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.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

But it would not be very satisfactory to leave our conclusions at the point just reached.

Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.

He didn't want Alfred to leave me trouble because that's all it would be, and Alfred understood.

And for him to leave this job now without accomplishing anything would mean practically the end of his career in the Methodist church, if not in all churches.

frequently he would take his leave of Michelangelo by announcing:

He got no relief from drink because, though sometimes Precious would buy himself a drink if he went out with us in the evening, he'd leave it on the table untouched.

`` If he would only leave the East '', said Mary.

If he failed to reach the riverbank in five minutes, say, then the skiffs would pull away and leave him groping in the mud.

For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.

At Yalta he thought more about the six million Germans who would have to leave, trying to find work in Germany, and Roosevelt objected to the Western Neisse River being chosen in the south, instead of the Eastern Neisse, both of which flow into the Oder.

Such training would increase the tendency of workers to leave the area and find jobs in other localities.

It would also leave intact the states' traditional authority in the realm of contract law.

So suppose somebody only wished to frighten her, so she would leave Honotassa!!

He pointed out to the commissioners that the agency was literally dependent now on the machine processing, `` and the whole wheels of the agency would stop if it broke down or the three or four persons directing it were to leave ''.

Happily for posterity, then, the Boston Association did not actually command Parker to leave the room, though it came too close for comfort to what would have been an unforgivable brutality.

`` It would make me feel a lot better, but the Woman's Exchange isn't taking baked goods any more and I can't leave the baby with Grandma because she isn't strong enough and the baby's too young to be put in a nursery ''.

It was safe to assume that Papa, sighing heavily, had said many times to his remaining daughter, `` Thank God your poor mother was spared this '', and indeed it might be true that it had been easier for Henrietta to leave, with her hand in Charles' hand, just because her `` poor mother '' was gone already and would never know.

She promised that she would soon take a few day's leave and visit the uncle she had never seen, on the island of Oyajima -- which was not very far from Yokosuka.

I thought he would ask us to leave because Rachel and I were bare-armed, but he looked down into his beard and preceded us down the corridor.

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

He left the pool and climbed the steep stone stairs to the temple, and the sense of familiarity with the place would not leave him.

Pursuing his idea, he saw that it would be impossible to leave her now.

Luthor creates another binary clone with Brainiac using their genetics, which implies that it would becomes a threat to Superboy.

Brainiac knew that if the Kryptonian elders learned of it, Brainiac would be tasked with formulating an evacuation plan.

The Persuader having damaged the equipment that Clark would have used to defeat Brainiac in the original course of events.

Maxima would shortly switch sides in the fighting too, perceiving Brainiac as the true villain at last.

Brainiac would next emerge about a year after the death and return of Superman.

However, Doomsday's own raging mind would eventually overwhelm Brainiac's will, and he reacted too quickly for Brainiac and Vnok to erase his mind using chemical or psionic treatments, forcing Brainiac to find another body.

Superman thwarted Brainiac's plot by driving him out of Doomsday's body with the use of a telepathy-blocking ' psi-blocker ' that he had used in his last battle, forcing Brainiac out of Doomsday and leaving him with no other option but to adopt a recently-designed robotic body, dubbed Brainiac 2. 5, where he would be forever trapped as he could not abandon it.

Although Brainiac 13 was able to work with Brainiac 2. 5-now transferred into the aged body of Lena Luthor-to prepare a defence against Imperiex in the upcoming Imperiex War that would allow Brainiac to absorb Imperiex's power and use it to reshape the universe in his image, Superman was able to destroy Brainiac and Imperiex by sending them through a temporal Boom tube where they were destroyed in the Big Bang.

Sometime later, Superman traveled into the future and battled Brainiac 12, learning that everything Brainiac 13 had done in the past had been designed to ensure things reached the point where Brainiac 13 would be created.

* Brainiac would resurface as a member of the Legion of Doom in Challenge of the Super Friends cartoon voiced by Ted Cassidy.

Brainiac reasons that, should he inform the government, they would put him to work to stop the inevitable and doom both parties.

In the second season episode " Message in a Bottle ", Brainiac 5 reveals the past atrocities caused by his predecessor, one such atrocity being the shrinking and abduction of the Kryptonian city of Kandor, which would cause a chain of events leading to the demise of Krypton.

Luthor and Brainiac's bargain revolves around Brainiac using his new body to destroy Superman, and afterwards, Brainiac would allow himself to be " defeated " by Luthor and leave for another planet so that Luthor would appear as a hero.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

The emergence of the crisis itself would seem to constitute a warranty for the victory of disorder.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

It would challenge sharply not the cult of the motor car itself but some of its ancillary beliefs and practices -- for instance, the doctrine that the fulfillment of life consists in proceeding from hither to yon, not for any advantage to be gained by arrival but merely to avoid the cardinal sin of stasis, or, as it is generally termed, staying put.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

Monsieur Favre's threat would become a reality, for he continued to proclaim loudly that the city must rid itself of `` that Frenchman ''.

And it presented itself to him as it would to any stranger, impervious, complete in itself.

A blow to this phase of the Central's operations would have serious economic consequences not only to the railroad itself, but to the 40,000 people per day who are provided with efficient, reasonably priced transportation in and out of the city.

If there is anything which we can do in the executive branch of the Government to speed up the processes by which we come to decisions on matters on which we must act promptly, that in itself would be a major contribution to the conduct of our affairs.

If this is the case, one would expect that not only the various procedures just mentioned which alter the hypothalamic balance would influence emotional state and behavior but that emotion itself would act likewise.

We expected, in short, that most of the world would make itself over in our image and that it would be relatively simple, from such a position, to deal with the localized aberrations of the Soviet Union ''.

The day following his intervention the palace issued a statement reassuring the citizens that `` the possibility of introducing appeals concerning the establishment of electoral lists, lists of candidates and finally the holding of the consultation itself '' would be supported by the King himself.

On the theory before us, such relief would be groundless, for in that suffering itself there was nothing bad at all, and hence in its nonoccurrence there would be nothing to be relieved about.

Among the chief victims of such an ill-conceived imposition would be religion itself.

Certainly, in analyzing an action which truly faced such alternatives, `` it is never possible that no world would be preferable to some worlds, and there are in truth no circumstances in which the destruction of human life presents itself as a reasonable alternative ''.

This would be by far the better choice, when `` it is a question of allowing the human race to survive, possibly under the domination of a regime which most of us detest, or of allowing it to destroy itself in appalling and prolonged anguish ''.

No reference is made to the possibility of recording other than popular music in this manner, and it would not seem to lend itself well to serious music.

Some bishops were initially reluctant to attend, fearing that the meeting would declare itself a council with power to legislate for the church ; but it agreed to pass only advisory resolutions.

The death itself occurs in at an old cave site and offers some very descriptive details of sites which Christie herself would have visited in order to write the book.