It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

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.

For men who had left cattle alone after getting their first notices had received no second.

But the day of the deadline came and passed, and the men who had scoffed at the warnings laughed with satisfaction.

Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.

But in the middle of the last century an island woman named `` Karipo '' seized a spear in the heat of an inter-tribal battle and rallied the women after their men had fled.

Within a decade or less, few men were left and a feminist society had sprung up.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

But before this came about, 214,938 Americans had given their lives in battle for the two concepts of the sovereign rights of men and of states.

I left behind me brave men, whom captivity had robbed of all hope.

These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

The Fourteenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers lost one-third of its numbers within a few minutes, among them being several men whose time of service had expired but who had volunteered to advance with their regiment.

Yet General Suvorov -- who had never forgotten hearing his adored Czarina declare that all truly great men had oddities -- was mad only north, northwest.

Recently I traveled the parkway from East Orange to Cape May and I found the most courteous group of men you will find anywhere.

Rapp and a small group of men left Iptingen in 1803 and traveled to America to find a new home.

The boy was eventually taken to Rodez, where two men traveled to discover whether or not he was their missing son.

According to the San Francisco Herald, in a series of articles run in 1853, they give this honor to Captain Joseph R. Walker, who in January 1851 with his nephew James T. Walker and six men, traveled up the Colorado River to a point where it joined the Virgin River and continued east into Arizona, traveling along the Grand Canyon and making short exploratory side trips along the way.

At that time, the Mojave had an old culture that had been passed down the centuries, unchanged by the few parties of white men who had traveled through their country.

After his father's death in 1765, Boone traveled with his brother Squire and a group of men to Florida, which had become British territory after the end of the war, to look into the possibility of settling there.

While the law was chasing down the fictitious killer during the late hours, the group of Bay Minette men stealthily traveled the seventeen miles ( 27 km ) to Daphne, stole the Baldwin County Courthouse records, and delivered them to the city of Bay Minette, where Baldwin County's county seat remains.

From his home he traveled to Jackson, arriving there with 30 well-armed men, where he gave a speech from the steps of the Madison County courthouse, and then rode southwest to Bolivar, where he spent the night at residence of Dr. Calvin Jones, once again drawing crowds who sent him off the next morning.

After four days, the people traveled on, and the bow priests decided they needed to learn to eat so they planted corn fetishes in the fields and when these had multiplied and grown, harvested it and gave the harvest to the men to bring home to their wives.

The route the three men traveled is unknown, but they may have traveled through Sussex County, Warren County, Hunterdon County or Pennsylvania.

The men that traveled with Loxley settled in what later became the town of Loxley.

The men were friendly before Law became cardinal ( Zakim traveled with the delegation to Rome when Law was elevated from archbishop ).

Upon returning to Boston in 1985, Law delivered his first sermon as cardinal on anti-semitism and the two men traveled to Poland together in 1986, where they visited the Auschwitz concentration camp and spoke to Catholic groups about anti-semitism.

Winters explains that " a number of his men lived in the area through which they now traveled, and many of them slipped away to visit their families.

In 1811, 16 men from Becket traveled to the Western Reserve and founded the village of Windham, Ohio.

De Soto and his men traveled through what is now Ash Hill and passed just outside of Poplar Bluff.

On March 9, 1723, Colonel Thomas Westbrook from Thomaston, Maine led 230 men to the Penobscot River and traveled approximately upstream to the Penobscot village.

He thus had little sympathy for those travels across Asia between 1887 and 1895 which made his son one of the most traveled men who ever sat in a British cabinet.

After the retreat of the Continental Army from Canada, Stark and his men traveled to New Jersey to join Washington's main army.

" He traveled to Selma, Alabama, where SNCC had organized a voter registration drive ; he watched mothers with babies and elderly men and women standing in long lines for hours, as armed deputies and state troopers stood by — or intervened to smash a reporter's camera or use cattle prods on SNCC workers.

Père Francois Dollier de Casson traveled with La Salle as far as Hamilton, Ontario, with seven men in another three canoes.

Eventually, Torquemada garnered so much hatred that he traveled with a bodyguard of 50 mounted guards and 250 armed men.

The men traveled toward Cherny Yar, a government stronghold between Tsaritsyn and Astrakhan.