It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

At first I thought he had missed.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

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.

For his first five years in prison, they had shared a cell.

For men who had left cattle alone after getting their first notices had received no second.

He had received both first and second anonymous notices, and each time he had accused his neighbors of writing them.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

At the first shot Russ had hurled his mount to the left toward the side of the winding draw.

A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.

Old Commodore Forsythe, who had once lost a fifty-dollar bet on whether he could get both motors started and turn on the running lights without accidentally turning on something else first.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

He had presented the first German performances of Puccini's Manon Lescaut and De Falla's La Vida Breve.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

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.

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.

After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of The Mask of Fu Manchu, which featured the Asian villain telling an assembled group of " Asians " ( consisting of caricatural Indians, Persians and Arabs ) that they must " kill the white men and take their women ", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst ( who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine ) to cease making further films based on the property.

All of the novels had been serialized in Dragon Magazine.

The magazine had nearly 1, 500 subscribers and featured such serialized works as What Diantha Did ( 1910 ), The Crux ( 1911 ), Moving the Mountain ( 1911 ), and Herland.

Two of his pre-Vertigo works — True Faith ( serialized in Crisis ) and the four-issue DC / Helix miniseries Bloody Mary ( 1996-1197 ) — have had collections released under the Vertigo label.

It had appeared first in serialized form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy, consisting of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun, The Last War in the World and The World Set Free.

The story was serialized in a new comics and graphics magazine he and Françoise had begun in 1980 called Raw.

She had three novels serialized in a Christian magazine from 1868 to 1888, but was better known for what was long considered her first novel, Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted ( 1892 ), published as a book when she was 67.

It was first serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan from 1990 to 1996 and had also been adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation which had been broadcast worldwide, enjoying much popularity particularly in Japan, several other Asian countries and Europe.

On the 30th anniversary of Kochikame's serialization in September 2006, Ryo-san made a cameo in every serialized manga in Weekly Shōnen Jump ; most notably, he had a full appearance as a marine in One Piece ( chapter 427 ), as a spectator of the Taiyo / Hakushuu football game in Eyeshield 21, as a crazed citizen in Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro, as a zombie in Gintama ( also emphasized in the animated version of the chapter ) and drinking alongside Don Patch in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.

You're Under Arrest has been adapted into three television seasons, three OVA series and a live-action drama special after it had been first serialized by Kodansha's Afternoon magazine in 1987.

Poe excused the earlier serialized version by noting that the Messenger had mistakenly adapted it " under the garb of fiction ".

Christine L. Marran puts the national fascination with Abe's story within the context of the dokufu or " poison woman " stereotype, a transgressive female character type which had first become popular in Japanese serialized novels and stage works in the 1870s.

In 1955, Yokoyama had a title serialized in the magazine Shōjo for the first time, "".

Dean McLaughlin's novel Dawn ( serialized in the April – July 1981 issues of Analog magazine and republished in book form 25 years later as ISBN 978-1-59414-350-2 ) had been in several ways an answer to Asimov's short story.

He has also had a set of related short stories serialized in Big Comic Original and collected in one volume as Bōken Shōnen.

In a 1992 piece in the London Sunday Times, which had earlier serialized " Music for Chameleons ", reporters Peter and Leni Gillman investigated the source of " Handcarved Coffins ", the piece Capote subtitled " a nonfiction account of an American crime ".

A few of the winners had the beginning chapters of their comics serialized by syndication in the Sunday comics of various American newspapers ( Peach Fuzz, Van Von Hunter and Mail Order Ninja ), through the Universal Press Syndicate.

By 1914, Burroughs had become very popular with the reading public, and A. C. McClurg & Company decided to print a number of his formerly serialized tales as novels.

Her third, Marian Withers ( 1851 ), had an industrial setting and was serialized in the Manchester Examiner and Times.

The probable reason that Atkinson made an assignment of copyright to Towne is that his " New Psychology " books had initially been serialized in Towne's magazine, where he was a freelance writer from 1912 at least through 1914.

In the early 1970s, portions of the manuscript had been serialized in Sports Illustrated and anthologized.

Warner Bros. paid author David Goodis $ 25, 000 for the rights to the story, which had originally been serialized in the Saturday Evening Post from July 20 to September 7, 1946, before being published in book form.

The hostility of the Chinese Kuomintang regime meant that much of Zhang's writing had to be serialized in underground journals.