The explosion of the rifle had crashed against the walls of the stockade and the deep echoes were still rolling in the hills.

He had a small mouth with deep furrows on either side, a large flat nose, and penetrating blue eyes.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Over in Barre the streets had been deep in swirling water, and bridges were crumpled and gone.

She spoke also with deep thankfulness of the many individuals and agencies whose interest and efforts through the years had made the work so fruitful in results.

their talk and their feeling had been as deep and warm, as steeped in light, as the air around them.

This continued most of the week following that ill-starred trip to church, during which period Mike stayed in his room and usually in a trance so deep that Jubal would have pronounced him dead had he not seen it before.

The statues of Apollo were thought to incarnate his living presence, and these representations of illusive imaginative reality had deep roots in the Minoan period, and in the beliefs of the first Greek speaking people who entered the region during the bronze-age.

ROM 807, the holotype of A. arctunguis ( now referred to A. sarcophagus ), had a 2. 5 by 3. 5 cm deep hole in the iliac blade, although the describer of the species did not recognize this as pathological.

Driven by deep personal and political convictions, Grothendieck left the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, where he had been appointed professor and accomplished his greatest work, after a dispute over military funding in 1970.

In it Cartier notes that, as the son of an antimilitary anarchist and one who grew up among the disenfranchised, Grothendieck always had a deep compassion for the poor and the downtrodden.

Historian Garry Wills argued " Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided and sedition laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure " The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".

As the war progressed, Allied armies began using combined arms formations and deep penetration strategies that Germany had used in the opening years of the war.

These conditions apparently had little effect in the deep tropics, where lush coal swamps flourished within 30 degrees of the northernmost glaciers.

) has had a deep impact in Chicano muralism, graphic design, tattoo art ( flash ), poetry, music, and literature.

Coolidge's family had deep roots in New England.

Several years later, Henry IV died in a deep gloom as had Gregory.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

Camden had learnt some Welsh during the course of his studies and it would appear that he is the origin of the interpretation of Dumnonii as " deep valley dwellers " from his understanding of the Welsh of his time.

Although Thomas had a deep connection with Wales, he disliked Welsh nationalism.

The East Pakistan Navy had only one active-duty combatant destroyer, the PNS Sylhet ; one submarine Ghazi ( which was repeatedly deployed in West ); four gunboats, inadequate to function in deep water.

Prior to rising to power, from 1939 to 1941, Peron had developed a deep admiration of Italian Fascism and modelled his economic policies on Italian Fascist economic policies.

Crick had to adjust from the " elegance and deep simplicity " of physics to the " elaborate chemical mechanisms that natural selection had evolved over billions of years.

Barton's voice was rougher than Dill had ever heard it.

Once again, he shook his head, kept his face expressionless and his voice very calm, and had a strongly supported alibi ready.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.

The marine shouted for it until it seemed that his voice had to crack.

He had a purring voice and poker player's immobility of features which somehow conveyed the feeling that he knew where all the bodies were buried.

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

A voice drifted in to me above the patter of the rain shortly after I had fallen into a fitful sleep.

He composed songs and set them to music and sang them in a soft, melodious voice, and when his audience had had enough of music he would discourse on politics or tell stories of his western adventures guaranteed to excite the emotions of men and women alike.

But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.

at will, the voice of the auctioneer, the voices of the bidders, and finally the small boy who had been so interested in Mr. Podger's hammock purchase.

and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

Arlene had a hard voice, too, this time.

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.

Chandler had expected a tough old trooper with a gravel voice.

The voice had music in it.

In a low voice, almost whispering, the man had asked Phil if he was happy with the way the landlord had been taken off his back.