But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

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.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

Larry Scherer last night pitched a no-hit game, said to be the first in Billiken baseball history, as the Blue and White beat Southeast Missouri State College, 5-1, at Crystal City.

Griffith Rhys Jones-or Caradog as he was commonly known-was the Conductor of the famous ' Côr Mawr ' of some 460 voices ( the South Wales Choral Union ), which twice won first prize at Crystal Palace choral competitions in London in the 1870s.

They then went on to beat Crystal Palace 1 – 0 at the Valley on 27 January to achieve their first league win under Phil Parkinson, whose contract was made permanent despite the lack of progress in the league.

He appeared as himself in the first of several Crystal Champions movie shorts featuring Weissmuller and other Olympic champions at Silver Springs, Florida.

* In 1936, the Marconi Wireless Telegraph company patented the first practical application of the technology, " The Liquid Crystal Light Valve ".

Mary Stewart produced an influential quintet of Arthurian novels, with Merlin as the protagonist in the first three: The Crystal Cave ( 1970 ), The Hollow Hills ( 1973 ) and The Last Enchantment ( 1979 ).

Punch gave several phrases to the English language, including The Crystal Palace, and the " Curate's egg " ( first seen in an 1895 cartoon ).

However, Dr Brookes did organise a national Olympic Games in London, at Crystal Palace, in 1866 and this was the first Olympics to resemble an Olympic Games to be held outside of Greece.

The first Scout rally, held in 1909 at The Crystal Palace in London, attracted 10, 000 boys and a number of girls.

Agnes Baden-Powell became the first president of the Girl Guides when it was formed in 1910, at the request of the girls who attended the Crystal Palace Rally.

" The first six games in the series were developed by Core Design, whilst Crystal Dynamics developed the latest four ; their fifth game is currently in production.

At its centre was the Crystal Palace, a modular glass and iron structure – the first of its kind.

; 1851: The Great Exhibition ( the first World's Fair ) is held at the Crystal Palace, with great success and international attention.

It was released on DVD for the first time on January 9, 2001, and included an audio commentary by Reiner, a 35-minute " Making Of " documentary featuring interviews with Reiner, Ephron, Crystal, and Ryan, seven deleted scenes, and a music video for " It Had To Be You " by Harry Connick, Jr. A Collector's Edition DVD was released on January 15, 2008, including a new audio commentary with Reiner, Ephron, and Crystal, eight deleted scenes, all new featurettes ( It All Started Like This, Stories Of Love, When Rob Met Billy, Billy On Harry, I Love New York, What Harry Meeting Sally Meant, So Can Men And Women Really Be Friends?

Crystal symmetry was first investigated experimentally by Nicolas Steno ( 1669 ), who showed that the angles between the faces are the same in every exemplar of a particular type of crystal, and by René Just Haüy ( 1784 ), who discovered that every face of a crystal can be described by simple stacking patterns of blocks of the same shape and size.

* August 17 – Bridget Driscoll is run over by a Benz car in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London, the world's first motoring fatality.

Crystal and NMR structures of the individual domains and 2-domain constructs of integrases from HIV-1, HIV-2, SIV, and Rous Sarcoma Virus ( RSV ) have been reported, with the first structures determined in 1994.

The best-known ' first World Expo ' was held in The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom, in 1851, under the title " Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations ".

The group was renamed TLC — derived from the first initials of its then three members — Tionne, Lisa and Crystal.

Once at the studio, producer Milt Gabler ( Uncle of actor Billy Crystal, who had produced Louis Jordan as well as Billie Holiday ), insisted the band work on a song entitled " Thirteen Women ( and Only One Man in Town )" ( previously written and recorded by Dickie Thompson ), which Gabler wanted to promote as the A-side of the group's first single for Decca.

One of the first official recognitions was a gold medal won in 1855 at the American Institute Fair at the New York Crystal Palace just two years after the company's foundation.

The 2009 reprinting of the 1926 first edition contains an introduction and entries updated by the linguist David Crystal.

On June 12, 2006, Prince received a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his " visionary " use of the Internet ; Prince was the first major artist to release an entire album, 1997's Crystal Ball, exclusively on the Internet ( although he did take phone orders for it as well ... 1-800-NEW-FUNK ).