The old man beckoned with one finger and Clayton went forward to him.

He fled through the door and down the steps, running, and the men grunted and followed, pushing Lester to one side where he backed against the wall with the sleeve of his jacket raised before his eyes to shut out the light.

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.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

I'm not the only man in town with a gun, or the only one without a permit ''.

one with blood all over it, Arbuckle's blood ''.

All the doors were open at this hour except one, and it was toward this that Stevens made his way with Russ close at his shoulder.

Adios '', I said, exhausting my Spanish vocabulary on my host and exchanging one of a scarcely-tapped store of smiles with my host's daughters.

Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

The girl kneeled by her husband with one arm at his back.

And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.

He decided that the marines must be deploying around the meadow, with the one left to distract him.

Any posse riding down the street to demand Blue Throat's surrender would be wiped out with one deadly burst of fire.

Along each side of the room were six tiered bunks, each one screened off with a curtain.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

`` Oh, come on Miss Langford, play with us just onct '', one of the little girls begged, smiling wistfully.

With one hand she held her skirt down while she took Jack's extended hand with the other.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

He came to the edge of the veranda, peered down at them with his hand on his gun.

She raised a protesting hand with a startled air.

But with her hand poem again.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

He thought she gave him that look with the hidden something in it as he let her hand go.

Feathertop made an elaborate motion with his hand.

I don't mean a few aesthetes who play about with sensations, like a young prince in a miniature dabbling his hand in a pool.

He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

While I was sitting at one of the rewrite telephones with my derby and my great beard, Arthur Brisbane whizzed in with some editorial copy in his hand.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

For if Serenissimus made the sign of the Cross with his right hand, and meant it, with his left he beckoned lewdly to any lady who happened to catch his eye.

He looked disapprovingly at an ash tray piled high with cigarette stubs, shook his head, and moved his hand back and forth in a strong negative gesture.

The charge was so farfetched that Woodruff paid little attention to it, and answered Pike in a rather bored way, wearily declaring that a `` new hand '' was pumping the bellows of the Crittenden organ, and concluding: `` In a controversy with an adversary so utterly destitute of moral principles, even a triumph would entitle the victor to no laurels.

* Lao Xie Christopher Lee Matsuo ' Interviews with lao xie ' conducted by hikaru ono in honolulu, Hawaii

* The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, and Issa, Bashō Matsuo, Buson Yosano, Issa Kobayashi ( edited with verse translation by Robert Hass ), Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1994, ISBN 0-88001-372-9

* Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen ( 1993 ) – with Masaharu Iwata and Hayato Matsuo

* Sword Maniac ( 1994 ) – with Hayato Matsuo

* Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber ( 1999 ) – with Masaharu Iwata and Hayato Matsuo

* Final Fantasy XII ( 2006 ) – with Masaharu Iwata, Hayato Matsuo, and Nobuo Uematsu

On March 27, 2006 Narutō was merged with the towns of Sanbu and Matsuo, and the village of Hasunuma, all from Sanbu District to form the new city of Sanmu, and thus no longer exists as an independent municipality.

On March 27, 2006 Sanbu was merged with the towns of Matsuo and Narutō, and the village of Hasunuma, all from Sanbu District to form the new city of Sanmu, and thus no longer exists as an independent municipality.

On March 27, 2006 Hasunuma was merged with the towns of Sanbu and Narutō, and Matsuo, all from Sanbu District to form the new city of Sanmu, and thus no longer exists as an independent municipality.

On March 27, 2006 Matsuo was merged with the towns of Sanbu and Narutō, and the village of Hasunuma, all from Sanbu District to form the new city of Sanmu, and thus no longer exists as an independent municipality.

On September 1, 2005 Nishine, along with the town of Ashiro, and the village of Matsuo, was merged to form the city of Hachimantai and no longer exists as an independent municipality.

On September 1, 2005 Matsuo, along with the towns of Ashiro and Nishine, was merged to form the city of Hachimantai and no longer exists as an independent municipality.

* April 1, 1889-in accordance with the municipal system, the former villages of Matsuo, Noda and Yosegi are merged to create the village of Matsuo, North Iwate District.

On September 1, 2005 Ashiro, along with the town of Nishine, and the village of Matsuo, was merged to form the city of Hachimantai and no longer exists as an independent municipality.

* Symphonic Legends-Music from Nintendo ( 2010 ) – with Jonne Valtonen, Roger Wanamo, Hayato Matsuo, Masashi Hamauzu and Torsten Rasch

Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period.

From the time of Matsuo Bashō ( 1644 – 1694 ), the hokku began to appear as an independent poem, and was also incorporated in haibun ( in combination with prose ), and haiga ( in combination with a painting ).