When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

He scrubbed absent-mindedly at the pans and reflected on how things had turned out.

For Tom Horn, it turned out, had a number of rancher and cowboy witnesses ready and willing to swear with straight faces that he had been in Bates Hole the day of the killing.

The arrangement turned out to be excellent.

It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.

A time before the white lightning and the bumming had turned him inside out.

As things turned out, however, we have not profited greatly from the lesson: instead of persistently following a national program of our own we have often been satisfied to be against whatever Soviet policy seemed to be at the moment.

But every time I suggested this to her, Mrs. Wright turned it down and demanded that I go out and punish Mr. Wright.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

It usually turned out well for him because either he liked the right people or there were only a few wrong people in the town.

We lived for a while in a movie melodrama with a German cook and her son who turned out to be Nazis.

Though it was a great relief when the big brains on these shows turned out to be frauds and phonies, it did irreparable damage to the ego of the editor and many another intelligent, well-informed American.

As it has turned out, however, the excessive enthusiasm in the first instance and the loss of hope in the second were both wrong responses.

In their search for what turned out to be the right breakfast china but the wrong table silver, they opened every cupboard door in the kitchen and pantry.

He looked out through windowpanes turned a faint violet by sun and weather, looked out at King's Bridge toward Westchester.

That evening turned out to be hell like all the others.

As it turned out, Jessica took matters into her own hands.

We blushed and were flustered, and it turned out to be the fleetest brush of lips upon cheek.

It turned out to be a life of Martin Luther, of all things!!

Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.

As it turned out, a very hot region occurred on the plug.

However, he turned out to be a complete failure in his new position.

could piece, as it were, the jumbled mass together into an organized whole and then recognize it as a man or a triangle or whatever it turned out to be.

For it had turned out, by a further paradox of Cubism, that the means to an illusion of depth and plasticity had now become widely divergent from the means of representation or imaging.

`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.

Ahead of him Gavin turned slightly off the trail and pointed for the Gap, no more than a mile away.

No sooner were they through and the guards posted, than the whole camp turned in for a night of sound sleep.

Avant-garde choreographers, seeking new forms of continuity for their new vocabulary of movements, have turned to similar approaches.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

In 1927 his father's business collapsed, and, rather than go bankrupt, Mercer senior turned his firm over to a bank for liquidation.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

An open field was better than a building, that was for sure, so he dismounted, turned off the horse, and plunged through the grass.

We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.

He found the pilot light and turned on one of the burners for her.

Without exception Hino's brothers turned to either one or both of their father's occupations, but Hino showed a talent for neither and instead spent most of his time on the beach where he repaired nets and proved immensely popular as a storyteller.

Watson turned away, sickened for the first time in many months.

In the military field, incoming orders turned down early in the year, and remained rather slow until late fall when the upturn in procurement of equipment began to make itself felt in rising orders for components.

They are struggling to meet the demand for camping space, but families are being turned away, especially on holiday weekends.

Shot near the heart, he turned to one side and plunged for a door to another room several feet away, three bullets following him.

Then he turned the telephone over to Rourke, and went into the bedroom to change his slippers for dry socks and shoes.

By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.

When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.

A refuse bin at the Dumont turned up a florist's box -- a very long box for very long-stemmed flowers.

He turned his head to the source of the disturbance and instantly back to the window and his rifle sight, dismissing Hoag for the moment with the same contempt he had shown in their encounter at Hoag's apartment.

Then, as he turned toward the telephone, it rang shrilly to shatter the stillness in the room and he reached for it eagerly.

Both turned in top jobs for the second straight game.