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.

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.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.

He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

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

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.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

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.

After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.

Using the justification that the Incas had " broken the inviolate law observed by all nations of the world regarding ambassadors " the new Viceroy, Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa, decided to attack and conquer Vilcabamba.

In this account, many centuries before their tribe had become so dishonest that no man's property nor wife was considered inviolate ;

Additionally, and especially in those with strong needs for certainty ( as measured on NFC Scale ), the impulse to achieve cognitive closure may sometimes produce or evoke a mood instability, and / or truncated perceptions of one's available behavioral choices, should some newly acquired information challenge preconceptions that they had long considered to be certain, permanent and inviolate eg.

Claiming that persons with ' other agendas ' had misinterpreted her actions, she said: " I inadvertently allowed those with other agendas to corrupt the most precious and inviolate basis of our profession – the attorney-client relationship .".

By a charter of Hugh Montgomerie of Hesilliead 10 January 1560, following on a contract between the said Hugh and Robert, Lord Boyd and Helen Boyd, his daughter, dated at Glasgow 27 December 1559, she had the ten-merk land of Lyandcorse, in the parish of Neilstoun, Renfrewshire, and the twenty-pound lands of Williyard, in the parish of Beith, " in her pure, spotless, and inviolate virginity ", to hold all the days of her life.

He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.

I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.

Whenever he saw someone lying in the dirt, Ramey wondered what the person had been thinking and he would try out thoughts in his own mind.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

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.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

Years were to pass before these plans came off the paper, and Wright was justified in thinking, as the projects failed, that much of what he had to show his country and the world would never be seen except by visitors to Taliesin.

His mentioning of Japan and Holland had been merely the expression of wishful thinking.

He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.

He was so long thinking that my mother had time to inspect her sherry for dregs.

I insisted on takeing the field and prevailed -- thinking that I had better die by rebel bullets than ( by ) Union quackery ''.

She knew that I lived at a good address on the Gold Coast, that I had once been a medical student and was thinking of returning to the university to finish my medical studies.

Gaylor's obsession and Cunningham's chimera-chasing reminiscences had mesmerized him into thinking of Lila and Lilac, separately or together, as a legend.

The sweat broke out on Mr. Skyros' forehead as he realized he had been actually thinking -- hoping -- planning -- perhaps --

His shout had been involuntary, something anybody might have done without thinking, on the spur of the moment.

A lot of people were still thinking about Jack Nicklaus, the spectacular young amateur, who had a 70 ; ;

This whole tendency had an unfortunate effect on Chinese thinking.

But we had hardly started to adjust our thinking to this new uranium weapon when we were faced with the hydrogen bomb.

Alexander guessed that they had planned confusion and turmoil, thinking it the ideal climate in which to begin battle and bloodshed.

She was thinking of Paul a few weeks ago, in the Easter holidays, with her at one of those awful Friday Evening Dancing Class parties her mother had made her attend.