He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.

And, for the sake of Julia and Susan, it had to be tried.

All of you be ready to ride hell for leather ''.

There's bound to be someone on guard, but the hat might fool them long enough for me to get close ''.

Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.

They'll be there waiting for you.

Their roar, like the swelling volume of a hundred tornadoes could be heard for miles.

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

Bushes and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detours for the struggling stranger, and without the direct light of the sun to act as compass, Pamela could no longer be positive of her direction.

Looks like we might be in for a speck of trouble ''.

A wildcatter had to be prepared for almost any emergency.

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.

Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.

He studied the problem for a few seconds and thought of a means by which it might be solved.

And she really tried to go a step further and say she hoped they'd be just as right as they now were for her and for Rod.

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

Yet long before the scheduled time for return, Donovan would be watching for every speck in the sky.

A hell of an altitude for a barrel roll, but it could be done.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

Her impact in the zing commercials had led to her being considered for an excellent part in an upcoming TV series, Underwater Western Eye, a documentary-type show to be sponsored by Oatnut Grits.

I'll be soaking for at least half an hour ''.

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.

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

I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.

The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

`` The commercials have just been for money, there hasn't been any real incentive for me to do them, but in Underwater Western Eye I'd have a chance to act.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

They thought it would be a chance for you to make a life out where nobody will be thought any better than the next except for just what's inside of them.

`` Karipo's women then named this place ' Eromonga ' -- manhood -- for just the strongest men could stay here.

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

`` You think I got you and Artie and Herr Schaffner all the way out here just for the boat ride??

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.

The ideal home, they agreed, would be a small private house or a city apartment of four to five rooms, just enough for a family consisting of husband, wife, and two children.

It operated on, by and for the people individually just as did the Federal Constitution.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

But ideas, just for the sake of having them, are not enough.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.

Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.