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was and after
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.
My wife died in childbirth after I was sent away.
It was not, thought Pamela, such an evil place after all.
Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??
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.
Prosecutor Baird immediately assumed he was hiding out there after the shooting and began preparing an indictment.
One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.
Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.
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.
But `` after the war '' was a luxury of a phrase he did not permit himself.
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
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.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
He was possessive in his manner and, though a slave, obviously was educated after a fashion and imitated the manners of his owners.
Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.
He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.
Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.
He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.
In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).

was and veteran
Robbie was a war veteran with battle-shattered knees.
It was the opinion of some of us that these must be part of the Committeemen who had been in the Battle of the North Bridge, which entitled them to a sort of veteran status, and we felt that if they employed this tactic, it was likely enough the best one.
The injured German veteran was a former miner, twenty-four years old, who had been wounded by shrapnel in the back of the head.
William Hitchcock, who retired in 1938, was a veteran of thirty-four years' local service.
Another veteran telephone operator was Edith Fleming Blackmer, who had been in the office forty years at the time of her death in 1960.
There was Sounder, too, also a veteran of the North Rim, and Rastus and the Rake from a pack of English fox-hounds, and a collie from a London pound, and Simba, a terrier.
He was born in Pittsboro, Miss., and was a veteran of World War 1.
To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.
" Despite Gropius's protestations that as a war veteran and a patriot his work had no subversive political intent, the Berlin Bauhaus was pressured to close in April 1933.
Charlton's next England game was his 75th as England beat Northern Ireland ; 2 caps later and he had become England's second most-capped player, behind the veteran Billy Wright, who was approaching his 100th appearance when Charlton was starting out and ended with 105 caps.
Edward was a veteran of the battle of Crécy, at which he had fought when he was only sixteen years old.
It was the first in a run of four straight wins for the Australian veteran.
" Monitor Reports " was anchored in its first season by newspaper veteran Rob Nelson.
The program was anchored by veteran journalist John Hart.
Reliever Tim Stoddard ( 10 – 6 3. 82, 7 saves ) was acquired the same day for a minor leaguer ; veteran pitcher Ferguson Jenkins was released.
Under previous general manager Gebhard, the Rockies had largely neglected their farm system and mostly relied on signing veteran free agents from other clubs ; this was possible due to the high attendance numbers in the club's first few years of attendance.
Phyllis Pearce ( Jill Summers ) was hailed as the new Ena Sharples in 1982, the Duckworths moved into No. 9 in 1983 and slipped into the role once held by the Ogdens, while Percy Sugden ( Bill Waddington ) appeared in 1983 and took over the grumpy war veteran role from Albert Tatlock.
Li's first choice of premier was Chu Cheng, a veteran member of the Kuomintang who had been virtually driven into exile due to his strong opposition to Chiang.

was and TV
One of the roughest was the TV quiz shows, which gave him inferiority complexes.
It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times.
In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.
The Denver-area TV audience was privileged to see Mays' four home runs, thanks to a new arrangement made by Bob Howsam that the games are not to be blacked out when his Bears are playing at home.
American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.
Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( IBGE ), told the Brazilian TV network Globo in June 2007 that it could be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.
* Donald Malarkey, World War II U. S. Army soldier of the 101st Airborne Division was portrayed in the TV series Band of Brothers.
The day's next task was to deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ( ALSEP ); while they were parking the lunar rover, on which the TV camera was mounted, to observe the deployment, the rear steering began functioning without explanation.
On the good side, the TV income was increased from € 75, 150, 744 to € 78, 041, 642 as well as gate income increased, from € 23, 821, 218 to € 31, 017, 179.
The 5200 also featured the innovation of the first automatic TV switchbox, allowing it to automatically switch from regular TV viewing to the game system signal when the system was activated.
Blue Lightning, a game with After Burner-like graphics, was especially notable and featured in TV advertising for the console.
The turmoil that Americans were watching on their TV sets was happening live — right in his own neighborhood.
Along with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter, Druyan was one of the three writers of the TV series COSMOS and a producer for the motion picture CONTACT.
A ' live ' version for American TV was transmitted in 1959 which was directed by George Schaefer.
Traci Lords was among the actresses auditioning for the film, saying in 2001, " I didn't get the part but I clicked with Bruce ," with whom she would later work as a guest star in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
In 1997, the episode " Hedda Hopper's Hollywood " was ranked # 62 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
Later it was revealed by both prosecutors and the defendant as well, that Settle did not have cable TV and did not watch the show.
The third license was obtained by BVI Cable TV, a local cable television service.
The license in favour of BVI Cable was controversial, as the Regulator had announced in advance that only three licenses in total would be issued, and BVI Cable TV had crumbling cable television infrastructure, and was in no position to office cellular telephone services ( and to date, has not offered any cellular telephone services, or anything other than simple cable television ).

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