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.

" Waiting Room " was featured on The Wildhearts covers album Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before Vol 1.

Torabi was covering for Jon Poole who was by now doubling as bass player for The Wildhearts and was busy rehearsing for the latter band's upcoming tour.

* The live portion of the video for The Wildhearts ' " Stormy In The North, Karma In The South " was filmed at The Astoria in 2002.

In 1998 Andersson, together with former band mate Dregen, Ginger ( from The Wildhearts ) and Thomas Skogsberg formed Supershit 666, the band's music was very reminiscent of the early Hellacopters sound.

However, the band continued with former Amen bassist Scott Sorry replacing Sixx while Ginger, of The Wildhearts, was added as the band's second guitarist.

However, by 2005, Guns decided to continue without Sixx, adding former Amen bassist Scott Sorry as his replacement while Ginger, of The Wildhearts, was added as the band's second guitarist.

This was followed by their first UK tour in 13 years, with the band playing five dates as support for the The Wildhearts in December 2007.

The single was the first from the controversial album Endless Nameless and the first officially released Wildhearts song to feature someone other than Ginger on lead vocals, in this case bassist Danny McCormack.

Silver Ginger 5 was originally formed in 1999 as a solo project for Ginger, lead singer / songwriter of The Wildhearts.

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 ; ;

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.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.

A single value of the thermal relaxation time Af at room temperature was measured by the progressive saturation method.

A single measurement of the spin - spin relaxation time Af was obtained at 10 Mc/sec by pulse methods.

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.

In order to be able to properly relate the data for a single company each of the three cards comprising the set for each firm was identified with the appropriate serial number of the respondent.

It was concluded that it would be appropriate to process the two groups of responses as a single sample of all small businesses engaged in, or wishing to sell to, defense programs.

A small single switchboard was installed in the Village over Woodcock's hardware store ( later E. H. Hemenway's ).

But not a single human life was lost, and property damage in the Hawaiian Islands did not exceed $800,000.

She knew also that I was unmarried and without a single known relative.

A single automobile was parked half-way up the block on the left-hand side.

Lemon was on with his fourth single of the game, a liner to center.

Turk Lown was tagged with the loss, his second against no victories, while Ray Moore won his second game against a single loss.

Now all he had to do was finish in even par to collect the trophy and the biggest single paycheck in golf.

On display were 343 first-class paintings and sculptures from his fabled collection -- and every single one of them was up for sale.

The D Minor Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2, introduced by dynamically shaped arpeggios, was most engaging in its moments of quasi-recitative -- single lines in which the fingers seemed to be feeling their way toward the idea to come.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism.

This central charge would thus be approximately half the atomic weight ( though it was almost 25 % off the figure for the atomic number in gold ( Z = 79, A = 197 ), the single element from which Rutherford made his guess ).

This was the case, for instance, in the Weapon Shop series, the Mixed Men series and in single stories such as " Heir Apparent ", whose protagonist was described as a " benevolent dictator ".