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He had lived for almost thirty years in this same stone farmhouse with the same wife, a remarkably childish thing in itself ; ;
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The land over which he sped was the land he had created and lived in: his valley.
For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.
I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.
They thought of themselves, to use Jefferson's words, as `` the Argonauts '' who had lived in `` the Heroic Age ''.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
Sherman insisted that cavalry could not successfully break up hostile railways, yet Garrard's Covington raid and Rousseau's Opelika raid cut two-thirds of the rail lines he had to break and Sherman lived in mortal fear of what Forrest might do to his communications.
His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.
Two or three times, C. C. Burlingham came to lunch with us in Weston, that wonderful man who lived to be more than a hundred years old and whose birthplace had been my Wall Street suburb.
Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.
But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.
Few of the native Jews who had lived in Lublin were still in the ghetto.
She and her husband had formerly lived in New York, where she had many friends, but Mr. Flannagan thought the country would be safer in case of war.
If Depew had told any academic psychologist that he had a weird feeling of having lived through that identical convention session at some time in the past, he would have been informed that he was a victim of deja vue.
He remembered exactly when he had lived through it before, and he had something to prove he had.
Though Bob Carroll seemed to have had his head practically blown off by the exploding grenade, he lived.
William, who lived in neighboring St. Mary's parish, had taken charge and decided that it would be best for all if the plantation were operated for another year.
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.
For fifty-five years he had lived, progressing towards a no-goal, eating, working, breathing without plan, without reason.
He had lived all his life waiting for her.
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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 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.
And, for the sake of Julia and Susan, it had to be tried.
Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
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 the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.
He had done time for the theft.
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.
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.
Never, he'd once told Joyce, had he encountered any man or situation that called for a gun.
A wildcatter had to be prepared for almost any emergency.
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 had been laying for Aaron McBride for a long time, just waiting to catch him out of line.
He had a legitimate reason for wearing it.
Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.
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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.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.
He'd been in an angry mood: Conchita had thought his face almost ugly with the anger in him.
His maneuvering for the shot had placed him near the overcast, almost inverted and heading up into the clouds.
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.
Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.
`` Don't forget, here was a man who had been accusing his colleagues for almost a year of willfully attempting to present an incorrect report.
Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.
Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.
To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.
Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.
We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.
The failure of Greece to reach the imperial destiny that Periclean Athens had seemed to promise was almost directly attributable to her physical conformation.
He had learned to dispute devastatingly, both formally and informally in Latin, and according to the rules on any topic, pro or con, drawn from almost any subject, more especially from Aristotle's works.
In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.
After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.
He had eaten almost nothing on the crested, three-sectioned plate and had drunk about half the milk in its paper container.
He had not even thought about her much except once or twice at night in bed when his slowly ranging thoughts would abruptly, almost accidentally, encounter her.
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