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 he stood trial for his offense he pleaded ignorance.

When their conduct proved unsatisfactory, they were almost invariably brought to trial and exiled or executed, and their property was confiscated.

When this happens, substantial trial costs can be saved when the parties to a dispute agree to a settlement.

When the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, and six other bishops ( the Seven Bishops ) wrote to James asking him to reconsider his policies, they were arrested on charges of seditious libel, but at trial they were acquitted to the cheers of the London crowd.

When a group or organization was thus declared criminal, the competent national authority of any signatory had the right to bring persons to trial for membership in that organisation, with the criminal nature of the group or organisation assumed proved.

When word of his aspirations to make himself king reached the Helvetii, Orgetorix was summoned to stand trial, facing execution on the pyre should he be found guilty.

When the accused is charged with an indictable only offence, he is sent to the Crown Court for trial.

When trial by jury replaced this, the jury members were expected to find the insane guilty but then refer the case to the King for a Royal Pardon.

When Soliah was eventually brought to trial years later, the evidence against her was not considered by prosecutors to be a " slam dunk ," although enough to convince a jury of her guilt.

When the death sentence was passed, according to Moskalenko's later account, Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying energetically, but to no avail: the other six defendants were executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953, the same day as the trial, while Beria was fatally shot through the forehead by General Batitsky after the latter stuffed a rag into Beria's mouth to silence his bawling.

When it failed to reach the required on its first tests the next day, it was withdrawn from the trial.

When Lucas refused Mason's demand to extradite Two Stickney back to Michigan for trial, Mason wrote to President Jackson for help, suggesting that the matter be referred to the United States Supreme Court.

When, under the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court extended the right to a trial by jury to defendants in state courts, it re-examined some of the standards.

When the trial formally opened in early 1993, Honecker was released due to ill health and on 13 January of that year moved to Chile to live with his daughter Sonja, her Chilean husband Leo Yáñez, and their son Roberto.

When the base's Nazi leader shoots the pilot in order to silence him, Cargraves convenes a trial and find him guilty of murder.

When challenged at trial over the nature of this testing, and particularly over the fact that the testing was designed in some cases to cause death and only to measure the time which elapsed until death was caused, one Nazi doctor's defence was that, though a doctor, he was " legally appointed executioner ".

When Mullá ` Alí Basṭámí, the second Letter of the Living, was put on trial in Baghdad for preaching about the Báb, the clerics studied the Commentary on the Surih of Joseph, recognized in it a claim to divine revelation, and quoted from it extensively to prove that the author had made a messianic claim.

When used, however, experiments typically follow the form of the clinical trial, where experimental units ( usually individual human beings ) are randomly assigned to a treatment or control condition and one or more outcomes are assessed.

When the verdict for the trial comes in, Amanda's plea to the jury to " judge this case as you would if the sexes were reversed " proves successful, and Doris is found not guilty.

When the English captured Joan of Arc in 1431, Beaufort presided at her trial before she was burned at the stake.

* When Nazi Germany lost the war Rudolf Höss hid on the island, but was captured there and brought to trial in Nürnberg.

When fellow mafioso Salvatore Cancemi confessed to Buscetta at a trial in 1993 that he had strangled Buscetta's two sons, Buscetta forgave him saying that he knew that he could not have refused the order.

When Halirrhotius, son of Poseidon, raped her ( or merely attempted to ), Ares killed him, a crime for which he was tried in a court, the first trial in history, which took place on the hill near the Acropolis of Athens named Areopagus, named, according to this etiological myth, after Ares.

When he returns to Thebes, he is again put on trial, and again acquitted.

The new sheriff and his deputy — Rusty of course — have a hard time not just fighting the criminals but also convincing all the farmers who have been wronged by Surrett that mob rule (" Come on, boys, let's take ' em out to the plaza ") is out of the question: When Yancey ( Victor Jory ), one of Surrett's thugs, is in jail, Hatton has to protect him against the furious men outside who, not caring for Yancey's right to a fair trial, want to take the law into their own hands and lynch him right then and there.