At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

It was only a fifteen-minute flight, but before it was through Greg felt himself developing a case of claustrophobia.

I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

The misery of Miriam's bitterness can be felt today by anyone who studies the case -- it was hopeless, agonizing, and destructive, with Miriam herself bearing the heaviest burden of shame and pain.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.

`` The case was that Bang-Jensen came up to Shann claiming he had found further errors in the report.

But Mercer's explanation was simple: `` I made out the check and carried it around a few days unsigned -- in case I lost it ''.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

The Faget case was the kind of salvage job the Administration should not have to repeat.

In each case there was an initial act of violence.

When Alex entered his room, the doctor was already preparing a nest in the straw case, six eggs ready for the hen's attentions.

In such a case, however, we would encourage the recipient country to get on with its programing task, supply it with substantial technical assistance in performing that task, and make it plain that an expansion or even a continuation of our assistance to the country's development was conditional upon programing progress being made.

He was not prosecuted, however, and his case was subsequently reopened, in the light of Sicurella v. United States, 348 U.S. 385 ( 1955 ).

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

Then it was that District Attorney Welch entered the case.

Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

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.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.

clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

The Maguire family was setting up a separate camp nearby.

He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.

The wound in his scalp was examined, pronounced healing, and well doctored with simples, before they dished up the victuals.

`` Jackson recruited his critters, and him and me fixed up his wagon while we was waiting for you to catch up.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

He knew now what he was up against.

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

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.