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.

He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

The Senate to him was not the `` upper body '' and he corrected those who said he served `` under '' the president.

Whenever the place was cleaned or a meal served it was Precious who did the work.

During the rest of the summer my scholarly mania for making plaster casts and spatter prints of Catskill flowers and leaves was all but surpassed by the constantly renewed impressions of Jessica that my mind served up to me for contemplation and delight.

Oyster salt roast -- oysters on the half shell, cooked on a bed of coarse salt that kept them hot when served -- was a standby at Manning's.

For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.

He was copious in his praise of those that served food that was good to eat.

A month later the General Court served notice to the town of Newbury that the bridge was to be built.

At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;

The times I can recall when I was publicly humiliated by him -- lovely dinner parties in our Trianon Suite where the collation was postponed and postponed and postponed, only to be served dry and overcooked at a table where the host's chair was vacant ; ;

In spite of normal thyroid function tests, a trial of propylthiouracil, 400 mg. daily for one week, was given but served only to intensify muscle weakness.

A mild electrical shock served as a conditioned stimulus and was followed by feeding.

Each girl was independently `` tested '' by the personnel man, and he served not only as the director, but as the antagonist and the observer.

The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

A hypothetical issue of this sort might deal with the establishment of a free public junior college in a community where there already was a good private college which served the middle-class youth adequately but was too expensive for working-class youth.

Bubble tea came into existence in Taiwan, when the beverage was created during the 1980s.

The beverage was well received by the people at the meeting, leading to its inclusion on the menu, ultimately becoming the franchise's top-selling product.

The group selected was led by John Antonucci, an Ohio beverage distributor, and Michael I. Monus, the head of the Phar-Mor drugstore chain.

Cocoa mass was used originally in Mesoamerica both as a beverage and as an ingredient in foods.

However, the Coes write that xicalli referred to the gourd out of which the beverage was consumed and that the use of a frothing stick ( known as a molinollo ) was a product of creolisation between the Spanish and Aztec ; the original frothing method used by the indigenous people was simply pouring the drink from a height into another vessel.

The residues found and the kind of vessel they were found in indicate the initial use of cacao was not simply as a beverage, but the white pulp around the cacao beans was likely used as a source of fermentable sugars for an alcoholic drink.

What the Spaniards then called " chocolatl " was said to be a beverage consisting of a chocolate base flavored with vanilla and other spices that was served cold.

Cola is a carbonated beverage that was originally flavored and caffeinated by the kola nut, as well as by vanilla and other ingredients.

Some establishments have given name to a particular meal or beverage, as is the case with the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, United States where the Waldorf Salad was first created or the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, Austria, home of the Sachertorte.

Moxie is a carbonated beverage that was one of the first mass-produced soft drinks in the United States.

Another focus of large-scale agro-processing was the yerba maté bush, whose leaves produced the potent tea that is the national beverage.

Feltham claimed that in 18th-century London a popular beverage called " three threads " was made consisting of a third of a pint each of ale, beer and twopenny ( the strongest beer, costing tuppence a quart ).

Curiously, in this application, Caleb Bradham states that the trademark had been continuously used in his business " and those from whom title is derived since in the 1905 application the description submitted to the USPTO was for a tonic beverage.

Another technology, that according to one hypothesis originally was brought from Europe by Italians, resulted in the development of vodka, the national beverage of Russia.

Romulan ale is a fictional popular blue alcoholic beverage which was illegal because of a Federation trade embargo in the late 23rd century ( per Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ) through the late 24th century ( per Star Trek Nemesis ).

In the 18th century, Engelbert Kaempfer and Isaac Titsingh published accounts identifying sake as a popular alcoholic beverage in Japan ; but Titsingh was the first to try to explain and describe the process of sake brewing.

The beer was usually weak in alcoholic content and used as an everyday beverage.

The law stated that when one purchased a drink, the bartender was to place over the mouth of the mug or goblet a cover or lid containing some small quantity of food as part of the purchase of the beverage.

By the mid-17th century, the drink was popular in England under the name " vermouth " which has been the common name for the beverage until the present day.

At the time, the word vodka ( wódka ), referred to chemical compounds such as medicines and cosmetics ' cleansers, while the popular beverage was called gorzałka ( from the Old Polish gorzeć meaning " to burn "), which is also the source of Ukrainian horilka ( горілка ).