Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Neither was he very powerful of build.

He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.

He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

Horse smell was very strong, and he could hear the crunch of grain being ground between strong jaws.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.

He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

He was a florid, puffy man in his early sixties, very natty in his yachting cap, striped jacket and white flannels.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

he was very thirsty, but he must observe water discipline.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

He was over six feet tall and very thin.

The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.

`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.

It was very widely read, too ; ;

She was now enjoying the voyage very much.

Ann was very troubled.

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

Then suddenly there was a tremendous revulsion of popular feeling.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

He was especially popular with women, for, like the romantic poetry he wrote, he was personally gracious, gallant, and chivalrous.

Since Rhode Island at that time did not have such sanction, his opinion was not popular.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

In the middle of the century, with a circulation of 90,000, the Post was one of the most popular weeklies in the country.

he knows that he was never more popular than at the time of the Russo-American `` honeymoon '' of 1959.

For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.

He was criticized for his curtness and abruptness -- and he answered: `` I am not working to become popular ''.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

It was merely a rationalization and ordering of new institutions of popular government.

For an instant his men hesitated, unable to believe that their lieutenant, the most popular officer in the regiment, was dead.

not long ago `` Denver Mud '' was most popular.

Uncle John Vinnicum Morse was the immediate popular suspect.

From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century it was a popular practice to flood the piazza in the summer, and the aristocrats would then ride around the inundated square in their carriages.

I was curious about the impact of this political assassination on Negroes in Harlem, for Lumumba had -- has -- captured the popular imagination there.

Not only in popular thought but in that of the highly educated as well was this true.

Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.