A bold line of violet broke loose from the high ridge of the mountains, followed by feathers of red that swept the last stars from the sky.

Two minutes later it came again -- a double explosion, followed by a third, sounding more distant.

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

He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

Blenheim was followed in rapid succession by Ramillies And The Union With Scotland and by The Peace And The Protestant Succession, the three forming together a detailed picture of England under Queen Anne.

The fall of Rome, the discovery of precious metals, and the Protestant Reformation were all links and could only be explained and understood by comprehending the links that preceded and those that followed.

The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.

The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948 was followed immediately by the conclusion of the Brussels Treaty, a 50-year alliance among Britain, France and the Benelux countries.

But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.

In defiance, a chinless reprobate, Jake Camaret, marched down the aisle in St. Peter's one Sunday morning, followed by one of the women from the Bordel, whose dress and walk plainly showed the lack of any shame.

Alex entered first and was followed by the doctor who, for all his care, manifested a perceptible bulge on his left side where the hen was cradled.

With that he hurried up the stairs, followed by her suspicious gaze.

And, if we follow the Rayburn pattern, as consciously or by an instinctual political sense I like to think I have followed it, then the very nature of our loyalty to our own immediate areas must necessarily be reflected in the devotion of our services to our country.

New York led in the number of inquiries, followed by California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.

This resulted in an improved appearance, but was followed by an increase in printing cost that necessitated the institution of major economies to keep within the total of allocated funds.

Therefore, civil defense instructions received over CONELRAD or by other means should be followed.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

During these years the company's product line followed the basic tenets laid down by Mr. Brown.

Mr. Claude is a specialist in torso development and he has long favored the now-famous Weider Push-Pull Super-Set technique in which one exercise of the Super-Set is a pressing or `` pushing '' movement which accents one sector of a muscle group in a specific way, followed by a `` pulling '' exercise which works the opposing sector of the same muscle group.

It doesn't really matter which month of the year you sow them, but they germinate best when they have a wide variation of temperature, very warm followed by cool in the same 24 hours.

The following EP was called He's Turning Blue, followed by the albums Strange Old Brew and Morbid Fascination of Death-these were both recorded at the same time and were produced by Terje Refsnes at Sound Suite studio in Sandnes.

Liu Bang followed Xiao He's suggestion and ordered his men to send letters on arrows fired into the city, urging his townsfolk to surrender and help him.

His first cartoon voice work was in a Warner Brothers cartoon called For He's a Jolly Good Fala, which was recorded but never filmed ( due to the death of Fala's owner, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ), followed by Roughly Squeaking ( 1946 ) as Bertie ; and in 1947, he was heard in It's a Grand Old Nag ( Charlie Horse ), produced and directed by Bob Clampett for Republic Pictures ; The Goofy Gophers ( Tosh ), and One Meat Brawl ( Grover Groundhog and Walter Winchell ).

Nash's departure saw The Hollies again turn to outside writers for their single A-sides, but the group's British chart fortunes rallied during 1969 and 1970 and they scored four consecutive UK Top 20 hits ( including two consecutive Top 5 placings ) in this period, beginning with the Geoff Stephens / Tony Macaulay song, " Sorry Suzanne " ( Feb. 1969 ), which reached No. 3 in the UK, followed by the emotional civil rights – themed ballad " He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother ", which featured the piano playing of Elton John, and which reached No. 3 in October 1969.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, " For He's a Jolly Good Fellow " is the second-most popular song in the English language, following " Happy Birthday to You " and followed by " Auld Lang Syne.

This was followed by performances in 1982's Todo un Hombre ( He's all a Man ), 1999's A Paradise Under the Stars and 2003's El Tahur.

Many scholars see the persistence of Germanic Arianism as a strategy that was followed in order to differentiate the Germanic elite from the local inhabitants and their culture and also to maintain the Germanic elite's separate group identity.

This announcement followed a five-year standardization process in which fifteen competing designs were presented and evaluated, before the Rijndael cipher was selected as the most suitable ( see Advanced Encryption Standard process for more details ).

The expressway routes in Croatia usually correspond to a state road ( see below ) and are marked a " D " followed by a number.

