It was hotter once they reached the flat, and drier, but the grass was better.

Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.

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

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

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 ; ;

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

The lad's once superb body was a mass of scars and welts.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.

In his fight for the Illinois and Indiana delegations, Hearst made several trips to Chicago to confer with Andrew Lawrence, the former San Francisco Examiner man who was now his Chicago kingpin, and once to meet with Bryan.

There was a battle on an average of once every three weeks.

In a letter to Meynell, which was written in June, less than a month before Katie's wedding, he was highly melodramatic in his despair and once again announced his intention of returning to the life of the streets: ``

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.

and once when he came to see us in New York he walked away in a rainstorm, unwilling to hear of a taxi or even an umbrella, although he was at the time ninety years old.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.

Milton was to act as the archfool, the supreme wit, the lightly bantering pater, Pater Liber, who could at once trip lightly over that which deserved such treatment, or could at will annihilate the common enemies of the college gathering, and with words alone.

There was more to this than Jones had told him.

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

It was a fair fight, the boy provoked it -- Big Charlie told me so.

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

I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.

By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

I was waiting in front of it when she showed up and told me of my Uncle's indisposition.

I was aware of a humid look in her eyes that told me the time was opportune.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.

He commented -- thoughtfully, a reporter told us -- that it was `` not too important for the individual how he ends up ''.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.

What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.

You know Bang-Jensen was told the Committee was ' to convey its views, suggestions and recommendations to the Secretary General.

Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.

Mama had told her how Emmett's lungs had been affected when he was gassed in the war.

It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.

So if all these beers was to get me in bed, man, you just spent a lot of money ''.

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.

This was just Richard's way of saying that last year the Birds opened spring training with a lot of jobs wide open.

No doubt, there was still a lot in the Draft Program -- and in Khrushchev's speech -- which left many points obscure.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

There was a lot of shooting.

I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.

It was going to take a lot of activity to fill it.

I circled the block and found he was in the parking lot of a high-class restaurant.

Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.

It was a real stimulant to a lot of guys I know who have moved past the 2-score-year milestone.

Kern began reading a lot about the history and philosophy of Communism, but never felt there was anything he, as an individual, could do about it.

NBC had gathered a lot of historical material which it was eager to share.

Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.

Actually, there was a lot of force in him, which is why I kept on in that class instead of quitting after a week.

Via was in the parking lot when I went outside.

He was an attentive and generous husband, overgenerous, a lot of people felt, because they knew that money must be a problem to him.

I had also thought a lot about how God must look on true love, and so in a way I was keeping my promise to God, my promise to remain pure until I was married.

Also during his reign taxes were lightened ; literature, art and science were encouraged ; the lot of the soldiers was improved ; and, for the convenience of the people, loan offices were instituted for lending money at a moderate rate of interest.

She habitually drank a lot of wine and was said to have received her name from that circumstance, as " Sanape " was purported to mean " drunkard " in the local language.