She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.

All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

But a moment later he brought his horse forward into the light, and Wilson had a good look at him.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

He scrubbed absent-mindedly at the pans and reflected on how things had turned out.

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.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Kodyke had appeared at the mine one day bearing a letter from Kruger.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

He could not grasp that Lord had withdrawn from the fight minutes ago, and that his leaden arms were flailing at nothing but the air.

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.

Tom Brannon had caught up with the outfit shortly after the Maguires joined it, which had been at midday.

But the day of the deadline came and passed, and the men who had scoffed at the warnings laughed with satisfaction.

He had cursed at them and threatened them.

This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.

Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.

Andy Ross had just started swinging an ax at his second willow when the distant blast of a rifle sounded.

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.

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.

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.

He had known women like that, one woman in particular.

And one had been too many.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

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

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

The one thing they had in common was their hatred.

Joyce had seen him like this once before -- more than once, actually, but on one particularly memorable occasion.

But they deliberately avoided the one subject that had them all curious: the failure of the boss's wife and son to join the outfit.

No one had much to say.

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

An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.

He already had that slow pace that comes over the elderly, while she herself had all the signs of one who appreciates the joys of living.

There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

He had accordingly cultivated eccentricity to the point of second nature.

At 2130 hours they had passed through the barbed wire at the point of departure.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

they had also had to generalize it -- to the point, finally, where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as such: as a disembodied attribute and expropriated property detached from everything not itself.

The point -- quite simply -- is this: words they might have had ; ;

( This patient, in actuality, was a neurasthenic who had almost come to the point of accepting the fact that it was not her soma but her psyche that was the cause of her difficulty.

In a private communication written in 1911, Parker had been more to the point.

Bake was waiting to report that Lou DuVol had been sobered up to the point where he could function efficiently.

She had grown up with young Jenkins, and he had heard that they had been at the point of getting married at least twice.

Only an occasional tip turned out to be a phony, and, like the police, Casey had made a point of running down all such suggestions and he did not hesitate this time.

The marriage of John and Mary Black had clearly reached the breaking point after eight years.

Palmer had started the round four strokes behind Player, and at one point in the afternoon had trailed by as many as six strokes.

At one point late in the day, when Palmer was lining up a 25-foot putt on the 16th, a thunderous cheer from the direction of the 18th green unmistakably announced that Player had birdied the final hole.

But he had in Walter Hendl a willing conductor able only up to a point.

Twenty minutes after the interruption, although it was still raining, the play was resumed at the point in the fourth act where it had been stopped.