`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.

It was his experience that only one good salesman was found out of every seven hired -- and only one was hired out of every seven interviewed.

She was hired and was found to be entirely satisfactory when she played the role eight hours a day.

A lawyer, hired by the college, was arguing specifically for Dartmouth: Daniel Webster, class of 1801, made her plight the dramatic focus of his whole plea.

She finally settled in Fall River and, after being employed for a time by a Mrs. Reed, was hired by the Bordens.

`` I was hired to take a picture.

Historians consider this the decisive factor in convincing Alboin to undertake a migration, even though there are indications that before the war with the Gepids a decision was maturing to leave for Italy, a country thousands of Lombards had seen in the 550s when hired by the Byzantines to fight in the Gothic War.

In 2004, a new head coach, Jim L. Mora, was hired and Michael Vick returned for the full season.

A software engineer was hired to write the special " dual boot mode " BIOS and the special CP / M BIOS.

"( Charlemagne's ) army was enlisted to help the Muslim governors of Barcelona and Zaragoza against the Umayyad ( emir ) in Cordoba ..." Essentially Charlemagne was being hired as a mercenary, even though he likely had other plans of acquiring the area for his own empire.

* 1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.

After finishing her first book, in 1997, Hesser was hired as a food reporter for The New York Times.

At this time, Lerner was hired by film producer Arthur P. Jacobs to write a treatment for an upcoming film project, Doctor Dolittle, but Lerner abrogated his contract after several non-productive months of non-communicative procrastination and was replaced with Leslie Bricusse.

Beginning in 2002 a professional staff was hired, composed of operations, engineering and marketing specialists.

On November 25, 1996, Del Yocam was hired as Borland CEO and Chairman.

Walsh was coaching in Fremont when he interviewed for an assistant coaching position with Marv Levy, who had just been hired as the head coach at the University of California, Berkeley.

" I was very impressed, individually, by his knowledge, by his intelligence, by his personality and hired him ," Levy said.

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.

Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

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

The office was of logs, four rooms, each heated by an iron stove.

The building was dwarfed by the scene outside.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Even Hague was repelled by the machinelike deadliness that was Kodyke.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

It was secured by an oversized padlock.

The rustling problem was by no means solved.

Jess's coarse features twisted in a surprised grin which was smashed out of shape by Curt's fist.

Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.

The truth was, the puncher was both bewildered and dismayed by his own mixed luck.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

Mr. Black's life was an open book, so to speak, from his birth in Jackson, Mississippi, through his basketball-playing days at L.S.U. and his attainment of a B.A. degree, which had presumably prepared him for his career as district sales manager for Peerless Business Machines.

If Mrs. Black was who he thought she was, Mr. Black's Peerless selling days might well be over.

Next on his program was a call to the Jackson office of Peerless Business Machines to find out if Vincent Black was still with them -- or, more specifically, still with us.

A Peerless sedan had been found near a Maywood house owned by Claude Maddox in the days after the massacre, and in one of the pockets was an address book belonging to victim Albert Weinshank.

The film was released on December 10, 1917, produced by Peerless Productions, and distributed by World Pictures.

Binney & Smith's new process of creating inexpensive black colorants was entered into the chemistry industries competition at the 1900 Paris Exposition under the title " carbon gas blacks, lamp or oil blacks, ' Peerless ' black " and earned the company a gold medal award in chemical and pharmaceutical arts.

Similarly Kent Houston, head of Peerless Camera doing the film's special effects said in Madness and Misadventures that they were promised a bonus if they would finish the effects in time, but when they approached the person again when they were done, he was met with the reply, " I'm not gonna pay you, because I don't want to seem to be doing anything that could benefit Terry Gilliam.

The company was commonly referred to as being one of the " Three P's " of American motordom royalty, along with Pierce-Arrow of Buffalo, New York and Peerless of Cleveland, Ohio.

The studio was founded in 1907 in Chicago, United States by George K. Spoor and Gilbert M. Anderson, originally as the Peerless Film Manufacturing Company.

Peerless, too, was developing a V16 with help from another ex-Marmon engineer, James Bohannon.

In American luxury cars it was rivaled only by Peerless and Packard, which collectively received the accolade Three P's of Motordom.

Speed control with a centrifugal governor was used in automobiles as early as the 1910s, notably by Peerless.

Peerless Records was a record label based in Mexico.

Peerless was founded in 1921 in Mexico City by E. Baptista.

By the early 1940s Peerless was pressing its own records in Mexico.

Peerless, too, was developing a V16 with help from an ex-Marmon engineer, James Bohannon.

His father was employed by the Peerless Finance group as an insurance executive, and headed their office of South India for several years.

He is the member of Gerbera Peerless Ltd. For his portrayal of Athrun Zala in Gundam Seed Destiny, he won the " Best Supporting Character ( male )" award at the first " Seiyu Awards " in 2007 and was chosen as the most popular voice actor in the Animage Anime Grand Prix in 2004 for his portrayal of the character Athrun Zala.

Marianne later admitted that she was having a sexual relationship with the lodger, Frank Peerless, and that she used ' paranormal ' explanations to cover up her liaisons.

Melvin Whinfield " Peerless Mel " Sheppard ( September 5, 1883 – January 4, 1942 ) was an American athlete, member of the Irish American Athletic Club and winner of four gold medals at the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics.

Born in Almonesson Lake, New Jersey, Mel Sheppard, or " Peerless Mel " as he was nicknamed, was rejected by the New York Police because he had a slightly enlarged heart.