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He had years before told Tony Grey of The Irish Times that if he ever succeeded Brooke, he hoped to meet with Lemass.
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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.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
But ten years in prison had taught him realities.
For his first five years in prison, they had shared a cell.
Twenty years before a group of Easterners had bought out the Haskell claims in the rocky hills south of Grass Valley.
Ten years older than Mitch Barton, he had clawed his way up from mucker in the pits to manager of the operation.
Why did these yokels still wear boots, anyway, when most had scarcely sat a horse in years??
But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.
I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
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.
Some had been there for years ; ;
Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??
His years of campaigning had taught him the value of water discipline.
Aristide Devol, the sardonic manservant who had been brought in chains years before from his native Sierra Leone, smiled thinly and touched his well-brushed beaver hat.
Wisman, who has had the chief controller's job for four years, calls the signals for a team operating three rows of dull-gray consoles studded with lights, switches and buttons.
I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.
During these years the youthful conductor had contributed greatly to the high level of musical life in Germany.
After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.
Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.
The Jews had been banished from England in 1290 and were not permitted to return before 1655, when Shakespeare had been dead for thirty-nine years.
had and before
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.
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.
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.
And he had a feeling -- thanks to the girl -- that things would get worse before they got better.
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.
Where before had she felt or dreamt or imagined such a scene??
She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.
Joyce had seen him like this once before -- more than once, actually, but on one particularly memorable occasion.
The cook, Mateo Garcia, had arrived there long before the herd.
They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.
He had to make Jess talk, and he had to do it before Stacey Black got curious and came to investigate.
As luck had it, he had not gone twenty feet in the street before Pat appeared.
While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.
He had not covered a hundred yards before a gun crashed from somewhere behind.
Greg climbed into the cockpit feeling as if he had never been in one before.
Greg had the stick forward and the throttle up before he heard the two `` Rogers ''.
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.
had and told
There was more to this than Jones had told him.
He told himself he had never seen two people eat so much.
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.
Surprisingly, he had told the others what he had done.
Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.
Never, he'd once told Joyce, had he encountered any man or situation that called for a gun.
By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.
If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.
In those days poems often told a story in verse and those boys had some corkers to tell ; ;
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
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.
Lithe and muscular, he had well-molded features, and his light color told of the European ancestors who had been intimate with the slave women of his family.
Die Frist ist um, und wiederum verstrichen sind sieben Jahr, the Maestro quoted The Flying Dutchman, as he told of his career and wanderings, explaining that the number seven had significantly recurred in his life several times.
I told him no, that I had had a very happy childhood.
What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.
Ernest A. Gross leaned back in his chair and told Peter Marshall how Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had, on December 4, 1957, called him in as a private lawyer to review Bang-Jensen's conduct `` relating to his association with the Special Committee on the problem of Hungary ''.
Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.
Mama had told her how Emmett's lungs had been affected when he was gassed in the war.
A volunteer food brigade had been arranged, they told me, which would supply me with the necessities as long as I remained at the bridge.
I've had a trying day and I just can't make it out again '', I told them.
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