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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.
No one walked in this country, least of all Ed Dow or Dutch Renfro or any of the rest of the Bar B crew.
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.
`` This is a mighty empty country '', Morgan said.
In this country there's a war on every time the grass turns green.
But Oso replied calmly, `` Trouble ain't easy to dodge out in this country, rev'rend ''.
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.
He wore no gun -- a strange ommission for a peace officer in this country.
She saw it then, the distant derrick of the wildcat -- a test well in unexplored country.
If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.
The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.
Only, they carefully substituted old country folk dances for the Virginia Reels and square dances that were so popular among more worldly trains in the great westward migration.
Yet he did drop his badinage with the ordinary country girl as much in deference to the Grafin as acknowledgement that here, indeed, was something special.
It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.
The Command offices were in the border country, up north, where the radar systems centralized their intelligence reports, and the fighters were dispatched to harry the enemy.
`` And if the dive goes OK he has the exclusive import rights to your line for this country, is that right ''??
Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.
In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.
I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.
They went well-equipped with everything except knowledge of the `` outback '' country.
Others mentioned that I might have had to ask friends or even strangers for help and that to be stranded in a foreign country without sufficient funds did not contribute to international understanding.
what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.
His first inaugural address speaks of `` my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love ''.

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