In vain his mind groped to reassemble the bones of the relationships he had sought so desperately, but they would not come to life.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.

He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.

All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.

That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.

And he had a feeling -- thanks to the girl -- that things would get worse before they got better.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I had felt the draft they were making while mounting the stairs.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

For his first five years in prison, they had shared a cell.

The one thing they had in common was their hatred.

After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

But they deliberately avoided the one subject that had them all curious: the failure of the boss's wife and son to join the outfit.

Not that her mother knew what had happened, but they could speculate upon it.

During much of the fifteen-mile ride they had watched a lurid display of lightning in the sky to the east.

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

The style of life chosen by the beat generation, the rhythm and ritual they have adopted as uniquely their own, is designed to enhance the value of the sexual experience.

The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..

I have chosen five contrasting pairs, ten men in all, and they are arranged in roughly chronological order.

But there are indications that many developing nations will welcome Peace Corps volunteers, and that if the volunteers are well chosen, they will soon demonstrate their value and make many friends.

in an oral tradition they may be chosen for the entire epic corpus, and tend towards idealization rather than distinctive delineation.

Most Protestant denominations deny the need of maintaining episcopal continuity with the early Church, holding that the role of the apostles was that, having been chosen directly by Jesus as witnesses of his resurrection, they were to be the " special instruments of the Holy Spirit in founding and building up the Church ".

It seems as though they were usually chosen annually.

: The folk here are civil, and, like the barbarians unto the holy apostle, have shown me much kindness ; and there are a sort of chosen people in the land, for they have some kirks without organs that are like ours, and are called meeting-houses, where the minister preaches without a gown.

The Ministries of Defense of Germany, Argentina, Chile, Spain, USA, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Portugal had been chosen for deepened analysis because they had some type of identification with Brazil, as territorial extension, population, cash of the Armed Forces, amongst others.

This strengthened the belief that the Israelites, who understood themselves to be God ’ s chosen people, were even more culpable than other peoples for not living up to God ’ s statutes because they were to be a ‘ light unto the nations ’.

People may feel out of control or unstoppable, or as if they have been " chosen " and are " on a special mission " or have other grandiose or delusional ideas.

The bylaws commonly also specify the number of members of the board, how they are to be chosen, and when they are to meet.

This increases the transparency of the policy setting process and thereby increases the credibility of the goals chosen by providing assurance that they will not be changed without notice.

She resumed life with her family, and they supported her fully, acknowledging her chosen path and demanding of her little in the way of household responsibilities, " I was never once asked to do an errand in town, some bit of shopping … so well did they understand.

The main sects ( see also English Dissenters ) were Baptists, who advocated adult rebaptism ; Ranters, who claimed that sin did not exist for the " chosen ones "; and Fifth Monarchy Men, who opposed all " earthly " governments, believing they must prepare for God's kingdom on earth by establishing a " government of saints ".

The S-boxes of DES were much more resistant to the attack than if they had been chosen at random, strongly suggesting that IBM knew about the technique in the 1970s.

In thermionic-valve diodes, a current through the heater filament indirectly heats the thermionic cathode, another internal electrode treated with a mixture of barium and strontium oxides, which are oxides of alkaline earth metals ; these substances are chosen because they have a small work function.

International and non-governmental observers concluded that opposition parties would have been able to participate had they chosen to do so.

( It was released in the United States in 1972 as No Answer, the name being chosen because a record company secretary had tried to ring the UK company and get the name of the album — since they were unable to contact them they left a note saying " No Answer ".

Other critics treat film noir as a " mood ", characterize it as a " series ", or simply address a chosen set of films they regard as belonging to the noir " canon ".

This graph is planar ( it is important to note that we are talking about the graphs that have some limitations according to the map they are transformed from only ): it can be drawn in the plane without crossings by placing each vertex at an arbitrarily chosen location within the region to which it corresponds, and by drawing the edges as curves that lead without crossing within each region from the vertex location to each shared boundary point of the region.