| 1 |
You knew where to find her. Only a week ago you were still denying any knowledge of her whereabouts. |
| 2 |
By now the medical section must know about the spiderweb, Spock thought. Sick bay would be in chaos. |
| 3 |
Then Andy gave a long low whistle, and stood staring in astonishment. Tom looked at him impatiently. |
| 4 |
I noted that her lovely brow had already been wrinkled with distress, considering the possibilities. |
| 5 |
We could go for a walk, he suggested. Or, she thought about that for a few seconds and then decided. |
| 6 |
He waited for the dead man to answer, and his fingers moved over the still face as if he were blind. |
| 7 |
At the other tables, both men and women are clapping in time to the driving beat of a marching song. |
| 8 |
He looked amiable, but Kaitlyn could feel his savage joy. He knew she was hurting and he liked that. |
| 9 |
Stopping was out of the question at this speed. The ship would need miles of room to skid to a halt. |
| 10 |
Cathy Calvin looked at the towering model curiously. Maybe she was in shock. Hopefully, that was it. |
| 11 |
Still. Automatic fire systems spray gas everywhere. Only the dimmest emergency lights cast any glow. |
| 12 |
She felt his pain, his sorrow. She hated him for that. If she died tomorrow he wouldn't care at all. |
| 13 |
There was a dull booming sound as the children's father finished speaking. Tom looked at his father. |
| 14 |
The question that lay at the back of all their minds was how long a trail might stretch before them. |
| 15 |
The Frenchman made his mouth into the shape required for a whistle, although no note could be heard. |
| 16 |
It was useless to argue. Barrett wanted to move him now, while he was too weak to cause any trouble. |
| 17 |
Now he rode to catch up with the girl, turning his mount so that she was forced to pull in her mare. |
| 18 |
Within seconds they were on the open road, the clang of the village bells growing ever more distant. |
| 19 |
He couldn't help glancing repeatedly at the two women, the same way they were surely appraising him. |
| 20 |
Dully, he shook his head. He didn't understand what was happening. It confused him. It had hurt him. |
| 21 |
On the third visit, he told me that his migraine had practically disappeared. He was very impressed. |
| 22 |
In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out. |
| 23 |
No gate opened. But with another blast of sound, something appeared between us and that flaming rod. |
| 24 |
The spread cohered. The spread hit. The spread severed legs. Three trunk sections detached and fell. |
| 25 |
He went into the adjoining room, leaving the door open so that the invisible Adams could follow him. |
| 26 |
It had become a strain for the other knight even to speak. The plague was coursing through his body. |
| 27 |
An intersection coming up, light turning from green to yellow. A gas station on the left. Al points. |
| 28 |
But Crowley could not help thinking it might be another who had played the music in the bus station. |
| 29 |
Johnson was a pessimist who relished such prospects. I took everything he said with a pinch of salt. |
| 30 |
That his people held in their own hands the power to free themselves of their ancient curse at last. |
| 31 |
They poured out of the smashed nut. Some were still wearing bow ties. Some were back in their kilts. |
| 32 |
Above them a ladder parted company from the wall and folded itself into a metal puzzle on the floor. |
| 33 |
Yes. It was as if he had cuffed her across the face. Pain showed in her eyes, and the edge of tears. |
| 34 |
Mort nodded miserably, and took the long walk to the study door. As he pulled it open Death coughed. |
| 35 |
Rain pattered softly on the pavement of the street. The cold raindrops felt good on my hot forehead. |
| 36 |
Heller's actions would not be condoned. They thought I was their prisoner. Actually, they were mine. |
| 37 |
Picking up the computer and ducking her head, Irina ventured out into the rain, heading for the car. |
| 38 |
Maybe that was something that went along with whatever genetic alteration Graff had found out about. |
| 39 |
A familiar figure stepped out from the flare around a jellied eel stall, holding a plate of winkles. |
| 40 |
The young cop came out of the car and folded thick arms and watched him as he searched for the keys. |
| 41 |
I decided upon a little experiment. I went to Paris, making the crossing very quickly and on my own. |
| 42 |
As electronic impulses continued to move out from the net, more and more words were returning. Hold. |
| 43 |
A dozen more soldiers closed in, only to suddenly find themselves facing a very large and angry cat. |
| 44 |
They put him in a spaceship and launched him to a large artificial satellite that circled the world. |
| 45 |
She protested, a wild sound that penetrated the mists of intoxication and made his head slowly lift. |
| 46 |
Nate and Amy scrambled up the cargo net and stood at the bow as the whale drifted away from the bow. |
| 47 |
He took another grape, tried to bite it in half, and sent it sailing across the room. More laughter. |
| 48 |
My heart was leaping out of my chest. Emilie squeezed my hand. I have a good feeling, she whispered. |
| 49 |
The horn blew again. Expecting it, they were able to discern that it had indeed come from the south. |
