The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.

The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

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.

A lamp burned inside, but Brannon, peering through the window, saw that the office was empty.

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.

Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.

It was a rough long ride through the mud and pot holes.

As far as he could see there was no hole to climb through it.

It was only a fifteen-minute flight, but before it was through Greg felt himself developing a case of claustrophobia.

There was no real sign of the river now, just a roiling, oily ribbon of liquid movement through muddy waters that reached everywhere.

Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

All he had to do was light the fuses of the dynamite sticks, run to within ten yards of an open window in the barn and hurl the sticks through.

Hands-off the economy was replaced by conscious guidance through planning -- the economic side of the constitutional revolution.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.

Dr. Isaacs was so pleased with the quality of her biographical study of Sara Sullam that he considered submitting it to the Century Magazine or Harper's but he decided that its Jewish subject probably would not interest them and published it in The Messenger, `` so our readers will be benefited instead ''.

Isaacs however claimed that ' Freud's " hallucinatory wish-fulfilment " and his .." introjection " and " projection " are the basis of the fantasy life '; and how far unconscious fantasy was a genuine development of Freud's ideas, how far it represented the formation of a new psychoanalytic paradigm, is perhaps the key question of the Controversial discussions.

The monarch may, in theory, decline the Prime Minister's advice and ask for another nomination or even appoint a person of his or her own choice, but no such cases have been recorded since November 1930, when James Scullin's proposed appointment of Sir Isaac Isaacs was fiercely opposed by the British government.

This was not because of any lack of regard for Isaacs personally, but because the British government considered that the choice of Governors-General was ( since the 1926 Imperial Conference ) a matter for the monarch's decision alone.

Despite these precedents, George V was still very reluctant to accept Scullin's recommendation of Sir Isaac Isaacs, and asked him to consider Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood.

Sir Isaac Isaacs was successively Commonwealth Attorney-General, a High Court judge, and Chief Justice.

In 1931, the transformation was concluded with the appointment of the first Australian Governor-General, Isaacs, and the first British Representative in Australia, Ernest Crutchley.

Isaacs was aided in this by Henry Francis Fynn, whose diary ( actually a rewritten collage of various papers ) was edited by James Stuart only in 1950.

The concept of a fish restaurant was introduced by Samuel Isaacs ( born 1856 in Whitechapel, London ; died 1939 in Brighton, Sussex ) who ran a thriving wholesale and retail fish business throughout London and the South of England in the latter part of the 19th century.

Sam Isaacs ' trademark was the phrase " This is the Plaice " combined with a picture of the punned-upon fish in question.

In 1913 Lloyd George, along with Attorney-General Rufus Isaacs, was involved in the Marconi scandal.

In his stead, the band used session musicians such as Irving ( who was no longer an official band member ), Snow, Steve Nieve, Bruce Hornsby and Carol Isaacs for the 1991 release Play, which came out on the Reprise label.

All three defendants were re-tried in 1988 and were again convicted ; however, only Carl Isaacs was sentenced to death, Coleman and Dungee receiving life sentences.

Carl Isaacs was executed on May 6, 2003 at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson, by lethal injection.

Billy Isaacs was released from prison in 1993.

Barton was one of only eight justices of the High Court to have served in the Parliament of Australia prior to his appointment to the Court ; the others were Richard O ' Connor, Isaac Isaacs, H. B. Higgins, Edward McTiernan, John Latham, Garfield Barwick, and Lionel Murphy.

McLaren was born to Pete McLaren, a Scottish engineer, and Emily Isaacs in post-World War II North London.

His father left when he was two and he was raised by his maternal grandmother, Rose Corre Isaacs, the formerly wealthy daughter of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish diamond dealers, in Stoke Newington.

He was knighted on 3 June 1932 by the Australian Governor-General Sir Isaac Isaacs for services to aviation and later was appointed honorary Air Commodore of the Royal Australian Air Force.

It was produced by Jeremy Isaacs, narrated by Laurence Olivier and has a score composed by Carl Davis.

Following the time of its completion, and as the Second World War remained fresh in many people's minds, the producer Jeremy Isaacs was considered ahead of his time in resurrecting studies of military history.