When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.

Now they were riding to kill him.

All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

Beyond the stockade rifles began to explode as some of the guerrillas fired at shadows that they imagined were Apaches.

But what few containers they found were inadequate.

Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it didn't seem possible they were in flight.

They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.

They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.

But they were starting a new life.

They were going to town, and they were both excited.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

A successful businessman recently prefaced his address to a luncheon group with the statement that all economists should be sent to the hospitals for the mentally deranged where they and their theories might rot together.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

The recent publicity attending the successful federal prosecution of a conspiracy indictment against a number of electrical manufacturers has evoked a new respect for the anti-trust laws that is justified neither by their rationale nor by the results they have obtained.

The teacher thought it was so successful that she asks: `` Wouldn't it be helpful to all age groups if they could participate in a similar confessional of their fears and worries ''??

The dawning of a newly successful era in Roma's footballing history was brought in with another Coppa Italia victory, they beat Torino on penalties to win the 1979 – 80 cup.

Again, Schub has the answer-since the Cookie Jar is still successful, they can turn the entire town into one big Cookie Jar!

However, their time in league football was even less successful and considerably briefer than that of Accrington Stanley: they dropped out of the league in 1893 and folded shortly afterwards due to financial problems.

The newspaper was asked to organize a competition, after which each of the successful participants was contacted and asked whether they would be prepared to undertake " a particular type of work as a contribution to the war effort ".

This they easily crossed because they knew where the firm ground and the easy passages in this region were to be found ; but the Romans in attempting to follow them were not so successful.

In the final section the Israelites of the new generation follow Yahweh's instructions as given through Moses and are successful in all they attempt.

Samuel's successful defence of the Israelites against their enemies demonstrates that they have no need for a king ( who will, moreover, introduce inequality ), yet despite this the people demand a king.

Though his recordings sold well, he was not so influential on some younger blues singers of his generation, who could not imitate him as they could other commercially successful artists.

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

Tombalbaye resorted to calling in French troops ; while moderately successful, they were not fully able to quell the insurgency.

are unlikely to become celebrities even if they are enormously successful in their field due to society's disinterest in science, invention, medicine, and courtroom law which is not fictional.

Celebrity endorsements have proven very successful around the world where, due to increasing consumerism, an individual is considered a status symbol when they purchase a celebrity-endorsed product.

Many of his students have gone on to successful writing careers ; they include Gretchen Mazur, Helen Fremont, Michael Byers, Jardine Libaire, Porter Shreve, Davy Rothbart, John Fulton, Marc Nesbitt, Patrick O ' Keeffe, Jess Row, Francesca Delbano, Peter Orner, Heidi Julavits, Karl Iagnemma, Achy Obejas, James Morrison and Elwood Reid.

The Barbados introductions were focused on the biological control of pests damaging the sugarcane crops, and while the toads became abundant, they have not been as successful in controlling the pests as in Australia.

This time they were successful, beating Burnley 1 – 0, Chris Duffy scoring the only goal of the day.

If they are successful, they receive two points, if they are not, then they receive zero points.

Of the three reforms Gregory VII and his predecessors and successor popes had attempted, they had been most successful in regard to celibacy of the clergy.

It entered her body with the ghastly intimacy of an incubus, and its particles, spreading, creeping, crawling, joined themselves into steel bands that constricted her knees so tightly that they ached ; ;

This, he was sure, was the way they would act ; ;

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

What they wished for most was security ; ;

of the stereotyped Negro servants chanting hymns as they plow the fields ; ;

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment: the roses, whose petals might not be collected until they had fallen, to be made into perfume or rose-tea to drink ; ;

the peonies, whose tight sticky buds would be blighted by the laying on of a finger, although they were not apparently harmed by the ants that crawled over them ; ;

morning-glory buds which could be so grasped and squeezed that they burst like a blown-up paper bag ; ;