| 50 |
The assembled scientists exchanged silent glances. The Chief was obviously at the end of his nerves. |
| 51 |
The grins on the others were unmistakable, although some of the wives didn't seem so happy about it. |
| 52 |
Adele smiled faintly. She was finding more humor in life herself since she became a Cinnabar pirate. |
| 53 |
In a few seconds, the new poison pills were behind the thick, insulated door of the laboratory safe. |
| 54 |
In the same moment, the incomprehensible sounds emerging from the loudspeaker became understandable. |
| 55 |
I understand this on a gut level, though pragmatically it seems a needless extension of the anxiety. |
| 56 |
Butterfield had come from at the turn of the century, she saw that Robert could act in no other way. |
| 57 |
There was an indescribable something in his tone that made both the other two look at him curiously. |
| 58 |
When he opened his eyes again he saw that something was moving in the brush. A bulky object emerged. |
| 59 |
Jude stood mentally wringing her hands as the truck bumped away down the road and the car pulled in. |
| 60 |
Beneath the blue paper wrapping was a single gold painted brick. I gaped. I laughed. I looked again. |
| 61 |
Obediently the adults sat down, though the stools were more suited to smaller rear ends than theirs. |
| 62 |
His second blow was harder though, and as the beat picked up his next cry came with more enthusiasm. |
| 63 |
Biron drew the back of his hand slowly across his forehead and some of the tension oozed out of him. |
| 64 |
He lifted her. There was a feverishness about her, and though she struggled a bit, she was thinning. |
| 65 |
Doc lifted his gaze. Overhead, the mist clouds collided and merged and tumbled like fighting things. |
| 66 |
Gratefully, she paid out cord and backed to the table and her tape recorder and separate microphone. |
| 67 |
Each aflame, each pointing burning fingers at Blade, each screaming oaths at him with fiery tongues. |
| 68 |
She slipped out of bed, using the edge of the blanket to grasp the door handle, and opened the door. |
| 69 |
I started laughing, and Sharon looked at us with this curious smile, as if we'd just lost our minds. |
| 70 |
She had not moved. She was still standing where she had been, like a stranger, waiting for me to go. |
| 71 |
He could not believe what happened and the next day in the hospital he would not be able to explain. |
| 72 |
Auger shrank back between his comrades, who were attempting to crawl into the rock wall behind them. |
| 73 |
Odd. The blond bimbo looked like a rock star and dressed like a rock star, but she had pointed ears. |
| 74 |
But they might. Ever since shed arrived there shed had the vague sensation of being caught in a web. |
| 75 |
Richard had fallen asleep or passed out on his back, and was breathing in heated harsh little puffs. |
| 76 |
The edge in her voice surprised Richard, reminding him that there was iron under the feminine grace. |
| 77 |
High up along the trunk, a wooden box descended slowly. A similar box had risen almost out of sight. |
| 78 |
The choir lifted their voices in saintly chords that faded away into the vaulted dome toward heaven. |
| 79 |
The communication rating behind the compass platform picked up the jangling phone, listened briefly. |
| 80 |
Cautiously, she entered the room and saw a tall figure standing in front of the couch. It was a man. |
| 81 |
Began to laugh. It made more pain, but I couldn't help myself. The situation was just too ludicrous. |
| 82 |
He tugged the cloak over his head, clutched the rucksack to his breast, and fell asleep in a moment. |
| 83 |
He stared up through the descending snow and wintry light at letters in granite, letters on granite. |
| 84 |
They worked in a rush from the last passing of the drone yesterday to prepare for its passing today. |
| 85 |
Dane gingerly tugged loose his Trade uniform, its brown silky fabric damp on his skin as he dressed. |
| 86 |
Jupiter turned his head and listened intently. The sound seemed to come from the wall of the cavern. |
| 87 |
Sorry. And I was trying to help. He smiled crookedly. Ive been expecting you to collapse any minute. |
| 88 |
Bobby opened a drawer in the gun rack's pedestal. Took out a cardboard box of Winchester cartridges. |
| 89 |
None of the six had suspected what extremes of cold these same coats would be called upon to resist. |
| 90 |
He nodded once, then smiled at me. His smile was a cruel thing mounted upon that ghastly white mask. |
| 91 |
More likely it was just the stink of the demon who had visited her earlier that was attracting them. |
| 92 |
He bolted from his chair, barked his shin on the corner of the desk and hurried downstairs with her. |
| 93 |
It was when the table was cleared that the trader summoned one of his men to bring in a stout chest. |
| 94 |
Only when she had drawn the curtain did she turn to him and smile, her dark eyes firing beautifully. |
| 95 |
He told his brain to shut up and leave him alone, and reached through the flames with his free hand. |
| 96 |
The horse alighted on the road, and Buddy slipped off into the mud. He raised himself on his elbows. |
| 97 |
Taking the tethers of the three unmounted horses, they made their way to the south toward Kingsbury. |
| 98 |
