When Hector turns to face his supposed brother to retrieve another spear he sees no one there.

When David hears of this he sneaks into Saul's camp by night, and thrusts his spear into the ground near where Saul is sleeping.

When attached to the musket or rifle, it effectively turned almost any long gun into a spear or glaive, suitable not only for thrusting but also for slashing.

When he tries to bar the eponymous hero of the opera Siegfried from awakening Brünnhilde from her magic sleep, Siegfried breaks the spear in two and Wotan flees.

" When the spear point was withdrawn, Epaminondas quickly expired.

When the river Amasenus blocked his path, he bound her to a spear and promised Diana that Camilla would be her servant if she would safely transported to the opposite bank.

When Stone Age humans first took a sliver of flint to tip the spear, it was the first example of applying technology to improve the weapon.

When Washizu returns in shock at his deed, Asaji grabs the bloody spear and puts it in the hands of one of the three unconscious guards.

When the tide of the battle was turning in Ali's favor, Muawiyah stalled Ali's troops by raising the Qur ' an on the tip of a bloody spear as a sort of " holy book shield " against attack by Muslims.

When Cao Cao's troops arrived, Zhang Fei stood on the bridge alone, glared and pointed his spear, shouting, " I'm Zhang Yide of Yan.

When Loki had Sif's hair, Freyr's ship Skíðblaðnir and Odin's spear Gungnir fashioned by the Sons of Ivaldi, he bet his own head with Brokkr that his brother Eitri ( Sindri ) wouldn't have been able to make items to match the quality of those mentioned above.

When shooting larger fish, the diver can let go of his gun and play the fish from the float line, giving the fish more room to tire and preventing it from tearing off the spear or dragging the spearfisher under the water.

When fishing with compressors, fishers either use gaffs or harpoons to spear lobsters immediately upon sight, killing or injuring the lobsters before they can be checked for eggs or assessed as legally-sized.

When Largo gets the upper hand by nearly shooting Bond, Domino shoots him in the back with a spear gun.

When used for wrapped bales that are to be stored further, the spear makes a hole in the wrapping that must be sealed with plastic tape to maintain a hermetic seal.

When electricity arrived, the bale spear, pulley and track system were replaced by long motorized bale conveyors known as hay elevators.

When he challenges Cet mac Mágach for the champion's portion, Cet counters that he once emasculated Celtchar with a spear at Celtchar's own house.

When Miyagi arrives, Chozen, Taro, and Toshio attack him, but Miyagi defeats them easily, even as Chozen wields a spear.

When his attempt at propelling himself to the window by means of the spear fails, Buddy simply picks up a piece of a gate and fires the spear-like points of it, as though they were arrows, at the wall of the prison-temple, thereby forming a series of steps up which he can easily walk to reach the girl's holding cell.

When it was considered that the artillery had sufficiently demoralized the enemy, successive charges were delivered from one wing then the other ; the cavalry first fired their matchlocks and arrows then closed with the sword, spear and the mace, fighting was series of skirmishes ending in individual combat.

When using a long spear, a longer bâton percé can also be used, though a short version works as well.

When Captain Atom absorbs the energy from Magog's spear he is propelled forward through time 112 years in the future, where Lord, while long dead, has plunged humanity into a massive metahuman war ruled by OMACs.

When asked how good his spear was, he said that his spear could pierce any shield.

When the Republicans in 1964 gave Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Taft's successor as the conservative leader, their presidential nomination, Dewey declined to even attend the GOP Convention in San Francisco ; it was the first Republican Convention he had missed since 1936.

Hicks later agreed that the model missed important points of Keynesian theory, criticizing it as having very limited use beyond " a classroom gadget ", and criticizing equilibrium methods generally: " When one turns to questions of policy, looking towards the future instead of the past, the use of equilibrium methods is still more suspect.

When riders missed their connection with a steamer in Sacramento, they would continue on to Benicia and cross over to Martinez via the ferry.

When they missed interest payments, BCCI took control of the shares.

When added to the 150 million workdays missed by employees suffering from a cold, the total economic impact of cold-related work loss exceeds $ 20 billion per year.

When the Little Rock, Mississippi River, and Texas Railroad was being built during the years of 1880-1881, it missed Red Bluff by four miles and the citizens moved to the new Town of Redfield which was named for J. E.

When he woke up on April 5 in Fort Jay Hospital on Governor's Island, he had missed his sailing for Europe and was under suspicion of deserting.

When the Northern Union clubs broke away from the RFU to form what is now rugby league, the Morley representatives missed the coach to Huddersfield as they were still in the pub.

When such an opportunity is missed, another target may be selected.

When filming his character's death, a large lamp exploded and rained down in pieces on Warner and Kelley ; one heavy piece barely missed striking Warner's head, which Kelley was sure would have killed him.

When Gadolin analyzed this mineral, he missed an opportunity to discover a second element: what he thought was aluminium ( alumina ) was in fact an element that would not be officially discovered until 1798: beryllium ( beryllia ).

When Gertrude Berg missed a couple of weeks due to illness, stations carrying the popular show were flooded with get-well mail.

When he missed a June 5, 1996, deadline to pay the child support, a Los Angeles judge set a trial date of July 17, at which time Strawberry agreed to use his signing bonus to pay the debt.

When Gurney overslept and missed a driver change in the middle of the night, Foyt was forced to double-stint and wound up driving nearly 18 hours of the 24-hour race.

When he missed the cut by two strokes at the 2007 Masters Tournament, Els ended tour-leading consecutive cut streaks on both the PGA Tour and the European Tour.

5 ) When Karna shot Nagastra on Arjuna, Krishna applied pressure to the chariot by his foot and thus sunk it, as a result of which the astra missed Arjuna's head and hit his crown instead.

When Heraclius launched his offensive in May 636, Yazdegerd could not coordinate with the maneuver — probably owing to the exhausted condition of his government — and what would have been a decisive plan missed the mark.

When Peter returned to the Parker family's motel hideout and stood in front of a window, the assassin took aim at Peter and fired, but missed — shooting Aunt May.

When war was declared, Muggeridge went to Maidstone to join up but was sent away at this point – " My generation felt they'd missed the First War, now was the time to make up.

When De Bont knocked over a camera assistant who had missed a cue, Burgess and his crew left, much to the shock of the cast.

When a junior officer like Browning, who was still only a lieutenant, was awarded the DSO, this was often regarded as an acknowledgement that the officer had only just missed out on the award of the Victoria Cross.

When the seventy-three-year-old Otis died on April 22, 1814, having not missed a single day's work in twenty-five years, senators seemed truly to lament his passing.

A third and final single, " When We Are Together ", was released in November 1999 and narrowly missed the UK Top 10 ( peaking at 12 ).

When Hull City missed out on promotion by one goal the following season, Appleton left to manage Swansea City.