`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.

`` You mean you dragged your wife all over hell's half-acre looking for work ''??

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

They blame us for all their troubles.

It poured out of him like an electric current, a feeling that the muscles and nerves of his fine-drawn body were coiling for action, and that that action would be all that he anticipated.

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

`` Soon as we send them on their way and make camp, let's you and me go for a walk down by the Snake -- all by ourselves ''.

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.

There were no less than six or seven saloons in Ganado, not counting the lower class dives, all vying for the trade of celebrating miners and teamsters.

It was fun for me, all right.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.

`` I guess he spent the morning getting himself all organized, then headed for home.

`` You think I got you and Artie and Herr Schaffner all the way out here just for the boat ride??

I will make him distributor for all of Florida -- a big market.

Once and for all he'd finish this marine who would not die.

`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

Alternate locations exist for all key command centers.

These songs ( practically all Persian music, for that matter ) are limited to a range of two octaves.

First of all, to Italy for a short vacation -- Forte Dei Marmi, a place he loves.

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

The presence of the two exhaust fans seemed to indicate that the hall could become crowded for air.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

Proposals were in the air for a year's armistice.

Watson ran up the ladder and stood for a second sucking in the cool air that smelled of mud and river weeds.

a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.

This air of disengagement carried over to his apparent attitude toward his things, and people often mistook it for boredom in him or a surrender to repetitious routine.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

Use nuclear propulsions to keep our long-range military aircraft in the air for the majority of their useful life.

When air travel was in its infancy, the sky was considered big enough and high enough for all.

Make slight, smooth grooves rather than cuts for the texture ( cuts could cause air pockets under the glaze creating pinholes or craters in the glaze during firing ).

Even if you live above that line, the FHA will back you, for they have decided that the inclusion of air conditioning in all new homes is a good thing and should be encouraged.

The cleaner air means less time spent pushing a vacuum, fewer trips to the dry cleaners, lighter loads for the washing machine.

Common complaints included `` Mrs. Murphy '' leaving her windows open all the time, a fresh air fan, or the family was visiting `` Aunt Minnie '' with the house shut up but they still paid the same rate for oil.

Use the air hose for this job.

the air was thick with smoke, empty bottles were in evidence, and several of the guests were somewhat the worse for liquor.

There was an air of revolt about the children -- even irreverence for their own principles.

For example, bright sunlight is rapidly destructive for living microorganisms suspended in air.

Surface forces have been used to provide defense zones around naval and merchant ship formations, air to furnish area surveillance, and mines for protection of limited areas.

It seemed like a good time for officials to use a recently-passed law empowering the post office department to contract for the transport of first class mail by air.

Plane radios were not yet available, and once in the air, Fogg flew his ship by compass, a good memory for landmarks as seen from above, and a capacity for dead reckoning and quick computation.

The fragrance and taste of any white wine will die a lingering death when it is allowed to warm or is exposed for long to the air.

He gasped for air and the impact tore his hand from the rail.