He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

Dawn would come soon and the night was at its coldest.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

Then he was on his way at a gallop.

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.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

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

I was nearly thirty at the time.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.

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.

Because his leave was coming to an end very soon, they married quickly on 16 August at St Jude's Church, Kensington, and then honeymooned in Ryde on the Isle of Wight, before heading via France to Malaya.

After much debate a future campus location was selected in what was then a semi-rural part of North Ryde, and it was decided that the future university be named after Lachlan Macquarie, an important early governor of the colony of New South Wales.

The central section of the park, between De Burghs Bridge on Ryde Road and Fullers Bridge, was set aside as a park in the 1920s and developed with picnic areas interspersed in the bush along the banks of the river.

In Sydney, there are several altered examples of his work, namely St Benedict's, Chippendale ; St Charles Borromeo, Ryde ; the former church of St Augustine of Hippo ( next to the existing church ), Balmain ; and St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta, which was gutted by a fire in 1996.

The first recorded pier in England was Ryde Pier, opened in 1814 on the Isle of Wight, as a landing stage to allow ferries to and from the mainland to berth.

The proposed route was via the present Parklands Avenue in Lane Cove to the head of Burns Bay, across the Lane Cove River near the present-day public school at North Ryde, and terminated about north of Eastwood Station.

The Isle of Wight Railway at one time ran a non-stop train from Ryde to Ventnor which was named ' The Invalid Express ' specifically to rush consumptive patients to their treatment at Ventnor.

Ventnor railway station was the terminus of the Isle of Wight Railway ( later called the Island Line ) from Ryde through Sandown and Shanklin, and it brought many visitors to the town.

Ryde Castle, situated on the Esplanade, was built c1840 as a private house in crenellated style and is now a hotel.

The town's local football team was for many years Ryde Sports F. C., now replaced by Ryde Saints F. C.

Near Ryde at Westridge from 2008 until 2011 was the Carnival Learning Centre, funded by the Skills Funding Agency and Arts Council, where carnival skills and crafts were taught.

* Sam Browne-the soldier after whom the belt was named, retired and lived the last years of his life in a house called Argosy on East Hill Road, Ryde.

* William Hutt-colonial administrator, was educated in Ryde and resided at Appley Towers.

* John Lennon and Paul McCartney-the title of the song " Ticket to Ride " was inspired by a trip they took to Ryde in the 1960s supposedly visiting Paul ’ s cousin who worked in the Bow Bars public house in Union Street.

* Anthony Minghella-the Hollywood director was born in Ryde in 1954.

Concord and Ryde Sailing Club was based in King George V Park until construction of the second Ryde Bridge required its demolition, after which the club premises were relocated to Kissing Point in Ryde.

He was a briefly a member of the policy unit at the City of Westminster Council in 1988 before training as a novice monk at Quarr Abbey in Ryde on the Isle of Wight.

The line from Ryde St John's Road to Shanklin was opened on 23 August 1864, having been built by the Isle of Wight Railway.

When the LBSC / LSWR joint line opened, it was as a double track section from Ryde St John's Road station through to Ryde Pier Head.

A Synagogue in Sydney serves a small historic Jewish community which was once one of the largest ones in eastern Canada with four shuls: one in Glace Bay, one in New Waterford, one in Whitney Pier, and the one in Sydney.

He received the nickname of Baccio della Porta for his house was near the Porta (" Gate ") San Pier Gattolini.

Pier Paolo Pasolini was hired to translate Flaiano and Pinelli ’ s dialogue into Roman dialect and to supervise researches in the vice-afflicted suburbs of Rome.

The result of his journeys through the north was The Road to Wigan Pier, published by Gollancz for the Left Book Club in 1937.

At the same time, the communist Daily Worker was running an attack on The Road to Wigan Pier, misquoting Orwell as saying " the working classes smell "; a letter to Gollancz from Orwell threatening libel action brought a stop to this.

During most of his career, Orwell was best known for his journalism, in essays, reviews, columns in newspapers and magazines and in his books of reportage: Down and Out in Paris and London ( describing a period of poverty in these cities ), The Road to Wigan Pier ( describing the living conditions of the poor in northern England, and the class divide generally ) and Homage to Catalonia.

The double decker promenade that runs between Warrior Square and Hastings Pier, was built in the 1930s by Sidney Little

* In November 2009, IKEA, along with Abercrombie & Fitch, Gymboree, Hanes, Kohl's, LL Bean, Pier 1, Propper International and Walmart, was added to the 2010 Sweatshop Hall of Shame by labour rights group International Labour Rights Forum.

The device was fixed underwater at Temple Pier in Urquhart Bay and directed towards the opposite shore, effectively drawing an acoustic ' net ' across the width of Ness through which no moving object could pass undetected.

In 1947 Kahane was arrested for throwing eggs and tomatoes at Bevin, as the latter disembarked at Pier 84 on a visit to New York.

The latter's nephew Pier Francesco, who had renounced to the succession in favour to his brother Domenico to became a Dominican, was later elected pope with the name of Benedict XIII.

Notable pub-rock venues include the Largs Pier Hotel and the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide, the Royal Antler Hotel in Narrabeen, Sydney and the Civic Hotel in Sydney's city centre, the famous Star Hotel in Newcastle NSW and the Station Hotel in Prahran, Melbourne, which was one of the premier pub-rock venues in Australia for more than two decades, Poyntons Carlton Club Hotel in Carlton Melbourne's first Sunday night Live pub-rock venue.

One of the places that saw many memorials and candlelight vigils was Pier A in Hoboken, New Jersey, where many people saw the events of September 11 ( Pier A had a good view of the World Trade Center.

) There was also a memorial service on March 11, 2002, at dusk on Pier A when the Tribute in Light first turned on, marking the half-year anniversary of the terrorist attack.

The perceived deficiency of any account of Aeneas ' marriage to Lavinia or his founding of the Roman race led some writers, such as the 15th-century Italian poet Maffeo Vegio ( through his Mapheus Vegius widely printed in the Renaissance ), Pier Candido Decembrio ( whose attempt was never completed ), Claudio Salvucci ( in his 1994 epic poem The Laviniad ), and Ursula K. Le Guin ( in her 2008 novel Lavinia ) to compose their own supplements.

Several survivors of the stayed for some time in this hotel as it is a short distance from Pier 54, the White Star Line dock where the Titanic was supposed to make landfall.

The death of his eldest son, Pier Luigi, on 28 April 1873, was the final blow which hastened his end ; he fell ill immediately, and died of cerebral meningitis.

Felice Peretti was born on December 13, 1521 at Grottammare, in the Papal States, to Pier Gentile ( also known as Peretto Peretti ), and Marianna da Frontillo.

As Municipal Pier # 2 ( Municipal Pier # 1 was never built ), Navy Pier was planned and built to serve as a mixed-purpose piece of public infrastructure.