The Hound came over the hill first, and it stopped when it saw them. Then it wheeled and loped back. |
| 99 |
Captain. Thank you for your contributions, but they are unnecessary. I have the matter well in hand. |
| 100 |
Though we went with care, we did not see any sign of those root tops wriggling out of the dank soil. |
| 101 |
Sam blinked. He opened his mouth, and then he closed it again. And he and Zeke looked at each other. |
| 102 |
Better, though. His life would have prepared him. It should give him much for him to give the Unity. |
| 103 |
As I considered the rockets, the valley floor groaned, and another trembling wave rumbled underfoot. |
| 104 |
Bloom fetched a couple of eggs, one from under the cat, and he held the warm eggs against his cheek. |
| 105 |
A bottle broke nearby. The gate of the entranceway creaked open an inch, stopped, and creaked again. |
| 106 |
I had failed you, Christina. It was over. It was only a matter of time before Edward hunted us down. |
| 107 |
At any rate, there must be no gladsome welcomes between us. Noting that might develop into intimacy. |
| 108 |
Polly grabbed for something to keep her balance. She was careful not to bump any controls this time. |
| 109 |
Ten of us were ushered into a small Tower room with comfortable stools, a podium, and a wall screen. |
| 110 |
Blue smoke was pouring out of Granny's broomstick but she hung on, determined, and forced it around. |
| 111 |
He stepped aside and I entered the room. I wiped my hand on my trousers, but he declined to take it. |
| 112 |
Hearts jumped quick. Eyes swiveled from Juke to the shelved jar, back down, up again apprehensively. |
| 113 |
Because he was honest about it Hornblower refrained from remarking on his slowness of comprehension. |
| 114 |
He saw neither dog nor camera. He saw only the voiceless cuckoo which had become his life's mission. |
| 115 |
Instead, her expression changed, and I had only that much warning to turn and face what crept there. |
| 116 |
Grant realized he liked this security chief. In fact, he thought he was going to enjoy the briefing. |
| 117 |
The black figure sailed above them, then banked and began a tight spiral as she dropped toward them. |
| 118 |
They moved cautiously across the square and walked slowly down a street that opened from the square. |
| 119 |
It was still early enough so that the heat was no more than that of midmorning of the milder season. |
| 120 |
In short, she'd been perfect for him. Except for her inability to understand a few very human flaws. |
| 121 |
The black Cadillac had been there for more than fifteen minutes at the kerbside. No one had got out. |
| 122 |
Her heart jumped, but she schooled her face not to show the dangerous excitement he fostered in her. |
| 123 |
The key turned in the lock and the door opened, the sergeant saluted formally and stood to one side. |
| 124 |
It wasn't. Obviously, and I say this in all modesty, she was quite content with the company present. |
| 125 |
Lacuna sighed. It had at least been worth a try. She had, for a little while, had a glimmer of hope. |
| 126 |
More laughter, ugly and suggestive. It seemed about time for me to move in and get her out of there. |
| 127 |
She could feel the eyes of her officers on her. She didn't know how many of them she could count on. |
| 128 |
Thorvald tested the shelter with a sharp shake. The matted leaves whispered, but the framework held. |
| 129 |
By the time everyone left the parking lot, it was fully dark and starting to rain again. Oh perfect. |
| 130 |
Higher. Higher. Until my head banged hard against the ceiling, at least twenty feet above the floor. |
| 131 |
Mendoza's mad eyes were staring at him, their lethal message reinforced by the revolver in his hand. |
| 132 |
I looked at Jeff. He was faster than I. He'd already gotten the pizza in his mouth. He looked at me. |
| 133 |
The lights were on in the store. She peered through the glass door. Then she tried turning the knob. |
| 134 |
We were in a courtyard. Two horses stood waiting, held by grooms. Medea mounted one and I the other. |
| 135 |
When he skirted a small stand of metallic trees, he realized that he had never come this way before. |
| 136 |
And it seemed unfair suddenly, very unfair that he should be her sworn enemy before they'd even met. |
| 137 |
The commander waited a moment. When Sondra said nothing, he walked away. The torturer left with him. |
| 138 |
A wave of fierce possession tore through him. A feeling so intense that he had all but forgotten it. |
| 139 |
She didn't say anything when I said that. She probably remembered she was supposed to be sore at me. |
| 140 |
She reached up, drawing a chain from around her neck. At the end, the little ruby flashed its flame. |
| 141 |
She said nothing, but glanced at the purse in her lap where a miniaturized tape recorder was hidden. |
| 142 |
Ed was worried enough to talk to Leslie about it that evening when he stopped by to see how she was. |
| 143 |
Like the voices you heard before, the young voice murmured. The voices you heard after the dark day. |
| 144 |
Caxton wheeled and stamped toward the airlock. With one foot through the inner seal he turned again. |
| 145 |
They lay down in the soft sand at the foot of the dunes, and then they heard the first bird calling. |
