The hall, on the other hand, appeared lifeless and deserted on these long waterfront afternoons.

But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.

They were headed straight for each other on a collision course.

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

Two uniformed officers, a couple of plain-clothesmen I knew, and two other men stood on a gray cement area next to the pool on my left.

They discussed the way people never tell each other the things on their minds.

Thirty minutes later, the outrigger grated on sand and other girls, waiting on shore, rushed forward to pull it up on the beach and make it fast with vine ropes to a large boulder.

`` If you want to see something, he's back on the other side by the trunk of the car ''.

The Brahmaputra has its headwaters in the tableland of the world, the towering white headwalls of the Himalayas that are unknown to man as any other space on the planet.

He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.

The lives so many of them gave, to forestall what they believed would be a fatal encroachment by the Union on the powers reserved to their states have continued ever since to safeguard all Americans against freedom's other foe.

Otherwise, we go on endlessly trying to draw the line, color and other, as to which kind of man we wish to see dominate.

Research, on the other hand, has shown many stepmothers to be eminently successful, some far better than the real mothers.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

Mother and son recognize each other and, in Mann's version of this legend, make a remarkable confession of guilt to each other, the confession of unconscious motive and unconscious knowledge of their true identities from the time they had first set eyes on each other.

A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.

As a consequence of the tensions thus produced in his thoughts and feelings, he wrote on the one hand sketches of idealized hunting trips and on the other an anecdote of the village of Hardscrabble, Arkansas, where no one had ever seen a piano ; ;

He had taken a carbine down from the wall and it trailed from his hand, the stock bumping on the wood floor.

He approached the horse and laid a hand on the stallion's quivering neck.

Now, Mis-ter McBride '', said Lord, and he laid a firmly restraining hand on the field boss's arm.

Hogan reappeared, stopped on the hotel porch, lifted a hand in signal.

No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.

He came to the edge of the veranda, peered down at them with his hand on his gun.

Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.

Less assured than the tall, wide-shouldered man in the lead, Cobb followed alertly, a hand on his gun butt.

Greg slapped his hand across the switches that turned on the guns and gun camera and gun sight.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

The marine spun, clapping a hand high on his chest, and dived forward.

Awkwardly with one hand Matsuo got the cap back on the water bottle.

First he barely touched the blade on the hand which shaded the eyes.

He didn't stop till he was within three feet of Blue Throat and by that time the gang leader's right hand was on the butt of his revolver.

While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.

When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.

Despite this danger, however, we are informed on every hand that ideas, not machines, are our finest tools ; ;

No Jew was on hand to boycott his financially struggling theater.

Alone, rejected on every hand, divorced, and in financial trouble, he leaped from an eleventh-floor window of the Abbey Hotel in 1937.

Though the prison chaplain accuses the state of stripping Alex of free will, the government officials on the scene are pleased with the results and Alex is released into society.

The cause of the conflict is uncertain, as the sources are divided ; the Lombard Paul the Deacon accuses the Gepids, while the Byzantine historian Menander Protector places the blame on Alboin, an interpretation favoured by historian Walter Pohl.

A complaint of 1492, brought to the Star Chamber, accuses men of acting riotously by coming to a fair as Robin Hood and his men ; the accused defended themselves on the grounds that the practice was a long-standing custom to raise money for churches, and they had not acted riotously but peaceably.

* March 5 – Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons ; the United Nations condemns their use on March 30.

In a published article reviewing the findings of Harold Sackeim's 2007 study on the cognitive effects of ECT, Breggin accuses Max Fink and other pro-ECT researchers of having a history of " systematically covering up damage done to millions of patients throughout the world.

The Nigerian government accuses MASSOB of violence ; MASSOB's leader, Ralph Uwazuruike, was arrested in 2005 and is being detained on treason charges ; MASSOB is calling for his release.

* During a meeting of the Amphictyonic Council, Philip accuses the citizens of the town of Amfissa, in Locris, of intruding on consecrated ground.

Sinfjötli accuses Guðmundr of having once been female, and gibes that Guðmundr was " a witch, horrible, unnatural, among Odin's valkyries ", adding that all of the einherjar " had to fight, headstrong woman, on your account ".

The European Union accuses Cuba of " continuing flagrant violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms ", but also " Reiterates its condemnation of the US embargo on Cuba, and calls for it to be lifted forthwith, as the UN General Assembly has repeatedly demanded.

The ambitious new leader of the conservatives, Thucydides, accuses the leader of the democratic faction, Pericles, of profligacy and criticises the way Pericles is spending money on his ambitious building plans for the city.

Bertie speaks with pride of this achievement on several occasions ; however, in Right Ho, Jeeves, the character of Gussie Fink-Nottle, while intoxicated, publicly accuses Bertie of having achieved the award through cheating.

Sinfjötli accuses Guðmundr of having once been a female, including that he was " a witch, horrible, unnatural, among Odin's valkyries " and that all of the einherjar " had to fight, headstrong women, on your account ".

Finally, Cousins observes that, "... in his reflections, Bower has a particularly damning judgement on Chamberlain, whom he accuses of ' brazen lying ' to parliament, and of what amounted to forgery in the documents made public for the inquiry.

During a trip to the Marabar Caves ( modeled on the Barabar Caves of Bihar ), Adela accuses Aziz of attempting to assault her.

The play also accuses Cleon of manipulating census lists to impose crippling financial burdens on his choice of victims ( lines 911-25 ).

She accuses Renato of swindling her, but he assures her that some designs have been used for centuries on Murano and he insists that her goblet is an antique.

In these, he defends his position on sin and sinlessness, and accuses Augustine of being under the influence of Manicheanism by elevating evil to the same status as God and teaching pagan fatalism as if it were a Christian doctrine.

As a matter of fact, it might well lead into something forbidden which he himself has stated clearly in his book al-Rawd when he said: “ Whoever accuses a Muslim of being a disbeliever based on a sin committed by him, and without an attempt to interpret it favorably, he himself commits disbelief .” Yet here he is accusing an entire group of Muslims of disbelief.

Hillsdale's feud with the federal government is ongoing ; in its 2010 " Resolution Against Federal Interference ," it accuses both Congress and the Obama administration of appearing, " even more than the worst of their predecessors, bent on extending federal control over American higher education and other areas of American life.

In his 2009 book, Straussophobia, Peter Minowitz provides a detailed critique of Drury, Xenos, and other critics of Strauss whom he accuses of “ bigotry and buffoonery .” In his 2006 book review of Reading Leo Strauss, by Steven B. Smith, Robert Alter writes that Smith " persuasively sets the record straight on Strauss's political views and on what his writing is really about.

A 2010 report concluded that the industry is not sustainable and accuses investors, including the World Bank, of failing to take proper responsibility for the impact of their decisions on the water resources of poorer countries.

In the graphic novel, V entertains a long, one-sided conversation with the statue of Justice on the roof, in which he professes his love for her but accuses her of being a whore for the fictional fascist government, and tells her of his new mistress named Anarchy.

Dominic refuses and Tran accuses him of informing on him, causing him to be humiliated in front of his entire family.