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.

The first ( retroactively ) RISC-labeled processor ( IBM 801-IBMs Watson Research Center, mid-1970s ) was a tightly pipelined simple machine originally intended to be used as an internal microcode kernel, or engine, in CISC designs, but also became the processor that introduced the RISC idea to a somewhat larger public.

IA-32 ( Intel Architecture, 32-bit ), also known as x86-32, i386 or x86, is the CISC instruction-set architecture of Intel's most commercially successful microprocessors, and was first implemented in the Intel 80386 as a 32-bit extension of x86 architecture.

When first released in 2001, Itanium's performance, compared to better-established RISC and CISC processors, was disappointing.

The first fossil find was dated to 4. 4 million years ago on the basis of its stratigraphic position between two volcanic strata: the basal Gaala Tuff Complex ( GATC ) and the Daam Aatu Basaltic Tuff ( DABT ).

Jeff Conine hit Florida's first homer before a crowd of 6, 696 at the Cocoa Expo Sports Complex.

In the first game, the logo appears at the entrances of the Black Mesa Research Facility's Lambda Complex which conducted teleportation research.

Werblin remained involved in the sports community and became the first chairman and CEO of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority where he helped to create the Meadowlands Sports Complex, including Giants Stadium.

The first rocket launch from the Cape was Bumper 8 from Launch Complex 3 on July 24, 1950.

Among recent Economic Development successes in Caroline have been the recruitment of the State Fair of Virginia ( previously in Richmond since 1854 when the first State Fair opened in Monroe Park ), Remuda Programs for Eating Disorders, The Virginia Sports Complex, the multi-national electrical contracting firm, M. C.

The first NASA launch facility there ( Launch Complex 39 ) was designed and operated by MSFC, then in on July 1, 1962, the overall site achieving equal status with other NASA centers and was named the Launch Operations Center, later renamed the Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ).

The B & O Roundhouse and Station Complex was first constructed in 1849.

Chamberlin formed his next project, Jimmy Chamberlin Complex, in 2004, and released its first studio album, Life Begins Again, in 2005.

Evidence of the area's first inhabitants date back 3, 000 years, much of which are from a site called the San Dieguito Complex, located in the El Pinacate Zone.

In the early 22nd century, Cochrane was present at the dedication of Earth's first Warp 5 Complex, where he stated, " This engine will let us go boldly where no man has gone before ", making him the earliest known person in the fictional timeline of Trek to do so.

Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum recommended to the Federal Bureau of Prisons ( BOP ) that Stewart be given her first choice, Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, or her second choice, Federal Correctional Complex, Coleman.

Arden introduced another first in the market: A new product called Skin Illuminating Complex, which claims to promote radiance and clarity, in short healthy-looking skin.

The mission was the first launch from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, specifically built for the Saturn V. Since this was an all-up test, it was the S-IC first stage and S-II second stage's first launch.

At the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex the first of these antennas are currently under construction.

He also collaborated with Nitzer Ebb again to finish up their first new release in over a decade, Industrial Complex.

Mountain Top Ceremony-Held at the Lock 7 Viewing Complex, this annual celebration marks the opening of the Welland Canal shipping season with the arrival of the first ship of the year through Lock 7.

* Bekins Hall: One of the two " Johnston Complex " housing and classroom buildings, Bekins has the distinction of being the first residence hall on campus.

The first, Anime Complex, was broadcast on WOWOW from April 6 to September 28, 1998.

* 1956: J. Turner, R. W. Clough, H. C. Martin, and L. J. Topp's paper on the " Stiffness and Deflection of Complex Structures " introduces the name " finite-element method " and is widely recognized as the first comprehensive treatment of the method as it is known today

Launch Complex SLC-40 hosted the first launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 in June 2010.

* Like the Saturn V and Saturn IB rockets launched from Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center in the past, the Space Shuttle vehicles are first assembled vertically in the Vehicle Assembly Building on a Mobile Launcher Platform ( MLP ).