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They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.
The feathered lance was still above his head.
It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.
At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.
Mercifully, it was still open.
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.
Miraculously, the bottle was still in my hand, foam still geysering over my ( luckily ) waterproof watch.
She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.
The keys were still in it, and I was miles away before I remembered that my clothes and purse and everything were still in the little cabana where I'd changed ''.
Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.
This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.
The laces were broken at the bottom of the eyelets but there was still a bow knot at the top.
The marine was still.
Madame Lalaurie gestured with her riding crop toward the 20-year-old youth who was stomping and writhing with the king snake still draped over his bare shoulders.
He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.
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He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.
Mike debated it, trying to decide whether Fiske was strong enough to ride.
The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.
He had found Curt's weakness, or what to Jess was a weakness, and was smart enough to take advantage of it.
The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
There was not enough room to make the usual vertical bomb run.
Again Steinberg was cautious and replied with a smile that he was not exposed to it enough to hazard comments.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.
Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.
The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.
`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.
Little enough joy was afforded Wright in the spring of 1925, when another destructive fire broke out at Taliesin.
But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.
That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.
I was in charge of the arrangements -- which were soon enough disarranged.
As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.
The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.
Boniface was later to explain to the English that Robert of Burgundy and Guy De St.-Pol were easy enough to do business with ; ;
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Following his education at Balliol, Huxley was financially indebted to his father and had to earn a living.
Precocious but reserved and often bored, she was searching for more independent activities and a desire to earn some money of her own whilst dutifully taking care of her parents, dealing with her especially demanding mother, and managing their various households.
This was perhaps the game that helped the Cowboys of the era begin to earn the sobriquet " Next Year's Champions ".
Because of his lack of commercial success, Bowie was forced to try to earn a living in different ways.
Mistreated and starved, the imprisoned Louis XVII was forced to confess to incest with his mother, Queen Marie-Antoinette, ( untrue ; separated early, son and mother were disallowed communication, nevertheless, the allegation helped earn her the guillotine ).
He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
Meanwhile, Draper was forced to move to Europe to earn a living.
In his younger days, he was noted more for his athletic prowess than his intellectual abilities, although he did earn good grades in every subject except for spelling.
Years later, Blair mordantly recalled his prep school in the essay " Such, Such Were the Joys ", claiming among other things that he " was made to study like a dog " to earn a scholarship, which he alleged was solely to enhance the school's prestige with parents.
The Fédération Internationale des Échecs ( FIDE, or World Chess Federation ) was formed in Paris in 1924, but at that time did not formulate criteria on who should earn the title.
In 1934, she earned a Ph. D. in mathematics from Yale under the direction of Øystein Ore .< ref > Though some books, including Kurt Beyer's Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, reported that Hopper was the first woman to earn a Yale PhD in mathematics, the first of ten women prior to 1934 was Charlotte Cynthia Barnum ( 1860-1934 ).
Despite those concessions, the minimum daily rate in 1991 was only US $ 1. 75 for workers employed by small agricultural enterprises and US $ 3. 15 for workers in the big exporting concerns ; most workers did not earn the minimum wage.
Greenberg was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, became the very first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 / year in salary ( he was paid $ 100, 000, ($ today ) plus $ 25, 000 that his contract with Detroit called for in the event they sold or traded him ).
She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Based on these facts, it would appear that midwifery in the East was a respectable profession in which respectable women could earn their livelihoods and enough esteem to publish works read and cited by male physicians.
The collection as a whole was valued at over $ 150 million, while the work was originally expected to earn $ 80 million at auction.
His principle ever after was: work as hard as you can, earn all you can, save all you can, and then give all you can.
New Worlds author Thomas Disch would not earn better quotes from Budrys in the December 1966 review for his " ineptly written " The Genocide, a work of " unrelieved trash " which was filled with a horde of " dumb, resigned victims.
All Perry did that summer was post a 21 – 6 record and a 2. 73 earned run average, edging Montreal's Ross Grimsley to earn the Padres ' second Cy Young Award in three seasons.
Rookie running back Ricky Ervins was also a major asset to the running attack, rushing 145 times for 680 yards to earn an average of 4. 7 yards per carry, while also catching 16 passes for 181 yards.
It was the turning point in Sydney's season, as they would earn some revenge of its own in a controversial preliminary final later that year, winning by 31 points and denying the Saints a place in the grand final.
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