His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.

The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.

I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

Tom had been laying for Aaron McBride for a long time, just waiting to catch him out of line.

Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.

The cook, Mateo Garcia, had arrived there long before the herd.

Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.

Before Harmony had a chance to reply, Rod cracked his long whip over his thin oxen's backs.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

That long night with Nicolas and marijuana in Venice had opened her eyes.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

The drummer flogged the gourd with frantic intensity as the dancers began the calinda, a sensual gyration which had long been a favorite of voodoo practitioners and their disciples in the Louisiana slave compounds.

He had been conning the freights for a long, long time now.

It had been a very long time that had no form and no end.

it had been a long, hot while since he'd seen anything as nice as this within grabbin' distance.

He had long black hair and a wispy beard.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

What obsessions had she picked up during these long nights of talk??

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.

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

Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

There is reason to suppose that Lucy would have made a record as publicly distinguished as her brother had it not been that her mother's death occurred just as she was about to enter college.

With the increase of wealth and power, abbots had lost much of their special religious character, and become great lords, chiefly distinguished from lay lords by celibacy.

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.

Arnulf, having distinguished himself in the war against the Slavs was elected by the nobles of the realm ( only the eastern realm, though Charles had ruled the whole of the Frankish lands ) and assumed his title of King of East Francia.

Rav had many sons, several of whom are mentioned in the Talmud, the most distinguished being the eldest, Chiyya.

Benjamin had two younger brothers, John and Richard, who both went on to become distinguished artists.

The term epískopos was not from the earliest times clearly distinguished from the term presbýteros (" elder ", " senior ", nowadays used to signify a priest ), but the term was already clearly used in the sense of the order or office of bishop, distinct from that of priest in the writings of Ignatius of Antioch ( died c. 108 ), and sources from the middle of the 2nd century undoubtedly set forth that all the chief centres of Christianity recognized and had the office of bishop, using a form of organization that remained universal until the Protestant Reformation.

The 18th-century author Charles Johnson claimed that Teach was for some time a sailor operating from Jamaica on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War, and that " he had often distinguished himself for his uncommon boldness and personal courage ".

He also distinguished between citizens, who had the right to participate in the state, and non-citizens and slaves, who did not.

" Poll " is an archaic legal term referring to documents with straight edges ; these distinguished a deed binding only one person from one affecting more than a single person ( an " indenture ", so named during the time when such agreements would be written out repeatedly on a single sheet, then the copies separated by being irregularly torn or cut, i. e. " indented ", so that each party had a document with corresponding tears, to discourage forgery ).

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 ".

( Some distinguished Protestant churches in the US had this practice in the 19th century, besides the Church of England and the Presbyterian Church of Scotland ).

Fortified wine is distinguished from spirits made from wine in that spirits are produced by means of distillation, while fortified wine is simply wine that has had a spirit added to it.

To assist him in legal matters he had an adviser, the legatus iuridicus, and those in Britain appear to have been distinguished lawyers perhaps because of the challenge of incorporating tribes into the imperial system and devising a workable method of taxing them.

" Samuel Smiles stated that he was " the scion of a distinguished Béarnese family "; although it is probable that the poverty of his parents would have excluded him from a learned career if some of the leading Protestants of the district had not charged themselves with the expenses of his education, which was begun under M. Jean de la Placette, the minister of Nay, He studied at Puylaurens, the Academy of Saumur, and the Academy of Sedan, receiving the degree of doctor in theology, it is said, at the age of seventeen.

Each area and its teachers had particular kata, techniques, and principles that distinguished their local version of te from the others.

The Eastern Orthodox Church maintains that Mary Magdalene, distinguished from Mary of Bethany and the " sinful woman ", had been a virtuous woman all her life, even before her conversion.

Plato had a keen interest in mathematics, and distinguished clearly between arithmetic and calculation.

The most distinguished of his sons was however Giovanni Gaetano ( died 1280 ): elected pope as Nicholas III, he named the nephew Bertoldo ( died 1289 ) as count of Romagna and had two nephews and a brother created cardinals.

This distinguished it from the older Pliocene Epoch, which Lyell had originally thought to be the youngest fossil rock layer.

George Thompson, an English engineer who worked for the younger López ( he distinguished himself as a Paraguayan officer during the Paraguayan War, and later wrote a book about his experience ) had harsh words for his ex-employer and commander, calling him " a monster without parallel ".

Toumey ’ s analysis also includes comments from distinguished scientists in nanotechnology who say that “ Plenty of Room ” did not influence their early work, and in fact most of them had not read it until a later date.