When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

Since they could see me but I not them, their presence in the hall disturbed me.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

Before they could guess his intention Rankin stepped forward and swung the guard's own gun against the uncovered head, hard.

Not that her mother knew what had happened, but they could speculate upon it.

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.

Nor could they stop and find out about all that had happened until they made circle, tended the cattle, tethered the horses, gathered fuel, carried water, and started their cooking fires.

With a swift swoop of his big arms, he grabbed Sally out of the circle surrounding him, and then kissed her soundly before setting her down so she could stand by his side while they jointly chose the rest of their `` outfit ''.

But they could turn and escape to the east.

It was as if they could hardly wait to get into their costumes, cover their faces with masks and go adventuring.

Through the splash of the rising waters, they could hear the roar of the river as it raged through its canyon, gnashing big chunks out of the banks.

It raced closer and they could see a woman with white hair, sitting astride an upright branch.

Then he would realize they were really things that only he himself could think.

The truck routes, the industrial areas with walls grimed with diesel smoke passed briefly through his mind -- back alleys were their access to a city and they could never stay.

and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.

Capable of enduring friendships, they were also stout controversialists, who could write with a drop of vitriol on their pens.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

morning-glory buds which could be so grasped and squeezed that they burst like a blown-up paper bag ; ;

Above all, they will stop in the middle of anything, anywhere, to hear or quote some poetry.

They explained that they desired only to stop in India until a ship traveling on to Burma could be found.

Southern whites themselves are realizing that they had been wrong in using violence to try to stop Negroes from claiming equal rights.

In it they see a way to isolate Cuba, stop infiltration, maybe finish Castro, too.

Keep ashes from one barbecue to the next to sprinkle over coals if they are too hot, and to stop flames that arise from melting grease.

I'm sending you a couple of customers -- yeah -- just get them out of my hair and keep them out -- I don't give a damn what you tell them -- only don't believe a word they say -- they're out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to stop them -- I don't care how -- and one more thing -- Cate's Cafe closed at eleven like always last night and Rose and Clarence Corsi left for Quebec yesterday -- some shrine or other -- I think it was called Saint Simon's -- yeah, yesterday.

If they can't chalk up big business here then let's stop this noise about how hip we are, and stick to our community singing,

The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.

In the autumn of the year, he also met with Duke Frederick II of Austria and they agreed to stop the skirmishes on the border, but the Duke soon broke the agreement.

" The next stop, station six, was a blocky crater, where the astronauts believed they could sample the Cayley Formation as evidenced by the firmer soil found there.

These drugs stop production of stomach acid and provide longer lasting relief but they do not neutralize any stomach acid already present in the stomach.

By opening the stop wider, similar deviations arise for lateral points as have been already discussed for axial points ; but in this case they are much more complicated.

That way Fay can be free of them and they can stop pretending.

By piercing their orifices, the nose, the mouth, and ears, they would stop evil entities, “ Khoughkh ”, from entering their bodies ( Osborn, 52 ).

After an s elsewhere in a word they are normally unaspirated as well, except when the cluster is heteromorphemic and the stop belongs to an unbound morpheme ; compare vs..

Preaspirated stops also occur in some Sami languages ; for example, in Sami, the unvoiced stop phonemes,,, are pronounced preaspirated (, ) when they occur in medial or final position.

In June 2011, the Health Minister of Malaysia, Liow Tiong Lai, instructed companies selling " Strawberry Syrup ", a material used in some bubble teas, to stop selling them after chemical tests showed they were tainted with a carcinogen identified as DEHP.

Bowls ( also lawn bowls, variants include flat-green bowls and crown-green bowls ) is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a " jack " or " kitty ".

At the end, one asked him why they should vote for him, and Healey answered " You have nowhere else to go " ( to stop the left-winger Michael Foot from winning ).

First, since a note has no intrinsic value, there was nothing to stop issuing authorities from printing more of it than they had specie to back it with.

In addition, human beings, like other mammals, after they are weaned, stop producing lactase enzymes ( needed to digest milk ) unless they drink milk.

They are powered by nuclear engines that will fatally over-heat if they stop.