He then draped him over the rough stand, explained that he was supposed to be recently dead, and was being held on his mother's lap.

The posse then asked that he send out the women and children as the building would be fired or torn down over his head if necessary to take him dead or alive.

the fire of love is dead, and Hardy stands, as the speaker does in the last poem of the sequence, over the burnt circle of charred sticks, and thinks of past happiness and present grief, honest and uncomforted.

They overran the 7th Cav's forward machine-gun positions through sheer weight of numbers, over piles of their own dead.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

Night after night he stayed with Gunny in the dead of winter, rubbing her with quarts of expensive liniment, fussing over her bran mash as the cook did over charlotte russe, tracking manure on the pretty new carpet when he did come to the house.

Also, supporters of this view would characterize Luke ’ s portrayal of the Roman Empire as positive because they believe Luke “ glosses over negative aspects of the empire and presents imperial power positively .” For example, when Paul is before the council defending himself, Paul says that he is “ on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead ” ( Acts 23: 6 ).

* 1818 – In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement – led by Bernardo O ' Higgins and José de San Martín – win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2, 000 Spaniards and 1, 000 Chilean patriots dead.

Spectators are generally able to watch the rest of the round from multiple selectable views, although some servers disable some of these views to prevent dead players from relaying information about living players to their teammates through alternative media ( most notably voice in the case of Internet cafes and Voice over IP programs such as TeamSpeak or Ventrilo ).

Because of the immediacy of the information, historians tend to value live chronicles, such as annals, over dead ones.

Once Chuck Peddle had taken over engineering at Commodore, he convinced Jack Tramiel that calculators were already a dead end and that they should turn their attention to home computers.

In the O / U configuration with a parallel rib, both barrels ' discharges will keep to the dead center, but the discharge from the " under " barrel will shoot higher than the discharge from the " over " barrel after 40 yards.

Thorolf, for example, caused birds that flew over his howe to drop dead.

Christian's death depressed him and he was plagued by suicidal thoughts: " I live with the dead — my mother, my sister, my grandfather, my father … Kill yourself and then it's over.

According to the Books of Kings, Elijah defended the worship of Yahweh over that of the Phoenician god Baal ; he raised the dead, brought fire down from the sky, and was taken up in a whirlwind ( either accompanied by a chariot and horses of flame or riding in it ).

Neither was heard of for over two months: at which point, in mid-July, Eleanor's ship finally reached Palermo in Sicily, where she discovered that she and her husband had both been given up for dead.

Once a play is over, and before the next play starts, the football is considered dead.

Sikhs do not erect monuments over the remains of the dead.

It was the most damaging storm in the history of the United States, causing upwards of $ 80 billion in damages, and leaving over 1, 800 dead.

After docking with their Agena booster in low orbit, Young and Collins used it to climb another 763. 8 kilometers to meet with the dead, drifting Agena left over from the aborted Gemini 8 flight — thus executing the program's first double rendezvous.

" Yates then told Brooks that, " Country singers always seem to be weeping over the dead dog and things ," and also remarked, " I thought you'd come in here and twiddle your pistol around and be impressed.

While outside aid or even troops can be helpful, lack of clear limits, in terms of either a realistic plan for victory or exit strategy, may find the foreign helper " taking over " the local war, and being sucked into a lengthy commitment, thus providing the guerrillas with valuable propaganda opportunities as the toll of dead foreigners mounts.

Lamia was cursed with the inability to close her eyes so that she would always obsess over the image of her dead children.

In Norse mythology, Hel is a being who presides over a realm of the same name, where she receives a portion of the dead.

* 418 BC: The Spartans win a major victory over the Athenians in the Battle of Mantinea, the biggest land battle of the Peloponnesian War.

They are, however, mentioned on several occasions as furnishing auxiliaries to the Syracusans ; and it was at Selinunte that the large Peloponnesian force sent to the support of Gylippus landed in the spring of 413 BCE, having been driven over to the coast of Africa by a tempest.

The following year, he was able to force the Athenians to capitulate, bringing the Peloponnesian War to an end ; he organized the dominion of Sparta over Greece in the last decade of his life.

Except for a brief appearance at Aegospotami, Alcibiades ' involvement in the Peloponnesian War is over.

394 BC ) was an Athenian general at the end of the Peloponnesian War, who presided over the crucial Athenian naval defeat at Battle of Aegospotami ; later he contributed significantly to the restoration of the political and military power.

So some of the main results of the Peloponnesian War had been undone-Athens regained her position as a major power in Greece, and though she had still lost her empire, Sparta had been prevented from taking it over.

* Athens, the leader of the Delian League, comes into conflict with Corinth and its ally Sparta ( leader of the Peloponnesian League ) over Megara.

Theban victory shattered Sparta ’ s immense influence over the Greek peninsula which Sparta had gained since its victory in the Peloponnesian War.

However, Corinth and Corcyra, each with a claim to be " mother city " ( metropolis ), quarreled over the city, helping to precipitate the Peloponnesian War in 431 BC as one of the most significant battles took place on Epidamnos ' seaside.

The porch was built to conceal the giant 15-ft beam needed to support the southwest corner over the metropolis, after the building was drastically reduced in size and budget following the onset of the Peloponnesian war.

That attempt, largely orchestrated by the Athenian nobleman Alcibiades, would have destroyed Sparta's control over the Peloponnesian League had it succeeded.

There was no direct fighting between the Greeks and the Persians after 450, but Persia continued to meddle in Greek affairs over the next twenty years, and was to become instrumental in securing a Spartan victory in the Peloponnesian War.

Although it had won a hegemony over the Greek city-states from its leadership in the Persian Wars, the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League feared the growing power of the Athenian empire and worsened relations by repeated diplomatic affronts and demands.

In 457 Athens, the leader of the Delian League, came into conflict with Corinth and their ally Sparta ( leader of the Peloponnesian League ) over Megara ; two months prior to the Battle of Oenophyta, the Athenians were defeated at the Battle of Tanagra by Sparta, but Sparta had lost so many men that they could not take advantage of their victory.

The naval Battle of Pylos took place in 425 BC during the Peloponnesian War at the peninsula of Pylos, on the Bay of Navarino in Messenia, and was an Athenian victory over Sparta.

After the Battle of Pylos, which resulted in the isolation of over 400 Spartan soldiers on the island of Sphacteria, Sparta sued for peace, and, after arranging an armistice at Pylos by surrendering the ships of the Peloponnesian fleet as security, sent an embassy to Athens to negotiate a settlement.

When the Peloponnesian fleet began moving along the south shore of the Corinthian gulf, however, aiming to cross over to Acarnania, the Athenians followed along the north shore and attacked them once they passed out of the Gulf into the open sea and attempted to cross from the south to the north.

Once there, he won over several major states to the Athenian side and placed a duty on ships sailing past Byzantium, restoring a source of revenue that the Athenians had relied on in the late Peloponnesian War.

Critias, an Athenian sophist and politician, was the leader of the Thirty Tyrants who after the Peloponnesian War ruled for a short while over Athens circa 404 BCE.

When, in 411 BC, Thasos revolted again during the Peloponnesian War, a Spartan governor assumed power on the island, suggesting the Thasians, rather than suing for peace, prevailed over Athens.

The Theban Hegemony lasted from the Theban victory over the Spartans at Leuctra in 371 BC to their defeat of a coalition of Peloponnesian armies at Mantinea in 362 BC, though Thebes sought to maintain its position until finally eclipsed by the rising power of Macedon in 346 BC.