When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.

Now they were riding to kill him.

All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

Beyond the stockade rifles began to explode as some of the guerrillas fired at shadows that they imagined were Apaches.

But what few containers they found were inadequate.

Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it didn't seem possible they were in flight.

They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.

They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.

But they were starting a new life.

They were going to town, and they were both excited.

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.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

She took it grudgingly, her dark eyes baleful as they met his.

But they met in one searing moment that gave them to one another instantly.

Keith's eyes met Penny's as they stood there in this strange marriage of destruction.

they include harmonies and conflicts within the whole man, and mechanisms whereby inner components are more or less smoothly met.

I feel that few burglars would be prone to break and enter into someone's apartment if they were met with a good hardy growl that a dog would provide.

If a branch extended out too far, each man held it back for the next, and if they met a low overhang, each warned the other.

The growing communications needs of this new State can best be met, as they have in other States, through the operation and development of such facilities by private enterprise.

We didn't even know them till about a month after we moved -- at that time, they had called on us, after I met Fran at a PTA meeting, and had taken us in hand socially.

It was during her `` writing '' period that she and Herb met and decided that they were in love.

The husbands of these women and others I had met in Catatonia were distinguished only in that they were, to me at least, indistinguishable.

Paradoxically, the same week in which Senator McClellan was attempting to extend the anti-trust act to labor in transportation, the Civil Aeronautics Board was assuring the airlines that if they met in concert to eliminate many costly features of air travel, the action would not be deemed a violation of the anti-trust act.

Lincoln's first romantic interest was Ann Rutledge, whom he met when he first moved to New Salem ; by 1835, they were in a relationship but not formally engaged.

A few days after Emancipation was announced, 13 Republican governors met at the War Governors ' Conference ; they supported the president's Proclamation, but suggested the removal of General George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army.

Polo's travels took him across such a diverse human landscape and his accounts of the peoples he met as he journeyed were so detailed that they earned for Polo the name " the father of modern anthropology.

Experiments have been conducted to attempt the synthesis of ununennium ( Uue ), which is likely to be the next member of the group, but they have all met with failure .< ref name =" link "> However, ununennium may not be an alkali metal due to relativistic effects, which are predicted to have a large influence on the chemical properties of superheavy elements.

He first met Poirot in Belgium, 1904, during the Abercrombie Forgery and later that year they joined forces again to hunt down a criminal known as Baron Altara.

There, he met director Carlos Marcovich and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and they made what would be his first short film, Vengeance is mine.

She then committed suicide by stabbing herself with the same sword she gave Aeneas when they first met.

In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".

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.

And they too could be removed from office at any time that the assembly met.

The owners of these western clubs accompanied Hulbert and Spalding to New York where they secretly met with owners from New York, Philadelphia, Hartford, and Boston.

His brothers were equally willing to save the dowager queen, but Otto got an army into the field: they subsequently met at the old Lombard capital of Pavia and were married in 951 ; he was crowned emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 by Pope John XII, and, most unusually, she was crowned empress at the same ceremony.

Both Clintons received law degrees from Yale Law School, where they met and began dating.