When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

A few days ago, she would have thought such an expedition as this utterly ridiculous ; ;

Cursing himself for having ridden out the last few days without a rifle in his saddle boot, Russ drew his Colt and examined it briefly.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

His company then carried out a confused retreating movement until it was surrounded by the Germans, a few days before France capitulated.

A few days after this Englishman appeared, Defoe reported to Oxford that Steele was expected to move in Parliament that the Duke be called over ; ;

But Mercer's explanation was simple: `` I made out the check and carried it around a few days unsigned -- in case I lost it ''.

But a few days after Fred's return he began hemorrhaging and that was the beginning of early and complete disintegration.

A few days later it was learned that General Howe was planning an attack upon the American camp.

Apparently no serious disorders resulted from the celebration, and within a few days, Morgan joined the force of Lafayette who now had command of some 2,000 men at Barren Hill, not far above Philadelphia on the Schuylkill.

A letter of a few days later from Washington's aide to Morgan stated, `` His Excellency is highly pleased with your conduct upon this occasion ''.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

A few days before I saw your mention of what Texas Liberals were doing to promote `` Louis Capet '' ( The Week '', June 3 ), another analogy had occurred to me.

`` I'll drop by again in a few days ''.

In the next few days they had cause to rejoice.

The wraith-like events of the last few days flooded David's mind and he rubbed his unshaved chin and felt again the ache in his kidneys caused by his saddle odyssey from Boston.

It will take a few days.

His first move was to send Hino to the village to spend a few days.

Whenever there is a thaw or a few sunny days, you'll be likely to find a brave little blossom or two.

This colt arrived at the Raceway early last November, and immediately was put into harness and line-driven for a few days, and then put to cart and broken in very nicely, knowing nothing but trot.

This time she submitted and in a few days was going good.

A pleasant start to your midwestern vacation is a few days spent in cosmopolitan Chicago.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

The disadvantages to this method are that you may not have as great a choice of models readily available or you may have to wait a few days or, during the busy tourist season, when cars are in great demand, you might find it fairly difficult to get a car at all.

Up until World War II it was still possible to regard the city as being a settlement of narrow streets localized to some part of the harbor or the Gulf of Ajaccio ; such bucolic descriptions do not fit the city of today, and travellogues intended for mountain or coastal recreational areas do not generally apply to Corsica's few big cities.

The few, successful “ contra ” operations, such as the harbor mining, were performed by the CIA.

Unguja, the larger island, offered a protected and defensible harbor, so although the archipelago offered few products of value, the Persians settled at what became Zanzibar City (" Stone Town ") as a convenient point from which to trade with East African coastal towns.

A single parasite species usually has an aggregated distribution across host individuals, which means that most hosts harbor few parasites, while a few hosts carry the vast majority of parasite individuals.

The protected location of Brest means that its harbor is ideal to receive any type of ship, from the smallest dinghy to the biggest aircraft carrier ( the USS Nimitz has visited a few times ).

Prior to its development as a small craft harbor, the land occupied by Marina del Rey was a salt-marsh fed by freshwater from the Ballona Creek, frequented by duck hunters and few others.

At the time of their arrival there were a few Native American residents of a nearly abandoned village at the harbor, and the mission had peaceful relations with those and other native residents in the surrounding area.

Within the next few days and weeks, they found and explored the harbor now known as Hampton Roads.

In July the British, under the command of General William Howe, landed a few miles across the harbor on Staten Island, where over the next month and a half they were slowly reinforced by ships in Lower New York Bay, bringing their total force to 32, 000 men.

Aslan then blows Jill into Narnia, where she arrives a few moments after Eustace — just as an elderly and frail King takes ship and sails from the harbor.

* August 6 – A third German air raid on Palermo is driven off by Allied night fighters with only a few bombs dropped on the harbor.

Virgin Islands National Park also includes Hassel Island, just off Charlotte Amalie harbor, as well as a few isolated sites on the island of St. Thomas.

This attack was repulsed with casualties, and the advance was only saved when three warships in the harbor, the,, and, pounded the Academy with their long guns for a few minutes, silencing all resistance and killing 15 of the cadets inside.

A few days before the British were due to arrive, Colonel Moultrie decided to build a fort to protect the harbor.

) Additionally, Japanese submarines were sighted and attacked ( by the destroyer ) outside the harbor entrance a few hours before the attack commenced, and at least one was sunk — all before the planes began launching.

She was used as a receiving ship on the Jamaica station from 1803 to 1816 and foundered in Port Royal harbor in 1818 ; her remains were sold a few months later.

During the last months of British Mandate in Palestine, the former Royal Navy volunteers started working on the captured clandestine immigration ships ( known as the Fleet of Shadows ) in Haifa harbor, salvaged a few and pressed them into service.

After a few hours in the man's company, Mitt realizes that not only is the sailor the man who shot Earl Hadd from the harbor, he is also Mitt's own long-lost father.

After obtaining the urn from the merfolk that live in the waters near Riva's harbor the wizards spend a few days studying the queen inside.

After capturing Enogai, a village situated a few miles east of Bairoko Harbor, the Northern Landing Group of United States Marines comprising the 1st and 4th Marine Raider Battalions assaulted the harbor on June 20, 1943.