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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 doubt there would be men guarding the horses.
Evidently this was a precaution so that mounts would be available in an emergency.
And here all the time you knew the Sioux would be using our rifles on them!!
It's not the kind of thing that a man would be proud of.
The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
There would still be plenty of moments of regret and sadness and guilty relief.
He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.
Indian ghosts would not impinge upon his nights, nor would his days be haunted by the dimly-outlined, ill-conceived figure of her benighted ancestor.
She had the feeling that, under the mouldering leaves, there would be the bodies of dead animals, quietly decaying and giving their soil back to the mountain.
She began it deliberately, so that none of her words would be lost on him.
He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.
Otherwise, she would be baited into a tantrum -- teased and provoked until she lost control of herself, and thus lost still another battle in the maddening struggle of Tom Lord Vs. Joyce Lakewood.
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.
He, McBride, would be cited as in the wrong, and he, Lord, would go scot-free, an officer who had only done his duty, though perhaps too energetically.
And nothing would be done about it.
Supper would be ready within the hour.
Which would you be most scairt of -- a dry-gulchin' or a shoot-down ''??
Probably his horse would be close to where he was hiding.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
Yet long before the scheduled time for return, Donovan would be watching for every speck in the sky.

would and great
Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.
A brief list of the great detective's little idiosyncrasies would provide Dr. Freud with ample food for thought.
Examples are in public utilities, making military aircraft and accessories, or where the investment and risk for a proprietorship would be too great for a much needed project impossible to achieve by any means other than the corporate form, e.g. constructing major airports or dams.
It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.
In any inquiry into the way in which great literature affects the emotions, particularly with respect to the sense of harmony, or relief of tension, or sense of `` a transformed inner nature '' which may occur, a most careful exploration of the particular feature of the experience which produces the effect would be required.
No one will deny that such broad developments and transitions are of great intrinsic interest and the study of ideas in literature would be woefully incomplete without frequent reference to them.
By this time Woodruff had accurately measured Pike as a man of great personal pride, a man who would fly into a towering rage if his integrity were questioned, and who would be anxious to avenge himself.
This enviable record would have been maintained but for a great and unexpected disaster which struck the world with murderous stealth.
Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.
When it was not, one of the great dramas of Washington would be presented.
He does not expect to get great riches or he would not have chosen to answer the call to preach.
There would be great need soon for his skill as surgeon, but somehow he had not planned to use his knowledge merely for war.
She enjoyed great parties when she would sit up talking and dancing and drinking all night, but it always seemed to her that being alone, especially alone in her house, was the realest part of life.
If it were not for the effect of destructive agencies, sawtimber growth would have been nearly twice as great as the 47 billion board feet in 1952.
A great many writers are bewitched by the apparently overwhelming advantage an attacker would have if he were to strike with complete surprise using nuclear rockets.
If we stop thinking in terms of tremendous multimegaton nuclear weapons and consider employing much smaller nuclear weapons which may be more appropriate for most important military targets, it would seem that the B-52 or B-70 could carry a great many small nuclear weapons.
Juniors who attend this Chicago show should make a point to enter this Class as it would be of great help to them.
The great resemblance between electrical and magnetic attractions and repulsions and the similarity of their laws necessarily would bring about this comparison.
But if true, it was the case of which he had dreamed, the case which would throw him into headlines all over America as the hero of a great murder trial.
But what quarter could a poor defenseless woman expect from a dictator who would even make so bold as to close all of the banks in our great nation??
Had I been in an all-married section I would have missed this, and I believe that this single aspect has been of great personal value to me ''.
From six to nine million additional Germans would be evicted, though most would have fled, and Poland would receive far more from Germany than the poor territories, including the great Pripet Marshes, which she lost to Russia.

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