On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.

) Rumor had it he slipped two small rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademark.

The bars were marked as Walter had marked them in a small black book kept in a nearly secret drawer.

He used the blanket for late morning naps when hosts of the night had gone off to jobs and proved reluctant to leave him in their small rooms with their few possessions.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

We had been walking quite briskly, for despite your being so small and me so tall, your stride in those days could easily match mine.

his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.

Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Then followed a period in which he wrote reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Commonweal, Commentary, had a small piece in Partisan Review, and moved on to Hudson, The Village Voice, and Exodus.

Berto's The Sky Is Red had been a small masterpiece and in its special way the best book to come out of the war.

Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

The small shaft of blue had drifted down and come to rest at his feet.

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.

Since appeals to morality, to humanity, and to sanity have had such small effect, perhaps our last recourse is the deterrent example.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

The city had recently given him a small salary, but it was not enough to supply even necessities.

The dog refused to be scared off, so Kahler had purchased some small firecrackers.

The colony had been small until the Spanish Inquisition of 1492 drove many Jews into Rome.

Both of them had known the feeling of the small life in her waiting, ready, for the two of them to run up her sails.

An aircraft with a load of small nuclear weapons could very conceivably be given a mission to suppress all trains operating within a specified geographic area of Russia -- provided that we had used some of our ICBMs to degrade Russia's air defenses before our bombers got there.

Her mouth, which had been so much in my thoughts, was warm and moist and tender.

The fear had not entirely gone from her face, but there were some other emotions now, crowding into her eyes and the lines of her mouth.

She was so beautiful with her rosy mouth and haughty air that she had to be wicked.

Hans had his fingers in the kid's mouth.

Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.

It was so utterly unexpected that Marty stood for several moments with his mouth hanging open foolishly after it had happened.

He hung up with a bang, annoyed at himself for running off at the mouth like that but still terribly concerned with the situation he had helped to create.

Each boy opened his small mouth wide and rocked back and forth on the bench in the way his grandfather and great-grandfather had studied and prayed in the ghettos of Europe.

When she had wiped some of the lipstick from her mouth, she stared solemnly at her image in the mirror.

Jim had put the thanks in his sister's mouth.

The beautifully-tapered head, so delicate and so cool, had been flattened as if in a vise, and the forked tongue splayed out of the twisted, torn mouth.

For Lamprias had said that the first articulate sound made is " alpha ", because it is very plain and simple — the air coming off the mouth does not require any motion of the tongue — and therefore this is the first sound that children make.

In his Life of St Willibrord, Alcuin writes that Wilgils, called a paterfamilias, had founded an oratory and church at the mouth of the Humber, which had fallen into Alcuin's possession by inheritance.

The Amazons are also said to have undertaken an expedition against the island of Leuke, at the mouth of the Danube, where the ashes of Achilles had been deposited by Thetis.

* Muppim ( meaning double mouth ), in reference to Joseph passing on what he had been taught by Jacob

Many ships had only jury masts and it took a full day for the convoy to reach the mouth of the bay, finally sailing into open water on 15 August.

The removal of beef from the recipe in 2004 was not without criticism, with many complaining that the new variant did not taste the same and had a different mouth feel.

The old placoderms did not have teeth at all, but had sharp bony plates in their mouth.

In an interview around the film's DVD release in 2001, Elwes said, " The studio didn't know how to sell itas an adventure, fantasy, comedy or love story, it had to rely on word of mouth ".

Testament is sometimes deemed an anti-Nazi film as Lang had put phrases used by the Nazis into the mouth of the title character.

However, Farmer Giles's blunderbuss had a wide mouth that opened like a horn, and it did not fire balls or slugs, but anything that he could spare to stuff in.

Another puppet ( from the waist up ) was also designed that had a nozzle in the mouth to spray out liquid mist simulating Godzilla's fire breath.

Mated pairs had a social display in which they bobbed their heads, showing off their white eye patch, bill markings, and yellow mouth.