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.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

He had known women like that, one woman in particular.

And one had been too many.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

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 one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.

The one thing they had in common was their hatred.

Kodyke had appeared at the mine one day bearing a letter from Kruger.

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

But they deliberately avoided the one subject that had them all curious: the failure of the boss's wife and son to join the outfit.

No one had much to say.

Greg climbed into the cockpit feeling as if he had never been in one before.

An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.

He already had that slow pace that comes over the elderly, while she herself had all the signs of one who appreciates the joys of living.

Die Frist ist um, und wiederum verstrichen sind sieben Jahr, the Maestro quoted The Flying Dutchman, as he told of his career and wanderings, explaining that the number seven had significantly recurred in his life several times.

At the outset of his career, Steinberg had dedicated himself to the advancement of contemporary music by vowing to do a Schonberg work every year.

The entire exercise, Latin and English, is most suggestive of the kind of person Milton had become at Christ's during his undergraduate career ; ;

He had read his poetry with musicians as early as 1951, and his entire career has been characterized by radical experiments with the form and presentation of his poetry.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

he had found his style quite early in his career and he thought it quite wonderful that the world admired it, and he could not imagine why he should alter it.

He had an outstanding record as a legislator since the start of his career in the House in 1913, the 63d Congress.

He assumed his academic career with the same intensity and thoroughness that had marked every step in his rise from boyhood.

The incident, aside from reflecting on Welch's political career, had all but wrecked his home life.

Nor, as Manny said, had the notoriety done my career `` any good ''.

Chandler had been commissioned in the Medical Service Corps and was serving as a personnel officer for the Kansas City Medical Depot when he decided that if he was going to make the Army his career, he wanted to be in the fighting part of it.

Mr. Black's life was an open book, so to speak, from his birth in Jackson, Mississippi, through his basketball-playing days at L.S.U. and his attainment of a B.A. degree, which had presumably prepared him for his career as district sales manager for Peerless Business Machines.

Philadelphia permitted him to seek a better connection after he had refused to reconsider his decision to end his career as a player.

Skorich, who is 39 years old, played football at Cincinnati University and then had a three-year professional career as a lineman under Jock Sutherland with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Giving up the violin opened a whole new career for Ilona Schmidl-Seeberg, a tiny Hungarian who Fritz Kreisler had predicted would have a promising career on the concert stage.

God knew his tears were his to shed if he so desired, for it had not been with an egotist's rage for fame that he had held precious his naval career.

Grand tells Rieux that he married while still in his teens, but overwork and poverty took their toll ( Grand did not receive the career advancement that he had been promised ), and his wife Jeanne left him.

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

Saint Alcuin had a long career as a teacher and scholar, first at the school at York, founded in AD 627 ( now known as St Peter's School, York ) and later as Charlemagne's leading advisor on ecclesiastical and educational matters.

His long military career in these fronts meant he had acquired the military experience needed to operate in the newly reached and vastly unexplored Indian Ocean.

Kieler eventually rebounded from the shame of the scandal and had her own successful writing career while remaining discontent with sole recognition as " Ibsen's Nora " years afterwards.

Throughout most of his career, Athanasius had many detractors.