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.

On the social side, the chore Mama had at the formal receptions at the White House thrilled her the most.

The orator of this period, in order to earn a reputation, had to pay close attention to the formal composition of his speech, judging how it would appear in print as well as the effect it would have on the audience that heard it.

Above all, he had learned to write formal Latin prose and verse to a remarkable degree of artistry.

He had noticed how formal and irritably exact Rachel had grown.

When he had given the call a few moments thought, he went into the kitchen to ask Mrs. Yamata to prepare tea and sushi for the visitors, using the formal English china and the silver tea service which had been donated to the mission, then he went outside to inspect the grounds.

On the one hand, the major European nations had to maintain vis-a-vis each other an emphasis upon sovereignty, independence, formal equality -- thus insuring for themselves individually an optimal freedom of action to maintain the `` flexibility of alignment '' that the system required and to avoid anything approaching a repetition of the disastrous Napoleonic experience.

) But the inner, formal logic of Cubism, as it worked itself out through the collage, had just as much to do with shaping their decision.

Instead, we became involved in a series of friendly, but overly formal, welcoming addresses to which we had no choice but to reply in kind.

Presumably those who did not have a formal church connexion had also felt the influence of Christianity to a greater or lesser extent.

Born in Connecticut in 1799, Alcott had only minimal formal schooling before attempting a career as a traveling salesman.

In 1911, the curbstone brokers came to be known as the New York Curb Market, which then had a formal constitution with brokerage and listing standards.

She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.

Although Ares received occasional sacrifice from armies going to war, the god had a formal temple and cult at only a few sites.

Berg had little formal music education before he became a student of Arnold Schoenberg in October 1904.

However, full civil equality was obtained only when they received the formal rights of citizenship, which had long been withheld from them in their own communities of Endingen and Lengnau.

Few Burkinabé have had formal education.

These became known as the Negro Leagues, though these leagues never had any formal overall structure comparable to the Major Leagues.

There is no evidence that the term was a title that had any practical use, with implications of formal rights, powers and office, or even that it had any existence before the 9th-century.

" A formal defection of this kind was then noted in the register of the person's baptism, an annotation that, like those of marriage or ordination, was independent of the fact of the baptism and was not an actual " debaptism ", even if the person who formally defected from the Catholic Church had also defected from the Christian religion.

George V had substantial improvements done during the 1910s and 1920s, including formal gardens to the south of the castle.

Leonidovich was in the formal dark-gray suit which had belonged to his father and which he liked more than any other.

Urukagina ( reigned c. 2380 BC – 2360 BC, short chronology ) had an early code that has not survived ; a later king, Ur-Nammu, left the earliest extant written law-system, the Code of Ur-Nammu ( c. 2100-2050 BC ), which prescribed a formal system of penalties for specific cases in 57 articles.

His English friends, it said, had gone into training to keep up with him vocally and with his `` allegro movements around the luncheon table ''.

Ask any group of ballerinas to do ten push-ups or three chin-ups and the results, considering the amount of physical training they have had, will be very disappointing.

When these groups were first formed many prominent and accomplished decorators could not have had the advantage of school training since interior design courses were rare and undeveloped during their youth.

Long hard years of `` on the job '' training had brought them to their competence.

They had courage but their meager training consisted of weekend hops in good weather, in and out of established airports, And the increasingly cold weather soon raised hob with the water cooled engines of their World War 1, planes.

Worst of all, Wally had no training for any kind of work.

He stressed training in awareness of abstracting, using techniques that he had derived from his study of mathematics and science.

Only adult male Athenian citizens who had completed their military training as ephebes had the right to vote in Athens.

It is possible he had begun learning this skill during his early training with his father, as it was also an essential skill of the goldsmith.

According to Autodesk company information, the AutoCAD software is now used in a range of industries, employed by architects, project managers and engineers, amongst other professions, and as of 1994 there had been 750 training centers established across the world to educate users about the company's primary products.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

") He was determined not to fight until he thought there had been sufficient preparation for a decisive victory, and put into action his beliefs with the gathering of resources, detailed planning, the training of troops — especially in clearing minefields and fighting at night — and in the use of 252 of the latest American-built Sherman tanks, 90 M7 Priest self-propelled howitzers, and making a personal visit to every unit involved in the offensive.

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.

Chaplin's years with the Fred Karno company had a formative effect on him as an actor and filmmaker ; Simon Louvish writes that the company was his " training ground ".

By the 1980s many colleges had recognised a community need for computer training and since then thousands of people have been up-skilled through IT courses.

Within a few years of nationalisation, a number of progressive measures had been carried out which did much to improve conditions in the mines, including better pay, a five-day workweek, a national safety scheme ( with proper standards at all the collieries ), a ban on boys under the age of 16 going underground, the introduction of training for newcomers before going down to the coalface, and the making of pithead baths into a standard facility.

Meanwhile, Murbella collapses under the pressure of Bene Gesserit training, giving in to " word weapons " that the Bene Gesserit had planted to undermine her earlier Honored Matre identity.

Longtime infielder / manager Phil Cavarretta, who had been a key player during the ' 45 season, was fired during spring training in 1954 after admitting the team was unlikely to finish above fifth place.

The Colorado Rockies have had Hi Corbett Field as their spring training home for many years.

However, members were divided over key issues, only 25 had previous parliamentary experience, and although many had some legal training, there were no qualified lawyers.

These monks ' violence had already been used, 15 years before, by Theophilus ( Cyril's uncle ) against the " Tall Brothers "; furthermore, it is said that Cyril had spent five years among them in ascetic training.

The company organization of each camp had a dual-authority supervisory staff: firstly, Department of War personnel or Reserve officers ( until 1 July 1939 ), a " company commander " and junior officer, who were responsible for overall camp operation, logistics, education and training ; and secondly, ten to fourteen technical service civilians, including a camp " superintendent " and " foreman ," employed by either the Departments of Interior or Agriculture, responsible for the particular field work.