Once, the shots came on a late November afternoon.
On a November afternoon, two men accused of being highway bandits were brought out before the standing-room-only crowd and pushed to the ground.
I asked what thoughts came to mind as he looked back over three and a half decades to that November afternoon.
On a wild November afternoon, you might, for example, be wading down a brook that empties into a salt marsh.
The November afternoon was still sunny, but dark clouds were building over the mountains.
On a dark, wet November afternoon, the twisting old street in the financial district is packed.
Lamps had been lighted against the darkening, short November afternoon.
Fain describes the day as "a gusty November afternoon, but the sun was warm and the air sparkling".
He had been locked in a cabin, a prisoner with the officers when the bombers came on a low-clouded November afternoon.
On a November afternoon, the sun seemed to disappear rapidly.