`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

Then she turned the station wagon around and headed it back down the hill, with the village as her ostensible destination.

Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;

hollyhock blossoms that, turned upside down, make pink-petticoated ladies ; ;

At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.

But every time I suggested this to her, Mrs. Wright turned it down and demanded that I go out and punish Mr. Wright.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

Well, the Theatre Guild kept that play, and kept it, and finally in December they turned it down.

Smiling at his quixotic thoughts, Warren turned back from the opening and lit a cigarette before sitting down.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

Plunking themselves down on the front bench, they turned to smirk at those around them.

The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head, fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed, but his face was turned to the wall -- there was the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster -- and I thought, Well you don't look much like a pig-drunk bully now.

The doctor shot down to the lavatory and turned the doorknob, but to no effect: the lavatory was occupied.

In the military field, incoming orders turned down early in the year, and remained rather slow until late fall when the upturn in procurement of equipment began to make itself felt in rising orders for components.

Whenever artists, indeed, turned to actual representations or molded three-dimensional figures, which were rare down to 800 B.C., they tended to reflect reality ( see Plate 6a, 9b ) ; ;

And Jarrodsville was more than three miles away, down an old dirt road that the rain had turned into a quagmire.

Muller, nakedly exposed at the bright window like a deer pinned in a car's headlights, threw down the rifle and turned to jump from the table ; ;

Only an occasional tip turned out to be a phony, and, like the police, Casey had made a point of running down all such suggestions and he did not hesitate this time.

Pittsburgh turned him down, just as Pittsburgh society had been snubbing him for years.

He threw a smart salute at the gangway, went up the dock, and turned down the wide street in front of the Petty Officers' Club.

I turned and watched him stride down the center of the road.

I had turned at the corner of the field and I had to look back to raise the plow and then to drop it again into the earth, and I was thinking of the boy and the water anyway, and when I looked again down the furrow, the snake was there.

They had all turned down his son.

Charles Burke got turned down by Dartmouth and he is a straight-A student ''.

Davis, however, was elected to the US Senate from Illinois, resigned from the Court and turned down the commission appointment.

In line for an appointment by the Governor of Virginia to become Commandant of Cadets at Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ), he turned the opportunity down and remained in the Union Army.

The French role in the conflict proved a problem when Charles turned to the appointment of an admiral.

The appointment was a tribute to his reputation, but at the age of sixty-three the change turned out unhappily for him.

Believing that the role of the royal family should transcend partisan politics, his father promoted him to Chief of Butanyerera, but Rwagasore turned down the appointment so that he could devote himself fully to the nationalist cause.

Arnold's appointment to the headship of Rugby School in 1828, after some years as a private tutor, turned the school's fortunes around, and his force of character and religious zeal enabled him to turn it into a model followed by the other public schools, exercising an unprecedented influence on the educational system of the country.

On December 9, 2003, Copps turned down the offer of a patronage appointment from Martin and announced that she intended to remain in the House of Commons.

He asked this lady to secure for him the post of grand-master of the artillery, and on Louis's refusal to give him the appointment he turned his back on the king, broke his sword, and swore that never again would he serve a monarch who had broken his word.

According to The New York Times Magazine journalist James Traub in his book The Best Intentions, Vieira de Mello had originally turned down the appointment before being persuaded by US President George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice.

Barbour turned down offers of a chancellorship and the post of U. S. Attorney General before finally resigning October 15, 1830 to accept President Jackson's appointment to be judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Andrew Porter distinguished himself in battle as a Revolutionary soldier, later became the state's surveyor general, but turned down an appointment by President Madison to become secretary of war.

Ken Bates entered the picture at Oldham Athletic in the early 1960s, and along with the appointment of manager Jack Rowley, the club's fortunes turned for the better.

In 1994, he turned down an appointment by President Bill Clinton to the United States Supreme Court, to replace the retiring Harry A. Blackmun so that he could continue helping with efforts in the Senate to pass significant health-care legislation.

His appointment as chair of the department of meteorology at the University of Chicago in 1940 began the period in which he turned his attention to large-scale atmospheric motions.

Birkett had been offered appointment to the High Court as early as 1928, but turned it down, saying that " I wasn't really drawn to the judicial office ...

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Northampton had finished bottom of the Southern League two seasons running immediately before Chapman's appointment, but Chapman turned the club around within a short space of time.

Most pundits had already written off their survival chances by the time of Strachan's appointment in October 2001, but he turned round their fortunes and they finished 11th in the Premier League.

On October 25, 2011 the Toronto Star revealed that Klees had turned down an appointment to Tim Hudak's shadow cabinet because he planned to run for Speaker of the Ontario Legislature.

In March 1913, Olney turned down President Wilson's offer to be the US Ambassador to Great Britain, and later when in May 1914, President Wilson offered Olney the Appointment as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, he declined that appointment.

He became Attorney General of New Jersey in 1817, turned down an appointment to the New Jersey Supreme Court and became a United States Senator in 1829, serving in that capacity until 1835.

During his career, he also twice turned down offers of appointment as Secretary of the Commonwealth, and twice as justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

He did not win reelection, turned down Grant's tendered appointment as Governor of New Mexico, and returned to Alabama and later to Tennessee to pursue various business interests.

When Muench returned to the United States, he was offered the additional position of liaison between the U. S. post-war occupation authorities in Germany ( the Office of Military Government, United States Zone, OMGUS ) and the German Catholic Church, also on the recommendation of Stritch, after Anthony Strauss, the first choice of the Truman administration turned the appointment down.