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evening and was
Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.
My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.
As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.
It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.
One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.
It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.
When a lady chanced to soil a pair of evening slippers, Brigadier Bauer was dispatched to Paris for replacements.
On the evening that they were to sail, Lewis himself gave a party, but he was too indisposed to appear at it.
Then he kept Blackman awake for more than an hour while he did an imaginary dialogue between his wife and himself in which, discussing the evening, he was continually berated.
The evening was not always spent in the same way.
It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times.
By odd coincidence, on the evening of her return Shelley chose to read Parisina, which was the latest of the titled poet's successes.
`` You know what she likes, Winston '', he had said wearily, one evening in November when Winston was pulling off his overshoes.
Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.
Recently I was struck anew by the divergent approaches, when in the course of one afternoon and evening I listened to no fewer than ten different performances.
and, although he later explained that he was talking French, it seems rather more likely that he had succumbed to the joys of the evening.
Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.
Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.
Because Don was leaving the next day, I spent the evening with him at Asia Center.
Miss Betsy Parker was one of the speakers on the panel of the Eastern Women's Liberal Arts College panel on Wednesday evening in the Security Life Bldg..

evening and still
As evening approached and Palmer finished his Saturday round with a disappointing one-over-par 73, this remarkable record was still intact, thanks to his Thursday and Friday rounds of 68 and 69.
The Roman Breviary has undergone several revisions: The most remarkable of these is that by Francis Quignonez, cardinal of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ( 1536 ), which, though not accepted by Rome ( it was approved by Clement VII and Paul III, and permitted as a substitute for the unrevised Breviary, until Pius V in 1568 excluded it as too short and too modern, and issued a reformed edition ( Breviarium Pianum, Pian Breviary ) of the old Breviary ), formed the model for the still more thorough reform made in 1549 by the Church of England, whose daily morning and evening services are but a condensation and simplification of the Breviary offices.
By performance time that evening, the city was still in the grip of the storm.
This led to a further decline in his output around 1762, however, he was still capable of composing music of highest quality, and continued to write until his death on the evening of 25 June 1767.
A resurrection of the Inklings in Oxford was made in 2006 ; the group still meets every Sunday evening, currently at St Cross College nearby the Eagle and Child.
The prisoner's reasoning, which gives rise to the paradox, is able to get off the ground because the prisoner tacitly assumes that on Monday evening, he will ( if he is still alive ) know S1, S2, and S3 to be true.
Curiously, in opposition to the trend seen in evening dress, the less formal stroller is now extraordinarily rare, whereas morning dress is still relatively common.
The curfew bell in the bell tower ( near the clock in the picture ), still sounds at 8. 00pm each evening.
It hunts usually either early in the morning or later in the evening when it is not so hot, but there is still enough light.
Bereft of his carrier air cover, Turner decided to withdraw his remaining naval forces by the evening of August 9 and in so doing left the Marines ashore without much of the heavy equipment, provisions and troops still aboard the transports.
In Montparnasse's heyday ( from 1910 to 1920 ), the cafés Le Dôme, La Closerie des Lilas, La Rotonde, Le Select, and La Coupole — all of which are still in business — were the places where starving artists could occupy a table all evening for a few centimes.
That evening, on December 12, 1937, Tang Shengzhi escaped from the city through the Yijiang Gate on the northern side of the city walls, the only gate that was still available as an escape route, without officially announcing to the Japanese military authorities any intention of surrendering the city.
According to reports, Avid's Media Composer is still the most used NLE on prime-time TV productions, being employed on up to 90 percent of evening broadcast shows.
The ( lighter ) meal following dinner has traditionally been referred to as supper or tea, though middle-and northern-English people still often refer to a large evening meal as tea.
" The French daily evening newspaper Le Monde reported that Banza was killed in circumstances " so revolting that it still makes one's flesh creep ":
Later that evening, as he leads the nuns in singing " Amen " once again, Smith slips out the door and, still singing the lead, the nuns ' voices chiming softly behind him, he takes one last look at the chapel he built.
On the evening of January 29, 1889, an unknown assailant shot through the window to the room he was staying in at a local boarding house ( still standing at 101 N. Springfield St .) and killed him instantly.
By the evening of the day after the 2008 sinkhole formed, its growth had stabilized, but officials still saw it as a potential risk to the safety of city residents.
By evening, both armies were still on the field of battle.
For all that, in June 1961 Bray still decided to move and despite his recent marriage “ lmost every day went round, often spending a good part of the day or a large part of the evening there .” “ Oddly enough, this side of his life was well known about in Paris … natural reserve and well-developed sense of decorum were allied to his fear of giving offence to Suzanne .” Anthony Cronin notes that strangely – or perhaps not so strangely – during this time he was often to be found talking “ fervently and seriously about suicide .” Despite his unwillingness to do much about it he was clearly suffering badly from guilt.
The ceremony was prohibited by occupying German forces during the Second World War, but it was resumed on the very evening of liberation – 6 September 1944 – notwithstanding the heavy fighting that still went on in other parts of the town.
: Whether the sun shines, whether it rains, storms or snows, By day and night, evening or morn, How homely you still sound, The Upper Harz language, O Andreasberg how beautiful you are.
Capes are still authorized as an alternative to the more utilitarian trench coat for U. S. Army officers in mess dress, formal evening uniform.
Many churches still ring their church bells and hold prayers in the evening before holidays ; for example the Nordic Lutheran churches.

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