He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.

It was to be nothing more than that.

On the truck bed there was nothing smaller than a piece of rusty machinery ; ;

She was wearing nothing beneath the coat.

There was nothing in particular on the man's face.

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

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

His reply was, `` Everything that has been printed derogatory to you, purporting to have come from me, was a betrayal, and nothing yet has been printed which I have sanctioned ''.

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

`` There was nothing else I could do '', the maid answered, satisfied with a rather vague explanation.

Nothing was said, nothing accomplished.

She reached and reached around the dress, but there was nothing there.

his supper was nothing.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

He was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;

The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

There was more to this than Jones had told him.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

But he was more than half-drunk, and his faculties were dulled.

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.

Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

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

Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.

Because he couldn't hear them, he was more convinced they were there.

He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

His bold eyes raked the woman, and a perceptive spectator might sense that there was more to their relationship than that of slave to owner.

He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.

The girl was not more than 16.

In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.

Because the summer was unusually dry and hot, the spring produced a smaller stream than in ordinary years.

He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

Barton's voice was rougher than Dill had ever heard it.

Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

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.

The water level was higher than their hubs.

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.