I heard the whir of an ax and a Canadian's face burst apart in a bloody spray.

I heard o' Texas cattlemen wrappin' a cow thief up in green hides and lettin' the sun shrink 'em and squeeze him to death.

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

`` I heard how you outdrew Chico.

Just as I straightened up with my duffel bag, I heard: `` Sahjunt Yoorick, meet Mrs. Major J. A. Roebuck ''.

I heard her murmur, `` We'd better lock the door ''.

I heard subsequently that my Uncle and Aunt had dinner in a nearby restaurant in the French Quarter after which he went home to get into his costume to keep the date.

I heard a cry from a stoker as a pillar of flame leaped from a hatch and tongued the man's bare back.

Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

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.

Besides I heard her old uncle that stays there has been doin' it ''.

`` I never heard that ''.

I never heard of a poll being taken on the question.

and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.

I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.

She wrote in her journal, `` I have not heard the least profane language since I have been on board the vessel.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

Principal among these was the titular Interceptor, a tall man dressed in black, armed with an infra-red projector mounted on his left forearm ( the technology for which was procured from the British Army ), and possessed of an intimidating fish-eagle screech and a catchphrase, " I LIKE IT!

Some of us got close to the wire and we started to cut it with a pliers, you might as well try and snip Cloyne round tower with a scissors .” He then grabbed hold of the stakes holding the barbed wire, " I dashed at the first one, heaved and strained and it came into my arms … I believe there was wild cheering when they saw what I was at, but I only heard the screech of bullets and saw dirt rising all round from where they hit.

A license to operate a vehicle with air brakes is required ( i. e., normally a Class I, II, or III commercial license with an " A " or " S " endorsement in provinces other than Ontario ).

Take the $ 3602 base price and add the $ 107. 50 power steering, the $ 43. 00 power brakes, and the $ 242. 10 automatic transmission ( all standard on the Starfire ), and you had a $ 4, 000 Jetstar I.

: Listen here sweet mama, I ’ m gonna put your air brakes on

After World War I typewriters gradually became less costly and the typewriter desk was more or less standardised in two forms: One was a small mobile desk incorporating four wheels with brakes, the other was an " L " shaped desk with a " normal " height section for reading and handwriting and a lower section for the typewriter.

I lost track of where the corner was, and as soon as I touched the brakes I knew I was not going to be able to stop.

Also as a direct result of competition experience, the Series II was fitted with larger front brakes and a recirculating ball steering box instead of the rather vague worm and nut box of the Series I.

There was nothing defective about the air brakes or other mechanism of the engine or train that I was operating, nor was there any defective condition of any of the signals or track upon which I was operating to the best of my knowledge.

The first run using the afterburner sent the car well over 300 miles per hour ( 480 km / h ); when it was shut down Green felt as if he had " slammed on the brakes, but the airspeed indicator showed that I was still accelerating under regular engine power ".

" The Elva Mk II appeared in 1957: " Main differences from the Mark I are in the use of a De Dion rear axle as on the prototype, but with new location, inboard rear brakes, lengthened wheelbase, and lighter chassis frame.

' I hit the brakes.

* Adrian riding a bike onstage and exclaiming proudly: I have got no brakes!

I have got NO brakes!

" I just hit the brakes and I said “ I can ’ t, I can ’ t, I can ’ t stop .” And next thing we just hung off the gap ... when I swung the door open, I could see, more or less, see the water ... and I just swung meself towards the back of the car and grabbed the headrest like that to pull myself around.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.

I kept circling the block hoping to see, from the street behind it, the rear of the hall.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

I regained my squatting position behind the truck cab's rear window.

I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.

I left behind me brave men, whom captivity had robbed of all hope.

I marched up to the waiting officials, the students massed behind me.

I could hear Alfred's voice a few words behind Meltzer's like a counterpoint, punctuated by sobs of sorrow and resignation.

Remember what I said about going out to get anybody left behind??

I had my arm behind his back.

At five o'clock that night it was already dark, and behind my closed door I was dressing as carefully as a groom.

I felt superior to the neighborhood friends I was leaving behind, felt older than my years, and was full of compliments for myself as I headed into the subway that was carrying its packs of passengers out of that dull borough and into the unstable, tantalizing excitement of Manhattan.

Within half an hour I jumped a six-point buck that hop-skipped through a rhododendron thicket, and I caught him just behind the left foreleg at 60 yards.

Taking the path behind the Throne Room to the building directly beyond it, the Portrait Gallery, I went right at the end of it, through a garden to a small building at the back -- a sitting room furnished with low blue divans, its floor covered with carpets, its ceiling painted with gold squares and floral designs.

`` I paint the nothing '', he said once to Franz Kline and myself, `` the nothing that is behind the something, the inexpressible, unpaintable ' tick ' in the unconscious, the ' spirit ' of the moment resting forever, suspended like a huge balloon, in non-time ''.

Do you think I might profitably study some of the history you do, perhaps two weeks behind you.

I wondered suddenly as I listened to the disconnected jabberings coming from the patient behind me, if I had not perhaps imagined it all.