About-to Sentence Examples
He's about to run into something bad.
I'm about to starve to death.
I turned away, about to leave the room.
I was about to deny, but she put a finger to my lips.
He's not about to let the pup out of the kennel and be forced to shut down all good we're accomplishing.
We're about to move in.
Chances were, things were about to get ugly.
She wasn't about to look in the bathtub.
I was about to ask you the same question.
Jenn ran through the halls, certain no vamp was about to get in her way when all of them so far were dead.
AdvertisementI'm about to summon Darkyn.
Betsy stopped me as I was about to follow.
Betsy looked about to say something, but turned and led the others to the conference room.
I wasn't about to talk them out of it.
Having a baby was something they should be excited about - talking about to others.
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Well, he's about to outgrow the cradle.
I have a baby and I'm not about to drag Claire all over the United States!
Relatives from Delaware and Alabama are about to visit.
I was about to call them, it was so late and you hadn't come home.
AdvertisementI have to, because Damian's going to be gone for another week and a half, and then a lot of bad stuff is about to happen, but whatever.
She was about to roll over and check Gabriel's hands when she recalled he always wore gloves.
He was right about the coat, but she wasn't about to go back and get it.
You know you love each other, but you aren't about to admit it.
I'm not about to go on your honeymoon with you or watch Martha undress!
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Paul was about to fire him, and perhaps more.
They are about to go back to Boston.
As in, when I say the word boundary, you stop whatever it is you're doing or about to do and leave me alone.
Howie was about to become Father Abbott, a Catholic priest when a drunk in a half million dollar motor home broadsided him.
His reminded her of a cobra about to strike, though he'd pulled the gun up to his shoulder.
The back of his skull buzzed harder until he wondered if his scalp was about to spin off and fly away.
She sensed Talon was about to rebel, as was she at the thought of swimming after such an exhausting walk.
The battle over humanity was about to get even more brutal.
Jule smiled despite his unease, not about to be caught off guard by the creature.
Jule snapped off the end of the arrow in his shoulder, not about to bleed to death before he'd killed the immortal.
He didn't know if she'd understand—or forgive him—for what he was about to do to her.
He stopped in her personal zone, too close, but she wasn't about to back down this time.
We were just about to go up in the mountains now.
I had to do something and I'm not about to drink—too damn early.
His predecessor, Zamon, knew he was about to be defeated.
Then again, if she owed any sort of debt to Darkyn, Gabriel wasn't about to be caught off guard.
At a loss as to what to do next, he was about to summon Darkyn when the room shook.
The Dark One's fathomless eyes were colder than a winter night, and Gabriel wasn't about to back down this time.
He wasn't about to lose her or the chance to build a life with the woman he'd loved for tens of thousands of years.
Indiana Jones is about to make a pretty big comeback.
His movements were deliberate as he walked toward her - as if he were measuring every word he was about to say.
Damian raised an eyebrow, not about to humor the otherworldly harbinger of bad news.
She was about to lie down when she sensed Damian walk by.
Worse, she wasn't about to give the creature that tricked her into Hell and turned her Immortal an ounce of compassion.
She shook her head, not about to believe anything of the sort happened outside her nightmare.
Deidre's breathing was ragged as she tried to process what she was about to do.
He couldn't know that she was about to become the only thing standing between his soul and Darkyn.
He went to the sink and began attacking the pile of dirty dishes as he pondered how they would tell the young girl her world was about to flip upside down.
As he was about to leave, Brandon Westlake returned with Cynthia and, being sympathetic to his labors, volunteered to ferry the returning swimmers back to Bird Song.
He wasn't about to donate any fodder to the other horse in the race.
Dean felt a pang of sympathy—a child herself about to bring a life into the world.
Acting Sheriff Fitzgerald was slipping two one-pint bottles of vodka into a paper bag as Dean was about to open the door.
Cynthia looked about to cry, but her anger held her tears in check, at least until they were back in bed.
Wynn pitied her but wasn't about to ask any favors of the demon lord that didn't involve Wynn leaving Hell – and Deidre – behind.
Wynn wasn't about to ask why it was secret or spend too much time in Hell with the violent creature before him.
Though he hated the idea, he wasn't about to take any chances this time around.
Tamer was serious, but Gabriel wasn't about to take him up on it when his own dealers were ditching him.
Deities did things differently, but he wasn't about to do what his predecessor would have and demand a favor of someone like Andre.
You are the only way out of Hell, and I'm not about to make you a deal.
He suspected it was the feeling that he was about to explode and not the cool morning.
Retrieving her robe from the bed, she was about to put it on when his hand captured her arm in a steel grip.
If his week was any indication, this was not about to fix itself as easily as the portal shutting out his assassins.
She flung the door open and slammed it closed, about to run for her room, when she stopped cold.
He was calm and patient as always, but she wasn't about to piss off her last friend on the planet.
Deidre bit her tongue to keep from saying what she wanted to, mainly that a relationship consisted of two people, and she was not about to be one of them.
With her taste in his mouth and scent on his skin, he was about to go insane, especially after walking away from her.
Personally, he wasn't about to let Wynn hurt any of the people he cared about.
She wanted to tell him to leave, but whatever bond existed between them, it filled her with warmth and energy that quelled the meltdown she was about to have.
He wasn't about to murder this Deidre to fetch the soul of past-Deidre.
He didn't have the pointed teeth of a demon, which she hoped was indication enough she wasn't about to make a deal with the devil.
She wasn't about to get her throat torn out before she found some way to get out of here.
Her life was about to enter its next phase of the nightmare.
The only immortals on Death's list were those who were about to become dead-dead.
He'd go to her apartment tomorrow and explain to her what her fate was about to become.
The room was dark, the floor-to-ceiling windows displaying the incredible views of the Eiffel Tower, whose frame was outlined by lights against the dark Parisian sky She was about to step onto the balcony when a knock at the door drew her attention.
He left, though she sensed he sought her out for a reason and wasn't about to grow patience.
Claire scowled as she looked up, about to reply.
Cynthia looked about to cry.
She wasn't about to say anything.
He'd gone still, like a panther about to launch itself.
He's about to lead my demons to the underworld. With the Immortals in disarray and Death's … mistake, I can own the underworld before Rhyn can control his power enough to stop me.
The super-demon bowed his head and left. Darkyn watched him go then looked again at the hourglass. He hadn't expected Death to quit, but she was about to give him a new window of opportunity, one that might be more powerful. He might soon take over the underworld and its army of souls.
The man paused, leaning against a post, and confirmed in a somewhat slurred voice that indeed he was about to take a dip.
He's about to be nominated for sainthood.
Friday morning had a yellow cast about it as if something ominous was about to take place.
He was about to pull on the bottoms when he wondered if she would wear panties to bed.
I'm sorry, but I'm not about to end this business with us screaming at each other!
The cluster of 12 riders who passed him further up the mountain was now about to pass the other rider.
I wasn't about to stop it.
The realization helped her push back the trance she'd been about to fall into.
Jessi wasn't about to cave to his appetite, but Toni was almost begging.
She was about to have a break down.
You delivered or are about to.
Among other blunders, he pronounced King Stanislaus a tyrant and a traitor at the very moment when he was about to accede to the Confederation.
In Florida they sound a hooter to warn bathers to get out of the water if lightning is about to strike.
You always appear when something bad is about to happen.
Maybe someone had accidentally summoned her, and she wasn't about to have yet another confrontation today.
