If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.

With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.

He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.

But the luck that had been running their way left him.

His shout had been taken up and repeated.

A sizable supply of powder had been touched off.

The worst part had been the waiting ; ;

The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.

And one had been too many.

That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.

I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.

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.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.

He had been the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.

Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.

he keeps a bottle in a wardrobe at home, and `` before this wardrobe Praisegod Piepsam had before now gone literally on his knees, and in his wrestlings had bitten his tongue -- and still in the end capitulated ''.

Housewives are finding literally hundreds of ways of getting the maximum use out of traditional designs, says Mr. Alden and they are doing it largely because Colonial craftsmen had `` an innate sense of the practical ''.

Tommy, of course, had never heard of a kotowaza, or Japanese proverb, which says, `` Tanin yori miuchi '', and is literally translated as `` Relatives are better than strangers ''.

As a protector and founder, Apollo had the epithets Alexicacus ( ; Ἀλεξίκακος, Alexikakos, literally " warding off evil "), Apotropaeus ( ; Ἀποτρόπαιος, Apotropaios, from ἀποτρέπειν, " to avert "), and Epicurius ( ; Ἐπικούριος, Epikourios, from ἐπικουρέειν, " to aid "), and Archegetes ( ; Ἀρχηγέτης, Arkhēgetēs, literally " founder "), Clarius ( ; Κλάριος, Klārios, from Doric κλάρος, " allotted lot "), and Genetor ( ; Γενέτωρ, Genetōr, literally " ancestor ").

In his role as god of prophecy and truth, Apollo had the epithets Manticus ( ; Μαντικός, Mantikos, literally " prophetic "), Leschenorius ( ; Λεσχηνόριος, Leskhēnorios, from λεσχήνωρ, " converser "), and Loxias ( ; Λοξίας, Loxias, from λέγειν, " to say ").

Of those who retained the October 22 date, many maintained that Jesus had come not literally but " spiritually ", and consequently were known as " spiritualizers ".

These serf sub-castes had mi bogs (), or human lease if translated literally.

On early recording mediums ( until 1925 ) such as wax cylinders and discs carved with an engraving needle, sound balancing meant that musicians had to be literally moved in the room.

If Bede is interpreted literally, the marriage would have had to take place before 567, when Charibert died.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

I literally had to lay her down on her bed until she fell asleep.

As they prepared to play the nation's largest sports arenas, the Burritos played to dwindling nightclub audiences ; one night Jagger had to literally order Parsons to fulfill an obligation to his group.

" G. K. Chesterton compared it to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: " Gilbert pursued and persecuted the evils of modern England till they had literally not a leg to stand on, exactly as Swift did ...

* Habeas corpus ad deliberandum et recipiendum: a writ for bringing an accused from a different county into a court in the place where a crime had been committed for purposes of trial, or more literally to return holding the body for purposes of “ deliberation and receipt ” of a decision.

Qutb believed things had reached such a state that the Muslim community had literally ceased to exist.

" By the 1850s, though, this meaning of ‘ broomstick ’ had fallen out of currency and references to ‘ broomstick marriages ’ began to be interpreted literally, as though they had involved a couple actually jumping over a stick.

As the techniques of the ancient smiths had been lost during the previous period of war, these swords were called, literally " new swords ".

In the first period, Smith had tried literally to build a city called Zion, in which converts could gather.

) had become obsolete and degraded.

However, analysis of the wood indicated that they had degraded significantly in the seawater and mud, which had weakened their draw forces.

Also, the plasma probe had its performance degraded by a resistor failure on December 8, 1964, but by taking this failure into account, experimenters were able to recalibrate the instrument and still interpret the data.

While Windows Media Player 9 had added support for some files that use the WMV9 codec ( also known as the WMV3 codec by the FourCC ), in other aspects it was seen as having degraded in features from previous versions.

NASA had taken all the original tapes and erased them for use on subsequent missions ; however, the Apollo 11 Tape Search and Restoration Team formed in 2003 tracked down the highest quality footage among the converted recordings of the first broadcast, pieced together the best footage, then contracted a specialist film restoration company to enhance the degraded black-and-white film and convert it into digital format for archival records.

In early times, the son who denied his father had his front hair shorn and a slave-mark put on him and could be sold as a slave ; while the son who denied his mother had his front hair shorn, was driven round the city as an example and expelled from his home, but not degraded to slavery.

The detonated shell released only a small amount of sarin gas, either because the explosion failed to mix the binary agents properly or because the chemicals inside the shell had degraded significantly with age.

He did not take into account the degraded state of the Byzantine forces which had suffered years of neglect from his predecessors, in particular Constantine X.

** By the time of the 4th century BC, alastor in Greek had degraded to a generic type of insult, with the approximate meaning of " scoundrel ".

They explained that, by the time they had raised enough money to purchase the original, only a few frames were still intact, the rest having been degraded beyond the point of usability by heat and humidity.

Santilli and Shoefield stated that they had " restored " the damaged footage by filming a simulated autopsy on a fabricated alien, based upon what Santilli saw in 1992, and then adding in a few frames of the original film that had not degraded.

Early industrial music often featured tape editing, stark percussion and loops distorted to the point where they had degraded to harsh noise, such as the work of early industrial group Cabaret Voltaire, which Journalist Simon Reynolds described as characterized by " hissing high hats and squelchy snares of rhythm-generator.

Between 2000 and 2005 the island between the two channels linking Wroxham Broad to the Bure underwent restoration to stop erosion and improve the island's ecology, which had become degraded.

Historically, each approach had its advantages: ARCNET added a small delay on an inactive network as a sending station waited to receive the token, but Ethernet's performance degraded drastically if too many peers attempted to broadcast at the same time, due to the time required for the slower processors of the day to process and recover from collisions.

Between 2000 and 2005 the island between the two channels linking Wroxham Broad to the Bure underwent restoration to stop erosion and improve the island's ecology, which had become degraded.

The valleys and plains of the range had been severely degraded but the range top was only slightly damaged as a result of pastoral activity.

Due to the lack of water over the years large areas of peat had degraded.

This had degraded so seriously over its four decades of use that rather than simply being reinforced it was entirely replaced by an orthotropic steel deck ( i. e. a deck formed from steel plates supported underneath by longitudinal ribs or stiffeners ).

At the very beginning the dues and outgoings did not press so very hard on the rajah, because the Porte knew how the country had been impoverished by the war: and the Pashas sent to govern it were to some extent controlled by the Porte, lest their harshness should drive the rajah to leave the island, or at least to revolt, for which his degraded condition would be an excuse.

The stacking of the bones had degraded the condition of Farinelli's remains, but these included his jawbone, several teeth, parts of his skull and almost all of the major bones.

In examining the photographs of the land set aside to become Central Park, Smithson saw the barren landscape that had been degraded by humans before Olmsted constructed the complex ‘ naturalistic ’ landscape that was viscerally apparent to New Yorkers in the 1970s.