the halls were empty and they passed down the stairs to number nine and listened at the door.

An eyewitness recalled how awkward the red-turbaned colored women appeared as they curtseyed in the church doorway, and the diffidence the former slaves displayed while they listened to the few words that declared them free.

And the bed that sagged in a certain place where all the weight had been put too many times before and the walls fine and thin for overhearing talk in the next room when Gratt went out for ice, the sound coming through the walls like something on the other side of the curtain, so you knew they heard you when they were quiet and while you lay wondering what they had heard you listened.

O ' Higgins and Freire listened to it with respect and full of emotion, for they had marched to victory to its tune more than once.

After the collapse of the First Empire in 1815, the French public lost the rights and privileges earned since the Revolution, but they remembered the participatory politics that characterized the period, with one historian commenting: " Thousands of men and even many women gained firsthand experience in the political arena: they talked, read, and listened in new ways ; they voted ; they joined new organizations ; and they marched for their political goals.

Significantly, he values him only for his superstitious and astrological writings ; his scientific writings are dismissed because they contradict Aristotle, but excused on the ground that the author of the astrological works deserves to be listened to even when he is wrong.

Other artists they listened to included XTC, Gang of Four and Elvis Costello.

Record executives were stunned when they listened to the album.

Prof. Gernot Rotter, professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at the Asia-Africa Institute at the University of Hamburg said " The American translators who listened to the tapes and transcribed them apparently wrote a lot of things in that they wanted to hear but that cannot be heard on the tape no matter how many times you listen to it.

They only say that out of ignorance because they haven't listened to anything we've done for the last 15 bloody years.

Having listened to the rioters ' grievances, Kett decided to join their cause and helped them tear down his own fences before taking them back to Hethersett where they destroyed Flowerdew's enclosures. Kett's Oak, beside the B1172, near Hethersett, Norfolk The following day, Tuesday 9 July, the protesters set off for Norwich.

Neither was well received ; drummer Art Tripp recalled that when he and the original Magic Band listened to Unconditionally Guaranteed, they " were horrified.

One of the features of many teen idols is that their fans ( and, in some cases, the musicians themselves ) tend to develop a distaste for the music once they become adults, and it is not much listened to by adults, except for nostalgia: the legacy of bubblegum pop.

But I listened to my parents ' radio whenever they turned it on.

" " If they thought they'd listened to a self-esteem tape ( even though half the labels were wrong ), they felt that their self-esteem had gone up.

" They quickly realized that they enjoyed similar music, and even listened to the same jazz radio stations ; not long after, they began writing songs together.

Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.

As they were riding along this winding road on the bench of land between the two bluffs, a volley of rifle fire suddenly crashed around the two officers.

There is no evidence that these Milquetoasts became suddenly emboldened when they crossed the threshhold of the master bedroom.

But today many of those men are reaching retirement age and suddenly realizing that they face an estate tax problem with their closely held companies and also that they have no second-echelon management in their firms.

And why did the Chinese suddenly begin to talk about the Five Directions, when the animals they used as symbols of the directions designated only the usual four??

They leaned into the wind and seemed like one thousand-legged monster hurtling and plunging until suddenly they rose straight in their saddles and in one terrifying voice shouted, ejaculated their grotesque cry of war.

Although quiet when they brought her in, she'd suddenly turned violent and had to be knocked out.

My head began to ache, and the fumes of the tractor began to bother my eyes, and I hated the job suddenly, and I thought, there are only moments when one sees beautiful things, and these are soon crushed, or they vanish.

The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light ... The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me.

From 1976 and on it was led by Danny Elfman, until 1995 when they suddenly retired.

Essendon struggled to make the finals in 4th place, but once there they suddenly ignited to put in one of the most consistently devastating September performances in VFL history.

The thing had been sprung on them so suddenly they were unable to take sides ".

Aubrey's vivid account, which portrays Bacon as a martyr to experimental scientific method, had him journeying to Highgate through the snow with the King's physician when he is suddenly inspired by the possibility of using the snow to preserve meat: " They were resolved they would try the experiment presently.

The conversation shifted to other subjects, until during lunch Fermi suddenly exclaimed, " Where are they?