She was about to summon a spell to clear the sidewalk completely when she recalled she wasn't able to use her power anymore.
Don't know the size of the storm about to hit you, do you.
Not about to relive it, she said, crossing her arms.
She wasn.t about to stick around for this one.
Panic churned within her, and she was about to cry out for Rhyn when Jared snagged her arm.
He was about to address Kiki again when Katie.s angry words hit him.
Kris wasn.t about to lose Hannah the same way.
Tears rose as she realized she was about to leave for good.
He wasn.t about to comfort a man he tolerated but didn.t like.
He was about to rise and open a portal to Hell—Kris be damned!—when an Immortal knocked and opened the door.
He.d never wanted to lose her, and he wasn.t about to back down now.
I mean, this is supposed to be you starting your lives together, not hauling around your poor spinster of a friend who's about to be abandoned.
She went about her business and was about to leave when the door opened and two beautiful, tall women entered.
She was about to walk away in defeat and take her place in a dark corner watching the partygoers when she heard the sounds of approaching footsteps.
Just when she was about to dart away from the door and hide behind any piece of furniture she could find, the footsteps stopped.
Not only had she been dragged to another planet by her best friend, but now she was about to be betrayed by a prisoner she tried to free.
She was about to object when the disc beneath his feet levitated and launched them into the air.
She was about to sneak away when A'Ran's sword lowered, and he turned, alerted by the boy's reaction.
She wasn't about to tell him what she'd overheard Ne'Rin say.
She was about to object when he released her to signal one of his other men forward.
She had the unsettling feeling that he was about to disappear from her life forever.
He sat back for a moment, heart pounding at the prospect of what he was about to do.
The Council believes he's destroyed one planet and is about to destroy a second.
With the ice climbing festival about to open a lot of the climbers are arriving early.
Effie explained effusively how she and her sister had spent the day resurrecting their long lost great-aunt, whom Dean wondered if they were about to dub Saint Annie.
Dean bit his lip, assuming the little woman was about to complain about Gladys Turnbull's late night writing, but she had other concerns.
Donnie clung to his mother, eyes wide, pointing to a climber about to descend from the corner of the bridge.
I'm about to go blind reading them old microfilm newspapers.
We were about to run out so I got smart and just changed the front door lock after Christmas.
As he was about to leave, Corday entered the dimly lit establishment.
There's a good chance Donnie is finally about to get some psychiatric help— help a long time coming.
Dean blanked from his mind what he was about to do, concentrating on the task at hand.
Right in the middle stood a cute little redhead about to make her shot.
He was about to ask if she played, but she was already appreciating the ceiling."My God, that's hand carved."
He had picked up a Tantalus and was about to smash it on the floor.
He stood motionless for a while and when Jackson was about to say, "What are you waiting for?"
Josh didn't know about the horse ranch, and she wasn't about to tell him - not as long as he was holding the goats over her head like a club.
She staggered back, but she wasn't about to let them fight over her.
If he knew something was about to happen, then others within the government did as well.
He'd been about to ask a similar question.
He lowered Dan into a chair outside the doctor's quarters and was about to sit for a breather when the general slapped him on the arm.
If she'd protected her secret from a thousand people, she wasn't about to reveal it to him.
He didn't know, and he knew the one person who might wasn't about to tell.
He'd all but rejected her deal to sleep with him and wasn't about to hand her equipment over to her.
Lana paled, expecting her day wasn't about to get any easier.
At the same time, Tim was about to bring the rest of her world crashing down around her.
She straightened in her seat, not sure if she was about to do the right thing or not.
What your grandfather planned with mine so long ago is about to happen.
The era of fractured power and corruption is about to end.
Their world was about to get messier.
She was about to lose her only tool.
She needed anything to take her mind off the next few hours, because she had no idea if she'd survive what she was about to try.
Kris and his mate, Hannah – Rhyn's other buffer – weren't about to live the rest of Immortality on the beach with him.
I'm not about to have your dead body on my conscience.
As he was about to introduce himself, he heard a familiar voice over his shoulder.
In spite of his hesitancy he wasn't about to quit.
I was just about to pat myself on the back for weaseling out the location of Corbin's tent.
At last, when he was about to begin rapping his head on the wall for attention, he heard a click at the lock and the sound of the door opening.
Last night you said you were feeling anxious because you no longer had a home and you were about to lose your name.
Her stomach hurt and she felt weak, but she wasn't about to let him carry her around like an invalid.
There was no way to know, and he wasn't about to bring it up.
But she wasn't about to reveal that to Jonny.
In the meantime, she wasn't about to go down without a fight.
She wasn't about to let him use her to betray any of them, especially Darian, who had gone through too much already.
You're not about to tell me anything else, are you?
I'm not about to wait around for Others to fry me.
If I remember correctly, you were about to die when I rescued you from them.
She wasn't about to go through losing someone she cared about or letting Darian go through his loss again.
She wasn't about to encourage Darian, not when she couldn't handle the results.
What she'd done—and been about to do—made her step back.
She'd be in danger no matter what, but he wasn't about to give them the rope they sought to hang her.
He was about to press her to make an actual vow when she sighed.
Whatever the inside joke was, he wasn't about to share it and she didn't ask.
I'm telling you that Darian is about to destroy one world.
She wasn't about to live with the guilt of hurting yet a third person she cared about.
She was about to venture away from them when Bianca took her arm.
He had unfinished business with both women, and he wasn't about to let Jenn fight a battle she'd lose.
Her past was about to become permanently gone.
He didn't dare cross the divide between them, not when he'd known he was about to kill her.
She paused, obviously reconsidering what she was about to say.
Carmen wasn't about to argue and it wasn't likely that Felipa would either.
She wasn't about to lose her temper again.
Whatever it was, he wasn't about to enter a hospital until he'd had his dinner.
Easing her pain cost him nothing, but he wasn't about to go hungry.
Jessi glanced towards his bedroom, not about to knock on his door to see if he was ready.
He was right, but she wasn't about to admit it.
We're about to make your dreams come true.
It swallowed her senses, but she wasn't about to lose complete control to someone like Xander.
Not about to get caught up in his games, Jessi rose with her coffee and started into the apartment.
She wasn't about to give Xander any leverage into her life, especially since she was planning on robbing him.
That stopped whatever fire she was about to direct his way.
She danced away, through the kitchen and down the stairs, not about to be carried out of his apartment like they were cave people.
He wasn't certain why it mattered, except that he wasn't about to lose this round to Damian or Jenn.
Unable to decide what his level of involvement with Jessi should be, Xander wasn't about to admit anything to Jenn.
Xander suspected the protective older brother was about to say something to him about upsetting Jessi.
Especially if she was about to betray him to Jonny.
He was about to find out whose side she was on; he only hoped it didn't piss him off.
Xander drank until the edge of hunger was gone, suspecting the talk they were about to have would force him to find alternate sources for a full meal.
He'd realize she was about to betray him, then come to kill her.
The world's about to end! he laughed and darted away.
He didn't need to use it all to get what he wanted, but he wasn't about to let someone who hurt Jessi off with a quick death.
In addition to various sounds produced at other times, an elephant when about to charge gives vent to a shrill loud 'trumpet'.
Yet she still clung to old associations, and on her grandmother's death was about to return to her convent, but was dissuaded by her friends, who found her a husband.
When about to enter Austrian territory proper his advance was, however, checked by the armistice of Villafranca.
