He would pick up the ringing phone with studied negligence, then bark into it with gruff importance.

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.

The finished -- and drastically cut -- product would begin with a hazy longshot of Joyce entering the suds, then bursting above the pool's surface clad in layers of lavender lather, and I had a hunch this item was going to sell tons and tons of soap ; ;

She'd driven around for a while, Joyce said, then, thinking Louis Thor would have calmed down by that time, she'd gone back to his home on Bryn Mawr Drive, parked in front, and walked toward the pool.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

The distracted Miriam would agree to a settlement through her legal representative, then change her mind and make another attack on Wright as a person.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.

Lewis, at the head of the table, would leap up and move around behind the chairs of his guests making remarks that, when not highly offensive, were at least highly inappropriate, and then presently he collapsed and was put to bed.

Without the good magazines, without their book reviews, their hospitality to European writers, without above all their awareness of literary standards, we might very well have had a generation of Krim's heroes -- Wolfes, Farrells, Dreisers, and I might add, Sandburgs and Frosts and MacLeishes in verse -- and then where would we be??

`` We would see it that way, but it was glorious then.

One additional lane would then be directional with the traffic burden and effectively increase the traffic carrying capability of the East River Drive by fifty percent.

Here, then, is what Swift would have called a modest proposal by way of a beginning.

The heavy branches in his front yard would hide and then reveal them.

Rachel came close to the bed, bent as if she would kiss him, then moved away.

Scotty would hear the front door in the evening and then his father's deep slow voice ; ;

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.

He would consign the cash box into the hands of Jed Hawksworth, then stand by while his employer checked the contents and the list of items sold.

Now and then he would disappear for several days.

If he failed to reach the riverbank in five minutes, say, then the skiffs would pull away and leave him groping in the mud.

If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.

Supposing that the premises are both true ( the dog will bark if it detects an intruder, and does indeed not bark ), it follows then that no intruder has been detected.

At the beginning of the spring thaw, they used stone tools to make V-shaped incisions in tree trunks ; they then inserted reeds or concave pieces of bark to run the sap into buckets, which were often made from birch bark.

Prior to 1820, the bark was first dried, ground to a fine powder, and then mixed into a liquid ( commonly wine ) which was then drunk.

The bark is dried, shredded, and then boiled making a bitter or sour-tasting brownish-colored tea.

* Birch bark can be soaked until moist in water, and then formed into a cast for a broken arm .< ref >

* In the novel by E. M. Forster and later the film, Howards End, Mrs. Ruth Wilcox ( Vanessa Redgrave ) tells of her childhood home, where superstitious farmers would place pigs ' teeth in the bark of the chestnut trees and then chew on this bark to ease toothaches.

A sunken canker then forms as the mycelial fan spreads under the bark.

Red mangroves, which can survive in the most inundated areas, prop themselves above the water level with stilt roots and can then absorb air through pores in their bark ( lenticels ).

Adonis was then born when Theias shot an arrow into the tree or when a boar used its tusks to tear the tree's bark off.

The active extract of the bark, called salicin, was isolated to its crystalline form in 1828 by Henri Leroux, a French pharmacist, and Raffaele Piria, an Italian chemist, who then succeeded in separating out the compound in its pure state.

The unit then categorizes the bark into one of six distinct dog emotions ( happy, sad, frustrated, on-guard, assertive, needy ) and displays the corresponding emotion on the screen.

Four to eight young are born, sometimes as many as 12 in southern populations ; the young spend six weeks in the backward-facing pouch, and then about as long again hidden in a grassy nest under bark or other vegetation while the mother forages each night.

It is flammable only when heated to liquid, then the fumes will light, not the liquid itself, so a wick material like leaves, bark, or small twigs is needed to light petroleum jelly.

They would peel off the bark, bite the twig and then scrub their teeth.

The cup has four layers: coarse twigs ( and sometimes bits of trash ) covered in a leafy mat, then lined with grapevine bark and finally grasses, stems, rootlets, and pine needles.

The bark can then be dried and stored, or used immediately.

The scraped bark strips are then cooked for two or three hours in a mixture of water and soda ash.

Each bark strip is then inspected by hand, against a white background or lit from behind by a lightbox.

It was boiled in great caldrons, together with tar, tallow and oak bark, the last ingredient giving the name of barking yards to the places where the hot mixture was painted on to the sails, which were then hung up to dry.