At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

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.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

Getting out again, seeing old friends, had given his spirits a lift.

That was in the days before blood banks, of course, and transfusions had to be given directly from donor to patient.

Frank had been given about half his legacy to use in a business venture before Papa's death ; ;

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??

Before his departure, a group of his friends, the Reverend Stidger among them, had given him a luncheon, and Stidger had seen advance sheets of Elmer Gantry.

But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.

Unless God expected a man to believe the Holy Scriptures, why had He given them to him??

The city had recently given him a small salary, but it was not enough to supply even necessities.

Some liar's logic, a wisp of optimism as fragile as the scent of tropical blossoms that came through the window ( a euphoria perhaps engendered by the pill Fritzie had given her ), consoled her for a moment.

They went shopping in the neighborhood, and bought two loaves of bread with the ration coupons they had been given in Blois, and some cheese, and a dozen eggs, and a bag of oranges from a peddler in the Place Redoute -- the first oranges they had seen since they landed.

And the old man had given a sly and wicked laugh and said, `` Hell, yes!!

In the ballroom below, the dark had given way to moonlight coming in through the bank of French windows.

When he had given the call a few moments thought, he went into the kitchen to ask Mrs. Yamata to prepare tea and sushi for the visitors, using the formal English china and the silver tea service which had been donated to the mission, then he went outside to inspect the grounds.

It could be some kind of trick Budd had thought up.

Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

His shout had been taken up and repeated.

All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

Montero had set up a strong position, using every bale and box we had in addition to barricades of logs and brush.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.

That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.

They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.

Dill had come up also.

Ten years older than Mitch Barton, he had clawed his way up from mucker in the pits to manager of the operation.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

Tom Brannon had caught up with the outfit shortly after the Maguires joined it, which had been at midday.

He'd mounted up immediately and raced with a revolver ready toward the spot from which he'd estimated the shot had come.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

Pain shot up Curt's arm clear to the shoulder, but Jess seemed hardly aware that he had been hit.

Dan asked Hez, who had limped back from his team to hold the notched-stick chair braces in place while his boys swung up the tailgate and tied it tight at the ends.

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

Greg slammed his throttle to the fire wall and rammed up the RPM, and the engine responded as if it had been waiting.