At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.

The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.

That was in the days before blood banks, of course, and transfusions had to be given directly from donor to patient.

he was given the difference between that amount and $5000.

Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??

The promise that the lion and the lamb will lie down together was given in the future tense.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.

As we understand, this directive was given to all city and county employes.

Actually, of course, that label `` controversial '' applied only because he was carrying out the mandate given him by the world organization he headed rather than following the dictates of the Soviet Union.

But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.

The city had recently given him a small salary, but it was not enough to supply even necessities.

He was allowed to spend his nights at an inn near the hospital and he was given some extra money to go to the pachinko parlor -- an excellent place to make contact with the enemy.

At the same time another child -- this one of Shelley's brain -- was given to the world: Alastor, a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind's musings.

For the moment there was no woman in his life, and it was this vacuum that had given Claire her opportunity.

Now Hans had given Ma something of his -- we both had when we thought she was going straight to Pa -- something valuable ; ;

He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.

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

He stood watching the girl, wondering what was coming next.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

That girl last night, what was her name??

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

He had found Curt's weakness, or what to Jess was a weakness, and was smart enough to take advantage of it.

He knew now what he was up against.

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.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Anyway, it was evident what he had in mind ''.

As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.

I myself was fond of him but what a young woman half his age saw in him was a mystery to me.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.