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.

In vain his mind groped to reassemble the bones of the relationships he had sought so desperately, but they would not come to life.

I'll stampede the rest of these horses so they can't chase you ''.

Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.

This time he delayed so long that some of the engages shouted frantically, but they held their fire.

`` Bury those uniforms so they won't be found ''.

After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

It entered her body with the ghastly intimacy of an incubus, and its particles, spreading, creeping, crawling, joined themselves into steel bands that constricted her knees so tightly that they ached ; ;

Brannon timed it so that they rode in an hour after nightfall.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

Only, they carefully substituted old country folk dances for the Virginia Reels and square dances that were so popular among more worldly trains in the great westward migration.

With a swift swoop of his big arms, he grabbed Sally out of the circle surrounding him, and then kissed her soundly before setting her down so she could stand by his side while they jointly chose the rest of their `` outfit ''.

Suddenly it seemed to him insane that they might hope to locate Gyp Carmer so casually, even were he to prove the thief.

But they never said anything, so he figured it was all right.

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.

and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

However, just as all the buildings have not fallen and flowed back to their original mud, so the values which wanted them and saw that they were built have not all disappeared.

Unlike so many of the power-starved intellectuals in underdeveloped nations of our own day, they commanded both prestige and influence before the Revolution started.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

The wagons and the coach were beyond saving and so were the buildings.

The trees were crowded so closely together that their branches overlapped, virtually shutting out the sun completely.

clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.

One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

The Lalauries were at the top rung of the social ladder, and even a jury didn't feel privileged to doubt the veracity of so illustrious a lady.

Their President, Jefferson Davis, interpreted their Constitution to mean that it `` admits of no coerced association '', but this remained so doubtful that `` there were frequent demands that the right to secede be put into the Constitution ''.

He understood that both sides were at fault, and he reached the height of saying so explicitly in his Second Inaugural.

As if it were perverse to do so!!

Alley fences were made of solid boards higher than one's head, but not so high as the golden glow in a corner or the hollyhocks that grew in a line against them.

They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.

not less strikingly so for being mysterious, as though some deeply hidden constatation of thoughts were enciphered in a single image, a single moment.

The slaves never shared in their profits, while they did share, in a very real sense, in the profits of the slave-owners: they were fed, clothed, doctored, and so forth ; ;

but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.

It was getting so that we, the Committee, were being tried.

Sunday Times journalist James Margach, wrote of the Attlee years: " I have never known the Press so consistently and irresponsibly political, slanted and prejudiced ".

– had unanimously urged him, on no less than five occasions, to launch an atomic attack against China ; yet he consistently refused to do so and felt a distinct sense of accomplishment in having sufficiently confronted communism while keeping world peace.

Examples: Dialogue: Is so consistently bad that the entire screenplay could be submitted as an example.

A 2009 study by the European Association of Law and Economics observed that innocent defendants are consistently more likely than guilty defendants to reject otherwise-favorable pleas proposals, even when theoretically disadvantageous to do so, because of perceived unfairness, and would do so even if the expected sanction would be worse if they proceeded to trial.

Each manufacturer developed their own methods of accessing the screen memory, even going so far as not to number the modes consistently.

The French object pronouns are all clitics, and some appear so consistently — especially in everyday speech — that some have commented that French could almost be considered to demonstrate polypersonal agreement.

However, once the attack is consistently getting through, it should be slowed down again, so that the defender can identify his mistake, or " hole " in the defense.

However, these " pairs " were so consistently found together that it became apparent that they were in fact sexual forms of the same species.

Charles also carried out numerous important political and economical reforms: he established the so called honor system which made the powerful barons dependent of his favour, and he introduced new coins with a consistently high purity of gold.

Strong-willed and ambitious, she has grown spiteful from consistently being forced to " keep quiet and do as told " by the male gender, and so she has made it her business to do whatever she could to dominate the male gender, and avenge her own.

In an attempt to solve the mystery of how so many people over the span of two millennia could have consistently experienced revelatory states during the culminating ceremony of the Eleusinian Mysteries, it has been posited that the barley used in the Eleusinian kykeon was parasitized by ergot, and that the psychoactive properties of that fungus triggered the intense experiences alluded to by the participants at Eleusis.

Despite voluminous reader mail pointing to the numerous errors in the news story, the Observer never issued a full retraction of its claims, only going so far as to clarify that Johan Helsingius had " consistently denied " the claims of child pornography distribution.

Two vase-painters employed the motif so consistently they are given the pseudonyms the Bellerophon Painter and the Chimaera Painter.

The commissioners appear consistently to have instructed houses to re-introduce the strict practice of common dining and cloistered living, urging that those unable to comply should be encouraged to leave ; and considerable numbers appear to have taken the opportunity at this stage to be released from their monastic vows, so as to make a life elsewhere.

There were numerous attempts to restore or rebuild castles so as to produce a consistently Gothic style, informed by genuine medieval details, a movement in which the architect Anthony Salvin was particularly prominent – as illustrated by his reworking of Alnwick and much of Windsor Castle.

Maudslay standardized the screw threads used in his workshop and produced sets of taps and dies that would make nuts and bolts consistently to those standards, so that any bolt of the appropriate size would fit any nut of the same size.

Certain features on rivers are inherently unsafe and have remained consistently so despite the passage of time.

The second half of each concert featured a selection of their best known hits, and audience reaction was consistently so positive that the all-seated venues saw the crowds on their feet for the entire show.

He helped produce and co-write a majority of the songs on the album ; bassist Justin Siegel said " I've never laughed so hard so consistently in my whole life.

Dialects which use double negatives do so consistently and follow a different set of descriptive linguistic rules.

The sides are not straight but are curved so that the centre of curvature is the opposite apex of the coin – this is an equilateral curve ( a curve of constant width ) which allows the coin's diameter to be consistently measured in vending machines and slot machines.

Benjamin Balint says it was the " Contentious Magazine That Transformed the Jewish Left Into the Neoconservative Right " Historian Richard Pells concludes that " no other journal of the past half century has been so consistently influential, or so central to the major debates that have transformed the political and intellectual life of the United States.