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He was shaking with anger, his breath coming in long, painful gasps.
And he was handsome, despite the long thin scar that slanted across his cheek.
only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.
It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.
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.
Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.
`` Well '', he explained, `` s'posin' you was a nester swingin' the long rope??
He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.
So long as Sally's pa was coming out best on the haggle, Dan didn't feel the need of putting in his two-bits' worth.
The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.
It was a rough long ride through the mud and pot holes.
My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.
She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.
Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.
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 lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.
There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.
Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.
was and past
Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.
Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
His cause was to commemorate the glory of her past and to incite her people to perpetuate it in the present.
Heidenstam's conception, on the contrary, was to revive the present by the memories of the past.
It was well past midnight.
that their remote past is as discontinuous with their present selves, as lacking in any conscious likeness to their mature personality, as the self of a butterfly may be imagined discontinuous with that of the caterpillar it once was.
A week later the sentence of the Council was carried out: Jake Camaret and the woman were marched naked through the streets past a mocking populace.
Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.
He was in his mid-fifties at this time, long past the establishment of his name and the wish to be lionized yet once again, and it was almost a decade since he had sworn off lecturing.
It was full-of-the-moon ( or a little past ), and nearly light as day.
But when I saw that it was already ten past seven, I began to wonder if something had gone wrong.
Instead of 3 a.m. in the past, the Juniors Class at Westminster was held at 4:45 p.m..
The relinquishing by philosophy of pretentious claims to empirical priority gives it an ability to treat problems of meaning and truth which in the past it was unable to examine because of its missionary attitude to knowledge of more humble sorts.
For what concerns all scientific disciplines is precisely that which can be captured for the rational, i.e., for the scientific determination of what in past ages was considered ultimate and irrational.
The storms of the past had died away, and the great upheaval which was to mark the following century had not yet begun to disturb men's minds.
The ninth century was in its artistic work `` the spiritually freest and most self-sufficient between past and future '', and the loving skill spent by its artists upon their products is a testimonial to their sense that what they were doing was important and was appreciated.
The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.
If Depew had told any academic psychologist that he had a weird feeling of having lived through that identical convention session at some time in the past, he would have been informed that he was a victim of deja vue.
`` In the past anyone who said that 90% of all malocclusion is hereditary was scoffed at ; ;
was and point
The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.
But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.
While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.
The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.
Economic analysis was never Trevelyan's strong point and the England of the industrial transformation cries out for economic analysis.
It was at this point that Pike decided to capitalize on the bad feelings between the two men.
it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.
That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.
From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.
He smoked, as did everybody, and imbibed the various alcoholic beverages of that day, although his protestations while at Cambridge and after that he was no drunkard point to reasonable abstinence from the wild drinking bouts of some of the undergraduates and, we must add, of some of their elders including many of the regents or teachers.
There was a pretty thorough silence at that point.
But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.
Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.
If their schedules were to synchronize, there was no point in wasting time.
He was not sure what effect it would have, but that was really beside the point when you got right down to it.
On this point there was fairly general agreement that assessors would like to do more than they are doing now.
The gradient was about one half of a millidegree at 4.2 Af but increased to several millidegrees for bath temperatures slightly greater than the **yl point.
`` That House & Home Round Table was the real starting point for today's revolution in materials handling '', says Clarence Thompson, long chairman of the Lumber Dealers' Research Council.
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