| 146 |
If nothing else, she would have to find out if her father was still on Garth, and if he still lived. |
| 147 |
The words were urgent now, no longer a whisper but a cry mat was like a scream trapped in the skull. |
| 148 |
The chemicals Doc was employing were of a deadly character. It lacked two hours until eight o'clock. |
| 149 |
She bit down the sarcastic reply just in time. Something about the tone of the question worried her. |
| 150 |
Conan took a swallow from his mug and grimaced. The wine was thin, and tasted as sour as it smelled. |
| 151 |
I struggled on the blade. Then I felt blood at my back. Then I felt the point of a sword in my side. |
| 152 |
And the stringy muscles in both arms were bulging satisfactorily at the effort of carrying the unit. |
| 153 |
All volunteered instantly. Not just the five hundred young men but the whole thousand in the meadow. |
| 154 |
She'd been out of their reach all day. But now that the sun had set, she was within reach once more. |
| 155 |
He raised his head again, amid a new silence, and again peered off under his palm through the trees. |
| 156 |
Markov nodded and put his arm around his wife's shoulders. Incredibly, she let him get away with it. |
| 157 |
Two more goblins were brought. The gate was swung open just enough, and the goblins pitched through. |
| 158 |
Perhaps that had been several times repeated before it reached me, locked in concentration as I was. |
| 159 |
With open curiosity, she glanced at the prosthesis hand, which was resting on the back of the chair. |
| 160 |
Trenton Heck knew how fast and bad you could ruin a man's life as long as you gave him notice first. |
| 161 |
He then grabbed her hand and the trio set off down the stairs, Peri resisting every step of the way. |
| 162 |
I saw, wide with horror in the apertures of their helmets, the eyes of men pinned beneath its beams. |
| 163 |
At such times he wished that life was different, and that he could marry Maria and be a settled man. |
| 164 |
His smile faded as the sun touched the horizon and the White troops began to camp at the crossroads. |
| 165 |
It inspired him to go, anyway. Thus it was his decision to go, if only to please her. So he thought. |
| 166 |
When Jason awoke, for a startled instant he thought that something had gone wrong with the freezing. |
| 167 |
I should not have left him alone, not even for a minute, Idaho thought. I knew what was in his mind. |
| 168 |
Prokofieff had no chance against African polo, and one set of ivories rattled louder than the other. |
| 169 |
It was round. There was healthy growth all around it. He could swear it hadn't been there yesterday. |
| 170 |
They skated for another half an hour and Alex let his momentum take him to a halt by his sports bag. |
| 171 |
Some thirty yards down the alley he came to his garden and began digging away at the cold hard soil. |
| 172 |
Marco walked over to the carpet and inspected it carefully. Then he stepped on it and said the word. |
| 173 |
I thanked his lordship, and we parted with much more cordiality shown by him than I had experienced. |
| 174 |
Suddenly I dug my fingers into her arms. I shook her until her silly stupid head almost flopped off. |
| 175 |
B. That is the mystery which gives the point to his soliloquy. Leave it to the reader's imagination. |
| 176 |
The only sounds were the steady drumming of the rain and the fluting of the wind along the building. |
| 177 |
His parents were out when he got home. The house sat quiet and dark, mysterious and full of secrets. |
| 178 |
Above Justen, the hills seemed to curve away, as though he stood at the edge of an invisible circle. |
| 179 |
Blink. The lights went out, and the sound of the front door opening and shutting carried back to us. |
| 180 |
He held his head a little to one side, giving the impression of listening. A moment later he smiled. |
| 181 |
The giant reacted quickly, snapping straight and tall, closing its legs to entrap the foolish human. |
| 182 |
The colonel went on looking at me as if I had no right to live then suddenly seemed to recognize me. |
| 183 |
If there'd been a gun in the truck I would have told him to throw it across the scree, out of sight. |
| 184 |
Kaitlyn sat gingerly on the bed, and Rob pulled up the desk chair. He was still holding the drawing. |
| 185 |
Daniels stumbled to the window and tried to open it. Age had sealed it more securely than any latch. |
| 186 |
He inserted the picture in the projector. The room went dark as he switched on the projection light. |
| 187 |
Jud lay on the hard earth under the opening. A long knife had been inserted expertly into his heart. |
| 188 |
Doc gave the door a shove. It was unlocked, swung back quietly, and let him in. He examined the man. |
| 189 |
A windmill was spinning in the breeze, turning this way and that as stray gusts batted its tail fin. |
| 190 |
Lieutenant Sawyer, I must speak to you. Pick up the receiver. You have a call, and it sounds urgent. |
| 191 |
As Ari entered the office, the two men nodded stiffly, neither concealing his dislike for the other. |
| 192 |
I vowed vengeance on the Harlot, for I knew then that I would always be compelled to tell the truth. |
| 193 |
He filled and lit his pipe, puffed on it, and held it before him. A curl of smoke wafted up from it. |
