It could be some kind of trick Budd had thought up.

Already some of the pain had gone from Amelia's death.

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

She had to move in some direction -- any direction that would take her away from this evil place.

He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

In those days poems often told a story in verse and those boys had some corkers to tell ; ;

The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.

Besides, terror had sapped some of Frayne's vitality and will.

The fear had not entirely gone from her face, but there were some other emotions now, crowding into her eyes and the lines of her mouth.

I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

Then suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of another fight, an irrational, an indecent, an undeclared and immoral war with our strongest ( and some had thought noblest ) ally.

He opens his discourse, however, with a review of the Eisenhower inaugural festivities at which a sympathetic press had assembled its massive talents, all primed to catch some revelation of the emerging new age.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

During the 1920's the Abstractionists, the German Bauhaus group of industrial designers, and the new architects all had the dream of some well ordered utopia, or welfare state, in which their neat and logical constructions might find their proper place.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

Victor Berger, the panjandrum of Wisconsin Socialism and member of Congress, had asked Paula Steichen to translate some of his German editorials into English.

I had known him for some years, when I was a delegate and before, and this manner had never been his ''.

In the same way he coupled Molesworth and Wharton in a letter to Archbishop King, and he had earlier described him as `` the worst of them '' in some `` Observations '' on the Irish Privy Council submitted to Oxford.

She also came from stage acting and had a girlish / whimsical charm to which audiences responded.

He believed he had been making a " much more whimsical ... kaleidoscopic " film than what came together in the edit suite.

The foremost dancer is ornamented all over with down feathers, which gives him a monkey-like appearance ; the hindermost has had the whimsical idea of painting his body to imitate the uniform of a Spanish soldier, with his boots, stockings, breeches, and upper garments.

In France, the myth was the subject of a play by Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon 38 ( 1929 ), the number in the title being Giraudoux's whimsical approximation of how many times the story had been told onstage previously.

Done in the style of the Marvel Family books and similarly whimsical ( this Captain had a large T on his shirt instead of a lightning bolt ), the ads appeared in comic books ( published by both Fawcett and its rivals ) and in Sunday comic strip sections of newspapers.

It marked the first time that Bailey had been able to tie together his music and post-modern gags with the whimsical rambling style he is now known for.

Despite his aloofness, Fonzie had more whimsical traits, such as a devotion to the Lone Ranger, whom he excitedly meets in an episode.

Johnson had a series of whimsical flyers advertising his design services printed via offset lithography, and began mailing these out.

Connolly's contributions were primarily straightforward pop-folk with quirky and whimsical lyrics, but he had not especially focused on comedy at this point.

Some of his songs had unconventional subject matter, with whimsical imagery bordering on the surreal.

After negotiations failed, the role was played by Minnie Dupree, who like Adams had been a girlish whimsical type of actress.

Tinker and Masius had brought a whimsical, soapy tone to the series which they were known for on St.

Meilhac had a ready imagination, a rich and whimsical fancy ; Halévy had taste, refinement and pathos of a certain kind.

The decision to call it a guild was partly inspired by the notion that medieval guilds had encouraged professionalism along with mutual aid, as well as by a whimsical desire to create the acronym GOONS, evoking a popular British radio humorous show, The Goon Show, and making a self-mocking comment on the quixotic nature of one-name studies.

I had a sense that one side or the other must be mad, for it seemed to me that these books were dull, ill-written, whimsical and childish.

Sadeq Khalkhali, who would come to be known as the ' Hanging Judge ' for his whimsical approach to revolutionary justice, would head the tribunal that had assembled to try the former Prime Minister.

Dorson complained that popularizers had sentimentalized folklore, stereotyping the people who created it as quaint and whimsical — whereas the real thing was often " repetitive, clumsy, meaningless and obscene ".

This led to criticism that his attitude had been " cavalier " and " whimsical ", and that his remarks had raised doubts about the Young PAP's credibility.

Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing had " a slight physique " and " a certain whimsical humour ".

The work of Paul Abadie is no longer much appreciated by academics as he was fanciful, destroyed much Romanesque heritage, and had no compunction about adding whimsical sculptures of his own manufacture on capitals and corbels.