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It was no vacation, just me getting out after a bellyfull.
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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.
There was no one but me.
there was no doubt he was dying.
`` Oh, no '', he said, and he was without humor now.
The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't stop to graze.
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.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
There was no chance.
There was no moon.
Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.
Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.
There was to be no gunplay.
The rustling problem was by no means solved.
There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.
Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.
Glowering looks met them in the bar, but there was no attempt to halt them.
As far as he could see there was no hole to climb through it.
There was, of course, no way for the other planes to get by them.
He had no idea which was up and which was down.
Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.
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The vacation traffic was becoming heavier as they approached the sea.
set production ( excluding those destined for the export market ) also ran ahead in the early months, but was curtailed after the usual vacation shutdowns in the face of growing evidence that some of the early production plans had been overly optimistic.
Here again it was vacation time and there were many things I could not see, but I was able to visit with a professor who is famous in Japanese circles and be guided through the grounds by his assistant.
National competition was the culmination of work which began with the school year last fall and continued until just before summer vacation.
The projected union initially aroused great opposition: he did not consult with his father, who had been on vacation in Karlovy Vary and making arrangements to secure the hand of a German princess for his son, or his Prime Minister Dr. Vladan Đorđević, who was visiting the Paris Universal Exhibition at the time of the announcement.
In 1947 Prisoners of the Sun was interrupted for two months when an exhausted Hergé took a long vacation.
Ultimately Moore and Braga's script was chosen ; the writers spent weeks with Berman developing the story before taking a working vacation in May 1992 to write the first-draft screenplay, completed June 1.
Upon returning from vacation, he was surprised to find that his store did not carry the game.
Initial reports in the succeeding days suggested his condition was improving, so Roosevelt embarked on a vacation at Mount Marcy in northeastern New York.
Some months later Wilson met with Taft ( Knox was out of town on vacation ), and upon hearing the information, the President immediately and unilaterally ordered a mobilization of 25, 000 troops to the Mexican border as well as naval maneuvers in the Gulf of Mexico.
During the last few years of his life Boole worked on a second edition of his Differential Equations, and part of his last vacation was spent in the libraries of the Royal Society and the British Museum ; but it was left incomplete.
When Carmack was on vacation with his wife, he ended up playing some games on her cellphone, and decided he was going to make a good mobile game.
The Platterhof was retained and served as a holiday, recreation, and vacation retreat ( Armed Forces Recreation Centers ) for the American military.
Later on, she agreed to appear in It Happened One Night only if her salary was doubled to $ 50, 000, and also on the condition that the filming of her role be completed in four weeks so that she could take her well-planned vacation.
His friends considered the university a " four-year vacation ," and he was inclined to follow them around to bars, cafés, and the opera.
Another World War II-era student of Liddell Hart's writings about Sherman was George S. Patton, who "' spent a long vacation studying Sherman's campaigns on the ground in Georgia and the Carolinas, with the aid of Hart's book '" and later "' carried out his plans, in super-Sherman style '".
Brandt was asked to continue working as usual, and he agreed to do so, even taking a private vacation with Guillaume.
Earlier in 1974-when the Brandts and the Guillaumes took a vacation in Norway together-it was Matthias, then twelve years old, who was the first to discover that Guillaume and his wife " were typing mysterious things on typewriters the whole night through.
He was within 40, 000 shares of control when Hill learned of Harriman's activities and quickly contacted J. P. Morgan, who was on vacation in Europe at the time.
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The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.
She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.
He took the reins just below the bit and held them firmly, and it was his turn to smile now.
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.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.
The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
Greg's airspeed indicator was over 350 when he leveled off just above the trees.
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.
An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
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.
There was a blur just under my focus of vision, a crash ; ;
I was so scared well, I just ran to my car and came here ''.
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.
Now, he was just in the late poems of Holderlin and therefore had most of the nineteenth century before him -- plus next semester's class preparation.
She was just not able to break the spell.
So if all these beers was to get me in bed, man, you just spent a lot of money ''.
She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.
There was no real sign of the river now, just a roiling, oily ribbon of liquid movement through muddy waters that reached everywhere.
He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.
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