`` 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 ''.

The Athenians arrived in time to prevent the Persians from securing a landing, and seeing that the opportunity was lost, the Persians turned about and returned to Asia.

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Having lost its colonial empire, France saw a good opportunity for revenge against Britain in signing an alliance with the Americans in 1778, and sending an army and navy that turned the American Revolution into a world war.

Both Paul Muni and George Raft turned down the lead role, giving Bogart the opportunity to play a character of some depth, although legendary director Walsh initially fought the casting of supporting player Bogart as a leading man, much preferring Raft for the part.

He was offered the occasional job, including the opportunity to direct Since You Went Away for David O. Selznick, but turned them down.

However, both Superman and Conner Kent have called him out on the hypocrisy of this statement, noting that he has regularly turned down easy opportunities to willingly help others, simply because he would have sacrificed an opportunity to kill Superman by doing so.

" A number of his friends and future colleagues took advantage of the Mouvement Travail-Études to study in France, but Mao, perhaps because of a lack of ability to learn languages and the requirement to learn French, turned down the opportunity.

Moses turned down the opportunity to have the Israelites completely destroyed and a great nation made from his own offspring, and instead he told the people that they would wander the wilderness for forty years until all those twenty years or older who had refused to enter Canaan had died, and that their children would then enter and possess Canaan.

It was after the veteran TV globetrotter Alan Whicker and journalist Miles Kington turned down presenting the first of these, Around the World in 80 Days, that gave Palin the opportunity to present his first and subsequent travel shows.

Executive producer Michael Piller turned down the opportunity to develop ideas, objecting to what he saw as a " competition " for the job.

When Julia took the offer seriously and pleaded for the opportunity, and Grant earnestly objected, she turned silent, indignant and quite disappointed.

Leone turned down the opportunity to direct The Godfather, in favor of working on another gangster story he had conceived earlier.

The loss of this opportunity caused serious discord in the Balzac household, although Honoré was not turned away entirely.

Bermudian merchant vessels turned to privateering at every opportunity, during the 18th Century, preying on the shipping of Spain, France and other nations during a series of wars.

Steiger turned down the opportunity to repeat his role in the film because he did not want to compromise his independence, while producers Hecht-Lancaster insisted he sign a multi-picture contract.

In committing to the role of Lisa Fremont in Rear Window, Kelly unhesitatingly turned down the opportunity to star alongside Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, which won her replacement, Eva Marie Saint, an Academy Award.

and Cabaret, Mendes was nevertheless only given the job after twenty others were considered and several " A-list " directors turned down the opportunity.

Bermudian merchant vessels turned to privateering at every opportunity in the 18th century, preying on the shipping of Spain, France, and other nations during a series of wars.

Three Colors: Blue, The Horseman on the Roof and A Couch in New York all gave Binoche the opportunity to work with prestigious directors she had turned down during the prolonged shoot of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf.

Instead, she turned parallel to the beach and cruised westwards, guns blazing at targets of opportunity.

Accepting a position as associate editor at Cosmopolitan magazine, she turned this forum into an opportunity to campaign for greater public acceptance of aviation, especially focusing on the role of women entering the field.

In 1898 he was offered and turned down the opportunity to lead the Liberal Party, then deeply divided and unpopular, preferring to use the opportunity to earn money as a barrister.

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.