The queen set about to obtain a divorce, and used her influence for the return of Albany as a means of undoing her husband's power.
It was decided to send a deputation of bishops with a letter of greeting to the national council of the Russian Church about to be assembled (60) and certain conditions were laid down for intercommunion with certain of the Churches of the Orthodox Eastern Communion (62) and the "ancient separated Churches of the East" (63-65).
When an apostle was about to be chosen as successor to Judas, the people were invited to take part in the election;"and when deacons were about to be appointed the Apostles asked the people to make the choice.
He was about to write a treatise on the steam-engine, when the Polish War of Independence summoned him back to Warsaw in November 1830.
When Lord Exmouth was about to bombard the city in 1816, the British consul was thrown into prison and loaded with chains.
Bound hand and foot he was thrown alive into a mould in which a block of concrete was about to be made.
At the very moment when Matthias was about to profit by the disappearance of his most capable rival, another dangerous rebellion, headed by the primate and the chief dignitaries of the state, with the object of placing Casimir, son of Casimir IV., on the throne, paralysed Matthias's foreign policy during the critical years 1470-1471.
But now the moment had arrived when this vast group of provinces, forming the future kingdom of the Two Sicilies, was about to enter definitely and decisively within the bounds of the Italian community.
On the 9th of August Italy made a declaration of neutrality, and three weeks later ViscontiVenosta informed the powers that Italy was about to occupy Rome.
On the 29th of September Cardinal Ant onelli further apprised Baron Blanc that he was about to issue drafts for the monthly payment of the 50,000 crowns inscribed in the pontifical budget for the maintenance of the pope, the Sacred College, the apostolic palaces and the papal guards.
The entry of Crispi into the Depretis cabinet (December 1877) placed at the ministry of the interior a strong hand and sure eye at a moment when they were about to become im- CHspi.
This pertinacity engendered a belief in France that Italy was about to undertake in Tunisia a more aggressive policy than necessary for the protection of her commercial interests.
The spirit of indiscipline had begun to reach the lower classes of state employees, especially the school teachers and the postal and telegraph clerks, and at one time it seemed as though the country were about to face a situation similar to that which arose in France in the spring of 1909.
Risings broke out at Urbino and in Romagna, and the papal troops were defeated; Cesare could find no allies, and it seemed as though all Italy was about to turn against the hated family, when the French king promised help, and this was enough to frighten the confederates into coming to terms. Most of them had shown very little political or military skill, and several were ready to betray each other.
They are more easily seen, when the nucleus is about to undergo mitosis, at the ends of the spindle, where they form the centres towards which the radiating fibres in.
His great work, the forcing into common law of the principles of civil law, was unaccomplished; but Story says "he seemed about to accomplish [it]; for his arguments before the Supreme Court were crowded with the principles of the Roman Law, wrought into the texture of the Common Law with great success."
He served in the army of Flanders, and then was sent to London in February 1792, to induce England to remain neutral in the war which was about to break out between France and "the king of Bohemia and Hungary."
Bobadilla, sent for to Rome, arrived there just before Mascarenhas was about to depart, but fell too ill to respond to the call made on him.
This prayer as you break the bread, and are about to eat, you must say.
The elections of 1909 returned a strong Giolittian majority, but the Premier found himself faced with the necessity for renewing the steamship conventions which were about to lapse.
A remarkable wall-painting depicts a cat creeping over ivy-covered rocks and about to spring on a pheasant.
Along the eastern border of this delta, and southward of it, along the Mississippi itself, extends a belt of hills or bluffs (sometimes called "cane-hills"), which is cut by deep ravines and, though very narrow in the north, has in the south an average width of about to m.
As the sentence is about to be carried into execution Lancelot and his kinsmen come to her rescue, but in the fight that ensues many of Arthur's knights, including three of Gawain's brothers, are slain.
This sacrifice of territory was afterwards ratified by the National Assembly at Bordeaux, though not without a protest from the representatives of the departments about to be given up; and thus Alsace once more became German.
Oldham wrote other satires, notably one "addressed to a friend about to leave the university," which contains a well-known description of the state of slavery of the private chaplain, and another "dissuading from poetry," describing the ingratitude shown to Edmund Spenser, whose ghost is the speaker, to Samuel Butler and to Abraham Cowley.
The hopes which have been from time to time entertained, that his suggestions for the improvement of its form and expression were about to receive the attention which they deserved, have hitherto been disappointed.
He occupied Ancona and seemed about to annex the Papal States outright.
Napoleon was surprised by the news of Prussia's mobilization; he had come to regard her as a negligible quantity, and now he found that her unexpected sensitiveness on points of honour was about to revivify the Third Coalition against France.
Austria was continuing to arm; and the emperor perceived that the diplomatic failure at Erfurt was now about to entail on him another and more serious struggle.
In this new country it was her duty to sacrifice to the goddess all strangers; and as her brother Orestes came to search for her and to carry off to Attica the image of the goddess, she was about to sacrifice him, when a happy recognition took place.
Orestes and Iphigeneia fled, takini with them the image; at Delphi they met Electra, the sister of Orestes, who having heard that her brother had been sacrificed by the Tauric priestess, was about to tear out the eyes of Iphigeneia.
Spes is represented as a beautiful maiden in a long light robe, lifting up her skirt with her left hand, and carrying in her right a bud already closed or about to open.
The deposed sultan was allowed ET12,000 a year, and a similar amount was set aside to provide dowries for two sultanas who were just about to be married.
Exhaustive orders to organize the necessary trains were duly issued, but the emperor seems to have had no conception of the difficulties the tracks - there were no metalled roads - of Poland were about to present to him.
But on the 23rd of December, when Moore was at Sahagun and about to attack Soult, he learnt that overwhelming French forces were hastening towards him, so withdrew across the Esla, near Benevente (Dec. 28), destroying the bridge there.
It was either sleeveless (colobium) or sleeved (tunica manicata or manuleata), and originally fell about to the knee, but later on reached to the ankles (tunica talaris).
The Benefices Act 1898 substitutes and makes obligatory on every person about to be instituted to a benefice a simpler and more stringent form of declaration against simony.
The count was about to pass into the feudatory stage.
The second group represents, first, the birth of Mithras; then the god nude, cutting fruit and leaves from a fig-tree in which is the bust of a deity, and before which one of the winds is blowing upon Mithras; the god discharging an arrow against a rock from which springs a fountain whose water a figure is kneeling to receive in his palms; the bull in a small boat, near which again occurs the figure of the animal under a roof about to be set on fire by two figures; the bull in flight, with Mithras in pursuit; Mithras bearing the bull on his shoulders; Helios kneeling before Mithras; Helios and Mithras clasping hands over an altar; Mithras with drawn bow on a running horse; Mithras and Helios banqueting; Mithras and Helios mounting the chariot of the latter and rising in full course over the ocean.
When, therefore, the inhabitants of Sao Paulo saw themselves about to be transferred, as a dependency of Portugal, from one master to another, they conceived the idea of erecting their country into an independent state.
With this end in view he enlisted as a private soldier, on the 2nd of November 1754, in the Indian expedition which was about to start from the port of L'Orient.
Then, however, moved by fear of the emperor, who had passed through Siena two months before on his way to Rome, and who was about to halt there on his return, it tried to conciliate its foes by creating a fresh council of 150 riformatori, who replaced the twelve defenders by a new supreme magistracy of fifteen, consisting of eight popolani, four dodicini, and three noveschi, entitled respectively "people of the greater number," "people of the middle number," and "people of the less number."
