And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.

And he had a feeling -- thanks to the girl -- that things would get worse before they got better.

And she really tried to go a step further and say she hoped they'd be just as right as they now were for her and for Rod.

And what eyes they were.

And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.

And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.

And both in their objectives of non-discrimination and of social progress they have had ranged against them the Southerners who are called Bourbons.

And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

And although these insights into the nature of art may be in themselves insufficient for a thoroughgoing philosophy of art, their peculiar authenticity in this day and age requires that they be taken seriously and gives promise that from their very substance, new and valid chapters in the philosophy of art may be written.

And I would further note that they all -- with one exception again -- sang in one key or another the same song.

And as they go through college, the students tend to bring their political position in line with that prevalent in the social groups to which they belong.

And although they were, as I have indicated, under increasing strain at the time of Racine, they are still alive in his theatre.

And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.

And they traveled out of New York.

And there must be many Soviet citizens who know what is going on and who realize that before they can hope to enjoy the full life promised for 1980 they and their children must first survive.

And they wouldn't leave off arguing and pleading until he had promised.

And in any case, answers may clarify but they do not change anything.

And so they went, he choosing of all places an inn near Medmenham Abbey, scene a generation ago of the obscene orgies of the Hellfire Club.

And as the Pilgrims bowed their heads in humble gratitude, they shared another feeling -- the anticipation of what the future held for them and their posterity.

And, besides, there are a large number of scholars, artists, composers of music, novelists, poets, essayists, choreographers, lawyers, servants of government, and men of affairs -- hundreds, indeed -- who serve the Foundation well with the advice they give us freely and gratis out of their experience.

And when this was gone, he hadn't even a little bitter tablet to purify other water if he were to discover some stagnant jungle pool.

And projecting wickedly through these curtains were the gleaming muzzles of six rifles, all trained on Billy Tilghman.

And no doubt many people in states like the Carolinas and Georgia, which were among the most Tory in sentiment in the eighteenth century, bitterly regretted the revolt against the Crown.

To Serenissimus such tribes as the Cossacks of the Don or those ex-bandits the Zaporogian Cossacks ( in whose islands along the lower Dnieper the Polish novelist Sienkiewicz would one day place With Fire And Sword ) were just elements for enforced resettlement in, say, Bessarabia, where, as `` the faithful of the Black Sea borders '', he could use their presence as bargaining points in the Czarina's territorial claims against Turkey.

) And then there were ecclesiastical matters, the matter of Garibaldi's anti-clericalism.

And then there were other things.

And while he had headed Batista's anti-Communist section, the Batista regime did not disturb the Communists so much as more open opponents who were alleged to be Communists.

`` And Jesus, when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him ''.

Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once And Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi.

And other defenders invariably argue that, after all, Shakespeare and Moliere were adapters too.

And if the foreigners fighting in the Katanga Army are mercenaries then Lafayette and Von Steuben were mercenaries too, as were also the members of the Lafayette Escadrille in the early part of World War 1, and of Chennault's Flying Tigers in the early days of World War 2.

And now the redcoats were coming, and the gunfire was a part of the dust cloud on the road to the west of us.

And indeed the young garden beans were brackish in her mouth.

And he could recognize, by touch alone, articles which he had handled immediately before, even though they were altogether unfamiliar to him and could not be identified by him ; ;

And the monastic communities were supposed to be made up of volunteers selected only after a novitiate which would test their religious aptitude for monastic rigors, their spiritual athleticism.

And once medicine, food, clothing and shelter had been provided for the flood's victims, communications and the mail were the next top problems.

And at his last commencement, in that year, Dr. Tucker and Dartmouth were honored by the presence of distinguished academic visitors attesting to the new stature of the college.

And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.

And women were not expected to know that the pitcher was trying not to let the batter hit the ball.

And how many of these were sons??

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

And their arrival caught John Clayton and Charles Ansley off guard.

And when you get off this job tonight, well, you can gimme something to eat ''.

And with that he walked off to give instruction to a rookie pitcher.

And with passenger weight shifted forward, Hotei levels off for speed under power of a Merc 800.

And even if he'd somehow missed seeing him, he wouldn't have gone off and left the light on and door open in the file room.

And I done favors for you, big favor not so long back, didn't I, and I'm right here to take on where Pretty left off.

And then off he went so casually, to someone else with breasts better developed, more obvious in a lower-cut dress, someone without a mouthful of wire bands and an inability to find words that would hold him.

And so off we went to her apartment.

`` And '', I was ticking off the items on my fingers, `` swears too much and goes out with the boys, whoever they are, too much, and who ever goes to church and won't even listen when I try to persuade him to come back to the fold ''.

And so, you see, I put people off their guard.

And against the sack of Megara, she had to face the temporary capture of the castle of Aegina by Kemal Reis and the carrying off of 2000 Aeginetans.

: And Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball ;

And it did not do execution, because he seldom loaded it, and never let it off.

And I roared when the shirt came off, and Sigourney rolls her eyes and says, ' There goes that shirt again.

And I am satisfied that there is no other city in the world that is so anxious to shake off the memories of its early origins.

" And being a very powerful man, he took him up in his arms, and carried him off per force.

And the Macedonians, who had docked closer to the city anyway, cut the rest of the fleet off outside the city gates, and on the road leading to the city.

::" And Be Merry " ( Eat Drink and Be Merry for Tomorrow We Die ) A lab biologist, female, takes advantage of her husband going off on an archeology trip, to use the privacy to experiment on herself for rejuvenation by a severe and dangerous method.

And finally, before the 1970s, parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia had been off limits to Western scholars, while non-Western archaeologists did not have access to publication in Western peer-reviewed journals.

And when Kapp did take off and run, instead of sliding when he was about to be tackled like most quarterbacks, he lowered his shoulder and went right at the tackler.

" And so God scattered them upon the face of the Earth, and confused their languages, and they left off building the city, which was called Babel " because God there confounded the language of all the Earth ".

* " Ladies And Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis " ( 1976 ) was a short story by science fiction author Kate Wilhelm about a television show in which contestants ( including a B-list actress who is hoping to revitalize her career ) attempt to make their way to a checkpoint after being dropped off in the Alaskan wilderness, while being filmed and broadcast around the clock through an entire weekend.

And another thing ; if you really don't like it, then fuck off ".