Streets, in buildings that were burned by U. S. forces in the War of 1812, rebuilt, then burned again by accident.

When the Germans realised they had been tricked, they burned down an entire section of town, subsequently occupying the city.

When a dwelling reached the end of its practical life it was simply burned, and a replacement erected in its place in about a day's time.

When Benjamin's young son Thomas tries to free Gabriel, he is shot and killed by Tavington, who orders the Martins ' house burned and wounded American regulars executed.

When the stage reaches Lee's Ferry, the passengers find the station and ferry burned, and those who were not killed have fled.