The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.

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

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

Tom had been laying for Aaron McBride for a long time, just waiting to catch him out of line.

Andy Ross had just started swinging an ax at his second willow when the distant blast of a rifle sounded.

An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

Now, he was just in the late poems of Holderlin and therefore had most of the nineteenth century before him -- plus next semester's class preparation.

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

And he would have enjoyed it just as much if he had been a Nazi.

He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.

Waddell was not an eminently moral person, but he did not like what he had just heard.

He had just paid a brief visit to the Frick Collection to admire his favorite paintings by Rembrandt and Franz Hals.

`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.

This included Mamma, jolly, generous, and pretty, with whom they all fell in love, just as Papa had first fallen in love with her Mamma before he chose her ; ;

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

I've had a trying day and I just can't make it out again '', I told them.

There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

These illiterate boors conscripted from villages all across the Czarina's empire had, Suvorov may have told Lewis, just two things a commander could count on: physical fitness and personal courage.

Their jams and jellies had not suffered.

Its ribs showed, it was a yellow nondescript color, it suffered from a variety of sores, hair had scabbed off its body in patches.

Sadie, like Beth March, suffered ill health -- got rheumatic fever and had to be careful of her heart -- but that never dampened her spirits.

The West had long since forgotten the events of 1919, but it was not so easy for the Red leaders, who felt that they had suffered great injustice in that period.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

Because of his brain injury and the extreme damage suffered to his sight, the patient had to train himself for a new line of work, that of a portfolio-maker, an occupation requiring a great deal of precision in the making of measurements and a fairly well-developed sense of form and contour.

Resolved that his wrongs and bereavements in Kansas, occasioned by the violence and brutality of those who were intent on the propagation of slavery in that territory, call for a charitable judgment upon his recent efforts in Virginia to undermine the despotism from which he had suffered, and commend his family to the special sympathy and aid of all who pity suffering and reverence justice.

She suffered a nervous breakdown and had to be institutionalized.

They had suffered, in sulky silence, the sight of his sharp practice in Cicero.

He seemed to remember reading somewhere that Abyssinians had large litters, and suffered a dismaying vision of the apartment overrun with a dozen kittens.

After all, the man had no family, so no one suffered, and everybody was better off for it.

His own children had suffered from the weakening of those values which he and Theresa had always taken for granted, and as for his grandchildren ( he had one so far, still in diapers ), he shuddered to think that the true meaning of character might never dawn on them at all.

Johnston, who had little choice in allowing Floyd and Pillow to take charge at Fort Donelson on the basis of seniority after he ordered them to add their forces to the garrison, took the blame and suffered calls for his removal because a full explanation to the press and public would have exposed the weakness of the Confederate position.

Wakefield had read accounts of Australian settlement while in prison in London for attempting to abduct an heiress, and realised that the eastern colonies suffered from a lack of available labour, due to the practice of giving land grants to all arrivals.

Also, Caracalla perhaps felt more comfortable about campaigning in the upper Main because he was not declaring war on any specific historic tribe, such as the Chatti or Cherusci, against whom Rome had suffered grievous losses.

They had suffered disproportionately great losses at Frigidus.

The diocese had suffered a serious raid from the Welsh in 1055, and during his administration, Ealdred continued the rebuilding of the cathedral church as well as securing the cathedral chapter's rights.

But the pirates had suffered so many casualties ( 120 Danes dead against 62 Frisians and English ), that they had difficulties putting out to sea.

Some were the equivalent of Paneloux and thought that France was to blame for the calamity that had befallen it.

He was such a favourite with the latter, that, when Greece was visited by a drought in consequence of a murder which had been committed, the oracle of Delphi declared that the calamity would not cease unless Aeacus prayed to the gods that it might.

Valerian II had apparently died on the Danube, most likely in 258, and Ingenuus may have been responsible – or wrongly held responsible – for that calamity.

In 1894, while serving as torpedo officer on the depot ship, Scott learned of the financial calamity that had overtaken his family.

Pliny indeed mentions a great calamity which the city had sustained, when ( he tells us ) half of it was swallowed up by the sea, probably from an earthquake having caused the fall of part of the hill on which it stands, but we have no clue to the date of this event ; The Itineraries attest the existence of Tyndaris, apparently still as a considerable place, in the fourth century.

