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.

It was the night Clayton had tricked them in the poker game.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

He had ordered the ponies brought inside the fortified circle and had assigned Pierre and a band of picked engages the job of trying to keep them steady under fire.

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.

It had drawn them together, and since his release from prison Dill had worked tirelessly to effect this night's escape.

How could he exert authority over them -- make them toe the line, as he had to -- if he knuckled under to this small-town clown??

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.

Those who had slickers donned them.

For, with a single exception, nothing had happened to them.

He had received both first and second anonymous notices, and each time he had accused his neighbors of writing them.

He had cursed at them and threatened them.

He stepped inside Jess's guard and landed two blows to the big man's belly, putting everything he had behind them.

Much as they had to look forward to, they didn't begrudge a moment of the time they spent seeing them go.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

Neither of them, I understood, had been present at the filming session earlier.

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

The bars were marked as Walter had marked them in a small black book kept in a nearly secret drawer.

He had picked out this pathless trail, instead of the common one, in a moment of romantic fancy, to give them privacy on their honeymoon.

She had to move in some direction -- any direction that would take her away from this evil place.

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Clerks and postmasters shoveled muck out of their offices -- those who still had offices -- and wondered how to move the mail.

The Selkirk settlers had been anticipated in their move southward by British fur traders.

Accordingly Selkirk's agents ordered the settlers to move north, and by October, John Halkett had torn down both posts, floating the timber to `` the Forks '' in rafts.

The battalion chief said he had just gotten into his 1958 model automobile to move it from the driveway of his home so that he could take his other car to work.

A publicity release from Oregon Physicians Service, of which Harvey is president, quoted him as saying the welfare office move to Salem, instead of `` crippling '' the agency, had provided an avenue to correct administrative weaknesses, with the key being improved communications between F & A and the commission staff.

Linda Evans felt more wretched than she had ever dreamed Bobbie's death could move her to feeling.

I told Miss Groggins to move her down the hall where we had an examining table.

Marvelous, thought Theresa, climbing in her portly, well-bred way, for she was someone who had learned that if you only move slowly enough you have time to notice everything.

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

Octavian made another bold move in 44 BC when without official permission he appropriated the annual tribute that had been sent from Rome's Near Eastern province

In addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.

As the Senate and House debated the matter, Thomas tried to move into the war office, and Stanton had him arrested.

Hunt offered to buy the Cardinals and move them to Dallas, Texas, where he had grown up.

However, these negotiations came to nothing, since the Bidwills insisted on retaining a controlling interest in the franchise and were unwilling move their team to a city where a previous NFL franchise had failed in 1952.

Seeing that Schultz and Spaar were faltering, Marlborough now ordered Orkney ’ s second-line British and Danish battalions ( who had not been used in the assault on Offus and Autre-Eglise ) to move south towards Ramillies.

This move began with Burrough's purchase, in June 1956, of the ElectroData Corporation in Pasadena, California, a spinoff of the Consolidated Engineering Corporation which had designed test instruments and had a cooperative relationship with Caltech in Pasadena.

Those who regard this homage as cynical should note that, cynical or not, such a move would hardly have benefited those involved, had Claudius been " hated ", as some commentators, both modern and historic, characterize him.

McBride said he made the deal simply because he'd " had his fling " with football and wanted to move on to other activities.

Eric Miller committed suicide five years later after a political and financial scandal, and had shady dealing with trying to move Fulham away from the Cottage.