At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

That was another one of those traps.

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

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

The voice was that of Johnson, tail gunner off another crew.

But the Indian was jabbing another bottle toward Johnson.

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

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

for another, it was here that one of the old caravan routes came in.

There was a divine justice in one wrong thus undoing another.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.

Little enough joy was afforded Wright in the spring of 1925, when another destructive fire broke out at Taliesin.

In a few weeks Miriam made another sortie at Taliesin, but was repulsed at the locked and guarded gates.

Dr. Menas S. Gregory was another.

There was talk of dragging old ex-President Cleveland out of retirement for another try.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

The actual impelling force which severed me from evangelical effort was of another sort.

Although the fort was evacuated in the face of the force of Cornwallis, Morgan and his men did have a chance to take another swing at the redcoats.

In his absence, the rifle regiment was under the command of Major Thomas Posey, another able Virginian.

All day long Mr. Podger, who was a straw-hat man in the summer, had worn the feather in the band of his broad-brimmed sunshield.

Bed slats were washed in alum water, legs of beds were placed in cups of kerosene, and all woodwork was treated liberally with corrosive sublimate, applied with a feather.

In the Hall of Two Truths, the deceased's heart was weighed against the Shu feather of truth and justice taken from the headdress of the goddess Ma ' at.

If the heart was lighter than the feather, they could pass on, but if it were heavier they would be devoured by the demon Ammit.

Deciding the weight of " truth " by weighing the Heart against Ma ' at, who was often depicted as an ostrich feather, Anubis dictated the fate of souls.

The ornament used for the piercing was made out of various materials, a piece of bark or bone, or an eagle ’ s feather shaft.

The consensus of ancient historians was that Claudius was murdered by poison — possibly contained in mushrooms or on a feather — and died in the early hours of 13 October 54.

James Gregory ( 1638 – 1675 ) observed the diffraction patterns caused by a bird feather, which was effectively the first diffraction grating to be discovered.

It was crowned with an enormous feather.

Their heart would finally be weighed with the feather of truth, and if the sins weighed it down their heart was devoured.

“ Dad once said to me that should he pass away, if there was some way of letting me know he was going to be ok-that we were all going to be ok-the message would come to me in the form of a white feather.

In 1915, a 135-pound iron meteorite was found in a Sinagua ( c. 1100 – 1200 AD ) burial cyst near Camp Verde, Arizona, respectfully wrapped in a feather cloth.

Friar Cipolla promises to show certain country-folk a feather of the Angel Gabriel, in lieu of which he finds coals, which he avers to be of those with which Saint Lawrence was roasted.

For illustration, the diffraction of sunlight through a bird's feather was first reported by James Gregory in the later 17th century.

Sherman offered Grant an example from his own life, " Before the battle of Shiloh, I was cast down by a mere newspaper assertion of ' crazy ', but that single battle gave me new life, and I'm now in high feather.

Sometimes an unfolded feather bed mattress was brought for the wagon if there were pregnant women or very young children along.

Due to the enormous labour involved in sewing each ostrich feather to the dress, Astaire — who normally approved his partner's gowns and suggested modifications if necessary during rehearsals — saw the dress for the first time on the day of the shoot, and was horrified at the way it shed clouds of feathers at every twist and turn, recalling later: " It was like a chicken attacked by a coyote, I never saw so many feathers in my life.

In the underworld, Duat, he appeared as an ape, A ' an, the god of equilibrium, who reported when the scales weighing the deceased's heart against the feather, representing the principle of Ma ' at, was exactly even.

Some lie in state with the royals at the Royal Mausoleum at Mauna Ala. Feather cloak and wear are among the oldest of Hawaiian regalias: Nāhiʻenaʻena's Paū, the 180 feather skirt of Nāhiʻenaʻena and later the funeral attire for the dead monarch while lying in state ; Kamehameha's Cloak, the war-cloak of Kamehameha I made entirely of the golden-yellow feathers of the now-extinct mamo, which was used to drape the throne of the King when it wasn't being worn ; Kiwalao's Cloak, aka the Queen's Cloak, the cloak won by Kamehameha during his battle with Kiwalao, and used to drape the throne of the Queen ; and Liloa's Kaei, the feather belt of Liloa, the 14th century King of Hawaii.

According to Donald Spoto in Madcap: The Life of Preston Sturges, Sturges " invariably paraded on set with a colorful beret or a felt cap with a feather protruding, a white cashmere scarf blowing gaily round his neck and a print shirt in loud hues ... the reason for the peculiar outfits, he told visitors, was that they facilitated crew members finding him amid the crowds of actors, technicians, and the public.

After the general layout of the page was planned ( e. g., initial capital, borders ), the page was lightly ruled with a pointed stick, and the scribe went to work with ink-pot and either sharpened quill feather or reed pen.