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The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.
Both had blonde hair and blue eyes, and there was even a faint similarity of features.
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.
Someone evidently was on duty there.
there was no doubt he was dying.
The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.
The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.
And there was a house ; ;
But there was water.
Yes, there was plenty of water, too much, and that was probably the trouble.
He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;
It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.
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.
But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??
He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.
And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach
No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.
Prosecutor Baird immediately assumed he was hiding out there after the shooting and began preparing an indictment.
Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.
Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

there and no
She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.
Two men, together like us, we could do somethin fine out there, maybe find a place where no one's ever been.
Glowering looks met them in the bar, but there was no attempt to halt them.
As far as he could see there was no hole to climb through it.
Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.
This time there was no sound of brakes but the shrieking of women.
In one hand he gripped firmly a parasol though there had been no indication of rain.
Nevertheless, there is no bath.
To his puzzlement, there suddenly was no haze.
Even yet there was no realization in his eyes.
But there was no definite agreement about business arrangements ''.
But there is no use causing him to worry at this time ''.
Then there was no saying how many times the marine had blown his nose on the handkerchief.
It was snowing hard when they got there and they saw no horses outside.
And there is no section of the nation more ardent than the South in the cold war against Communism.
`` I'd wind up full of bullet holes '', he said, and there was no question that he was talking about bullets fired by his coworkers.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
In Persia, where practically speaking there are no museums or libraries or, for that matter, hardly any books, the twins run free.
Their consequences are irrelevant -- or there are no consequences at all.
Their President, Jefferson Davis, interpreted their Constitution to mean that it `` admits of no coerced association '', but this remained so doubtful that `` there were frequent demands that the right to secede be put into the Constitution ''.
In fact, although we have dispelled the fear, we have not necessarily assured ourselves that there are no dangers.
`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.
If life and death did not both present themselves to us, there would be no inscrutability.

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