He started toward the stairway, then turned to add, `` Tell her to come to Adams's room, that Adams is in trouble.

It speared up into the air, then sinking back, the up-jutting branch turned slowly.

It was only then that he turned to look at Penny.

The British, although suffering considerable losses, noted the defection of the Marylanders, made a stand, then turned and attacked Morgan who became greatly outnumbered and had to retire.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

He thought about it briefly, then deliberately turned the talk to something else.

then they turned to the right, climbed the embankment, and walked into the valley again.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

She went into the living room and turned on three lamps, then back into the kitchen where she turned on the ceiling light and the switch that lit the floods on the barn, illuminating the driveway.

could piece, as it were, the jumbled mass together into an organized whole and then recognize it as a man or a triangle or whatever it turned out to be.

For the first three weeks, the ship skirted up the east coast of Great Britain, then turned westward.

After finding that its coasts led nowhere, however, he turned north again, toward the main, ice-filled passageway -- and the crew, at first uneasy, then frightened, rebelled.

`` I like to dance '', she said, then turned and walked away.

His signal was coming loud and clear and then all of a sudden it turned to a buzz.

He turned, then, to look toward the lighted Boulevard, and saw Rourke's tall, emaciated figure come out of the lounge and hurriedly start to angle across the street toward the opposite side.

By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.

When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.

He turned his surly, half-closed eyes toward us, stared for a second, then shouted in Yiddish, `` One, two, three ''!!

Phil turned away and opened his locker, and then he heard Mike Deegan say: `` You're yellow, Rossoff ''!!

I had turned at the corner of the field and I had to look back to raise the plow and then to drop it again into the earth, and I was thinking of the boy and the water anyway, and when I looked again down the furrow, the snake was there.

His own hounds then turned upon him and tore him to pieces, not recognizing him.

" He then walked calmly into the courthouse, was threatened with a gun, and turned back, " but without hastening a step ", according to Higginson.

He then came to an agreement with Pharnabazus and once more turned southward.

But he came toward me sedately enough, showed me around the counter, offered me a seat inside his office, then walked to a file cabinet and got out my application.

Mrs. Roebuck very kindly let me drive through Sante Fe to a road which would, she said, lead us to Taos and then Raton and `` eventshahleh '' out of New Mexico.

And then I became aware that she, too, glanced at me surreptitiously.

`` Would you first read the poem aloud to me and then let me read it to myself ''??

The two children, both boys, wandered around the Australian and me for a few moments and then returned to their work.

The maid then told her, `` Because he fired me ''.

He paused for a moment to look at me, then went on to the city desk to deliver his `` Today '' column.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

`` Ah, then please tell me where the frontier is because this gentleman here '' -- I indicated the French occupation officer -- `` informs me that Germany is just on the other side of him ''.

Let me then ( and in public ) glance into the mirror.

She just about made me carry her upstairs and then she clung to me and wouldn't let me go.

Still I didn't think she was twotiming me with Precious right then.

`` I'll have a drink, then, if you'll have one with me ''.

She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.

I asked Quasimodo recently how he accomplished this, and he replied that he had painted his model `` a beautiful shade of red and then had her breathe on the canvas '', which was his typical tongue-in-cheek way of chiding me for my lack of sensitivity.

It then occurred to me to ask, `` Is that what that woman told you ''??

But I wold say I recond he did not mind it for he had a plenty more left and then they would lean to me like a sore eyd kitten to a basin of milk ''.

One young girl told me how her mother removed a wart from her finger by soaking a copper penny in vinegar for three days and then painting the finger with the liquid several times.