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.

He told himself he had never seen two people eat so much.

Start out fresh, the two of us, like nothin had ever happened ''.

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.

His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.

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

He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

) Rumor had it he slipped two small rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademark.

He stepped inside Jess's guard and landed two blows to the big man's belly, putting everything he had behind them.

Greg had the stick forward and the throttle up before he heard the two `` Rogers ''.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

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.

The two principal claimants still disagreed about the names of elements 104-106.

Stephens considered Fox a gifted young man but the two disagreed on so many issues that he later called Fox mad and spoke against him.

The two nations disagreed, however, on the issue that had plagued Anglo-Afghan relations for decades and would continue to cause friction for many more — authority over Pashtun tribes on both sides of the Durand Line.

The two nations have strong economic, diplomatic, and military ties, although they have at times disagreed with regard to policies towards North Korea, and with regard to some of South Korea's industrial activities that involve usage of rocket or nuclear technology.

Nevertheless, she remained active in the Democratic Party and campaigned for Al Smith in the 1928 presidential election though the two disagreed on prohibition.

On the other hand, al-Ghazali ( also known as " Algazel " in Europe ), who often disagreed with Aristotle and Ibn Sina ( Avicenna ) on many issues, argued that animals do possess anger as one of the three " powers " in their Qalb (" heart "), the other two being appetite and impulse.

Ibn al-Tammar disagreed with Razi's book al-Tibb al-Ruhani but Razi rebutted him in two antitheses:

Volta, essentially, objected to Galvani ’ s conclusions about " animal electric fluid ", but the two scientists disagreed respectfully and Volta coined the term " galvanism " for a direct current of electricity produced by chemical action.

After Charles's death in 1477, the two men openly disagreed about how best to take political advantage of the situation.

This ruling was by a 7-2 vote, but ( as discussed more fully in the next subsection below ) two of the seven disagreed with the Court's remedy for the Equal Protection violation.

Other points of conflict included that Moline did not want to have to assume any of Rock Island's public debt ; Rock Island feared that a union with Moline would drive down its property values ; and the citizens of the two towns, representing different regions, classes, occupations and ethnicities, widely disagreed on major political issues of the day.

Although the settlers initially disagreed, they consented, purchased the Westingkow farm, and moved their log cabins two miles to the west.

The struggle between church and state continued into the spring of 1101, when Baldwin had Dagobert suspended by a papal legate, while later in the year the two disagreed on the question of the contribution to be made by the patriarch towards the defence of the Holy Land.

The two theologians disagreed on whether the body and blood of Christ were truly present within the elements of bread and wine during the celebration of the Lord's Supper.

In 1632, however, the two men disagreed over Gustavus ' insistence that Frederick provide equal rights to his Lutheran and Calvinist subjects after regaining his lands ; Frederick refused and started to return to The Hague.

He suspected that editors tended to favor trees with two branches, as this would maximize the opportunities for editorial judgment ( as there would be no third branch to " break the tie " whenever the witnesses disagreed ).

The two men quickly disagreed.

Charlton feared for his future at Leeds after Revie's appointment, as the two had disagreed as players.

The two other parties in the Scottish Parliament who support income based taxation, the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party, disagreed with the proposals which would have seen anyone with an income below £ 10K pa exempted and anyone earning below £ 30K have their liability reduced, while targeting revenue generation to those with household incomes in excess of £ 100K.

Claiming territory according to the uti possidetis juris principle, the two disagreed on whether the territory of Charcas had access to the sea.

The two settlements knew it was impractical to remain as separate entities, but disagreed about which would be the center of town.

Although Vlad had great success against the Ottoman armies, the two Christian rulers disagreed in 1462, leading to Matthias imprisoning Vlad in Buda.

In particular, historians have sharply disagreed as to who was responsible for the breakdown of Soviet – US relations after the Second World War ; and whether the conflict between the two superpowers was inevitable, or could have been avoided.

Historians have also disagreed on what exactly the Cold War was, what the sources of the conflict were, and how to disentangle patterns of action and reaction between the two sides.