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.

His first political hero was Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, the man who assassinated the Bavarian prime minister Kurt Eisner.

After the murder of the first republican premier of Bavaria Kurt Eisner in February 1919 by Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, the Bavarian Soviet Republic was proclaimed.

In 1992 he became the first Mexican ever to win the Eisner Award for his work in Groo the Wanderer, along Mark Evanier.

It was awarded and nominated for numerous awards, including six American Library Association awards, a nomination for an Eisner Award, won Winick his first GLAAD award, has been praised by creators such as Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, and Armistead Maupin, and has been incorporated into school curricula across the country.

Robert Iger succeeded Eisner ; one of his first acts as CEO was to regain the rights to Walt Disney's first star Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from NBC Universal.

Eisner was born in Mount Kisco, New York, the son of Margaret ( née Dammann ) and Lester Eisner, Jr. His great-grandfather, Sigmund Eisner, was one of the first uniform suppliers to the Boy Scouts of America.

He is perhaps best known for organizing the ousting of two top Disney executives: first, Ron Miller in 1984, and then Michael Eisner in 2005.

The series was the first animated production by Walt Disney Animation Television, and loosely inspired by the gummi bear candies ; Disney CEO Michael Eisner was struck with inspiration for the show when his son requested the candies one day.

Hamlet 2 is the first Eisner film to be featured at Sundance.

On November 24, 2008 they welcomed their first child, Eloise Breckenridge Eisner.

The term was first popularized by Will Eisner with the publication of A Contract with God in 1978.

Eisner was not the first choice.

Roy E. Disney first thought of a sequel to Fantasia in 1974, only to pitch the film to Disney chairman Michael Eisner ten years later.

Bavaria was the first member state of the German Empire to be declared a Council Republic (), the Bavarian Soviet Republic by Kurt Eisner of the USPD.

Will Eisner features Tijuana bibles in the first pages of his book The Dreamer, though nothing explicit is shown.

The following year, Kane began to work at Iger's subsequent studio, Eisner & Iger, which was one of the first comic book " packagers " that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium during its late-1930s and 1940s Golden Age.

The original Blue Beetle, Dan Garret, first appeared in Fox Comics ' Mystery Men Comics # 1 ( cover-dated August 1939 ), with art by Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski ( as Charles Nicholas ); though the Grand Comics Database tentatively credits Will Eisner as the scripter.

The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the discontinuation of the Kirby Awards after 1987.

In the first chapter Eisner demonstrates that comics have a vocabulary and grammar in both prose and illustration.

While then-Disney chief Michael Eisner at first intended Hollywood Pictures to be a full-fledged studio, like Touchstone, in recent years its operations have been scaled back and its management has been merged with the flagship Walt Disney Pictures studio.

It was awarded six American Library Association awards, was nominated for an Eisner Award, won Winick his first GLAAD award, has been praised by creators such as Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, and Armistead Maupin, and has been incorporated into school curricula across the country.

Doll Man was created by comics legend Will Eisner and first appeared in a four-page story entitled " Meet the Doll Man " in Feature Comics # 27.