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

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

Yes, there was plenty of water, too much, and that was probably the trouble.

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

It was strictly the deputy's game, but McBride had gone too far to throw in.

He hated them too much to understand -- the people of this isolated law-unto-itself world that was Lord's world.

It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.

Curt was too involved in his own problems to pay much attention.

If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.

It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.

Man, you rang -- it was in color, too, Miss, and Miss??

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

But Nicolas, too, was being interrupted, that morning.

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.

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

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

The seventh man was Red Hogan, a wiry little puncher with a wild streak and a liking for hell-raising.

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.

Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

In fact, I was watching you on that little seventeen-inch screen when you rang my bell.

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 ''.

At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.

There was little likelihood of any customers walking in at that hour.

The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.

`` Well, I was a little bit confused.

And when this was gone, he hadn't even a little bitter tablet to purify other water if he were to discover some stagnant jungle pool.

She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;

Paula was saddened about what was happening to little girls and vowed to kneel no more in Chapel.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

The Republican party was not lacking in humanity, but it permitted its extremely partisan leadership to make it appear devoid of any consideration for people in trouble.

It was a ridiculous situation and Rector knew it, for Hino, frankly partisan, openly gregarious, would make a poor espionage agent.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

He was interested in cooperation between the regular army and militia or partisan forces, or citizen soldiers, as one possible — sometimes the only — method of defense.

Separating from his superior, Metropolitan Acacius of Caesarea, a partisan of Arius who taught that Jesus was a divine being created by — and therefore inferior to — God the Father, St. Cyril took the side of the Eusebians of the post-Nicene conciliation party and thus got into difficulties with his superior that were increased by Acacius's jealousy of the importance assigned to St. Cyril's See by the Council of Nicaea.

A 2010 study by Sean Aday comparing Fox News Channel's Special Report With Brit Humes and NBC's Nightly News coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during 2005 found that both underplayed bad news ; it concluded that " Fox News was much more sympathetic to the administration than NBC ", suggesting that " if scholars continue to find evidence of a partisan or ideological bias at FNC ... they should consider Fox as alternative, rather than mainstream, media ".

One of the Plebeian Tribunes ( chief representatives of the people ) for the year, Metilius, was a partisan of Minucius, and as such he sought to use his power to help Minucius.

The January Uprising, joined and led after the initial period by the Whites, was fought by partisan units against an overwhelming enemy advantage.

With the intention of organizing a partisan resistance, they called a general conference in Pezë on 16 September 1942 where the Albanian National Liberation Front was set up.

As president, he bought Florida from Spain and sought to ease partisan tensions, embarking on a tour of the country that was well received everywhere.

In the mid-twentieth century, H. F. M. Prescott attempted to redress the tradition that Mary was intolerant and authoritarian by writing more objectively, and scholarship since then has tended to view the older, simpler, partisan assessments of Mary with greater scepticism.

The remainder of the war featured a siege of Paris, the city was ” ineffectually bombarded ”; the new French republican regime then tried, without success, to relieve Paris with various hastily assembled armies and increasingly bitter partisan warfare.

There, at the suggestion of Jonathas, the Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Cosma e Damiano, who was a partisan of the Pierleoni family, the Cardinals unanimously elected as Pope the Cardinal-Priest of Sant ’ Anastasia, Theobaldo Boccapecci, who took the name Celestine II.

During World War II, Parma was a strong centre of partisan resistance.

Parma was liberated of the German occupation ( 1943 – 1945 ) on April 26, 1945 by the partisan resistance and troops of Brazilian Expeditionary Force.

In 1930, King blundered badly when he made overly partisan statements in response to criticism over his handling of the economic downturn, which was hitting Canada very hard.

Models for the Red Brigades included the Latin American urban guerrilla movements-volumes on the Tupamaros published by Feltrinelli were influential, " a sort of do-it-yourself manual for the early Red Brigades " ,-and also the Italian partisan movement of 1943-45 which was interpreted as an example of a youthful minority using violent means for just ends.

The first president from 1992 to 1993 was Dobrica Ćosić, a former communist Yugoslav partisan during World War II and later one of the fringe contributors of the controversial Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

" Jefferson took the oath of office on March 4, 1801, at a time when partisan strife between the Democratic-Republican and Federalist parties was growing to alarming proportions.

A failed ghetto uprising on 1 September 1943 organized by the Fareinigte Partizaner Organizacje ( the United Partisan Organization, the first Jewish partisan unit in German-occupied Europe ), was followed by the final destruction of the ghetto.

Harding, as a Republican state senator, was a partisan regular and did favors for political bosses Mark Hanna and Harry M. Daugherty.

An intellectual with very high writing standards, Wilson was a highly effective partisan campaigner as well as legislative strategist.