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 Diamondbacks announced in early September 2006 that their uniforms, which remained largely unchanged since the team's first season, would be completely redesigned for the 2007 season.

The very first of the ready made computers were sold with the " kit " versions of the euro cards, the version with redesigned cards came a month or so later.

He redesigned the house in the style of a villa and had the gardens laid out in the latest Dutch fashion creating what was almost certainly Ireland's first naturalistic garden.

The team's uniforms were redesigned in 2006, the first significant change in the franchise's 46-year history.

In 2007, PepsiCo redesigned its cans for the fourteenth time, and for the first time, included more than thirty different backgrounds on each can, introducing a new background every three weeks.

The first PowerBook G3 Series ( completely redesigned from the Kanga ) was released in 1998, although it was still an Old World ROM Mac.

* 1995 – The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $ 100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.

A major breakthrough in the methodology and popularization of volumetric analysis was due to Karl Friedrich Mohr, who redesigned the burette by placing a clamp and a tip at the bottom, and wrote the first textbook on the topic, Lehrbuch der chemisch-analytischen Titrirmethode ( Textbook of analytical-chemical titration methods ), published in 1855.

The engine was completely redesigned using Microsoft's DirectX for Worms 2, dropping the darker tones of the first generation and adopting a more cartoonish look along the way-made possible by newer technology.

In his commentary as part of the 1970s documentary film, Bugs Bunny: Superstar, Clampett discussed the fact that his early version of Tweety Bird had to be redesigned after his first picture because the producers thought he " looked naked ".

Following the first cartoon, Oswald was redesigned on the insistence of Universal, who agreed to distribute the new series of cartoons in 1927.

Three new contestants appeared on each episode with no returning champions, much less cash was available, the board was entirely computerized ( as well as redesigned ), and the first question round was eliminated.

Mickey was redesigned by animator Fred Moore who added pupils for the first time to achieve greater ranges of expression.

says designing the LINC provided the ideas for DEC's second and third machines, the 18-bit inexpensive follow-on to its first, the PDP-4 and the company's first 12-bit design of its own, the PDP-5, Digital Equipment Corporation would launch the wondrous PDP-8 before it manufactured the first next-generation LINC-compatible computer, the LINC-8 and a combination of the 7400-series chip-based PDP-8 / I and a redesigned LINC, combined as the PDP-12.

For the White House the first Mrs. Wilson, Ellen Loise Axson Wilson, had commissioned Beatrix Farrand to design the East Colonial Garden ( now the redesigned Jacqueline Kennedy Garden ) and the West Garden ( now the redesigned White House Rose Garden ) in 1913.

By 1926, the Toastmaster Company began to market the first household toaster using a redesigned version of Strite's toaster.

In 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned for the first time in its history by New York firm Society Awards, after a year-long collaboration with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to select a unique marble and enhance the statuette ’ s quality and gold content.

The phasers used in the scene and throughout the film were redesigned versions of earlier models and were first used in The Final Frontier.

The exterior of the 1995 model year looked the same as the first generation cars, but exhibited larger gauge faces on the instrument cluster, and a redesigned middle console.

Vishwanatha Nayak ( 1159 – 64 CE ), the first Madurai Nayak king, redesigned the city in accordance with the principles laid down by Shilpa Shastras ( Sanskrit:, also anglicized as silpa sastra meaning rules of architecture ) relevant to urban planning.

The Lago Menor was created at the late 19th century, when the entire first section ( then the entire park ) was redesigned.

The first reverse, used until 1780, showed the crowned " I " in high relief, with the inscription ; the second reverse, used until 1786, was similar but in lower relief, the " I " being much flatter ; the third reverse, used in 1792 only, was completely redesigned with a much smaller " I " under a smaller crown with the inscription running around the crown, with the same legend as before.