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

When she would do these things, he would turn blind for an instant and become sick at his stomach.

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 Mrs. Coolidge was in mourning, she did not wear black.

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 these chores were finished, only then, was she allowed whatever freedom she could find.

When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..

When she agrees, you can rest assured her position will remain unchanged.

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 he told her God had called the child to Him, she rejected his words rebelliously.

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 Claire returned to Bishopsgate she longed to tell them she had become Byron's mistress.

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.

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 they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

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

When he saw me coming he turned his radio off.

When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.

When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.

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

When the cloth dried and stiffened, he saw what adjustments had to be made.

A verse familiar to all grammarians is the quatrain: `` I saw a man once beat his wife When on a drunken spree.

When his vision cleared he saw the taller one scrambling upward, reaching.

When he reached the dip in the woods, he saw that already the earlier ruts were barely discernible.

When he saw Tommy sitting alone, the tinkling sound stopped.

When Lindburgh saw the crudeness of Carrel's machinery, he offered to build new equipment for the scientist.

When Aegeus saw the black sails coming into Athens, he jumped into the sea and drowned, mistaken in his belief that his son had been slain.

When the Governor saw that he was confessing his Christianity publicly, not caring what might happen to him, he ordered him not to show up in the city.

When they saw that the centre had broken, the Elector and Marsin decided the battle was lost and, like the remnants of Tallard's army, fled the battlefield ( albeit in better order than Tallard's men ).

When the Byzantine forces saw the entire Ottoman army get on their knees to pray, the Byzantine army was witnessing how united the Ottoman Turks were and this worried them.

" When fighting broke out again, Hinde saw his Batetela allies drop human arms, legs and heads on the road.

When the time came for him to provide a dowry for his daughter, he saw no alternative than to sell his library.

When King Xerxes saw Esther, he was pleased and held out his scepter to her, showing that he accepted her visit.

When envisioning the shape of the cosmos, the Egyptians saw the earth as a flat expanse of land, personified by the god Geb, over which arched the sky goddess Nut.

When he showed the film to people they praised the actor's acting — the hunger in his face when he saw the soup, the delight in the child, and the grief when looking at the dead woman.

Allied fighters, by gaining air superiority over the European battlefield, played a crucial role in the eventual defeat of the Axis, which Reichmarshal Hermann Göring, commander of the German Luftwaffe summed up when he said: " When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up.

" When he saw Al Jolson singing in The Jazz Singer in 1927, considered the first talkie, Capra recalled his reaction: