When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

He scrubbed absent-mindedly at the pans and reflected on how things had turned out.

For Tom Horn, it turned out, had a number of rancher and cowboy witnesses ready and willing to swear with straight faces that he had been in Bates Hole the day of the killing.

The arrangement turned out to be excellent.

It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.

A time before the white lightning and the bumming had turned him inside out.

As things turned out, however, we have not profited greatly from the lesson: instead of persistently following a national program of our own we have often been satisfied to be against whatever Soviet policy seemed to be at the moment.

But every time I suggested this to her, Mrs. Wright turned it down and demanded that I go out and punish Mr. Wright.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

It usually turned out well for him because either he liked the right people or there were only a few wrong people in the town.

We lived for a while in a movie melodrama with a German cook and her son who turned out to be Nazis.

Though it was a great relief when the big brains on these shows turned out to be frauds and phonies, it did irreparable damage to the ego of the editor and many another intelligent, well-informed American.

As it has turned out, however, the excessive enthusiasm in the first instance and the loss of hope in the second were both wrong responses.

In their search for what turned out to be the right breakfast china but the wrong table silver, they opened every cupboard door in the kitchen and pantry.

He looked out through windowpanes turned a faint violet by sun and weather, looked out at King's Bridge toward Westchester.

That evening turned out to be hell like all the others.

As it turned out, Jessica took matters into her own hands.

We blushed and were flustered, and it turned out to be the fleetest brush of lips upon cheek.

It turned out to be a life of Martin Luther, of all things!!

Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.

As it turned out, a very hot region occurred on the plug.

However, he turned out to be a complete failure in his new position.

could piece, as it were, the jumbled mass together into an organized whole and then recognize it as a man or a triangle or whatever it turned out to be.

For it had turned out, by a further paradox of Cubism, that the means to an illusion of depth and plasticity had now become widely divergent from the means of representation or imaging.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

Seeking an obscure, dark, relatively quiet corner in the airy room otherwise suffused with afternoon sunshine, he asked if the soft background music could be turned off.

ripe pears lying in long grass, to be turned over by a dusty-slippered foot, cautiously, lest bees still worked in the ragged, brown-edged holes ; ;

And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: `` in essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism ''.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

But there is nothing in the Act requiring the hearing officer's report to be likewise turned over to the registrant.

In many cases that statement -- `` We break even on our downtown operation and make money on our branches '' -- would be turned around if the cost analysis were recalculated on terms less prejudicial to the old store.

It cannot be said that our very first day in the Soviet Union turned out to be an ordinary one.

Yet, if the argument is turned awry, there may be found a great deal in Bryan's view, after all.

The tight air space over Verdun turned into an aerial battlefield, and illustrated the value of tactical air superiority, as each side sought to dominate air reconnaissance.

But what was almost a strategic and decisive defeat turned into only a marginal, tactical one.

This turned out to be an egregious tactical blunder, as, when the British Army under General John Burgoyne arrived in July, he did exactly what Kościuszko would have done and had his engineers place artillery on the hill.

Although outnumbered two to one, Napoleon attacked the following day ( 27 August ), turned the allied left flank, and won an impressive tactical victory.

Modern Lao nationalist movements, on the other hand, have turned Anouvong into a hero, even though his strategic and tactical mistakes combined with his hot temper led to the end of the kingdom of Lan Xang ( Million Elephants ,) destruction of Vientiane, and a permanent division of the Lao people between the country of Laos and the Lao-speaking provinces of northeastern Thailand.

Kukliński was also concerned that his homeland would be turned into a nuclear wasteland as the Warsaw Pact's superiority in conventional forces would mean NATO would respond to a military action with tactical nuclear weapons.

SAC also belatedly turned over tactical mission planning to its subordinate Eighth Air Force headquarters on Guam, which promptly revised the previously costly tactics.

In a match of March 1871 against Wanderers their victory was due to " irreproachable organisation " and in particular that both their attacks and their backing up were both " so well organised " In November 1871 similar passing tactics are described in a contemporary account of a game against the Wanderers in which two goals were scored through tactical passing: " Betts, however, soon seized his opportunity, and by a brilliant run down the left wing turned the ball judiciously to Currie, who as judiciously sent it flying through the strangers ' goal in first rate style " Later in the match it is reported that " Lieut G Barker, turning the ball to Lieut Renny-Tailyour who planted it between the posts " " Turning " the ball clearly points to the short pass.

Erwin Rommel — poised on the threshold of a complete tactical victory — turned from the battle to return to his eastward-facing defenses at the Mareth Line when he heard of the approach of Bernard Montgomery ′ s British 8th Army.

During the quarter final of the 2009 Heineken Cup against Leinster, Harlequins wing Tom Williams came off the field with what turned out to be a faked blood injury in order to facilitate a tactical substitution.

PACAF tactical air strength was being reduced as several air bases were turned over to the SVNAF.

Units from the South Vietnamese Air Force ( VNAF ) took on more and more combat to defend their nation and USAF tactical air strength was being reduced as several air bases were turned over to the VNAF.

A successful young officer with a promising career in the service of her Queen, Honor ’ s delight at her new command soon turns to dismay as she realizes Fearless has been nearly stripped of her normal weapons and turned into a tactical testbed for new technology.

In 1962 Project Clearwater halted large scale rotational bomber deployments to Britain with Sculthorpe, along with RAF Fairford, RAF Chelveston, and RAF Greenham Common, being turned over to USAFE for tactical air use.

While they continued strategic bombing, the AAF turned its attention to the tactical air battle in support of the Normandy invasion.

They quickly turned the tide against the Maximals with their tactical and strategic brilliance.

In the hold advance of the Guard corps on the Austrian right wing at Königgrätz during the Austro-Prussian War, he led the Guard reserve artillery with success, and after the short war ended he turned his energies, now fortified by experience, to the tactical training of the Prussian artillery.

Regardless of the tactical outcome, the Battle of Prokhorovka was turned into a critical propaganda and operational victory for the Red Army.