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 ''??

The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.

`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

`` It was a terrible thing to do.

It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

It was the wrong thing to say.

One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.

This was the worst thing I could have said.

The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.

And in the hunting land, this hunger was considered to be a noble thing.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).

But the most notable thing about the incantation of these ex-liberals was that the one-time shibboleth of socialism was conspicuously absent.

One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

It was a somewhat unusual thing for a reporter to have a contract in those days before the epidemic of syndicated columnists.

They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.

The man, Tom said, explained that it was not only too long and detailed but that as it stood it wasn't the sort of thing the public wanted.

It was one thing to call men to the colors ; ;

Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.

The playing of the Ride is such a strong tradition that the music was used during Apollo 17 to awaken Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a Caltech alumnus.

* Maxie, a dachshund owned by actress Marie Prevost, tried to awaken his dead mistress, who was found with small bites on her legs.

Kid learns of her heritage as princess Schala of Zeal, a meek girl who was coerced to help awaken Lavos with her magical power.

" The supposed quotation was abbreviated in the film Pearl Harbor ( 2001 ), where it merely read, " I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant.

His great work was to awaken in the breasts of his countrymen an enthusiasm for the poetry and religion of their ancestors, and this he performed to so complete an extent that his name remains to this day synonymous with Scandinavian romance.

" The result of such advice was to awaken immediately all the insecurity in the non-musical part of Bruckner's personality ," musicologist Deryck Cooke writes.

In 1941, Wyler directed one of the key films that galvanized support for Britain and against the Nazis in an America slow to awaken to the threat in Europe, it was Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), a story of a middle class English family adjusting to the war in Europe.

Maugham ’ s suggestion that he " invented nothing " was a source of annoyance for Christopher Isherwood, who helped him translate a verse 1. 3. 14 from the Katha Upanishads for the novel ’ s epigraph-उत ् त ि ष ् ठ ज ा ग ् रत प ् र ा प ् य वर ा न ् न ि ब ो धत | क ् ष ु रस ् य ध ा र ा न ि श ि त ा द ु रत ् यय ा द ु र ् ग ं पथस ् तत ् कवय ो वदन ् त ि || ( uttiShTha jAgrata prApya varAn_nibodhata | kShurasya dhArA nihitA duratyayA pathas_tat_-avayo vadanti || )-which means " Rise, awaken, seek the wise and realize.

The most important ceremony of the Pawnee culture, the Spring Awakening ceremony, was meant to awaken the earth and ready it for planting.

One reason was because one of the police officers in the area had their car flipped over as it was on its way to sound the sirens to awaken the mostly asleep town.

After he left Mr Simmons's school his appearance was so sickly as to awaken fears of the presence of phthisis.

" They made me laugh and cry, and that was exactly what I was waiting for in a film: to awaken me to my feelings.

The rapacity caught up to the upper classes of the Army, it was observed, writes Mariano Sainz, which houses many old paintings disappeared and artistic valuables unable to awaken the greed of the soldier.

" Guggenheim was persuaded to awaken and dress ; Bedroom Steward Henry Samuel Etches helped him on with a lifebelt and a heavy sweater before sending him, Giglio, and the two ladies up to the Boat Deck.

Dorsey began taking sleeping pills regularly at this time ; therefore, he was so sedated that he was unable to awaken and died from choking.