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.

Perhaps she had no reason to fear these trees that whispered their secrets above her head as she passed.

However, such a hotbed of gossip had grown up during the trial, that every precaution had to be taken to keep my visit from being whispered to the world, Society, and even, alas, to my own mother.

No action of his could be interpreted in his favor and four midshipmen, prior to their knowing the significance of the Greek paper, had seen it in Cromwell's hands while Spencer whispered explanations.

As he lay dying, Alp Arslan whispered to his son that his vanity had killed him.

Cleese continued after a break from laughter in the audience, claiming that Chapman had whispered in his ear the night before while he was writing the speech, saying:

" Nuremberg Prison Commandant Burton C. Andrus later recalled that immediately before the hood was placed over his head, Ribbentrop, who had experienced a late conversion to Christianity while imprisoned at Nuremberg, turned to the prison's Lutheran chaplain and whispered, " I'll see you again.

I had always thought an angel came down and sat on your shoulder and whispered in your ear ' dah-dah-dah-DUM.

I seemed to remember that persons had whispered to me in awe of his horrors, and warned me not to go near him.

It was whispered in society that Rasputin had seduced not only the Tsarina but also the four grand duchesses.

After an impressive display on the part of both Odin and Vafthrudnir, the giant was eventually defeated by a quite unanswerable question, when the god asked the giant what he had whispered to his dead son Balder before he life the pyre on which he lay.

Now Vafthrudnir recognized Odin and admitted that no one could tell what the god had whispered into the ear of the dead Balder.

The ' messengers ', usually criminals or prisoners of war originally condemned either to horrible deaths or slavery, but ' spared ' by the ' amnesty ' allowed by the customs honor of becoming a ' messenger ', had the messages to the dead whispered into their ears, and were quickly dispatched with a knife to the throat.

However, rumours persisted and it was later whispered in society that Rasputin had seduced not only the Tsarina but also the four grand duchesses.

All was well until the next spring, when a reed sprouted up from the hole and whispered to the other reeds that King Midas had the ears of a donkey.

Tweety whispered into his ear and Sylvester had a surprised expression on his face, and said " Huh, I was wrong.

According to biographical research of Hugh Noel Williams, Charles had not arrived at The Hague until the middle of September 1648 — seven months before the child's birth ( but he met Lucy for the first time nine months before ) — and some unfounded voices whispered that Lucy Walter had in the summer of 1648 been mistress of Colonel Robert Sidney, a younger son of the Earl of Leicester.

Mitchell believed he had heard " through the struggling flames ... the last words of our departed friend, the sternly whispered, oft repeated syllables, ' echec!

When pressed by males present to hear Friday's response, she claims ( falsely ) that Friday had whispered " honi soit qui mal y pense " into her ear.

To publicise it the band appeared on the popular morning television show Live with Regis and Kelly, an event that Shears later recalled: " Kelly Ripa loved us, after the first time we played, she gave me a hug and whispered in my ear, ' I just want you to know that this is my favorite music performance we've ever had.

I went on talking without response till I asked if he had any pain and he whispered " No-thank God ".

Blending new wave and post-punk influences ( particularly Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ) and Mediterranean and Middle Eastern ethnic rock, the band soon realized they had outgrown the rural desert, and by 1992 the band had moved to Israel's cultural center Tel Aviv to establish themselves as a national touring act, and begin production on their first studio album " whispered words " ( nanadisk ).