It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

He was only vaguely aware of the sluicing rain.

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.

There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.

Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

" This language means that the appointments are effectively for life, ending only when a Justice dies in office, retires, or is removed from office following impeachment by the House of Representatives and conviction by the Senate.

Charles Darwin proposed the theory of universal common descent through an evolutionary process in On the Origin of Species, twice stating the hypothesis that there was only one progenitor for all life forms and ending with " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ".

Earnhardt's only win of the 1992 season came at Charlotte, in the Coca-Cola 600, ending a 13-race win streak by Ford teams.

There is only one ending of this film.

Although only a small number of soldiers died it was still a bad ending for a brilliantly fought campaign.

Subsequently, in " Dalek " ( 2005 ), it is revealed that the last great Time War was fought between the Time Lords and the Daleks, ending in the obliteration of both sides and with only two apparent survivors ; the Doctor and a lone Dalek that had somehow fallen through time and crashed on Earth.

Immediately following the season, team president Bill Polian was fired ending his fourteen year tenure with the team and eventually Irsay would fire Jim Caldwell after only three seasons as head coach.

However, " ending the re-integration of the national territory ", the powers of the state were restricted to legislate only for the area that had ceded from the United Kingdom.

This is similar to a rising side kick, only with the kicking leg's hip flexed so that the line of force travels parallel to the ground from front to side rather than straight up, beginning and ending at the side.

** 7bit – up to 998 octets per line of the code range 1 .. 127 with CR and LF ( codes 13 and 10 respectively ) only allowed to appear as part of a CRLF line ending.

** 8bit – up to 998 octets per line with CR and LF ( codes 13 and 10 respectively ) only allowed to appear as part of a CRLF line ending.

Foodservice establishments with names ending with the Chinese character zhuang (), or zhuang zihao (), were the top ranking foodservice establishments, not only in providing foods, but also entertainment as well.

Occasionally, when catering at the customers ’ homes, foodservice establishments of this category would only provide the few specialty dishes they are famous for, just like foodservice establishments with names ending with the Chinese character lou.

Just like foodservice establishments with names ending with the Chinese character ju, when catering at the customers ’ homes, foodservice establishments of this category would also only provide the few specialty dishes they are famous for, but they would mostly bring the already cooked dishes to the location, and would only cook on locations occasionally.

The ending is bittersweet in that Case had realized he loved Linda, but only after she died.

* 1620 – The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.

* The last week in October is the only time of the year when all four major North American Sports league schedule games-the NBA generally starts in that last week while the MLB postseason is just ending.

Under the deal, Paramount is required to distribute the DreamWorks animated films for a small fee intended only to cover Paramount's out of pocket costs with no profit to the studio, including the Shrek franchise ( and ending for the 2004 installment, Shrek 2 ).

The Trans-Chaco highway is only partially finished, the paved portion ending at Mariscal Estigarribia.

When deriving English words from their Greek or Latin roots the gender specific ending ( in this case "- on ," which indicates the word is neuter ) is normally dropped, using only the root of the word in the derivation.

The game features many different bonuses that are received for various achievements whenever a level is completed, such as picking up all the missile weapons in a level ( one of the Republican bonuses ), using all the healing items ( Bleeder Bonus ), or ending a level with only the last shred of health ( Skin Of Your Teeth Bonus ; gives the player full health to start the next level ).

Serving in the forces from 1995 up to 2010 gradually became more volunteered due to a near total disarmament, which resulted in Sweden ending up having only two battalions at readiness 90 days as of 2010.

As both cultures live for war, neither side is interested in ending the bloodshed, only victory.