Panic logging during the early years of the blight may have unwittingly destroyed trees which had resistance to this disease and thus aggravated the calamity.

In former times, whenever troubles befell Jacob, the matter was pondered and reasons sought -- which sin had brought the troubles about -- so that we could make amends and return to the Lord, may He be blessed ... But in our generation one need not look far for the sin responsible for our calamity ....

At last, after the great calamity which had reduced the island to misery, somehow or other the poverty-stricken inhabitants began little by little to address themselves again to the culture of the soil, to some small commerce with strangers, and to those few arts which still survived in the he towns.

This terrible calamity would in all human probability have been prevented had the excursion train been fitted with an automatic continuous brake instead of ( as it was ) with only a non-automatic continuous brake.

However, more explicit usage of the technique can be used in episodic fiction, should the results of episodes cause irreparable harm to the continuity ( such as massive destruction, death, imprisonment, or other calamity ); examples of an episodic series that uses the reset button technique after almost every episode are the American series SpongeBob SquarePants and South Park, which features frequent major events that would otherwise alter the nature of the series if they were to be allowed to stand, only to have said events effectively erased in the next episode as if they had never happened.

So hardly was Nicias believed to have suffered the calamity which he had often predicted.

Unlike in 1902, in 1908 there was no way to hide the calamity from Ivy, emotionally vulnerable from giving birth to the couple's third child Patricia Marion Caldecott Wallace, and soon they had to move to a virtual slum.

He also maintained that the calamity had nothing to do with his life up to that point, or with his upbringing.

As military commander, Lieutenant Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck's first obligation was to his army, over the objections of Governor Heinrich Schnee: the governor regarded war as the worst possible calamity that could befall German East Africa ; it would " undo everything his social and economic reforms had accomplished.

France, which had been experiencing deflation in the years preceding the crash, was spared financial calamity for the moment, as was Britain.

The Buddhists of India were not as fortunate ; although Buddhism had been in decline prior to the Muslim invasions, the destruction of monastic universities in the invasions such as Nalanda and Vikramashila were a calamity from which it never recovered.

The explanation of this difficulty is furnished by Cicero, who tells us that, after the destruction of Himera, those citizens who had survived the calamity of the war established themselves at Thermae, within the confines of the same territory, and not far from their old town.

I desire to be humbled before God for that sad and humbling providence that befell my father's family in the year about ninety-two ; that I, then being in my childhood, should, by such a providence of God, be made an instrument for the accusing of serveral people for grievous crimes, whereby their lives was taken away from them, whom, now I have just grounds and good reason to believe they were innocent persons ; and that it was a great delusion of Satan that deceived me in that sad time, whereby I justly fear I have been instrumental, with others, though ignorantly and unwittingly, to bring upon myself and this land the guilt of innocent blood ; though, what was said or done by me against any person, I can truly and uprightly say, before God and man, I did it not out of any anger, malice, or ill will to any person, for I had no such thing against one of them ; but what I did was ignorantly, being deluded by Satan .< p > And particularly, as I was a chief instrument of accusing Goodwife Nurse and her two sisters, I desire to lie in the dust, and to be humble for it, in that I was a cause, with others, of so sad a calamity to them and their families ; for which cause I desire to lie in the dust, and earnestly beg forgiveness of God, and from all those unto whom I have given just cause of sorrow and offense, whose relations were taken away or accused.

The King thought it would be “ a national calamity ” if Robertson was removed but when told of this Lloyd George told Stamfordham that “ he did not share the King ’ s extremely favourable opinion ” of Robertson “ who had never fought at the Front, had hardly ever visited the trenches, and who was not known by the rank and file ” and that the government would resign if the King attempted to block Robertson ’ s removal.

In Maori tradition a pā would also be abandoned if a chief was killed or if some calamity took place that a tohunga ( witch doctor / shaman ) had attributed to an evil spirit ( atua ).

Furthermore, on 30 March 1999 he claimed that the wars ' course had vindicated his original stance on " Nato's ill-thought-out policy, based on emotion and simplistic moralising ... In particular, it has plunged the Kosovans, the objects of Nato's solicitude, into their present calamity ".

And hitherto most of us had been able to control our sorrow ; but now when we saw him drinking, and saw too that he had finished the draught, we could no longer forbear, and in spite of myself my own tears were flowing fast ; so that I covered my face and wept, not for him, but at the thought of my own calamity in having to part from such a friend.