The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

Both had blonde hair and blue eyes, and there was even a faint similarity of features.

They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.

He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

Someone evidently was on duty there.

there was no doubt he was dying.

The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.

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

The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.

And there was a house ; ;

But there was water.

Yes, there was plenty of water, too much, and that was probably the trouble.

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??

He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.

And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach

No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.

Prosecutor Baird immediately assumed he was hiding out there after the shooting and began preparing an indictment.

Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.

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.

Winters are cold and damp, also containing the most rainfall, there can be snow on the ground which will last for a week or two.

A destroyer is always more uncomfortable than the others, and rain, snow, and sea-water combine to make them damp ; in fact, in bad weather there is not a dry spot where one can rest for a moment.

Winters are chilly and damp, and cold northwesterly winds from Siberia can cause nighttime temperatures to drop below freezing, although most years there are only one or two days of snowfall.

Covered with mud and makeshift shanties, damp and fetid, filled with the signs of poverty as well as the signs of garbage and waste left there by the inadequate and faulty sewer system.

In Europe there are no dedicated epiphytic plants using roots, but rich assemblages of mosses and lichens grow on trees in damp areas ( mainly the western coastal fringe ), and the common polypody fern grows epiphytically along branches.

In the western Palaearctic, populations are generally stable or increasing, but there have been local declines, especially on farmland, which may be due to agricultural policies that encouraged farmers to remove hedgerows ( which provide nesting places ), and to drain damp grassland and increase the use of pesticides, both of which could have reduced the availability of invertebrate food.

* A weight, usually called the internal mass, that can move relative to the instrument frame, but is attached to it by a system ( such as a spring ) that will hold it fixed relative to the frame if there is no motion, and also damp out any motions once the motion of the frame stops.

In 1864 there were 850 settlers in Hamilton but the number did not reach 1, 000 until 1900, largely due to the swampy and unproductive nature of the soil and the high incidence of TB which thrived in the damp conditions the settlers were forced to endure.

Alice's solution was simple, the house would be built without bedrooms, hence she would never be tempted to sleep there, and would return the four miles to Waddesdon every evening when the damp air came off the river.

The winters are damp and relatively mild, but there is great variation between the years and heavy snow and temperatures below-15 ° C can sometimes happen.

During World War I, it was used for troop accommodation, although there was a question in Parliament about the damp conditions.

Many of the cells there still show hollows licked into the stone walls, as prisoners had only the damp and moss on these stones to sustain themselves.

Built from thick stone, these were extremely cold and damp because there were no windows and only minimal ventilation.

In later years there were many shortcuts in the court's procedure ; most tenants simply paid their double rent at the Steward's office in the morning, preferring this to standing around in the damp, and a local man was employed to make the noise of a cock crowing after the court's business had been concluded.

The Factory was located, however, in an area of damp swamp land, and with overcrowding, poor sanitation and inadequate food and clothes, there was a high rate of disease and mortality among its inmates.

In this form she appears as spirit of flame, with snake-like hair, brass fingernails and iron teeth ... hides in damp places .” According to Ann and Imel there is a similar legend found in Afghanistan.

When killed, their bodies disintegrate into little more than wisps of vapor and damp spots on the ground, so there are no bodies-human or monster-left which can be used as proof of what's going on.

From there, she complained of the damp, wet plaster, and draughty ill-fitting old carpentry, and the location, although she found it reminiscent of the Bois de Vincennes.

The aim of water-meadow irrigation was not to flood the ground, but to keep it continuously damp – there is no standing water in a working water-meadow.

Inside, there was what had the appearance of a human mummy, its face covered by a somewhat crude gold mask, damaged by damp and bearing a considerable quantity of jewelry, some bearing the name of Prince Khaemweset.

W. R. Gilbert, a cousin of the Graces, wrote to The Daily Telegraph " It having come to my knowledge there is a rumour abroad that Mr. G. F. Grace's fatal illness was caused by sleeping in a damp bed at the Red Lion Hotel, Basingstoke, I beg to contradict it.

The name comes from the road's route along the foot of the mountains, the Rhine lowlands once being too damp to build a road there.

Here there is a habitat of special scientific interest of the same name that is the best known example of a relict damp grassland on Weald Clay in Surrey and has several ponds and a stretch of the Ray Brook.