She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.

The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.

Barton was relieved to see that Carl Dill and Emmett Foster had brought extra mounts.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.

The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.

After I paid Monsieur Prieur for Dandy, I brought him home, but he was ill at ease and ran away the same night.

His revolutionary pamphlets, published when he was only 19, quickly brought him to the attention of the patriot leaders.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

The result was a collection of 280 songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America, more than one hundred never before published: The American Songbag.

The confused rambling of guerrilla warfare, such as most of Garibaldi's campaigns were, was brought to life by Trevelyan's pen in some of the best passages in the books.

It was not merely a hunger for `` money, gold and precious objects '' that delayed the papal pronouncement that could have brought the war to an end ; ;

An occasional traveler from Italy brought news of Peter Robert, who was now distributing his Bible among the Waldensian peasants.

The equation was simple: wealth brought them happiness, and their united front to the world was their warning that they meant to keep everything they had, let no one in on the secrets.

The boy was becoming acquainted with the contadini families that brought produce into Rome.

He would have to work without questioning the motives which made him work and content himself with the thought that the eventual victory, however it was brought about, would be sweet indeed.

Now, under the impact of his wife's disclosures, he was brought suddenly to the realization that there was a limit to tolerance, however brilliant, however far-famed the offender might be.

This was an enormously long building whose walls were made of rocks, some of them brought home from every continent during his six years as an oil geologist.

She was going to tell Bobby Joe about how mistaken she had been, but he brought one of the cousins home for supper, and all they did was talk about antelope.

Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

The Maguire family was setting up a separate camp nearby.

He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.

The wound in his scalp was examined, pronounced healing, and well doctored with simples, before they dished up the victuals.

`` Jackson recruited his critters, and him and me fixed up his wagon while we was waiting for you to catch up.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

He knew now what he was up against.

One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

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

It was the beginning of summer, and the first day of outdoor farmwork and shepherding.

Lomax, whose own schooling was sporadic because of the heavy farmwork he was forced to do, taught Blythe to read and write, and Blythe taught Lomax songs like " Big Yam Potatoes on a Sandy Land " and dance steps like " Juba.

Settlement in Moshavim ( cooperative farming villages ) was only partially successful, because Mizrahim had historically filled a niche as craftsmen and merchants and most did not traditionally engage in farmwork.

She even makes remarriage plans with one of her neighbors, Orin Meacham ( Pullman ), who despite his own hardships ( such as a wooden foot, which he wears to replace one that was lost in the war ) has been helping her and her young son with the farmwork.