| 194 |
I could not believe what I beheld, this young woman, who was stealing from me my sister and brother. |
| 195 |
Essence only frowned, picked up a green pretzel in her enameled talons, and nibbled it thoughtfully. |
| 196 |
He was always digging up more. Looking for champions. He liked them long and purple and kind of fat. |
| 197 |
Even lesser and more thoughtful Mistresses had been known to miscalculate and destroy their helpers. |
| 198 |
Jim felt a sudden silence. He turned and saw an individual of uncertain age standing in the doorway. |
| 199 |
He cocked his head and above the sound of the river, heard the whining flutter of rotors in the air. |
| 200 |
She rode him out to a lake where they dismounted and the horse vanished into a brown cloud of smoke. |
| 201 |
But there are no accidents, she knew. They could not have taken advantage if we had not shown flaws. |
| 202 |
He didn't know if he would live to see that day. It was enough that he could help usher in its dawn. |
| 203 |
I didn't admit it was a good joke. These stupid idiots were playing with bombs to bring her up here. |
| 204 |
I grabbed the paintbrush with one hand. Wrapped my other hand around his waist. And tugged him back. |
| 205 |
As swiftly as he had entered, the bronze man was gone. He melted into the shadow of the palace wall. |
| 206 |
We left it and went along a hallway and after a while the sourpuss opened a door and motioned me in. |
| 207 |
Curtis passed on the rest of the relevant data. If he expected congratulations, he was disappointed. |
| 208 |
I cupped one hand, shading my eyes so that I could see who I was talking to through the screen door. |
| 209 |
Satan became so hot he suffered a phenomenal implosion of flame and winked out like a reversed nova. |
| 210 |
He may not choose his name. I will choose his name at the acceptable time. But that time is not now. |
| 211 |
Now desperate fugitives use the ancient causeway to evade a hostile sky, suddenly filled with ships. |
| 212 |
Doc leaped, got a knife wrist with both hands. The wrist broke almost as soon as he took hold of it. |
| 213 |
But wounds had I to show for this act, and a body heavy with pain, whose left side I could not move. |
| 214 |
Six months of pregnancy, now showing considerably. She put her hand on her stomach and met his eyes. |
| 215 |
I gathered the pieces and went upstairs, about ninety years older than I had been a few days before. |
| 216 |
Lloyd carried me downstairs and called an ambulance. Paramedics arrived and strapped me to a gurney. |
| 217 |
She turned toward him, and Paul saw golden rings threaded with water tallies dangling from her ears. |
| 218 |
The huge jaws snapped at his chest just as the wolf reached the heart hound and went for its throat. |
| 219 |
I groaned. Mary Anne, standing nearby, reached out and squeezed my hand. I looked at her gratefully. |
| 220 |
I flipped up every switch on the plate, so that inside and outside the health club was brightly lit. |
| 221 |
He rushed back to the control panel, pressed a single stud activating the ship's automatic circuits. |
| 222 |
But the Sun did not. Not then. Not for half an hour and more, and while it was gone there was panic. |
| 223 |
Christianity to the slaves as well as forbidding them to practice the religions of their birthplace. |
| 224 |
She ignored me. That was normal. She looked deeply upset. That was not. I was certain she had heard. |
| 225 |
Despite my employer's good intentions, his cocktail party was something less than a roaring success. |
| 226 |
Langley rubbed awkwardly at his chin. The detectives were all abruptly occupied at their work again. |
| 227 |
Aggravated at herself for not being able to focus, she took her briefcase and followed after Julian. |
| 228 |
He turned to amble back the way he had come, and then stopped. There was something unusual going on. |
| 229 |
There was a tiny clatter of safety matches in a box. The box scraped open. But no match was lighted. |
| 230 |
Gaston thought that he would not leave such a vacancy long open. Avril had always been too grasping. |
| 231 |
They clasped hands. The Indian strode off. False dawn died away and he was quickly into the shadows. |
| 232 |
He unbuckled his belt, stepped out of his trousers, threw them next to the shirt. He resumed pacing. |
| 233 |
It seemed her lips clung to his as if she were afraid to let him go, and then he kissed her eyelids. |
| 234 |
She looked around the bloodstained room, and once again rage rushed through her. Ill think about it. |
| 235 |
He picked up the ship's phone and rang the engine room. A full minute went by before Manny answered. |
| 236 |
She felt a cold hand touch her face, fingers running over it like the gentle beat of a moth's wings. |
| 237 |
Almost dark, and the Fisherman still out there someplace. Not to mention his otherworldly playmates. |
| 238 |
Christina had requested names as Lyon instructed before she unlocked the chains and opened the door. |
| 239 |
When they reached Doc's skyscraper headquarters, the telephone was ringing. Doc lifted the receiver. |
| 240 |
They didn't. The cooing stopped, though. They sat in their cribs, watching me solemnly and silently. |
| 241 |
Tommy was trembling and still inexplicably cold. He accepted the keys. They no longer felt like ice. |
