Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.

Pamela was glad Jim was nowhere near.

Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.

This one was actually more of a `` near miss ''.

Seated near it with his back to the door was the rancher, Ed Dunn.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.

This young slave was therefore quite unprepared when Delphine Lalaurie signaled that she wanted him to draw near.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

The family estate was situated near Vadstena on Lake Vattern in south central Sweden.

Land was near, and on June 12, one hundred and fourteen days after leaving America, they actually saw, twenty miles away, the coast of Orissa.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.

Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.

More, the U.S. action was hailed by a principal opposition leader, Dr. Juan Bosch, as having saved `` many lives and many troubles in the near future ''.

Annisberg was about seventy-five miles west of Birmingham, near the Georgia border and on the Tallahoosa River, a small and dirty stream.

But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.

The gunfire, which was so near that it seemed just a piece up the road now, stopped for long enough to count to twenty ; ;

This was one of the Irish women who had built their own huts down near the river.

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.

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.

He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.

The Bonaventure was quivering and lurching like an old spavined mare.

For an anthropologist, loquacious old L'Turu was a mine of information.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

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.

He was about 50 years old.

`` Oh he was stupid, her old man!!

for another, it was here that one of the old caravan routes came in.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.

Strindberg's remedy for this condition was to tear down the old structures and build anew from the ground up.

At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

It was much more fun, reminding the girls of their old carefree days in the Hasseltine frolics room at Bradford.

He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.