In any case, he had no intention of being caught asleep, so he carried his revolver in its holster on his hip and he took his Winchester with him and leaned it against the fence.

Snatching the lantern from its peg, he shattered its globe with a blow against a post.

He shouldered the blanket again, backed off, and tossed the lantern with its open wick beneath the wagon.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

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.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

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.

It circled her thighs, exploring with its icy tentacles.

It entered her body with the ghastly intimacy of an incubus, and its particles, spreading, creeping, crawling, joined themselves into steel bands that constricted her knees so tightly that they ached ; ;

Once more he lifted Jess's gun from its holster, only this time he tossed it into the stall with the frightened buckskin.

at first gratingly, caught by grains of corn -- then with a clash into its slot.

Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.

It lay with its head on its paws and only its eyes moving, watching us carefully.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

Some painters have less interest in the experience of the moment, with its attendant urgencies and ambiguities, than in looking beyond the flux of particular impressions to a higher, more serene level of truth.

Most of these, with horrible exceptions, were conceived as is a ship, not as an attempt to quell the ocean of mankind, nor to deny its force, but as a means to survive and enjoy it.

Considered one of the most perfect statements of his architectural approach, the upper pavilion is a precise composition of monumental steel columns and a cantilevered ( overhanging ) roof plane with a glass enclosure.

The roofs were supported by pillars that obstructed many fans ' views, and they were eventually replaced with a cantilevered structure.

Such skilled architects as John Marlor and Daniel Pratt were designing elegant houses ; colossal porticos, cantilevered balconies, pediments adorned with sunbursts, and fanlighted doorways all proclaimed the Milledgeville Federal style of architecture.

To maximise the precision of this compensation effect, the total energy probe needs to be in undisturbed airflow ahead of the aircraft nose or tail fin ( the " Braunschweig tube ", the long cantilevered tube with a kink in the end that can be seen projecting from the leading edge of the tail fin on most modern sailplanes.

The island platforms ( 13 and 14 ) were located on a new pre-stressed concrete slab bridge with cantilevered sides for the tracks.

From the cantilevered living room, a stairway leads directly down to the stream below, and in a connecting space which connects the main house with the guest and servant level, a natural spring drips water inside, which is then channeled back out.

Terraces of cottages were built backing onto the stream, and here too these too took advantage of the steam for sewage disposal, with privies cantilevered out from houses over the watercourse.

The west end of the living room contains the “ prow ” with art glass windows and two art glass doors that open onto the west porch beneath the cantilevered roof.

More specifically, Viñoly selected the linear limestone and cantilevered floors with the Robie House in mind.

The " Usonian Homes " were typically small, single-story dwellings without a garage or much storage, L-shaped to fit around a garden terrace on odd ( and cheap ) lots, with native materials, flat roofs and large cantilevered overhangs for passive solar heating and natural cooling, natural lighting with clerestory windows, and radiant-floor heating.

New Zealander Dr. Keith Vivian Alexander of the University of Canterbury designed a trampoline that replaces the springs with cantilevered pultruded fibreglass rods to provide the rebounding force.

feet and constructed with nearly 3, 000 tons of Pittsburgh steel, and supported solely by a massive 260-foot-long cantilevered arm on the exterior.

It is long with a cantilevered span of.

The 126 inch wheelbase chassis had semi elliptic springing at the front and cantilevered springs at the rear with four wheel brakes as an early option.

Stalls and the pit were entered at ground level, with two partly cantilevered tiers above accommodating dress and family circles on the first level, and upper circle, amphitheatre and gallery on the tier above.

The tension in the diagonal guy-wire, combined with the compressional strength of the structure, allows the structure to withstand lateral loads such as wind or the weight of cantilevered structures.

To the left is a smaller cylinder, cantilevered from a separate column, interlocking with the larger cylinder.

Lyle also incorporated a number of " firsts " into his design: the Alex was North America's first air-conditioned theatre ( by virtue of a large ice-pit under the orchestra ), one of its first " fireproof " theatres and the first on the continent ( thanks to the steel framing ) to employ cantilevered balconies, with no internal pillars to interfere with lines of sight.

