He had no idea how much time Budd would give him.

In any case, he had no intention of being caught asleep, so he carried his revolver in its holster on his hip and he took his Winchester with him and leaned it against the fence.

And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.

The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.

Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.

I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.

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.

It seemed to Barton that the green eyes mocked him, the thin-lipped smile held insolence, but he had no time to waste now.

Perhaps she had no reason to fear these trees that whispered their secrets above her head as she passed.

Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.

Brannon had no slicker.

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

There had been no sign of a rifleman and no track or trace to show that anyone had been near.

Ross had no intention of searching for the assassin.

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:

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

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

In one hand he gripped firmly a parasol though there had been no indication of rain.

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.

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

Thomas the elder married twice, had seventeen children, and died in 1615.

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The children had nowhere to go and no place to play, not even sidewalks.

He imagined they were the kind whose tax returns were never examined ( if they were, they were never penalized ), whose children had no unhappy romances, whose names never knew scandal.

She had no children ; ;

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

The children had to play away from the house ( in the barn loft or the pasture behind the barn ), to maintain a proper quietness.

Although it had seemed a good reason, to begin with: no couple could afford to have children.

`` You are bound to get involved with people when you have children '', Fran had told me at our first meeting, `` so it is good to know that those with whom you get involved are not just dreary little housewives and dull husbands, but People Who Do Things ''.

And at three different times during our turbulent marriage strange girls, with the commonest of accents, telephoned to announce to me that Letch had sired their unborn children!!

One day, the children had wanted to get up onto General Burnside's horse.

Individual differences in maturation and the development of readiness for learning to read indicate that not until the third grade have most children had ample opportunity to demonstrate their capacity for school achievement.

First of all, as we had surmised, the highly compulsive children in the structured setting score significantly better ( Af ) on achievement than do similar children in the unstructured schools.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

`` He had four children, two sets of twins.

One who had been a boy in Auschwitz had to tell how children had been selected by height for the gas chambers.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

Rumor had it that his children numbered in the hundreds.

It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

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.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

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.

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

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

She had been snared here by a vile sensuality that writhed around her throat in ever-tightening circles.

The deputy had forced him to by his manner of accosting him.

Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.

Hardly had Mrs. Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck, father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty's '' Ford sedan, came screeching to a dust-swirling stop, and a brown face appeared, its nose threatened by shards of what had once been the side window.

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

Her impact in the zing commercials had led to her being considered for an excellent part in an upcoming TV series, Underwater Western Eye, a documentary-type show to be sponsored by Oatnut Grits.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

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.

Not by the 11:00 sun which had spread a warmth around his spot of grass in the English Gardens and sent him off to sleep ; ;

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.

It had been five days too late before he learned that she'd gone through the wedding ceremony in a semitrance of laudanum, administered by her mother.

She had jumped away from his shy touch like a cat confronted by a sidewinder.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.