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.

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

She had hated the whole idea before they started.

At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

The idea had come from Herold, who had once been a chemist's clerk.

He had no idea where Seward's room would be.

He had no idea where he was.

Their names had not come up in any discussions with Laura, and he had no idea what they would be like.

He realized that he had no idea where the telephone was.

Kate had no idea what they were talking of, although she had seen the blue lights and strange fires burning and winking on the ridges at night, had heard horsemen on the River Road and hill trails through the nights till dawn.

Rector had no idea why Kayabashi wanted to visit the mission.

I had no idea of what subjects one discussed when alone with a girl, or how one behaved: Should I hold her hand while walking or only when crossing the street??

He also bought a huge square of pegboard for hanging up his tools, and lumber for his workbench, sandpaper and glue and assorted nails, levels and T squares and plumb lines and several gadgets that he had no idea how to use or what they were for.

Instructions to relax, i.e., to be `` spontaneous '', and react immediately to whatever impulse they might have, was not sufficiently reassuring until some idea of the possibilities of normal reactions had been given.

By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

) By its greater corporeal presence and its greater extraneousness, the affixed paper or cloth serves for a seeming moment to push everything else into a more vivid idea of depth than the simulated printing or simulated textures had ever done.

For weeks he had been saying that Hudson's idea of sailing through to Java was absurd.

She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.

Morgan returned to the kitchen, built a fire, and carried in several buckets of water from the spring which he poured into the copper boiler that he had placed on the stove.

The land over which he sped was the land he had created and lived in: his valley.

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.

To this effect I had already severed all connections which bound me to my former existence.

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.

The slight flutter that had disturbed the motion of her heart when she entered the forest was gone now, and even the dim groves of trees through which she occasionally passed did not reawaken her fear.

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.

Tom Brannon had caught up with the outfit shortly after the Maguires joined it, which had been at midday.

He'd mounted up immediately and raced with a revolver ready toward the spot from which he'd estimated the shot had come.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

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.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

I had a one-room studio which overlooked an ancient courtyard filled with flowers and plants, blooming everlastingly in the southern sun.

Her mouth, which had been so much in my thoughts, was warm and moist and tender.

I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.

I heard subsequently that my Uncle and Aunt had dinner in a nearby restaurant in the French Quarter after which he went home to get into his costume to keep the date.

The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.

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 ; ;

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.