| 242 |
He still wished he could remember something else he was supposed to do that night. It nagged at him. |
| 243 |
The secretary giggled and then her voice faded as the door to the outside office closed behind them. |
| 244 |
The shopkeeper hesitated and then turned the muzzle of his gun downward. But he did not put it away. |
| 245 |
Then he realized what he was doing. He was giving up on himself. He was writing himself off as dead. |
| 246 |
So Stoat apologized again, this time for not being properly concerned about the abducted family pet. |
| 247 |
My secretary had been saying this for years. She pushed the drawer shut and pulled open another one. |
| 248 |
Or else they wouldn't be here. They each expected to kill three innocent girls starting at midnight. |
| 249 |
He turned his head slowly and looked into her eyes. She was shocked to see the pain and anger there. |
| 250 |
The portal closed behind him as he stood in the dimmer green confines of the outer office once more. |
| 251 |
As the boy gave him a tremulous nod, Hubert echoed it, his rosebud lips pursing in a priggish smile. |
| 252 |
It was nice to know Nick was picking up something other than women of questionable morals at school. |
| 253 |
The girl went to the opened planking and fell to her knees beside it, the wooden scoop in her hands. |
| 254 |
What I heard was the house settling, she thought. Jeez. I'm getting to be a regular spooky old maid. |
| 255 |
She must wait until the right moment in order to eradicate as many enemies as possible, all at once. |
| 256 |
Heller swam along the dock and found an iron ladder that reached down into the water. He climbed up. |
| 257 |
Donner pulled out a handkerchief and wiped the beads of sweat from his face. He sagged in his chair. |
| 258 |
Maria raised the gun at him. It was the wrong moment for a man to tell her she was not clean enough. |
| 259 |
I had to pause there. Lisa sat up, moved quietly to the end of the bed, and began massaging my feet. |
| 260 |
Without taking a drink, he screwed the cap back onto the flask and returned the flask to his pocket. |
| 261 |
This horrified me, and I could see that she smiled at my horror, and she bid me sit down beside her. |
| 262 |
Yet life overran the globe, not much different from the Earth kind, as differences go in the cosmos. |
| 263 |
The scene changes suddenly. I'm on a high mountain, looking out over a plain. Three men sit with me. |
| 264 |
Bud apparently saw or sensed my approach. He hesitated for a second, then swerved the gun toward me. |
| 265 |
Norman made a gesture of despair and turned away toward his room, carrying the wire turban with him. |
| 266 |
There was no time to think. No time to wonder about the corkscrew turn. If I forgot it, I forgot it. |
| 267 |
She turned and walked off. It was the best way, when his tempers got obscure. Gods defend him. Fool. |
| 268 |
Kirk's extinguisher ran out of chemical solution. He started back along the hallway to find another. |
| 269 |
Clouds drifted over the sun again. The air suddenly grew cooler as gray shadows slid over the grass. |
| 270 |
Then gently he held her off and took her face between his hands and lifted it to look into her eyes. |
| 271 |
He did not have a chance to finish his sentence. The cataclysm took place suddenly and unexpectedly. |
| 272 |
She sprawled backward onto the floor, beneath one of the iron portcullises used to trap the dragons. |
| 273 |
Memory of their new and shameful loyalty came to them. Eric was silent but Sam tried to do his duty. |
| 274 |
I turned. He was standing in an open hatch off to one side of the bridge, framed by its metal edges. |
| 275 |
She kept imagining her system wearing a huge clown's mask of enthusiasm over a gray, exhausted face. |
| 276 |
The hand brake wasn't. Dorcas heaved on it until blue and purple spots flashed in front of his eyes. |
| 277 |
His jets barked alive and the descent slowed. By swinging his legs, he went up to a higher altitude. |
| 278 |
The trolls closed ground. Down at the human end of the defensive line, fiery brands went flying out. |
| 279 |
She slid her closet shut and twisted left and right to examine her reflection in the mirrored doors. |
| 280 |
And in the same way, Mars had warped her own life, as if she was a scale model of the greater world. |
| 281 |
Her laughter rang out and she waved her hand dismissively. Once more he felt the pull on his spirit. |
| 282 |
In a flash, two cowboys were on their feet and heading toward Clark, both of them dangerous looking. |
| 283 |
Roland hadn't looked back. His face was fixed, white, his teeth bared. He had something in his hand. |
| 284 |
She was shaking her head vigorously. That she was trying to deny it only made Fitch more determined. |
| 285 |
No doubt they'd become complacent soon, thinking that even the great white wizard was under control. |
| 286 |
It's not perfect, but it works. The thing about stories is that you have to pick the ones that last. |
| 287 |
The second guard saw the brand upside down and immediately staggered backward with fear in his eyes. |
| 288 |
That provoked a technical discussion which Hornblower encouraged until it was time for him to leave. |
| 289 |
Jacob sat between his oldest sons, Reuben and Simon, and touched no drink stronger than barley beer. |
