The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

Ahead of him Gavin turned slightly off the trail and pointed for the Gap, no more than a mile away.

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.

But it at least offered him a chance for living.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

But it was not easy for him and he often slipped.

Then, helpfully, as she merely stared at him in weary silence, `` Maybe you could write it down for me, huh??

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.

Tom had been laying for Aaron McBride for a long time, just waiting to catch him out of line.

They closed in fast, kept him from reaching inside his coat for his gun.

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.

`` Jackson recruited his critters, and him and me fixed up his wagon while we was waiting for you to catch up.

It'll be a pleasure for you to return this money to Colcord and tell him about it, Russ ''.

His maneuvering for the shot had placed him near the overcast, almost inverted and heading up into the clouds.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

A card to Walter would get him an introduction to this Meredith, and that might be good for something.

And he missed the point that the swarthy witches might be laughing at him for hoping to escape Nicolas Manas.

He used the blanket for late morning naps when hosts of the night had gone off to jobs and proved reluctant to leave him in their small rooms with their few possessions.

As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.

She set the dipper on the edge of the deck, leaving it for him to stretch after it while she looked on scornfully.

Now, she just sat there looking at him, without an expression except concern for him.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

The very fact that they came so near to winning by the wrong method, war, led directly to their losing both the war and the wrong thing they fought for, since it forced Lincoln to free their slaves as a military measure.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

On the glass partition between me and the driver were three signs: one asked for help for the blind, another help for orphans, and the third for relief for the war refugees.

All his people ask for is no more war.

The networks for military communications are one of the best examples of networks which not only must be changed with the changes in objectives but also must be changed with the addition of new machines of war.

The reasons for the Whig joy on this occasion are found to be their expectation of regaining control of the government, their delight at the prospect of a new war, their hopes of having the Tories hanged, and so on.

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

It was not merely a hunger for `` money, gold and precious objects '' that delayed the papal pronouncement that could have brought the war to an end ; ;

These lines never cease to haunt the book amidst all the exaltations of combat, and to make an appeal for a larger and more elemental human community than one based on the brutal necessities of war.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg includes not one war but two, and throws in a Turkish revolution along with some guerrilla fighting in the desert for good measure.

But while war still serves as a catalyst for the values that Malraux wishes to express, these values are no longer linked with the triumph or defeat of any cause -- whether that of an individual assertion of the will-to-power, or a collective attempt to escape from the humiliation of oppression -- as their necessary condition.

He returned to New York to work for The New Yorker, to edit a Western pulp, to `` duck the war in the OWI '', to write publicity for Paramount Pictures and commentary for a newsreel, then he began his career as critic for various magazines.

He knew all about the infection and the fever, and, too, the moment of realization when he saw for himself, threw up his hands and quit, ended the war as a prisoner in Texas.

But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the Laotian people -- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority now engaged in the fighting -- this last big effort to seal that country from the cold war had to be made.

There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

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.

`` What is the scaffolding for, Brassnose ''??

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

This is a paradise for hunters.

`` And if the dive goes OK he has the exclusive import rights to your line for this country, is that right ''??

There is nothing for you '', Matsuo said.

It is almost time for and calinda to begin ''.

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.

Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.