There was a light in Black's front room, but drawn curtains prevented any view of the interior.

Slender and tanned, her dark brown hair was drawn straight back, simply.

His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.

One of the pictures was of a man with hat drawn over his face ceremoniously lighting a cigarette ; ;

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

I was drawn deeper and deeper into these concerns and responsibilities.

When Papa went out to do God's work, Stevie often accompanied him in the buggy, which was drawn by Violet, the new black mare.

Like a particle drawn to a magnet he returned to that which was pressing so hard in his mind.

It is difficult to tabulate exactly what was meant in each individual situation, but the conclusion may be drawn that 21 towns do not assess movable personal property, and of the remainder only certain types are valued for tax purposes.

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

At the time the will was drawn Mr. Hohlbein mentioned to me how mentally alert she seemed for her age, knowing just what changes she wanted made and so forth ''.

A wide-ranging, bipartisan force -- from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall -- was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills.

instead of a necktie he wore a leather bolo drawn through a golden ring in which was set a lump of pale pure jade.

It was like a long thin line drawn through a pink circle.

I got on the tractor again and I had to watch the plow closely because the field was drawn across the long hillside and even in that good soil there was a danger of rocks.

The very first recording was made for RCA Victor in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

The time when cases had drawn him from one end of England to the other was past.

It was Australia's second consecutive innings defeat in a wet summer, and the hosts were in strong positions in the two drawn Tests, in which half the playing time was washed out.

Australia went 2 – 0 up after three Tests, but England won the Fourth Test by 3 runs ( after a 70-run last wicket stand ) to set up the final decider, which was drawn.

Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.

Percy Ludgate wrote about the engine in 1915 and even designed his own Analytical Engine ( it was drawn up in detail but never built ).

They ate in silence, with hoods so drawn over their faces that they could see nothing but what was on the table before them.

" Thus Ambrose refused to be drawn into a false conflict over which particular local church had the " right " liturgical form where there was no substantial problem.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

For that legend was growing explosively, Rumor was insisting he received a price of $600 a man.

Over and above that, however, was his growing suspicion of Chuck Stober's part in recent events.

Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

In and in and in they poured through the gates of Majdanek, but they never left, and Majdanek was not growing any larger.

He was conscious of a growing sense of absurdity.

Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.

set production ( excluding those destined for the export market ) also ran ahead in the early months, but was curtailed after the usual vacation shutdowns in the face of growing evidence that some of the early production plans had been overly optimistic.

With greater investments in plant facilities, with automation growing, you can't switch around, either in volume or in product design, as much as was formerly possible -- or at least not as economically.

It is very unlikely that either of these anacondas was growing at a normal rate.

First, and most obvious, was the growing nationalism and the tendency to regard the state, and the individual's identification with the state, as transcending other ties of social solidarity.

Codification was followed in all countries by a growing amount of legislation, some changing and adjusting the older law, much dealing with entirely new situations.

It was because of this chain-reaction as much as for any other reason -- that is, because of the growing independence of the planar unit in collage as a shape -- that the identity of depicted objects, or at least parts of them, re-emerged in Braque's and Picasso's papiers colles and continued to remain more conspicuous there -- but only as flattened silhouettes -- than in any of their paintings done wholly in oil before the end of 1913.

It was the night of December 2, 1943, and it was growing dark in Bari.

Although she appeared more subdued and defeated, Jones knew she was growing more dangerous.

It was observed in the introductory chapter that metropolitan life had split into two trends -- expanding interdependence on an impersonal basis and growing exclusiveness in local communal groupings.

Alec was growing more and more skeptical.

Such efforts almost always find themselves compelled to ask whether Adam was created capable of growing old and then older and then still older, in short, whether Adam's life was intended to be part of the process of time.

A suspicion was growing that Fidel Castro was a Communist.

Negro population in the U.S. has increased 25 per cent while the white population was growing by 18 per cent.

It was so pretty and artless that she felt like a child again and would have enjoyed running out barefoot to play on the wet grass with all the growing things, but Doaty never permitted bare feet and she was decidedly not a child but une femme d'un certain age.