At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

He had his chance the very next morning, for exactly the same thing happened again.

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 ''??

She was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same position where the snake had found her.

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

Then they were tumbling again, and the big man reached into the same pocket he had gone for earlier, and came up with a vicious switchblade.

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

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.

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

In the same way he coupled Molesworth and Wharton in a letter to Archbishop King, and he had earlier described him as `` the worst of them '' in some `` Observations '' on the Irish Privy Council submitted to Oxford.

When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.

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.

Already Trevelyan had begun to parallel his nineteenth-century Italian studies with several works on English figures of the same period.

Papa had left us about the same hour of the night that Ben had passed on.

We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.

Even earlier Haverfield had come to the same conclusion.

if, as often happened, he had to repeat because he had spoken too softly, he would repeat his words in the same way, without emphasis or impatience, only a little louder.

After a pause, during which he studied Scotty's face as if Scotty were not there and could not study him too, Mr. McKinley would ask the same questions he had asked downstairs.

If he had had a son, he would tell him, `` Gather ye rosebuds while ye may This same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying ''.

In the audience a man named Ferguson lost his head and tried to rescue a little girl from the mob, on the same principle which had led Miss Harris to demand water.

The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.

The bullet had penetrated in the area of the right collarbone ; ;

He moved only about 30 feet after the 240-grain slug hit him -- and this was after the bullet had passed through a sapling.

A bullet fired by one of the Mexicans hiding in a little chicken house had passed through his head, tearing a hole two-inches square on the outgoing side.

The bullet had in fact clipped a part of his popliteal artery and his boot was filling up with blood.

House Rock had numerous bullet hole-like marks where micrometeroids from space had impacted the rock.

" I had a revolver in my pocket and without saying a word to him, I took it out of my overalls and I fired a bullet into the back of his head.

Eyewitness Lieutenant Edward Doherty, the officer in charge of the soldiers who captured Booth and Herold, stated that " the bullet struck Booth in the back of the head, about an inch below the spot where his shot had entered the head of Mr. Lincoln.

Deicide has been banned from playing in several venues ( such as Valparaiso, Chile over a promotional poster featuring Jesus Christ with a bullet hole in his forehead ) and with various festivals such as Hellfest, after several graves had been spray-painted with " When Satan Rules His World ", which is a song from Deicide's 1995 album Once Upon the Cross.

He had spoken only a few words, however, when the insurgents, hearing some shots, and fancying they were betrayed, opened fire upon the national guard, and the archbishop fell, struck by a stray bullet.

Connolly had been incapacitated by a bullet wound to the ankle and had passed command on to Pearse.

The bullet had missed his main artery by the barest margin and his voice was barely audible.

Whether facing native spear or European bullet, impis largely fought as they had since the days of Shaka, from Zululand to Zimbabwe, and from Mozambique to Tanzania.

Rumour had spread among them that their bullet cartridges were lubricated with pig and cow fat.

Early rounds had a 15. 3 grams ( 236 grains ) long round nosed bullet, and was loaded so that it produced a muzzle velocity of about 580 m / s ( roughly 1900 ft / s ), while later rounds had a 12. 8 grams ( 198 grains ) spitzer bullet and gave a muzzle velocity of 823 m / s ( 2740 ft / s ).

Early rounds, with a 10. 1 grams ( 156 grains ) long round nosed bullet ( B-projectile ) had a muzzle velocity of around 700 m / s ( roughly 2300 ft / s ), while later rounds with a 9 grams ( 139 grains ) spitzer bullet ( D-projectile ) offered a muzzle velocity up to 870 m / s ( 2854 ft / s ).

Young inhabitants of Prague had taken to the streets and in the confrontation, a stray bullet had killed the wife of Field Marshal Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, the commander of the Austrian forces in Prague.

The stallion had smelled the mare coming into heat and began to paw the turf, shaking his head.

Perhaps she had no reason to fear these trees that whispered their secrets above her head as she passed.

Once again, he shook his head, kept his face expressionless and his voice very calm, and had a strongly supported alibi ready.

) Rumor had it he slipped two small rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademark.

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.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

Nicolas was dreaming he had his head pressed against the dashboard of a speeding car.

It had always seemed strange to Ramey that to disguise himself as a tourist, an ex-truck driver like Horsely would merely pick something outlandish and put it on his head.

The girl stopped but did not turn her head or acknowledge that someone had spoken to her.

He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.

He wore no head cover of any kind and, more odd, had no visible weapon.

Born a Congregationalist, he had been baptized as a tiny baby in the usual manner by having a few drops of water sprinkled on his head, yet nowhere in the whole of the New Testament could he find a description of anybody being baptized by sprinkling.

And, for the moment at least, the governor now found himself allied with the head of the Crittenden faction he had formerly opposed, and Pike was credited with a clear triumph over Woodruff.

But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.

They set bouncing betties to jump and explode at testicle level while we more mercifully had them go off at the head.

She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash, and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

As usual, Mrs. Lincoln had lost her head, but nobody blamed her for doing so now.