I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.

He had lots of friends, then as always.

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.

He had always known how to find a bed, and on his own terms.

It had always seemed strange to Ramey that to disguise himself as a tourist, an ex-truck driver like Horsely would merely pick something outlandish and put it on his head.

He had always done well.

He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.

The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.

I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.

-- In France he had puzzled the meaning of the great stone monuments men had thrown up to the sky, and always as he wandered, he felt a stranger to their exultation.

`` Doesn't it ever bother you '', Warren had asked, `` to have people always asking you about your hands ''??

It was what anyone who had ever seen her had always expected her to do.

Back in Bavaria he had seen that gesture, and at that sight his heart had always died within him.

His image of the Virgin had always been that of a young woman, even as had his memory of his mother.

To him, Andrei Androfski had always been the living symbol of a Polish officer.

He always slept close to the wall so you had to lean to reach him.

She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.

He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.

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.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.

With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.

He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.

But the luck that had been running their way left him.

His shout had been taken up and repeated.

A sizable supply of powder had been touched off.

The worst part had been the waiting ; ;

The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.

And one had been too many.

That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.

I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.

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.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.

He had been the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.

Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

Only that curious, animal grunting Alec had heard during their fight.

Listening for hours to his laments that the war and `` Mist Fair's '' poverty afterwards had robbed the mare of many a racing triumph, and to his predictions of greatness for the procession of foals to come, Jenny could look forward to years of conflict with an animal who disliked her intensely and showed it.

`` You bring only wickedness '', she said and it was not to a child any longer but to another woman who had come to skirt her lodge with the cunning hunger of a wild animal.

I had killed snakes before, when I was younger, but there had been no animal like this one, and I knew it was unthinkable that an animal such as that should die.

He reasons that, i ) if we knew the nature of this power, then the mind-body divide would seem totally unmysterious to us ; ii ) if we had immediate knowledge of this mysterious power, then we would be able to intuitively explain why it is that we can control some parts of our bodies ( e. g., our hands or tongues ), and not others ( e. g., the liver or heart ); iii ) we have no immediate knowledge of the powers which allow an impulse of volition to create an action ( e. g., of the " muscles, and nerves, and animal spirits " which are the immediate cause of an action ).

In 1515, he created his woodcut of a Rhinoceros which had arrived in Lisbon from a written description and sketch by another artist, without ever seeing the animal himself.

There is some evidence, however, that ancient Jain ascetics accepted meat as alms if the animal had not been specifically killed for them.

Sewing needles were special to the sewer and were custom made, often with a detailed end that had animal heads.

In September 2004, The Cayman Islands were hit by Hurricane Ivan, causing mass devastation, loss of human and animal life ( both wild and domestic / livestock ) and flooding, with some accounts reporting that 25 % or more of Grand Cayman had been underwater and with the lower floors of buildings being completely flooded.

In mid-August 2006, Michelle O ' Donnell of Turner, Maine, described an " evil looking " rodent-like animal with fangs that had been found dead alongside a road.

In this most common form of Gnosticism the Demiurge had an inferior though not intrinsically evil function in the universe as the head of the animal, or psychic world.

Prosecution experts claim Byers ' wounds were the results of a knife attack and that he had been purposely castrated by the murderer ; defense experts claim the injuries were more probably the result of post-mortem animal predation.

Aristotle asserted that man had three natures: vegetable ( physical / metabolism ), animal ( emotional / appetite ) and rational ( mental / conceptual ).

The animal fossil record from this period is sparse, possibly because animals had yet to evolve hard shells, which make for easier fossilization.

Atahualpa was in awe of these men dressed in full clothing, with long beards and riding horses ( an animal he had never seen ).

Homo habilis had smaller molars and larger brains than the Australopithecines, and made tools from stone and perhaps animal bones.

He felt that he had contributed animal magnetism, which had accumulated in his work, to her.

It appears to me, that the general conclusions established by Mesmer ’ s practice, with respect to the physical effects of the principle of imagination [...] are incomparably more curious than if he had actually demonstrated the existence of his boasted science " animal magnetism ": nor can I see any good reason why a physician, who admits the efficacy of the moral psychological agents employed by Mesmer, should, in the exercise of his profession, scruple to copy whatever processes are necessary for subjecting them to his command, any more than that he should hesitate about employing a new physical agent, such as electricity or galvanism.

The volcanic origin and remote location of the islands meant that the islands ' flora and fauna had to reach the archipelago from far across the sea ; as a result, the island is home to relatively few plant species and very few animal species.

The law, however, while containing commandments intended to promote the true fear of God, had other prescriptions of a purely pedagogic nature, which necessarily ceased when Christ, their end, appeared ; of such temporary and merely relative regulations were circumcision, animal sacrifices, the Sabbath, and the laws as to food.