In 1830 Cobden learnt that Messrs Fort, calico printers at Sabden, near Clitheroe, were about to retire from business, and he, with two other young men, Messrs Sheriff and Gillet, who were engaged in the same commercial house as himself, determined to make an effort to acquire the succession.
In 1842, the works of Laplace being nearly out of print, his widow was about to sell a farm to procure funds for a new impression, when the government of Louis Philippe took the matter in hand.
Just as he was about to attack, the traitor Edric prevented him from doing so, and the opportunity was lost.
The Boers now cast about to find a man who should have the necessary ability, as they said, to negotiate on equal terms with the British authorities should any future dispute arise.
Even before annexation had occurred, Shepstone felt the danger so acutely that he sent a message to Cetywayo, the Zulu chief, warning him that British annexation was about to be proclaimed and that invasion of the Transvaal would not be tolerated.
The army corps was about to arrive, practically as a whole unit, in South Africa; but it was evident that the exigencies of the situation, and the widely divided areas of invasion, would at least defer the execution of the plan which had been formed for an invasion of the Orange Free State from Cape Colony.
But even this could be suffered with equanimity, since Buller was about to bring his own force into play, and Buller, it was confidently supposed, would not fail.
Chesterfield apparently took no further interest in the enterprise, and the book was about to appear, when he wrote two papers in the World in praise of it.
When mitosis is about to take place, they separate from one another and pass to the poles of the nucleus, forming the achromatic spindle.
Cooley's treatise on the American Law of Torts states that "the custom of the country, in some states enacted into statute law, requires that when teams approach and are about to pass on the highway, each shall keep to the right of the centre of the travelled portion of the road."
The Imperialists were beaten; but just as the Milanese were about to march on Florence, Visconti died.
In the Roman Catholic Church the rochet is a tunic of white, and usually fine linen or muslin (battiste, mull) reaching about to the knee, and distinguished from the surplice by the fact that its arms are narrow and tight-fitting.
The latter were about to bury him without delay or ceremony, but the gastald or chief magistrate of the city interfered and appointed a public funeral; rumours of his wondrous travels and of posthumous miracles were diffused, and excitement spread like wildfire over Friuli and Carniola; the ceremony had to be deferred more than once, and at last took place in presence of the patriarch of Aquileia and all the local dignitaries.
Convinced of being divinely inspired, he had begun to see visions, and discovered in the Apocalypse symbols of the heavenly vengeance about to overtake this sin-laden people.
Further state aid enabled him to visit Germany and France in 1825, and having visited the astronomer Heinrich Schumacher (1780-1850) at Hamburg, he spent six months in Berlin, where he became intimate with August Leopold Crelle, who was then about to publish his mathematical journal.
Meantime He is about to send His messenger to prepare His way before Him.
Proceeding to obey, he was prevented by an angel as he was about to sacrifice his son, and slew a ram which he found on the spot.
Under these circumstances a constitution of a more severe type was recommended by those responsible for the government of Malta and was about to be adopted, as the only alternative to a deadlock, by the imperial authorities.
Corps standing to arms, reported to von der Goltz that the corps was standing to arms and about to attack.
German Army was crossing the Moselle near Thionville and about to descend on him from the north.
On their left, however, no fresh troops were as yet available, and on being informed, about 2.30 p.m., that French cavalry seemed to be about to charge the exhausted 6th division, Alvensleben ordered Bredow's cavalry brigade to charge, and if necessary to sacrifice itself, to save the infantry.
But when the combat was about to commence it was interrupted by the king...
But now a storm of persecution was about to break upon the universal church, iii.
He was once more successful, however, in 1802, when he sat for Appleby, and it seemed as if the great ambitions of his life were about to be realized when the Whig party came into power in 1806.
His following gradually melted away, and he was about to flee to Portugal when Galicia revolted.
The ministry of enthusiasm which they represent is about to give way to the ministry of office, a transition which is reflected in the New Testament in the 3rd Epistle of John.
He was now planning to induce the crusading armies of the West to pass through his territories, and seemed about to play a leading part in the third Crusade.
He was about to start for Cappadocia against the Goths when he was assassinated, together with Herodes his eldest son, by his nephew Maconius; there is no reason to suppose that this deed of violence was instigated from Rome.
The subsequent occupation of Port Arthur and other Chinese harbours by European powers, and the evident intention of consolidating Russian influence in Manchuria, were again and again the subject of Japanese representations at St Petersburg, and these representations became more vigorous when, in 1903, Russia seemed to be about to extend her Manchurian policy into Korea.
Large commercial interests were in fact involved in the forward policy, "the period of heavy capital expenditure was over, that of profits about to commence," and the power and intentions of Japan were ignored or misunderstood.
The right of the 1st Army, when about to continue the advance west on Liao-Yang, was diverted northward by Oyama's orders and ordered to prepare to cross the Taitszeho.
By the time at least when he began to meditate his essays in the retirement of his country house it was tolerably certain that no golden age was about to return.
Griffenfeldt was pardoned on the scaffold, at the very moment when the axe was about to descend.
France and Spain were then about to partition Portugal, and the Spanish forces were beginning to invade that land, when the court of Lisbon succeeded, owing (it is said) to the free use of bribes, in inducing Godoy, the Spanish minister, and Lucien Bonaparte to sign the preliminaries of peace on the 6th of June 1801 at Badajoz.
The ancient Polish hymn or war song, Piesn Boga Rodzica, was an address to the Virgin, sung by the Poles when about to fight.
He entered the army of Henry IV., and served in Brittany under Jean d'Aumont, Francois de St Luc and Charles de Brissac. When the army of the League was disbanded he accompanied his uncle, who had charge of the ships in which the Spanish allies were conveyed home, and on reaching Cadiz secured (1599) the command of one of the vessels about to make an expedition to the West Indies.
Pope was at this moment about to take the offensive, when a violent storm swelled the rivers and put an end to all movement.
On the 9th of June the cavalry combat of Brandy Station made it clear to the Federal staff that Lee was about to use the Valley once more to screen an invasion of Maryland.
Before doing this, however, it was necessary to define the limits of tribal properties already existing - a work of great difficulty - with a view to their ultimate division, and at the same time to guard against any premature traffic in the rights of Arabs in the lands about to be divided.
In 1810 he was about to enter upon his new post of governor of Rome when he was, unexpectedly, elected successor to the Swedish throne, partly because a large part of the Swedish army, in view of future complications with Russia, were in favour of electing a soldier, and partly because Bernadotte was very popular in Sweden, owing to the kindness he had shown to the Swedish prisoners during the late war with Denmark.
We remember that the Christian preachers were preaching before all things a Person, but a Person whose interest for these new converts lay chiefly in the fact that He was about to come and establish a supernatural kingdom for which they had to fit themselves.
He destroyed their rearguard, the Tigurini, as it was about to cross, transported his army across the river in twenty-four hours, pursued the Helvetii in a northerly direction, and utterly defeated them at Bibracte (Mont Beuvray).
Lack of time alone prevented him from carrying into effect such projects as the piercing of the Isthmus of Corinth, whose object was to promote trade and intercourse throughout the Roman dominions, and we are told that at the time of his death he was contemplating the extension of the empire to its natural frontiers, and was about to engage in a war with Parthia with the object of carrying Roman arms to the Euphrates.
