But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

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 herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

He soon started to write short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through Harlan Ellison's help, his short story " The River Styx Runs Upstream " was published and awarded first prize in a Twilight Zone Magazine story competition.

Lethe ( lee-thee ), the river of forgetfulness, was one of the five rivers of the Greek underworld, the other four being Styx ( the river of hate ), Akheron ( the river of sorrow ), Kokytos ( the river of lamentation ) and Phlegethon ( the river of fire ).

As goddess of death she was also called a daughter of Zeus and Styx, the river that formed the boundary between Earth and the underworld.

* Robert Orin Charles Kilroy ( ROCK ), from the Styx rock opera Kilroy was here-see Mr. Roboto

In 2000, REO teamed up with Styx for an appearance at Riverport Amphitheater in St. Louis, which was released as a live concert video Arch Allies: Live at Riverport.

Styx was primarily a feature in the afterworld of Greek mythology, and similar to the Christian area of Hell in texts such as The Divine Comedy and " Paradise Lost ".

Styx was also the name of the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.

Styx supported Zeus in the Titanomachy where she was the first to rush to his aid.

This method resembles the Ancient Greek practice of placing an obolus in the corpse's mouth to pay the toll to cross the River Styx in the underworld ; it has been argued that instead, the coin was intended to ward off any evil spirits from entering the body, and this may have influenced later vampire folklore.

A North American tour took place that was co-headlined with Styx and a following European tour concluded in December.

In Greek mythology, Bia (, English translation: " Force ") was the personification of force, daughter of Pallas and Styx, and sister of Nike, Kratos, and Zelus.

In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon ( Φλεγέθων, English translation: " flaming ") or Pyriphlegethon ( Πυριφλεγέθων, English translation: " fire-flaming ") was one of the five rivers in the infernal regions of the underworld, along with the rivers Styx, Lethe, Cocytus, and Acheron.

" It was parallel to the river Styx.

It is said that the goddess Styx was in love with Phlegethon, but she was consumed by his flames and sent to Hades.

In Greek mythology, Kratos or Cratus ( Ancient Greek: Κράτος, English translation: " strength ") was the son of Pallas and Styx, and the personification of strength and power.

In Greek mythology, Zelus ( Greek: Ζῆλος, zeal ) was the son of Pallas and Styx.

Another account says her parents were Peiras and Styx ( according to Pausanias, who did not know who Peiras was aside from her father ).

In Greek mythology, Orphne, also known as Styx and Gorgyra, was a nymph that lived in Hades.

One of the first products of the decision was the SS-N-2 Styx missile.

In 1967, the Israeli Navy's destroyer Eilat was the first ship to be sunk by a ship-launched missile-a number of Styx missiles launched by Egyptian missile boats off the Sinai Peninsula.

) Similarly, American bands such as Lonestar, Styx, Blue Öyster Cult and Isaac Hayes ( whose lone hit in the UK, " Chocolate Salty Balls ," was in the " Chef " persona from South Park ) are one-hit wonders in the UK but not in their respective native countries.

In 1972 the band members decided to choose a new name when they signed to Wooden Nickel Records after a talent scout at a concert at St. John Of The Cross Church in Western Springs IL, James Young's home town. Several suggestions were made, and according to DeYoung, the name Styx ( the river in Greek mythology between Earth and the Underworld ) was chosen because it was " the only one that none of us hated ".

On the strength of these releases and constant playing in local clubs and schools, the band established a fan base in the Chicago area, but was unable to break into the mainstream until an earlier song, the power ballad " Lady " ( from Styx II ), began to earn some radio time, first on WLS in Chicago and then nationwide.