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.

He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.

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

And what eyes they were.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

`` You know what they say about two deep dives in one day '', Artie went on, still twirling the snorkle and studying it intently.

And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.

When the Southern States exercised their `` right to secede '', they formed what they officially styled `` The Confederate States of America ''.

The lives so many of them gave, to forestall what they believed would be a fatal encroachment by the Union on the powers reserved to their states have continued ever since to safeguard all Americans against freedom's other foe.

With lyrical intensity they reveal what they hate, but their faith in love, inspired by the revolutionary rhythms of jazz, culminates in the climax of the orgasm.

The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation.

I leave it to the statisticians to say what they were, but I noticed several a few years ago, during an automobile ride from Memphis to Hattiesburg.

Such problems are of extreme interest as well as importance and are so much like fighting in a rain forest or guerrilla warfare at night in tall grass that we might have to re-examine primitive conflicts for what they could teach.

The division is not between those who wish to preserve what they have and those who want change.

We feel uncomfortable at being bossed by a corporation or a union or a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them.

Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.

Only imcomplete, imperfect things move towards what they lack.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

One might, indeed, argue that the history of ideas, in so far as it includes the literatures, must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning.

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.

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

Follow-up tests are often distinguished in terms of whether they are planned ( a priori ) or post hoc.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

The types of cannon artillery are generally distinguished by the velocity at which they fire projectiles.

Different grades of cream are distinguished by their fat content, whether they have been heat-treated, whipped, and so on.

A different dimension on which dictionaries ( usually just general-purpose ones ) are sometimes distinguished is whether they are prescriptive or descriptive, the latter being in theory largely based on linguistic corpus studies — this is the case of most modern dictionaries.

Vancouver wrote of Whidbey's efforts: " This determined shore they had been exploring to be an island, which, in consequence of Mr. Whidbey ’ s circumnavigation, I distinguished by the name of Whidbey ’ s Island: and this northern pass, leading into Bay, Deception Passage ".

Often, the same set of degrees is used for higher doctorates, but they are distinguished as being honoris causa: in comprehensive lists, the lettering used to indicate the possession of a higher doctorate is often adjusted to indicate this, for example, " Hon.

In broad terms, there are two groups of derivative contracts, which are distinguished by the way they are traded in the market:

While often simplistically summarised as " aboutness " or the relationship between mental acts and the external world, Brentano defined it as the main characteristic of mental phenomena, by which they could be distinguished from physical phenomena.

However, they are distinguished from each other orthographically by the addition of the letter ⟨ h ⟩.

The islands are further distinguished by the fact that they are entirely Swedish-speaking.

In the category of topological spaces ( without distinguished point ), one considers homotopy classes of generic curves, but they cannot be composed unless they share an endpoint.

All six are landed on one foot on the right back outside edge ( with counterclockwise rotation, for single and multi-revolution jumps ), but have different takeoffs, by which they may be distinguished.

In radical left politics the concept of gradualism is frequently distinguished from reformism, with the former insisting that short-term goals need to be formulated and implemented in such a way that they inevitably lead into long-term goals.

" In Florence, they were openly distinguished: the Arti maggiori and the Arti minori — already there was a popolo grasso and a popolo magro ".

According to Friar, they are distinguished by their order in blazon.

But above all they clung to Wycliffe's doctrine of the Lord's Supper, denying transubstantiation, and this is the principal point by which they are distinguished from the moderate party.

Although cognitive-behavioural theories of hypnosis must be distinguished from cognitive-behavioural approaches to hypnotherapy, they share similar concepts, terminology, and assumptions and have been integrated by influential researchers and clinicians such as Irving Kirsch, Steven Jay Lynn, and others.