He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

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.

But the luck that had been running their way left him.

The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.

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.

For men who had left cattle alone after getting their first notices had received no second.

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:

At the first shot Russ had hurled his mount to the left toward the side of the winding draw.

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.

He had left her inviolate, thinking familiarity would gentle her in time.

Within a decade or less, few men were left and a feminist society had sprung up.

The man had thrown the left hand over his eyes.

He left the house and almost certain death without even increasing his pace and wondered by what remarkable stroke of Providence he had been allowed to come out alive.

I left behind me brave men, whom captivity had robbed of all hope.

He would not make a sound until the President had wakened and left for the office ; ;

Papa had left us about the same hour of the night that Ben had passed on.

He had left us a legacy far more valuable than houses and lands and stocks and bonds.

On the morning of November 17th, Cornwallis and 2,000 men had left Philadelphia with the object of capturing Fort Mercer at Red Bank, New Jersey.

Morgan was ordered to attack the enemy, who had meantime moved to Edge Hill on the left of the Americans.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

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

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

He had been sighted, and his attacker pumping shot after shot.

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 heard subsequently that my Uncle and Aunt had dinner in a nearby restaurant in the French Quarter after which he went home to get into his costume to keep the date.

The women's faces had hardened after my statement.

But in the middle of the last century an island woman named `` Karipo '' seized a spear in the heat of an inter-tribal battle and rallied the women after their men had fled.

Miraculously, Karipo and her women had succeeded in driving a hundred invaders from the isle of Pamasu back to their war canoes, after considerable loss of life on both sides.

At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

Marty Balin was knocked out during a scuffle with Hells Angels members who had been hired to act as " security.

Unfortunately for Gagool, a brief scuffle with a beautiful native named Foulata – who had become attached to Good after nursing him through his injuries sustained in the battle – causes her to be crushed under the stone door, though not before fatally stabbing Foulata.

Hamilton then killed two of the Parson's three sons, Frankie and Jesse, by striking them on the head with the barrel and then cutting their throats with a knife Carney had produced in the scuffle.

When Joseph Devlin, an Irish Parliamentary Party MP, tried to bring up the Croke Park killings at Westminster, he was shouted down and a scuffle broke out in the parliament ; the sitting had to be suspended.

During the ensuing hour, the activists refused and blocked an entrance to a highway, a " scuffle " broke out: In an interview given by one of the members he stated בשלב מסויים החלטנו לאתגר את החיילים ולנסות להמשיך בנסיעה ( at some point we decided to test the soldiers and continue to move ) and after few moments they had been assaulted and in an interview for JPost " After about half-an-hour, he said, the cyclists decided to push past the IDF, and that is when the violence began .".

He built up a neat resume whilst serving, though suffered an initial setback: " He had a scuffle at a gas station which cost him his $ 100, 000 Prize Fight money and five months in jail " during his early career.

In the Judge's opinion it was clearly proved that no struggle or scuffle had taken place before the murder.

He was reported to have had a scuffle with left-wing Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn.

While Heath and Livingston escaped any involvement in the scuffle, Heath later claimed to have had an epiphany on that evening.

Brian Hayward and Tim Hunter had been involved in a scuffle which escalated to a full brawl after Hunter continued to attack Hayward.

After a brief scuffle with Consadole Sapporo over the J2 title, Tokyo Verdy 1969 had to settle for runner-up-which was enough to earn promotion back into the top flight for 2008.

McLean's charge was reduced to manslaughter, of which he was cleared at the Old Bailey when it emerged that Humphries had been in a scuffle with the police after being ejected from the nightclub.

After a brief scuffle, Clayton kills him and discovers the contact is Zack ( Gabriel Macht ), a CIA agent who had also been a recruit at The Farm.

Watson visits his friend Holmes at Christmas time and finds him contemplating a battered old hat, brought to him by the commissionaire Peterson after it and a Christmas goose had been dropped by a man in a scuffle with some street ruffians.

There are conflicting claims about the exact nature of said scuffle: a press release from the Olympiad organizers placed the blame squarely on Azmaiparashvili's shoulders, saying that after he had tried to gain admittance to the stage on several occasions he " without any previous provocation, assaulted the agent with a head butt to his mouth ".

Roberts cut a drunken promo paying tribute to Ray Traylor, who had died a few days before, and almost got into a scuffle with several WAW wrestlers who were sent out to defuse the situation.

Then, on March 20, 2006, replacement Tree Tommy Leep was ejected during the Stanford women's basketball team's NCAA tournament game against Florida State University for " dancing in an undesignated area ", following an earlier scuffle with tournament security, from whom he had attempted to escape by hurling himself across the basketball court on a rolling chair.

After qualifying for the 1982 Canadian Grand Prix, Serra and countryman Raul Boesel had a short scuffle.

Meanwhile a scuffle ensues when the preacher discovers their driver had been giving Virginia pills to deal with her anxiety issues, while looking for the driver to confront him about the pills, John finds the married driver in bed with the daughter of the motel owner.

Shortly before a TNA show on February 25, 2004, Punk had a physical scuffle with Teddy Hart outside of a restaurant that was broken up by Sabu.

Punk, however, has stated that the scuffle had no bearing on his TNA career.

They all have verbal scuffle after which, Ajju, reveals he had kidnapped the Police Chief.

In early 1994, it was reported that Rifkin had engaged in a jailhouse scuffle with mass murderer Colin Ferguson.

A scuffle broke out when Peyton had refused to release her, and Nonosbawsut was shot and killed.