Here, with Miramon, he was besieged by the Juarists under Escobedo, and the garrison, when about to make a last attempt to break out, was betrayed 2 by Colonel Lopez to the besiegers (May 15, 1867).
Coming as the book did just when the reaction against the revolution was about to turn into another reaction in its favour, it was assured of success.
These late honours he did not long enjoy; in 1695 he died whilst about to commence work on the cupola of the Invalides.
The hebdomadal transformation being once, contrary to compact, witnessed by her husband, she left him with much wailing, and was said to return and give warning by her appearance and great shrieks whenever one of the race of Lusignan was about to die.
The Church when it had once conquered the world allowed such precepts to lapse and fall into the background, and no one save monks or Manichaean heretics remembered them any more; indeed modern divines affect to believe that marriage rites and family ties were the peculiar concern of the Church from the very first; and few moderns will fail to sympathize with the misgivings of the barbarian chief who, having been converted and being about to receive Christian baptism, paused as he stepped down into the font, and asked the priests if in the heaven to which their rites admitted him he would meet and converse with his pagan ancestors.
In grass countries, where "flying fences" are found, the rate of speed must of necessity be quicker than when about to take a Devonshire bank of some 7 ft.
Philosophy seemed about to end in scepticism or in materialism.
He died in 1343, just as he was about to lead another expedition to the island.
On the 12th of October 1864 he assumed command of the North Atlantic blockading squadron, then about to engage in a combined military and naval expedition against Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
When it was announced in 1905 that a British fleet was about to manoeuvre in the Baltic Sea, several German newspapers suggested that Germany should combine with other Baltic powers to assure its neutralization.
Having become enamoured of Attis, Agdistis struck him with frenzy as he was about to wed the king's daughter, with the result that he deprived himself of manhood and died.
This clause must in fact be read in the light of the reference to Timothy, which suggests that he had been in prison in Rome and was about to return, possibly in the writer's company, to the region which was apparently the headquarters of both.
With great dexterity he turned the feud between the houses of Luxemburg and Wittelsbach to the destruction of Louis; and the death-struggle between the two seemed about to break out, when Louis met his untimely end.
Let no one suppose for an instant that the self-education I am about to commend, in respect of the things of this life, extends to any considerations of the hope set before us, as if man by reasoning could find out God.
Then came a broad uplift followed by the erosion which carved out the valleys, leaving hard rocks as mountain ridges which rise about to the level of the old erosion plain.
The valleys rarely exceed more than a few miles in width, are usually steep-sided, and frequently are traversed by longitudinal ranges of hills and cross ridges; but the Pennsylvania portion of the Appalachian or Great Valley, which forms a distinct division of the central province and lies between the South Mountains and the long rampart of Blue Mountain, is about to m.
In modern times the best attested premonitions are those relating to events about to occur in the subject's own organism.
If the case is about to terminate fatally the spasms rapidly succeed each other and death usually occurs within two hours, either from asphyxia produced by spasm of the respiratory muscles or more rarely from exhaustion.
He was about to go on leave of absence in order to be married in Baltimore when he received his nomination to the command of the Army of the Tennessee, Grant's and Sherman's old army, which was to take part under Sherman's supreme command in the campaign against Atlanta (1864).
This incident inspired Itagaki with an apprehension that the country was about to pass under the yoke of a bureaucratic government.
The people of the district to which the candidate belonged were called together; his qualifications for the privileges about to be conferred upon him were inquired into; and, if he were deemed fitted and worthy to receive them, his chief, his father, or one of his near kinsmen presented him with a shield and a lance.
The rich beds near Lake Superior, chiefly red haematite, yielding at present about 55% of iron, are thought to contain between II and 2 billion tons, and the red and brown haematites of the southern states about to billion tons.
Thence, when the well-drilled Army of be so or not, Lee took part in preparing for the divorce pro Potomac was about to descend upon Richmond, he was ceedings against Catherine of Aragon, and in January 1534 the hurriedly recalled to Richmond.
But this is explicitly the idea of the said thing as having had or as about to have existence, - in other words, belief in the existence of some matter of fact.
Elected by nine departments to the National Assembly meeting at Bordeaux (on the 1st of March 1871) he chose to sit for Strassburg, which by the terms of the treaty about to be submitted to the Assembly for ratification was to be ceded to Prussia, and when the treaty was adopted he resigned in protest and retired to Spain.
These were intended as a substitute for the paid canvassers, about to be abolished by Mr Gladstone's Reform Bill.
Entering their territory, he was just about to invest the capital when he was seized with an illness which proved fatal on the 15th of May 1760.
The Catholic question had rapidly become of the first importance, and when a powerful section of the Whigs joined Pitt's ministry in 1794, and it became known that the lordlieutenancy was to go to Lord Fitzwilliam, who shared Grattan's views, expectations were raised that the question was about to be settled in a manner satisfactory to the Irish Catholics.
On the 14th there was some fighting, but early on the 15th, as Jackson was about to make an assault on Bolivar Heights, the garrison, surrounded by a superior force, surrendered.
The discovery of America, the invention of printing, the revival of learning and many other causes had contributed to effect a radical change in the point of view from which the world was regarded; and the strongest of all medieval relations, that of the nation to the Church, was about to pass through the fiery trial of the Reformation.
Luther had confronted the cardinal legate Cajetan, had passed through his famous controversy at Leipzig with Johann Eck, and was about to burn the bull of excommunication.
The Protestants were now at the height of their power, but their ascendancy was about to be destroyed, and that rather by the folly and imprudence of their leaders than by the skill and valour of their foes.
War seemed about to break out between the two confederations and their foreign allies over this question, but after the murder of the French king in May 1610 the Union did not venture to fight.
Actually the conferences did not meet until 1645, when the elector of Brandenburg had made, and the elector of Saxony, was about to make, a truce with Sweden, these two countries being withdrawn from the ravages of the war.
Germany was now about to be aroused from the torpor into which she had been cast by the Thirty Years War; but her awakening was due, not to the action of the Empire, of which was more and more seen to be practically dead, but to the rivalry of two great German states, Austria and Prussia.
It was a time too when the movements of the nations that so frequently occurred in the ancient world were about to be particularly active.
A certain Ahmed Pasha, who was about to proceed to a province in Arabia, of which he had been appointed governor, was raised to the important post of pasha of Egypt, through the influence of the Turks and the favor of the sheiks; but Mehemet Ali, who with his Albanians held the citadel, refused to assent to their choice; the Mamelukes moved over from El-Giza, whither they had been invited by Thir Pasha, and Ahmed Paslia betook himself to the mosque of al-Zflhir, which the French had converted into a fortress.
New blood of the best quality nourished and stimulated the whole body politic. Expansion and progress were the watchwords at home, and abroad it seemed as if Denmark were about to regain her former position as a great power.
The Regulations (Regulation 51) gave the Government power in certain cases to seize the plant of a newspaper which had offended, or in others to seize the type on suspicion that an offence was about to be committed (Reg.5r a).
