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.

The bars were marked as Walter had marked them in a small black book kept in a nearly secret drawer.

But though each of its members had asserted this right against the Union, the final Constitution which the Confederacy signed on March 11 -- nearly a month before hostilities began -- included no explicit provision authorizing a state to secede.

Aug. 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette -- a century during which it had undergone several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication -- this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening Post.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

The pointed shadow had nearly touched him.

The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle -- it must have been late in September -- I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front, nearly dying, my head bandaged and blooded, and Jessica bending over me, the power of her love bringing me back to life.

Hans Schweizer had one that increased from 19-1/2 inches to 5 feet 3 inches in five years, and J. J. Quelch records a growth of from less than 4 feet to nearly 10 in about six years.

We had nearly decided that all the tales of Lao lethargy must be true, when we were invited to take a trip with the Prime Minister.

Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

`` I am satisfied that in the Selden case had this power existed and this course ( been ) pursued, it would have shortened the depositions of some of the experts nearly one-half and of some of the other witnesses thereto more than that ''.

Inside the passage, he had to work his way over the fallen timber and nearly collapsed under his clumsy burden.

For nearly a year, they have been receiving counseling, separately and together, in an effort to understand and overcome the antagonisms which had given rise to the possibility of divorce.

On this day the wind had switched 180-degrees from the northwest to the southeast, and nearly every shot on the course was different from the previous few days.

Richard had kept his eyes down throughout the game, the very sound of the chatter nearly painful to his ears.

It lay half in the furrow and half out, and the front wheels had rolled nearly up to it when I put in the clutch.

The population of Akkad, like nearly all pre-modern states, was entirely dependent upon the agricultural systems of the region, which seem to have had two principal centres: the irrigated farmlands of southern Iraq that traditionally had a yield of 30 grains returned for each grain sown and the rain-fed agriculture of northern Iraq, known as " the Upper Country ".

For example, those who drank over 3 units a day had nearly twice the risk of a hip fracture.

If Acorn had thought to include this small modification in the original Electron design it is likely the machine would have had a much greater impact as it would have nearly doubled the amount of motion possible in games and saved modes 0 – 3 ( including the only 16 colour mode ) from being nearly useless due to contended memory timings.

They had come to America to escape religious persecution, but then nearly starved to death.

KFC had been founded in 1910, had nearly become National Champion in 1934 through a narrow loss to Ajax in the finals, and had been professional since 1955.

He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.

He told himself he had never seen two people eat so much.

Start out fresh, the two of us, like nothin had ever happened ''.

His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.

And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.

He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

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.

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.

) Rumor had it he slipped two small rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademark.

He stepped inside Jess's guard and landed two blows to the big man's belly, putting everything he had behind them.

Greg had the stick forward and the throttle up before he heard the two `` Rogers ''.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

But before this came about, 214,938 Americans had given their lives in battle for the two concepts of the sovereign rights of men and of states.