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

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

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 her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

When I looked up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th, I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 ).

When he was about 18 years old, his parents died and left him with the care of his unmarried sister.

When the child reaches skeletal maturity ( 18 to 25 years of age ), all of the cartilage is replaced by bone, fusing the diaphysis and both epiphyses together ( epiphyseal closure ).

When Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield jumped together from a Houston skyscraper on 18 January 1981, they became the first to attain the exclusive BASE numbers ( BASE # 1 and # 2, respectively ), having already jumped from an antenna, spans, and earthen objects.

When he was 18, Brâncuși created a violin by hand with materials he found around his workplace.

# When Body Language Goes Bad — November 12, 2001 to August 18, 2002

When Hooper fell into financial difficulties, the Britannica was managed by Sears Roebuck for 18 years ( 1920 – 23, 1928 – 43 ).

When the BDG appeared likely to win the election by default, the Gabonese military toppled M ' Ba in a bloodless coup on 18 February 1964.

When the BDG appeared likely to win the election by default, the Gabonese military toppled M ' Ba in a bloodless coup on February 18, 1964.

* " When H. G. Wells Split the Atom: A 1914 Preview of 1945 ", by Freda Kirchwey, in The Nation, posted 4 Sep 2003 ( original 18 Aug 1945 issue ).

When he was 18 years old he was diagnosed with OCD ( obsessive compulsive disorder ).

When he was summoned to a meeting of the Senate later that year on 18 October 31 AD.

When Audubon, at age 18, boarded ship for emigration to the United States in 1803, he changed his name to an anglicized form: John James Audubon.

When Paul came again to Jerusalem after the second and after the third journey ( Acts 18: 22 ; 21: 17 sq.

When the law was passed in 1701, Sophia ( age 71 ), five of her children ( ages 35 to 41 ), and three legitimate grandchildren ( ages 14 to 18 ) were alive.

Deuteronomy 17: 18 states ; When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this Torah, taken from that of the Levitical priests.

When Manon died of polio at age 18, composer Alban Berg wrote his Violin Concerto in memory of her ( it is inscribed " to the memory of an angel ").

When Hephaestus was thrown from Olympus, whether cast out by Hera for his lameness or evicted by Zeus for taking Hera's side, the Oceanid Eurynome and the Nereid Thetis caught him and cared for him on the volcanic isle of Lemnos, while he labored for them as a smith, " working there in the hollow of the cave, and the stream of Okeanos around us went on forever with its foam and its murmur " ( Iliad 18. 369 ).

When a chain letter suggests a game of chance or a lottery with an opportunity for financial gain it is considered fraudulent under Title 18, United States Code, Section 1302, the Postal Lottery Statute.

When pacing, the opossum's stride generally measures from 7 to 10 inches, or approximately 18 to 25 cm ( in the pacing diagram the stride is 8. 5 inches, where one grid square is equal to one square inch ).

When cirrus clouds are thick, they reflect only around 9 % of the incoming sunlight, but they prevent almost 50 % of the outgoing infrared radiation from escaping, thus raising the temperature of the atmosphere beneath the clouds by an average of 10 ° C ( 18 ° F )— a process known as the greenhouse effect.

When Pliny the Younger was 18, his uncle Pliny died attempting to rescue victims of the Vesuvius eruption, and the terms of the Elder Pliny's will passed his estate to his nephew.

When Taraki was ousted, Amin promised " from now on there will be no one-man government ..." Attempting to pacify the population, he released a list of some 18, 000 people who had been executed and blamed the executions on Taraki.

When recorded to tape, DVCPRO HD uses the same 18 μm track pitch as other DVCPRO flavors.

* 1931-Term microwave first used in print: " When trials with wavelengths as low as 18 cm.