His visitors had crawled through the south fence and were crossing the meadow, angling toward the house.

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

And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.

They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.

They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.

As Curt had hoped, the house door banged open.

He left the house and almost certain death without even increasing his pace and wondered by what remarkable stroke of Providence he had been allowed to come out alive.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.

One day I tired of following the Hetman's advice of `` shadowing '' and of the `` ring-around-the-rosie '' approach to a report that Enrico Caruso had pinched a lady's hip while visiting the Central Park monkey house.

wept day and night for the sins and blindness of the world had a long walk through the trees and woods by his house, where he constantly walked morning and evening, and even in the depths of the night, alone by himself, for contemplation and the enjoyment of the dispensation of light.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.

To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.

At Lee Simonson's house, I had dined with Edith Hamilton, the nonogenarian rationalist and the charming scholar who had a great popular success with The Greek Way.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

This was the largest house he had ever been in, almost the largest building, except for a hotel.

That other Jew, a young man too, had left that greatcoat behind, in a rich house, and marched away.

The night before, they had telephoned the Andrus maid, Selena Masters, and she had arrived early, bursting her vigorous presence into the silent house with an assurance that amused McFeeley and confounded Moll.

In others, more elaborate architectural settings developed, sometimes by converting a house and sometimes by converting a previously public building.

In August 2007, Jakarta held its first ever election to choose a governor, whereas previously the city's governors were appointed by the local house of representatives.

Mainstream scholar Irvin Matus demonstrated that Oxford sold the Bilton house in 1580, having previously rented it out, making it unlikely that Ben Jonson's 1623 poem would identify Oxford by referring to a property he once owned, but never lived in, and sold 43 years earlier.

Lords Temporal include appointed members ( life peers with no hereditary right for their descendants to sit in the house ) and ninety-two remaining hereditary peers, elected from among, and by, the holders of titles which previously gave a seat in the House of Lords.

The wallpaper had hung previously on the walls of another mansion until 1961 when that house was demolished for a grocery store.

Although there are no details concerning the exact circumstances, he had previously received threats, and his house had been set on fire.

“ The father, one-time collector of internal revenue in New York by appointment of Abraham Lincoln, was the founder of a well known publishing house ”, known previously as the Putnam Publishing house, but now known as G. P. Putnam's Sons.

" Mason found numerous cans of previously " lost " Keaton films in the house in the 1950s ; the films were quickly transferred by Raymond Rohauer to safety film before the original cellulose nitrate prints further deteriorated.

The game's current equipment consists of a board which shows the rooms, corridors and secret passages of an English country house called Tudor Mansion, although previously named variously as Tudor Close or Tudor Hall, and in some editions Boddy Manor or Boddy Mansion.

The house had previously been occupied by their friends, Terry Melcher and Candice Bergen.

The Bartolini palace was the first house to be given frontispieces of columns to the door and windows, previously confined to churches ; he was ridiculed by the Florentines for his innovation.

After this, Valjean's previously habitual visits to Cosette at Marius ' grandfather's house ( No. 6, rue des filles-du-calvaire ) become shorter and shorter, until he suddenly ceases to visit.

Legislative authority is vested in a bicameral National Diet and, whereas previously the upper house had consisted of members of the nobility, the new constitution provided that both chambers be directly elected.

Its Baghdad offices are based in a house that previously belonged to Ba ' athist Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz.

The area in front of the house was then enclosed, depriving inhabitants of St Martin in the Fields parish of their right to use the previously common land.

Hatch End was also previously home to The Railway public house ; the site on which it once stood is now home to a Tesco Express store.

On 25 January 1981, MPs Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, William Rodgers and David Owen made the Limehouse Declaration from Owen's house in Limehouse, which announced the formation of the Council for Social Democracy in opposition to the granting of block votes to the trade unions in the Labour Party to which they had previously belonged.

Other parts of Wimbledon Park which had previously escaped being built upon saw local authority estates constructed by the borough council to house some of those who had lost their homes.

It was previously used as a summer house and was given its present name when the sons of the last German Emperor, William II were taught in this building.

During World War II, the outskirts of McGehee was the site of an American concentration camp used to house Japanese and Japanese-American civilians who had previously lived on the U. S. West Coast.

The building that previously sat across the street, housing the Sharp Shop, was a fire house, along with another small building on the east side of Routiers Road between Folsom Blvd.

* Charles Nelson Reilly-Actor and teacher, lived in a house given to him by Burt Reynolds, who had previously lived in it with Sally Field.

The present stone sanctuary was erected in 1740, replacing a log meeting house which had previously served as the place of worship.