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

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.

And, for the sake of Julia and Susan, it had to be tried.

He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

She had the feeling that, under the mouldering leaves, there would be the bodies of dead animals, quietly decaying and giving their soil back to the mountain.

He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.

A wildcatter had to be prepared for almost any emergency.

He, McBride, would be cited as in the wrong, and he, Lord, would go scot-free, an officer who had only done his duty, though perhaps too energetically.

Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.

For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

Curt's visit to the livery stable had been merely a precaution in case anyone should be watching.

Her impact in the zing commercials had led to her being considered for an excellent part in an upcoming TV series, Underwater Western Eye, a documentary-type show to be sponsored by Oatnut Grits.

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

I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.

`` But knowing you, I know that you're glad to be alive, and grateful -- and sorry because I killed the snake, even though I had to.

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.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

Unfortunately, it was Muzak, which automatically is piped into the public rooms, and which nolens volens had to be endured.

Others mentioned that I might have had to ask friends or even strangers for help and that to be stranded in a foreign country without sufficient funds did not contribute to international understanding.

Men, trees, automobiles, houses, and so on -- objects continually confronted in everyday life -- had each its characteristic blot-appearance and became easily recognizable, at the very beginning of tracing, by an inference as to what each was.

Freestyle had a recognizable following in California, particularly in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and San Diego.

Yet the most important aspect of the 1970 uniform change was the adoption of one of the more distinctive logos in sports ; a Phillies " P " that, thanks to its unique shape and " baseball stitched " center swirl, remained instantly recognizable and admired, long after its regular use had ended.

The film's plot, setting, and style echoes that of the Hammer Horror films, which had their own instantly recognizable style ( just as Universal Studios ' horror films did ), and is reminiscent of the Hammer production of The Revenge of Frankenstein starring Peter Cushing.

Although by 22, 500 years in the future, there had been much racial intermarriage and most people were multiracial, according to Asimov, in the Galactic Empire as a whole as well as on Trantor itself, there were still some recognizable populations primarily descended from the original races on Earth.

A similar reference had already been established in the German versions of Magica comics, where her raven is called " Nimmermehr " (" Nevermore "), referring to the most recognizable keyword from Poe's poem.

The article explained that over 40 symbols were drawn up by Dow artists, and all of the symbols investigated had to meet a number of criteria: "( i ) striking in form in order to draw immediate attention ; ( ii ) unique and unambiguous, in order not to be confused with symbols used for other purposes ; ( iii ) quickly recognizable and easily recalled ; ( iv ) easily stenciled ; ( v ) symmetrical, in order to appear identical from all angles of approach ; and ( vi ) acceptable to groups of varying ethnic backgrounds.

In the second edition of his book, Improvisation ..., Bailey indicated that he felt that free improvisation was no longer " non-idiomatic " in his sense of the word, as it had become a recognizable genre and musical style itself.

In the early 20th century, Henderson's city had very recognizable neighborhoods, or unincorporated places, within the city and the outlying edges of town.

If Middletown ever had a recognizable town center or town square, it was lost in that rapid growth soon after World War II.

" However, since the universe was not characterized by a lack of evolution, distinguishing features or recognizable direction of time, they postulated that there had to be large-scale motions in the universe.

It was determined that Ford's strategy to redesignate new cars in the lineup with new names beginning with the letter F, as in Ford Focus, Ford Fusion, and Ford Freestyle, was not a good marketing move, as some of the renamed cars had highly recognizable iconic names.

It was organic, and his pen strokes had a dynamic, thick-and-thin range that is instantly recognizable and difficult to immitate.

Modern consumer privacy law in a recognizable form originated in telecom regulation, when it was recognized that a telco, especially a monopoly ( known in most nations as a PTT ), had access to unprecedented levels of information about not only the direct customer's communications habits and correspondents, but also that of those who shared his or her household.

It makes their anonymous identity more powerful than if they had recognizable identities, because they now represent the sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands of men who fought and died for the same reason.

The anthropologist H. Sidky noted that ergotism had existed for centuries before the Salem witch trials, and argued that its symptoms would have been recognizable during the time of the Salem witch trials.

While Pratt's laugh track had its share of recognizable chuckles as well, the chuckles are considerably quieter, and much more subtle, compared to Douglass ', which had become so familiar and ubiquitous that they sounded artificial.

A recent clinical trial of gamma globulin in chronic fatigue syndrome patients had no recognizable benefit, while an older trial showed improvement.

The Q45 had retreated considerably from its focused, taut rendition of a sporty executive sedan, having become a barely recognizable, ponderously handling sedan that earned the nickname " The Japanese Lincoln ".

) By affording individual barristers a discretion to wear the forensic wig in court, the new rule defused what had become an increasingly bitter debate in the profession whether it was appropriate to cleave to anachronistic modes of dress-even as a traditional and undoubtedly recognizable uniform-and avoided a more drastic solution, such as the abandonment of wigs or gowns altogether.

The finds offer direct evidence that confirms expectations that major evolutionary diversification of animals already had occurred before the onset of the Cambrian period, with its apparent ' explosion ' of metazoan life-forms and, therefore, that more remote ancestral forms of the phyla recognizable in Cambrian macrofossils must have existed previously.

Then came another blow: Vysotsky's got the role in ( and wrote some songs for ) The Sannikov Land, an adaptation of Vladimir Obruchev's science fiction, then got the boot – only for the reason of his face " being too scandalously recognizable ", as a state official had put it.

Although it had a 4-4-2 wheel configuration, it was otherwise a recognizable copy of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad President Washington Class 4-6-2 locomotive.

By the end of the 1960s, Hamilton's work had a recognizable style.