With the collapse of their supposed allies, the SLA, and the rapid advance of Hezbollah forces, they withdrew suddenly on May 24, 2000 six weeks before the announced July 7 date.

Many weavers also found themselves suddenly unemployed since they could no longer compete with machines which only required relatively limited ( and unskilled ) labour to produce more cloth than a single weaver.

From the 1960s an increasing number of American youths started to come into contact with new religious movements ( NRM ), and some who converted suddenly adopted beliefs and behaviors that differed greatly from those of their families and friends ; in some cases they neglected or even broke contact with their loved ones.

* 1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.

Black-headed python, Aspidites melanocephalus Most members of this family are ambush predators, in that they typically remain motionless in a camouflaged position and then strike suddenly at passing prey.

Even if they are not visible when the puffer is not inflated, all puffers have pointed spines, so a hungry predator may suddenly find itself facing an unpalatable, pointy ball rather than a slow, tasty fish.

During the night of 2 – 3 April 1767, all the Jesuit houses of Spain were suddenly surrounded, the inhabitants arrested, shipped to the ports in the clothes they were wearing and bundled onto ships for Civitavecchia.

On 27 July 1214, the opposing armies suddenly discovered they were in close proximity to each other, on the banks of a little tributary of the River Lys, near the Bridge of Bouvines.

When the Dominion forces suddenly withdrew into Cardassian territory, the Allies realized that they were withdrawing in order to gain time to recover from their battle wounds, so that they could come back stronger a few years later.

And she really tried to go a step further and say she hoped they'd be just as right as they now were for her and for Rod.

No, they must look the other way and climb one more painful step up the ladder.

Through the open window they heard sounds below in the street: cartwheels, a tired horse's plodding step, voices.

If companies will take the time to give objective consideration to their major problems and to the questions they provoke, then a long constructive step will have been taken toward more effective marketing in next decade.

Almost the first step in the corruption of Pip's values is the unworthy shame he feels when Estella cruelly remarks the coarseness of his hands: `` They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages ''.

And when they had drawn back a step he added: `` Jones is sitting on his horse right in front of her.

Should there be evidence they are shirking, he has said, the state police will step into the situation.

The Japanese want to increase exports to the U.S. While they have been curbing shipments, they have watched Hong Kong step in and capture an expanding share of the big U.S. market.

He and his peers were acutely aware that they were one step above the lowest on the socio-economic ladder, i. e. the black community.

The so-called Weil conjectures were hugely influential from around 1950 ; they were later proved by Bernard Dwork, Alexander Grothendieck, Michael Artin, and Pierre Deligne, who completed the most difficult step in 1973.

For example, Jains often do not go out at night, when they are more likely to step upon an insect.

During this step, various portions of the CPU are connected so they can perform the desired operation.

Many are often considered controversial because they step outside standard narrative and technical conventions.

Newson wanted to give his children the best education possible so when Elizabeth was 13 and her sister 15, they were sent to a private school, the Boarding School for Ladies in Blackheath, London, which was run by the step aunts of the poet, Robert Browning.

Moreover, they can communicate their deductions step by step.

Thereof, the philosopher, in order to verify a particular means, or a particular statement belonging to a certain means ( e. g. the propositions of the natural sciences ) would have to ' step outside ' the means they are judging and critique them neutrally, in order to provide a foundation for adopting them.

Puccini succeeded in mastering the orchestra as no other Italian had done before him, creating new forms by manipulating structures inherited from the great Italian tradition, loading them with bold harmonic progressions which had little or nothing to do with what was happening then in Italy, though they were in step with the work of French, Austrian and German colleagues.

In the second step, they were divided by 3.

Nevertheless, they implemented minor changes in the microcode that would allow Digital Research to run emulation mode much faster, incorporated into the E-2 step.

Various other opportunities for a reprieve for Brian are denied as, one by one, his " allies " ( including Judith and his mother ) step forward to explain why they are leaving the " noble freedom fighter " hanging in the hot sun.

Seibert said they had originally planned to use Neil Armstrong's " One small step " quote, but lawyers said Armstrong owns his name and likeness, and Armstrong had refused, so the quote was replaced with a beeping sound.

She remarked in 1981 that " Understanding what drugs can do to your children, understanding peer pressure and understanding why they turn to drugs is ... the first step in solving the problem.