Later, they'd heard the rumble of thunder and then, just outside Rockfork, they ran into rain.

Harnessing a team to a buckboard, they drove out to a willow-lined creek about a half-mile off, then climbed down and began chopping.

From then on, in keeping with the traditions they had followed since childhood, the whole group settled down to relish their food.

With a swift swoop of his big arms, he grabbed Sally out of the circle surrounding him, and then kissed her soundly before setting her down so she could stand by his side while they jointly chose the rest of their `` outfit ''.

He heard their chattering, and then the sounds of hacking as they dismembered the snake right on the porch with wood axes.

`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!

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 ''.

The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.

It is not possible to reconstruct fully the arrangements whereby these honors lists were then made up or even how the names that they contained assumed the order in which we find them.

they found out who they were and what they could do, then within the limits of their talent they did it.

The whole thing, from the moment when they jumped heavily off the trucks, spread out and moved into position just behind the cover of that slight rise of ground and then jumped off, took maybe between twenty and thirty minutes.

It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.

If they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??

`` If they are here, then surely I have the right to be here '', Rousseau said.

In the dim underwater light they dressed and straightened up the room, and then they went across the hall to the kitchen.

He waited until they were inside the elevator and then said: `` Now what do we do ''??

Bobby Joe and two or three of the other boys declared they had never been possum-hunting, and Uncle Bill Farnworth ( from Mama Albright's side of the family ) said he would just get up from there and take them, right then.

It was then that they heard the tread of one descending and, in some perturbation glancing up, saw the patronne coming towards them as they gained the landing.

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.

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.

then he turned to me.

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.