When he got closer to the tree, Matsuo noted the wild look on his face.

When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.

Awkwardly with one hand Matsuo got the cap back on the water bottle.

Early that day Matsuo saw a marine.

The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.

`` Come out, come out in the meadow '', Matsuo said under his breath.

Matsuo lifted his rifle, easing the sling under his left upper arm for steadiness.

Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.

Matsuo repeatedly choked down his own nausea.

Humiliation made Matsuo tremble.

Taking aim at the man's face, Matsuo squeezed the trigger up to the point of discharge, and then he changed his mind.

Like a mischievous boy expecting punishment, Matsuo awaited reaction from the jungle.

Matsuo puzzled and grew anxious over the complete passiveness, concluding that he was the butt of a devilish joke.

The bobbing head was a poor target, so Matsuo shot him in the upper trunk.

In the hush that followed the echoes, Matsuo was tense.

Matsuo jumped when the hidden arm flopped out.

Maintaining his clutch on the hair, Matsuo watched the closed eyes while rummaging in the jacket pockets.

Matsuo put the bottle to his own lips.

Matsuo shook his head.

Matsuo took the small knife from its scabbard and laid it on the ground, out of the marine's reach and away from their shadows.

The sun was noon high and Matsuo perspired until his body was dripping.

Matsuo shook his head.

With a firm grip on the man's hair Matsuo applied the blade flat on a cheek.

Matsuo stood up.

But he came toward me sedately enough, showed me around the counter, offered me a seat inside his office, then walked to a file cabinet and got out my application.

She'd driven around for a while, Joyce said, then, thinking Louis Thor would have calmed down by that time, she'd gone back to his home on Bryn Mawr Drive, parked in front, and walked toward the pool.

Lieutenant Rawlins, one of the plain-clothesmen, spotted me and said, `` Hi, Shell '', and walked toward me.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

We drove close to the boulder, stopped the Land Rover, and walked over toward the family.

He walked toward the center of the city to keep his rendezvous with Styka.

Then Angelina turned and with an easy grace walked toward the kitchen.

Outside I walked past the entrance to St. Sophia, turned left at the end of it, and continued toward a gate in the wall ahead.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

They walked toward each other.

Actually, he regretted having opened his mouth when the truck came to a stop and the angry driver jumped down from the cab and walked back toward them.

A young man appeared out of a side alley and walked toward us with quick strides.

" But almost every afternoon, toward the end of working hours, he came in person to the office and often walked with me in person through the streets, boulevards, and squares all the way home to Potapov Street.

The grace of sanctification draws one toward the gift of Christian perfection, which Wesley described as a heart " habitually filled with the love of God and neighbor " and as " having the mind of Christ and walking as he walked.

The Earps and Holliday walked west, down the south side of Fremont Street, out of visual range of the Cowboys, toward the Cowboys ' last reported location.

" She walked toward him, and he stepped back and said, " You start the elevator.

Stone walked to the front of the stage toward the end of the performance, sang a verse and then with a wave to the audience, sauntered offstage before the song was over.

As they walked toward their limousine on the curb, Chapman shook hands with Lennon and held out a copy of Lennon's new album, Double Fantasy, for him to sign.

At the curb, Lennon and Ono got out, passed by Chapman and walked toward the archway entrance of the building's courtyard.

Trembling with emotion, I slowly walked through the hall toward the room hoping against hope that I would find no one inside.

Narrating a voyage in a clipper ship from Bombay to New York in the early 1860s, Clark wrote, " The anchor came to the bow with the chanty of ' Oh, Riley, Oh ,' and ' Carry me Long ,' and the tug walked us toward the wharf at Brooklyn.

They visited Alexandria and Cairo, then walked along the river Nile toward Sudan.

And as the two men walked across the parade grounds, Stanley gestured toward the roof of the Mackenzie Building, and the college flag flapping at its peak.

It was later determined that, due to an earlier verbal altercation with the driver, Davis had walked to the middle of the road and was brandishing a juice bottle toward the car at the time at which he was struck.