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The easiest thing would
be to sell out
to Al Budd and leave
the country
, but there
was a stubborn streak in
him that wouldn't allow it
.

He didn't think it
was possible for this couple
to be pretending
.

Evidently this
was a precaution so
that mounts would
be available in an emergency
.

He might tell her how sorry
a spectacle she
was making
of herself
, pretending
to be blind
to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections
from her
.

It
was pitiful
to see
the thin ranks
of warriors
, old and young
, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically
from side
to side only
to be tumbled bleeding
from their saddles by
the relentless slam
, slam
of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses
.

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

Its front
was windowless
, but irregularities in
the masonry might
be an indication
that windows
, now blinded
, had once looked out upon
the street
.

She regarded them as signs
that she
was nearing
the glen she sought
, and she
was glad
to at last
be doing something positive in her unenunciated
, undefined struggle with
the mountain and
its darkling inhabitants
.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial
of the forces
that threatened her
, Pamela
was relieved now
to admit their potency and
to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them
.

she must
be poised and proud and unafraid in order
to prove
to the mountain
that she
was in earnest
.

There
was a peculiar density about it
, a thick substance
that could be sensed but never identified
, never actually perceived
.

The herd
was watered and then thrown onto
a broad grass flat
which was to be the first night's bedground
.

It
was to be nothing more
than that.

There
was to be no gunplay
.

If you don't leave this country within 3 days
, your life
will be taken
the same as Powell's
was.

Probably his horse would
be close
to where
he was hiding
.

Carmer himself
was nowhere
to be seen
.

There
was a feeling
that this mission would
be canceled like all
the others and
that this muddy wet dark world
of combat would go
on forever
.

Visibility continued
to be limited
, and Greg
was never able
to get above
a thousand feet
.

It
was going
to be dangerous
.

Forced
to realize
that this
was the end
of a very short line I scanned
a road marker and discovered what
the end
of a slightly longer line would
be for
the old Mexican
: Moriarty
, New Mexico
.

Over
the rapidly-diminishing outline
of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut
was just discernible
, near
, or enviably near
that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured
, most beautifully tinted hair must still
be streaming back in cool
, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes
.

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
.
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A recent editorial discussing
a labor-management agreement reached between
the Southern Pacific Co. and
the Order
of Railroad Telegraphers
has been criticized
on the grounds
that it
was not
based on complete information
.

The editorial
was based on a news association dispatch
which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked
or not and
that a reduction in their number
was limited
to 2 per cent per year
.

With minor exceptions
, this expansion
was instituted either by firms
based in Rhode Island
or out-of-state manufacturers already operating here
.

Petitioner knew
that the Department's recommendation
was based not
on the hearing officer's report but
on the statement
of the local board in his file
.

The recommendation
of the Department -- as well as
the decision
of the appeal board --
was based entirely
on the local board file
, not
on an FBI report
.

The suggested course
of the A.I.D.
was based on the usual course offered and
on the opinion
of many educators as
to curricular necessities
.

Our last joint venture
, Sainted Lady
, a deeply religious film
based on the life
of Mother Cabrini
, and timed so
that its release date would coincide with
the beatification
of America's first saint in November
, 1938
, was a fiasco
from start
to finish
.

It
was possible
to make estimates
of the quantum yield by observing
the extent
of reduction
of a uranyl oxalate actinometer solution illuminated for
a known time in
a typical reaction cell and making appropriate conversions
based on the differences in
the absorption spectra
of uranyl oxalate and
of chlorine
, and considering
the spectral distribution
of the light source
.

The Taylor Scale
was adapted
from the Minnesota Multiphastic Personality Inventory
, with item selection
based upon clinical definitions
of anxiety
.

The European customs
on which international law
was based were
to become
, by force and fiat
, the customs
that others were
to accept as law if they were
to join this community as sovereign states
.

Government itself
was based upon contract
; ;

trade
was based on freedom
of contract
, and money
was lent and borrowed
on contractual terms
; ;

The average sludge age
based on displacement
of solids
was calculated
to be 14.5 days
.

Smith's first workout with stresses
, pitches
, and junctures
was based on mother
, which spells
, in our culture
, a good deal more
than bread alone
.
This recommendation
was based on the fact
that the hymen
was not
the only barrier
to smooth consummation
of the sex act
.

Not included
was the value
of seed oil in paints and varnishes
or the value
of the coffee and chocolate industries
that are
based on imported seed
or seed products
.

Disapproval
of the meeting
was based largely
on the belief
that the timing
could hardly
be worse
.

The Chinese world view during
the Han dynasty
, when
the Lo Shu seems
to have been at
the height
of its popularity
, was based in large part
on the teachings
of the Yin-Yang and Five-Elements School
, which was traditionally founded by Tsou Yen
.

A year ago it
was bruited
that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel
was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago
, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in
the Mille Miglia automobile race
of 1957
.

Lincoln's father-in-law
was based in Lexington
, Kentucky
; he and others
of the Todd family were either slave owners
or slave traders
.
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