He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

Oso reached up, jerked the buck from the bale and snapped his neck.

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.

Ten years older than Mitch Barton, he had clawed his way up from mucker in the pits to manager of the operation.

She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.

He'd mounted up immediately and raced with a revolver ready toward the spot from which he'd estimated the shot had come.

You're the kind of bastard who sneaks up on a man from behind and hits him with a club.

Dan asked Hez, who had limped back from his team to hold the notched-stick chair braces in place while his boys swung up the tailgate and tied it tight at the ends.

One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.

Greg's eyes flicked up from his instrument panel.

She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.

A few minutes later the insurance man, a road checker, drove up in the gray coupe with license plates on it from a far-away state.

`` You came straight up from 275 without a stop '', Artie said.

As he looked up from picking at a leg ulcer, he saw a marine in the jungle across the clearing.

But the fighting marshal's fifty-year run of immunity from violent death came to a full and final stop one night in a street at Cromwell, Oklahoma, where he had been sent to clean up the gambling and vice rackets.

Charles said as they picked their way over the rocky road which led up the hill away from the Dixie Highway, through a corn field and a patch of woods to the school.

Feathertop interrupted, standing up, brushing the pig offal from his dirty pants.

A few months ago it was a fairly typical landlord who in the dead of night lugged me up a mountainside to drink from a spring famous in the neighborhood for its clarity and flavor.

Not long ago an acquaintance, a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city, stood on the balcony puffing his first cigarette in weeks.

The bridge itself rises up from the river, light-flared and enormous, like the outdoor set for an epic opera.

Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead, standing so high that the top falls gently over, as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

Strindberg's remedy for this condition was to tear down the old structures and build anew from the ground up.

The crowd consequently breaks up into temporary groups ranging in size from two to six, with a half-life for the cluster ranging from three to twenty minutes.

For an example let's dream up an engine that has a final combustion chamber volume of 5 cubic inches and a cylinder volume of 45 cubic inches.

Using two anchors set approximately 45 ° apart, or wider angles up to 90 °, from the bow is a strong mooring for facing into strong winds.

By quickly setting up for the next play ( often within 5 – 10 seconds after the last play despite being afforded 45 seconds ) this hindered the other team's defense from substituting situational players, regrouping for tactics, and, some suggest, increased the defense's rate of fatigue ( This is attributed to the belief that the offense dictates when a play starts so they tend to be more mentally relaxed and prepared for the start of a play where the defense must remain on a higher level of alert before the play starts ).

The weight of a Roman pound is generally believed to have been 327. 45 g or possibly up to 5 g less.

A total of 45 clubs have played in the Premier League from its inception in 1992 up to and including the 2011 – 12 season.

A third turbine at Buksefjord brought its capacity up to 45 MW in 2008 ; in 2007, a second, 7. 2MW dam was constructed at Qorlortorsuaq ; and in 2010, a third, 15MW dam was constructed at Sisimiut.

The population was made up of 46, 284 Swiss men ( 24. 2 % of the population ) and 45, 127 ( 23. 6 %) non-Swiss men.

337 – 45 ), listening to his father's accounts of his own sea voyages as a merchant The father probably spoke in the Aeolian dialect of Cyme but Hesiod probably grew up speaking the local Boeotian dialect.

I must have been there at least 45 minutes when one of the classical musicians said, ' If this guy Arthur Lee doesn't show up soon, I'm leaving.

Australia racked up 245 and 104 while England scored 196 and 108 giving Australia victory by 45 runs.

In the United States the completions are usually held on off-road courses, where one competitor at a time attempts to ride up a very steep hill, often 45 degrees or more.

Nicaraguan exports to the United States, which account for 59 % of Nicaragua ’ s total exports, were $ 1. 7 billion in 2008, up 45 % from 2005.

Chief of RSHA 1943 – 45, the Nazi organ made up of the intelligence service ( SD ), Secret State Police ( Gestapo ), Criminal Police ( Kripo ) and had overall command over the Einsatzgruppen.

Their lifespan is up to 40 or 45 years.

Some film directors and film enthusiasts disapprove of pan and scan cropping, because it can remove up to 45 % ( on 2. 35: 1 films ) of the original image, changing the director or cinematographer's original vision and intentions.

Some series use a handicapped start, where the smaller cars are released up to 45 seconds ahead of the larger cars, and are slowly caught, the idea being that all the cars are together at the finish of the race.

Its width is very uniform for 1000 miles ( 1600 km ) up, and for 800 miles ( 1300 km ) its depth is never less than 45 feet ( 15 m ).

The sod that has been lifted from it rests at about a 45 degree angle in the next-door furrow and lies up the back of the sod from the previous run.

* PDP-11 / 45, PDP-11 / 50, and PDP-11 / 55 — A much faster microprogrammed processor that could use up to 256 kB of semiconductor memory instead of or in addition to core memory.

I mean, if you take a little bit more time to prep on three cameras, or if it's a big stunt, eleven cameras, and — whilst it may take 45 minutes to set up — then when you're ready you say ' Action!

Thortveitite can contain up to 45 % of scandium in the form of scandium ( III ) oxide.

The Wham-O was suitable for hunting with a draw weight of up to 45 pounds force ( 200 newtons ), and was available with an arrow rest.

An interval of 45 days has been postulated, as the best one to achieve up to a quarter-day precision, in the solstice determination.

* up to 45 points ( 15 each ) on three ( or four for some special cases ) different written tests ( each test judged sufficient is awarded at least 10 points ):