In the early afternoon, however, the mystery was cleared up.

The objective of this Division was the important Junction Station on the Turks' Jaffa-Jerusalem railway, and a big step forward was made in the early afternoon by the overcoming of a stubborn resistance at Mesmiyeh, troops rushing the village from the south and capturing 292 prisoners and 7 machine guns.

That day I visited the trenches on the Volconiac, starting in the early afternoon and getting back at nightfall.

I left Swanscombe in the early afternoon, and passing through Northfleet with its great church of St Botolph I followed the road with many happy glimpses of the Thames, avoiding Gravesend and making southward for the Watling Street, which I found at last, and an old Inn at the cross roads upon it.

That portion of the lines that the division of which I am a member was given for the purpose of the attack, it was thought would take the entire day, but our division was on its objective by early afternoon and had commenced to dig in, from which position they could defy the Germans with impunity.

On one of the first days of the year 1880, in the early afternoon, husband and wife went for a walk in the copse on the little hill above Rylands.

Peter got up from his chair and looked out at his high window into the early afternoon.

In the public theaters, the play began in the early afternoon, usually between two and three o'clock, and lasted for about two hours.

She favored an early afternoon start; he argued for his point of view, and in their preoccupation with the passage of arms they did not notice Pedro Nogales slipping along beside the hedge with soft steps, his hand under his jacket.

It was a glorious feast they had that early afternoon beside the shaded creek.

I chose an early afternoon train.

Indeed it is a "dream-scene," and as seen in the sleepy stillness of the early afternoon, when the shadows are already playing with the lights and gradually overcoming them, it seems like fancy, not reality.

A fussy tug took the Celestine the last stage of her journey, and early afternoon found her warped in to the wharf where Ken had seen her on the eve of her departure.

" Doodles decided to see Miss Lily before going home, so it was still early afternoon when he entered the little house on North Charles Street.

" A few days before the fall of Antwerp a Taube flew over the city in the early afternoon, dropping thousands of proclamations printed in both French and Flemish and signed by the commander of the investing forces, pointing out to the inhabitants the futility of resistance, asserting that in fighting Germany they were playing Russia's game, and urging them to lay down their arms.

"They're going to arrest him to-morrow, Friday, in the early afternoon," he said in a low voice.

As the hours of the early afternoon went by, Blanche more and more marvelled at Varick's extraordinary powers of self-command.

Safely secreted in the forecastle during the early afternoon, you could not fail to hear, some hours later, a signal tapped on the deck forward.

In the early afternoon they came to Azay, and, passing quickly through the little village and out into the country again, they were soon at the entrance of the great park surrounding Azay-le-Roi.

In the early afternoon when we again passed it the sun was out, and we tried to get photographs.

In the early afternoon, in the midst of a downpour of rain, we crossed the divide between the basins of the Paraguay and the Amazon.

From October 18th until the early afternoon of November 8th, at the private institution, I had been classed as a raving maniac.

By early afternoon, the answer, on great, black-lettered posters, was swabbed to the sides of buildings all over town: "DE VALERA RECEPTION FORBIDDEN!"

After that, Churchill fought on alone, arriving at the police post at the head of Bennett in the early afternoon.

If all went well, she counted upon being back, perhaps with Guy accompanying her, in the early afternoon.