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Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.
He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.
From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.
The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.
Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.
The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.
The sun was noon high and Matsuo perspired until his body was dripping.
He didn't look back and he ran until he was out of sight of the schoolhouse and out of breath ; ;
Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.
Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.
Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.
He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.
His company then carried out a confused retreating movement until it was surrounded by the Germans, a few days before France capitulated.
Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;

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Yes, there was plenty of water, too much, and that was probably the trouble.
`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.
Yes, Blanche was very, very sweet -- being in her company was like being drowned in warm, melted marshmallows.
Arlene was so ashamed that she hung her head when she said, `` Yes, sir ''.
When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.
Yes, she had missed it after her talk with Emile, after dinner, just before Emile was shot.
Yes, I had cried out that I knew she'd do it, but without my fully realizing it at the time, it was a cry of triumph for her, praise at her deliverance from pettiness and greed -- and guilt.
Yes, there was the key.
* Jon Anderson, singer with rock band Yes, was born there
Yes: “ The general duties of every corporation may be collected from the nature and design of its institution: it should act agreeably to its nature, and fulfill the purposes for which it was formed .” Who sees that corporations are living up to those duties?
" It is believed he was the intended target of the Yes, Minister joke where Jim Hacker, upon being asked for the political implications of becoming an E. U. commissioner, replies: " you're reduced to forming a new party if you ever want to get back in ".
Although the contemporary score, which included pop songs by Freddy Mercury of Queen, Pat Benatar and Jon Anderson of Yes was controversial, the door had been opened for a new approach to presentation of classic " silent " films.
The former ten-year moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants was the result of a citizens ' initiative voted on in 1990 which had passed with 54. 5 % Yes vs. 45. 5 % No votes ( see Nuclear power in Switzerland for details ).
Yes there was LSD.
Rick Wakeman was an on again-off again, keyboard virtuoso for Yes who also produced several solo symphonic prog concept albums.
Unfortunately, they did not have a recognisable lead singer like Yes, ELP or Genesis ( The Snow Goose was entirely instrumental ) which limited their success.
According to Yes drummer Alan White, Toledo was especially memorable for a sweltering-hot 1977 show the group did at Toledo Sports Arena.
Later in 1974, Vangelis was widely tipped to join another prog-rock band, Yes, following the departure of Rick Wakeman.
* Actor Philip Michael Thomas was asked by television producers if he had ever played a police officer, and he replied " Yes, I was a cop in a feature film.
" When he explained to Beckett that he was playing Lucky as if he were suffering from Parkinson's, Beckett said, "' Yes, of course.
The Dangerhouse session version of " Los Angeles " was also featured in a Dangerhouse compilation in 1979 called " Yes L. A ." ( a play on the now-famous No Wave compilation No New York ), a picture disc that featured other early-punk-era LA bands like the Weirdos and Black Randy.
In 1996, the story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted into a holiday musical " Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus " by David Kirchenbaum ( music and lyrics ) and Myles McDonnel ( book ).

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