The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

He was dead before he hit the ground.

It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

The wound in his scalp was examined, pronounced healing, and well doctored with simples, before they dished up the victuals.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

Whoever was out there hiding in the brushy cover was besieging the Antler house and, having spotted his approach, was determined to drive him off before he could get into the fight.

Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.

It was only a fifteen-minute flight, but before it was through Greg felt himself developing a case of claustrophobia.

One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

The keys were still in it, and I was miles away before I remembered that my clothes and purse and everything were still in the little cabana where I'd changed ''.

Now, he was just in the late poems of Holderlin and therefore had most of the nineteenth century before him -- plus next semester's class preparation.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.

I came up maybe fifty feet before I knew what was happening ''.

He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.

In the " before " daytime shot, they are about to enter a nude wrestling emporium ; in the " after " nighttime shot on the other side of the sleeve, they appear beaten and sprawled out on the street, having been thrown out of the club.

Bunyan presents a decrepit and harmless giant to confront Christian at the end of the Valley of the Shadow of Death that is explicitly named " Pope ": Now I saw in my Dream, that at the end of this Valley lay blood, bones, ashes, and mangled bodies of men, even of Pilgrims that had gone this way formerly: And while I was musing what should be the reason, I espied a little before me a Cave, where two Giants, Pope and Pagan, dwelt in old times, by whose Power and Tyranny the Men whose bones, blood ashes, & c. lay there, were cruelly put to death.

Archy wins, but his feet are horribly mangled, only a few days before an athletics carnival.

After an expert examined autopsy photos and noted what he thought might be the imprint of a belt buckle on Byers ' corpse, the elder Byers revealed to the police that he had spanked his stepson shortly before the boy disappeared.

Dressing himself in Posthumus's clothes, he determines to go to Wales and kill Posthumus while Imogen looks on, after which he will rape her on Posthumus's corpse before dragging her back to court for marriage.

He explains in detail on how to examine a corpse both before and after burial.

If they arrive at the corpse before any fly eggs hatch into maggots, the first eggs are eaten and maggot development is delayed.

According to Errol Flynn's memoirs, film director Raoul Walsh " borrowed " Barrymore's body before burial, and left his corpse propped in a chair for a drunken Flynn to discover when he returned home from The Cock and Bull Bar.

Finnegan's wife Annie puts out his corpse as a meal spread for the mourners at his wake, but he vanishes before they can eat him.

On the seventh night after the event, with lightning, throwing sparks, the corpse of her husband stood before the woman who dropped dead of fright.

Rudolf Kühnapfel, assassin of Andreas Stanislaus von Hatten, the Bishop of Warmia, was sentenced to be executed in this manner, though he was killed by strangulation before his corpse was broken on the wheel.

His corpse was found to be stiff from rigor mortis before being buried in a sitting position in a New Jersey dump near the Earle Naval Ammunition Depot.

She takes photos and preserves some evidence, but the corpse is washed away before she can fetch help.

Legend has it that at the time of his death, Kiyomori's fever was so high that anyone who attempted to even get near him would be burned by the heat & his corpse had to be left to cool for several hours before it could be removed.

It was noted as being a rare opportunity to see the play on its own and was well received – particularly for its staging of the conclusion, in which Henry's corpse remained onstage, doused in a steady rain of blood, throughout Edward IV's final scene, after which a naked and feral Richard bolts onstage and delivers the opening lines of Richard III, before literally eating the throne.

The story's name is taken from a line in the Frank O ' Hara's poem " Ode to Necrophilia ", and was inspired by a newspaper article Gowdy read about a young California woman who hijacked a hearse on its way to a funeral, took the corpse of the young man inside the coffin to a motel room and had sex with it for several days before being caught by the police.

In classic European folklore, it was believed that one method to " kill " a vampire, or prevent a corpse from rising as a vampire, was to drive a wooden stake through the heart before interment.

Various works of fantasy fiction, such as Clark Ashton Smith's " Empire of the Necromancers ", had used lich as a general term for any corpse, animated or inanimate, before the term's specific use in fantasy role-playing games.

In Roman Catholicism and the Church of England, the word " lychgate " refers to a covered area at the entrance to the cemetery where the casket awaits the clergy before proceeding into the cemetery for proper burial, lych being a word derived from Old English lic meaning " body " or " corpse ".

Herodotus adds that he suffered much misfortune: his only daughter, whose corpse was interred in a wooden bull ( which Herodotus claims survived to his lifetime ), died before him ; additionally, the oracle at Buto predicted he would only rule six years, but through his shrewdness, Menkaure was able to rule a total of 12 years and foil the prophecy ( Herodotus, Histories, 2. 129-133 ).

His elaborate and colourful tomb, built many years before his death, depicts his naked corpse on the lower level, whilst on the upper level he is depicted resplendent in archiepiscopal vesture, his palms together in prayer.

In July 2007 an Austrian mountaineering team climbed Broad Peak with the aim of retrieving the corpse of Markus Kronthaler, who had died on the mountain one year before, from over 8, 000 metres.

Zhao Yun then pushed the well over to cover up Lady Mi's corpse for fear of desecration by the enemy, before securing Liu Shan to his chest.

He perished there and his dog stood at his side for three months before his corpse was found.

Upon separating the corpse from the ring, he collects Ted's remains before the ring can reanimate them and takes them into the Time Sphere to Vanishing Point Fortress to lay them to rest there, and is somewhat relieved when Skeets uses the Fortress's special chronal surveillance equipment to display images of the days of Team Blue and Gold.

The press also reported that " witnesses heard two shots ...." before finding the corpse.

He discovers that a group of doctors have been gunned down and Barillo has bled to death as a result of a botched facial reconstruction, but realizes that the corpse on the operating table is a body double before he is knocked out and kidnapped by the real Barillo and Ajedrez, who reveals herself to be Barillo's daughter.