He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

Someone evidently was on duty there.

Then he was on his way at a gallop.

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.

Mike tested the leg and found that he was able to hobble around on it.

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

What else he said was lost in the rattle of gunfire on all sides.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

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

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

It was to him that Barton had sent Carl Dill on Dill's release from the prison.

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.

He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.

He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.

No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.

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.

I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.

She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.

Not through fear of disobeying orders, as Eichmann kept trying to explain, but through a peculiar giddiness that began in a half-acceptance of the vicious absurdities contained in the Nazi interpretation of history and grew with each of Hitler's victories into a permanent light-mindedness and sense of magical rightness that was able to respond to any proposal, and the more outrageous the better, `` Well, let's try it ''.

A substantial rise in new orders and sales of durable goods was reported for last month.

they had orders to that effect straight from President Kennedy, who thought at first, as did most others, that it was four followers of Cuba's Fidel Castro who had taken over the 707.

The expedition was under orders to make a swift survey of conditions and then to return to Earth.

Zollicoffer decided it was impossible to obey orders to return to the other side of the river because of scarcity of transport and proximity of Union troops.

In 2010, a subclade of Apiidae named Dipsapiidae was defined to consist of the three orders Apiales, Paracryphiales, and Dipsacales.

However, it was held by the Supreme Court that an affidavit can be used as an evidence only if the Court so orders for sufficient reasons.

It was sacred duty to execute the abbot's orders, and even to act without his orders was sometimes considered a transgression.

Aachen Cathedral was erected on the orders of Charlemagne in AD 786 and was on completion the largest cathedral north of the Alps.

In the congress of 371 BC an altercation is recorded between him and the Theban general Epaminondas, and due to his influence Thebes was peremptorily excluded from the peace, and orders given for Cleombrotus to march against Thebes in 371 BC.

It was widely suspected that Germanicus had been poisoned or perhaps on the orders of Tiberius, with Agrippina believing he was assassinated.

She was banished on Tiberius ’ orders to the island of Pandataria ( now called Ventotene ) in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Campania.

The notorious guard Sejanus was murdered in 31 on the orders of Tiberius.

Her property was confiscated, she left Italy and on Agrippina's orders, she committed suicide.

Britannicus was secretly poisoned on Nero ’ s orders during a banquet in February 55.

His younger brother Isaac was threatened with execution under orders of their first-cousin once-removed Andronikos I Komnenos on September 11, 1185.

When the Spanish bishop and ascetic Priscillian, accused by his fellow bishops of heresy, was executed by the emperor Magnus Maximus under the charge of magic, Siricus — along with Ambrose of Milan and Martin of Tours — protested against this verdict.

The ascetic Priscillian of Avila was martyred by the Catholic usurper Magnus Maximus in 385, who was trying to prove his correct religious credentials against heretics, before the Visigothic period, and the persecution continued in subsequent generations as " Priscillianist " heretics were rooted out.

The tomb was found in a place used as a necropolis since the Late Roman Empire, so it is possible that the body belonged to a prominent person of the area: British historian Henry Chadwick hypothesized the tomb of Compostela actually hold the remains of Priscillian.

Priscillian ( died 385 ) was bishop of Ávila and a theologian from Roman Gallaecia ( in the Iberian Peninsula ), the first person in the history of Christianity to be executed for heresy ( though the civil charges were for the practice of magic ).

After a Priscillianist delegation to Hydatius was turned away, they appointed Priscillian bishop of Ávila, and the orthodox party found it necessary to appeal to the emperor Gratianus, who issued an edict threatening the sectarian leaders with banishment.

Priscillian appealed to the Emperor, with the unexpected result that, with six of his companions, he was beheaded at Trier in 385, the first Christian heretics to be put to death by Christians.

Latronianus, executed with Priscillian at Trier, was noted as a poet worthy of the ancients by Jerome.

Priscillian perished for insisting that it was such ".

The long prevalent estimation of Priscillian as a heretic and Manichaean rested upon Augustine, Turibius of Astorga, Leo the Great and Orosius ( who quotes a fragment of a letter of Priscillian's ), although at the Council of Toledo in 400, fifteen years after Priscillian's death, when his case was reviewed, the most serious charge that could be brought was the error of language involved in a misrendering of the word innascibilis (" unbegettable ").

Priscillian was long honored as a martyr, not heretic, especially in Gallaecia ( modern Galicia and northern Portugal ), where his body was reverentially returned from Trier.

The possibility that a cult of James was instituted to supplant the Galician cult of Priscillian ( executed in 385 ) who was widely venerated across the north of Iberia as a martyr at the hands of the bishops rather than as a heretic should not be overlooked.

This was cautiously raised by Henry Chadwick in his book on Priscillian ; it is not the traditional Roman Catholic view.

Priscillian was described as " a man of noble birth, of great riches, bold, restless, eloquent, learned through much reading, very ready at debate and discussion " ( Sulpicius Severus, " Histor.

In defiance Priscillian was ordained to the priesthood and appointed Bishop of Avila.

This decision was reported to the emperor, who killed Priscillian and several of his followers ; the property of others was confiscated and they were banished.

In 385, Priscillian, a bishop in Spain, was the first Christian to be executed for heresy, though the most prominent church leaders rejected this verdict.

In the early 20th century, there was a theory according to which Priscillian of Ávila ( died 385 ) was the author of the Comma.