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.

Then, when the case went to the jury, the judge excused one of the jurors, saying the juror had told him he had been accosted by masked men at his motel the night before the trial opened.

765 in which the court decided that a crime committed under some delusion would only be excused if it would have been excusable had the delusion been true.

Whereas other Southern politicians had excused slavery as a necessary evil, in a famous speech on the Senate floor on February 6, 1837, Calhoun asserted that slavery was a " positive good.

According to the Crowland Chronicle, although Lord Stanley excused himself on the grounds of illness, the ' sweating sickness ', by now Richard had firm evidence of the Stanleys ’ complicity.

Sarah excused her behaviour in an interview with Oprah Winfrey by saying that she had been drinking prior to soliciting the cash, and was " in the gutter at that moment ".

Hitler then met with Rundstedt and excused himself on the grounds that it had all been a misunderstanding.

He excused himself on the score of ill-health from sitting in the States General of 1789, to which he had been elected deputy, and refused to take his seat in the Corps Législatif under the Empire.

When he lay dying in 1685, he asked for Catherine, but she sent a message asking that her presence be excused, and " to beg his pardon if she had offended him all his life.

His social success was due less to his literary position than to his powers as a conversationalist, his educated taste in all matters of art, and no doubt to his sarcastic and bitter wit, for which he excused himself by saying that he had such a small voice that no one listened if he said pleasant things.

Edward Schempp testified at the second trial that he had considered having his children excused from attendance at the exercises but decided against it for several reasons, including his belief that the children's relationships with their teachers and classmates would be adversely affected.

As ambassador Elyot had been involved in ruinous expense, and on his return he wrote unsuccessfully to Cromwell begging to be excused, on the grounds of his poverty, from serving as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1532.

They were under the command of Maj. Joel H. Elliott, who had been excused from attending the court martial proceedings for Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer then underway at Fort Leavenworth.

Yorkshire by contrast had a poor season, though it could partly be excused by the impact of Test calls, injuries and Trueman's National Service.

His undergraduate program in chemistry had required minimal math courses, and he had been excused from these due to high marks in his high school courses.

Several actors had come and gone in the roles of Bernardo, the Ghost, and Claudius ; the last in the series excused himself when his daughter was born.

This boy had been excused from his classroom to go to the boys ' toilet about 2: 00 p. m. on the day of the fire.

Poe excused the earlier serialized version by noting that the Messenger had mistakenly adapted it " under the garb of fiction ".

Lombardi was angered by the presence of the agent, and excused himself ; five minutes later he returned to inform the two that Ringo had been traded to the Philadelphia Eagles.

The ferry operator, Caledonian MacBrayne, had made a profit of over a million pounds per year on the route, but observers from the BofA and later the National Audit Office noted that many locals were excused the ferry fee by ferry workers, with much of the ferry's revenue coming from the heavy summertime tourist traffic.

While at Fort Laramie, the vanguard company was joined by members of the Mormon Battalion who had been excused from service due to illness and sent to winter in Pueblo, Colorado.

However, he said that " songs had big hooks that excused their coldness, and the arty moments sank to the bottom ".

Even among the bloodthirsty throngs that habitually attended English beheadings, the gory and agonizing display had created such outrage that Ketch felt moved to write and publish a pamphlet title Apologie, in which he excused his performance with the claim that Lord Russell had failed to " dispose himself as was most suitable " and that he was therefore distracted while taking aim on his neck.