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It was from her that Bret Harte took his famous character of Cherokee Sal in The Luck of Roaring Camp.
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They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.
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.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.
It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
It was obvious that he wished himself different from the sort of person he thought he was.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.
The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.
It was to him that Barton had sent Carl Dill on Dill's release from the prison.
Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.
But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.
He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.
An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.
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He was well rid of her.
Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.
It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.
He treats her like she was dirt.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.
That girl last night, what was her name??
It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.
So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.
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Francis Bret Harte ( August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902 ) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.
Schatz believes " this scarcely holds up to scrutiny " and argues that a more likely inspiration was Bret Harte's 1892 short story " The Outcasts of Poker Flat.
He was the son of Simon le Bret or Simon Brito of Sampford Brett in Somerset and a near neighbour of the FitzUrses of Williton.
This design decision was due to LucasArts programmer Bret Mogilefsky's interest in the language, and is considered one of the first uses of Lua in gaming applications.
Police questioned and interviewed hundreds of potential suspects including one individual, Bret Michael Edmunds, a 26-year-old drifter who was pursued across the country but ultimately was cleared of suspicion in the case after being located in a West Virginia hospital suffering from a drug overdose.
In 1999, Hurricane Bret struck the county, but damage was minimal due to the county's low population.
Bret Michaels, lead singer of the rock band Poison was also born here in 1963.
In 1972 Robert Favre Le Bret was named the new President, and Maurice Bessy the Managing Director.
The racial makeup of Bret Harte was 2, 441 ( 47. 4 %) White, 52 ( 1. 0 %) African American, 50 ( 1. 0 %) Native American, 40 ( 0. 8 %) Asian, 45 ( 0. 9 %) Pacific Islander, 2, 327 ( 45. 2 %) from other races, and 197 ( 3. 8 %) from two or more races.
Following Johnstone's departure, The Shadow was portrayed by such actors as Bret Morrison ( the longest tenure, with 10 years in two separate runs ), John Archer, and Steve Courtleigh.
Work was started immediately on a new version with a brand new team of engineers led by Joe Ammirato ; including Bret Gillis and Peter Weyzen.
* Bret Michaels, the lead singer of Poison, was born in Butler but raised in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
Bret Baldwin was re-elected Mayor in 2011 and is serving a three year term.
Nancarrow was married to Annette Margolis ( Margolis ' grandson is writer Bret Stephens ).
On June 23, 1997, Hearns appeared on a WWE telecast, performing in a storyline making use of kayfabe, where he was taunted and challenged by professional wrestler Bret " Hitman " Hart.
Lawson was a keen reader of Dickens and Marryat and novels such as Robbery under Arms and For the Term of his Natural Life ; an aunt had also given him a volume by Bret Harte.
Poison was formed in 1983, in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and consisted of lead vocalist Bret Michaels, guitarist Matt Smith, bassist Bobby Dall, and drummer Rikki Rockett.
Bret Michaels was involved with Pamela Anderson.
Bret Michaels also released his 2nd solo album Songs Of Life which featured singles " Bittersweet " and " Raine " which featured a music video and was dedicated to his daughter.
On 14 February 2007, it was announced by VH1 that Bret Michaels is going to have his own reality show called Rock of Love with Bret Michaels, where women will have to compete for his love and prove they can keep up with his rock star life.
In 2009, Bret Michaels starred in the third installment of Rock of Love called " Rock of Love Bus ", featuring a music video with clips from the series for the new single " Driven ( Rock Mix )" and a Poison box set was also released, consisting of 3 Cd's of music from 1986-2000.
As Bret Michaels was exiting the stage, he was struck in the head by a descending set piece and knocked to the ground.
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