There was more to this than Jones had told him.

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.

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.

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.

Joyce had seen him like this once before -- more than once, actually, but on one particularly memorable occasion.

While no larger than Dutch Springs, this mining supply town had the appearance of being far busier and more prosperous.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

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.

Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.

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.

He wore no head cover of any kind and, more odd, had no visible weapon.

And Hamilton, who felt it `` a religious duty '' to oppose Aaron Burr's political ambitions, would have been a better actuarial risk had he shown more literary restraint.

Social invention did not have to await social theory any more than use of the warmth of a fire had to await Lavoisier or the buoyant protection of a boat the formulations of Archimedes.

At the moment of crisis it had no more depth than an old school tie.

That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.

But by the time the risk was doubled, events had dismissed from his mind both increased percentages and a previously stated intention of considering carefully anything more serious than a bout of influenza.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

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.

As they looked with nostalgia to a society which had been swept away, they were probably no more than half-conscious that they painted in colors which had never existed.

Such characters, with their low existence and often low morality, produce humorous effects in his novels and tales, as they did in the writing of Longstreet and Hooper and Harris, but it need not be added that he gives them far subtler and more intricate functions than they had in the earlier writers ; ;

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

Barton's voice was rougher than Dill had ever heard it.

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

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.

No sooner had I started drinking than the driver started zigzagging the truck.

I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.

After all, he had less reason to desire it than the marine.

Also, we should not even to-day discount the fact that a region such as the coastal lowlands centering on Charleston had closer ties with England and the West Indies than with the North even after independence.

The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could.

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.

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The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year.

In their first three games, the Longhorns have had the ball 41 times and scored 16 times, or 40 per cent ; ;

Johnston had less than 40, 000 men spread throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri.

In 1937, Wilson and Smith could count 40 alcoholic men they had helped to get sober, and two years later they counted 100 members, including one woman.

Furthermore, of critical importance to health care professionals, the preliminary results indicated that patients in the coppered ICU rooms had a 40. 4 % lower risk of contracting a hospital acquired infection versus patients in non-coppered ICU rooms.

In Flanders, VRT channels Een, Ketnet / Canvas ) had a combined market share of 40. 0 % in 2008, VMMa channels ( VTM, 2BE and JIM ) 27. 27 %, SBS Belgium channels ( VT4 and Vijf TV ) 10. 91 % and Media ad Infinitum ( Vitaya and Vitaliteit ) 3, 64 %.

In 1990, Bulgaria had a total of more than 2, 400 tanks, 2, 000 armored vehicles, 2, 500 large caliber artillery systems, 300 fighter and bomber aircraft, 100 trainer aircraft, more than 40 combat and 40 transport helicopters, 4 submarine, 6 fast missile craft, 2 frigates, 5 corvettes, 6 torpedo boats, 9 patrol craft, 30 minesweepers and 21 transport vessels.

In 1939 – 40, 45 percent of the army was 40 years old, and 50 percent of all the soldiers had just a few weeks training.

Males had a median income of $ 50, 789 versus $ 40, 623 for females.

Both sides had about 40, 000 cavalry.

40. 7 % of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 6 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Indeed, his mother was illiterate and never recorded the date of his birth, remembering only that he had been born on a Wednesday, eight days before the Feast of the Ascension, which itself occurs 40 days after Easter.

In a memorable moment during the expansion announcement conference, Richardson spoke directly into the camera to thank the 40, 000 people who had purchased the PSLs and allowing the stadium to be built without a burden to the taxpayers.

During the 1940s and 50s the attendance was often above 40, 000, and Charlton had one of the largest support bases in the country.

By 40 million years ago, the first clearly identifiable member of the dog family, Canidae, had arisen.

Males had a median income of $ 40, 367 versus $ 24, 446 for females, and the per capita income was $ 22, 055.

He had 40 or more complete games nine times.

According to CSO Insights, less than 40 percent of 1, 275 participating companies had end-user adoption rates above 90 percent.

The letters are invented compositions to a fictitious correspondent, which are a device for vignettes of agricultural and rural life, set in Attica, though mellifluous Aelian once boasted that he had never been outside Italy, never been aboard a ship ( which is at variance, though, with his own statement, de Natura Animalium XI. 40, that he had seen the bull Serapis with his own eyes ).

When Pissarro returned to his home in France after the war, he discovered that of the 1, 500 paintings he had done over 20 years, which he was forced to leave behind when he moved to London, only 40 remained.

Hewlett-Packard had reported yearly revenues of $ 47 billion, while Compaq's was $ 40 billion, and the combined company would have been close to IBM's $ 90 billion revenues.