He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.

The Bonaventure was quivering and lurching like an old spavined mare.

For an anthropologist, loquacious old L'Turu was a mine of information.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

He was about 50 years old.

`` Oh he was stupid, her old man!!

for another, it was here that one of the old caravan routes came in.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.

Strindberg's remedy for this condition was to tear down the old structures and build anew from the ground up.

At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

It was much more fun, reminding the girls of their old carefree days in the Hasseltine frolics room at Bradford.

He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.

Shakespeare did not usually invent the incidents in his plays, but borrowed them from old stories, ballads, and plays, wove them together, and then breathed into them his spark of life.

she could dust the plants, then break off suddenly and pick up an old novel and read from the middle on ; ;

Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

She was thirty-one years old then.

`` The trouble with you '', old man Arthur began, and then checked himself.

He came to a stretch of old orange groves, the trees dead, some of them uprooted, and then there was an outlying shopping area, and tract houses.

By then, the stranger was thanking Haney profusely and had one arm around his shoulders as if he were an old friend.

Skorich, who is 39 years old, played football at Cincinnati University and then had a three-year professional career as a lineman under Jock Sutherland with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Such efforts almost always find themselves compelled to ask whether Adam was created capable of growing old and then older and then still older, in short, whether Adam's life was intended to be part of the process of time.

Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.

After the spate of female vocalists we have been having, all of whom took Sarah as a point of departure and then tried to see what they could do that might make her seem old hat, it seemed that all that has happened is to make the real thing seem better than ever.

They looked at the ruins of the old Roman wall on the lower Via Veneto, then they went to the Farnese Gardens.

Alex quells the rebellion by slashing Dim's hand and fighting with Georgie, then in a show of generosity takes them to a bar, where Alex insists on following through on Georgie's idea to burgle the home of a wealthy old woman.

While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.

Snorri says at first it is Valhalla and then adds: " The Swedes now believed that he had gone to the old Asagarth and would live there forever " ( Section 9 ).

Heavy disputes between Hekmatyar and Massoud in 1975 reached to such a point that Hekmatyar with the help of two Pakistani agents tried to assassinate Massoud, then 22 years old.

To remedy this and to restore the old established chancery style, the Pope selected out of the many then living Abbreviators seventy, and formed them into a college of prelates, and decreed that their office should be perpetual, that certain emoluments should be attached to it, and granted certain privileges to the possessors of the same.

Anthony went to the Fayyum and confirmed the brethren there in the Christian faith, then returned to his old Roman fort.

The names start with a R then a first digit indicating the ( old ) province, and sometimes a second digit to further differentiate in between different ringways.

By then Jacob had become over 100 years old.

Major additions to the old house were considered in 1849, but by then negotiations were underway to purchase the estate from the trustees of the deceased Earl Fife.

The aim is to carry the ball from the " Salting Pool " via the old A30, along Callywith Road, then through Castle Street, Church Square and Honey Street to finish at the Turret Clock in Fore Street.