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 my enthusiasm, I proposed the party, my city editor ( who disliked the club and many of its members ) tried to block my participation in the gala event.

When Stravinsky shaped his purpose to the shifting scenes of many cultures, many salons, many dialectics, many personalities, he tried to refashion himself into a stylist of many styles, determined by many disparate cultures.

When it was all arranged to fit, and not to interrupt the lengthwise flow of movement in the frieze, the cartoons were tried in place.

When Robinson tried to stretch his blow into a triple, he was cut down in a close play at third, Tuttle to Andy Carey.

When they tried to depict the most abiding qualities of men, it was because men had common roots with the unchanging gods.

When the ambassadors of the Senate, entreating for peace, tried to intimidate him with hints of what the despairing citizens might accomplish, he laughed and gave his celebrated answer: " The thicker the hay, the easier mowed!

When the old president Kolingba tried to overthrow Patassé in May 2001, the Movement for the Liberation of Congo ( MLC ) came to his rescue.

When his daughter asked about the bread, Kaye tried showing her by hitting the bread on the kitchen table.

When the conflict began, Lenin tried to commit the army on behalf of Red Finland, but the troops were demoralized, war-weary and home-sick after years of World War I.

When Alcmene was pregnant with Heracles, Hera tried to prevent the birth from occurring by tying Alcmene's legs in knots.

When the French tried to impose the French language, German opposition grew in intensity.

When Prussia tried to put a Hohenzollern candidate, Prince Leopold, on the Spanish throne, the French angrily protested.

When opponents tried to appease him, he accepted the gains that were offered, then went to the next target.

When Spain tried to invade and conquer England it was a fiasco, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 associated Elizabeth's name forever with what is popularly viewed as one of the greatest victories in English history.

When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25 % to 63 %, and increases in corporate taxes.

" When they tried to sell it to various Hollywood studios, they were told that the film would not work.

When he switched to traditional stop motion, Caprino tried to maintain the impression that he was still using some kind of " magic " technology to make the puppets move, even though all his later films were made with traditional stop motion techniques.

When he repeatedly tried to evade his regular medical check-ups, school nurse Annie Ghazikhanian recognized that something odd was going on with him and pressured him to show her the wound.

When the federal government tried to assert authority on behalf of the Cherokees, the governor of Georgia took up arms.

When his opponents realized what they had gotten themselves into, they tried to bury the censure and move on, but Adams made sure this did not happen and the censure continued to be debated.

When elements of the army leadership tried to assassinate Hitler in the July 20 plot shortly thereafter, it was this trio that rallied the resistance to the plotters.

When Caesar was first elected, the aristocracy tried to limit his future power by allotting the woods and pastures of Italy, rather than the governorship of a province, as his military command duty after his year in office was over.

When Charles tried to find a compromise solution with the Augsburg Interim, Bucer and Bullinger urged Calvin to respond.

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