In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

He took the reins just below the bit and held them firmly, and it was his turn to smile now.

Hez looked up at the high face of Emigrant Rock, official signboard for the Raft River turnoff, and gloated, `` Seems funny that them Burnsides never took time to leave their John-Henry up thar ''.

These chatty merchants made amusing and instructive traveling companions, for their business took them to all four corners of the globe, and Florentine gossip had already reached a high stage of development as even a cursory glance at the Inferno will prove.

For instance, so-called `` conservative '' organizations, some of them secret, are sprouting in the garden of joining where `` liberal '' organizations once took root.

it took them over an hour to get back to the station where they should have changed, in order to take the line that went to the Place Redoute.

The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.

) The plants took zero nights in their stride, with nothing but a mat of straw over the glass to protect them.

His father, a professional engraver and an amateur landscape painter, took his sons on numerous hunting expeditions, and imparted to them his knowledge and love of nature.

At the end of work one day, the personnel man took the applicants one at a time, asked them to sit behind the receptionist's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes.

She took refuge on a tongue of land extending into a gully, crouched at the base of a thorn tree, and waited for them to come up.

You used to paint in them, and then you just took them for rags.

Meanwhile, fishermen took advantage of them to pull up whoppers.

He made his fortune during World War 2, when he took over a number of dying steel plants and kept them alive until the boom.

Last fall, after they took their hopes for entering Georgia to court, Judge Bootle ordered them to apply again.

Yet there were other motivations and actions which the Belgians took after independence for which history may not find them guiltless.

And he took repeated care to let his colleagues know that he intended them: `` Even the Unitarian churches have caught the malaria, and are worse than those who deceived them '' -- which implied that they were very bad indeed.

Hope wouldn't hear of it, and she took the heater back to Grandma's room, and Grandma took it back to Hope's room, and the two of them dragged it back and forth until Grandma tipped it over and almost set her bedspread on fire.

The next morning, while Dolores was out of the room, he went to her bureau drawer, took out a pair of nylon lace pants, and tenderly dropped them next to his shorts.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

The infant Hermes stole a number of his cows and took them to a cave in the woods near Pylos, covering their tracks.

This thoughtful gesture was well received by the Juniors as the Class had an entry of 46 Juniors and it took approximately one hour, 45 minutes to judge the Class.

It took him nearly an hour.

They took their chief meal in a common refectory or dining hall at 3 P. M., up to which hour they usually fasted.

They did not dawdle at the hour of decision but attacked quickly, using a massive series of short, rapid, vicious charges against the length of the whole Roman line, with charging units sometimes withdrawing to the forest to regroup while others took their place.

Of its four stanzas, Housman tells us that two were ' given ' him ready made ; one was coaxed forth from his subconsciousness an hour or two later ; the remaining one took months of conscious composition.

The fuel was a considerable operational problem, because fuelling the missile before launch took nearly half an hour, and was quite hazardous.

This took so much time that the monks began to spread it over a week, dividing each day into hours, and allotting to each hour its portion of the Psalter.

It is originally based on his earlier game Elfenroads ( published by White Wind ), but since Elfenroads took about four hours for a game, the play was simplified to reduce the time closer to an hour, making it appeal more as a family game.

Since the lifts were not yet in operation, the ascent was made by foot, and took over an hour, Eiffel frequently stopping to make explanations of various features.

The gold jewelry was worth about $ 300, 000 at the time and took him about an hour to put on.

On May 5, Hazmi and Mihdhar took a lesson for one hour, and additional lessons on May 10 at the Sorbi Flying Club, with Hazmi flying an aircraft for 30 minutes.

To Humphries, Milligan's " best performance must surely have been as Ben Gunn ... Milligan stole the show every night in a makeup which took at least an hour to apply.

' The Age of Reason struggle almost tolled the hour when the words ' plain ,' ' coarse ,' ' common ,' and ' vulgar ' took on a pejorative meaning.

Williams ' Red Sox teammate, Johnny Pesky, who went into the same aviation training program, said this about Williams: " He mastered intricate problems in fifteen minutes which took the average cadet an hour, and half of the other cadets there were college grads.

This " theatre of an hour " had great success and zarzuela composers took to the new formula with alacrity.

His salary was thirty thousand dollars for work which took " about an hour and a half ," amazing Howard and his staff.

Rickover took his first paid job at nine years of age, earning three cents an hour for holding a light as his neighbor operated a machine.

He took some hasty measurements of its position and direction of motion, and using an old clock and a pendulum with which he took his patients ’ pulses, he estimated the duration of the transit at 1 hour, 17 minutes and 9 seconds.

The Council — his uncle William Knollys included — took a quarter of an hour to compile a report, which declared that his truce with O ' Neill was indefensible and his flight from Ireland tantamount to a desertion of duty.

It took an hour for the sounds of death to stop, and even longer for the Japanese to bayonet each individual.

It commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at 11: 00 a. m. in the morning — the " eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

Both had flats that took an hour to repair but enjoyed an advantage over riders on solid tires.