In 1570 he was accused of making loans worth £ 220 ( equivalent to over £ 50, 000 in 2007 ), including interest, to a Walter Mussum.

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

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.

The expression was his trade-mark, his open sesame to good luck, and his prayer that pilot and plane would always return.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

For a while he was content to let events develop in their good time.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.

His father was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.

Her mother was a good manager and established a millinery business in Milwaukee.

He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.

It was a good report, he did all he could to make it a good report.

Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.

He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

But by the time the risk was doubled, events had dismissed from his mind both increased percentages and a previously stated intention of considering carefully anything more serious than a bout of influenza.

It was faced immediately with a showdown on the schools, an issue which was met squarely in conjunction with the governor with a decision not to risk abandoning public education.

Within the Organization of American States, there may be some criticism of this unilateral American intervention which was not without risk obviously.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

The suggestion that Giffen hire out the slaves was not realistic, since no planter would take the risk of having Negroes who knew they were to be free living with his own slaves.

Mr. Philip Toynbee affirms at one point that if he shared the anticipations of Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, if he believed Communism was not only evil but `` also irredeemably evil '', then he might `` think it right to do anything rather than to take the risk of a communist world.

In the case of a scrutiny going to trial, there was the risk for the former officeholder of suffering severe penalties.

After widespread adoption of the COX-2 inhibitors, it was discovered that most of the drugs in this class increased the risk of cardiovascular events by 40 % on average.

After the November 2000 G8 protest in Montreal, at which many protesters were beaten, trampled, and arrested in what was intended to be a festive protest, the tactic of dividing protests into " green " ( permitted ), " yellow " ( not officially permitted but with little confrontation and low risk of arrest ), and " red " ( involving direct confrontation ) zones was introduced.

This bodyguard function was often executed by the leader's most loyal warriors, and was extremely effective throughout most of early human history, leading assassins to attempt stealthy means, such as poison ( which risk was answered by having another person taste the leader's food first ).

In the 1980s, risk arbitrage was common.

One way of reducing the risk is through the illegal use of inside information, and in fact risk arbitrage with regard to leveraged buyouts was associated with some of the famous financial scandals of the 1980s such as those involving Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky.

Their television appearance was a calculated risk, but Clinton regained several delegates.

Every patient was treated as if infected and therefore precautions were taken to minimize risk.

To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.

As is discussed below, the reason for the delay was probably simply that neither the Athenians nor the Persians were willing to risk battle initially.

Initially, Emperor Wilhelm II told the Archduke Franz Ferdinand that Germany was ready to support Austria in all circumstances — even at the risk of a world war, but the Austro-Hungarians hesitated.

Making a comedy about Hitler was seen as highly controversial, but Chaplin's financial independence allowed him to take the risk.

The risk of infection via cadaveric HGH in the US ceased when the medication was withdrawn in 1985.

The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;

His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;

And there was a house ; ;

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

In his mood, it was the best way to handle him ; ;

This, he was sure, was the way they would act ; ;

His aim was hurried ; ;

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;