When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

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

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.

When the first sprinkling of green appears I remove the board.

When solving an equation that involves division as well as other steps, do all the division steps first to reduce those parts of the equation to their numerical value.

When you first acquire a pool, we earnestly recommend -- for your own mental health -- a good long chat with your insurance agent.

When these groups were first formed many prominent and accomplished decorators could not have had the advantage of school training since interior design courses were rare and undeveloped during their youth.

When it comes to rate of early growth, the Indian python leads with a figure of about 3 feet 6 inches per year for the first two years, more or less.

When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( Af ), the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments, and very little in others.

When we examine what each master says was his first collage we see that much the same thing happens in each.

When the chance came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day.

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.

When the husband drops the case and returns to his wife, both seem sorry they brought the matter up in the first place.

When he at last did go to his room, he couldn't sleep and instead paced up and down before his little image of Acala, thinking first of Charlotte's tale of the man at Ryusenji, then of his biwa and the invisible Pacific waters.

When first informed he disbelieved the crow and turned all crows black ( where they were previously white ) as a punishment for spreading untruths.

When they were first occupied, the present-day islands including Milos with its important obsidian production were probably still connected to the mainland.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

When he was in a bad mood, he struck the ground with a trident, causing earthquakes and other calamities.

When Kashima lets his guard fall, Namazu thrashes about, causing violent earthquakes.

When offended or ignored, he supposedly struck the ground with his trident and caused chaotic springs, earthquakes, drownings and shipwrecks.

Family life had also increased in importance to Garfield, who said to his wife in 1871, " When you are ill, I am like the inhabitants of a country visited by earthquakes.

When the basin is full, Sigyn must empty it, and during that time the snake venom falls on to Loki's face, causing him to writhe in a tremendous fury, so much so that all earthquakes stem from Loki's writhings.

When the palace was destroyed by earthquakes, the re-builders constructed a New Palace atop the old.

When epicenters of modern earthquakes are plotted on a map, three trends become apparent.

When Krypton began experiencing a series of earthquakes, Jor-El investigated.

When Kashima lets his guard fall, Namazu thrashes about, causing violent earthquakes.

When epicenters of modern earthquakes are plotted on a map, three trends become apparent.

When the stored energy is suddenly released by slippage across the fault at irregular intervals, the Cascadia subduction zone can create very large earthquakes, such as the magnitude 9. 0 Cascadia earthquake on January 26, 1700.

When earthquakes ravage their kingdom, he and his twin sister, Gwyn, set out to discover the origin of the tremors.

February 1600: When construction was almost finished, the violent eruption of the Huaynaputina stratovolcano ( also known as Quinistaquillas or Omate ), together with several earthquakes and a rain of ash, destroyed part of the structure.

When he walked, he created earthquakes.

When Sarjenka reports that there are frequent earthquakes on her planet, Data decides to report this to Captain Picard, hoping they would be able to find a way to save her planet.

When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.

When the Æsir exclaimed that they were ready, Fenrir shook himself, knocked the fetter to ground, strained hard, and kicking with his feet, snapped the fetter – breaking it into pieces that flew far into the distance.

When Florence shook off the papal yoke in 1527, Alamanni returned, and took a prominent part in the management of the affairs of the republic.

When Ichadon was executed on the 15th day of the 9th month in 527, his prophecy was fulfilled ; the earth shook, the sun was darkened, beautiful flowers rained from the sky, his severed head flew to the sacred Geumgang mountains, and milk instead of blood sprayed 100 feet in the air from his beheaded corpse.

When Ichadon was executed on the 15th day of the 9th month in 527, his prophecy was fulfilled ; the earth shook, the sun was darkened, beautiful flowers rained from the sky, his severed head flew to the sacred Geumgang mountains, and milk instead of blood sprayed 100 feet in the air from his beheaded corpse.

When a ship was lost at sea, Ka-moho-alii shook his tail in front of the fleet and the kahuna would feed him " awa " ( a name for kava, a narcotic drink ), and Ka-moho-alii would guide the men home.

Renowned historian Stephen Ambrose writes of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in Undaunted Courage, " When they shook hands Clarksville, the Lewis and Clark Expedition began.

When the sisters burst upon the music scene in the late 1930s, they shook a very solid musical foundation: producing a slick harmonic blend by singing at the top of their lungs while trying-successfully-to emulate the blare of three harmonizing trumpets, with a full big band racing behind them.

When I told them that I and most of my best friends were Freemasons, and that England owed a great deal to its loyal Jews, they stared at me askance and sadly shook their heads in fear for England's credulity in trusting the chosen race.

When called, he marched into the room, scowled, and shook the interviewer's hand sharply.

When the simurgh took flight, the leaves of the tree of life shook making all the seeds of every plant to fall out.

When Charles de Gaulle visited the region, he got into a spirited argument with Starr and threatened to imprison him, until de Gaulle apparent changed his mind and shook Starr's hand.

When NYIT, with Schure as a director, produced a 2D feature known as Tubby the Tuba, the film did very poorly and shook their confidence in their ability to produce a film that would succeed critically or financially.

When Philomena Goins Doctor found out what her son had done, she became enraged and threatened to disown him, shook him, then slapped him.

When Slash finished the song, then strummed the beginning of " Knockin ' on Heaven's Door ," Duff walked over to Axl and shook his hand as an act of appreciation.

When lapping his compatriot Magdziarczyk the two shook hands in a gesture that told it all.

When Weidling finished, Hitler shook his head and said: " Your proposal is perfectly all right.

When Hercules had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.

When a shook up, crying Donna told him she wanted to be with him again, he refused, believing that she did not really want him for who he was but simply wanted a way to feel better about herself and would most likely dump him when someone better came along.

When the blast that ripped her husband to shreds shook Nicholas's palace and rattled the windows, the Grand Duchess rushed to the scene of the explosion.

' When this had been drunk and a convivial conversation concluded, the Colonel and his new friend rose, shook hands and went their separate ways.

When Hiranuma assumed his position, the German-Soviet non-aggression Pact of August 23, 1939 shook the basis of Japanese diplomacy.