Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

There was no one but me.

there was no doubt he was dying.

`` Oh, no '', he said, and he was without humor now.

The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.

There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't stop to graze.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

There was no chance.

There was no moon.

Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.

Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.

There was to be no gunplay.

The rustling problem was by no means solved.

There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.

Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.

Glowering looks met them in the bar, but there was no attempt to halt them.

As far as he could see there was no hole to climb through it.

There was, of course, no way for the other planes to get by them.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.

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.

Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

The feeling subsided, it was only a small yearning.

She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.

The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.

While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.

There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.

his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.

The nude was small and black-haired and elfin, and was called `` Eloise ''.