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 ; ;

There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.

I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.

Nonetheless, they take time out -- much time -- from the game of grab and these new Western experiments to go to the gardens and riverbanks.

Maybe they will take us ''.

First, it could locate the enemy infantry, learn what they were doing, and hold them until the heavy foot columns could come up and take over.

You may do well to take notice, that besides the title to land between the English and the Indians there, there are twelve of the English that have subscribed their names to horrible and detestable blasphemies, who are rather to be judged as blasphemous than they should delude us by winning time under pretence of arbitration ''.

When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

Life, they say, should be regarded as sacred and, therefore, as something that neither an individual nor his society has a right to take away.

Some plant-location specialists take these signs to mean St. Louis county doesn't want industry, and so they avoid the area, and more jobs are lost.

California Democrats this weekend will take the wraps off a 1962 model statewide campaign vehicle which they have been quietly assembling in a thousand district headquarters, party clubrooms and workers' backyards.

From necessity, they are also inspired by the `` hard-sell '' attitude of the sponsor, so, finally, it is the sponsor who must take the responsibility for the good or bad taste of his advertising.

Gouge, burn, blast, insult it as they would, could anyone really take Papa-san??

it took them over an hour to get back to the station where they should have changed, in order to take the line that went to the Place Redoute.

He was happy enough to take the convertible and race up the hill to the Blevins', thinking that they might give him a drink.

When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.

Bobby Joe and two or three of the other boys declared they had never been possum-hunting, and Uncle Bill Farnworth ( from Mama Albright's side of the family ) said he would just get up from there and take them, right then.

When they came to Mr. Jack's photograph, twenty by twelve inches in a curly silver frame, Miss Ada said, `` By rights I ought to leave that, seeing he won't take my clotheshorse ''.

U.S. aid, therefore, should increasingly be designed to provide incentives for countries to take the steps that only they themselves can take.

More importantly, several of the more advanced of the less developed countries have found through experience that they must plan their own complex investment programs for at least 5 years forward and tentatively for considerably more than that if they are to be sure that the various interdependent activities involved are all to take place in the proper sequence.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of april 29th to may 7th, 1961, as Rhode Island Heritage Week, advising our citizens that throughout this week many historic houses and beautiful gardens will be open to visitors as well as industrial plants, craft shops, museums and libraries and I earnestly urge all to take advantage of these opportunities to see as many of these places as they can during this outstanding week.

The two Governments agree that they will take reasonable precautions to assure that all sales or purchases of surplus agricultural commodities, pursuant to the Agreement will not displace usual marketings of the United States of America in these commodities, or unduly disrupt world prices of agricultural commodities or normal patterns of commercial trade with friendly countries.

The 20-to-1 ratio for cochannel interference embodies one of the fundamental limiting principles which we must always take into account in AM assignments and allocations -- that signals from a particular station are potential sources of objectionable interference over an area much greater than that within which they provide useful service.