You see, he lied to us when he said he was leavin alone ''.

The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.

Milton was to act as the archfool, the supreme wit, the lightly bantering pater, Pater Liber, who could at once trip lightly over that which deserved such treatment, or could at will annihilate the common enemies of the college gathering, and with words alone.

Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the small, perfectly appointed table by the window looking out over the river.

Then the nigger boy turned back and he was alone.

His first desire was to create a mother and son alone in the universe.

She enjoyed great parties when she would sit up talking and dancing and drinking all night, but it always seemed to her that being alone, especially alone in her house, was the realest part of life.

She stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.

Once the full extent of this Russian military penetration of Cuba was clear, President Kennedy announced we would take whatever action was appropriate to prevent this, even if we had to go it alone.

His father Soeren was the village apothecary whose slender income made it difficult to feed his family, let alone educate them in a town without even a school.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

`` Do you remember the woman in the French Alps who was all alone with her sheep one day when the sun darkened ominously??

This specific fluorescence was readily distinguished from the light green nonspecific fluorescence in consecutive sections stained with 1: 10 dilution of NS and Af or with Af alone.

Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.

In parts a repeated sponging was needed, but everywhere we found that water alone was enough to restore the original brightness.

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

Smith's first workout with stresses, pitches, and junctures was based on mother, which spells, in our culture, a good deal more than bread alone.

Soon after the method changed, visitors began asking how he managed to irrigate his soil to keep it looking moist, when in reality, it was the soil treatment alone that accomplished this.

Of the 18 patents granted in Bell's name alone, and the 12 he shared with his collaborators, four were for the Photophone, which Bell referred to as his ' greatest achievement, writing that the Photophone was " the greatest invention have ever made, greater than the telephone ".

The doctrine of sola fide or " by faith alone " asserts God's pardon for guilty sinners is granted to and received through faith, conceived as excluding all " works ", alone.

" He insisted that, since forgiveness was God's alone to grant, those who claimed that indulgences absolved buyers from all punishments and granted them salvation were in error.

From these tolls Gustavus derived, in 1629 alone, 500, 000 Riksdalers, a sum equivalent to the whole of the extraordinary subsidies granted to him by the Riksdag.

Theoretically, royal pardon can be granted for the general offense or the accessory offenses alone ; if it is granted for the general offense, the accessory ones it implies are also pardoned, with the exception of punishments involving political rights ( i. e., removal of the right to run for a public office as a result of a sentence ), which have to be explicitly mentioned in the pardon decree if they are going to be pardoned.

The title of " Albany " alone was granted for the fifth time, this time in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1881 to Prince Leopold, the fourth son of Queen Victoria.

Livy ( 8. 31-36 ) describes a tense scene where Papirius stood nearly alone against the Senate and people, who supported Fabius because of his victory, but who also did not wish undercut the absolute authority they had given Papirius ; finally Fabius threw himself at the feet of the dictator and asked forgiveness, which was granted.

A ferocious letter from the pope to the papal nuncios, on 19 March 1423, denounced the proceeding as calculated to ensnare simple souls and extort, from them a profane reward, thereby setting up themselves against the apostolic see and the Roman pontiff, to whom alone so great a faculty has been granted by God ( Cat.

" He insisted that, since forgiveness was God's alone to grant, those who claimed that indulgences absolved buyers from all punishments and granted them salvation were in error.

Where previously Royce ’ s hypotheses about ontology had taken for granted that relations are discovered in the analysis of terms, here he moves to the recognition that terms are constituted by their relations, and insofar as terms are taken to refer to entities, as we must assume, we are obliged to think about individuals as uniquely constituted by a totality of relations to other individuals and to the Whole that are theirs alone.

Of all government suppliers, Eddie Bauer alone was granted permission to affix his company logo to his products used by the army.

Critics argued that the United Kingdom was obligated to make a strong prima facie case to US courts before extradition would be granted, and that, by contrast, extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States was a matter of administrative decision alone, without prima facie evidence.

Finally, he signed alone his next books: the Une aventure rocambolesque de ..., Le combat ordinaire ( this last one being granted an award by the Prize for Best Comic Book at the Angoulême International Comics Festival ) and Nic Oumouk series.

For correct answers, contestants were granted a wish from Feiticeira, such as staying with her alone or playing love games with her ( but no sex ).

Under the UPOV Convention alone, genetically modified crops and the intellectual property rights granted to them are no different than the intellectual property rights granted for traditionally bred varieties.

For our Lord placed Simon alone as the rock and the bearer of the keys of the Church, and made him shepherd of the whole flock ; it is evident, however, that the power of binding and loosing, which was given to Peter, was granted also to the college of apostles, joined with their head.

Others have claimed that his wish for freedom was granted and he left the fame and power only to head towards the border edge of the galaxy to the desolate planet of Pandora to be left alone.

Leave Me alone, ( to deal ) with the ( creature ) whom I created ( bare and ) alone !- To whom I granted resources in abundance, And sons to be by his side !- To whom I made ( life ) smooth and comfortable!

The Lutheran tenet of justification by faith alone would make all absolution merely declarative, and reduce the pardon granted by the Church to the merest announcement of the Gospel, especially of remission of sins through Christ.

They demanded that if equal treatment is to be granted to trusts and traditional companies, it should be implemented by leaving the trusts alone and cutting corporate and / or dividend tax to match the trust advantage.