Of works certainly executed by him during his years of travel there are extant, besides the Basel wood-block, only a much-injured portrait of himself, very finely dressed and in the first bloom of his admirable manly beauty, dated 1493 and originally painted on vellum but since transferred to canvas (this is the portrait of the Felix Goldschmid collection); a miniature painting on vellum at Vienna (a small figure of the Child-Christ); and some half a dozen drawings, of which the most important are the characteristic pen portrait of himself at Erlangen, with a Holy Family on the reverse much in the manner of Schongauer; another Holy Family in nearly the same style at Berlin; a study from the female nude in the Bonnat collection; a man and woman on horseback in Berlin; a man on horseback, and an executioner about to behead a young man, at the British Museum, &c. These drawings all show Diirer intent above all things on the sternly accurate delineation of ungeneralized individual forms by means of strongly accented outline and shadings curved, somewhat like the shadings of Martin Schongauer's engravings, so as to follow their modellings and roundness.
In each case the clinker which has just been burned and is fully hot serves to heat the air-supply to the compart ment where combustion is actu ally proceeding; in like manner the raw materials about to be burned are well heated by the waste gases from the compartment in full activity before they them selves are burned.
When in 1817 he went abroad to further his education, Germany was about to celebrate the tercentenary of the Reformation; and thus early he conceived the ambition to write the history of that great epoch.
He then dwelt for a week at Linlithgow with the queen, who was about to give birth to a child.
None of these, but, on the contrary, an unknown figure from the remote hills of Galilee, standing on the populous shores of its lake, proclaiming as a message from God that the highest hopes were about to be fulfilled,.
The last page of the story is torn away, just at the point when it has been declared that He is alive again and about to show Himself to His disciples.
Our Lord interprets His relation to the disciples by the figure of a tree and its branches - He is the whole of which they are the parts; He promises the mission of the Holy Spirit to continue His work in the world; and He solemnly commends to His Father the disciples whom He is about to leave.
Biblical history itself recognizes in the times of Artaxerxes, Nehemiah and Ezra the commencement of a new era, and although only too much remains obscure we have in these centuries a series of vicissitudes which separate the old Palestine of Egyptian, Hittite, Babylonian and Assyrian supremacy from the land which was about to enter the circle of Greek and Roman civilization.
Finally, when Sultan Murad was about to set out for the Persian War, the patriarch was accused of a design to stir up the Cossacks, and to avoid trouble during his absence the sultan had him killed by the Janissaries (June 1637).
When about to spring, this jerboa raises its body by means of the hinder extremities, and supports itself at the same time upon its tail, while the fore-feet are so closely pressed to the breast as to be scarcely visible, which doubtless suggested the name Dipus, or twofooted.
The god here states that he is about to send a deluge, which will cause destruction to all mankind, and he gives directions for the building of a great ship in which "the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven" may be saved, along with Ut-napishtim and his family; he fixes the size of the ship and directs that it should be covered with a strong roof or deck.
He had finished the Organon and was about to deal with the metaphysical and physical treatises when he died on the 18th of June 1871, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
C. Jones (1789-1858) of the United States navy, believing that war had broken out between his country and Mexico and that a British force was about to seize California,raised the American flag over Monterey (October 21st), but finding that he had acted on misinformation he lowered the flag next day with due ceremony and warm apology.
The line T on the surface bbb has also for the instant no velocity in the plane AB; for it has just ceased to move towards the fixed surface aaa, and is just about to begin to move away from that surface.
For a moment it seemed as though Gioberti's dream were about to translate itself into reality.
He at once granted an amnesty to political prisoners, of whom the Roman gaols were full; two years later (March 1848) he issued a constitution to the papal states, and seemed about to throw in his lot with the forces making for Italian independence.
Still, at the opening of the 16th century, it became manifest what fruits of noble quality the Revival of Letters was about to bring forth for modern literature.
On the 19th of February 1847 he introduced in the Senate a series of resolutions concerning the territory about to be acquired from Mexico, which marked the most advanced stand as yet taken by the pro-slavery party.
It was evident, however, that a determined attack was about to be made upon Bacon, and that the proceeding against the referees was really directed against him.
Mention must be made of the Rebecca riots in1843-1844in South Wales, wherein many toll gates were destroyed by mobs of countrymen dressed in female garb, " as the daughters of Rebecca about to possess the gates of their enemies "; and the Anti-Tithe agitation of1885-1886- largely traceable to the inflammatory language used concerning clerical tithe by certain organs of the vernacular press - which led to some disorderly scenes between distraining parties of police and crowds of excited peasants in the more remote rural districts.
Such a press, if driven by electric power, is set in motion by merely pushing a button or small switch, a bell first giving warning of the press being about to move.
By all means let universal characterization be attempted - we are about to attempt one here, though well aware of the difficulty in the present state of our knowledge - but they must at least model themselves on the composite photograph rather than the impressionist sketch.
When Saint-Mars was made governor of Exiles in 1681 we know from one of his letters that Mattioli was left at Pignerol; but in March 1694, Pignerol being about to be given up by France to Savoy, he and two other prisoners were removed with much secrecy to Ste Marguerite, where Saint-Mars had been governor since 1687.
The danger foreseen alike to the new Church, and to the commonalty and poor, began to be fulfilled a month later, when the lords, some of whom had already acquired, as others were about to acquire, much of the Church property, declined to make any of it over for Knox's magnificent scheme.
Hitherto Charles had aimed at supporting the weaker Slavonic power against the stronger; but now that Muscovy seemed about to disappear from among the nations of Europe, Swedish statesmen naturally sought some compensation for the expenses of the war before Poland had had time to absorb everything.
Whilst in every other European country except England, the ancient popular representation by estates was about to disappear altogether, in Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus it grew into an integral portion of the constitution.
President Anibal Pinto of Chile now set about to find means to conclude a treaty of peace with Peru, but his efforts in this direction were frustrated by the armed resistance offered in the country districts to the Chilean authorities by the remainder of the Peruvian forces under command of General Caceres.
Timur died in 1405, when in the seventieth year of his age and about to invade China.
Thus, too, as " children of Light," candidates for ordination and novices about to take the vows carry lights when they come before the bishop; and the same idea underlies the custom of carrying lights at weddings, at the first communion, and by priests going to their first mass, though none of these are liturgically prescribed.
At the convention a way out of the difficulty - for a time at least - was found in a compromise, namely, that in the state about to be created the franchise in each constituent part should be that which existed before union was effected.
The massacre of St Bartholomew - occurring as he was about to accompany the bishop of Valence on an embassy to Poland - induced him with other Huguenots to retire to Geneva, where he was received with open arms, and was appointed a professor in the academy.
At Modin, Mattathias, an aged priest, not only refused to offer the first sacrifice, but slew an apostate Jew who was about to step into the breach.
Their language is vague and allegorical, full of allusions and pious Mussulman invocations; the author continually announces that he is about to speak without mystery or reserve, but all the same never gives any precise details of the secrets he professes to reveal.
The poppy blossoms about the middle of February, and the petals when about to fall are collected for the purpose of making " leaves " for the spherical coverings of the balls of opium.
Monteagle at once started for Whitehall, found Salisbury and other ministers about to sit down to supper, and showed the letter, whereupon it was decided to search the cellar under the House of Lords before the meeting of parliament, but not too soon, so that the plot might be ripe and be fully disclosed.
The kingdom of the Netherlands was rent asunder by the Belgian revolution; Portugal was the scene of civil war; the Spanish succession was about to open and place an infant princess on the throne.
The narrative of Tacitus breaks off at the moment when Thrasea was about to address Demetrius, the Cynic philosopher, with whom he had previously on the fatal day held a conversation on the nature of the soul.
