He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

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

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

The metal strip they had taken off from was coal black against the green jungle around it.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

`` Mr. Miller was in the shop '', the Herald Tribune story related, `` but was reluctant to have anybody's picture taken inside, because his business was too ' confidential ' for pictures.

While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.

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

By now he was undergoing a fresh torrent of abuse from Tory papers and pamphlets, and action was being taken to effect his punishment by expulsion from Parliament.

Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.

This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.

Against Seebohm formidable foes have taken the field, notably F. W. Maitland, whose Domesday Book And Beyond was written expressly for this purpose, and Sir Paul Vinogradoff whose The Growth Of The Manor had a similar aim.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

But the internationalists have taken over the governing body of the bar, and when the lads met in St. Louis, it was not to grumble about the humidity but to vote unanimously that the United Nations was scarcely less than wonderful, despite an imperfection here and there.

But he was so taken aback, he could not believe any rage of his would make her give in.

Desmond once told Marian McPartland of National Public Radio's Piano Jazz that he was taken aback by the chord changes Brubeck introduced during that 1944 audition.

I was never so taken aback in my life.

He stated his idea for the piece, “ I am going to try to repeat it a number of times on different orchestral levels but without any development .” He conceived of it as an accompaniment to a ballet and not as an orchestral piece as, in his own opinion, “ it has no music in it ”, and was somewhat taken aback by its popular success.

Khrushchev was reportedly taken aback and denied he had meant to interfere in the UAR's affairs and the issue was settled since both leaders did not want a rift between their two countries.

At the height of Petipa's strict academicism, the public was taken aback by Pavlova's style, which was a combination of a gift that paid little heed to academic rules: she frequently performed with bent knees, bad turnout, misplaced port de bras and incorrectly placed tours.

But the Royalists were mistaken in supposing that the enemy was taken aback by their new move.

The goddesses were taken aback and loosened their grip so Alcmene was delivered.

The noise of the cannon was so loud that visiting fans were often taken aback at the boom, which could be heard throughout much of the town.

Audiences who had become used to the romantic arrangements ( and what was perceived as classier and more refined music ), were taken aback by the often erratic and edginess of swing music.

" Bob Graham was taken aback at that assertion and asked, " Well, what can I do about that?

Suzuki was taken aback by the Americanized and watered down Buddhism practiced at the Temple, mostly by older immigrant Japanese.

So I thought: ' Fuck, I've been chucked because Lydon's been chucked ', and I went along to Franc and told him to give me the part of Monkey ... and I think he was so taken aback – I was quite rude – that he gave me the part.

Prosecutor Earl B. Barnes was taken aback and asked for clarification:

When asked to describe the album to The Independent, Beam remarked that " it's not a political propaganda record, but it's definitely inspired by political confusion, because I was really taken aback when Bush got reelected.

According to another leaked cable, Li was taken aback to discover that he could conduct Chinese-language searches on Google ’ s main international Web site.

** The rebel group was taken aback by the Cardinal's announcement and calls him to clarify their request.

' We did an encore and then went off, and instead of just keeping clapping, they sang " You'll Never Walk Alone " to us, and we were just completely knocked out and taken aback – it was quite an emotional experience really, and I think these chant things are in some way connected with that.

Mulligan made an attempt at arranging with the Richard Rodgers song " Lover ", but the arrangement was seized prior to its first reading by an overzealous nun who was taken aback by the title on the arrangement.

De Freitas was taken aback by the sudden nomination and urged the House not to support him ( a genuine feeling, unlike the feigned reluctance which all Speakers traditionally show ).

He was well rid of her.

He certainly didn't want a wife who was fickle as Ann.

But all of this was rationalization.

The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

each day the hurt was a little duller, a little less poignant.

Because the summer was unusually dry and hot, the spring produced a smaller stream than in ordinary years.

The grass in the meadows came fast, now that the warm weather was here.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

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.

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.

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.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.

Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.