He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

His shout had been taken up and repeated.

His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.

She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.

The metal strip they had taken off from was coal black against the green jungle around it.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.

The long road that had taken liberals in this country into the social religion of democracy, into a worship of man, led logically to the Marxist dream of a classless society under a Socialist State.

He had taken out first papers for American citizenship ; ;

When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

Finally they went off to file their stories, after the photographers had taken pictures of my latest vigil.

Esther, mistaking my hesitation, assured me that the hospital expense would be taken care of by a leading merchant in Strasbourg whom she had already approached.

the energetic Parisian, Roger De Damas, three year's Littlepage's junior, to whom Nassau had taken a liking ; ;

Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.

As a naturalist living for two years at the headwaters of the Amazon, he had collected specimens for Mexican museums, and he had taken to the London zoo a live quetzal, the sacred bird of the old Mayans.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

In the decades following World War I, the standard battle rifle used by armies around the world had been growing shorter, either by redesign or by the general issue of carbine versions instead of full-length rifles.

By the 1990s, the US had adopted the M4 carbine, a derivative of the M16 family which fired the same 5. 56mm cartridge but was lighter and shorter ( in overall length and barrel length ), resulting in marginally reduced range and power.

The modern usage of the term carbine covers much the same scope as it always had, namely lighter weapons ( generally rifles ) with barrels less than 457. 2 mm ( 18 inches ).

The town had a carbine plant which operated the town lights.

The concept was first used in bolt action rifles such as the Thorneycroft carbine of 1901, although the increased distance from hand grip to bolt handle meant the decreased length had to be weighed against the increased time required to fire.

By the age of 13 ( 1847 ), he had completed six years of primary studies in Lateinschule and became interested in engineering. The next year, he began an apprenticeship with a carbine maker, Raithel.

Ryan entered the store and again tried to shoot her at close range with his M1 carbine, but the rifle's magazine had fallen out, probably because he inadvertently hit the release mechanism.

While the Krag had been issued in both a long rifle and carbine, the Springfield was issued only as a short 24 in.

As to the short Mle 1890 and Mle 1892 Berthier carbine, they had already been issued to cavalry, artillery, machine gun and engineering troops long before the outbreak of World War I.

The weight of the carbine prototype had since grown to 7. 5 lbs ( 3. 4 kg ) according to a brochure released by HK and General Dynamics in January 2005.

In the Fall 2007 test, the XM8 recorded only 127 stoppages in 60, 000 total rounds while the M4 carbine had 882.

The 415 grain Martini Carbine load introduced in 1878 shot better out to longer ranges, had less recoil when it was fired in the rifles instead with its reduced charge of only 75 grains of Curtis & Havey's, but was found that whilst the rifle with its 485 grain bullet shot point of aim to 100 yards that the carbine load when fired in the rifles shot 12 inches high at the same range, but then made up for this by shooting spot on out to 500yrds.

Disregarding small-arms fire and exploding grenades aimed at him, suffering a bullet wound in the left hand and a painful shrapnel wound in the head after his carbine had been shot from his hand, he threw grenade after grenade with devastating accuracy until the beaten enemy withdrew.

For example, during the Boxer Rebellion, in contrast to the Manchu and other Chinese soldiers who used arrows and bows, the Muslim Kansu Braves cavalry had the newest carbine rifles.

Development work on a new service rifle ( both a standard and carbine variant ) adapted to use the intermediate 5. 56x45mm NATO cartridge had been undertaken in 1995, however a functioning 5. 56 mm rifle and carbine variant had already been available in Radom since 1991, known as the wz.

The third and final model had the barrel shortened from 32 to 30 inches, and the calibre reduced to. 653, which allowed the rifle to fire a. 625 calibre carbine bullet, with a greased patch to grip the now-seven rectangular grooves in the barrel.

The Model 723 M16A2 carbine used the iron sights of the M16A1, but had a case deflector.

He was, however, so dizzy that Sergeant O ' Toole, who had been keeping back the advancing Zulus, gave up his carbine and, riding alongside, helped to hold him on until they reached safety.

The following day the IDF revealed that she had been accidentally shot in the head with the M16 carbine belonging to Romam Aldubi, a Jewish 26-year old violence-prone religious nationalist.

He was, however, so dizzy that the sergeant, who had been keeping back the enemy, gave up his carbine and rode alongside to hold him on.

He had illegally modified the. 30 M1 carbine, virtually changing it to a handgun.

He put her down on the couch, and going into the kitchen, saw that the boy had dropped into a chair beside the table.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

He found the pan where he had dropped it and carried it back down to the stream.

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.

Hogan got down from the saddle and had a look inside.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

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

From then on, in keeping with the traditions they had followed since childhood, the whole group settled down to relish their food.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Once Todman thought he had spotted a tank and went down to investigate while Greg covered him.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

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.

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

Blood dripped down the front of his sweater, soaking into a dark streak of dirt that ran diagonally across the white wool on his shoulder, as though the bright V woven into the neckline had melted, running a darker color.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.

At nightfall he had been able to sneak down a hillside and into the jungle, reeking of death.

The law-abiding citizens of Petrie had gathered inside Kaster's Store, halfway down the street.

He lifts her, puts her down, and walks off, neither pleased nor disturbed, as if nothing had happened.

he tossed a paper toward every front door, and housewives came down to their steps to pick them up and read what their neighbors had been doing.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

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.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.