They were about to accept his offer, not having received their subsidies from the pope and the king of Spain, when a fresh corps of mercenaries descended into Italy, desirous both of gaining booty and of showing their prowess against their new rivals the French and Lower Rhine "lansquenets" (Landsknechts) and against the French gendarmerie, whom (alluding to the "Battle of the Spurs" at Guinegatte in 1513) they called "hares in armour."
This was based on an old manuscript collection of poetry, rescued by Percy in Humphrey Pitt's house at Shifnal, Shropshire, from the hands of the housemaid who was about to light the fire with it.
When the first or a new antler is about to be formed, the summits of these pedicles become tender, and bear small velvet-like knobs, which have a high temperature, and are supplied by an extra quantity of blood, which commences to deposit bony matter.
With Sciarra Colonna, Nogaret surprised Boniface at Anagni, on the 7th of September 1303, as the latter was about to pronounce the sentence of excommunication against the king.
The ferri et quininae citras, one of the "scale preparations" of iron, is given as a haematinic and tonic in doses of about to grains.
In 181 2 he committed the serious mistake of accepting a well-paid ornamental mission to Lisbon, which he was about to visit for the health of his eldest son.
Feeling that he was dying, and careful lest Chunda should be reproached by himself or others, he said to Ananda, "After I am gone tell Chunda that he will receive in a future birth very great reward; for, having eaten of the food he gave me, I am about to die; and if he should still doubt, say that it was from my own mouth that you heard this.
It was further increased by the 1 The councils which we are about to mention, up to the 9th century, have been published several times, notably in the great collections of Hardouin, Mansi, &c.; they will be found brought together in one small volume in Bruns, Canones apostolorum et conciliorum (Berlin, 1839).
They seemed about to rend the land in twain, but they really cured the English of their desperate particularism, and drove all the tribes to take as their common rulers the one great line of native kings which survived the Danish storm, and maintained itself for four generations cf desperate fighting against the invaders.
The root of the Hundred Years War, now just about to commence, must be sought in the affairs of Guienne, and not in any of the other causes which complicated and obscured the outbreak of hostilities.
The mob strung their bows, and were about to shoot down the king and his suite.
A controversy on the boundary of Canada and the United States was provoking increasing bitterness on both sides of the Atlantic. The intervention of Lord Palmerston in Syria, which resulted in a great military success at Acre, was embittering the relations between France and England, while the unfortunate expedition to Afghanistan, which the Whigs had approved, was already producing embarrassment, and was about to result in disaster.
He was about to offer his services to the Church Missionary Society, when a disaster in Cornwall deprived him and his unmarried sister of the provision their father had made for them, and rendered it necessary that he should obtain a salary that would support her as well as himself.
About 1770 he removed to Milan, where he continued to teach and to hold the directorship of the observatory of Brera; but being deprived of his post by the intrigues of his associates he was about to retire to his native place, when the news reached him (1773) of the suppression of his order in Italy.
The few remaining years of Teresa's life were spent in the old way, organizing the order she had founded, and travelling about to open new convents.
The critical time had arrived when the sea was to be driven away eastward, while the immense ridges due to the " Alpine " movements were about to emerge as the backbones of new continental lands.
The moment when Protestantism and Ultramontanism are about to begin their still unfinished struggle is a fit time to notice the chief points in medieval Irish church history.
At Biarritz he prepared with Bismarck the Franco-Prussian alliance of April 1866; and hoped to become, to his greater glory, arbiter in the tremendous conflict which was about to begin.
He was detained by business for nearly four months, and when about to return, was refused permission by the king.
These have been arranged in twelve species, belonging to two genera, Aepyornis and Mullerornis, which varied in size from that of a bustard to birds much exceeding an ostrich, and rivalling the recently extinct moa of New Zealand, the largest species being about to ft.
In the devastation of the north of England which followed the Conquest, Beverley is said to have escaped by a miracle attributed to St John; the Norman leader, while about to enter and pillage the church, fell from his horse dead, and the king, thinking this a sign that the town was under the protection of heaven, exempted it from pillage.
Like Heracles when he leaped into the belly of the monster which was about to swallow Hesione, the Mantis once jumped down the throat of a hostile elephant, and so destroyed him.
Another kind of warfare was about to absorb their whole attention; the barbarians were attacking the frontiers of the Empire on every side, and their advent once again modified Gallo-Roman civilization.
This political victory of the aristocracy was merely the consummation of a slow subterranean revolution which by innumerable reiterated blows had sapped the structure of the body politic, and was about to transfer the people of Gaul from the Roman monarchical and administrative government to the sway of the feudal system.
It now remained to consolidate the later successes attained by the policy of the Valoisthe acquisition of the duchies of Burgundy and Brittany; but instead there was a sudden change and that policy seemed about to be lost in dreams of recapturing the rights of the Angevins ficence.
The convocation of the states-general was about to take place, wrung, as in all minorities, from the royal weaknessthis time by Cond; so the elections were influenced in the monarchist interest.
Isaac's wife, shortly before the birth of their famous son, was walking one day down a narrow street in Worms, when two vehicles moving in opposite directions seemed about to crush her.
But the discovery which was at once perceived to be most important in itself, and most revolutionary in its effects, was that of Jupiter's satellites, first seen by Galileo on the 7th of January 1610, and by him named Sidera Medicea, in honour of the grand-duke of Tuscany, Cosmo II., who had been his pupil, and was about to become his employer.
The latter at the last moment recorded their votes in favor of the Abarzuza Bill when they perceived that a strange sort of eleventh-hour presentiment was about to make all the Spanish parties vote this insufficient reform.
To avoid a crisis at the time when the young king was about to come of age, the government yielded; and on the 10th of May Sagasta announced that a modus vivendi with the Vatican had been established.
The breach subsequently became wider, and Adrian was about to excommunicate the emperor when he died at Anagnia on the 1st of September 1159.
The Genoese were thus shut in at the very moment when they thought they were about to besiege Venice.
Practically this is when twilight is first ended in the evening, and about to begin in the morning.
The Detroit river, along which the city extends for about to m., is here a m.
Three years later Leopold claimed fulfilment of the promise, and Gordon was about to proceed to the Congo when the British government required his services for the Sudan.
A number of ecclesiastics proceeding to a council called by Gregory were captured by Enzio at the seafight of Meloria, and the emperor was about to undertake the siege of Rome, when the pope died (August 1241).
The material is either placed directly up to the skin of the vessel, and kept in place by a double lining of wood inside, in which case a thickness of about To in.
The authorities were passive, and although some courageous persons actually rescued the victim at an early stage and concealed him in a friendly house, the bloodthirsty mob soon discovered his refuge and were about to force an entrance, when the dying man surrendered to save his deliverer's property.
In May 1799 he distinguished himself by saving a division of the French army which was about to be crushed by the Russians at the battle of Bassignana, and was named at once brigadier-general by Moreau.
I can't just take the baby and shift the responsibility of how it came about to your shoulders.
Alex didn't abandon Tessa, though, and Carmen wasn't about to walk out on him like Tessa did.
Besides, I've managed to stay on my schedule for the last three years and I'm not about to blow it now with a silly romantic fling.
All her plans were about to blow up – all this because she had allowed herself to be drawn into a relationship.
He wasn't about to let on that he was also cold.
He doesn't want children and I'm not about to manipulate him with guilt.
After gorging myself, and emptying most of the wine, I was about to cork the bottle.
We were a valued resource they weren't about to rock that boat, much less sink it.
However, I wasn't about to pursue that subject.
