Joe Purvis was thinking back many years.

Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.

The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.

Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

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.

From the back of the barn it was a simple matter to reach Black's house without using the street.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.

An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

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.

She was standing with her back to the glass door.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

`` 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.

It was nearly sundown and he went to the back of the wagon, half-swimming his way, for he was not a tall man.

The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.

Kluckhohn recently has summarized evidence regarding changes in values during a period of years, primarily 1935-1955, but extending much farther back in some instances.

However, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, base-stealing was brought back to prominence primarily by Luis Aparicio and Maury Wills, who broke Cobb's modern single-season record by stealing 104 bases in 1962.

Remnants of advanced, social stratification | stratified societies dating back to the Shang found primarily in the Yellow River Valley

Many thinkers point to the concept of citizenship beginning in the early city-states of ancient Greece, although others see it as primarily a modern phenomenon dating back only a few hundred years.

Investigators have shown that rods are mere tricks of light which result from how images ( primarily video images ) of flying insects are recorded and played back.

Zizhi Tongjian changed a tradition dating back almost 1, 000 years to the Shiji ; standard Chinese dynastic histories ( collectively the Twenty-Four Histories ) primarily divided chapters between annals ( 紀 ) of rulers and biographies ( 傳 ) of officials.

Yet the borders of Europe — a concept dating back to classical antiquity — are somewhat arbitrary, as the primarily physiographic term " continent " can incorporate cultural and political elements.

From his Vila do Infante in 15th Century Portuguese, Estate or Town of the Prince on the Sagres peninsula located at the south-westernmost point of Iberia and with sea access to both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Henry sponsored voyages down the coast of Africa, sailing as far as Guinea, that were primarily exploration expeditions, later on bringing back to the nearby town of Lagos, from whence they set out, numerous African slaves and goods.

Its origins are traced back to the eight-hour working day movement that arose in the newly founded Wellington colony in 1840, primarily because of carpenter Samuel Parnell's refusal to work more than eight hours a day.

In the early history of California wine, the Merlot was used primarily as a 100 % varietal wine until wine maker Warren Winiarski encouraged taking the grape back to its blending roots with Bordeaux style blends.

Nominalism is primarily a position on the problem of universals, which dates back at least to Plato, and is opposed to realism — the view that universals do exist over and above particulars.

Raï (), which is the Arabic word for " opinion ", is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture.

Dionysius was initially used by monophysites to back up parts of their arguments, but his writings were eventually adopted by other church theologians as well, primarily due to the work of John of Scythopolis and Maximus the Confessor in producing an orthodox interpretation.

The Presbyterian church traces its ancestry back primarily to England and Scotland.

In 1991, the Persian Gulf again was the background for what was called the " Persian Gulf War " or the " Gulf War ", despite the fact that this conflict was primarily a land conflict, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and was subsequently pushed back.

The Presbyterian church traces its ancestry back primarily to Scotland.

South Korea agreed with the findings from the research group and President Lee Myung-bak declared in May 2010 that Seoul would cut all trade with North Korea as part of measures primarily aimed at striking back at North Korea diplomatically and financially.

Writing systems based primarily on marking the consonant phonemes alone date back to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt.

In 1831, the Scotsman James Busby, often called " the Father of Australian viticulture ", made a trip back to Europe to collect cuttings from vines ( primarily from France and Spain ) for introduction to Australia.

This article primarily addresses the process of controlled reentry of vehicles which are intended to reach the planetary surface intact, but the topic also includes uncontrolled ( or minimally controlled ) cases, such as the intentionally or circumstantially occurring, destructive deorbiting of satellites and the falling back to the planet of " space junk " due to orbital decay.

The second ( chapters 12 – 20 ) flashes back to focus primarily on the " Great Big Siege of Bologna " before once again jumping to the chronological " present " of 1943 in the third part ( chapter 21 – 25 ).

Retrogression is primarily due to erosion and corresponds to a phenomenon where succession reverts back to pioneer conditions ( such as bare ground ).

Adults are primarily brown, with a pale gold color on the back of the crown and nape, and some grey on the wings and tail.

His contributions were primarily in his efforts to bring back the importance of collective improvisation in a music scene that had become dominated by solo improvisation ( as a result of the development of the big band ).