This

`` This is a mighty empty country '', Morgan said.

This is the Rafter Aj.

This time it connected solidly on the man's temple, felling him.

This time he delayed so long that some of the engages shouted frantically, but they held their fire.

This time more of them hurdled the barrier.

This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

This sort of petty vigilance annoyed me.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

`` This is Mitchell Barton.

`` This ain't your brand, maybe '', Lord suggested.

This, he was sure, was the way they would act ; ;

This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.

This was the message found tacked to the cabin door.

This dirty coward just admitted killing Arbuckle.

This time no wire came whipping into the truck.

This time there was no sound of brakes but the shrieking of women.

`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.

This was surely a reunion in art, it was all that poetry promised.

This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

`` This is our tultul, a jumping platform, aku.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

This was the worst thing I could have said.

This time, they had been lucky.

This one was actually more of a `` near miss ''.