He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.

He told himself he had never seen two people eat so much.

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.

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.

Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.

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

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

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

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

By 1898, rustling losses had been driven down to the lowest level ever seen in Wyoming.

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 seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;

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.

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

He had never seen clouds like them before, but he had the primitive feel of danger that gripped a man before a hurricane in Carolina.

After the retirement of Sandberg and the trade of Dunston, the Cubs had holes to fill and the signing of Henry Rodriguez, known affectionately at " H-Rod " to bat cleanup provided protection for Sammy Sosa in the lineup, as Rodriguez slugged 31 round-trippers in his first season in Chicago.

In the United Kingdom, game shows have had a more steady and permanent place in the television lineup and never lost popularity in the 1990s as they did in the United States, due in part to the fact that game shows were highly regulated by the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the 1980s and those restrictions were lifted in the 1990s, allowing for higher-stakes games to be played.

Two witnesses who had originally testified in her grand jury indictment had died by the time she was found and brought to trial: a plumber who had sold materials used in the bomb had picked Soliah out of a lineup as one of the buyers, and a bomb expert had stated the explosive could have been built in Soliah's apartment.

However they were not core founding members of the group and within a few months Nirvana had reverted to its original two-person lineup.

Clemente was promoted to the team's starting lineup the following season and batted. 288 as the team's leadoff hitter, and by season's end, on February 19, 1954, Zorilla had signed Clemente to a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers ' Triple-A affiliate, the Montreal Royals.

Williams returned to the Red Sox lineup on May 7, and he hit. 345 with 386 at bats in 117 games, although Bobby Avila, who had hit. 341, won the batting championship.

Crash was, despite his erratic behavior, generally regarded as a brilliant lyricist ( a contemporary critic described him as " ransacking the dictionary "), and the final lineup of Smear, Doom, and Bolles had become a world-class rock ensemble by the recording of ( GI ), turning in a performance that spurred an LA Weekly reviewer to write, " This album leaves exit wounds.

Like GM, it too had a stale model lineup ( except for the best-selling minivans ) that was largely based on the aging K-car platform.

After the departures of Margolis and Krummenacher, the band's lineup stabilized in 2007 around Hickman, Lowery, Funaro and new bass guitarist Sal Maida, who had played with Roxy Music.

By January 1980, U. K. had folded after one lineup change and three recordings.

1997 also saw lineup changes ; bassist Victor Damiani and guitarist Greg Brown both left, prompting speculation about the band's survival ; McCrea noted that " Musically, there was a really great symbiosis and I really felt that it ( their departures, especially Brown's ) was the most stupid thing in the world ", and said that he had considered dissolving the band.

Another episode had a lineup of Hispanic suspects proclaim in song " We're the local color with the coppertone skin / And you treat us like we're guilty of some terrible sin.

ABC's daytime lineup became strong throughout the 1970s and 1980s with the soap operas General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Edge of Night ( which had moved to ABC from CBS in late 1975 ), All My Children, and Ryan's Hope, and the game shows The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, Let's Make a Deal, Split Second, The $ 20, 000 Pyramid and Family Feud.

Both players had been substituted out of the lineup, and they reportedly left the dugout before the playoff game had concluded.

On 15 November 2009, the festival's Australian organisers issued a statement on their website, confirming that Beenie Man had indeed been dropped from the lineup.

Peter Forsberg replaced Primeau as team captain, but a chronic foot injury developing in last season's Olympics had him in and out of the lineup throughout the season and limited his effectiveness.

Many analysts gave the Pistons little chance to win against their opponents, the Los Angeles Lakers, who had won three out of the previous four NBA championships, and who fielded a star-studded lineup that included Shaquille O ' Neal, Kobe Bryant, Gary Payton and Karl Malone.

They had a solid lineup led by Byron Beck and Larry Jones, then later by Beck and Ralph Simpson.

The Warriors had another injury-prone year, as they were unable consistently to field their ideal starting lineup.

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

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.

All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

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

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

But a moment later he brought his horse forward into the light, and Wilson had a good look at him.

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.

He scrubbed absent-mindedly at the pans and reflected on how things had turned out.

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.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

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

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

He could not grasp that Lord had withdrawn from the fight minutes ago, and that his leaden arms were flailing at nothing but the air.

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.

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

But the day of the deadline came and passed, and the men who had scoffed at the warnings laughed with satisfaction.

He had cursed at them and threatened them.

This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.

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.

Andy Ross had just started swinging an ax at his second willow when the distant blast of a rifle sounded.