I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

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.

Dr. Isaacs was so pleased with the quality of her biographical study of Sara Sullam that he considered submitting it to the Century Magazine or Harper's but he decided that its Jewish subject probably would not interest them and published it in The Messenger, `` so our readers will be benefited instead ''.

Walking was the remedy, they decided, but a deck full of chicken coops and pigpens was hardly suitable.

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.

It was at this point that Pike decided to capitalize on the bad feelings between the two men.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

When Breasted insisted that this was impossible for him, Lewis decided to go abroad.

It was, the brief writers decided, `` man's best hope for a peaceful and law abiding world ''.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.

It was not a discourteous question, Lawrence decided.

Cousin Joshua Dover decided to remain with the Reverend and poor Isaac Pitt until life passed away -- and he was hurt so badly he did not seem for long in this world.

It was easier to think now, Watson decided.

I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I couldn't watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.

Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.

Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.

It was during her `` writing '' period that she and Herb met and decided that they were in love.

As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.

Since the strength of the Mexicans had been underrated, too small a posse had been collected, and since the deputy had not been provided with search warrants, MacPherson and his men decided it was much wiser to withdraw.

It was decided to strip the whole area down to the bricks, and to replace the rough coats up to one inch thickness to agree with the older artists' preparation, with a mortar, one part slaked lime, three parts sand, to be put on in two layers.

The first productive period came when he was considering poetry as a vocation, before he had decided to write fiction for a living ( in his note for Who's Who he wrote that he `` wrote verses 1865 - 1868 ; ;

The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

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

Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.

Evidently this was a precaution so that mounts would be available in an emergency.

The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

This, he was sure, was the way they would act ; ;

But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

Probably his horse would be close to where he was hiding.

From the way the wound in his head was itching, Dan knew that it would heal.

Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

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.