Having been charged with murder, Anjirō had fled Japan.

In Malacca in December, 1547, Francis Xavier met a Japanese man named Anjirō.

A statue of Francis Xavier ( middle ) with his Japanese disciples Anjirō ( left ) and Bernardo the Japanese | Bernardo ( right ), in Xavier Park ( Kagoshima, Japan ).

Barton's voice was rougher than Dill had ever heard it.

He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.

Greg had the stick forward and the throttle up before he heard the two `` Rogers ''.

I heard subsequently that my Uncle and Aunt had dinner in a nearby restaurant in the French Quarter after which he went home to get into his costume to keep the date.

They had never seen a tultul but they had heard about it from their fathers ''.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

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.

Waddell had heard that he had been a commando in Rommel's Afrika Corps, and he said to himself: I'd hate to run into him in the desert on a dark night.

Waddell was not an eminently moral person, but he did not like what he had just heard.

The Reverend James Doran had scarcely completed Pat Conyers' last rites on Boot Hill in the township of Petrie, when shots were heard in the distance.

These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.

The orator of this period, in order to earn a reputation, had to pay close attention to the formal composition of his speech, judging how it would appear in print as well as the effect it would have on the audience that heard it.

She had, she said, heard that the plant was closing.

For a while there was such shrill girlish commotion I couldn't have made myself heard if I'd had the equivalent of the message to Garcia.

They had not heard what had been said.

Stevie had heard these words many times, yet on each occasion they caused him to tremble.

Papa was disappointed that none of the brothers had heard the Call.

He had never heard the word reactionary before his life as a POW began.

What had that man, that other young Jew, felt as he stood in the twilight and heard other men, far away, singing together??

Kate had no idea what they were talking of, although she had seen the blue lights and strange fires burning and winking on the ridges at night, had heard horsemen on the River Road and hill trails through the nights till dawn.

Morgan returned to the kitchen, built a fire, and carried in several buckets of water from the spring which he poured into the copper boiler that he had placed on the stove.

He had taken a carbine down from the wall and it trailed from his hand, the stock bumping on the wood floor.

The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

Already some of the pain had gone from Amelia's death.

One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

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.

It sprang from a type of mentality I'd encountered often enough but certainly had not expected to find here.

It was to him that Barton had sent Carl Dill on Dill's release from the prison.

It had drawn them together, and since his release from prison Dill had worked tirelessly to effect this night's escape.

Ten years older than Mitch Barton, he had clawed his way up from mucker in the pits to manager of the operation.

Kodyke had appeared at the mine one day bearing a letter from Kruger.

She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.

She had to move in some direction -- any direction that would take her away from this evil place.

He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.

He could not grasp that Lord had withdrawn from the fight minutes ago, and that his leaden arms were flailing at nothing but the air.

Billie had unhitched the mules from both Tom Brannon's and his father's wagon.

Hogan got down from the saddle and had a look inside.

He'd mounted up immediately and raced with a revolver ready toward the spot from which he'd estimated the shot had come.

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.