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.

During this time, Alexios was rumored to be the lover of Empress Maria of Alania, the daughter of King Bagrat IV of Georgia, who had been successively married to Michael VII Doukas and his successor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, renowned for her beauty.

It has been often rumored that she had a number of lovers ( including Francis Drake ), but there is no hard evidence.

Despite the act of incest being unacceptable within the Roman Empire, Roman Emperor Caligula is rumored to have had sexual relationships with all three of his sisters ( Julia Livilla, Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger ).

Jahangir was rumored to have had a hand in the death of her husband.

It is widely rumored that Lucrezia's brother Cesare was responsible for Alfonso's death, as he had recently allied himself ( through marriage ) with France against Naples.

After his death, it was rumored that John XXI had actually been a magician ( a suspicion frequently directed towards the few scholars among medieval popes even during their papacy ; cf.

She had also hoped to develop her psionic powers, which her ancestors were rumored to have possessed with great proficiency.

It has also been claimed, on the basis of later texts, that the voyages also presented an opportunity to seek out Zhu Yunwen ( the previous emperor whom the Yongle emperor had usurped and who was rumored to have fled into exile ) – possibly the " largest scale manhunt on water in the history of China ".

It is also rumored that Ní Mháille had a dagger concealed about her person, which guards found upon searching her.

Among her rumored lovers were her close friend, the princesse de Lamballe, and her handsome brother-in-law, the comte d ' Artois, with whom the queen had a good rapport.

In this speech, Cicero informed the citizens of Rome that Catiline had left the city, not in exile ( as it was rumored ), but to join with his illegal army.

A proposed move to another network ( rumored to be CBS ) for the 1991 – 1992 season had been announced on the finale, but never materialized.

Tatiana was rumored to have been present at Rasputin's murder on 17 December 1916, " disguised as a lieutenant of the Chevaliers-Gardes, so that she could revenge herself on Rasputin who had tried to violate her.

Miami had been rumored to be pursuing O ' Neal, as well as Amar ' e Stoudemire and Carlos Boozer.

There were believed to be five reasons for the firing: first, that Carlisle had appeared reluctant to play some of the team's younger players, such as Prince and Mehmet Okur, during the regular season, which had upset Dumars ; second, that some of the players ( notably Wallace ) had not gotten along with Carlisle ; third, that Carlisle employed an offensive system that was too conservative ; fourth, that Hall of Famer Larry Brown had become available ; and finally fifth, that Carlisle was rumored to be interested in the Pacers head coaching job during the Pistons ' 2003 playoff run.

Caligula was rumored to have had his young cousin Gemellus beheaded, to remove him as a rival to the throne.

It is rumored that he had a bastard son with Biette de Casinel: Jean De Montaigu ( or Montague ) ( 1363 – 1409 )

In 2007, an article in the Huffington Post reported that it was rumored that the Oscar had been cast into the Potomac River by angry Civil Rights protesters in the 1960s.

They were rumored to have been designed by architects who were primarily familiar with prisons, although the library had been designed by the distinguished Chicago modernist architect, Harry Mohr Weese.

Though they had four children, Frederick was rumored to be bisexual, with a coterie of young noblemen.

It was rumored that the Gang of Four had become apprehensive of Deng's influence and thus attempted his removal.

In 1978, when he was first rumored to be a candidate for the presidency of Yale, he had deflected questions by observing that " The only thing I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.