Keith's eyes met Penny's as they stood there in this strange marriage of destruction.

When they stood about his tent, chaffing each other, exchanging their obscenities, cursing command or weather, he had studied their faces.

The doctor stood about, waiting for Alex to dress, with a show of impatience, and soon they were moving, as quietly as could be, through the still-dark hallways, past the bedroom of the patronne, and so into the street.

unwarranted they were in any case for, as he stood facing the fille de chambre, his ears were assailed by new sounds from the interior of the shower room.

She measured the distance from where they stood to the men and the gun, measured the distance from the men to the back room.

When they had gone, he stood for a minute breathing in the mustiness of old paper and leather which the busily thrumming air conditioner couldn't quite dispel.

What otherwise could `` the lawyer, doctor, minister, the men of science and letters '' do when told that they had `` become the cherubim and seraphim and the three archangels who stood before the golden throne of the merchant, and continually cried, ' Holy, holy, holy is the Almighty Dollar ' ``??

The pipes burst and they all laughed and stood in ice water to their ankles while they swabbed the bathrooms.

He straightened himself, soldierly against the wall, and pulled his sprawled feet together so they stood side by side in their old boots.

And when they stood by the fountain in the piazza looking at Santa Maria he had to keep a straight face, not letting on he had been there with Alberto.

The other women had come close now, their voices murmuring together until they stood buzzing in an angry knot, their threats mingling, rising, nagging at each other, each trying to make her indignation and anger felt.

The Hebrew and Nabataean alphabets, as they stood by the Roman era, were little changed in style from the Imperial Aramaic alphabet.

Socrates happened to be the citizen presiding over the assembly that day and refused to cooperate ( though to little effect ) and stood against the idea that it was outrageous for the people to be unable to do whatever they wanted.

When Joshua read the Law to the people between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, they stood on each side of the Ark.

Mérode-Westerloo later wrote – " died to a man where they stood, stationed right out in the open plain – supported by nobody.

A year earlier, he succeeded in establishing the Orioles as a legitimate contender when they stood atop the AL standings as late as early September before finishing in second place at 89 – 65.

Once, when his younger son Leonid fell seriously ill, Zinaida extracted a promise from her husband, as they stood by the boy's sickbed, that he would end his affair with Olga Ivinskaya.

And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, " Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven?

However, they were also aware that the Rump might be all that stood in the way of an outright military dictatorship.

A study of 1540 US adults found instead that levels of scientific literacy were correlated with the strength of opinion on climate change, but not on which side of the debate that they stood.

In earlier years the band had criticized neo-Nazi skinheads for trying to ruin the punk scene, but just as big a problem was the increasing popularity of thrash metal and stereotypical macho " post-1982 hardcore " which brought the group ( and their genre ) an audience that had little to do with the ideas / ideals they stood for.

stood for " Mother Father Sister Brother "; to the tough black areas where they came from it was understood to stand for " Mother Fuckin Son of a Bitch ".

Traditionally, double bassists stood when playing solo and sat when they played in the orchestra or opera pit.

they rode at a measured pace through the valley.

All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

Beyond the stockade rifles began to explode as some of the guerrillas fired at shadows that they imagined were Apaches.

Wilson backed the team into the traces, and wished they weren't going to town at all.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

`` 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.

Frozen, they stared at it whirling down the valley, gouging and spitting out boulders and chunks of earth like a starving hound dog cracking marrowbones.

Beaten with fear and sound and wet and chill, they crawled to the hurricane deck and looked out haggardly at a world of water that reached clear to the surrounding hills.

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.

Sometimes they just parked at the side of the road and used radar on the trucks as they passed.

`` There's a body you won't mind looking at '', Benson said and they stopped.

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

Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;

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.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

The boys had beautiful dark eyes and unlike their father they brushed constantly at the flies and blinked their eyes.

But, since they have rejected both narrative and emotional continuity, how are they to unify the impressive array of materials at their disposal??

they look straight at the audience, not at each other.

Such problems are of extreme interest as well as importance and are so much like fighting in a rain forest or guerrilla warfare at night in tall grass that we might have to re-examine primitive conflicts for what they could teach.