But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

Papa was disappointed that none of the brothers had heard the Call.

Perhaps it was his misfortune, or good fortune, whichever way one looked at it, to belong to the former group, and he was struggling unconsciously to build up pressure in a world which demanded none, which was positively antagonistic to it.

This was my second day in Vientiane, the administrative capital of Laos, and my thoughts were none too brave.

`` Said she had a breaking-out on her face -- some sort of allergy -- and none of her old pictures was good enough.

Only those actually with Payne when he was shot, or who had left the party within not more than five minutes ( make five arbitrary ) positively had none.

It was more a matter of tact, and also it was none of Killpath's goddam business.

He thought of other possibilities, none of them satisfactory, and finally he began to think, to wonder if there was some way he could reach Burton.

Now, at this moment, there should be none unless skin diving was much more dangerous than he had been led to believe.

There was in the Brahms none of the mysterious and marvelous alchemy by which a great conductor can bring soloist, orchestra and music to ultimate fusion.

a man in whose entourage none was ever safe ; ;

It was foolish and snobbish to wear clothing when none of these nice people did.

When he said it, they thought it exceedingly profound, though none of them understood it, since it was simply the amount of time that Mercer had been on Shayol:

This refusal to accept any renunciation of allegiance to the Crown led to conflict with the United States over impressment, and then led to further conflicts even during the War of 1812, when thirteen Irish American prisoners of war were executed as traitors after the Battle of Queenston Heights ; Winfield Scott urged American reprisal, but none was carried out.

It may also be because, since 12 people stabbed the victim, none was certain who delivered the killing blow.

His reign was the most peaceful in the entire history of the Principate ; while there were several military disturbances throughout the Empire in his time, in Mauretania, Iudaea, and amongst the Brigantes in Britannia, none of them are considered serious.

When the work was finished, the river was turned back into its usual channel and the captives by whose hands the labor had been accomplished were put to death that none might learn their secret.

Although a bishop was promptly appointed to Hereford, none was named to Worcester, and it appears that Ealdred intended to retain Worcester along with York, which several of his predecessors had done.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

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

But it was not a tall structure and other buildings concealed it.

Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

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

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

`` You know who the other man was ''??

But I'm sure the other one was Lou ''.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.

And when this was gone, he hadn't even a little bitter tablet to purify other water if he were to discover some stagnant jungle pool.

He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.

The slender, handsome fellow was called Dandy Brandon by the other slaves.

He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.

That any sort of duty was owed by his nation to other nations would have astonished a nineteenth-century statesman.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

The other, of course, was the Civil War, the conflict which a century ago insured national unity over fragmentation.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.