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He had been predeceased by his eldest son and heir, George Stanley, Lord Strange by a matter of months and was succeeded as Earl by his grandson, Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby.
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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.
had and predeceased
They had one son and three daughters, all of whom predeceased their father.
Lucrezia and Alfonso had only one child, Rodrigo, who predeceased his mother in August 1512 at the age of 12.
He left behind 13 children ( two of his children, Cheyenne and Dylan Brando, had predeceased him ) as well as over 30 grandchildren.
Maximilian had appointed his daughter Margaret as both Regent of the Netherlands and the guardian and educator of his grandsons Charles and Ferdinand ( their father, Philip, having predeceased Maximilian ), and she fulfilled this task well.
However, this tomb was inscribed with the names of two of Edward IV's children: George, 1st Duke of Bedford who had died at the age of 2, and Mary of York who had died at the age of 14 ; both had predeceased the King.
He predeceased his father by two years and was buried by him in St Sophia Cathedral he had built in Novgorod.
She had no children of her own and also predeceased her husband.
The Dukedom of York and Albany was next granted by George II to the second son of his son, who had predeceased him.
In 1402 ( aged 52 ) he had married Alice, daughter of Sir Ivo FitzWarin ( or Fitzwarren ) of Wantage in Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ), but she predeceased him in 1411.
They had two children, a son, Gary and a daughter, Samantha, both of whom predeceased Hearn.
His son Humbert had predeceased him, but he left behind a son, Aymon, who became Bishop of Belley.
The tomb was inscribed with the names of two of Edward IV's children: George, 1st Duke of Bedford who had died at the age of 2, and Mary of York who had died at the age of 14 ; both had predeceased the King.
Although he predeceased his father, Domnall apparently had at least one surviving child, a son whose name is not recorded.
Stockton's son Maurice had become heir to the earldom, but predeceased him suddenly a month after his father's elevation.
His last wife was Chunsina ( or Chunsine ), with whom he had one son, Chram, who became his father's enemy and predeceased him.
He and his wife, Betty Lou, had three children, Beverly Aderholt, Jerry Bigham, and Don Bigham, who predeceased his father.
Bettina lived until 1908 ; Žofie, who had married Josef Schwarz in 1874, predeceased her stepmother, dying in 1902.
In 1593 he married the wealthy Zofia Mielecka, by whom he had one son who predeceased him.
His only son having predeceased him, Guildford's nephew, John Guildford, asserted that his uncle had intended him to inherit.
They had three daughters, who all predeceased him.
had and by
It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
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.
They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.
He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;
She had been snared here by a vile sensuality that writhed around her throat in ever-tightening circles.
The deputy had forced him to by his manner of accosting him.
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.
Hardly had Mrs. Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck, father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty's '' Ford sedan, came screeching to a dust-swirling stop, and a brown face appeared, its nose threatened by shards of what had once been the side window.
Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.
Her impact in the zing commercials had led to her being considered for an excellent part in an upcoming TV series, Underwater Western Eye, a documentary-type show to be sponsored by Oatnut Grits.
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
Not by the 11:00 sun which had spread a warmth around his spot of grass in the English Gardens and sent him off to sleep ; ;
He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.
It had been five days too late before he learned that she'd gone through the wedding ceremony in a semitrance of laudanum, administered by her mother.
She had jumped away from his shy touch like a cat confronted by a sidewinder.
Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
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