When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

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.

There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.

But that indictment was never made.

Visibility continued to be limited, and Greg was never able to get above a thousand feet.

The girl took a couple of steps toward the man in shorts when Benson, in that barefoot courtliness Ramey could never decide was real, said, `` You don't want to go around there, Ma'am ''.

The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.

He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.

His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.

But they never said anything, so he figured it was all right.

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

You never heard nothin' like it: Kitty's gonna go have an abortion, and Kitty's gonna go away to a convent, and Kitty's this and Kitty's that like he was nuts or somethin', y'know ''??

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

Even Hemingway, for all his efforts to formulate a naturalistic morality in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell To Arms never maintained that sex was all.

They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.

The clause reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it.

It is a weakness of Gabriel's analysis that he never seems to realize that his so-called fundamental law had already been cut loose from its foundations when it was adapted to democracy.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

Bluntly, there never was a Ptolemaic system of astronomy.

Years were to pass before these plans came off the paper, and Wright was justified in thinking, as the projects failed, that much of what he had to show his country and the world would never be seen except by visitors to Taliesin.

It was a trick they used to try and conceal their identity when they followed trucks to check their speed.

There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.

He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

The governor was not used to having his integrity questioned, and he promptly passed the charges on to Woodruff, demanding that Woodruff answer them.

His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.

It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

This, of course, was the sort of thing that used to take place in Southern cities -- putting white houses of prostitution with colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

He had ridden hard from Boston, and he was not used to horseback.

It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

A wall-stabilized high-current arc source was constructed and used to study transition probabilities of atomic hydrogen and oxygen.

It was determined that the hours of sunrise and sunset, respectively, should be used for this purpose.

When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.

The People's Navy was operationally incorporated into the United Baltic Sea Fleets of the Warsaw Pact states.

When the South Eastern Railway constructed its Charing Cross line, some trains operated from the L & SWR line to Cannon Street, but this was commercially and operationally unsuccessful.

The incident caused a political storm that threatened to engulf the stadtholder himself, as he was responsible as commander-in-chief for both the state of readiness of the fleet and its strategic decisions ( though the officers were tactically and operationally responsible, and could not decline responsibility for the alleged state of " unreadiness " themselves ).

The first Atlas F arrived in June 1961 and the first operationally configured Series F Atlas was successfully launched on 1 August 1962.

It was not until January 1974 that the F-111D was finally declared operationally ready.

The 740th and 741st Strategic Missile Squadrons operationally controlled the ICBMs and in January 1963, the 742d Strategic Missile Squadron was activated with a third squadron of Minuteman ICBMS.

The TRANSIT system, also known as NAVSAT ( for Navy Navigation Satellite System ), was the first satellite navigation system to be used operationally.

It was promoted as a development of the operationally ( if not economically ) successful Magnox design, and was chosen from a plethora of competing British alternatives-the helium cooled High Temperature Reactor ( HTR ), the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor ( SGHWR ) and the Fast Breeder Reactor ( FBR )-as well as the American light water pressurised and boiling water reactors ( PWR and BWR ) and Canadian CANDU designs.

The first such system was the German Telefunken Kompass Sender, which began operations in 1907 and was used operationally by the Zeppelin fleet until 1918.

One of the longest lasting examples was Sonne, which went into operation just before World War II and used operationally under the name Consol until 1991.

It has also been argued that Mau Mau was not explicitly national, either intellectually or operationally ;

Immediately prior to the opening of the war, radar was introduced operationally for the first time.

Otherwise, the only time a British corps headquarters has been operationally deployed since 1945 was II Corps during the Suez Crisis.

It was replaced after World War Two by nylon versions of the jacket, though it continued to be worn operationally during the Korean War by World War II veterans called back into service.

This version of the weapon was never used operationally.

The R-7 made 28 launches between 1957 and 1961, but was never deployed operationally.

The Luftwaffe, finally realising that the British had been deploying countermeasures from the very first day that the system was used operationally completely lost faith in electronic navigation aids ( as the British government had predicted ), and did not deploy any further system against Britain, although by this time Hitler's attention was turning toward Eastern Europe.

Joint Allied Forces Headquarters AFHQ was operationally responsible for all Allied land forces in the Mediterranean theatre, and it planned and commanded the invasion of Sicily and the campaign on the Italian mainland until the surrender of German forces in Italy in May 1945.

Trials at Southport, Queensland, in May 1945 were pronounced complete success, and the Projector would have been impressive against enemy bunkers, but the war ended before it was used operationally.

The Hs 293 was first used operationally in the Bay of Biscay against RN and RCN destroyers, sloops and frigates.

The definitive night fighter version of the Messerschmitt Me 262, the Me 262B-2, was also designed to carry such an installation, but the system did not work successfully, and it was not used operationally.