In any case, he had no intention of being caught asleep, so he carried his revolver in its holster on his hip and he took his Winchester with him and leaned it against the fence.

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.

The forest took on an impersonal aspect.

His face took on a sudden pallor, became beaded with sweat, and he seemed to have trouble with his breathing.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

Greg himself took two flights, with Todman leading the second, to patrol and look for targets of opportunities around Ormoc on the east coast of Leyte.

He took a lead on the enemy, using a distance of five of the radii in his circular sight and then added another.

The man took two short steps backward then sat down heavily on the pavement.

A spectacle occurred across the meadow: the lone marine took a seat on the ground ; ;

Matsuo took the small knife from its scabbard and laid it on the ground, out of the marine's reach and away from their shadows.

The deeds of countless western bandits and outlaws have been glorified almost to the point of hero-worship, but because Billy Tilghman remained strictly on the side of the law throughout his action-packed career, his achievements and the appalling risks he took while taming the West have remained almost unsung.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

He took the story of the pound of flesh and had to fasten it on someone.

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.

On this issue, then, as on so many in these months, Steele and Swift took rigidly opposed points of view.

Every day, when the President took his nap, Rob Roy would stretch out on the window seat near him, like a perfect gentleman, and stare thoughtfully out the window, or he would take a little nap himself.

Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.

The restaurant to which the Sakellariadises took us on this night of controversy was the Asteria, on Asteria beach.

She took it grudgingly, her dark eyes baleful as they met his.

The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.

He took up a white sheet of paper, dark with single-spaced data.

The goddess ' appearance offered contrasting colours to the eye, for her body was dazzling white, intimating her descent from heaven and her robe was dark blue, denoting her emergence from the sea ... But now becomingly took the centre of the stage to the great acclamation of the theatre, and smiled sweetly ... still more affectingly began to gently stir herself ; with gradual, lingering steps, restrained swaying of the hips, and slow inclination of the head she began to advance, her refined movements matching the soft wounds of the flutes.

" Wood then asked to see the experiments being run as usual, which took place in a room required to be very dark so the target was barely visible.

He took his observations of dark and bright spots on the surfaces of Mars and Jupiter to be evidence of water and ice on those planets.

It took its water from its own well situated under the brewery which is fed from the South Downs, and the yeast and ' liquor ' ( local water used for brewing ), coupled with the local brewing style, produce beers with a sparse head, quite dark in colour.

Holidays in Eden was followed by Brave, a dark and richly complex concept album that took the band 18 months to release.

It was dark, so they took the sun and set it in a track to run east to west, at first setting it too low and the red crawfish was scorched.

It took all day to go and return before dark.

Guest star Cabot had to bleach his hair white for the role and it took three months for the actor's hair to return to its original dark color.

While being given a tour of the Sorbonne's library, the archivist took Joseph to a dark room containing religious documents, and lamented the lack of light which prevented Joseph from being able to read them.

The catastrophe that came upon the Pyrenean Jews made such an impression upon the minds of the best among them that many saw therein the signs of Messianic travail, ( compare Jacob Berab ); and Karo, according to a contemporary, took this dark view throughout his life.

Daily care of her abundant and extremely long hair, which in the time turned from the dark blonde of her youth, to chestnut brown, took at least three hours.

On the other hand, " bright " enka singer Yoshimi Tendo, who was ignored when the " dark " enka songs like Keiko Fuji's song " Keiko no Yume wa Yoru Hiraku " were popular, took part in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen for the first time in 1993.

In another memorable event, Flatow took former All Things Considered host Susan Stamberg into a closet to crunch Wint-O-Green Lifesavers, proving they spark in the dark.

Her dark side then took over, seeking to destroy the Magic Knights for killing her love.

In preparation for Sauron's return, the Ringwraiths laid siege to Minas Ithil in 2000, and they took the city for their dark master two years later.

He took pleasure from enslaving the bodies of the former kings as his dark knights.

In a debasement process which took effect in 1920, the silver content of all British coins was reduced from 92. 5 % to 50 %, with a portion of the remainder consisting of manganese, which caused the coins to tarnish to a very dark colour after they had been in circulation for a significant period.

The fifth season ( 1988 – 1989 ) took the show on a more serious tone, with storylines becoming dark and gritty — enough so that even some of the most loyal fans were left perplexed.

When they had received approval, the mosaic master Severo Bignami and his eight-person team took a large photograph of the mosaic, made a tracing of the image with a dark marker and created a negative impression of the mosaic.

During her stays at Rosersberg Palace and in spite of her fear of the dark, she took walks in the park at night and instructed one lady-in-waiting to walk in front of her dressed in white to keep bats away from her.

During the dark days of the Marcos dictatorship, many young Malinaonons took up arms to fight tyranny.