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 they were ready to leave, Benson and Ramey walked back around the rear of the trailer.

`` When are you to leave ''??

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 shed, they leave rust marks.

When I have instructions to leave is equivalent in meaning to I have instructions that I am to leave this place, dominant stress is ordinarily on leave.

When the same sequence is equivalent in meaning to I have instructions which I am to leave, dominant stress is ordinarily on instructions.

When they leave for vacations they miss the hot cereal.

When the writer uses material does he tamper with it to improve its commercial effect or does he leave it pure??

When Queen Isabella and her husband were forced to leave Spain by the Revolution of 1868, Alfonso accompanied them to Paris.

When hunting together, they effectively leave little escape for prey in the area.

When Pissarro returned to his home in France after the war, he discovered that of the 1, 500 paintings he had done over 20 years, which he was forced to leave behind when he moved to London, only 40 remained.

When the Continental Congress was forced to leave Philadelphia in 1783 while he was president, he moved the meetings to Princeton, where they met in the College's Nassau Hall.

When arriving in Ghent, it is best to leave cars in Park & Ride zones next to the road.

When Havok had a disagreement with Magneto and decided to leave the X-Men, Ice-Man was one of those who followed him, being a founding member of the Six.

When other Nazi leaders urged Hitler to leave Berlin and establish a new centre of resistance in the National Redoubt in Bavaria, Goebbels opposed this, arguing for a last stand in the ruins of the Reich capital.

When Servetus mentioned that he would come to Geneva if Calvin agreed, Calvin wrote a letter to Farel on 13 February 1546 noting that if Servetus were to come, he would not assure him safe conduct: " for if he came, as far as my authority goes, I would not let him leave alive.

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

When Tiso proved reluctant to do so on the grounds that the autonomy that had existed since October 1938 was sufficient for him, and to completely sever links with the Czechs would leave Slovakia open to being annexed by Hungary, Ribbentrop had the German Embassy in Budapest contact the Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy.

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 items are first presented, they enter short-term memory, but because it has limited space, as new items enter, old ones leave.

When the Missouri Mormons were later asked to leave Clay County in 1836, they secured land in what would become Caldwell County.

When his eldest son, George, was forced, at the age of nine, to wear a Ballila Fascist Youth uniform in school, the family decided to leave Italy.