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`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.
`` You mean you dragged your wife all over hell's half-acre looking for work ''??
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
They blame us for all their troubles.
It poured out of him like an electric current, a feeling that the muscles and nerves of his fine-drawn body were coiling for action, and that that action would be all that he anticipated.
It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
`` Soon as we send them on their way and make camp, let's you and me go for a walk down by the Snake -- all by ourselves ''.
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.
There were no less than six or seven saloons in Ganado, not counting the lower class dives, all vying for the trade of celebrating miners and teamsters.
It was fun for me, all right.
this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.
Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.
`` I guess he spent the morning getting himself all organized, then headed for home.
`` You think I got you and Artie and Herr Schaffner all the way out here just for the boat ride??
I will make him distributor for all of Florida -- a big market.
Once and for all he'd finish this marine who would not die.
`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.
At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.
For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.
Alternate locations exist for all key command centers.
These songs ( practically all Persian music, for that matter ) are limited to a range of two octaves.
First of all, to Italy for a short vacation -- Forte Dei Marmi, a place he loves.
`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

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and it is not unlikely that, even as the great Bach lay dormant for so many years, so has the erudite, ingenious SalFininistas passed through his `` purgatory '' of neglect.
* 2007: Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly, " for his zestful, wide ranging restaurant reviews, expressing the delight of an erudite eater.
* CCXXIV Olympias Romanorum XII, Hadrianus, regnavit annis XXI-in 224th Olympiad regnal year 2 (= 118CE ) " Hadrian was most erudite in both languages, but also he was not self-controlled enough in his desire for boys " ( Hadrianus eruditissimus fuit in utraque lingua, sed in puerorum amore parum continens fuit.
Elitist and erudite, claiming to " abhor all common things ," Callimachus is best known for his short poems and epigrams.
But a distinctively descriptive and erudite fu form ( not the same fu character as that used for the bureau of music ) developed that has been called " rhyme-prose ," a uniquely Han offshoot of Chinese poetry's tradition.
Thus, Johann Heinrich Zedler in 1741 wrote that " even though Europe is the smallest of the world's four continents, it has for various reasons a position that places it before all others ... its inhabitants have excellent customs, they are courteous and erudite in both sciences and crafts.
The arrival of erudite, well-read, multilingual university lecturer with English fluency was seen as a great triumph for the SLP organization.
In the revised script, writer Gabriele d ' Annunzio gave the character the name Maciste, which he understood ( based on the above or similar sources ) to be an erudite synonym for Hercules.
He was one of the great preachers of his time, an erudite writer on Christian subjects, the first minister of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the first settlers and founders of both the city of Hartford and the state of Connecticut, and cited by many as the inspiration for the " Fundamental Orders of Connecticut ," cited by some as the world's first written democratic constitution that established a representative government .< ref > Following the Rev.
He won acclaim for his erudite République de Berne et la France pendant les guerres de religion, which was published in 1891 and also widespread recognition for Histoire de la Suisse racontée au peuple ( A People's History of Switzerland ), which was published in 1900.
Hardy's verse style is sometimes convoluted and awkward and he shows a certain love of rare or erudite words ( both of these stylistic habits would be condemned by François de Malherbe in the same period ); for these reasons later critics have called Hardy unreadable.
There is a marked distinction between the main Letters of Junius, intended for the erudite public, and his miscellaneous letters.
The 19th century erudite Croatian historians who wrote the first history books for the public opted for Šubić which, in the ardent nationalistic spirit of the time, sounded reassuringly Slavic as compared to Breber.
Often combining factual reporting with conservative commentary, Will's columns are known for their erudite vocabulary, allusions to political philosophers, and frequent references to baseball.
In 1854 he won a prize offered by the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences for the best work on the pronunciation and accent of Latin, a treatise which at once took rank, on its publication under the title of Über Aussprache, Vocalismus, und Betonung der lateinischen Sprache ( 1858 – 1859 ), as one of the most erudite and masterly works in its department.
The title character " Bunky " ( short for Bunker Hill, Jr .) was a hapless waif whose penniless parents, Bunker Hill, Sr. and Bibsy, had given birth to the strangely erudite newborn with the enormous nose on November 13, 1927.
He is best known for playing Prof. Roy Hinkley ( usually referred to as " The Professor "), the erudite polymath who could build all sorts of inventions out of the most rudimentary materials available on the island, but, as Johnson himself pointed out, could not fix the hole in the boat.
The editor compiles a lengthy list of diverse authors, whilst making sure to interject with comments of disgust and dismay concerning the most egregious, while expressing grudging admiration for the most erudite and sophisticated.
It was the home for erudite scholars such as Ratmalana Sri Dharmarama Thero, Waskaduwa Sri Subhuti Thero, Weligama Sri Sumangala Thero, Welivitiye Dhammaratna Thero, and Pandit Batuwantudawe.
Cinna's literary fame was established by his magnum opus Zmyrna, a mythological epic poem focused on the incestuous love of Smyrna ( or Myrrha ) for her father Cinyras, treated after the erudite and allusive manner of the Alexandrian poets.
Although she was articulate, well-read, and erudite, Paterson had extremely limited formal education, an experience she shared with Rose Wilder Lane, who was also Paterson's friend and correspondent for many years.
There existed some memorial plaques dedicated to famous modern Chinese writers in the library, one of them was for the witty and erudite scholar-novelist Qian Zhongshu ().

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