They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.

The feathered lance was still above his head.

It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

Mercifully, it was still open.

Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.

Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.

Miraculously, the bottle was still in my hand, foam still geysering over my ( luckily ) waterproof watch.

She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

The keys were still in it, and I was miles away before I remembered that my clothes and purse and everything were still in the little cabana where I'd changed ''.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

The laces were broken at the bottom of the eyelets but there was still a bow knot at the top.

The marine was still.

Madame Lalaurie gestured with her riding crop toward the 20-year-old youth who was stomping and writhing with the king snake still draped over his bare shoulders.

He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

In April 1882, Alcott's friend and benefactor Ralph Waldo Emerson was sick and bedridden.

As he was bedridden at the end of his life, Alcott's daughter Louisa May came to visit him at Louisburg on March 1, 1888.

Although he had long suffered from heart trouble, his early death was unexpected ; taken ill suddenly at the end of 1934, he lay bedridden for three months before dying of pneumonia.

A reference is made to the song in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off when a bedridden Cameron Frye sings, " When Cameron was in Egypt's land, let my Cameron go ".

A defining incident of young Wells's life was an accident in 1874 that left him bedridden with a broken leg.

The bedridden Stalin died four days later, on 5 March 1953, at the age of 74, and was embalmed on 9 March.

In January 2007, Zahir was reported to be seriously ill and bedridden.

In November 1898 Hearst, with Lua Getsinger and others, stopped off at Paris briefly on their way to Palestine and was shocked to see May Bolles ( later Maxwell ) bedridden with the chronic malady which had afflicted her.

In the latter part of the year, Jardine was already bedridden and in great pain.

The cause of death was tuberculosis, which she had contracted two years earlier and with which she had been bedridden for a month.

He was subsequently kept bedridden to prevent further damage to the scarred vessels in his neck while he slowly recovered from multiple surgeries and the rigorous treatment.

He again had little money, and while bedridden with a fever learned from a letter that Elisabeth, the former object of his affection, was engaged to a cavalry officer.

Within days he was bedridden and unable to communicate, and he remained in that condition until his death two years later.

For the next ten years, Selby remained bedridden and was frequently hospitalized with a variety of lung-related ailments.

By 64 he was bedridden and shortly after his birthday he died.

During the time of his inheritance, Kihei's health was very poor and he was bedridden.

Although he recovered, the following May was wet and, after a thunderstorm, he became sick and bedridden.

After being bedridden with a hip ailment at the age of five, she was left with a permanent limp.

Inspired by Jimi Hendrix, he took up guitar when he was bedridden for several months with mononucleosis.

At this time, Joseph ’ s father was 147 years old and bedridden.

Shortly after its release, however, Johnny was hospitalized with a ruptured appendix, which was to keep him bedridden for several weeks.

When bedridden and ailing, he died from an accidental overdose of this drug at age 73, and was buried at Haslemere.