It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

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.

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

The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.

It would be literary license calculated to glamorize life to say that he, oh, dropped his napkin, so startled was he by Mary Jane's beauty.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??

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.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

The games were over, this was life.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

Bertha, blue-eyed like Mamma, was from the start her mother's daughter, destined for her mother's role in life.

but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

Constantine directed his mother, Helena, to build churches upon sites which commemorated the life of Jesus Christ ; she was present in 326 at the construction of the church on the site, and involved herself in the excavations and construction.

The city commemorated her life with a plaque on the courthouse.

His life and works are commemorated by the Moonstones ; a statue of him, Boulton and Watt, by William Bloye ; and Murdock Road, all in Birmingham.

William Willett, a campaigner for daylight saving time, lived in nearby Chislehurst for most of his life, and is commemorated by a memorial sundial in the wood.

World War I had a devastating effect on the local community at a cost of life commemorated in the prominent Cenotaph ( loosely based on Lutyens ' Whitehall Cenotaph ) at the centre of the town unveiled in 1927.

The battle proved to be a decisive one for the rule of the Scanian lands and it has been described as the most significant event for Charles ' personality ; Charles commemorated this date for the rest of his life.

Blenheim Palace was the birthplace of the 1st Duke's famous descendant, Winston Churchill, whose life and times are commemorated by a permanent exhibition in the suite of rooms in which he was born ( marked " K " on the plan ).

Lord Rosebery remained closely associated with the town throughout his life, leaving land to the borough, commemorated in the names of Rosebery Park and Rosebery School.

Elliott Carter commemorated Wolpe with the following comment: " Comet-like radiance, conviction, fervent intensity, penetrating thought on many levels of seriousness and humor, combined with breathtaking adventurousness and originality, marked the inner and outer life of Stefan Wolpe, as they do his compositions.

Her life was commemorated annually by Turners Station residents for a few years after Morehouse's commemoration.

Parkinson's life is commemorated with a stone tablet inside the church of St Leonard's, Shoreditch, where he was a member of the congregation ; his grave is in the churchyard of St Leonard's.

In addition, the date of a failed attempt on President Eyadéma's life was annually commemorated as " the Feast of Victory Over Forces of Evil.

Accomplishing a large body of acclaimed works through his life, Nazrul is officially recognised as the national poet of Bangladesh and commemorated in India.

His life was commemorated in a tragic play by Sir Henry Taylor in 1834.

His life is commemorated in the Memorial Window at the St Edward the Confessor Catholic Church in Golders Green, London.

The oaks on the plaque represent England, his native land ; the palms are for India, scene of his life ’ s work and, after his retirement, his passion for growing roses is also commemorated.

The zinc marker, with a long epitaph, is a tribute to her life as both Young Bear and Frances Slocum, as well as to her husband, who is commemorated on one side.

Like the Colliery Disaster, the short life of Sands was commemorated by some of the numerous memorials across this seaside village.

In Townsville, her life was commemorated in 1949 by the unveiling of the Sister Kenny Memorial and Children's Playground.

His life is celebrated in the Church of England as a saintly one, and he is commemorated with a Lesser Festival on 20 September.

The life of Camphuys is commemorated in the name of a street in the Lombok neighbourhood of Utrecht ; and he is also remembered in the name of a street in the Bezuidenhoutquarter of The Hague.

Berggrav's life and memory are commemorated on the Calendar of Saints by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on 14 January.

The episode being commemorated marked the finest moment in General George Rogers Clark's life.