The Baltimore Suns Linda White recalled, " I followed the adventures of Winnie Winkle, Moon Mullins and Dondi, and waited each fall to see how Lucy would manage to trick Charlie Brown into trying to kick that football.

Chambers, in 1728, followed the earlier lead of John Harris's Lexicon Technicum of 1704 and later editions ( see also below ); this work was by its title and content " A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves ".

The older Cronquist system only included four families ( Betulaceae, Corylaceae, Fagaceae, Ticodendraceae ; Corylaceae now being included within Betulaceae ); this arrangement is followed by, for example, the World checklist of selected plant families ( see external link below ).

In 1910, in Vitagraph's Back to Nature we see a Long Shot of people looking down over the rail of a ship taken from below, followed by a shot of the lifeboat they are looking at taken from their position.

But Douglass also asked, " Can any colored man, or any white man friendly to the freedom of all men, ever forget the night which followed the first day of January 1863, when the world was to see if Abraham Lincoln would prove to be as good as his word?

Historically, several number bases have been used for representing floating-point numbers, with base 2 ( binary ) being the most common, followed by base 10 ( decimal ), and other less common varieties, such as base 16 ( hexadecimal notation ), as well as some exotic ones like 3 ( see Setun ).

The book describes its own structure around ten " toledot " sections ( the " these are the generations of ..." phrases ), but many modern commentators see it in terms of a " primeval history " ( chapters 1 – 11 ) followed by the cycle of Patriarchal stories ( chapters 12 – 50 ).

In parts of Scotland and Ireland, Catholics loyal to James remained determined to see him restored to the throne, and there followed a series of bloody though unsuccessful uprisings.

They were followed by Rohingya Muslim refugees from western Burma ( for more information, see Burmese people in Pakistan ), and Asian refugees from Uganda.

He was much affected in his early political development by the events of the unsuccessful Workers ’ Revolution in Bavaria that followed the collapse of the German monarchy at the end of World War I ( see Bavarian Soviet Republic ), and he remained an idealistic socialist all his life.

Hollywood films followed the same trend set by audiences who flocked to Harlem to see edgy shows that suggested bisexuality.

Aside from some craters near the lunar poles such as Shoemaker, all parts of the Moon see around 14. 77 days of sunlight followed by 14. 77 days of " night " ( there is no permanently " dark side " of the Moon ).

The Pope's signature is followed, in bulls of canonization, by those of all the cardinals resident in Rome, and in decrees of ecumenical councils, by the signatures of the other bishops participating in the council, each signing as Bishop of a particular see.

They also see that party and state policy guidance is followed and that non-party members do not create autonomous organizations that could challenge party rule.

The early Russian type ( known as " The Helmet of Yaroslav Mudry ") was also used by cavalry, which had used the spike as a holder for a horsehair plume in full dress, a practice also followed with some Prussian models ( see below ).

Since the standardization of PC-compatible computers and Windows after the 1980s, most full-sized computer keyboards have followed this standard ( see drawing at right ).

* acute accents ( e. g. á ) on a, e, i, o, u, w, y, A, E, I, O, U, W, Y are generated by pressing the AltGr key together with the letter, or AltGr and apostrophe, followed by the letter ( see note below );

Palestrina, on the other hand, came to cultivate a freely flowing style of counterpoint in a thick, rich texture within which consonance followed dissonance on a nearly beat-by-beat basis, and suspensions ruled the day ( see counterpoint ).

Her son would return at times to see his father, who later moved to join them around 1910. Divorce followed and Julia deserted the family to live in France.

It is often served with mustard and followed by thin pancakes ( see pannkakor ).

It is widely accepted that Copernicus's De revolutionibus followed the outline and method set by Ptolemy in his Almagest and employed geometrical constructions that had been developed previously by the Maragheh school in his heliocentric model, and that Galileo's mathematical treatment of acceleration and his concept of impetus rejected earlier medieval analyses of motion, rejecting by name ; Averroes, Avempace, Jean Buridan, and John Philoponus ( see Theory of impetus ).

This is followed by rules of clean and unclean ( Leviticus 11 – 15 ), which includes the laws of slaughter and animals permissible to eat ( see also: Kashrut ), the Day of Atonement ( Leviticus 16 ), and various moral and ritual laws sometimes called the Holiness Code ( Leviticus 17 – 26 ).