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 dry they were fired to cone 06-05.

When dry, acrylic paint is generally non-removable from a solid surface.

When a pedal is off or inactive, the electric audio signal coming in to the pedal is diverted onto a " bypass ", resulting in a " dry " signal which continues on to other effects down the chain.

When the seep became exhausted, he experimented with the dry distillation of coal, especially the resinous " boghead coal " ( torbanite ).

When the thirty-first day arrives, take out the root in the middle of the night and dry it in an oven heated with branches of verbena ; then wrap it up in a piece of a dead man's winding-sheet and carry it with you everywhere.

When stored in the home, mature potatoes are optimally kept at room temperature, where they last 1 to 2 weeks in a paper bag, in a dry, cool, dark, well ventilated location.

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

When water is absent, the plains of the dry zone are dominated by browns and grays.

When dry, it produces a smooth matte finish.

When no particular type of teaspoonful is specified for a dry ingredient it may mean a level or a rounded spoonful, never a heaping / heaped one.

When relatively dry dough is worked by kneading, or wet dough is allowed to rise for a long time ( see no-knead bread ), the glutenin forms strands of long, thin, chainlike molecules, while the shorter gliadin forms bridges between the strands of glutenin.

When dry, clay becomes firm and when fired in a kiln, permanent physical and chemical changes occur.

When the water pressure within the xylem reaches extreme levels due to low water input from the roots ( if, for example, the soil is dry ), then the gases come out of solution and form a bubble – an embolism forms, which will spread quickly to other adjacent cells, unless bordered pits are present ( these have a plug-like structure called a torus, that seals off the opening between adjacent cells and stops the embolism from spreading ).

When the metric system was introduced in France in 1795, it included units for length, area, dry volume, liquid capacity, weight or mass, and even currency, but not for time.

When dry it is a light flaky powder, which readily absorbs up to 40 % of its weight in atmospheric water.

When khat leaves dry, the more potent chemical, cathinone, decomposes within 48 hours leaving behind the milder chemical, cathine.

When the wind blows from inland, the resulting hot dry foehn winds are called the Santa Ana Winds.

Music Week described it as an " inspired collection of leftfield rock ", while Thor Christensen of The Dallas Morning News said that it " brims with the same dry humor the Sacramento band displayed in past hits such as ' The Distance ' and ' Rock and Roll Lifestyle ': The leadoff track, ' Satan Is My Motor ,' puts a devilish new spin on the rock ' n ' roll car-song tradition, while ' When You Sleep ' revolves around the question of what your fingers do while the rest of the body snoozes ".

When conditions are dry, the deprivation of moisture outside drives many pests inside searching for water.

When he catches him, Wales dry fires his pistols through all twenty – four empty chambers before stabbing Terrill with his own cavalry sword.

You ’ re laughing, but there ’ s actually something deeper going on as well .” When work on the plot began, Gilbert discovered that Schafer's and Grossman's writing styles were too different to form a cohesive whole: Grossman's was " very kind of a dry, sarcastic humor " and Schafer's was " just a little more in your face ".

When Santa Ana conditions prevail, with winds in the lower two to three kilometers ( 1. 25-1. 8 miles ) of the atmosphere from the north through east, the lower atmosphere continues to be dry.

When kept in a cold and dry place, kola nut can be stored for a long time.

When it was finally dry they all came down.

When the storms arrive the weather is usually hot, dry and windy-conditions ideal for raging fires.