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was and another
At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
That was another one of those traps.
And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
The voice was that of Johnson, tail gunner off another crew.
But the Indian was jabbing another bottle toward Johnson.
For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
for another, it was here that one of the old caravan routes came in.
There was a divine justice in one wrong thus undoing another.
There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.
The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.
Little enough joy was afforded Wright in the spring of 1925, when another destructive fire broke out at Taliesin.
In a few weeks Miriam made another sortie at Taliesin, but was repulsed at the locked and guarded gates.
Dr. Menas S. Gregory was another.
There was talk of dragging old ex-President Cleveland out of retirement for another try.
If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.
The actual impelling force which severed me from evangelical effort was of another sort.
Although the fort was evacuated in the face of the force of Cornwallis, Morgan and his men did have a chance to take another swing at the redcoats.
In his absence, the rifle regiment was under the command of Major Thomas Posey, another able Virginian.

was and house
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
And there was a house ; ;
When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.
From the back of the barn it was a simple matter to reach Black's house without using the street.
It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.
Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.
Whoever was out there hiding in the brushy cover was besieging the Antler house and, having spotted his approach, was determined to drive him off before he could get into the fight.
What Joyce wanted me to do was go to Thor's house and `` do whatever detectives do '', and get her clothes -- and handbag containing her identification.
Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.
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.
He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.
So Dandy Brandon trustingly entered the house with Delphine Lalaurie and trudged up the rear steps to the attic room which was to be his new home.
Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.
She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.
She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.
The favorite guest of the house, as far as the staff was concerned, was Mr. Wrigley, the chewing gum king.
Victor's book on John Lloyd Stephens was largely written in my study in the house at Weston.
He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

was and feed
Jones relented, he did not order his men to apply the torch -- the drove of livestock was driven up the valley, via Beverly, and across the mountains to feed and serve the Confederate army, while Jones and his raiders turned toward Buckhannon to join forces with Imboden.
His father Soeren was the village apothecary whose slender income made it difficult to feed his family, let alone educate them in a town without even a school.
there were certainly now fewer mouths to feed but there was less to feed them with.
The rise in sales last winter was checked when the Government's new feed grain program was adopted ; ;
The journey to Constantinople was another wearisome journey, and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá helped feed the exiles.
Bundaberg Rum originated because the local sugar mills had a problem with what to do with the waste molasses after the sugar was extracted ( it was heavy, difficult to transport and the costs of converting it to stock feed were rarely worth the effort ).
In other cases, water pumped from mines was used to feed the canal.
The dominance of fungal species lasted only a few years while the atmosphere cleared and there was plenty of organic matter to feed on.
“ Colonial Africa fell within that part of the international capitalist economy from which surplus was drawn to feed the metropolitan sector.
Cyril was exiled from Jerusalem until 359 when imperial authority placed him back as Bishop after Cyril was able to plead his case to Emperor Constantius, referencing the multitude of people who were starving and he was able to feed with the money he made from the sale.
In certain cultures it was common for poor families to collect horse feces to feed their pigs.
G. Evelyn Hutchinson, a pioneering limnologist who was a contemporary of Tansley's, combined Charles Elton's ideas about trophic ecology with those of Russian geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky to suggest that mineral nutrient availability in a lake limited algal production which would, in turn, limit the abundance of animals that feed on algae.
By the spring of 1794, forced collection of food was not sufficient to feed even Paris and the days of the Committee were numbered.
An army officer was quoted in the New York Times of 18 July 1982 as telling an audience of indigenous Guatemalans in Cunén that: " If you are with us, we'll feed you ; if not, we'll kill you.
Since You Bet Your Life was mostly ad-libbed and unscripted — although writers did pre-interview the guests and feed Groucho ready-made lines in advance — the producers insisted that the network prerecord it ( instead of being broadcast live ).
The original Gatling gun was a field weapon which used multiple rotating barrels turned by a hand crank, and firing loose ( no links or belt ) metal cartridge ammunition using a gravity feed system from a hopper.
The Gatling gun's innovation lay neither in the rotating mechanism ( featured by many revolvers of the day ) nor in the use of multiple barrels to limit overheating ( used by the mitrailleuse gun ); rather, the innovation was the gravity feed reloading mechanism, which allowed unskilled operators to achieve a relatively high rate of fire of 200 rounds per minute.
The Model 1881 was designed to use the ' Bruce '- style feed system ( U. S. Patents 247, 158 and 343, 532 ) that accepted two rows of. 45-70 cartridges.
To regularize slavery, in 1685 Louis XIV enacted the Code Noir, which accorded certain human rights to slaves and responsibilities to the master, who was obliged to feed, clothe, and provide for the general well-being of their slaves.

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