But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

The young twigs are green at first, becoming purplish where exposed to sunlight, then grey in their second year.

When the first meeting of the Fourth Duma was convened in late 1912, only one out of six Bolshevik deputies, Matvei Muranov, ( another one, Roman Malinovsky, was later exposed as an Okhrana secret police agent ) voted to break away from the Menshevik faction within the Duma on 15 December 1912.

Observers hoped that the impacts would give them a first glimpse of Jupiter beneath the cloud tops, as lower material was exposed by the comet fragments punching through the upper atmosphere.

Lyell's father, also named Charles, was a lawyer and botanist of minor repute: it was he who first exposed his son to the study of nature.

Soviet films tend to be rather culture-specific and are difficult for many foreigners to understand without having been exposed to the culture first.

Forth was first exposed to other programmers in the early 1970s, starting with Elizabeth Rather at the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

On the 1787 trip to the Isle of Arran he found his first example of Hutton's Unconformity to the north of Newton Point near Lochranza, but the limited view meant that the condition of the underlying strata was not clear enough for him, and he incorrectly thought that the strata were conformable at a depth below the exposed outcrop.

It was one of the first Common Lisp implementations ever, and exposed a number of holes and mistakes in the specification that had gone unnoticed.

In 1990, he resumed his university studies, and was exposed to UNIX for the first time, in the form of a DEC MicroVAX running ULTRIX.

Input in the linguistic context is defined as " All words, contexts, and other forms of language to which a learner is exposed, relative to acquired proficiency in first or second languages " Nativists find it difficult to believe, considering the hugely complex nature of human languages, and the relatively limited cognitive abilities of an infant, that infants are able to acquire most aspects of language without being explicitly taught.

However in later antiquity the first philosophy, as a more demanding discipline, was considering to come after physics and the works where it was exposed were called metaphysics.

" Amateur Pankration " was first introduced to the martial arts community by Greek-American combat athlete Jim Arvanitis in 1969 and later exposed worldwide in 1973 when he was featured on the cover of Black Belt magazine.

About this period it was merchandise that was chiefly suspected: there was a long schedule of susceptible articles, and these were first exposed on the ships deck for twenty-one days or less ( six days for each instalment of the cargo ), and then transported to the lazaret, where they were opened and aired forty days more.

In the late nineties, while working on the design for the new headquarters for Universal ( currently Vivendi ), OMA was first exposed to the full pace of change that engulfed the world of media and with it the increasing importance of the virtual domain.

One of his extremely famous poems is ' To Lucasta, Going to the Warres ,' written in 1640 and exposed in his first political action.

A corruption scandal discovered late in his first term involved misdeeds around the expansion of the Beauharnois Canal in Quebec ; this led to extensive inquiries and eventually a Royal Commission, which exposed the Beauharnois Scandal.

So ( 1 ) is Universal Grammar in the first theoretical sense, ( 2 ) is the linguistic data to which the child is exposed.

In an experiment by the first Keeper, Akasha and Enkil are exposed to sunlight when they are several thousand years old.

These festivals exposed hundreds of thousands to the grandeur of the valley for the first time and created iconic associations with elite entertainers.

The film spools actually contain a 16 mm film with twice as many perforations along each edge than normal 16 mm film ; on its first pass through the camera, the film is only exposed along half of its width.

When the first pass is complete, the camera is opened and the spools are flipped and swapped ( the design of the spool hole ensures that this happens properly ) and the same film is then exposed along its other edge, the edge left unexposed on the first pass.

These untruths were exposed by General Sir Frederick Maurice in a letter to the press-Lloyd George survived the Commons Debate ( the first occasion on which the Liberal Party openly split ) but years later admitted that he had " misinformed the House ".

The bluescreen shot was first rephotographed through a blue filter so that only the background is exposed.

Because this would leave certain highly sensitive words exposed, such words would first be concealed by code.