A company of cavalry couldn't come in there if two men were guarding that trail ''.

But there were other homesteaders who passed the Lewis murder off as a personal grudge killing, the work of one of his neighbors.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

He opened the myth book again and there ( along the margin next to Robert Graves' imaginative interpretation of the creation of the Dactyls from Rhea's fingertips ) were the names of four Munich bars and Meredith Wilder's address.

there was not a match-width of damp mark to show they were receding.

The laces were broken at the bottom of the eyelets but there was still a bow knot at the top.

The fear had not entirely gone from her face, but there were some other emotions now, crowding into her eyes and the lines of her mouth.

Because he couldn't hear them, he was more convinced they were there.

It sounded as if the man were calling him: `` Hey, Japanese hey there, Japanese ''.

When they reached the school, a gang of boys and girls were already there playing `` crack the whip '' in front of the schoolhouse.

She remained squatting on her heels all the time we were there ; ;

But there have been abrupt changes as well: the sit-ins, the picket lines, the bus strikes -- all of these were unheard-of even ten years ago.

Their President, Jefferson Davis, interpreted their Constitution to mean that it `` admits of no coerced association '', but this remained so doubtful that `` there were frequent demands that the right to secede be put into the Constitution ''.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

it was mud in wet weather and dust, ankle-deep, in dry, and could be crossed only at the corner where there were stepping stones.

After only eighteen years of non-interference, there were already indications of melioration, though `` in a slight degree '', to be sure.

A recent newspaper report said there were five Negroes in the 1960 graduating class of nearly one thousand at Yale ; ;

This organizational network would be of no avail if there were no regulations pertaining to the types of message sent.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

The butlers were amused because when the Stearns were there, the President would say grace at breakfast.

She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.

Two men, together like us, we could do somethin fine out there, maybe find a place where no one's ever been.

there was no doubt he was dying.

The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.

Glowering looks met them in the bar, but there was no attempt to halt them.

As far as he could see there was no hole to climb through it.

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.

This time there was no sound of brakes but the shrieking of women.

In one hand he gripped firmly a parasol though there had been no indication of rain.

Nevertheless, there is no bath.

To his puzzlement, there suddenly was no haze.

Even yet there was no realization in his eyes.

But there was no definite agreement about business arrangements ''.

But there is no use causing him to worry at this time ''.

Then there was no saying how many times the marine had blown his nose on the handkerchief.

It was snowing hard when they got there and they saw no horses outside.

And there is no section of the nation more ardent than the South in the cold war against Communism.

`` I'd wind up full of bullet holes '', he said, and there was no question that he was talking about bullets fired by his coworkers.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

In Persia, where practically speaking there are no museums or libraries or, for that matter, hardly any books, the twins run free.

Their consequences are irrelevant -- or there are no consequences at all.

In fact, although we have dispelled the fear, we have not necessarily assured ourselves that there are no dangers.

`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.

If life and death did not both present themselves to us, there would be no inscrutability.