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 he saw the expression in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on.

When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.

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 Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

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

Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.

When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:

When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.

When he got closer to the tree, Matsuo noted the wild look on his face.

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

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

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When you pass a church on an Irish bus, all the hands flurry in the sign of the cross.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.

When I returned to make my report, the Hetman did not remember having sent me on the secret mission.

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.

When the young biologist, Dr. Ballard, began to show interest in our daughter Elizabeth, this induced a corresponding interest, on our part, in him.

When he turns briefly to literary style, in the Third Book, he again looks to the effect on the audience.

When values of temperature derived with this instrument were compared with the accepted values associated with liquid helium-4 vapor pressures, differences of about 10 and 7 millidegrees respectively were found.

When Austria became a member of the European Union, the Austrian variety of the German language — limited to 23 agricultural terms — was " protected " in Protocol No 10, regarding the use of specific Austrian terms of the German language in the framework of the European Union, which forms part of the Austrian EU accession treaty.

When Abu Bakr was 10 years old, he went to Syria along with his father with the merchants ' caravan.

( When measured in decibels it is logarithmically related to the power ratio: G ( dB )= 10 log ( P < sub > out </ sub > /( P < sub > in </ sub >)).

When the piston has moved up to the top of its stroke inside the cylinder, and the remaining volume inside the head or combustion chamber has been reduced to 100 cc, then the compression ratio would be proportionally described as 1000: 100, or with fractional reduction, a 10: 1 compression ratio.

When intervals between fires drop below 10 to 15 years, many chaparral species are eliminated and the system is typically replaced by non-native, invasive, weedy grassland.

When planning a visit from Bonn, where he was immersed in studying physics, his fellow mathematician and friend Hermann Minkowski joked he had to spend 10 days in quarantine before being able to visit Hilbert.

When this was later re-encountered, the restricted activation caused thereafter by the posthypnotic amnesia resulted in three of the 10 participants reporting what the authors termed " paramnesias ".

When American physicist Harvey Einbinder detailed its failings in his 1964 book, The Myth of the Britannica, the encyclopaedia was provoked to produce the 15th edition, which required 10 years of work.

When the glaciers receded about 10, 000 years ago, they left behind moraines, drumlins, and eskers.

When the American magazine Cinema asked Stanley Kubrick in 1963 to name his favorite films, the film director listed I Vitelloni as number one in his Top 10 list.

When the injunction came into force versions later than 5. 5. 10 left the network or were disabled as users started them.

When referring to disk storage capacities it usually means 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > bytes, often stated explicitly on the manufacturer's permanent sticker.

When a granitoid contains less than 10 % orthoclase, it is called tonalite ; pyroxene and amphibole are common in tonalite.

When a person has not been unconscious, failure of carbohydrate to reverse the symptoms in 10 – 15 minutes increases the likelihood that hypoglycemia was not the cause of the symptoms.

When reelected in 2000, President Aristide promised to remedy this situation but instead introduced a non-sustainable plan of " cooperatives " that guaranteed investors a 10 percent rate of return.

When a gift was worth more than 10, 000 Derrik ( Achaemenian gold coin ) the issue was registered in a special office.

Shortly before his resignation, he gave his final statement from 10 Downing Street, in which he said ; " When the curtain falls, it is time to get off the stage ".

When he was aged 10, his family scraped together the money to send him to Midland District Grammar School in Kingston.

When Rousseau was 10, his father, an avid hunter, got into a legal quarrel with a wealthy landowner on whose lands he had been caught trespassing.

When Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer bludgeoned Hicks to death with a 10 lb.

When James Cook went on his first voyage he carried wort ( 0. 1 mg vitamin C per 100 g ), sauerkraut ( 10 – 15 mg per 100 g ) and a syrup, or " rob ", of oranges and lemons ( the juice contains 40 – 60 mg of vitamin C per 100 g ) as antiscorbutics, but only the results of the trials on wort were published.

When he was 10 years old, his family moved to San Anselmo, California.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

When, in 1967, after his death at the age of 91, Germans were asked what they admired most about Adenauer, the majority responded that he had brought home the last German prisoners of war from the USSR, which had become known as the " Return of the 10, 000 ".