First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.

This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.

Hez looked up at the high face of Emigrant Rock, official signboard for the Raft River turnoff, and gloated, `` Seems funny that them Burnsides never took time to leave their John-Henry up thar ''.

`` But one word at a time, O.K. ''??

His long nose wiggled at the smells of frizzling bacon and heating java, but the fire was low, and he wanted to waste no time.

Our old one blew down in a storm at the time of the pokeneu festival fifteen moons ago.

And for the hundredth time that week, he was startled at her beauty.

But there is no use causing him to worry at this time ''.

`` By God '', Waddell said, `` we don't want to upset the boy at this time of all times.

All that time rifle barrels were pointing unwaveringly at his head and body.

when he went home at night, he took her with him in his mind, and she did the things the anonymous Woman used to do, and he did the thing afterwards each time as he used to do.

About that time Miss Langford straightened up and looked out the window directly at him, he thought, although probably she didn't even see him.

`` Maybe at dinner time.

but at the same time it should not draw false inferences therefrom.

Almost febrile in intensity, the principle has become worldwide in application -- unfortunately at the very time that nationalist fervors can wreak greatest harm.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

They are supplied, a batch at a time, by a secret source and are continually changed by Wisman or his staff, at random intervals.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

at first gratingly, caught by grains of corn -- then with a clash into its slot.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

It was at my first Communion.

The highroad, one might say at first, belongs to life, while the way to the churchyard belongs to death.

Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

It resembles, too, pictures such as Durer and Bruegel did, in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary, the representation of a proverb, for example, or a deadly sin.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

He seemed timid ( at first, ) wore nose glasses from which a black ribbon dangled, and was no bigger than a jockey.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

It was probably at this period that Littlepage got his first good look at the ordinary Russian soldier.

We stopped first at the amphitheater that lies at the foot of the height crowned by the Parthenon.

The evening of our first day we drove with Christopher and Judy Sakellariadis, who were friends and patients of Norton, to dine at a restaurant on the shores of the Aegean.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.