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It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.
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Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.
He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.
From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.
The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.
Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.
The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.
The sun was noon high and Matsuo perspired until his body was dripping.
He didn't look back and he ran until he was out of sight of the schoolhouse and out of breath ; ;
Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.
Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.
Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.
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.
His company then carried out a confused retreating movement until it was surrounded by the Germans, a few days before France capitulated.
Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;
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I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.
Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.
After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.
nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.
So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.
This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.
Morgan was ordered to attack the enemy, who had meantime moved to Edge Hill on the left of the Americans.
In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.
When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.
But I was deeply moved by his letter of resignation as rector of St. Luke's Church in Atlanta.
The situation already was bad because the Legislature moved the governor's race forward a few months, causing the campaigning to get started earlier than usual.
He ate what he felt like, slept as much or as little as he pleased, and moved about the draughty rooms of the house, when he was not in bed, with slow, dubious steps, like an elderly tourist in a cathedral.
The evaporative cooler had been moved to Granny's room, and her door was kept shut ; ;
In fiscal year 1959, the Medical Museum was moved to Chase Hall, a temporary building on Independence Avenue at Ninth Street, Southwest, and continued to display to the public the achievements of the Armed Forces Medical Services.
He moved only about 30 feet after the 240-grain slug hit him -- and this was after the bullet had passed through a sapling.
that he moved with his parents to West Boxford when he was sixteen years old ; ;
The artist was born in Gilbert Mills, New York, in 1886, and until two years ago when he and his wife moved to California, he lived in western New York, in Batavia.
In fact, his only disciple -- the only person to imitate his style -- was W. S. Graham, who seems to have imitated him without much understanding, and who has since moved on to other methods.
When late in the summer the full extent of the damage was assessed, all but fifty of the Scots, Swiss and metis moved up the Red to the mouth of the Pembina river.
If she moved gracefully, she was clumsy at it.
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And he was handsome, despite the long thin scar that slanted across his cheek.
It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.
As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.
This was the land of the sladang, the great water buffalo with horns forty inches across the spread.
The rancher was navigating his way across the flatland.
Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.
You had grown up at a time when the most distinguishing mark of a lady was the noli me tangere writ plain across her face.
Running across the deck, which was empty now that the livestock had been killed and eaten, they sniffed the spice-laden breezes that came from the shore, each pointing out new and exciting wonders to the other.
Lieutenant Colonel James P. Brownlow, who commanded the First Brigade of Thomas' First Cavalry Division, was ordered across one of these fords.
The water was deep and Brownlow took his troopers across naked -- except for guns, cartridge boxes and hats.
Ultimately Fosdick's `` Fit to fight '' slogan swept across the country and every well-known red-light district in the United States was closed, a hundred and ten of them.
His Italian journey was a poet's version of those perennial thrusts across the Alps of the German emperors of the Middle Ages.
Our companion was a huge, plain-spoken American sculptor who had been a sixteen-year-old rifleman all across France in 1944.
The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.
So choosing a good tree, he clambered up into it, found a comfortable notch, and curled up in it to sleep, like the tousled bear he was, with his hands across his chest, as though surfeited with honey.
When the skies grew dark and thunder rolled across the valley, he was unafraid.
The chimney of the hut across from him was surmounted by a beef barrel with ends knocked out.
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