If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

A detailed scouring of the entire area revealed nothing beyond a ledge of rocks that might have been the rifleman's hiding place.

Yet had he not visited the girl at Saw Buck he would never have been involved in this latest tangle.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

`` The commercials have just been for money, there hasn't been any real incentive for me to do them, but in Underwater Western Eye I'd have a chance to act.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.

`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.

The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.

She might have been someone he had once loved.

Benson said, and Ramey wondered how close their thoughts might have been.

And he would have enjoyed it just as much if he had been a Nazi.

The deeds of countless western bandits and outlaws have been glorified almost to the point of hero-worship, but because Billy Tilghman remained strictly on the side of the law throughout his action-packed career, his achievements and the appalling risks he took while taming the West have remained almost unsung.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.

With eyes focused on the third congressional district, the historic Delta district, and Congressman Frank E. Smith as the one most likely to go, the redistricting battle will put to a test the longstanding power which lawmakers from the Delta have held in the Legislature.

Systematic reviews of the field have found that the number of ATC are growing rapidly, but have focused on memory and planning, that there is emerging evidence for efficacy, that a lot of scope exists to develop new ATC.

The challenge to the status has focused on the Agnostina partly because juveniles of one genus have been found with legs greatly different from those of adult trilobites, suggesting they are not members of the lamellipedian clade, of which trilobites are a part.

Some luthiers have increasingly focused their attention on the needs of fingerstylists and have developed unique guitars for this style of playing.

The effort has focused on changes observed during the period of instrumental temperature record, when records are most reliable ; particularly on the last 50 years, when human activity has grown fastest and observations of the troposphere have become available.

Instead many Canadian companies have focused their exploration and expansion activities overseas where prices are lower and governments more accommodating.

The conspiratorial forces are alleged to have focused their energies on a limited, well-defined objective.

The Barbados introductions were focused on the biological control of pests damaging the sugarcane crops, and while the toads became abundant, they have not been as successful in controlling the pests as in Australia.

Extensive sociological, sexological and medical debate have focused on the clitoris, primarily concerning anatomical accuracy, orgasmic factors and their physiological explanation for the G-Spot, and whether the clitoris is vestigial, an adaptation, or serves a reproductive function.

Control strategies have mostly focused on eliminating the triatomine insect vector and preventing transmission from other sources.

More recently, beginning at the 1997 CHOGM, the meeting has had an official ' theme ', set by the host nation, on which the primary discussions have been focused.

Both versions of critical theory have focused on the processes by which human communication, culture, and political consciousness are created.

Recent historic ecumenical efforts on the part of the Catholic Church have focused on healing the rupture between the Western (" Catholic ") and the Eastern (" Orthodox ") churches.

Many studies have focused on diets that reduce calories via a low-carbohydrate ( Atkins diet, Scarsdale diet, Zone diet ) diet versus a low-fat diet ( LEARN diet, Ornish diet ).

The history of discrete mathematics has involved a number of challenging problems which have focused attention within areas of the field.

Though foreign-driven economic approaches have mostly focused on exports and on resource exploitation and development rather than on sustainable economic development and stability within the regions and the micro-environments, some economic teams, such as one led by David Lempert, have sought to focus on sustainability.

Starting in 2007 with an economy surpassed by the economic crisis, Ecuador was subject to a number of economic policy reforms by Government that have helped steer the Ecuadorian economy to a sustained, substantial, and focused to achieve financial stability and social policy.

While philosophers have generally considered the human mind to include broad faculties, such as reason and lust, evolutionary psychologists describe evolved psychological mechanisms as narrowly focused to deal with specific issues, such as catching cheaters or choosing mates.

Some films have focused on the immigrant experience, such as the 1984 TV miniseries Ellis Island.

Unfortunately, historians, both mediaeval and modern, have taken less of an interest in what this epithet suggests about the king's advisers, and have instead focused on the image it creates of a blundering, misfit king.

Some more focused reform projects, affecting only a particular feature of the language, have gained a few adherents.