`` There's only one more ranch three miles north of here.

There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.

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

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

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

I'm not the only man in town with a gun, or the only one without a permit ''.

Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.

His hair was black, already greying at the temples in the classic beauty-idiom, the only one permitted to a man.

His open face seemed to promise a sort of innocence, until one looked into his eyes, which had no warmth in them but only alert intelligence.

Not only had he no canteen, but he lacked even the belt to hang one on.

`` There's only one thing to move him fast, and we have it right here in this very store ''.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

He need only pick up one of the two red telephone receivers at his extreme left, right next to the big red button marked alert.

His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

They arise in situations in which one believes that what happens depends not only on the external world, but also on the precise pattern of behavior of the individual or group.

One cannot speak anymore of being, one must speak only of the mess.

From above one could only occasionally catch a glimpse of life on the floor of this green sea: a neighbor's gingham skirt flashing into sight for an instant on the path beneath her grape-arbor, or the movement of hands above a clothesline and the flutter of garments hung there, half-way down the block.

There is only one catch to this idyllic arrangement: Adam Smith was wrong.

It will be noted that point f has seven nearest neighbors, h and e have six, and p has only one, while the remaining points have intermediate numbers.

The networks for military communications are one of the best examples of networks which not only must be changed with the changes in objectives but also must be changed with the addition of new machines of war.

These could be met only by considering the dynamical elements of several planets at one time.

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.

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

Atonement, if atonement were possible, could only be made at that sacred, sacrificial basin.

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

And he could no longer think of face-saving, of honor, but only of escape.

So far as he knew, only his father could be there.

With the rapid rate of closure, the approach from below, the side, and ahead, there would be only a moment when damage could be done.

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.

Then he would realize they were really things that only he himself could think.

The part of the mind that preserves dates and events may remonstrate, `` It could have been like that for only a little while '' ; ;

it was mud in wet weather and dust, ankle-deep, in dry, and could be crossed only at the corner where there were stepping stones.

During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.

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.

They explained that they desired only to stop in India until a ship traveling on to Burma could be found.

It purports to be a letter from Steele to a friend at court, who, in Miss Blanchard's opinion, could only be meant as Swift.

The countrywide success of `` Lazybones '' and `` And The Angels Sing '' could only lead to Hollywood, where, besides Harold Arlen, Mercer collaborated with Harry Warren, Jimmy Van Heusen, Richard Whiting, Walter Donaldson, Jerome Kern, and Arthur Schwartz.

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

For them only a little more needed to be learned, and then all physical knowledge could be neatly sorted, packaged and put in the inventory to be drawn on for the solution of any human problem.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

When these chores were finished, only then, was she allowed whatever freedom she could find.

He spoke no German but he could sing it and the words of the song were the only ones he knew in a foreign language.

His mother Bess, who could not write herself, reminded her husband through Sturley to buy the apron he had promised her and `` a suite of hattes for 5 boies the yongst lined & trimmed with silke '' ( for John, only a year old ).

The fall of Rome, the discovery of precious metals, and the Protestant Reformation were all links and could only be explained and understood by comprehending the links that preceded and those that followed.