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.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

The ideal home, they agreed, would be a small private house or a city apartment of four to five rooms, just enough for a family consisting of husband, wife, and two children.

They have indicated the direction but they have not been explicit enough, I believe, in pointing out Faulkner's independence, his questioning if not indeed challenging the Southern tradition.

The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.

and the young people should not even be permitted to see comedies till they are old enough to drink strong wine and sit at the public tables.

The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

It was the opinion of some of us that these must be part of the Committeemen who had been in the Battle of the North Bridge, which entitled them to a sort of veteran status, and we felt that if they employed this tactic, it was likely enough the best one.

Whenever she found time, she went blackberry picking with him, and they would come home together, mouths purple, arms and faces scratched, tired enough to forget grief for another day.

He was happy enough to take the convertible and race up the hill to the Blevins', thinking that they might give him a drink.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

As soon as they are large enough to move, I put mine 9 inches apart where they are to bloom.

At one time, to most Americans, unless they were fortunate enough to live near a body of navigable water, boats were considered the sole concern of fishermen, rich people, and the United States Navy.

But now many of these same builders are finding they can cut their costs more by teaming up with a dealer who has volume enough to afford the most efficient specialized equipment to deliver everything just where it is needed -- drywall inside the house, siding along the sides, trusses on the walls, roofing on the roof, etc..

Of these, 376 said they make no extra charge for strapping in standard units, because they save enough on mechanized carloading to offset their strapping cost.

Rates in Greece and Finland are fairly high, actually the highest in Europe, and, surprisingly enough, they are also quite high in Ireland.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

They began to meet in the evenings and carry forward various discussions they felt not fully enough covered in class.

With naked gas jets below and leaky windows above, enough to ruin wall paintings in any medium, they have survived, in a building long unheated in winter, hot and damp under the iron dome in summer.

Interestingly enough -- although none of the real-life therapists involved could conceivably compare with Blauberman -- when groups of them began playing back interviews, they discovered any number of ways in which they wanted to polish their own interview techniques ; ;

But when Gloriana rides with them they also have to take the two girls who usually ride with her, so the little car isn't big enough.

Some turnpikes have not been in full operation long enough to prove what they can do.