| 290 |
There was the sound of cursing, and then the pounding of horses' hooves clattering away out of town. |
| 291 |
I looked around at all their faces, so flawlessly beautiful, so unable to hide their inner feelings. |
| 292 |
The garage door was sliding down. It must be run electrically, with a switch somewhere in the house. |
| 293 |
At the platform rim, Mr. Dark looked down at the screaming crowd and what they were screaming about. |
| 294 |
All along the recently slumbering waterfront, lights began to blink on in the closely spaced houses. |
| 295 |
But his contorted features and hand signified that his death had been neither peaceful nor painless. |
| 296 |
If I had hoped to be recognized as a master of humor as a result of these stories, I think I failed. |
| 297 |
After a couple of scowls from him, she scooted her chair back and stopped peeking over his shoulder. |
| 298 |
A passing driver, maneuvering around the Mercedes, angrily shouted something unintelligible at them. |
| 299 |
Officials were clustered round the open door of the second compartment. They were standing, staring. |
| 300 |
This time the end came decisively. The audience had no doubt of its arrival, or of their enthusiasm. |
| 301 |
I wasn't sure I had heard her correctly. I tried to say something, but my voice caught in my throat. |
| 302 |
None of the four figures in the cabin moved. The locket ticked against the bottom of the puzzle box. |
| 303 |
It seemed impossible suddenly that his life could have experienced such a great and wondrous change. |
| 304 |
Corbett collapsed in my chrome and black plastic visitors' chair, still gasping and red in the face. |
| 305 |
Sara was still talking about the art competition. But she turned to see what everyone was gaping at. |
| 306 |
When he returned to the club, Mr. Orly asked to see the rats. Shad let him peek in one of the pails. |
| 307 |
A kind of numb horror drew Ronnie to approach one of the stacks of magazines, and open the top copy. |
| 308 |
He grabbed her hand, faced her with a death's head grin, and he sent his awareness surging over her. |
| 309 |
Then all you can do is get lost in the tiny details of every day doing the same tasks over and over. |
| 310 |
Then he rose also. Had I kept the thought within, he would have marked it as complicity against him. |
| 311 |
Nicole smiled and thought how wise the Eagle was in his understanding of humans. She stifled a yawn. |
| 312 |
Being sophisticated doesn't give me the right to think small thoughts about those who are otherwise. |
| 313 |
Gorgon's mouth stretched into the parody of a smile, the snakes on his head rising with fangs bared. |
| 314 |
We proceeded as usual, though the word spread throughout my unit and no one slept. Nothing happened. |
| 315 |
They had to beat some game, in the same way that Wobbler would spend weeks trying to beat a program. |
| 316 |
I ran my thoughts back. Four in the morning. When the phone had rung across the street in the night. |
| 317 |
Somewhere in the back of his mind he expected to hit the stone hard, but then the fireball went off. |
| 318 |
The sun was setting and, as he fell asleep, he felt the girl's warm body snuggle down alongside him. |
| 319 |
I held my peace, counting a silent handful of heartbeats so Shiv could be sure his beloved was fine. |
| 320 |
Now he was on his feet in one light movement and apparently giving orders. Those asleep were roused. |
| 321 |
Right now, it was all she could do not to reach out and touch him. To kiss her scrumptious champion. |
| 322 |
He stopped. Lora was sitting inside, talking to the clerk. She was laughing, rocking back and forth. |
| 323 |
A dog started to slip on the snow and scrabbled desperately to save itself from the long, cold drop. |
| 324 |
Given the sacrileges I had witnessed so far, the One had shown the city more mercy than it deserved. |
| 325 |
When he reached her, she stood and gently turned to him, speaking his name in a voice he recognized. |
| 326 |
Doc lifted the unconscious man with noticeable ease. The crowd made a path for them to the elevator. |
| 327 |
Doyle could smell the smoke, drifting upward to him. He could tell by the smell it was a good cigar. |
| 328 |
He stood up a little higher and gingerly extended a hand into the gaping servomechanism in the wall. |
| 329 |
At once, her will snapped. Blood rushed to her head. She did not feel herself fall away to the side. |
| 330 |
With a rattle of armor, the brooding knight turned away from the plains and glared angrily at Edwin. |
| 331 |
With a shriek to curdle a banshee's blood, the bird folded its wings and plummeted toward the earth. |
| 332 |
He liked things neat and orderly, he reminded himself, punching the button to raise the garage door. |
| 333 |
In went the white pill. He grinned. Burped. The nurse snatched the tray and left, looking disgusted. |
| 334 |
I knew that most wild animals ate only one type of food. Either meat, or else fruits and vegetables. |
| 335 |
But she had acted so shocked. And she said again and again that she didn't know anything about them. |
| 336 |
Several of these women have told our investigators that Graham was a vain and slightly sadistic man. |
| 337 |
