He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.

Everything about the clerk was trivial.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.

Against all expectation, Carmer was inside, clearly enjoying himself to the hilt and already so tipsy that it seemed unlikely he was bothering to note anything or anyone about him.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

He was about to make a gas check on his flight when Todman's voice broke in: `` Sweeneys!!

Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.

That was the new advertising angle -- something about a Lloyd's of London policy to insure the secrecy of the secret ingredient.

There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.

Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.

It was nice then, so peaceful and quiet.

He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.

First it was the Nations against themselves, then it was them against the whites.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.

He looked around in surprise, then noticed that Fred Powell was clutching his chest.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

The finished -- and drastically cut -- product would begin with a hazy longshot of Joyce entering the suds, then bursting above the pool's surface clad in layers of lavender lather, and I had a hunch this item was going to sell tons and tons of soap ; ;

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

Then the darkness thinned, and there was light again, and then bright sunlight.

I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.

It was only then that he turned to look at Penny.

The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the " Alexandrian Canon " compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC.

Yet Aristophanes borrowed rather than just satirized some of the tragedian's methods ; he was once ridiculed by a colleague, Cratinus, as " a hair-splitting master of niceties, a Euripidaristophanist ".

According to Aristophanes, the alleged co-author was a celebrated actor, Cephisophon, who also shared the tragedian's house and his wife, while Socrates taught an entire school of quibblers like Euripides:

Aristophanes, in Plato's Symposium, mentions women who love women, but uses the term trepesthai ( to be focused on ) instead of eros, which was applied to other erotic relationships between men, and between men and women.

Cleon was a major political figure of the time and through the actions of the characters about which he writes Aristophanes is able to freely criticize the actions of this prominent politician in public and through his comedy.

He was aware of and commented on Greek satire, but at the time did not label it as such, although today the origin of satire is considered to be Aristophanes ' Old Comedy.

" The word xylon " piece of wood " was also used, but for a gallows, not a stake, as in the Aristophanes comedy The Frogs ; " if you stumble, at least you'll hang from a respectable tree.

The system was further refined by his student Aristophanes of Byzantium, who first introduced the asterisk and used a symbol resembling a ⊤ for an obelus ; and finally by Aristophanes ' student, in turn, Aristarchus, from whom they earned the name of ' Aristarchian symbols '.

The Acheron was sometimes referred to as a lake or swamp in Greek literature, as in Aristophanes ' The Frogs and Euripides ' Alcestis.

8 ), there was a bearded statue of a male Aphrodite, called Aphroditos by Aristophanes.

This agrees with the statement of the scholiast on Aristophanes, that at Melite there was a statue of Heracles (), the work of Ageladas the Argive, which was set up during the great pestilence ( Olympiad lxxxvii.

The most probable solution of the difficulty is that of Friedrich Thiersch, who thinks that there were two artists of this name ; one an Argive, the instructor of Phidias, born about 540 BC, the other a native of Sicyon, who flourished at the date assigned by Pliny and was confounded by the scholiast on Aristophanes with his more illustrious namesake of Argos.

Penia was also mentioned by other ancient Greek writers such as Alcaeus ( Fragment 364 ), Theognis ( Fragment 1 ; 267, 351, 649 ), Aristophanes ( Plutus, 414ff ), Herodotus, Plutarch ( Life of Themistocles ), and Philostratus ( Life of Appollonius ).

In an early account, Sophocles wrote that Tereus was turned into a big-beaked bird whom some say is a hawk while a number of retellings and other works ( including Aristophanes ' ancient comedy, The Birds ) hold that Tereus was instead changed into a hoopoe.

Aristophanes, in The Frogs, pokes fun at Theramenes ' ability to extricate himself from tight spots, but delivers none of the scathing rebukes one would expect for a politician whose role in the shocking events after Arginusae had been regarded as particularly blameworthy, and modern scholars have seen in this a more accurate depiction of how Theramenes was perceived in his time ; Lysias, meanwhile, who mercilessly attacks Theramenes on many counts, has nothing negative to say about the aftermath of Arginusae.

He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the " Alexandrian Canon " compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BCE.

Cleon, the populist leader of the pro-war faction in Athens, was a target in all Aristophanes ' early plays and his attempts to prosecute Aristophanes for slander in 426 had merely added fuel to the fire.

The scientific speculations of Ionian thinkers such as Thales in the sixth century were becoming commonplace knowledge in Aristophanes ' time and this had led, for instance, to a growing belief that civilized society was not a gift from the gods but rather had developed gradually from primitive man's animal-like existence.

Anaxagoras, whose works were studied by Socrates, was living in Athens when Aristophanes was a youth.