It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

Whoever was out there hiding in the brushy cover was besieging the Antler house and, having spotted his approach, was determined to drive him off before he could get into the fight.

He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

The metal strip they had taken off from was coal black against the green jungle around it.

Greg's airspeed indicator was over 350 when he leveled off just above the trees.

The voice was that of Johnson, tail gunner off another crew.

I was loaded with suds when I ran away, and I haven't had a chance to wash it off.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

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

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.

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.

Its ribs showed, it was a yellow nondescript color, it suffered from a variety of sores, hair had scabbed off its body in patches.

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 her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.

Fred and Ralph qualified as executors and paid off what debts were currently due, and they were all current, since Papa was never one to allow bills to go unpaid.

S.K. was visiting C.C.B. and, not waiting for breakfast, he was off to the University Club, where he spent hours writing obituaries of living Americans for The Manchester Guardian or The Glasgow Herald.

Glass-blown scleral lenses remained the only form of contact lens until the 1930s when polymethyl methacrylate ( PMMA or Perspex / Plexiglas ) was developed, allowing plastic scleral lenses to be manufactured for the first time.

In addition, Arbus's Box of Ten Photographs was a portfolio of selected 1963 – 1970 photographs in a clear Plexiglas box / frame that was designed by Marvin Israel and that was to have been issued in a limited edition of 50.

To solve the problem, a Plexiglas filter was placed in front of the beams.

Judd's first floor box structure was made in 1964, and his first floor box using Plexiglas followed one year later.

Judd's ten-unit sculpture Untitled, 1968 ( DSS 120 ) made of stainless steel and amber Plexiglas was sold for $ 4. 9 million at Christie's New York in 2009.

Another mini-tanking test was conducted 30 October, using special sensors and video cameras and employing a see-through Plexiglas aft compartment door.

The acrylic plastic material was chosen because Ridley noticed it was inert after seeing RAF ( Royal air Force ) pilots of World War II with pieces of shattered canopies in their eyes ( this acrylic resin is known by several trade names including Lucite and Plexiglas ).

In June 1984, an aerial-tram car was headed down the mountain when a bolt from a shock absorber snapped, causing a piece of metal to crash through a Plexiglas window along the car's roof.

In the 1946-47 NHL season, Maple Leaf Gardens was the first arena in the NHL to have Plexiglas inserted in the end zones of the rink.

The original Plexiglas glazing was replaced with 2, 425 panes of heat-strengthened glass ( containing a plastic interlayer called Saflex ) and coated with a low-emissivity film.

During the season, Maple Leaf Gardens was the first arena in the NHL to have Plexiglas inserted in the end zones of the rink.

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.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

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

He himself was once convicted of painting erotica and jailed for 24 days -- the first three of which he spent desperately trying to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle.

The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.

A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.

Harold indicated the photograph on the wall and asked what church the stone sculpture was in.

Between the telephone and the wall plug there was sixty feet of cord, and when the conversation came to an end, Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment, to his bathroom, where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub.

I came to Warsaw twice, but there was that damned ghetto wall ''

The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head, fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed, but his face was turned to the wall -- there was the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster -- and I thought, Well you don't look much like a pig-drunk bully now.

He didn't seem to think that attaching a pegboard to a stone wall was much of a problem and he tossed off the building of the worktable equally lightly.

He said he was the lonely type and working in a cellar you saw funny things coming out of the cracks in the wall if they wasn't nobody with you.

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

The powerful microphone I could press against the wall between my motel unit and that occupied by the man would bring in the sound of any conversation, and I was positively nauseated I was so hungry.

Bill Weigand was good and tired of the wall opposite, and the crack in the plaster.

On one wall was the brass front of a row of mailboxes ; ;

There was no sound and apparently no movement in the room except the noiseless pulsation of the red light on the wall.

That meant that something between the light and its reflection on the wall was moving closer to the source of the light -- in this case, the window.

A middle aged woman opened a window on the third floor of her house which was behind the wall, she threw out a few belongings and then jumped ; ;

Sameness for the Old Man was framed in by a wall of ginkgo trees which divided these quarters from the city.