But Johnson couldn't quickly unwire the truck door, and if I escaped, he might suffer.

I was aware that when our eyes met we both quickly averted them.

I thought I saw a faint surge of color rise to her neck and quickly suffuse her cheeks.

There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.

I was far from convinced of the truth of my statement, but could not think of anything that might evoke responses more quickly.

Again, I at first misconstrued this disconcertingly intense communication, and I quickly cast through my mind to account for her being able to speak, with such utter conviction, of an opinion held by my father, now several years deceased.

" Surely I come quickly " ( Revelation 22: 20 ).

However, the need to engage targets at night, in depth or hit the target with the first rounds quickly led to predicted fire being developed in World War I.

Darius then died whilst preparing to march on Egypt, and the throne of Persia passed to his son Xerxes I. Xerxes crushed the Egyptian revolt, and very quickly restarted the preparations for the invasion of Greece.

In 1919, the May Fourth Movement began as a response to the terms imposed on China by the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, but quickly became a protest movement about the domestic situation in China.

When reports of this reached the Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark, Pope Saint Cyril I of Alexandria acted quickly to correct this breach with orthodoxy, requesting that Nestorius repent.

Hubble then served in the United States Army in World War I, where he quickly advanced to the rank of major.

But the United States was already gaining quickly when World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) caused a devastating interruption in the European film industries.

The rotary engine, popular during World War I, quickly disappeared, having reached its peak as rotational forces prevented more fuel and air from being delivered to the cylinders, which limited horsepower.

' For he had a very large cock, Rome by name ; and the eunuch comprehending his words said that it was the city of Rome which had perished at the hands of Alaric, and the emperor with a sigh of relief answered quickly: ' But I thought that my fowl Rome had perished.

* 1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I – the revolt is quickly crushed.

In World War I its plans to quickly capture Paris in 1914 failed and the Western Front ( against Britain and France ) became a stalemate.

" I believe that these girls are going to lose a good part of their quickly acquired image in the 28th Olympiad ", he said.

Despite the Sanussi linage of the new army, King Idris I quickly came to distrust them.

Able to absorb knowledge quickly, he became, in 1916, in the midst of World War I, a village schoolteacher at the age of 17.

According to the municipal administration of Rybno, after World War I Poles in Działdowo believed that they will be quickly joined with Poland, they organized secret gatherings during which the issue of rejoining Polish state with help of Polish military was discussed.

He made me feel wanted, which was a feeling I was quickly losing from the Padres.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

I guided her to the divan, turned off the TV, faced her.

I turned to look at the lubra.

And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: `` in essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism ''.

But every time I suggested this to her, Mrs. Wright turned it down and demanded that I go out and punish Mr. Wright.

I turned around with the percolator in my hand.

The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head, fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed, but his face was turned to the wall -- there was the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster -- and I thought, Well you don't look much like a pig-drunk bully now.

From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.

Outside I walked past the entrance to St. Sophia, turned left at the end of it, and continued toward a gate in the wall ahead.

One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.

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

As the bus turned into the main highway and headed toward Hanover I settled back in my seat and closed my eyes, thinking over the events of the past two weeks, trying to put the pieces in order.

I turned on the electric bug, and the signal came in loud and clear.

I couldn't see him, but the electric bugging device gave steady beeps when it was straight ahead, short half beeps when the car I was following was to the left, and long drawn-out beeps when it turned to the right.

I turned left too soon and got a signal showing that I was still behind him but he was to the right.

I turned on the device again, half fearful that I might find silence, but the buzzes came in loud and clear.

Pete turned around and said to Marty, `` I guess you think I'm a yellow-bellied hound.

I drove out of the Harbor, turned off into a dirt road among the scrub pine trees and stopped.

`` I'd just turned on the ignition when there was a big flash and I was lying on the driveway '', he said.