Such ranchers as Coble and Clay and the Bosler brothers carried him on their books as a cowhand even while he was receiving a much larger salary from parties unknown.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

I used to go with Watson to call on the eminent neurologist at his apartment, to sit among the doctor's excellent collection of statues, paintings, and books and drink Oriental coffee while Watson seemed to thaw out and become almost affable.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

Whereas a high percentage of the regular students can be expected to read other texts which more or less plow the same ground in a little different direction, the married students chose whole books on specific areas and went into much greater detail in their areas of interest.

Narrow four-story buildings ran the length of the block like books tightly packed on a shelf.

He told the committee the measure would merely provide means of enforcing the escheat law which has been on the books `` since Texas was a republic ''.

The opinion continues here that with a 162-game schedule, pitching spread thin through a 10-team league and a most inviting target in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field Jr., Mantle just might break the most glamorous record on the books, Babe Ruth's 60 homers of 1927.

In their suburban cottage the crown charges, the Krogers received secrets from the mystery man, usually on the first Saturday evening of each month, and spent much of the week-end getting the secrets off to Moscow, either on a powerful transmitter buried under the kitchen floor or as dots posted over period marks in used books.

Public libraries in Nassau County have been lending books to each other by mail for a quarter-century, but the system enables this process to operate on an organized and far more comprehensive basis.

Sample copies of new books are on display at headquarters, where librarians may evaluate them by themselves or in workshop groups.

but, as he had a special fondness for magic and divination, he ordered that books on these subjects should be spared.

As for The Book of the Dead, it along with his other books on religion had been incarcerated in a furnace in the basement of the building in which he had lived in New York.

He then decided to become a lawyer and began teaching himself law by reading Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and other law books.

Other influential writers in the 1970s include Pierre Clastres, who explains in his books on the Guayaki tribe in Paraguay that " primitive societies " actively oppose the institution of the state.

* Sir Patrick Moore, presenter of the BBC's long-running The Sky at Night and author of many books on astronomy.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

E. H. Shepard drew on the landscapes of Ashdown Forest as inspiration for many of the illustrations he provided for the Pooh books.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

Almost all of Agatha Christie's books are whodunits, focusing on the British middle and upper classes.

Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.

As seen in the first books of the Aeneid, Aeneas is one of the few Trojans who were not killed in battle or enslaved when Troy fell.

The Annales was an epic poem in fifteen books, later expanded to eighteen, covering Roman history from the fall of Troy in 1184 BC down to the censorship of Cato the Elder in 184 BC.

Writing during the time of Augustus, Virgil has his hero give a first-person account of the fall of Troy in the second of the Aeneid's twelve books ; the Trojan Horse, which does not appear in " The Iliad ", became legendary from Virgil's account.

The epic poem consists of 12 books in hexameter verse which describe the journey of Aeneas, a prince fleeing the sack of Troy, to Italy, his battle with the Italian prince Turnus, and the foundation of a city from which Rome would emerge.

The Aeneids first six books describe the journey of Aeneas from Troy to Rome.

The Prologue is the first section of four books of the Prose Edda, and consists of an euhemerized Christian account of the origins of Nordic mythology: the Nordic gods are described as human Trojan warriors who left Troy after the fall of that city ( an origin similar to the one chosen by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th century to account for the ancestry of the British nation ).

In the Odyssey by Homer, under the instructions of Athena, Telemachus spends the first four books trying to gain knowledge of his father, Odysseus, who left for Troy when Telemachus was still an infant.

A nephew of Olaus the Elder, Petter Rudebeck, also wrote antiquarian books going even further, purporting to locate the scene of the Trojan War and ancient city of Troy in southern Sweden.

The first six books treated the mythic history of the non-Hellenic and Hellenic tribes to the destruction of Troy and are geographical in theme, and describe the history and culture of Ancient Egypt ( book I ), of Mesopotamia, India, Scythia, and Arabia ( II ), of North Africa ( III ), and of Greece and Europe ( IV – VI ).

Local author Troy Taylor has written several passages regarding this site in his books about the Hauntings of Illinois, and was involved in an investigation of the site that was featured on local television networks.

The lost epic Little Iliad, in four books, took up the story of the Homeric Iliad, and, beginning with the contest between Telamonian Ajax and Odysseus for the arms of Achilles, carried it down to the feast of the Trojans over the captured Trojan Horse, according to the epitome in Proclus, or to the Fall of Troy, according to Aristotle.

His Compendium of Roman History consists of two books dedicated to M. Vinicius, and covers the period from the dispersion of the Greeks after the siege of Troy down to the death of Livia ( AD 29 ).

* Troy Series, a trilogy of books by David Gemmell

* " Troy town ", the name given to Fowey, Cornwall, by the writer and scholar Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in many of his books

# There are fragments from the 3 books of Thallus, in which he made a summary in abbreviated fashion from the sack of Troy to the 167th Olympiad 109 BC ( Eusebius, Chronicle, I. K125. 2 )

Eusebius ( fourth century ) mentions a history of Thallus in three books that according to an Armenian translation of Eusebius ranged from the sack of Troy to the 167th Olympiad.

The tales told in the Cycle are recounted by other ancient sources, notably Virgil's Aeneid ( book 2 ) which recounts the sack of Troy from a Trojan perspective ; Ovid's Metamorphoses ( books 13 – 14 ), which describes the Greeks ' landing at Troy ( from the Cypria ) and the judgment of Achilles ' arms ( Little Iliad ); Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica, which narrates the events after Achilles ' death up until the end of the war ; and the death of Agamemnon and the vengeance taken by his son Orestes ( the Nostoi ) are the subject of later Greek tragedy, especially Aeschylus's Oresteian trilogy.

In the late 1980s, Troy released two very successful heavy metal instructional books.

The books contain extensive bibliographies, for the story, the setting and historical Troy, drawing on the excavation work Heinrich Schliemann ( et al.

Several books have been published about Mario Bava: Mario Bava by Pascal Martinet ( Edilig, 1984 ) and Mario Bava edited by Jean-Louis Leutrat ( Éditions du Céfal, 1994 ) in French ; Mario Bava by Alberto Pezzotta ( Il Castoro Cinema, 1995 ) in Italian ; The Haunted Worlds of Mario Bava by Troy Howarth ( FAB Press, 2002 ) and most recently, the massive critical biography Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark by Tim Lucas ( Video Watchdog, 2007 ; ISBN 0-9633756-1-X ).

Tsort: A mythical place ( no books have yet been set there, with the possible exception of the events portrayed in Eric where Rincewind and Eric Thursley appear briefly ), the Disc's analogue to ancient Troy.

His fourth book and his first book length non-fiction work, it followed three fictional books, Jonathan Troy, The Brave Cowboy, and Fire on the Mountain.