He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.

Dan asked Hez, who had limped back from his team to hold the notched-stick chair braces in place while his boys swung up the tailgate and tied it tight at the ends.

He had asked.

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.

Their afflictions centered on one maddening difficulty: Miriam held up the divorce proceedings that she herself had asked for.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

Victor Berger, the panjandrum of Wisconsin Socialism and member of Congress, had asked Paula Steichen to translate some of his German editorials into English.

Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat with Franklin K. Lane, a prominent California journalist and reform politician, whom he asked for his support.

The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.

One of the girl students, sitting by while I ate the thick soup, asked me if I had a sleeping bag.

Instead, he went down to New York and submitted Welcome To Our City to the Theatre Guild, which had asked him to let them have a look at it after Professor Baker had recommended it highly.

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

This seems to refer, not to the loan Richard had asked for, but to a proposed bargain with Shakespeare.

He asked Quiney to find out whether the money had been paid and, if not, to send to the lodging of Sir Edward and entreat him to pay what he owed.

There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.

It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.

I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.

She asked if I had other advice and, heady with success, I rushed it in, I hope not too late.

After a pause, during which he studied Scotty's face as if Scotty were not there and could not study him too, Mr. McKinley would ask the same questions he had asked downstairs.

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

The Vice President had called and asked if he could see the Secretary at his home.

Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

Visual effects supervisor William Mesa showed Raimi storyboards he had from Victor Fleming's film Joan of Arc that depicted huge battle scenes and he picked out 25 shots to use in Army of Darkness.

Raimi used ' Fake Shemps ' or ' stand-ins ' to replace the actors who had left.

Although Raimi and Tapert had desired $ 4 million for the production, they were allotted only $ 3. 6 million.

Raimi contacted his old friend Scott Spiegel, who had collaborated with Campbell and others on the Super-8 films they had produced during their childhood in Michigan.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Raimi had expressed an interest in directing a film version of The Hobbit, the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

However at Comic-Con International 2012, Raimi stated that he was no longer involved in the project, saying “ Actually, they don ’ t have me directing World of Warcraft anymore because when I took the Oz job, they had to move on to another director.

We need someone who has the same obsession with the source material as Peter Jackson had with Lord of the Rings or Sam Raimi had with Spider-Man.

The first image the Coens and Raimi conceived was of Norville Barnes about to jump from the window of a skyscraper and then they had to figure out how he got there and how to save him.

In January 2006, reports emerged that director Sam Raimi had signed up to make a movie based on this novel with a script by Pamela Pettler, the writer of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.

The only person he always behaves properly towards is his boss, though Rourke at one time states he would have ignored Volks ' orders just for his own fun had Raimi not been tougher than he had expected.

* Frances McDormand as Julie Hastings: Raimi had wanted to work with Frances McDormand but the studio resisted this notion and almost cast Julia Roberts before Pretty Woman made her a star.

For a long time, Sam Raimi had been interested in adapting a comic book into a film.

The initial idea Raimi had for Darkman was of a man who could change his face.

At this point, according to Raimi, " it became the story of a man who had lost his face and had to take on other faces, a man who battled criminals using this power ".

The studio still wasn't satisfied so the Raimi brothers wrote drafts six through twelve before they had a shooting script.

Universal told Raimi that some people rated Darkman the worst film they had ever seen.

In the The Evil Dead trilogy, Sam Raimi used Dutch angles to show that a character had become possessed.

Meanwhile, William wakes up in the warehouse of a scientist named Dr. Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov ( Stacy Keach ), and his idiotic assistant Pavel ( Ted Raimi ), who had taken damaged parts of William's brain and replaced it with healthy tissue from Yegor's.

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

The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.

The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

Dill was silent as if he hated to answer, and Barton had a cold, sick feeling of apprehension.

How could he exert authority over them -- make them toe the line, as he had to -- if he knuckled under to this small-town clown??

Greg climbed into the cockpit feeling as if he had never been in one before.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

Greg slammed his throttle to the fire wall and rammed up the RPM, and the engine responded as if it had been waiting.

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

And he would have enjoyed it just as much if he had been a Nazi.

but if it had been, it had been smothered until now by fear ): you could tell it by the way she watched the older, bigger boys, like Jack.

and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.

They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.

He lifts her, puts her down, and walks off, neither pleased nor disturbed, as if nothing had happened.

They look as if they had been sculptured with an unsharpened chisel.

He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.

Under the influence of marijuana the beatnik comes alive within and experiences a wonderfully enhanced sense of self as if he had discovered the open sesame to the universe of being.