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.

Parking nightmares had plagued the city as far back as the 1950s, the little park lacked modern amenities, and New York City, which in 1957 had lost both its National League teams ( the Dodgers and the Giants ) to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively, was actively courting Reds owner Powel Crosley.

Robbie had originally wanted to establish the franchise in Philadelphia, but AFL commissioner Joe Foss suggested courting Miami due to its warm climate, growing population, and lack of a football team.

It eventually settled on the Soviets ' Cold War arch-rival, the United States, which had been courting the Somali government for some time.

It eventually settled on Russia's Cold War arch-rival, the United States, which had been courting the Somali government for some time.

Kuhns had reportedly been courting Dellamea for over a year but the relationship was ended when Dellamea discovered that Kuhns was already married.

The elder Snider had decided he had seen enough of Farwell as GM, and began courting Bob Clarke to leave his GM post with Florida to return to Philadelphia.

Drake, who had been courting Randy before the accident, marries her but is now embittered by the loss of his legs and refuses to leave his bed.

Though she was initially determined to pursue her art, she succumbed to his determined courting and they married in August 1875, with a reception at the house of Lawrence Alma-Tadema whose pupil she had been, visiting his parents, who did not attend the registry office wedding, at the end of their honeymoon in Devon and Cornwall.

Agriculture, which had had disappointing results in the First Programme, was understated in the second — a clear break in the Lemass policies from de Valera's longstanding courting of rural voters.

During 1989, Gerald Palmer had been courting interest and offers from US major record labels.

In 1857, they had also built their first carriage —" Fancy, hand-worked iron trim, the kind of courting buggy any boy and girl would be proud to be seen in ".

He had been courting Emelia Ross Bell at the nearby British settlement of Bluefields ( or Blewfields ) before he left, but her father did not approve, probably because of his youth and lack of prospects.

Lam had been courting for the party leadership since Tien's resignation, with support from Sophie Leung and Andrew Leung.

Matthews had several romantic relationships conducted in the public eye, often courting controversy in the newspapers.

Thomas argued that there was little indication that Rutherford had any interest in courting the labour vote.

Despite courting controversy by accusing manager Rafael Benítez of ' treating him like a slave ', he insisted that he had no ill feelings towards the club or anyone associated with it and only wanted to leave after failing to make Poland's World Cup squad, but still stayed on for another year at the manager's request.

Married or not, Lauzun was openly courting Nicolas Fouquet's daughter, whom he had seen at Pignerol.

Although the outing was of a political nature, Rockefeller's future wife Abby Greene Aldrich was included in the large party ; the two had been courting for over four years.

In June 2009 President Vázquez, who had been courting diplomatically the Bolivian President Evo Morales, announced his support for the delisting of coca from the category of a ' dangerous drug '.

She had notable correspondence with Anne Wortley and wrote courting letters to her future husband Edward Wortley Montagu, as well as love letters to Francesco Algarotti.

After he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Calgary-Eye-Opener had its offices he met Clara Balken who in 1938 became his second wife.

( See The Modern Corporation and Private Property The well-known Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad decision began to influence policymaking and the modern corporate era had begun.

Clara enjoyed the impressions and humor of her youngest son and always had words of encouragement for them ; her death was a great loss for young Danny.

Consumer brand awareness of Wendy's eventually regained levels it had not achieved since octogenarian Clara Peller's wildly popular " Where's the beef?

" Nobody has what Clara had.

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

* October 17 – The remains of Che Guevara are laid to rest with full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, where he had won the decisive battle of the Cuban Revolution 39 years before.

On 29 April 1945, the corpses of Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci and other Fascist leaders were infamously hanged in Piazzale Loreto, where a year before fifteen antifascists had been executed.

By late 2003, the state of California and the Santa Clara Valley Water District had confirmed a groundwater plume currently extending over nine miles through residential and agricultural communities.

Judge Samuel F. Miller, who would later sit in the Santa Clara Railroad case ( see below ), had considered the purpose of the Amendment in 1872, only six years after the Amendment had become law, when the court was " called upon for the first time to give construction to these articles.

Bertolt Brecht, whose lover Clara Neher had disappeared after her return to the Soviet Union, reportedly said " The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to die ".

In 1797 most of the Indians from the immediate vicinity of the mission site had actually already been baptized at Mission Santa Clara, 13 miles to the south, during the 1780s and early 1790s.

By 1852, it had premiered in all the major cities of Italy, although sometimes under different titles due to the vagaries of censorship ( e. g. as Viscardello, Lionello, and Clara de Perth ).

He had two sisters, Clara and Frieda.

Originally from Washington, D. C., Kaukonen had moved to California in the early 1960s and met Kantner while at Santa Clara University in 1962.

In 1948, Carlos Prio was assisted by Chief of the Armed Forces General Genobebo Pérez Dámera and Colonel José Luis Chinea Cardenas, who had previously been in charge of the Province of Santa Clara.

Only Santa Clara County, California ( 117, 596 ) and Queens County, New York ( 117, 550 ) had a larger population of Asian Indians ..

* The New York Times: " The flapper, impersonated by a young actress, Clara Bow, had five speaking titles, and every one of them was so entirely in accord with the character and the mood of the scene that it drew a laugh from what, in film circles, is termed a " hard-boiled " audience "

Three days later, it was announced that Schulberg would join with Adolph Zukor to become associate producer of Paramount Pictures, "... catapulted into this position because he had Clara Bow under personal contract ".

Adela Rogers St. Johns had a different take: in 1950, she wrote, " If ever a star was made by public demand, it was Clara Bow ".

In 1851 Martin McCarthy, who had leased the mill, built a toll road down to the Santa Clara Valley, and founded what is now Saratoga as McCarthysville.

Murphy had the first wood frame house, which was shipped from New England, in Santa Clara County built.

Bunker, on his own initiative but with permission from Brigham Young, moved his large polygamous family southwest to Bunkerville after the settlers in Santa Clara had failed to live the communitarian United Order.

An eight-mile canal had to be built from the Santa Clara creek near the Shem smelter to the bench.