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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.
He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.
The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
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.
He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.
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.
there and water
the mill-pond is quiet, its surface dark and shadowed, and there does not seem to be much water in it.
There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.
The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.
Mark stopped the car and switched off the lights and they sat looking at the water, which, there being no moon out, at first could be distinguished from the sky only by an absence of stars.
And due to modern resource-use and game management practices, there is still game to shoot, even with the ever-expanding encroachment on land and water.
In the second sentence if drinking water is a gerundial clause and without drinking water is roughly equivalent in meaning to unless I drink water, there will be stronger stress on water than on drinking ; ;
but if drinking is a gerundial noun modifying water and without drinking water is equivalent to without water for drinking, there will be stronger stress on drinking than on water.
If you are considering a part-time farm where the water must be provided by a well, find out if there is a good well on the farm or the probable cost of having one drilled.
there and .
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
Two men, together like us, we could do somethin fine out there, maybe find a place where no one's ever been.
A red-tailed hawk flew in behind them and stayed there, watching for any snakes or rabbits that they might stir up from the side of the road.
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