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.

The wind of their running was cold and wild, the horses were lathered and their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

The one thing they had in common was their hatred.

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.

There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets of water against the huge seam of tertiary gravel which was the mountainside.

Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.

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.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

Such ranchers as Coble and Clay and the Bosler brothers carried him on their books as a cowhand even while he was receiving a much larger salary from parties unknown.

The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.

It was as if they could hardly wait to get into their costumes, cover their faces with masks and go adventuring.

The water level was higher than their hubs.

It was a trick they used to try and conceal their identity when they followed trucks to check their speed.

The slight flutter that had disturbed the motion of her heart when she entered the forest was gone now, and even the dim groves of trees through which she occasionally passed did not reawaken her fear.

And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.

The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

It was this fear which explained the development of a priestly caste whose function in society was to mollify and appease the angry deities.

The work for Commonweal was more satisfying than work for Commentary `` because of the staff's tiptoeing fear of making a booboo ''.

President Kennedy was right when he said, `` We shall never negotiate out of fear and we never shall fear to negotiate ''.

and I know that I, myself, was nauseated with apprehension and fear and that my hands were soaking wet where they held my gun.

They marched with bayonets fixed, and as fixed on their faces was anger, fear, and torment.

The result, dramatically visible in a matter of days in the family's disrupted daily functioning, was a phobic-like fear that some terrible harm would befall the second twin, whose birth had not been anticipated.

Word reached the company that the man behind these depredations was Manuel Gonzales, a man with many followers, including a number who were kept in line through fear of him.

It was only after we had responded, with what I fear were similar cliches, that she went into action by questioning our desire for friendship and understanding with a challenge about aggressive and warlike actions by the U.S. Government in Cuba and Laos.

Not through fear of disobeying orders, as Eichmann kept trying to explain, but through a peculiar giddiness that began in a half-acceptance of the vicious absurdities contained in the Nazi interpretation of history and grew with each of Hitler's victories into a permanent light-mindedness and sense of magical rightness that was able to respond to any proposal, and the more outrageous the better, `` Well, let's try it ''.

She had skipped her lunch hour in the fear that he might call while she was out.

But her walk was too steady, too slow, telegraphing her fear.

Mostly, it was fear, but this woman's voice didn't tremble and her hands were still on the coverlet.

I was afraid to look for fear the evil might still be going on.

While Kierkegaard's feeling of angst is fear of actual responsibility to God, in modern use, angst was broadened by the later existentialists to include general frustration associated with the conflict between actual responsibilities to self, one's principles, and others ( possibly including God ).

In Art and Artist ( 1932 ), the psychologist Otto Rank wrote that the psychological trauma of birth was the pre-eminent human symbol of existential anxiety and encompasses the creative person's simultaneous fear of – and desire for – separation, individuation and differentiation.

Kirk's cousin, Graham of Duchray, was then to claim that the spectre of Kirk had visited him in the night, and told him that he had been carried off by the Fairies.

Having left his widow expecting a child, the spectre of Kirk told Graham that he would appear at the baptism, whereupon Graham was to throw an iron knife at the apparition, thus freeing Kirk from the Fairies ' clutches.

However, when Kirk's spectre appeared, Graham was apparently too shocked by the vision to throw the knife, and Kirk's ghost faded away forever.

He forcefully argued that this transformation was necessary to avoid the spectre of revolution that would otherwise shake society.

The United States ' response was " very different but just as deep an instinctual reaction ... the United States have an almost neurotic sense of vulnerability ... its two coastlines, its two theatres, its two navies are separated by the entire length of the New World ... she lives with ... the nightmare of having one day to fight a decisive sea battle without the benefit of concentration, the perpetual spectre of naval ' war on two fronts '.

Any chance of an upset victory was dashed as the spectre of internal revolution and a government oblivious to the peril dominated the public consciousness.

In later Greek mythology, her role was reduced to a species of Hecate a spectre called an empuse or empusa ( pl.

Although the Liberals had traditionally been peace oriented, the German invasion of Belgium in violation of treaties angered the nation and raised the spectre of German control of the entire continent, which was intolerable.

Biographer Gerald Astor stated that " Joe Louis ' early boxing career was stalked by the spectre of Jack Johnson.

In the same year he wrote Morning Heroes, a work for narrator, chorus and orchestra, written in the hope of exorcising the spectre of the First World War: " Although the war had been over for more than ten years, I was still troubled by frequent nightmares ; they all took the same form.

Paris was in the grip of the Reign of Terror, hanging over him was the spectre of suspicion, Custine himself was under arrest for failing in the field and would shortly die on the scaffold.

Martin Luther, who believed that the dead were unconscious, read that it was " the Devil's ghost ", whereas John Calvin, who did believe in the immortal soul, read that " it was not the real Samuel, but a spectre.

" The spectre of appeasement was raised in discussions of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

The spectre of civil war was also raised — the Ulstermen began to form paramilitary groups such as the Ulster Volunteers, and there was a strong possibility that if it came to fighting the British Army would have to be sent in to support the underfunded and understaffed Royal Irish Constabulary.

In 1955, then U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy announced, to the organization United Cerebral Palsy, that the institute was " planning to launch an all-out attack against the dread spectre of cerebral palsy ".

Spectral evidence was testimony that the accused witch's spirit ( i. e. spectre ) appeared to the witness in a dream or vision ( for example, a black cat or wolf ).

In reality, Elizabeth Proctor was initially named by Ann Putnam on March 6, alleging that Proctor's spectre attacked the girl.

The campaign met with little success except in Wexford where a number of massacres of loyalist civilians who were largely Protestant raised the spectre of sectarianism which was seized upon by enemies of the United Irishmen to weaken their non-sectarian appeal.

In Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy he references the spectre adjectivally, saying: " And at one point it was that a wier-wier, one of the solitary water-birds of this region, uttered its ouphe and barghest cry, flying from somewhere near into some darker recess within the woods.

In 1966, the success of the rival AFL, the spectre of the NFL's losing more stars to the AFL, and concern over a costly " bidding war " for players precipitated by the NFL's Giants ' signing of Pete Gogolak, who was under contract to the AFL's Buffalo Bills, led the two leagues to discuss a merger.