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Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.
Dean turned from Susan and took Julia Fortune in his arms.
The voice came from behind him, and Wilson turned.
As things turned out, however, we have not profited greatly from the lesson: instead of persistently following a national program of our own we have often been satisfied to be against whatever Soviet policy seemed to be at the moment.
We had stopped before a shop window to assess its autumnal display, when you suddenly turned to me, looking up from beneath one of your wrong hats, and with your nervous `` ahem ''!!
The unrelieved stranger eventually turned away from the place of his -- shall we dare say his Waterloo??
and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.
Smiling at his quixotic thoughts, Warren turned back from the opening and lit a cigarette before sitting down.
His being and His will -- Stevie could not divide God from his Papa -- illumined every parish face, turned the choir into a band of angels, and the pulpit into the tollgate to Heaven.
We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.
The men he would take back across the river stood there, but he turned away from them.
She turned and walked stiffly into the parlor to the dainty-legged escritoire, warped and cracked now from fifty years in an atmosphere of sea spray.
A relatively simple switching arrangement reverses the cycle so that the machine literally runs backward, and the heat is extracted from outdoor air and turned indoors.
The authors set about answering this fundamental question through a detailed investigation of the patient's ability, tactually, ( 1 ) to perceive figure and ( 2 ) to locate objects in space, with his eyes closed ( or turned away from the object concerned ).
For it had turned out, by a further paradox of Cubism, that the means to an illusion of depth and plasticity had now become widely divergent from the means of representation or imaging.
Not long after moving in she turned up a richly carved desk, hewed from the timbers of the British ship H.M.S. Resolute and presented to President Hayes by Queen Victoria.
Traders from the English colonies were far more generous, and Indian loyalty turned to them.
Something in my voice must have touched her deeply because her anger passed quickly, and she turned away to keep me from seeing her face.
He turned from the phone and strode to the front of the restaurant.
With a sturdy act of will she turned her mind away from herself ; ;
Mrs. Holden turned from the window draperies.
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 ; ;
Alec turned him over and discovered a round, lumpy face with narrow, slanting eyes -- a primitive Tartar face from Russia or the Balkans.
A good feeling prevailed on the SMU coaching staff Monday, but attention quickly turned from Saturday's victory to next week's problem: Rice University.

turned and flying
For instance, on 1977's Out of the Blue, the logo was turned into a huge flying saucer space station, an enduring image now synonymous with the band.
Hadingus realizes that he is flying through the air: " and he saw that before the steps of the horse lay the sea ; but was told not to steal a glimpse of the forbidden thing, and therefore turned his amazed eyes from the dread spectacle of the roads that he journeyed.
By 1907 Rolls ' interest turned increasingly to flying, and he tried unsuccessfully to persuade Royce to design an aero engine.
I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-pane from the outside.
Later Cayley turned his research to building a full-scale version of his design, first flying it unmanned in 1849, and in 1853 his coachman made a short flight at Brompton, near Scarborough in Yorkshire.
The moon is close enough that flying creatures may land there ; the back side is sweet and honeyish, the visible side has turned sour and become curdled cheese, due to observing what has happened on Earth and Xanth.
Illingworth told him that this was to be his last over in any case and the fast bowler sent his last ball flying over the head of Doug Walters, turned to Rowan and said " Now that's a bouncer for you ".
Soviet officials and Mongolian witnesses reported that the plane then flew north, over Mongolia and almost to the Soviet border, but then turned around and began flying south before it crashed.
It took off in an easterly direction, then turned to the north to avoid flying directly over Paris.
She looks a bit like the winged monkeys from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz or the Tengu of Japanese mythology, travels on a flying " boomerangstick " and is proud of the fact that people are scared of her, but seems to have self-confidence issues ( until the end of the episode, anyway ) and turned out to not be so scary once the gang got to know her ( although she dissuaded them from telling anyone ).
In 1980, as budget cutbacks were reducing his squadron's flying time, Fletcher turned down a regular commission in the Air Force.
Vane was turned out of office in 1637 over the Hutchinson affair and his insistence on flying the English flag over the colony's fort — many Puritans felt that the Cross of St George on the flag was a symbol of popery and was thus anathema to them.
The hijacking of El Al Flight 219, a Boeing 707 with 158 people on board, fails when hijacker Patrick Argüello is shot and killed after injuring one crew member and his partner Leila Khaled is subdued and turned over to British authorities in London ; two other PFLP members prevented from boarding El Al Flight 219 instead hijack Pan American World Airways Flight 93, a Boeing 747 flying from Brussels, Belgium, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with 153 people on board, which they force to fly to Beirut, Lebanon, and then on to Cairo, Egypt.
A string trimmer works on the principle that a line that is turned fast enough is held out from its housing ( the rotating reel ) very stiffly by the string tension that exerts the centripetal force that prevents the string from flying off in a straight line under its own inertia.
An American whaler is taken by the Surprise and the Franklin, and a British sailor on the whaler tells Aubrey of a French ship — the Alastor — turned a true pirate, unlike the Franklin, flying the black flag and demanding immediate surrender or death of its victims.
On December 5, Fish and Polo signed an agreement that the Virginius, with the U. S. flag flying, would be turned over to the U. S. Navy on December 16 at the port of Bahia Honda, Cuba.
On December 16, the Virginius, now in complete disrepair and taking on water, was towed out to open sea with the U. S. flag flying to be turned over to the U. S. Navy.
Muttley ( who turned from a " bluish hue " to a " dusty brown ") wore only a collar in Wacky Races, but in Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines he donned a World War I style aviator's cap and scarf, and served as a flying ace along with Dastardly and two other pilots as members of the " Vulture Squadron ".
By 1945, Albuquerque ’ s flying training field had turned out 5, 719 bombardiers and 1, 750 regular pilots for the B-24 bomber alone.
Among the alterations for the film is that when Eustace is turned into a dragon, he proves his true identity to Edmund by flying him to where he has used his fire breath to carve the sentence, " I am Eustace " on the ground.
As teams had increasingly turned to air travel in the 1950s, he had unsuccessfully sought to combat his aversion to flying, aided considerably by Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey, who arranged for therapy treatments.
In a match of March 1871 against Wanderers their victory was due to " irreproachable organisation " and in particular that both their attacks and their backing up were both " so well organised " In November 1871 similar passing tactics are described in a contemporary account of a game against the Wanderers in which two goals were scored through tactical passing: " Betts, however, soon seized his opportunity, and by a brilliant run down the left wing turned the ball judiciously to Currie, who as judiciously sent it flying through the strangers ' goal in first rate style " Later in the match it is reported that " Lieut G Barker, turning the ball to Lieut Renny-Tailyour who planted it between the posts " " Turning " the ball clearly points to the short pass.
Alyn had tried " flying " while suspended by hidden wires for the first serial but the wires turned out to be clearly visible after all and that footage was scrapped.
In 1973, as part of the qualification campaign for the 1974 World Cup to be held in West Germany, Jordan scored with a flying header in what turned out to be a crucial winning goal, in a game against Czechoslovakia at Hampden Park in Glasgow.

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