Probably his horse would be close to where he was hiding.

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

Sometimes a ship would be sighted and the Caravan pass so close that people could easily be seen on the distant deck.

Sometimes, Mrs. Coolidge would close herself in the Green Suite on the second floor, and play the piano she had brought to the White House.

Woodruff wanted this political windfall very badly, and everyone assumed that he would get it because he was a close friend of the governor and his stanchest supporter.

The orator of this period, in order to earn a reputation, had to pay close attention to the formal composition of his speech, judging how it would appear in print as well as the effect it would have on the audience that heard it.

Carvey considers that former Vice President Nixon would be Brown's most formidable foe, with ex-Gov. Knight a close second.

Rachel came close to the bed, bent as if she would kiss him, then moved away.

For many nights afterward, the idea of her having been so close to me in that imagined bed would return and fill me with obscure and painful desires, would cause me to lie awake in shame, tossing with irresolution, longing to fall into a deep sleep.

This may not be the greatest but it certainly comes close to being the greatest lesson Sam Rayburn's career, up to this hour, teaches all of us who would aspire to distinction in political life under our processes of government.

A comparable manufactured boat would cost close to $3,000.

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??

Mrs. Borden would have had no reason to disbelieve him and he could have approached close enough to her to swing before she could cry out.

There were tire marks where it had been, but they were overlapped by others and on the dusty floor would not be noticeable except under close scrutiny.

In Dunston the rent would run close to two hundred a month ; ;

Happily for posterity, then, the Boston Association did not actually command Parker to leave the room, though it came too close for comfort to what would have been an unforgivable brutality.

The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.

Allied Arts then notified us that the Kirov would cut short its Los Angeles booking, fly here to open Nov. 28, and close Dec. 2.

You definitely hear some of the instruments close up and others farther back, with the difference in placement apparently more distinct than would result from the nearer instruments merely being louder than the ones farther back.

Many years later, the photon-counting apparatus in the nose of the ship would determine that the star was close enough to actuate deceleration.

He had a close friendship with " Antoninus ", possibly Antoninus Pius, who would consult Rabbi Judah on various worldly and spiritual matters.

In an attempt to exact revenge for his forced exile, the physician would grow very close with Cambyses and would suggest that Cambyses should ask Amasis for a daughter in marriage in order to solidify his bonds with the Egyptians.

The figure was close enough now for him to see the nose twitching to dislodge the drop clinging there.

Care should be taken to see that the hands are placed on the floor before the kick starts and also that the landing foot is brought as close to the hands as possible.

At the moment, Barco's back was to the road so he didn't see the detectives close in on his convertible which, in their quest for the stolen lap rug, they proceeded to search.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

Its task was to attack fortified positions such as bunkers at close range ( see Hobart's Funnies ).

Henry Moseley's work showed experimentally in 1913 ( see Moseley's law ) that the effective nuclear charge was very close to the atomic number ( Moseley found only one unit difference ), and Moseley referenced only the papers of Van den Broek and Rutherford.

Bishop Wigers ( 1138 – 60 ) was the first of a series of bishops of the Premonstratensian Order, which chose the occupants of the see until 1447 ; in that year a bull of Nicholas V gave the right of nomination to the elector of Brandenburg, with whom the bishops stood in a close feudal relation.

For a recent review, see The authors admits that their model " does not solve the entropy and flatness problems of standard cosmology ..... and we can provide no explanation for why the current universe is so close to being spatially flat.

The growing consensus about the endothermy of dinosaurs ( see dinosaur physiology ) helps to understand their full extinction in contrast with their close relatives, the crocodilians.

Summer campaigns saw him not only retake, sometimes with brutal reprisals, what he had lost in the ' close ' season, but also seek to widen his sphere of operation — and we see him in action in the Aveyron at St. Antonin and on the banks of the Rhone at Beaucaire.

For example, in Man with a Movie Camera, two trains are shown almost melting into each other, although we are taught to see trains as not riding that close, Vertov tried to portray the actual sight of two passing trains.

While ecosystem management can be used as part of a plan for wilderness conservation, it can also be used in intensively managed ecosystems ( see, for example, agroecosystem and close to nature forestry ).

These " politically neutral " groups tend to avoid global conflicts and view the settlement of inter-human conflict as separate from regard for nature-in direct contradiction to the ecology movement and peace movement which have increasingly close links: While Green Parties and Greenpeace, and groups like the ACTivist Magazine for example, regard ecology, biodiversity and an end to non-human extinction as absolutely basic to peace, the local groups may not, and may see a high degree of global competition and conflict as justifiable if it lets them preserve their own local uniqueness.

These attract around 1500-3000 speakers, and the best-attended conferences are regularly those held in Central or Eastern Europe, close to the birthplace of Esperanto ( see statistics at World Congress of Esperanto ).

The new sailing frigates were able to fight with all their guns when the seas were so rough that comparable two-deckers had to close the gun-ports on their lower decks ( see the Action of 13 January 1797, for an example when this was decisive ).

Although phylogenetically close to felines and viverrids, hyenas are behaviourally and morphologically similar to canines in several aspects ( see Convergent evolution ); both hyenas and canines are non-arboreal, cursorial hunters that catch prey with their teeth rather than claws.

Although the war ended into a cease-fire, Somalis in the region still identify and maintain close ties with their kin in Somalia, and see themselves as one people.

The Baltic tribes were not directly influenced by the Roman Empire, but they did maintain close trade contacts ( see Amber Road ).

While the population of LambdaMOO once numbered close to 10, 000 with over 300 actively connected at any time, these days it is rare to see more than a few dozen actively participating connected players at one time.

It keeps close links with the French branch (" association planète Mars ", see above ).

They came in two columns, pressed very close to the walls of the street, which is very wide and beautiful and so straight that you can see from one end to the other.

Once sufficiently close, it is possible to hide where the tank's gunner cannot see: " The most dangerous distance away from a tank is 200 yards ; the safest distance is six inches.

Sloan suggested that GM take the helm of Opel again for a two-year " probationary " period to see whether the economic conditions, then called " close to stagnation " in Germany, would improve.

Emphasizing this close relationship between discourse and knowledge, contemporary rhetoricians have been associated with a number of philosophical and social scientific theories that see language and discourse as central to, rather than in conflict with, knowledge-making ( see critical theory, post-structuralism, hermeneutics, dramatism, reflexivity ).