Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

Johnson was trying to grab the wheel, though the swerve of the truck was throwing him away from it.

They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.

He was possessive in his manner and, though a slave, obviously was educated after a fashion and imitated the manners of his owners.

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

It was a difficult and ambiguous kind of negotiation, even though the rancher was said to be expert in his knowledge of the aborigines and their language.

The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.

He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

Paula says that even though Carl's letters usually began, `` Dear Miss Steichen '', there was an understanding from the beginning that they would become husband and wife.

A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

Finally, Mama did mention to Mrs. Coolidge that she felt sorry for the little dogs, and then Mrs. Coolidge decided to leave the radio on for them while she was gone, even though her husband disapproved of the waste of electricity.

I wouldn't hear of it because it meant giving up the `` line '', though I realized I was in poor shape physically.

The kid showed for an instant, and his arm was cocked back.

A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.

For an instant John was stunned.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.

in an instant the doctor was stalking across the room with an antique ledger in his hands, thoroughly eared and big as a table top.

For an instant his men hesitated, unable to believe that their lieutenant, the most popular officer in the regiment, was dead.

The room was bathed in light at the instant Muller's second shot came.

All this went through Casey's mind in the first instant, but what held his interest was the fact that these two should be together at all.

There were several missions which demanded instant attention but Helva had been of interest to several department heads in Central for some time and each man was determined to have her assigned to his section.

Both the BIH scale and A. 1 was defined by an epoch at the beginning of 1958: it was set to read Julian Date 2436204. 5 ( 1 January 1958 00: 00: 00 ) at the corresponding UT2 instant.

Bovril's instant beef stock was launched in 1966 and its " King of Beef " range of instant flavours for stews, casseroles and gravy in 1971.

It was released on 6 January 1921 to instant success, and by 1924 had been screened in over 50 countries.

The 120-page book, first published in the United States and then in Britain, was illustrated by Osbert Lancaster and became an instant best seller.

Commercially it was an instant success, and initially received favourable reviews.

An instant rivalry was born, fueled initially by Paul Brown's rivalry with Art Modell.

It was during the Red Terror that the Cheka, hoping to avoid the bloody aftermath of having half-dead victims writhing on the floor, developed a technique for execution known later by the German words " Nackenschuss " or " Genickschuss ", a shot to the nape of the neck, which caused minimal blood loss and instant death.

The Bacardi rum and Coke was an instant hit.

The first UN troops arrived the next day but there was instant disagreement between Lumumba and the UN over the new force's mandate.

The show, which he called Make Believe Ballroom, was an instant hit.

First published as a serial by the Pennsylvania Packet, the book was an instant best-seller ; it is still available today.

This new sauce was an instant success, and was gratefully named in honor of its creators.