I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian's face became shattered flesh and bone.

And then I became aware that she, too, glanced at me surreptitiously.

Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

that is, until I became an editor, hence, in his eyes, a rival.

I never had the courage to look at them, when my projected volume became hopeless, fearing they were poor, until now when I was obliged to do so.

I became disgusted at being so preoccupied with the state of my own miserable soul.

Lilly Banks and I became friends.

At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.

The more I talked with him, the more convinced I became that that was the secret of their riotous blooming.

After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said: `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly.

One hebephrenic woman often became submerged in what felt to me like a somehow phony experience of pseudo-emotion, during which, despite her wracking sobs and streaming cheeks, I felt only a cold annoyance with her.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

Some fourteen or fifteen years ago, in an essay I called The Leader Follows -- Where??

We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.

The way Eileen and I were hitting it up, we needed ten or fifteen dollars an evening.

He was fifteen years older than I -- forty-four -- but full of spring and sparkle.

In his 1963 " I Have a Dream " speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. uses the terms negro fifteen times and black four times.

" I never warmed up ten, fifteen minutes before a game like most pitchers do.

Of the more than 200 studio albums I ’ ve produced in the past forty plus years, there is a handful ; maybe fifteen or so that I can actually listen to from top to bottom.

Allen, in one instance, wrote that " I will lay my life on it, that with fifteen hundred men, and a proper artillery, I will take Montreal ".

They both rebelled, and, according to Kelly: " We didn't like it much and were continually involved in fistfights with the neighborhood boys who called us sissies ... I didn't dance again until I was fifteen.

Then I say, such an engine may be made large enough to do the work required in employing eight, ten, fifteen, or twenty horses to be constantly maintained and kept for doing such a work …" The idea was later used by James Watt to help market his improved steam engine.

I have raced for fifteen years and have had enough of it.

In the second season, we re-designed the VISOR and made it heavier and the way we actually affixed it was that we screwed it, we literally screwed it into my head and so there were screws that we would turn and there were flanges on the inside that would press into my temples and so after fifteen or twenty minutes of that I got headaches.

While the original Keen only has fifteen letters displayed anywhere ( A, B, C, D, E, H, I, K, L, N, O, S, T, X and Y ), later games have more.

After a late start, he was ordained priest, and Cosimo I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, sent him as an appropriate ambassador to Pope Pius V, a position which he held for fifteen years.

On 16 May 1770, at the age of fifteen, Louis-Auguste married the fourteen-year-old Habsburg Archduchess Maria Antonia ( better known by the French form of her name, Marie Antoinette ), his second cousin once removed and the youngest daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and his wife, the formidable Empress Maria Theresa.

It belonged to a red-haired person — a youth of fifteen, as I take it now, but looking much older — whose hair was cropped as close as the closest stubble ; who had hardly any eyebrows, and no eyelashes, and eyes of a red-brown, so unsheltered and unshaded, that I remember wondering how he went to sleep.

They laid me on a couch, and I tested fifteen men ...

Clemenceau replied that the alliance with America and Britain was of more value than an isolated France which held onto the Rhineland: " In fifteen years I will be dead, but if you do me the honour of visiting my tomb, you will be able to say that the Germans have not fulfilled all the clauses of the treaty, and that we are still on the Rhine ".

Under the terms of Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions, children over the age of fifteen who have volunteered can be used as spotters, observers, and message-carriers ( see above International humanitarian law ).

On July 5, 2009, Colin Powell told CNN said that the policy was " correct for the time " but that " sixteen years have now gone by, and I think a lot has changed with respect to attitudes within our country, and therefore I think this is a policy and a law that should be reviewed.

He began to increasingly focus on performing and later claimed: " With time I became disenchanted with teaching because the ratio of girls to boys was more than ten to one, and once the girls reached sixteen the dropout rate was very high.

However, Western occult practice mostly includes the use of astrology ( calculating the influence of heavenly bodies ), bibliomancy ( reading random passages from a book, such as Liber Legis or the I Ching ), tarot ( a deck of 78 cards, each with symbolic meaning, usually laid out in a meaningful pattern ), and geomancy ( a method of making random marks on paper or in earth that results in a combination of sixteen patterns ).

A new double CD compilation album, Decades Apart, containing a selection of tracks from the full career of the band, including at least one from each of their sixteen studio albums and two new tracks, " Retro Rockets " and " I Don't See the World Like You Do " was released in February.

This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen.

Maria Theresa and her husband, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, had sixteen children, including Queen Marie Antoinette of France, Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, Duchess Maria Amalia of Parma and two Holy Roman Emperors, Joseph II and Leopold II.

Romanos I planned to make his son Patriarch as soon as Nicholas Mystikos died in 925, but two minor patriarchates and a two-year vacancy passed before Theophylact was considered old enough to discharge his duties as patriarch ( still he was still only sixteen years old ).

The history is composed of sixteen books and extends from the time of the founders of the Danish people, Dan I of Denmark and Angul into about the year 1187.

During the reign of the later Sassanid king Khosrau I ( 531 – 579 ), a gift from an Indian king ( possibly a Maukhari Dynasty king of Kannauj ) included a chess game with sixteen pieces of emerald and sixteen of ruby ( green vs. red ).

After an excursion into the world of comic-books and cartoons ( another of Resnais's enthusiasms ) in I Want to Go Home ( 1989 ), an ambitious theatrical adaptation followed with the diptych of Smoking / No Smoking ( 1993 ): Resnais, having admired the plays of Alan Ayckbourn for many years, chose to adapt what appeared the most intractable of them, Intimate Exchanges, a series of eight interlinked plays which follow the consequences of a casual choice to sixteen possible endings.

During World War I four young men from Taylorsville lost their lives and sixteen served in the armed forces.

Additional I / O links were added, with two dedicated to I / O and sixteen for interconnects, allowing for up to 65, 536 CPUs in the hypercube.

After the abbey's dissolution in 1538, the town sank into decay and, in 1555, upon receiving a representation of its pitiable condition, Mary I granted a charter establishing a mayor, two bailiffs, twelve chief burgesses and sixteen secondary burgesses, the mayor to be clerk of the market, coroner and a Justice of the Peace.

According to Burke in a 2002 interview: " I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

Between 1957 and 1960 Harper & Brothers published a series of sixteen " I Can Read " books.

In this scene, twelve of Joan's sixteen lines have been cut ; the entire seven line speech where she says John Talbot refused to fight her because she is a woman ( ll. 37 – 43 ); the first three lines of her five line mockery of Lucy's listing of Talbot's titles, " Here's a silly, stately style indeed ./ The Turk, that two-and-fifty kingdoms hath ,/ Writes not so tedious a style as this " ( ll. 72 – 75 ); and the first two lines of her four line speech where she mocks Lucy, " I think this upstart is old Talbot's ghost ,/ He speaks with such a proud commanding spirit " ( ll. 86 – 88 ).

* Lawner, L., 1988: I Modi: the sixteen pleasures: an erotic album of the Italian Renaissance: Giulio Romano, Marcantonio Raimondi, Pietro Aretino, and Count Jean-Frederic-Maximilien de Waldeck.

In 1985 he published his translated version of one short story " The Circular Ruins " of Jorge Luis Borges which was published in a book of sixteen story translations ( all by Bowles ) called " She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her ".

It would be the last meeting between an English or British monarch and a French one until Queen Victoria met with King Louis Philippe I, the last king to rule France, in 1843, excepting the meeting of James V of Scotland and Francis I of France merely sixteen years later.

This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen.