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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.

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He smoked, as did everybody, and imbibed the various alcoholic beverages of that day, although his protestations while at Cambridge and after that he was no drunkard point to reasonable abstinence from the wild drinking bouts of some of the undergraduates and, we must add, of some of their elders including many of the regents or teachers.
In reading their minute directions for divers degrees of abstinence on various days, it is impossible to avoid being struck by the conviction that the great object of the framers of these rules was the general purpose of ensuring an ascetic mode of life.
His time in London was influenced by a vow he had made to his mother upon leaving India, in the presence of a Jain monk, to observe the Hindu precepts of abstinence from meat and alcohol as well as of promiscuity.
One book states that periodic abstinence was recommended " by a few secular thinkers since the mid-nineteenth century ," but the dominant force in the twentieth century popularization of fertility awareness-based methods was the Roman Catholic Church.
World War I began a return to sexual freedom and indulgence, but more often than not, the appearance of conforming to the earlier moral values of abstinence before marriage was retained.
Some cultural groups continued to place a value on the moral purity of an abstainer, but abstinence was caught up in a wider reevaluation of moral values.
During the early 20th century, prominent feminist and birth control advocate Margaret Sanger argued that abstinence from sexual activity led to greater endurance and strength, and was a sign of the best of the species:
Before this, though there were diatribes published against drunkenness and excess, total abstinence from alcohol was very rarely advocated or practised.
The League of the Cross was a Catholic total abstinence organisation founded in 1873 by Cardinal Manning.
From 1880 to 1882 the cause of abstinence was revived by the Gospel Temperance or Blue Ribbon movement, based in America.
Celibacy may have been a condition of their office ; sexual abstinence was, according to Ovid, required of those attending Ceres ' major, nine-day festival.
The ceremony was supposed to promote fertility, but the women prepared for it with sexual abstinence.
Sexual abstinence was only one aspect of ascetic renunciation.
A committee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America released a report in 1993 after four years of study that asked Lutherans to consider blessing gay marriage and said that lifelong abstinence was harmful to gay and lesbian couples.
The purpose of the WCTU was to create a " sober and pure world " by abstinence, purity and evangelical Christianity.
It felt that the best way to remove poverty was through abstinence from alcohol.
This was seen as a sign of restraint and abstinence, but was also related to concerns of modesty ; in artistic representations, it was seen as obscene and offensive to show a long penis and the penis's head in particular.
Jacques claimed that his calculated vagueness was the result of his " reliance on cannabis ", although Le Mesurier stated that he only smoked the drug while undergoing his period of abstinence, claiming that it was not to his taste.
Subsequently he continued his abstinence, saying that, as he was already half-way on the road to death, he would not trouble to retrace his steps.
From 1870 there was a steady decline in fertility, linked not to a rise in the use of artificial contraception but to more traditional methods such as withdrawal and abstinence ( Szreter ; Fisher ).

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