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It was hotter once they reached the flat, and drier, but the grass was better.
She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.
It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.
The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.
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 ).
Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.
No wonder Wright was enchanted -- no two better suited people ever met.
The weather turned warmer and with it came better appetites, although Harriet was still a little off-color.
As always, the ranks worked out new and better tactics, but there was brilliance in the way the field commands adopted these methods and in the way the army commanders incorporated them into their military thinking.
From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.
The Boston elders were great at befuddling the opposition with torrents of ecclesiastical obscurities, but Gorton was better.
It was expected that the comparison of different approaches to ethics would produce a better grasp of each other's positions and better comprehension of one's own.
Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.
He was sure that he could do better if he went to Atlanta to get the deal financed.
An open field was better than a building, that was for sure, so he dismounted, turned off the horse, and plunged through the grass.
I knew better but I was thinking of the Pedersen kid mother-naked in all that dough.
No house was ever built that could not have been built better for less if the work had been better planned and the work better scheduled.
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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.
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For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.
The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.
He was all shoveled up like I thought he'd be.
He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.
If he was sober, which was doubtful, he'd have him get in touch with Mr. Crombie.
If Felix was still wearing the hat and carrying the horn because he'd forgotten about them, he now remembered.
He was dozing, perhaps the only sleep he'd gotten.
At this moment, all he could think of was what he'd been forced to undergo.
Well, it hadn't been what it seemed, he'd had no idea the girl was in there.
He stared at the report in Killpath's hand, sure it was written by Accacia -- just as sure as if he'd submitted it in his scrawled longhand.
because he'd be damned if he was going to be a mid-watch pencil-pusher just to please his ulcerated pro-tem captain.
When he handed it back and I had hold of it safely, Pops was looking toward me and I said `` Now '', to Charlie and he swung the short length of lead pipe he'd meanwhile taken from his pocket, once.
She looked well-fed and prosperous, but he didn't get the impression he was being propositioned the way he'd been hoping.
Pete was down on Seven, Dick told me, and he'd meet us there.
Pete came to meet us when we stepped out of the elevator on Seven -- he'd had a case of post-operative shock, but it was all taken care of now.
It wasn't even true that he'd said he was sorry that time ; ;
In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.
" After he'd been jailed by the Harlingen Police, Martha had the judge put Haley in the hospital where he was seen by a psychiatrist who said Bill's brain was overproducing a chemical, like adrenaline.
In a 1995 interview with Kurt Loder, Love divulged that in the late 1980s, guitarist Joe Strummer of The Clash told her that she was " the worst guitar player he'd ever heard ", but she insisted she had improved by the early 1990s: " I'm fine ...
It was especially noted that the birth and death of some notable persons coincided with separate appearances of the comet, such as with writers Mark Twain ( who correctly speculated that he'd " go out with the comet " in 1910 ) and Eudora Welty, to whose life Mary Chapin Carpenter dedicated the song Halley Came to Jackson.
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