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 the boot loader detected a CP / M floppy, the Aster would reconfigure its internal memory architecture on the fly to optimally support CP / M with 60 KB free RAM for programs ( TPA ) and an 80 x 25 display.

When Estragon finally succeeds in removing his boot, he looks and feels inside but finds nothing.

" When Roger Blin asked him who or what Godot stood for, Beckett replied that it suggested itself to him by the slang word for boot in French, godillot, godasse because feet play such a prominent role in the play.

When moving from one mode to the other the state of the machine is lost from memory, and requires a sometimes lengthy " boot " process to return the machine to the " on " state.

When he touched the horse's skull with his boot a snake slithered from the skull and bit him.

When summer came, Mathew Knowles established a " boot camp " to train them in dance and vocal lessons.

When the horse stops near a dwelling, Trinity gets up, pulls on his boots, gets stung by a scorpion hiding in the boot but is clearly insusceptible to the venom then he drags his Colt 45 in holster and walks inside.

When Nikita Khrushchev came to power, the boot became charged politically in the context of the " Battle for Modesty " campaign, where rubber footwear was proclaimed as " socialism style " ( thus fashionable ), while leather, which was obviously more expensive, was derided as " capitalism style " ( thus unfashionable ).

When a ski boot is put in the ski binding, the brake pivots under the downward pressure and runs parallel with the ski allowing free movement.

When the boot comes out of the ski, the brakes spring out perpendicular to the ski and stop the ski from sliding.

When he touched the horse's skull with his boot a snake slithered from the skull and bit him.

* When the Apple II Plus was introduced, it included the ability to scan each expansion slot ( working downward from slot 7 to slot 1 ) for an expansion card ROM with additional boot code, and automatically call it.

When attempting to boot virtual slot 7, users would encounter the message “ APPLETALK OFFLINE .” The IIc, however, had no built-in networking capabilities, and no external device was ever released.

When Krakoa captured the original X-Men, it was Moira's students whom Charles went to first — not the second team of Wolverine, Storm, Banshee, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Thunderbird and Sunfire as it was originally believed — putting them through the psionic equivalent of boot camp and allowing them to believe they were being trained over months as X-Men.

When operating systems were distributed on compact discs, either a boot floppy or the CD itself would boot specifically, and only, to install onto a hard drive.

When the chains were removed the top half of the spur on Falklands's right boot was broken off, the damage can be seen to this day.

When a new house was built, the Polish homeowner would attract one of the domovye by placing a piece of bread down before the stove was put in, and the Russian one would coerce the old house's domovoi to move with the family by offering an old boot as a hiding place.

When the fires died away, a body was found inside the boot of a car with a face so charred it was impossible to determine the identity of the man ; the numberplate of the car was intact, however, and traced to an Alfred Arthur Rouse.

When boot was published, it was criticized for being elitist in its approach to product reviews, and for the " price is no object " philosophy of its editors.

When boot relaunched as Maximum PC, it dropped much of the elitist attitude and focused on being accessible to a wider array of PC users and gamers.

When used in military ranks, senior officers, and officers of all ranks in cavalry and other formerly mounted units of some armies, wear a form of spur in certain orders of dress which is known as the box spur, having no spur strap but a long metal prong opposite the neck, extending between the arms of the heel band, which is inserted into a specially fitted recess or " box " in the base of the boot heel.

When harvesting switchgrass for hay, the first cutting occurs at the late boot stage – around mid-June.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ''.