Mike tested the leg and found that he was able to hobble around on it.

She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

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

Sweeping a look around, he saw that he was safe for the moment.

The metal strip they had taken off from was coal black against the green jungle around it.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

But it was only Johnson reaching around the wire chicken fencing, which half covered the truck cab's glassless rear window.

She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

The girl took a couple of steps toward the man in shorts when Benson, in that barefoot courtliness Ramey could never decide was real, said, `` You don't want to go around there, Ma'am ''.

I've helped him along ever since he was a youngster hanging around his brother's tackle shop.

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.

She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.

William Gilmore Simms, sturdy realist that he was, pleaded for a natural robustness such as he found in his favorites the great Elizabethans, to vivify the pale writings being produced around him.

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.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

But Mercer's explanation was simple: `` I made out the check and carried it around a few days unsigned -- in case I lost it ''.

She reached and reached around the dress, but there was nothing there.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

On January 26, 2000, van Vogt died in Los Angeles, USA from Alzheimer's disease, and was survived by his second wife, the former Lydia Bereginsky.

For example, the creation of argon fluorohydride ( HArF ), a marginally stable compound of argon with fluorine and hydrogen, was reported by researchers at the University of Helsinki in 2000.

The national currency, the Azerbaijani manat, was stable in 2000, depreciating 3. 8 % against the dollar.

Public demonstrations usually take place without government interference, though one rally in November 2000 by an opposition party was followed by the arrest and imprisonment for a month of its organizer.

It was proclaimed in 2000.

The eradication of extreme poverty and hunger was the first Millennium Development Goal, as set by 179 United Nations Member States in 2000.

It was rebuilt again by 1783 and this is the building that can be seen today, unchanged except for renovations done to it in 2000.

The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen was awarded in the year 2000 to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his special personal contribution to cooperation with the states of Europe, for the preservation of peace, freedom, democracy and human rights in Europe, and for his support of the enlargement of the European Union.

In 1966 the number of " pure " Ainu was about 300 ( Honna, Tajima, and Minamoto, 2000 ).

It was a four-time winner of the Charles Roberts / Origins Award, winning " Best Amateur Adventure Gaming Magazine " in 1984, " Best Amateur Game Magazine " in 1999, and " Best Amateur Game Periodical " in 2000 and 2001.

* When 2000 was approaching, at least three large Swedish magazines ranked penicillin as the most important discovery of the millennium.

The following year the Amiga product line was expanded with the introduction of two new models: the Amiga 2000 for high-end graphics and business use, and the Amiga 500 for home use.

The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it.

On January 23, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coach and former linebackers coach for the 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Mike Smith was named the Falcons ' new head coach.

During the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit in Kuala Lumpur, American authorities claim that immigration records show that a person named Abdulaziz al-Omari was visiting the country, although they say they are not sure that this was the same person.

From 1994 until 2007, Aston Martin was part of the Ford Motor Company, becoming part of the company's Premier Automotive Group in 2000.

After the November 2000 G8 protest in Montreal, at which many protesters were beaten, trampled, and arrested in what was intended to be a festive protest, the tactic of dividing protests into " green " ( permitted ), " yellow " ( not officially permitted but with little confrontation and low risk of arrest ), and " red " ( involving direct confrontation ) zones was introduced.

This was accompanied by reduction of poverty from 28 percent in 1978 to 9 percent in 1998 in China, and from 51 percent in 1978 to 26 percent in 2000 in India.

In 2000, a French court ruled that a government minister's description of anthroposophy as a cult was defamatory.

The album was certified Gold in 2000.

The first president of ARIN was Kim Hubbard, from 1997 until 2000.