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.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

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

A wildcatter had to be prepared for almost any emergency.

He'd been in an angry mood: Conchita had thought his face almost ugly with the anger in him.

His maneuvering for the shot had placed him near the overcast, almost inverted and heading up into the clouds.

He left the house and almost certain death without even increasing his pace and wondered by what remarkable stroke of Providence he had been allowed to come out alive.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

`` Don't forget, here was a man who had been accusing his colleagues for almost a year of willfully attempting to present an incorrect report.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.

The failure of Greece to reach the imperial destiny that Periclean Athens had seemed to promise was almost directly attributable to her physical conformation.

He had learned to dispute devastatingly, both formally and informally in Latin, and according to the rules on any topic, pro or con, drawn from almost any subject, more especially from Aristotle's works.

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.

He had eaten almost nothing on the crested, three-sectioned plate and had drunk about half the milk in its paper container.

He had not even thought about her much except once or twice at night in bed when his slowly ranging thoughts would abruptly, almost accidentally, encounter her.

He had forgotten that she was so pretty.

Yet General Suvorov -- who had never forgotten hearing his adored Czarina declare that all truly great men had oddities -- was mad only north, northwest.

`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.

Catherwood, an architect in New York, had been forgotten, like Stephens, and Victor reconstructed their lives as one reconstructs, for a museum, a dinosaur from two or three petrified bones.

There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.

By the time he was under the covers he had forgotten about seeing Kate.

Somehow he had forgotten what he must have been told, that combat was an intermittent activity.

When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.

Of course, it must not be forgotten that in achieving this historical feat, Prokofieff had the vast resources of his people behind him ; ;

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

The West had long since forgotten the events of 1919, but it was not so easy for the Red leaders, who felt that they had suffered great injustice in that period.

and a policeman asserted he had found a pair of brass knuckles in Art's pocket once when he had occasion to collar the Great First Baseman for some forgotten reason.

He thought it must be some damn janitor or cleaning woman puttering around, figuring that Hirey had gone off and forgotten to turn off everything and lock up.

He had already quite forgotten about him.

The war found him much too early, and its perils -- and especially its awful boredom -- were best forgotten in horseplay and elaborate practical jokes, and even now Doc had never found any stabilizing, sobering influence.

Had she forgotten she had signed the car away, that whatever they mutually owned had been divided among the children??

It was the night Clayton had tricked them in the poker game.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

He had ordered the ponies brought inside the fortified circle and had assigned Pierre and a band of picked engages the job of trying to keep them steady under fire.

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.

It had drawn them together, and since his release from prison Dill had worked tirelessly to effect this night's escape.

How could he exert authority over them -- make them toe the line, as he had to -- if he knuckled under to this small-town clown??

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.

Those who had slickers donned them.

For, with a single exception, nothing had happened to them.

He had received both first and second anonymous notices, and each time he had accused his neighbors of writing them.

He had cursed at them and threatened them.

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

Much as they had to look forward to, they didn't begrudge a moment of the time they spent seeing them go.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

Neither of them, I understood, had been present at the filming session earlier.

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

The bars were marked as Walter had marked them in a small black book kept in a nearly secret drawer.

He had picked out this pathless trail, instead of the common one, in a moment of romantic fancy, to give them privacy on their honeymoon.