But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

Katherine was staying at a convent, and her mother felt that, as Thompson himself seems to have suggested, she might eventually stay there.

Tom was not willing to revise the play according to the plan the man suggested.

Morgan took the suggested steps, but when Mrs. Sanderson appeared, there was nobody with her but her husband, whom he promptly sent to headquarters to be questioned.

The idea was not even suggested because political expediency prevailed over wisdom.

After a nuclear blast, one bureaucrat suggested in those halcyon days, about all you had to do was haul out the broom and sweep off your sidewalks and roof.

The doctors had suggested Scotty remain most of every afternoon in bed until he was stronger.

We suggested this Class in the horse world and it was accepted immediately and included in the programs of horse shows.

The suggested course of the A.I.D. was based on the usual course offered and on the opinion of many educators as to curricular necessities.

`` Ah, you're too old '', was invariably his ungallant and untrue retort whenever I suggested `` starting a family ''.

As a natural outgrowth of this approach it was often suggested that the doctor should complete the preparation for painless intercourse by dilating the vagina.

It was Dickson who suggested to Lord Selkirk that he return to the Atlantic coast by way of the United States.

At last, even the controlled Torrio was unable to hold still, and he tentatively suggested that O'Banion should take a percentage in the Stickney brothels in return for one from his Cicero beer concession.

It was when she was in this position that the name `` prayin' cow '' was suggested to the cowboy.

Tillie was a fine midwife and could get here quick, he suggested.

The calmness and detachment of his tone suggested unawareness of how implicit was his own guilt in the words he had used to defend Cromwell.

Sashimi was In, Samuel Burns had suggested, because it was too far Out to stay Out, even if it was a little pretentious.

A few days after Emancipation was announced, 13 Republican governors met at the War Governors ' Conference ; they supported the president's Proclamation, but suggested the removal of General George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army.

It has been suggested that Aristotle was probably the last person to know everything there was to be known in his own time.

Altruism, the experiment suggested, was not a superior moral faculty that suppresses basic selfish urges but rather was basic to the brain, hard-wired and pleasurable.

Initially run by Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) and, following that, by Hackney Council, when it was renamed.

The building remained in use by the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) until its abolition in 1990 when the building was transferred to the London Residuary Body and eventually sold to private investors.

The political conflict became a focus of the institution's activities, and in 1980 after Margaret Thatcher's right-wing conservative party was elected to government, ILEA ( the Inner London Education authority ) who was responsible for the London Polytechnics, called on Open University Professor Beishon of the Open Systems Unit to become the caretaker Director.

Shortly after being elected as an MP in 1987, Wilshire saw a copy of the book Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin, about two gay men and their daughter, a copy of which was stocked in an Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) teachers ' resource centre.

The ILEA was abolished in 1990, with the inner London borough councils becoming education authorities.

Sir ( Ernest ) Ashley Bramall ( 6 January 1916 – 10 February 1999 ) was a British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament for Bexley from 1946 to 1950 and Leader of the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) for 11 years.

When ILEA was turned into a directly elected body in 1986, Fletcher stood down from Camden and was elected as ILEA member for Holborn and St. Pancras.

On May 9, 1981 Davies was chosen to be the new Leader of ILEA at the Annual General Meeting of the ILEA Labour Group, ousting Sir Ashley Bramall by 21 votes to 15.

ILEA's budget increased by 14 % in the first year ( and its precept by 46 %) while the Conservatives nationally criticised the cost of schooling under ILEA which was the highest in the country.

Later that year he was appointed as a Research Actuary at Bacon and Woodrow, and resigned from the GLC and ILEA.

The government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, which was proposing to abolish the GLC, would have wanted to abolish the ILEA as well but found it was impractical to do so.

The ILEA was helped by a bail-out from the GLC for one year.

She had insisted that teachers who were surplus to requirements at one ILEA school should transfer to another where there was a shortfall, and threatened to dismiss those who refused.