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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.
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He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.
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.
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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 was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.
He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.
I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.
The Bonaventure was quivering and lurching like an old spavined mare.
For an anthropologist, loquacious old L'Turu was a mine of information.
The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
He was about 50 years old.
`` Oh he was stupid, her old man!!
for another, it was here that one of the old caravan routes came in.
But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.
On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.
Strindberg's remedy for this condition was to tear down the old structures and build anew from the ground up.
At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.
Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??
It was much more fun, reminding the girls of their old carefree days in the Hasseltine frolics room at Bradford.
He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.
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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.
You see, he lied to us when he said he was leavin alone ''.
A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.
It was a relief when they finally came.
He was riding between two warriors, who held him erect when he started to slump.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
The slight flutter that had disturbed the motion of her heart when she entered the forest was gone now, and even the dim groves of trees through which she occasionally passed did not reawaken her fear.
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
How could he comprehend her need when he himself was innocent??
His face was stiff with anger when they let go of his arms.
He was uttering threats in a low but savage voice when they closed and padlocked the door.
No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.
In the cow camps, Tom Horn was regarded as a hero, as the same kind of champion he was when he entered and invariably won the local rodeos.
Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.
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