Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

He was tall and dark-skinned, a half-breed, Wilson thought.

It was obvious that he wished himself different from the sort of person he thought he was.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

Perhaps it was insane, Pamela thought.

It was not, thought Pamela, such an evil place after all.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

His presence there, asleep in the grass, confirmed all that Mary Jane believed it was in his power to teach her: freedom from the tedium of needs such as hotels, the meaning of nature, how to live, simply, with the angels.

`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??

Lincoln saw that the act of secession made the issue for the Union a vital one: Whether it was a Union of sovereign citizens that should continue to live, or an association of sovereign states that must fall prey either to `` anarchy or despotism ''.

But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

It was not until we had returned to the city to live, while I was still at Brown and Sharpe's, that I felt the full impact of evangelical Christianity.

This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

First of all there was the parsonage, an utterly impossible place for civilized people to live in, originally poorly conceived, apparently not repaired for years, with no plumbing or sewage, with rat-holes and rot.

`` On the hoof '' was a reference to live cattle and was also used in referrin' to cattle travelin' by trail under their own power as against goin' by rail.

She didn't mind working hard, not as if she figured to do anything wrong to live easy and soft -- all she wanted was a chance, where she wasn't marked as what she was.

Doc Abel was busy up front with some of his live patients.

The First Christian Church of Pampa was the setting for the wedding last Sunday of Miss Marcile Marie Glison and Thomas Earl Loving Jr., who will live at 8861 Gaston after a wedding trip to New Orleans, La.

As man can live only by dying, so it was only by his dying that Christ could bring many to life.

To live correctly in an interdependent moral and material universe of living and dead was decisive for man's fate.

One of the script's big problems was how to blend pictures and music of the past with live performances by musicians of today.

But it didn't take Judy Garland, showman, long to realize that this sort of thing was par for the course at Newport and that you have to learn to live with it.

The cauldron was known as the Undry and was said to be bottomless, from which no man left unsatisfied.

Renault was down to just three alternatives regarding its American holdings: ( 1 ) They could declare AMC officially bankrupt thereby lose its investment ; ( 2 ) They could come up with more money, but Renault management perceived AMC as a bottomless pit ; or ( 3 ) AMC could be put up for sale and the French could get back part of their investment.

By 1979, the ACB was in desperate financial straits and faced the prospect of fighting an opponent who had seemingly bottomless cash resources.

And Lord threw him out from the height with his angels, and he was flying in the air continuously above the bottomless.

Often when an interurban was first constructed, in rural country the adjacent road was unpaved and became bottomless mud during summer wet periods or in winter.

The name is derived from the Greek ( ábyssos ), abyss, meaning bottomless ( a holdover from the times when the deep ocean was believed to be bottomless ).

Zork < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > predecessor, Colossal Cave Adventure, used bottomless pits to achieve the same result, but when early versions of Zork adopted this practice, it was realized that pits were appearing in unlikely places, such as the attic of a house, and with no corroborating evidence elsewhere ( such as holes in the ceiling or floor in the room directly below ).

Upon executing the plan, however, they discover that behind the rockfall was a seemingly bottomless pit, not a passage to the centre of the earth.

Readers should understand that this book is Russell Means ' version of reality, and it does not necessarily bear any relationship to the truth ... Ultimately, this book is a chronicle of Means ' bottomless rage ..." which Brenner notes may have been justified by " the circumstances of his life in particular or American Indian lives in general ," but he thought Means ' stance was overdone.

It was once believed to be bottomless, and according to local legend the parishioners of Walkhampton ( or Sheepstor ) brought up the bell ropes from the parish church to test its depth.

He noted that features of the area resembled those pictured in the Li ' l Abner comic strip: Mill Creek Canyon at the base of a 55-foot ( 16. 8 m ) waterfall was deep enough to be the " bottomless canyon ",< ref >

And Lord threw him out from the height with his angels, and he was flying in the air continuously above the bottomless.

The dirt and rock excavated during the making of the Fields was dumped into the bottomless “ Crack ” from which the Pyramid draws the Earth-Current.

It is revealed in this episode that the reason for Six's imprisonment was his invention of the bottomless peanut bag.

The market for anything on wheels was bottomless ; it did not matter whether the car cost $ 1, 800 ( Clipper Eight ).

According to different legends, it is either bottomless, connected by underground passages to lake Champlain, or was formed as a direct result of the devil successfully convincing several of the early settlers to abandon their promise to attend mass at the newly established chapel every Sunday.

On 11 November 1944 the 37th was caught on the road and lost six tanks because they could not maneuver off-road due to the bottomless mud.

It is still thought to be haunted by either a " sprite " or an " Anglo-Saxon maiden " and until relatively recently was still considered " bottomless ".

His intention was to restore the philosophy of Plato, the genuine Pythagorean and mediator between Socrates and Pythagoras in its original purity, cleared from the Aristotelian and Stoic doctrines, and purified from the unsatisfactory and perverse explanations, which he said were found even in Speusippus and Xenocrates, and which, through the influence of Arcesilaus and Carneades had led to a bottomless skepticism.