The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

You certainly couldn't take them into the little apartment and if you tried to farm them out for two or three days every week they would become so confused that they would have nervous breakdowns.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

Last week, when Royal was informed that three Longhorns were among the conference's top four in rushing, he said: `` That won't last long ''.

That was something of an understatement in a week when the underlying conflict between the West and Communism erupted on three fronts.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

Every week Holbrook writes the story line for the next three weeks for one of his strips and draws the next three weeks ' worth of strips for another.

About three to five pets attacked by coyotes are brought into the Animal Urgent Care hospital of south Orange County ( California ) each week, the majority of which are dogs, since cats typically do not survive the attacks.

Most teams practice at least three days a week for about two hours each practice during the summer.

The programme is currently shown in the UK in five episodes, over three evenings a week on ITV.

At the primary school level Corsican is taught up to a fixed number of hours per week ( three in the year 2000 ) and is a voluntary subject at the secondary school level, but is required at the University of Corsica.

Following their bye week, Dallas went on a three game winning streak including wins over Atlanta and NFC East division rival Philadelphia.

However, the Dallas team surged in the final three weeks of the season with a 24 – 17 victory at the Superdome, ending New Orleans ' previously unbeaten season in week 15.

The following season, the Cowboys avenged that defeat by beating the Eagles three times: twice during the regular season to claim the title as NFC East champions and once more in a wild-card playoff game by a combined score of 78 – 30, including a 24 – 0 shutout in week 17.

The Review ran three times a week without interruption until 1713.

He immediately published The Review, which appeared weekly, then three times a week, written mostly by himself.

After three lessons, Raine told Alma that Doris had " tremendous potential ", which led Alma to give her daughter three lessons a week for the price of one.

He handed responsibility to his assistant, Liz Reitell, who was keen to see Thomas for the first time since their three week romance in the spring.

She also employed a tutor to study anatomy and physiology three evenings a week.

Inhabitants should plan to remain sheltered for at least two weeks ( with an hour out at the end of the first week – see Swiss Civil Defense guidelines ( which was once part of Swiss Zivilschutz )), then work outside for gradually increasing amounts of time, to four hours a day at three weeks.

The success of this album further propelled the sales of his first two albums, enabling Brooks to become the first country artist with three albums listed in the pop top 20 in one week.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Some of the stumps are as much as three feet long, but most of them have been flattened by the pressure of the overlying sediments.

In the Delaware River, three long islands were overgrown with greening trees and underbrush.

I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming, `` O Gogol, O Chekhov, O Thackeray and Dickens, what would you have made of a bomb shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks, a birdbath, and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps ''??

Cut a strip of clay for sides long enough and wide enough for three impressions of mold design.

Cut a piece of clay for base and two for sides each about Af ( long enough for three impressions of mold ).

Make sure that the metal tube through which the wire passes is in the shape of an inverted `` L '', the foot of the `` L '' about three inches long, so that the puppet can hang directly under the light.

NBC plans a new series of three long programs exploring America's scientific plans titled `` Threshold '', to start in the fall.

His three-round total of 210 was three strokes better than the next best score, a 213 by Bill Collins, the tall and deliberate Baltimorean who had been playing very well all winter long.

Mike stopped to cherish all his brother selves, the many threes-fulfilled on Mars, corporate and discorporate, the precious few on Earth -- the unknown powers of three on Earth that would be his to merge with and cherish now that at last long waiting he grokked and cherished himself.

At hatching, a typical salamander larva has eyes without lids, teeth in both upper and lower jaws, three pairs of feathery external gills and a long, somewhat laterally flattened body and tail with dorsal and ventral fins.

Antigua and Barbuda has a long history of free elections, three of which have resulted in peaceful changes of government.

Once on course towards the Moon, the crew put the spacecraft into a rotisserie " barbecue " mode in which the craft rotated along its long axis three times per hour to ensure even heat distribution about the spacecraft from the Sun.

It is three miles ( 5 km ) long ( including the narrows at the east end ) and one mile ( 1½ km ) broad.

Although he had long suffered from heart trouble, his early death was unexpected ; taken ill suddenly at the end of 1934, he lay bedridden for three months before dying of pneumonia.

In addition, multiple trailer trucks ( known as Road Trains ) traverse these roads and extreme care must be taken when around these vehicles, due to their weight, length ( often three full trailers long ) and amount of dust thrown up by 46 + tyres.

Uintatheres were huge creatures with long narrow skulls, of which the elongated facial portion carried three pairs of bony horn-cores, probably covered with short horns in life, the hind-pair having been much the largest.

Where a siliqua is less than three times as long as it is broad, it is usually termed a silicula.

There are three main classes of biopolymers based on the differing monomeric units used and the structure of the biopolymer formed: polynucleotides, which are long polymers composed of 13 or more nucleotide monomers ; polypeptides, which are short polymers of amino acids ; and polysaccharides, which are often linear bonded polymeric carbohydrate structures.

Rounds were three minutes long with one minute rest intervals between rounds.