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When she picked up the receiver, her mother's cheerful voice was there.
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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 she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.
When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.
When she appeared, two or three of the little girls jumped up and down, yelling, `` Goody, goody ''.
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.
When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.
When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.
When a dancer does well, she provokes a quiet bombardment of dollar bills -- although the Manhattan clubs prohibit the more cosmopolitan practice of slipping the tips into the dancers' costumes.
When she returned to life in the big house she felt shriveled of all emotion save dedication to duty.
When Kate hurried in alarm to tell him to put it out, she saw other dots of flames among the western Virginia hills from the few scattered fires of the faithful.
When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.
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.
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When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain, tied the fly of the tent, and picked up the cash box, he moved up the darkening street.
When I interviewed Kirby, who as a boy picked up pears in the Borden yard, I asked if anybody else in the household besides Lizzie and Morse had been under any suspicion at the time of the murders.
When the team fell out of contention in mid -, Shapiro fired manager Charlie Manuel and traded pitching ace Bartolo Colón for prospects Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee, and Grady Sizemore ; acquired Travis Hafner from the Rangers for Ryan Drese and Einar Diaz ; and picked up Coco Crisp from the St. Louis Cardinals for aging starter Chuck Finley.
:* When is entered, it is picked up by the scanning unit, the number 25 is encoded and sent to the X register.
When Cerebro picked up the new mutant signatures, Cyclops sent X-Men to watch them until Hope could reach them.
) When it is picked up, the player is rewarded with 2, 764, 331 points ; the numbers are the digits of Apogee's past phone number, which was 1-800-276-4331.
When the news that Garraty has been picked as a Walker is revealed, Jan is extremely distraught and fights with Garraty in an unsuccessful attempt to have him back out of the event.
When Virgil Earp learned that Wyatt was talking to the Cowboys at Spangenberg's gun shop he picked up a 10-gauge or 12-gauge, short, double-barreled shotgun from the Wells Fargo office around the corner on Allen Street.
When not playing a gig, he hung out at the local pool hall with other musicians, where he picked up on upcoming play dates and gossip.
When talk show host and car collector Jay Leno visited the museum, the founder picked him up in a 1947 Tatra T-87, prompting Leno to purchase one himself.
When the time came for Barassi to be signed up, Melbourne picked him up from Preston Scouts in 1952 and he became only the second player signed under the new rule.
" When Lake Lillian was dredged back in the ' 30s to make it more round, we picked up arrowheads by the buckets-full ," said Frank Pelot III, in a 1986 Star-Banner story by Elaine Hamaker.
When she moved to Kansas City, the still-married Robinson gave her an engagement ring and brought her to the county registrar where they paid for a marriage license that was never picked up.
When Butler discovered the animal the next morning, he picked up a rock to throw at the beast, but instead noticed the rock was unusually heavy.
When this flag was shot down, Sargent William Jasper picked it up and held it aloft, rallying the troops until a new stand could be provided.
When an emergency happened in the pre-dial ( or " manual ") telephone era, the user simply picked up the telephone receiver and waited for the operator to answer " number, please?
When he picked up his own household phone his assistant had to explain what the strange noise was, as well as how to use a rotary dial phone.
When Bayern picked up Zickler for 2. 3 Million DM many considered the sum to be a subvention for the financially threatened Dresdeners.
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