They are lined with handsome brick warehouses built on rail platforms, many with cantilevered canopies.

Calling any diagonal wood brace ( as used on gates, buildings, ships or other structures with cantilevered or diagonal loads ) an example of geodesic design is a misnomer.

The auditorium building is aligned with the rear of its stage parallel to Waterloo Bridge and the seating area cantilevered out towards the foyer, supported by a massive column containing the emergency escape staircases at the rear.

Externally the brick walls of the ticket hall are punctuated with panels of clerestory windows and the structure is capped with a flat concrete slab roof which abuts the cantilevered concrete canopy of the westbound platform.

so that a line running down the length of the South marking the upper limits of tidewater would roughly divide the Old South from the new, but with, of course, important minority enclaves.

Warren eased his rifle's safety off and gently, slowly sneaked another clip of ammunition from one of the cloth bandoleers that marked the upper part of his body with an Aj.

But he was totally dissatisfied with his upper body.

Arm, shoulder, chest, upper and lower back strength will be aided with the Horse kick.

As strength improves start in a standing position with legs wide apart and upper body bent forward.

In the lower center rack an 8-channel recorder indicates the percentage of carbon dioxide and nitrogen from the upper and lower lobes of one lung, the total volume of inhalation per breath, the flow of air from both lobes, and the pressure of the two lobes with respect to each other.

The Af layers are stacked normal to the ( 111 ) axis with the lower oxygens of one layer directly above the upper oxygens of the neighboring lower layer, in such a manner that the repeat is every three layers.

Third, the upper portion deals with only two indicators of developmental level, Onset and Completion.

In even greater degree the same rule applied to the remainder of Eastern Europe, where the upper classes had generally collaborated with the Nazis, even to the extent of sending millions of their peasants into Russia as a part of Hitler's armies.

They are mostly upper-middle- and lower-middle-class people, with a few in the upper class.

In the upper center of Braque's first collage, Fruit Dish ( in Douglas Cooper's collection ), a bunch of grapes is rendered with such conventionally vivid sculptural effect as to lift it practically off the picture plane.

During the year that followed, Dick co-operated whole-heartedly with the dentist and was delighted with the final result achieved -- an upper row of strong straight teeth that completely changed his facial appearance.

Wide windows with many small leaded panes swept across the upper stories.

Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in particular focused on the ' purpose of creation ' and how the will of God was to bring creation into perfection and adhesion with this upper force.

Lower case letters were therefore not interleaved with upper case.

At hatching, a typical salamander larva has eyes without lids, teeth in both upper and lower jaws, three pairs of feathery external gills and a long, somewhat laterally flattened body and tail with dorsal and ventral fins.

The real numbers are uniquely picked out ( up to isomorphism ) by the properties of a Dedekind complete ordered field, meaning that any nonempty set of real numbers with an upper bound has a least upper bound.

Their leaves are of variable size and alternately arranged, or alternate with the upper leaves becoming nearly opposite.

Training likely needs to be intense and focused — as indicated by one study performed with stroke patients experiencing limb ataxia who underwent intensive upper limb retraining.

If it wants to become a high-income or upper middle-income country, it can not do so with this kind of economic structure.

Alligators differ from crocodiles principally in having wider and shorter heads, with more obtuse snouts ; in having the fourth, enlarged tooth of the under jaw received, not into an external notch, but into a pit formed for it within the upper one ; in lacking a jagged fringe which appears on the hind legs and feet of the crocodile ; in having the toes of the hind feet webbed not more than half way to the tips ; and an intolerance to salinity, alligators strongly preferring fresh water, while crocodiles can tolerate salt water due to specialized glands for filtering out salt.

The Gepids initially gained the upper hand, but in 567, thanks to his alliance with the Avars, Alboin inflicted a decisive defeat on his enemies, whose lands the Avars subsequently occupied.

He also repaired a large part of Beverley Minster in the diocese of York, adding a presbytery and an unusually splendid painted ceiling covering " all the upper part of the church from the choir to the tower ... intermingled with gold in various ways, and in a wonderful fashion ".