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.

For his background, David had the choir of Notre Dame act as his fill-in characters.

His corpse was transferred back to Bamberg, which he had loved dearly, and interred in the western choir of the Bamberg Cathedral.

He had Regiomontanus attempt the first sanctioned reorganization of the Julian calendar and increased the size and prestige of the papal chapel choir, bringing singers and some prominent composers ( Gaspar van Weerbeke, Marbrianus de Orto, and Bertrandus Vaqueras ) to Rome from the North.

His Symphony No. 9 takes the unprecedented step ( for a symphony ) of including parts for vocal soloists and choir in the last movement, making it a choral symphony ( however, a minor composer, Daniel Steibelt had written a piano concerto with a choral finale four years earlier, in 1820 ).

Eventually she consoled herself with a young Ukrainian peasant with a good bass voice who had been brought to Saint Petersburg by a nobleman for a church choir.

The massive endowments, powers and responsibilities of the Cluniac abbots had drawn them into the affairs of the secular world, and their monks had abandoned manual labour to serfs to serve as administrative officials or " choir monks ".

Bishop King had arranged for the vaulting of the choir, to a design by William and Robert Vertue.

Scott was a steadfast supporter of the Gothic revival and designed the tomb of the first bishop ; he had a new bishop's throne built ( 1903 ), together with commemorative stalls for Bishop Festing and two Archdeacons, and new choir stalls.

The choir had a bus, toured several states and even produced a record album.

Forensic evidence suggests he was speared from the front and had his skull smashed, perhaps by a stone thrown through an opening that had been torn through the wall of the choir.

Isaac was in Konstanz because Maximilian had called a meeting of the Reichstag ( German Parliament of nobles ) there and Isaac was on hand to provide music for the Imperial court chapel choir.

After the deaths of both Maximilian and Isaac, Ludwig Senfl, who had been Isaac's pupil as a member of the Imperial court choir, gathered all the Isaac settings of the Proper and placed them into liturgical order for the church year.

As the choir sings " In the Garden ", Wayne passes communion to Margaret and communion is passed from person to person living and dead: the banker, the wealthy, the musician, Moze who has had to flee, Will, Possum, Frank, Edna, Royce, and the black boy who killed him sitting by his side.

In its long history the choir has had many well known organists, such as Daniel Purcell, Sir John Stainer and Bernard Rose.

In 1814, he was appointed musical director to the choir of the pontifical chapel, to which he had as early as 1802 gained admission in virtue of his fine bass voice.

In 1859 Liddell welcomed the then Prince of Wales when he matriculated at Christ Church, being the first holder of that title who had matriculated since Henry V. While he was Dean of Christ Church, he arranged for the building of a new choir school and classrooms for the staff and pupils of Christ Church Cathedral School on its present site.

Born in Kenner, Louisiana, United States, and growing up in a suburb of New Orleans, Price had formal musical training in trumpet and piano, sang in his church's gospel choir, and was a member of a combo in high school.

He had a happy and active childhood, enjoying home theatricals and singing in the church choir.

According to the Talmud, Joshua ben Hananiah, who had served in the sanctuary Levitical choir, told how the choristers went to the synagogue from the orchestra by the altar ( Talmud, Suk.

He had a great interest in American Negro music, and once said that he would have ideally liked The Rio Grande to feature a black choir .< ref >

He resigned in January 1883 at which time the standards of the orchestra and the choir had deteriorated, and members of the committee were disagreeing with each other.

They were the eventual winners of the Ladies Competition whilst the Men's competition was won by the Hungarian workers ’ choir, who had completed their journey to Wales by hitch-hiking when their train had been cancelled at Basle because of the French strike.