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

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

There was no one but me.

The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

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.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

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.

The one thing they had in common was their hatred.

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.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

That was another one of those traps.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

All the doors were open at this hour except one, and it was toward this that Stevens made his way with Russ close at his shoulder.

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 ''??

One of the most interesting findings was the extreme sensitivity of plasma arylesterases to rare earth ions.

She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

In 1890 when the trip to Europe and the Holy Land was arranged for Miss Packard, it was Miss Upton who planned the trip, and `` with rare executive ability '' bore the brunt of `` the entire pilgrimage from beginning to end ''.

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.

Generally, there is no trial in an appellate court, only consideration of the record of the evidence presented to the trial court and all the pre-trial and trial court proceedings are reviewed — unless the appeal is by way of re-hearing, new evidence will usually only be considered on appeal in " very " rare instances, for example if that material evidence was unavailable to a party for some very significant reason such as prosecutorial misconduct.

Meteoric iron was very rare and valuable, and difficult for ancient people to work.

Tin was rare, however, being found mostly in Great Britain.

The ability to modify the hardness of steel by heat treatment had been known since 1100 BC, and the rare material was valued for use in tool and weapon making.

At extremely rare intervals the thermometer has fallen below zero (- 18 ° C ), as was the case in the remarkable cold wave of the 12th-13 February 1899, when an absolute minimum of-17 ° F (- 29 ° C ) was registered at Valley Head.

The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was then rare in the West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchanging letters.

Such a " wild type " allele was historically regarded as dominant, common, and " normal ", in contrast to " mutant " alleles regarded as recessive, rare, and frequently deleterious.

A rare discovery of metal plates belonging to wooden doors was made at Balawat ( Imgur-Enlil ).

The colonists enjoyed butter in cooking as well, but it was rare prior to the American Revolution, as cattle were not yet plentiful.

According to Hyginus Artemis once loved Orion ( in spite of the late source, this version appears to be a rare remnant of her as the pre-Olympian goddess, who took consorts, as Eos did ), but was tricked into killing him by her brother Apollo, who was " protective " of his sister's maidenhood.

Before her, erotica written by women was rare, with a few notable exceptions, such as the work of Kate Chopin.

This portability feature, however, requires a portable television, which was extremely rare in the early 1980s.

In the Middle Ages, regicide was rare in Western Europe, but it was a recurring theme in the Eastern Roman Empire.

Previously, americium was named after a continent as its analogue europium, and curium honored scientists Marie and Pierre Curie as the lanthanide above it, gadolinium, was named after the explorer of the rare earth elements Johan Gadolin.

Their analysis revealed that sufficient lift was generated by " the unconventional combination of short, choppy wing strokes, a rapid rotation of the wing as it flops over and reverses direction, and a very fast wing-beat frequency ".

But she wisely withdrew ( and was replaced with the much younger Holland Taylor ) after one preview performance, citing " artistic differences ", and the show went on to open and close on the same night, becoming known as one of the most legendary flops in Broadway history.

Twardzik drafted several flops, such as Todd Fuller ( while Kobe Bryant was still available ) and Steve Logan ( who never played an NBA game ).

By the end of the 1940 ′ s however, Rank had ran up an overdraft of £ 16 million ( the equivalent of £ 364. 5 million in 2012 ), mainly due to big budget flops such as the 1946 Caesar and Cleopatra, which was originally budgeted at £ 250, 000., but which eventually cost £ 1, 278, 000 ( the equivalent of £ 33 million ) and many of the studios famous directors being lured away by rival companies who promised greater independence.

Many movie insiders have argued that United Artists was already struggling at the time with the box office flops of Cruising and Foxes, both released earlier in 1980 ( the former film was not even produced by UA ).

In the mid-1960s two of Burke's younger brothers, Alex ( born 1948 in Philadelphia ) and Laddie ( born 1949 in Philadelphia ), joined with fellow Germantown High School students, brothers Earl and Timmy Smith to form The Showstoppers, who had a couple of local hit singles in Philadelphia on Showtime Records in 1968, including a # 11 hit on the UK Singles Chart with " Ain't Nothin ' But a Houseparty " b / w " How Easy Your Heart Forgets Me " ( Heritage HE-800 ), which peaked at # 87 on the Billboard chart in 1968, which was later a discothèque hit (# 33 ) in 1971, just before the group disbanded after a series of flops.

His criticism of American film production, in addition to the fact that the films he greenlit were mostly flops, left Coke and Hollywood discerned that Puttnam was ousted from the position after only one year.

( This scene was parodied in the MGM musical Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ), where a preview of the fictional The Dueling Cavalier flops disastrously ).

The film flopped and was one of the first major flops of Valentino's leading man career.

Conway was part of one of the most infamous network TV flops ever: Turn-On, a countercultural sketch comedy show on ABC derided as a ripoff of NBC's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In ( ironically created and directed by Laugh-In's creator George Schlatter ).

During the 1980s and 1990s, Dern kept working but he was not able to hit the mark as he did before: after the films of the 70s, he got stuck with flops like Tattoo and All the Pretty Horses.

Although she was not a member of the school, Petula Clark was under contract to Rank for a period of time and starred in a number of films released by the studio, including London Town ( 1946 ), one of the costliest flops in British film history.

A run of minor hits in 1966 was followed by a number of flops, and in March 1968 " It's Your Day Today " gave Proby his last UK chart entry for nearly 30 years.

After Dirty Dancing, Swayze found himself typecast and appeared in several flops, of which Road House was the most successful.

This was one of several reasons for the commercial failure of one of Hollywood's first flops, Intolerance.

The studio had suffered a string of expensive flops, culminating in the box-office disaster Cleopatra ( 1963 ) and was in dire need of money.

After a series of flops, Chopra was cast in Madhur Bhandarkar's Fashion ( 2008 ) for the lead role of Meghna Mathur.

Geena Davis, cast as the female lead through her ties with then-husband, the director Renny Harlin, was already an established A-lister, but was already coming off of a string of flops.

The first part of his intended trilogy ' Le Genre Humain ', ' Les Parisiens ' was described in Paris Match as one of the most resounding flops of French cinema.

It was soon discontinued after failing to become popular despite a massive marketing campaign and now is considered one of the most expensive flops of all time.

The next two years followed with a list of box office flops, although he was noted for acting alongside his father in the teen slasher film Kucch To Hai ( 2003 ).