Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

A red-tailed hawk flew in behind them and stayed there, watching for any snakes or rabbits that they might stir up from the side of the road.

They'll be there waiting for you.

They reined in there, Brannon remaining in the saddle while Hogan went to look for Jesse Macklin in the hotel dining room.

there he could shave and scrub himself up for the evening.

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.

`` The commercials have just been for money, there hasn't been any real incentive for me to do them, but in Underwater Western Eye I'd have a chance to act.

Some had been there for years ; ;

No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.

Now, she just sat there looking at him, without an expression except concern for him.

But there hadn't been enough time to build it for keeps.

As he reached for the door there was a knock on it and when he opened he found Artie, who came in and sat down on a bunk.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

It seems that for Persia, and especially for this city, there are only two times: the glorious past and the corrupt, depressing, sterile present.

In Persia, where practically speaking there are no museums or libraries or, for that matter, hardly any books, the twins run free.

In certain respects, their task was incomparably greater than ours today, for there was nobody before them to show them the way.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.

From above one could only occasionally catch a glimpse of life on the floor of this green sea: a neighbor's gingham skirt flashing into sight for an instant on the path beneath her grape-arbor, or the movement of hands above a clothesline and the flutter of garments hung there, half-way down the block.

In method as well as in theme this little anecdote with its details selected as much for expressiveness and allegory as for `` realism '', anticipates a kind of musical composition, as well as a kind of fictional composition, in which, as Leverkuhn says, `` there shall be nothing unthematic ''.

between the north shore of Deer Island and the Salisbury side there was an arch of 113 feet and a series of piers with a draw forty feet long.

In 1991 there were 15 four-star, forty three-star, and 110 two-star generals.

From Palmyra there is a large collection of nearly forty funerary busts, acquired in the 19th century.

Of the more than 200 studio albums I ’ ve produced in the past forty plus years, there is a handful ; maybe fifteen or so that I can actually listen to from top to bottom.

Nor is there a forty days ' fast in Judaism of the period ( see Mishnah Tractate Ta ' anit, " Days of Fasting ").

There are as many as forty towers, all of which are so high that in the case of the largest there are fifty steps leading up to the main part of it and the most important of these towers is higher than that of the cathedral of Seville ..."< ref >

For forty years, there has been controversy about development on the edges of the Hoe green space.

About this period it was merchandise that was chiefly suspected: there was a long schedule of susceptible articles, and these were first exposed on the ships deck for twenty-one days or less ( six days for each instalment of the cargo ), and then transported to the lazaret, where they were opened and aired forty days more.

Mainstream health organizations in the United States find that conversion therapy is harmful, and that there has been no scientifically adequate demonstration of its efficacy in the last forty years.

In addition to the periodic celebration, there is a national recipe competition where submissions are accepted at the top forty state fairs in the nation.

Oswald's head was interred in Durham Cathedral together with the remains of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( a saint with whom Oswald became posthumously associated, although the two were not associated in life ; Cuthbert became bishop of Lindisfarne more than forty years after Oswald's death ) and other valuables in a quickly made coffin, where it is generally believed to remain, although there are at least four other claimed heads of Oswald in continental Europe.

Although some rabbis since the Shabbetai Tzvi debacle still maintain that one should be married and forty years old in order to study Kabbalah, since the time of Baal Shem Tov there has been relaxation of such stringency, and many maintain that it is sufficient to be married and knowledgeable in halakhah and hence permitted to study Kabbalah and by inclusion, Tikunei haZohar ; and some rabbis will advise learning Kabbalah without restrictions of marriage or age.

The sport was successful in cities and towns throughout the U. K .-by the end of 1927, there were forty tracks operating.

The album remained inside the British top ten for forty weeks and spent 218 weeks there altogether, making it the 58th best selling album in UK history with sales of over 2. 4 million.

For this reason, they believe, it was prophesied in the Book of Revelation —" And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

Before the forty days of Great Lent commence, there is a three-week Pre-Lenten season, to prepare the faithful for the spiritual work they are to accomplish during the Great Fast.

Currently there are about forty hydropower plants in the Congo Basin.

Over forty sketches survive for the Disputa in the Stanze, and there may well have been many more originally ; over four hundred sheets survive altogether.

" In the same historical report the Queen is said to have complained that the play was performed forty times in " open streets and houses " but there is no extant evidence to corroborate this tale.

After the battle, there was peace for forty years.

Besides the forty portraits of Philip by Velázquez, he painted portraits of other members of the royal family: Philip's first wife, Elisabeth of Bourbon, and her children, especially her eldest son, Don Baltasar Carlos, of whom there is a beautiful full-length in a private room at Buckingham Palace.

" Give me only this assurance, that there never be an unlawful resistance by an armed force to the ... United States, and give me fifty, forty, thirty more years of life, and I will engage to give you the possession of the American continent and the control of the world.

The novelty wore off, and there wasn't significant interest in the technology until around forty years later when a Connecticut radio station began to broadcast binaural shows.

Forty Fort was named for a Revolutionary War-era fort that the town's original settlers built ; there were forty of these settlers from Connecticut, so the town was later named Forty Fort.