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.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Neither was he very powerful of build.

He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.

He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

Horse smell was very strong, and he could hear the crunch of grain being ground between strong jaws.

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.

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

He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

He was a florid, puffy man in his early sixties, very natty in his yachting cap, striped jacket and white flannels.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

he was very thirsty, but he must observe water discipline.

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.

He was over six feet tall and very thin.

The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.

`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.

It was very widely read, too ; ;

She was now enjoying the voyage very much.

Ann was very troubled.

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.

Still another, annoyed by the brevity of a recently received missive, wrote: `` yore letter was short and sweet, jist like a roasted maget ''.

`` Oh, yes '', I said, feeling annoyed, `` she was very pretty.

Some of the enemy began to fight again and some Sikh warriors were annoyed by Bhai Kanhaiya as he was helping their enemy.

According to Suetonius, Nero was annoyed at his mother being too watchful and tried three times to poison Agrippina, but she took the antidotes in time and survived.

Nimzowitsch was annoyed by his opponents ' smoking.

The show starred Ted Danson as Dr. John Becker, a doctor who operated a small practice and was constantly annoyed by his patients, co-workers, friends, and practically everything and everybody else in his world.

In addition, Serbia's ruler Milan Obrenović IV was annoyed that Serbian opposition leaders like Nikola Pašić, who had escaped persecution after the Timok Rebellion, had found asylum in Bulgaria.

She often wrote to its then ruler, Tsar Ivan IV, on amicable terms, though the Tsar was often annoyed by her focus on commerce rather than on the possibility of a military alliance.

Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill, ( although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famously annoyed with Mountbatten's later role in the independence of India and Pakistan ), and on 27 October 1941 Mountbatten replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations and received promotion to commodore.

The Fifth Monarchists were also a significant opponent to the Rump Parliament and leading Fifth Monarchists like Vavasor Powell were annoyed at the Rump's failure to renew certain pieces of legislation, such as the Propagation of the Gospel in Wales, because they believed that the Rump was not fulfilling what the Fifth Monarchists perceived to be its aim, that is to turn England into a more ' godly ' nation.

Kildall was particularly annoyed when the University of Washington asked him, as a distinguished graduate, to attend their computer science program anniversary in 1992, but gave the keynote speech to Gates, a dropout from Harvard.

She was annoyed at this, so she arrived with a golden apple inscribed with the word καλλίστῃ ( kallistēi, " for the fairest one "), which she threw among the goddesses.

" He was also annoyed by her inexperienced performance.

According to Jacques Barzun: Voltaire, who had felt annoyed by the first essay the Arts and Sciences, was outraged by the second, on the Origin of Inequality Among Men, declaring that Rousseau wanted us to “ walk on all fours ” like animals and behave like savages, believing them creatures of perfection.

The 40-year-old Brabham was annoyed by press stories about his age and, in a highly uncharacteristic stunt, at the Dutch Grand Prix he hobbled to his car on the starting grid before the race wearing a long false beard and leaning on a cane before going on to win the race.

He was convinced to leave Rome and travel up to join Lothair, in hopes that his intervention would promote peace, but in practice this action annoyed the Frankish bishops who followed Louis, who believed that Gregory was actively supporting Lothair.

Wilson was annoyed that Princeton was not living up to its potential, complaining " There's a little college down in Kentucky which in 60 years has graduated more men who have acquired prominence and fame than has Princeton in her 150 years.

By 1893, he was annoyed by his mistreatment in the streets and wrote an angry poem threatening to leave Dundee.

Badrutt successfully ' sold ' the idea of ' winter resorting ' to some of his English regulars as he was annoyed with a four month long season for the rooms, food, alcohol and activities he sold.

When Hera discovered the trickery, she was so annoyed she punished the talkative Echo by taking away her voice, except in foolish repetition of another's shouted words.

:(" Richard Feynman was annoyed by an astronomer friend who was boasting about the practicability of his