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.

Each of those tickets was of great value to its rightful recipient.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

This was the land of the sladang, the great water buffalo with horns forty inches across the spread.

It was a fortunate time in which to build, for the seventeenth century was a great period in Persian art.

Many believe -- and understandably -- that the great difference between the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy and the Federal Constitution was that the former recognized the right of each state to secede.

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.

William Gilmore Simms, sturdy realist that he was, pleaded for a natural robustness such as he found in his favorites the great Elizabethans, to vivify the pale writings being produced around him.

United States Senator Royal S. Copeland was wearing the robes of Santa Claus and a great white beard ; ;

While I was sitting at one of the rewrite telephones with my derby and my great beard, Arthur Brisbane whizzed in with some editorial copy in his hand.

Yet General Suvorov -- who had never forgotten hearing his adored Czarina declare that all truly great men had oddities -- was mad only north, northwest.

It was hit by a shell fired by the bombarding Venetian army and the great central portion of the temple was blown to smithereens.

Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.

The great spectacle was a source of rancor, and Son et Lumiere, which the French were trying to promote with the Athenians, was the reason.

The Boston elders were great at befuddling the opposition with torrents of ecclesiastical obscurities, but Gorton was better.

Peters insisted that this impression was a great misunderstanding, and evidently, from the quarrel, obtained an unfavorable impression of Morgan's judgment.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

At last, even the controlled Torrio was unable to hold still, and he tentatively suggested that O'Banion should take a percentage in the Stickney brothels in return for one from his Cicero beer concession.

The secretary's tone indicated that an appointment at such short notice was a concession for which Madden should be duly grateful.

The example of the kings was followed by the feudal nobles, sometimes by making a temporary concession permanent, sometimes without any form of commendation whatever.

A few scholars are of the opinion that this passage was a concession to growing influence of shramanic culture on the Brahmanical religion.

In the conferences during World War II, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin openly requested the concession of Soviet military bases on the Straits, even though Turkey was not involved in the war.

One change made that constituted a concession to the Presbyterian Exceptions, was the updating and re-insertion of the so-called Black Rubric, which had been removed in 1559.

Although evangelical sentiments were uttered by some of the members in favor of the supreme authority of the Scriptures and justification by faith, no concession whatever was made to Protestantism.

As a concession, the mosque in Constantinople was re-opened and sermons were to be pronounced in az-Zahir's name.

In the process of privatization, a concession was granted to liberalize mobile, CATV and packet-switched telecommunications.

This concession was critical for developing a competitive market.

The concession for packet communications, perhaps against the constraint of limited international telephony competition ( with the global exceptions of callback, transit and re-file arbitrage ) -- created conditions in which Skype was natively created.

Crane was given a $ 70 million concession by MLB for agreeing to the switch ; the move was a condition for the sale to the new ownership group.

The first support was Dr. Thorndike's paper ; the second was a concession by proponents of the systematic languages that thousands of words were already present in many – or even a majority – of the European languages.

The first casino monopoly concession was granted to the Tai Xing Company in 1937.

The Communist Party of China was founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao in the French concession of Shanghai in 1921 as a study society and an informal network.

In 1935, a 75-year oil concession was granted to the Qatar Petroleum Company, a subsidiary of the Iraq Petroleum Company, which was owned by Anglo-Dutch, French, and U. S. interests.

The first move came in 1922 at a boundary conference in Uqair when the prospector Major Frank Holmes tried to include Qatar in an oil concession he was discussing with Ibn Saud.

While some commentators have taken this as a concession to religion that Darwin later regretted, Darwin's view at the time was of God creating life through the laws of nature, and even in the first edition there are several references to " creation ".

One hustle of his was to beat a golfer playing right-handed, and then offer double or nothing to play the course again left-handed as an apparent concession.

Among many agreements, there was a separate agreement with the United States: the Chester concession.

King Edward I of England returned from the Eighth Crusade to take the throne and was able to subjugate Wales by the end of the decade ; Scotland quelled an uprising on the Isle of Man, in doing so confirming the concession of that territory made in 1266 by Norway in the Treaty of Perth.

although the 1972 Indonesian alphabet reform was largely a concession of Dutch-based Indonesian to the English-based spelling of Malaysian.