He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.

He told himself he had never seen two people eat so much.

Start out fresh, the two of us, like nothin had ever happened ''.

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.

His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.

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

He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

) Rumor had it he slipped two small rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademark.

He stepped inside Jess's guard and landed two blows to the big man's belly, putting everything he had behind them.

Greg had the stick forward and the throttle up before he heard the two `` Rogers ''.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

But before this came about, 214,938 Americans had given their lives in battle for the two concepts of the sovereign rights of men and of states.

The presence of the two exhaust fans seemed to indicate that the hall could become crowded for air.

He had gone into the Japanese navy, had been trained as an officer, had participated in one or two battles -- he never went into detail regarding his military experience -- and at the age of twenty-five, quite as a bolt out of the blue, he had walked into the mission as if he belonged here and had become a Christian.

You certainly couldn't take them into the little apartment and if you tried to farm them out for two or three days every week they would become so confused that they would have nervous breakdowns.

When the early part of the gradient was flattened, either by using the gradient shown in Fig. 2 or by allowing the `` cone-sphere '' gradient to become established more slowly, Region 2 activity could sometimes be separated into two areas ( donors P. J. and R. S., Fig. 1 and E. M., Fig. 2 ).

To become an orthodontist, a man must first be licensed by his state as a dentist, then he must spend at least two years in additional training to acquire a license as a specialist.

I'm going to become a good nurse, and I've got two baby brothers that are going to have college if I have to work at my profession until I'm an old maid to give it to them ''.

Even two or three years ago I doubt that she'd have become involved in this unfortunate Johnston affair.

Buffalo coach Buster Ramsey, who has become one of the game's greatest collectors of quarterbacks, apparently now has found a productive pair in two ex-National Football Leaguers, M. C. Reynolds and Warren Rabb.

Akira, who at this point planned to become a painter, moved in with him, and the two brothers became inseparable.

) Later, when Vortigern's power has faded, the two brothers return from exile with a large army, destroy Vortigern and become friends with Merlin.

The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.

Men women were members yet who had proven over and over again, by extremely painful experience, that they could not get sober on their own had somehow become more powerful when two or three of them worked on their common problem.

Since the 1960s, composite airframes and quieter, more efficient engines have become available, and Concorde provided supersonic passenger service for more than two decades, but the most important lasting innovations have taken place in instrumentation and control.

This means that in most real-world setups where machines are added a few at a time, only one or two tries are needed before the address effectively become constant.

However, even with Mozart and Salieri being rivals for certain jobs, there is very little evidence that the relationship between the two composers was at all acrimonious beyond this, especially after 1785 or so when Mozart had become established in Vienna.

Although Tasmanian AFL Bid has been ongoing, the AFL's focus has become gaining marketshare in lucrative and broadcasting rights in two populous Australian states, introducing clubs on the Gold Coast, Queensland ( Gold Coast Football Club ) and in Greater Western Sydney ( Greater Western Sydney Football Club ).

In this model the two universes do not interact, except via local matter accumulation whose density and pressure would become high enough to connect the two sheets through a bridge without spacetime between them, but with geodesics continuity beyond the radius limit allowing an exchange of matter.

Benjamin had two younger brothers, John and Richard, who both went on to become distinguished artists.

Bill has named two influential moments in his life that contributed to his decision to become a public figure, both occurring in 1963.

The study of the Kgatleng district predicts that by 2050 the cycle of mild drought is likely to become shorter — 18 months instead of two years — due to climate change.

As of late 2002, the Navy had reportedly become responsible for flying all aircraft with the rivalry having subsided between the two branches of the armed forces.

** Binary explosive, an explosive made of two components that become explosive when mixed

Nineteen-year-old rookie first baseman Fred Merkle, later to become one of the best players at his position in the league, was on first base, with teammate Moose McCormick on third with two out and the game tied.

The appearance of Bragi in the Lokasenna indicates that if these two Bragis were originally the same, they have become separated for that author also, or that chronology has become very muddled and Bragi Boddason has been relocated to mythological time.