They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

And now she could see him, looking uncommon handsome, standing there beside Sally Jackson and her folks in front of their trail-worn wagon.

The two tall brothers waited silently while their mother handed Gran her cold snack and water jug, placed the chamber pot beside her feet, and returned to her place at the front of the wagon with Alice.

Dead fledgling birds, their squashed-looking nakedness and the odor of decay that clung to the hand when they had been buried in our graveyard in front of the purple flags.

he tossed a paper toward every front door, and housewives came down to their steps to pick them up and read what their neighbors had been doing.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

Sipping their coffee, discussing the weather, the day's shopping, Fritzie's commitments at the network ( all of which he would cancel ), they avoided the radio, the morning TV news show, even the front page of the Santa Luisa Register, resting on the kitchen bar.

The equation was simple: wealth brought them happiness, and their united front to the world was their warning that they meant to keep everything they had, let no one in on the secrets.

At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.

Johnny Rebs from the deep South who were plagued with diarrhoea after transfer to the Virginia front often informed their families that they were suffering from the `` the Virginia quickstep ''.

Dartmouth students ski everywhere in winter, starting with their own front door.

There were two front rooms, both dark behind their transoms, and there was no sound or light in the entire house to indicate that any of the occupants were awake.

( Several times recently I have wondered whether shows were being staged for the sake of the script or just to entertain the audience with the spectacle of scenery being shifted right in front of their eyes.

It projects it with the tip foremost whereas other frogs flick out the rear part first, their tongues being hinged at the front.

Two of them wanted to vomit, put their hands in front of their mouths, and ran out of the lecture hall to the toilet.

Some of these were built during a period of war between Bolivia and Paraguay, in order to transport Bolivian troops and their supplies to the war front in the lowlands of southeastern Bolivia and western Paraguay.

There are buses with specific routes and destinations, generally written on their windshields or shouted out by a barker riding in the front seat.

Surveys of the SW Indian Ocean have shown phytoplankton group variation based on their location relative to the Polar Front, with diatoms dominating South of the front, and dinoflagellates and flagellates in higher populations North of the front < sup >.</ sup >

Primary user input was decimal, via standard IBM 80 column punched cards and output was decimal, via a front panel display.

* File ( formation ), a single column of men one in front of the other

* HeidiSQL – a full featured free front end that runs on Windows, and can connect to local or remote MySQL servers to manage databases, tables, column structure, and individual data records.

The length of the air column ( and the pitch of the note produced ) is modified by finger holes in the front and thumb hole at the back of the instrument.

Each column consists of a front key and a rear key, a front lamp and a rear lamp, followed by a front cord and a rear cord, making up together a cord circuit.

Many newspapers have a weekly tanka column, and there are many professional and amateur tanka poets ; Makoto Ooka's poetry column was published seven days a week for more than 20 years on the front page of Asahi Shimbun.

Rather than realigning his troops so that the rear guard would be in the front, Wallace chose to countermarch his column ; he argued that his artillery would have been greatly out of position to support the infantry when it would arrive on the field.

Additionally, a Manastambha ( meaning column of honor ) is a pillar that is often constructed in front of Jain temples.

On September 20, 1863, Longstreet lined up eight brigades in a deep column against a narrow front, an attack very similar to future German tank tactics in World War II.

1972 Super Beetles had an 11 % larger rear window ( taller ), larger front brakes, four rows of vents ( versus two rows previously ) on the engine deck lid, tail lights incorporating reverse lights, a four-spoke energy-absorbing steering wheel and steering column, and an engine compartment socket for a proprietary VW Diagnosis system.

In March of the following year, Martin Gardner wrote about the Ulam spiral in his Mathematical Games column ; the Ulam spiral featured on the front cover of the issue of Scientific American in which the column appeared.

Other parts that can be salvaged from a donor VW for use in a Dune Buggy include the front axle and suspension, frame, pedal assembly, shock absorbers, seats, battery, fuel tank ( 1961 or later ), steering column, brakes, instruments and switches, windshield wiper, horn and emergency flasher unit.

The whole column, which had been marching right-to-left past the front of the Mantinean army then ' right-faced ', so that they were now in a battle line, facing the Mantineans.

In vertebrate anatomy, the throat ( Latin gula ) is the anterior part of the neck, in front of the vertebral column.

After the Confederate defeat in nearby West Point, Georgia, the Federal troops, led by Colonel Oscar LaGrange, marched north to LaGrange, with Confederate prisoners near the front of the column.

On a column in front of the historic county courthouse, one still can see evidence of the destruction of the cannonballs.

As the column advanced up a slight rise, the British brought up a battery of twelve six-pound cannon to the front of the column at such close range that the Gardes Françaises left their supported defensive position against orders, as they had at Dettingen, and advanced, unsupported, in an attempt to take the guns.

Without their skirmishers in front of them, the French column blundered into the 945 men of the 50th Regiment.

Some of his troops had to march no less than eight kilometers, in vulnerable column formations, moving along the front of an enemy who disposed of a numerous cavalry and artillery in this sector.

That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.

Blood dripped down the front of his sweater, soaking into a dark streak of dirt that ran diagonally across the white wool on his shoulder, as though the bright V woven into the neckline had melted, running a darker color.

He had considered throwing erasers or flipping paperwads at someone or pulling the hair of the girl sitting in front of him, but he couldn't take a chance on either of these possibilities: the teacher probably would make him stand face-to-wall in a corner instead of stay in after school.

A proper cavalry command in his front would have developed the fact that he had run into one division of Polk's Army of the Mississippi moving up from the direction of Mobile to join Johnston at Dalton.

They had Vermouth, sitting in front of a cafe.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

Going through a door into another small court, I had the Throne Room directly in front.

Noticing Russell's horse in front of the long log building, he assumed his friend had slipped inside and would be able to put up a good fight, so he began working his way down the ditch to join him.

One old man told me that when he was a boy he was kicked in the head by a fractious mule and had his scalp laid back from the entire front of his head.

And when they had drawn back a step he added: `` Jones is sitting on his horse right in front of her.

Outside, Shayne hesitated when he saw that Rourke had parked his coupe directly in front of the bar headed south.

Old man Arthur had put down the suitcase to open the front door.

Griffith had confronted Hoag on the building's front steps -- Hoag had been permitted no further -- and backed him against a wrought-iron railing.

But Hoag had not stayed on the front steps when Griffith disappeared into the building.

Richard M. Forbes's Paget, which had what seemed to be a substantial lead in the early stages, tired rapidly nearing the wire and was able to save place money only a head in front of Glen T. Hallowell's Milties Miss.

On the Latin American front, the President held talks with Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon before sending him to Uruguay and the Inter-American Economic and Social Council ( which the President himself had originally hoped to attend ).

Next to the Blackwells, Titus had owned the island most, and she and Adelia had often stood in front of him, silenced by his terrible years -- a scanty man with a thin beard and very deep-set blue eyes like a mariner, more aged than possible.