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.

From September 2000 to January 2011, Digweed hosted a weekly two-hour radio show on Kiss 100 in the UK, in which Digweed played the first hour of music and a guest DJ played the second hour.

Voight made his first appearance in the two-hour prequel episode 24: Redemption on November 23.

The first telecast, the two-hour pilot of Star Trek: Voyager, was an auspiciously widely viewed start ; however, Voyager would never achieve such viewership levels again, nor would any of the series debuting on UPN's second night of broadcasting survive the season.

* December 8 – For the first time, the Mary Martin Peter Pan is presented as a stand-alone two-hour special on NBC instead of as part of an anthology series.

The series pilot first aired as a two-hour episode of another show, Police Story, which featured Cassidy playing an undercover police officer.

After many months of speculation and him first turning down the contract to return, it was finally announced on February 11, 2011 that Rosenbaum would return to Smallville for the two-hour series finale, which aired on May 13, 2011 with Rosenbaum reprising his role as Lex Luthor.

It was first broadcast in 1983 as eight one-hour episodes, and repeated in 1986 in four two-hour parts.

He took this to the mainstream in 1994 and created a pair of two-hour sets for BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix the first of these was broadcast in the early hours of Sunday 20 March 1994, with the second being the legendary " Goa Mix " broadcast on Sunday 18 December 1994.

After a two-hour countdown, Vostok 6 launched faultlessly, and Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

The tribute show following Zappa's 1993 death was the first time the entire two-hour show was devoted to a single artist.

The first two-hour quarterly special aired on Saturday, October 29, 2011 on FOX.

Only the first two hours of Beck are heard, Savage's program is heard on a two-hour delay, Hannity's show is aired in the late-night hours, and most notably, WHAM is one of only a few stations that airs Limbaugh's show on a two-hour tape delay.

During her senior year of high school in 1971, Collins was chosen to participate in the U. S. Senate Youth Program, through which she visited Washington, D. C., for the first time and engaged in a two-hour conversation with U. S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith ( R-ME ).

O ' Connor first came to the attention of Xena: Warrior Princess executive producers Robert G. Tapert and Sam Raimi with an " over-the-top " audition that won her the role of the young Deianeira in their two-hour " Action Pack " adventure " Hercules and the Lost Kingdom ".

The regular series was preceded by the two-hour pilot movie, which first aired on March 30, 1974.

In 1978, Jittlov co-starred on Disney's two-hour TV extravaganza, Mickey's 50th, with the short film Mouse Mania, creating and animating the first stop-motion Mickey Mouse, along with 1, 000 other Disney toys marching around a psychiatrist's office.

However, this plan was abandoned, and the first 10 hours ( five two-hour episodes ) told the story of New York City only up to 1931.

Its first broadcast was a two-hour special previewing the network's programmes and featuring comedians David McPhail and Jon Gadsby playing cameramen.

After a few seasons, it lost the first two words and ran for two decades under the shorter title until the series ended in 2003 ; a two-hour special aired in 2004, and more might follow.

A team of graphic artists tried to recreate the real face of Jesus in a special two-hour documentary on the History Channel broadcast for the first time in March 2010.

After the first three screens, the end credit roll is from the original two-hour version of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics.

The feature films were edited for content, to remove objectionable material, and for time-one such instance was the first network telecast of John Huston's 1956 film Moby Dick, a Warner Bros. film which runs 117 minutes uncut, and yet was shown in a two-hour time slot with commercials.

First Choice aired a two-hour block of Playboy programming during a late night time slot on Friday during its first year.