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He had stood at a little distance, studying her, as though he would walk around next and look at the back of her head.
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Amid a shortage of profitable work, the memory of Albert Johnson's $20,000 stood out in lonely grandeur -- the money had quickly melted away.
If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.
She had stood at the bottom of the stairs, as usual, when Mrs. Coolidge came down, in the same dress that is now in the Smithsonian, to greet her guests.
All about him stood tombstones his own sensitive great hands had fashioned.
He stood there watching until it had gone from his sight.
He whirled around, suddenly hot all over, finding the man who had been standing before him a few moments back, nailing him to the spot on which he now stood, open-mouthed.
When they stood about his tent, chaffing each other, exchanging their obscenities, cursing command or weather, he had studied their faces.
What had that man, that other young Jew, felt as he stood in the twilight and heard other men, far away, singing together??
Inside, as soon as Mr. Skopas had disclosed -- in a hoarse whisper -- the detective's errand, his family gathered in a huddle, forming a mass of dark flesh on and around a brocaded sofa which stood at one side of a baroque fireplace.
When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.
She stood clutching her shawl around her shoulders until he had swung the car onto the road.
She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.
Then Miss Ada had stood up, rustling and rustling, and gone upstairs.
There was no extra horse so it was left to his comrades who, though numbering in the fifties, had stood around on the hillside nearby without firing a shot during the entire attack.
It was so utterly unexpected that Marty stood for several moments with his mouth hanging open foolishly after it had happened.
When they had gone, he stood for a minute breathing in the mustiness of old paper and leather which the busily thrumming air conditioner couldn't quite dispel.
Also, if we had excluded the ladies we would have to that extent let the whole world know at least that much of where we stood.
he stood with his feet apart on a kitchen table he had dragged to the sill.
Even from where he stood he could see the neatly folded blanket that he had spread over Burton, the pillow, the sheet of paper on top of it.
The wastebasket stood near the wall next to the divan, and the instant Casey picked it up he knew what had happened.
What otherwise could `` the lawyer, doctor, minister, the men of science and letters '' do when told that they had `` become the cherubim and seraphim and the three archangels who stood before the golden throne of the merchant, and continually cried, ' Holy, holy, holy is the Almighty Dollar ' ``??
One denomination had a membership of 1,419,833 at the beginning of the period under study, and twenty years later its membership stood at 1,541,991 -- a net growth of only 122,158.
Another major church body had 4,499,608 members and twenty years later its membership stood at 4,622,444.
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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.
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