He was shaking with anger, his breath coming in long, painful gasps.

And he was handsome, despite the long thin scar that slanted across his cheek.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.

he was long past the point of coherent thinking.

`` Well '', he explained, `` s'posin' you was a nester swingin' the long rope??

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

So long as Sally's pa was coming out best on the haggle, Dan didn't feel the need of putting in his two-bits' worth.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

It was a rough long ride through the mud and pot holes.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.

His long nose wiggled at the smells of frizzling bacon and heating java, but the fire was low, and he wanted to waste no time.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.

There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.

As we expected, on the following day my Uncle was completely recovered and opened the store as usual at 10 in the morning.

As he reached for the door there was a knock on it and when he opened he found Artie, who came in and sat down on a bunk.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

Another source of intellectual stimulus was opened to her at that time by the founding of Johns Hopkins University within walking distance of home.

Mr. Podger was just adding this to his pictures of the day when the screen door opened and Pam burst out.

This was just Richard's way of saying that last year the Birds opened spring training with a lot of jobs wide open.

`` And Jesus, when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him ''.

Last week it opened at the J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, at the very moment that a second Schiele exhibit was being made ready at the Felix Landau gallery in Los Angeles.

While she was settling the teacart, he went back across the hall to their bedroom, opened one of the suitcases, and took out powdered coffee and sugar.

She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.

On November 26 of that year the bridge was completed and opened.

In spite of this catastrophe, the bridge was rebuilt on the same plan and opened again on July 17, 1827.

Completed and opened for traffic in 1852, the bridge was designed and built by Lemuel Chenoweth and his brother, Eli, of Beverly.

The position of receptionist was opened in a large office and an announcement was made to the other girls already working that they could apply for this job which had higher prestige and slightly higher salary than typing and clerking positions.

Hardly a window has been broken since Dunbar first was opened ( and vandalism in schools is a major problem in many slum areas ).

She started back for the house, saw a light in the office, opened the door and surprised a domestic little scene which was far outside the dark realm of murder or attempted murder.

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

Young Mrs. Arthur had opened the oven and there was a drifting odor of hot biscuits.

There was still a little, not much, left in the first bottle and we passed it around once and killed it, and Charlie opened his.

The 187-mile Illinois State Toll Highway, for example, was not opened over its entire length until December, 1958.