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.

It was billed as the first time the four had worked together since the group split ; however, Frida's appearance was filmed separately.

Carl Boenish was the real catalyst behind modern BASE jumping, and in 1978, he filmed the first BASE jumps to be made using ram-air parachutes and the freefall tracking technique ( from El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park ).

Their first two music videos, " Secret Agent Man " and " Jocko Homo " featured on The Truth About De-Evolution, were filmed in Akron, the hometown of most members.

In 1931, Marcel Pagnol filmed the first of his great trilogy, Marius, Fanny, and César.

Arguably the first Polish filmmaker was Kazimierz Prószyński, who filmed various short documentaries in Warsaw.

Gate of Hell, a 1953 film by Teinosuke Kinugasa, was the first movie that filmed using Eastmancolor film, Gate of Hell was both Daiei's first color film and the first Japanese color movie to be released outside of Japan, receiving an Oscar in 1954 for Best Costume Design by Sanzo Wada and an Honorary Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Peter Greenaway was an early pioneer of the use of computer generated imagery blended with filmed footage and was also one of the first directors to film entirely on high definition video for a cinema release.

At first, the band was under-rehearsed and played poorly, but improved markedly with steady gigging and received rapturous responses at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas and at a filmed concert at Liberty Hall in Houston ( with Neil Young and Linda Ronstadt sitting in ) and Max's Kansas City in New York City.

* In Apogee of Fear, filmed in October 2008 and billed as " the first science-fiction movie made in space ", NASA astronaut Michael Fincke refers to the need to " fashion weapons out of a rudimentary lathe.

* 1929 – In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released.

The first film to address lesbianism with significant depth was The Killing of Sister George in 1968, which was filmed in The Gateways Club, a longstanding lesbian pub in London.

Zukor first filmed Pickford in a silent version of A Good Little Devil.

Brando also filmed scenes for the movie's sequel, Superman II, but after producers refused to pay him the same percentage he received for the first movie, he denied them permission to use the footage.

The opening credits of this series feature real images of the Sojourner rover on Mars, being the first Star Trek production featuring real footage filmed on another world.

After the first series was filmed, the house which had been used for the Meldrews ' house ( near Pokesdown, Bournemouth ), in location sequences changed hands, and the new owners demanded nearly treble the usage fees that the previous owners had asked for.

When the final episode, " Things Aren't Simple Any More " originally aired on 20 November 2000 at 21: 00, it coincided with the broadcast of the first jackpot winner in the UK version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?, which had been filmed the Sunday before the broadcast.

The first novel was filmed as At the Earth's Core ( 1976 ), directed by Kevin Connor and starring Doug McClure as David Innes and Peter Cushing as Abner Perry.

Romeo and Juliet was first filmed in the silent era, by Georges Méliès, although his film is now lost.

Nevertheless, he ended his Universal contract with one last noir, the disappointing Deported ( 1951 ) which he filmed partly abroad ( Siodmak was among the first refugee directors to return to Europe after making American films ).

The first westerns were filmed at Scott's Movie Ranch.

Enterprise was the first to be produced in high-definition ; the first to be broadcast in HDTV, beginning on October 15, 2003, midway into the third season ; the first to be filmed on digital video ( season 4 ); and the first science fiction television or movie production in history to use video footage taken on another planet ( the Sojourner rover approaching the Yogi Rock, taken by the Mars Pathfinder lander and used in the opening credits ).