Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.

He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.

There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.

`` Gyp'll be holdin' forth in some bar if he's here at all '', Cobb declared, glancing along the street as they stretched their legs.

It was as if they could hardly wait to get into their costumes, cover their faces with masks and go adventuring.

It was spoiled now for seed, and it would sour and mold in three days if they failed to find a place and fuel to dry it.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

Unanimously they believe that the world would become a safer place if more of us -- and more Russians and Communist Chinese, too -- thought about accidental war.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

They look as if they had been sculptured with an unsharpened chisel.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..

Thus, if corporations are not to run away with us, they must become quasi-governmental institutions, subject to public control and needs.

They have indicated the direction but they have not been explicit enough, I believe, in pointing out Faulkner's independence, his questioning if not indeed challenging the Southern tradition.

Perfect, complete entities, if they move at all, do not move towards what they lack.

At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;

if one bullies, they say it is because one is afraid ; ;

if one shuns, they say it is because one desires ; ;

New Nations, and others struggling with the problems of development, will progress only -- regardless of any outside help -- if they demonstrate faith in their own destiny and use their own resources to fulfill it.

As for missionaries, even if they succeeded in getting into the country they probably would not be allowed to preach the Christian faith to the Burmans.

His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.

The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.

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.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

Dill was silent as if he hated to answer, and Barton had a cold, sick feeling of apprehension.

How could he exert authority over them -- make them toe the line, as he had to -- if he knuckled under to this small-town clown??

Greg climbed into the cockpit feeling as if he had never been in one before.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

Greg slammed his throttle to the fire wall and rammed up the RPM, and the engine responded as if it had been waiting.

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.

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

but if it had been, it had been smothered until now by fear ): you could tell it by the way she watched the older, bigger boys, like Jack.

and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.

They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.

He lifts her, puts her down, and walks off, neither pleased nor disturbed, as if nothing had happened.

He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.

Under the influence of marijuana the beatnik comes alive within and experiences a wonderfully enhanced sense of self as if he had discovered the open sesame to the universe of being.

It is idle to ask why we are no longer disturbed if somebody, professing the deepest piety, decides anew that it is of no importance whether or not Christ transformed the water into wine at eleven A.M. on the third of August, A.D. 32.

Hence if it makes an ' inappropriate landing ', the assessment of that plant is negative, and the insect must start the process anew.

A program called an interpreter reads each program line following the program flow, converts it to machine code, and executes it ; the machine code is then discarded, to be interpreted anew if the line is executed again.

" The appellate court reviews issues of law de novo ( anew, no deference ) and may reverse or modify the lower court's decision if the appellate court believes the lower court misapplied the facts or the law.

Another concern was, " The Russian Constitution stipulates that in a presidential election, if the turn-out is less than 50 %, a new round has to be held, with candidates registering anew.

Consequently most of the work regarding the evolution of this assemblage needs to be evaluated anew and if necessary even redone.

This cultural evolutionary requirement was also analyzed by Will & Ariel Durant who stated that " Civilization is not inherited ; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew ; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

Each of the ten decurios enjoyed in succession the regal power and its badges for five days as interrex ; and if no king was appointed at the expiration of fifty days, the rotation began anew.

Her absence at giving out the ruling itself was no legal objection, but if the request of the FPIM had been honored, and deliberations had been reopened, it would have been a requirement that she was present, or that the case had been tried anew by a different set of judges, in which case any ruling would take place well after the deal with BNP Paribas was finalized.

This, however, presupposes that one is ready to start critical thinking at this point anew if necessary.

* After infecting a bird, the parasite develops into a schistosomulum and migrates through the host ’ s circulatory system ( or nervous system in case of T. regenti ) to the final location within the host body where it matures and, if it encounters a mate, sheds eggs to begin the cycle anew.

Rabbi Yochanan promised Resh Lakish his sister's hand in marriage if the latter would rejoin the yeshiva and begin his studies anew ( Baba Metzia 84a ).

* Grandfather clause, an exemption that allows a pre-existing condition to continue, even if such a condition is now prohibited from being begun anew