I'd downed my bourbon and ginger and was about to return when my cell phone, on the kitchen counter, began to ring.
If shit was about to hit the fan like he suspected, he'd rather not spend his last days alone.
Talon and Czerno are about to face off, and Talon can't be the one to walk away from there.
As the leader of the Eastern Hemisphere, he wasn't about to let his Guardians know he was worried.
She looked too sweet to be someone about to destroy the fabric between the immortal and mortal worlds, even if he did sense some sort of dark secret in her gaze.
He didn't know if the Watchers would let him die or not, but he was about to find out.
He didn't know if she'd understand—or forgive him—for what he was about to do to her.
She wasn't about to contradict the cold executioner when he was in this mood.
The alternative – that her own body was about to betray her to the devil – wasn't something she could handle.
She was about to demand to know where the girl was sent when Past-Death's words jarred her.
The bed and breakfast had a full complement of guests for the first time in this, their second season, the domestic help opening seemed about to be filled, the weather was beautiful, the flowers were blooming and David Dean's campaign for sheriff looked promising.
She frowned and in a burst of unusual and caustic candor, explained how her son's life was much more complicated as he was about to become a father, baseball player and chuck his education and—although she didn't say it—mess up his life.
Dean felt a pang of sympathy—a child herself about to bring a life into the world.
I had to do something and I'm not about to drink—too damn early.
He knew with the Dawkinses about to leave and with the Lucky Pup Mine controversy settled, he'd better concentrate on finding an answer to the body Martha discovered before any chance to do so was gone for good.
Wynn pitied her but wasn't about to ask any favors of the demon lord that didn't involve Wynn leaving Hell – and Deidre – behind.
You weren't about to take a chance that you lose her, Gabriel said, grappling with the reasoning behind the demon lord's actions.
The leader of the Council That Was Seven is about to make a decision that will alter all their paths.
World War Three is about to break out and the Council will dissolve if I don't introduce the human who's immune to us.
But he wasn.t about to walk up and down the stairwell or traipse through the shadow world a million times to accomplish the same goal.
He was about to rise and open a portal to Hell—Kris be damned!—when an Immortal knocked and opened the door.
Kiera was about to grovel to her friend and apologize when the prisoner snatched her, wrapped a thick arm around her neck, and dragged her against his body.
The sheriff sat with his six-foot four-inch frame wedged behind his ancient desk, about to devour a large pastry.
He was about to give an emphatic "no" to her question but then, in an inspirational moment of civic buck-passing, decided that talking to the law might be a pretty damn good idea.
When she saw he wasn't about to strike her, she whirled back toward him, a sneer on her face as she exposed herself to him.
There's a good chance Donnie is finally about to get some psychiatric help— help a long time coming.
He glanced at the woman before bowing his head and added pleadingly, "I apologize for what I am about to do."
He grabbed her wrist, about to give her a lecture on appropriate behavior, but instead said, "Screw it" and locked eyes with her.
Kris and his mate, Hannah – Rhyn's other buffer – weren't about to live the rest of Immortality on the beach with him.
He's about to lead my demons to the underworld. With the Immortals in disarray and Death's … mistake, I can own the underworld before Rhyn can control his power enough to stop me.
He wasn't about to believe Death until he saw Katie for himself. A minute after midnight on the fourth day, if Katie wasn't standing beside him, he'd need the knowledge of where to set off the atomic bomb within him.
Toby reappeared after a few minutes, tugging a reluctant Lakhna with him. The otherworldly creature ducked and covered his head from the moon and crowded Toby as they crossed the courtyard. Rhyn pointed to Kiki, and Lakhna cringed. Rhyn was about to demand to know where Katie was when he heard her agitated voice.
Jenn eased back, not about to draw the creature's attention, not for the sake of a few stupid vamps.
What she'd done—and been about to do—made her step back.
The Oracle wasn't intimidated by Xander; she wasn't about to let him disrupt her day, a thought he heard when they were touching.
He wrapped his arms around the creature protectively, not about to let it go until every last drop of blood was gone.
Is successful in makes up about to allow rivals several remaining antitrust.
We see the auk about to be clubbed to death on Hirta in the year 1840.
I braced myself; something pretty awful was about to happen.
Television and the variety theater were about to become bedfellows.
The local newspaper reported the case - alerting his wife that he was about to commit bigamy.
Britain is about to lose that birthright of the law and with it, its nationhood.
Tell your opponent if they are about to run a hoop after taking a half bisque.
Just as his wife was about to remove the blindfold, the phone rang.
I'm just about to take some hardback copies of their books to the charity bookshop.
One morning, as he was about to drove some bullocks to Tavistock market, his wife dashed out into the yard.
He showed me a figure made at this time, a very carnivorous British lion about to eat Napoleon.
Very advanced breast cancer, about to do chemo, needs a lot of support.
We are about to land in a jungle clearing ahead.
We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
I am about to under go a resection or a total colectomy.
The target groups is about to greater contentment with.
Stickers will be produced to inform the public about the horrific cruelty behind the product they were about to buy.
He was just about to ask a share of the luncheon when the girl stood up and brushed the crumbs from her lap.
I've got a deuce of a lot of rushing about to do yet.
Fingernails to teeth -- cute doggy is about to get sliced!
This confirmed the fear that a new Catholic royal dynasty was about to be emerge.
He's a free spirit, but about to become earthbound, and seriously noodle headed.
Aptly the band closed with a well deserved encore, Lucky Peterson's ' Good Thing Is About To Run Out ' .
The trees stood strangely expectant, as if they were aware that something quite unique was about to descend upon their world.
By Dominic Prince, Daily Mail World Cup mania is about to have football fanatics glued to the TV.
Then it's about to face to unleash the fury, done with really impressive technical precision combined with a truly ferocious speed.
The Arabs are about to witness nothing less than the invasion of the eastern flank of the Arab nation.
The boat then sank from beneath them, and he looked about to see anything floating.
I am about to take the next folk club publicity flyer to our printers.
The new form of dietary folate is about to change all that.
At last Caithness was about to get a foretaste of what the future held in store for it.
In addition, 60 units could also represent a gamete about to divide to form 2 gametes.
The first is Saint James in his pilgrim's garb, as if about to set out for Santiago de Compostella.
Can you imagine Russel Crowe in the Hollywood film gladiator, about to face his death, weeping.
Nick Our most immaculately groomed team member is Nick, who is just about to leave Edinburgh Academy for the big wide world.
And a bitter grudge, hidden and carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to erupt.
Here the user is about to decide on just how much energy he/she would like to save.
The songs were about a mother humpback whale who is about to give birth to her first calf.
For many years I have noticed that when God is about to work He produces stillness -- a solemn hush -- and expectation.
Just before you think you are about to vomit war breaks out to shatter this romantic idyll.
Which is a roundabout way of saying I'm about to pinch Mark's idea and attempt a pale imitation of it here.
What Sam and Lucy are about to go through is absolutely inconceivable.
The confession I am about to make will add another to the already almost innumerable instances of the truth of the position.
SpeechPhone SoIP & VoIP Review. project interim managers Dialing is about to become a thing of the past.
It took a while for the public to catch on, but they now have and The Futureheads are about to go interstellar.
He argues that to be anonymous or to move residence is a fundamental liberty that is about to be taken away from us.
But I crashed in here, looking to evade some of them, and found you instead, about to become much less lifelike.
Just about to make the lunge, the bolt fell out.