He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.

I don't propose to go into their history, but I have one or two surmises.

`` A portable companion always ready to go where you go -- a small friend weighing less than a freshborn infant -- to be shared with few or many -- just two of you in sweet meditation ''.

Office workers frequently go out there to lunch and swim during the siesta period, which, during the summer, lasts from two until five in the afternoon, when shops and offices are again open for business.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

He was going to do one or two more films for cash and then chuck it all, leave Rome and its intellectual cliques and money-fed life, go back to Calabria.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

The two men sat for some time, savoring the pleasure of escape from peril and the relief such escape brings, before they got up and left the hotel, the doctor to go to the conference house and Alex to go to the main post office.

The chines go in the same way except that they are made of two pieces of two-inch wood for strength and easier bending.

His Highness had decided only two hours ago to go out of town, and he was eager to be off.

Stilts and Shadow, on Pam's bed, appeared to be one cat -- rather large, as Siamese cats go, and, to be sure, having two heads and two tails.

`` But we got to go back to Fifth and get another bottle or two.

Though there has been some avant garde indication that contemporary furniture might go back to the boxy look of the '20's and '40's, two manufacturers chose to take the approach of the sophisticated, but warm look in contemporary.

Now they go to a high school that is two miles away.

She was coming to her senses enough to realize that you don't go traipsing off anywhere at two in the morning.

Phil Rossoff and two other Riverside players did not go out on the field when the fighting started.

The two men would go on to collaborate on another 15 films.

Prior to meeting Mallowan, Christie had not had any extensive brushes with archaeology, but once the two married they made sure to only go to sites where they could work together.

Tarrou tells Rieux the story of his life, and the two men go swimming together in the sea.

To set a seal on the friendship between the two men, they go for a swim together.

Leonhart Rauwolff, in AD 1574, found it " divided ... into two towns ," the one " Turkish ," " so surrounded by the river, that you cannot go into it but by boats ," the other, much larger, on the Arabian side of the river.

To give a schematic scenario by way of illustration: two men have clashed in the assembly about a proposal put by one of them ; it passed, and now the two of them go to court with the loser in the assembly prosecuting both the law and its proposer.

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

To my great surprise and delight, when they saw the two trees they went rushing off, returning shortly with decorations from their own trees.

There she extracted two limp vellum sheets and wrote off the letters, one to Abel, one to Mark.

Military experts say a tight naval blockade off Cuban ports and at the approaches to Cuban waters would require two naval task forces, each built around an aircraft carrier with a complement of about 100 planes and several destroyers.

A second and also good practice is to shear off the tops, leaving an inch high stub with just a leaf or two on each branch.

Stopping the cars at a fork in the road, he got out, paced off a certain distance to a spot between two shrub-covered sand hills, and indicated a location.

Max, in a fit of despair, takes Alicia and runs off for two marvelous weeks in Burbank ( Fink calls it `` the most wonderful and lovely fourteen days in my whole life '' ), at the end of which Alicia tragically contracts Parkinson's disease and dies.

During his journey Palfrey stopped off to see two abolitionists.

At this moment, Loveless and Means arrived, crashing through the undergrowth with their horses, and distracted her, and she ran off a short distance and jumped into a crevice between two rocks.

Mickey backed off two steps, forcing him to come on again.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

Nick recalled stories that the two best fishing spots in Southern California were over the La Jolla Deep and the Redondo Deep, two spots where the ocean dropped off to fantastic depths almost from the shoreline.

John Powell, batting for Adair, fanned after fouling off two 2-and-2 pitches, and Buddy Barker, up for Stepanovich, bounced out sharply to Jerry Lumpe at second to end the 2-hour-and-27-minute contest.

The Broncs did hit two quick strikes in the final period against the Texans, but Dallas had enough of a lead to hold them off.

The Bears added two more in the fifth when McAuliffe dropped a double into the leftfield corner, Paschal doubled down the rightfield line and Cooke singled off Phil Shartzer's glove.

The Continental League never got off the ground, but after two years it forced the existing majors to expand.

Only in its final scene, where Beatie Bryant ( Mary Doyle ) shakes off the disappointment of being jilted by her intellectual lover and proclaims her emancipation do we get much which makes worthwhile the series of boorish rustic happenings we have had to watch for most of the first two and one-half acts.

A wedding set for January 1, 1841, was canceled when the two broke off their engagement at Lincoln's initiative.

Holders of territories have a " home advantage " and usually come off better in an encounter between two similar sized frogs.

The doctrine that no man can cast off his native allegiance without the consent of his sovereign was early abandoned in the United States, and Chief Justice John Rutledge also declared in Talbot v. Janson, " a man may, at the same time, enjoy the rights of citizenship under two governments.

Within a short while, he grasps what is at stake and warns the authorities that unless steps are taken immediately, the epidemic could kill off half the town's population of two hundred thousand within a couple of months .</ br > During the epidemic, Rieux heads an auxiliary hospital and works long hours treating the victims.