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.

Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

But it was not easy for him and he often slipped.

against the limitless background of sky and wasteland it was easy to confirm her analysis.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

Boniface was later to explain to the English that Robert of Burgundy and Guy De St.-Pol were easy enough to do business with ; ;

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

Mr. Rayburn was not an easy man to classify or to label.

Every man who dabbles in the market to make a little easy money on the side and suffers losses could at the time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so dumb.

Mr. McKinley, for all his sprawling and his easy familiarity, was completely alert to his son, eyes always on the still face, jumping to anticipate Scotty's desires.

After that, violence was exultantly easy.

I was the first to get my squad on the ball, and anybody thinkin it was easy is pretty damn dumb.

Laura was sitting in an easy chair about eight feet away.

She was resentful of his easy success as compared with Shelley's failure.

It should have been nearly as easy for her to remember that as it was for Big Hans to remember going after the axe while he was still spattered with Pa's yellow sick insides.

but since she didn't know we'd given it to her, there was no easy way of getting it back.

It was easy to see that they were made for each other, and they knew what they wanted.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

The West had long since forgotten the events of 1919, but it was not so easy for the Red leaders, who felt that they had suffered great injustice in that period.

While the Cold War raged it was easy to blame it all on Yalta.

It was not always easy to develop theory and doctrine which would square the two conditions.

The artistic generation after Brumidi was trained in the Paris of that time to a more meticulous standard of execution, and tended to overlook greatness of conception where faults and weakness were easy to find.

the verse of Beowulf or of The Iliad and The Odyssey was not easy to create but was not impossible for poets who had developed their talents perforce in earning a livelihood.