He had no idea how much time Budd would give him.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

When my Uncle offered me a part-time job which would take care of my normal expenses and give me time to paint I accepted.

only slightly more, perhaps, than a newspaper account of such an incident would give.

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.

I would say, too, that the study of literature tends to give a person what I shall call depth.

To give a patient the wrong type of blood, said the doctor, would likely kill him.

His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.

It is at precisely such moments that he encounters a couple of undergraduates, faces alight, holding hands and talking happily as they come along, oblivious of him, or throwing him the most fleeting and casual of glances, such as they would give a tethered goat.

Boxell looked at Lawrence with a searching glance, the kind that a prosecuting attorney would give a man on trial.

It would not give.

No fold could be accidental, each turn of the drapery had to serve organically, to cover the Madonna's slender legs and feet so that they would give substantive support to Christ's body, to intensify her inner turmoil.

Occasionally if I pushed him too far he'd give me a look out of narrowed eyes and the hard cruel bony skull would show through that smooth face of his.

There are other countries where, with skillful diplomacy, we may be able by our aid to give encouragement to those groups in government which would like to press forward with economic and social reform measures to promote growth.

The New York Central has pointed out that this control, if approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, would give the combined C. & O. - B. & O. Railroad a total of 185 points served in common with the New York Central.

Solid blocks are recommended because hollow blocks would have to be filled with concrete to give effective protection.

Letting the administration take details off their hands would give them more time to inform themselves about education as a whole, an area that would benefit by more faculty attention.

people who would give their teeth for a chance to get on `` Person to Person '' ; ;

From the equilibrium sorption data which are available, it seems logical to expect that polyphosphate ions would be strongly sorbed on the surface of the dirt ( especially clay soils ) so as to give it a greatly increased negative charge.

It is difficult to see any powerful sources of strength on the horizon at this time which would give the economy a new upward thrust.

They indicated that a 4-day retention, aerated lagoon would give 60 to 76 per cent BOD reduction.

One man remarked that if he had a hundred pounds, he would give ninety of them to be back in England.

Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).

The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

No girl would go this far to fool a man so she could kill him.

He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.

`` You brought him back to this valley thinkin he would help you find your boy.

With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.

Let Old Knife come up and kill you and your people, or would you steer him on someone else ''??

Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

She began it deliberately, so that none of her words would be lost on him.

It poured out of him like an electric current, a feeling that the muscles and nerves of his fine-drawn body were coiling for action, and that that action would be all that he anticipated.

An inch lower and it would have knocked him out.

Black would have little trouble getting out, but it might delay him a few minutes.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

A card to Walter would get him an introduction to this Meredith, and that might be good for something.

He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.

The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

she would talk to him in a soothing voice about things his mother would have said were not nice and put her hands on him and kiss him passionately.