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

Nor could they stop and find out about all that had happened until they made circle, tended the cattle, tethered the horses, gathered fuel, carried water, and started their cooking fires.

No sooner had I started drinking than the driver started zigzagging the truck.

I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

She had hated the whole idea before they started.

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.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

Up to now, Gorton had been looking for trouble, and now that he was trying to get away from it, trouble started looking for him.

He started down the steps to meet the near-blind preacher, who had been one of the early Gospelers in Paris.

When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

The men in the boats had started yelling happily at first sight of the officer, two of them calling him Billy.

In her sophomore year she had started going steady with Bobby Joe, who was a football player, Future Homemakers sweetheart, and president of Future Farmers.

`` You look like that picture I have at the office '', Mr. Jack had started.

On Feb. 12, 1959, purified corticotropin ( ACTH Gel ), 20 units daily intramuscularly, was started but had to be discontinued 3 weeks later because of excessive fluid retention.

The man who now commanded her had started the voyage as an ordinary seaman.

Kearton and Ulyate had started the day together while Jones followed the dogs, and Means and Loveless had taken another route, and now, with the discovery of the fresh trail still unknown to him, Ulyate reined in, in the shadow of the Reef and pointed.

Even though we had walked miles in Kyoto that day, we started out again to see Nara at night.

I started to say something else appropriate, but the man had hung up.

He had started to back into the turn when he remembered the razor in his pocket.

Since Mrs. Calhoun remembered only that the marriage had been in the spring, he started to plod through several months.

He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.

He told himself he had never seen two people eat so much.

Start out fresh, the two of us, like nothin had ever happened ''.

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.

His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.

And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.

He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

) Rumor had it he slipped two small rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademark.

He stepped inside Jess's guard and landed two blows to the big man's belly, putting everything he had behind them.

Greg had the stick forward and the throttle up before he heard the two `` Rogers ''.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

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.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

But before this came about, 214,938 Americans had given their lives in battle for the two concepts of the sovereign rights of men and of states.