Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.

Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.

There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.

His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.

Underneath him the sea was a dark and muddied gray.

Another car was coming, a tiny, dark shape on a far hill.

He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.

Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.

Slender and tanned, her dark brown hair was drawn straight back, simply.

He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.

Lunch was over, and we walked back to the hotel with the light and dark of Paris screaming at us.

A little man with a `` a dark copper color '' skin, he was wearing `` calico trousers and a white cotton short gown ''.

There was a host of dark horses.

It was dark.

Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.

The school was small, dark and ill-equipped.

Far away, standing before a curtained window in the study room, was his father, hands tucked under his coattails, and staring into the dark church.

He was a florid, puffy man in his early sixties, very natty in his yachting cap, striped jacket and white flannels.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

The freight car was cold, early in the morning.

In the early days of a homogeneous population, the public school was quite satisfactory.

As early as the 6th century B.C. the earth was seen to be spherical.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

But a few days after Fred's return he began hemorrhaging and that was the beginning of early and complete disintegration.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

He was, thus, an early and spectacular victim.

But it was something to have seen it floating down through the early morning sunshine, linking the blue of the sky with the blue of the asters by the lake.

Then he was asking himself the usual early morning questions: What the Hell am I doin here??

His watch told him he was still early.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

Or it might have been the absent nephews she addressed, consciously playing with the notion that this was one of the summers of their early years.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.