The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

Both had blonde hair and blue eyes, and there was even a faint similarity of features.

They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.

He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

Someone evidently was on duty there.

there was no doubt he was dying.

The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.

And there was a house ; ;

But there was water.

Yes, there was plenty of water, too much, and that was probably the trouble.

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??

He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.

And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach

No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.

Prosecutor Baird immediately assumed he was hiding out there after the shooting and began preparing an indictment.

Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.

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.

Although the two nations have a close working relationship regarding the on-going war on terror, there has been a growing tension in other areas.

However, there were signs that moderates among Stalin's supporters sought to end official terror and bring a general change in policy, now that mass collectivization was largely completed and the worst was over.

Where government does not exist or cannot reach it is often deemed the role of religion to promote prosocial and moral behavior, but this tends to depend on threats of hell-fire ( what Hobbes called " the terror of some power "); such inducements seem more mystical than rational, and philosophers have been hard-pressed to explain why self-interest should yield to morality, why there should be any duty to be " good ".

In all of Mozart's supreme expressions of suffering and terror, there is something shockingly voluptuous.

The first was the Strategic Defense Initiative or " Star Wars ": " Star wars raised the terrible prospect that there might be an effective means of neutralising the inter-continental ballistic missile, whereby the two great giants who held what had become to be seen as the balance of terror would contract out of the game altogether: the deterrent would be switched off by the invulnerability of the two providers of the mutual terror ".

Although there was no hard evidence for Al-Qaeda possessing a dirty bomb, there is a broad agreement that Al-Qaeda poses a potential dirty bomb attack threat because they need to overcome the alleged image that the U. S. and its allies are winning the war against terror.

Between the mass executions, the wild fear of the populace, and the institution of the Festival of Reason, by the middle of 1794 there was “ a great deal of enthusiasm for ending the terror, no one could figure out how to do it … The only thing that would end the terror, and apparently the only thing they could all agree upon, was the fall of Robespierre ”.

Upon being set free in the morning, Jeremiah went to Pashur ( Jeremiah 20: 3, 5 ) and announced to him that God had changed his name to Magor-missabib, i. e., " terror on every side " and that he would be later carried captive to Babylon and die there.

Cornwallis observed " Colonel Marion had so wrought the minds of the people, partly by the terror of his threats and cruelty of his punishments, and partly by the promise of plunder, that there was scarcely an inhabitant between the Santee and the Peedee that was not in arms against us ".

Historian Robert Conquest described this system as " a set of phantom institutions and arrangements which put a human face on the hideous realities: a model constitution adopted in a worst period of terror and guaranteeing human rights, elections in which there was only one candidate, and in which 99 percent voted ; a parliament at which no hand was ever raised in opposition or abstention.

At the night before the battle there was an eclipse of the moon, which was perceived by the Macedonians as an ill omen, bringing fear and terror into their hearts.

Unruly students there were sometimes sent to sleep in the adjoining nursing home, an experience of which she later commented, " I have never — and probably will never — experience such panic and terror and agony over anything.

In one of his writings, Eliade says, " Against the terror of History there are only two possibilities of defense: action or contemplation.

While only one is described in Look to Windward, there is reference to it being ' a ' terror weapon, likely in the sense of ' one of multiple '.

Similarly, object relations theory would point to the way ' in perversion there is the refusal, the terror of strangeness '; to the way ' the " pervert "... attacks imaginative elaboration through compulsive action with an accomplice ; and this is done to mask psychic pain '.

However, to cut the repetitiveness, there are a number of recent thrillers that maintain the aspects of the horror genre ; having more gore / sadistic violence, brutality, terror and body counts.

Like the Jack the Ripper killings, the Stripper's reign of terror seemed to cease on its own, and there were few solid clues for police to investigate.

Arbuthnot's terror was apt, for there was virtually no recourse against Curll's press.

Because of their combat training, border policemen are employed in unique areas, where there are greater risks for riots, violence and even terror.

* ZAKA: Always there when terror strikes

Many features of our own history are repeated in this history, though under changed circumstances: The equivalent of the 16th and 17th Centuries have bold navigators and adventurers, romanticised by later generations but unpleasantly brutal and ruthless when looked at closely ; in the late 18th to mid-19th Centuries, a decadent old order is overthrown by revolution followed by a reign of terror and the reemergence of Republicanism ; though Italy remains a central part of the Roman Empire, the Latin dialect spoken there develops into a kind of Italian, and the name " Marcus " changes into " Marco "; though Vienna is a provincial capital which never had an Emperor of its own, its population dances the Waltz ; by the 20th Century, people travel by cars rather than carriages and by the second half of the century, space flight is achieved.