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The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.
`` Well '', he explained, `` s'posin' you was a nester swingin' the long rope??
If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.
`` Damn you, Adams '' -- Jess was beginning to recover from his initial shock.
If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.
`` Jackson recruited his critters, and him and me fixed up his wagon while we was waiting for you to catch up.
`` You owe it to Penny to give her a chance to explain that she was defending you, really '', he observed mildly.
Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.
You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??
`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.
In fact, I was watching you on that little seventeen-inch screen when you rang my bell.
Man, you rang -- it was in color, too, Miss, and Miss??
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
So if all these beers was to get me in bed, man, you just spent a lot of money ''.
As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.
`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??
Ernie was screaming inside himself: No, damn you, you ain't gonna take my meal ticket away from me!!
Yet implicit in each movement was the death of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, perhaps you and me -- and the experts.
`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
His reply was, `` Everything that has been printed derogatory to you, purporting to have come from me, was a betrayal, and nothing yet has been printed which I have sanctioned ''.
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The development of the AFV continued into World War I, when the tracked tank was introduced on the Western Front-a machine that was armoured because it was specifically designed to be fired upon.
This was probably the first tracked SPAAG manufactured in series.
The Calendar of Saints states that her first husband was poisoned by the holder of real power, his successor, Berengar of Ivrea, who attempted to cement his political power by forcing her to marry his son, Adalbert ; when she refused and fled, she was tracked down and imprisoned for four months at Como.
It was not until 1886 that the stolen base appeared as something to be tracked, but was only to " appear in the summary of the game ".
An early uncommon means of boat propulsion was referred to as the water caterpillar which is similar in construction to paddles on a conveyor belt and preceded the development of tracked vehicles such as military tanks and earth moving equipment.
Later, the Antikythera mechanism, invented some time around 100 AD in ancient Greece, was the first mechanical calculator utilizing gears of various sizes and configuration to perform calculations, which tracked the metonic cycle still used in lunar-to-solar calendars, and which is consistent for calculating the dates of the Olympiads.
In Ghana, most of the lines are single tracked, and in 1997 it was estimated that 32 kilometres were double tracked.
In January 2011, a gray whale that had been tagged in the western population was tracked as far east as the eastern population range off the coast of British Columbia.
Following the assassination, Booth fled on horseback to southern Maryland, eventually making his way to a farm in rural northern Virginia 12 days later, where he was tracked down.
Because Paradyzja was a space station, where all activity was tracked by automatic cameras and analysed ( mostly ) by computers, the people there created an Aesopian language, full of metaphors, impossible for computers to grasp.
Tony escaped the scene, but was tracked down with police dogs 40 minutes later in an airbase parking lot.
The first novel that Heinlein wrote, For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs ( 1939 ), did not see print during his lifetime, but Robert James tracked down the manuscript and it was published in 2003.
Experience and character advancement is still tracked with Karma, although Good was dropped from the name as it no longer needs to be distinguished from the old Karma Pool.
The next step was to mount the guns on a tracked chassis ( often that of an obsolete or superseded tank ) and provide an armoured superstructure to protect the gun and its crew.
The High Precision Tracking Experiment ( HPTE ), launched with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-G, was tested June 21, 1985 when a Hawaii-based low-power laser successfully tracked the experiment and bounced the laser off of the HPTE mirror.
The M81 gun had problems with cracks developing near the breech after repeated firing, a problem that was later tracked to the " key " on the missiles that ran in a slot cut into the barrel.
Aiming the missile was simple ; the gunner simply kept his gunsight on the target, while electronics in the sighting system tracked the missile optically and sent corrections through an IR link ( similar to a TV remote control ).
The 28th Division was reinforced with armor, tracked M29 Weasel transports and air support.
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He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.
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.
Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.
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.
Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.
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.
Russ visited two places without result and his blood pressure was down to zero.
Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.
He had no idea which was up and which was down.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.
She was watching a tree ride wildly down that roiling current.
He let down the tailgate and was knocked over by the sluice of water.
Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.
The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.
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.
Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;
and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.
`` I was down to 275.
`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.
`` Blessed Saint Nicholas, I thank thee for getting me out of that mess and sending me up instead of down when I was bewildered.
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