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.

He dropped a man with the first bullet.

Gracias '', I hollered, my first long swallow filling me with confidence and immediately doubling the size of my Spanish vocabulary.

at first gratingly, caught by grains of corn -- then with a clash into its slot.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

His first inaugural address speaks of `` my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love ''.

This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.

The first sentence, with its platitudinous irony, announces an emblematic intent: `` The way to the churchyard ran along beside the highroad, ran beside it all the way to the end ; ;

The first series of Sherlock Holmes adventures ends with Holmes and Moriarty grappling together on the edge of a cliff.

So we must first analyze our present institutions with respect to the effect of each on man's major needs.

So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.

and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.

This included Mamma, jolly, generous, and pretty, with whom they all fell in love, just as Papa had first fallen in love with her Mamma before he chose her ; ;

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

Next day a ship arrived with an English pilot, his leadsman, an English youth, and the first Hindu the Judsons and Newells had ever seen.

In 2004, Budweiser took the top spot, pushing Blue to third for the first time in twenty-five years .< ref >

* Adolphus Busch's brewery, Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis, Missouri, first markets Budweiser, a pale lager, as a nationally sold beer.

Mr. Garlits lost in first round competition with his Summit Racing-Mono Winged Dragster with a 0. 064 reaction time, a personal best 4. 737 elapsed time, at 307. 44 miles per hour to Brandon Bernstein's ( son of racing legend Kenny Berstein ,) Budweiser / Lucas Oil Dragster 0. 079 reaction time, a 4. 615 elapsed time, at 321. 42 miles per hour.

Originally sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, the first arcade versions sported a " Budweiser " motif ( the Budweiser theme song was actually used in the arcade game ), The machine was intended to be sold to bars with many of the cabinets designed to look like bars — complete with a brass rail footrest and drink holders.

The very first machines had game controllers that were actual Budweiser beer tap handles, which were later replaced by smaller, cheaper, plastic " beer taps " with the Budweiser logo on them.

The Budweiser Rocket was a 3-wheeled land vehicle, generally resembling the 1970-era Blue Flame land speed record holding vehicle in appearance, powered by a hybrid liquid and solid-fuel rocket engine that has been claimed as being the first vehicle to have broken the sound barrier on land, driven by Stan Barrett and designed and built by William Fredrick.

As a result the Budweiser Rocket is not officially considered as the first vehicle to have broken the sound barrier on land, and few people believe the car to have actually done so.

These horses were first owned by the Budweiser Brewery at the end of Prohibition in the United States, and have since become an international symbol of both the breed and the brand.

In 1933, KMOX covered the first post-Prohibition case of Budweiser beer leaving Anheuser-Busch for the White House, a story carried nationally by CBS.

In the Budweiser Shootout he was involved in an early accident in the first segment.

After 14 years of NASCAR as a driver and later a car owner, Richard Childress won his first NASCAR race in 1983, when Ricky Rudd drove his # 3 Piedmont Airlines Chevrolet to victory in the 1983 Budweiser 400k.

At the Budweiser Forest rally in Chillicothe, Ohio, " Henderson was the leader in the class in his AMC Eagle SX / 4 through the first two thirds of the 12-hour rally ...

Recovering from a disastrous 2011, Busch and the # 18 team started off their 2012 season on a high note by winning their first Budweiser Shootout, and for 2012, Kyle Busch Motorsports announced that they would also race in the Nationwide Series, alongside his brother, Kurt Busch, driving the # 54 Monster Energy Toyota Camry, but for only fourteen events in the series for him.

The most famous Czech beer brands ( and the most exported ones ) are Pilsner Urquell, which was the world's first pilsner and pale lager beer, and Budweiser Budvar ( in some countries trademarked as Budějovický Budvar or Czechvar ).

* The first episode of MADtv did a parody of the Budweiser Frogs ' " Truck " commercial, where the brand was parodied as " Vudweiser " and its slogan " King of Beers " was parodied as " Prince of Beers "; thus with " Bud " changed to " Vud ".

In Hamlin's first restrictor plate race as a Nextel Cup driver, he beat all the previous year's ( 2005 season ) pole winners in the 70-lap 2006 Budweiser Shootout.

In his first year with Budweiser sponsorship, Kahne had two wins and finished fourteenth in points.

Allmendinger was signed to drive the # 44 in the Budweiser Shootout and the first eight point races of 2009, with the possibility of more races if the team could secure sponsorship.

Along the first base line is the " Budweiser Stables ," where fans can order beer and watch a game from an area of picnic tables.

When the series was reformed as the Budweiser Late Model Series ( now known as the Nationwide Series ) in 1982, Hickory played a prominent part of its first season, hosting 6 of the series ' 28 races.

Schrader drove in the Budweiser Shootout, but failed to qualify for the first two races of the season. 2008 Daytona 500.

Stewart and his team got off to a quick start in 2012 after finishing second in the non-points Budweiser Shootout, winning the first Gatorade Duel, the 2012 Kobalt Tools 400, and the 2012 Auto Club 400.