Pa was reaching for me again. Sticking his hand out toward me, and holding it back at the same time. |
| 338 |
Then she started to feel a little give, and began to work her wrists back and forth faster, panting. |
| 339 |
The scorching energy beam overshot the target. And Rodrigo crumpled under the withering pistol fire. |
| 340 |
On the darker side, she thought about the scene in Louis' living room, when they looked at the tape. |
| 341 |
When we were all inside coffins, the Horrors untied them and gave us a hard push away from the dock. |
| 342 |
He stopped and ate at a place called Mom's, catching them just before they closed for the afternoon. |
| 343 |
But there was no saving her now. In a few seconds she was high up in the blue sky and climbing fast. |
| 344 |
Ten rats were carrying the ram. They sped down the stairs with the other forty close on their heels. |
| 345 |
He received them in his office, the front room that had the light in the window that never went out. |
| 346 |
A limousine drew up and spilled out three Moroccans. They entered, saw the blank canvas and stopped. |
| 347 |
Wallie jerked back into the conversation. Talk of the epic had brought mention of the seventh sword. |
| 348 |
He could see that if the beast rolled any farther, it would crush his chest. He was terribly afraid. |
| 349 |
Turning to the north, with the sea to their left, the ragged column began to trudge along the coast. |
| 350 |
The difference between the richest man and the poorest is but a day of hunger and an hour of thirst. |
| 351 |
Bob stood over the hole with his flashlight while Diego looked inside and felt around with his hand. |
| 352 |
Baker picked up a jagged piece of broken glass and swung back toward her, holding it up to her face. |
| 353 |
The horses leaped away, and in a rising thunder of hoofs and wheels they swept up the narrow valley. |
| 354 |
There was some shouting when the plane stopped. Doc moved to a position where he could see the ship. |
| 355 |
The dwarf kicked out, throwing all his weight forward. Rod stumbled, saw the floor coming up at him. |
| 356 |
Doc's face was bleak and be continued to pound on the door, signifying their readiness to surrender. |
| 357 |
My wife looked at me, and blood rushed to her cheeks. She brushed one hand through her tangled hair. |
| 358 |
This was the essence of the visage which was bent over her now, administering a terrible punishment. |
| 359 |
She stuck her tongue out, crossed her eyes, and twiddled her fingers in her ears as they tiptoed by. |
| 360 |
A truly wicked chuckle interrupted him. The Commissioner leaned closer, its strong breath sickening. |
| 361 |
I jumped, and frowned, and looked over my shoulder to see who had picked now to start playing games. |
| 362 |
We were so near to several of the people now that I could make out their features despite the gloom. |
| 363 |
So she began to write out questions on the board, wondering meanwhile what the first form was up to. |
| 364 |
I lowered myself to my knees. I drew out the book. I looked up at him. I was on my knees before him. |
| 365 |
He raised his head, kissed her fluttering belly, then moved up to tease her nipples with his tongue. |
| 366 |
McKee came out, his face dark. When his glance took in Todd, his lips tightened over clenched teeth. |
| 367 |
When the moon rose high that night the shadow of that Thing was not alone down there upon the mound. |
| 368 |
The thought of wasting his money on such a nonessential item cast momentary gloom across Ben's face. |
| 369 |
With an exaggerated shrug, Justen followed him out of the engineering hall and onto the front porch. |
| 370 |
As they crossed the street and came within reach of the doors, Jodie's heart and courage failed her. |
| 371 |
He smiled at her and held her hand for a moment, until he needed both hands on the wheel for a turn. |
| 372 |
Monk apparently was bathing his naked feet in the blue fire. The carriers fled back into the jungle. |
| 373 |
They touched and immediately there was a small flare and thereafter a core of light in each of them. |
| 374 |
She supposed she would never know. There were a great many things she supposed she would never know. |
| 375 |
They continued to discuss it, but got nowhere. The day was getting late, so they broke to find food. |
| 376 |
When they reached a roundabout, soldiers with slung rifles came out from a check point to meet them. |
| 377 |
What ensued was simple. The bronze man merely lunged, corded fingers distended to make a quick grip. |
| 378 |
He was looking into the linen closet again, and his rapid breath suddenly stopped. His eyes widened. |
| 379 |
Smith ignored him. He raised his left hand to rub his right shoulder where the gun butt had smashed. |
| 380 |
I felt a chill. I could just picture the research that would be going on in government laboratories. |
| 381 |
The piebald bull trumpeted victory and surged forward, very nearly losing the battle in that moment. |
| 382 |
There was a flash across the whole sky before him. A curtain of green fire three thousand feet high. |
| 383 |
The man stayed with the diagram and seemed not to hear him. Chen wondered if he should make a run for it. |
| 384 |
Powder on the hair then. A lot of padding. Furniture polish on the skin. Keep the head down. Slouch. |
| 385 |
With the hum of an angry hornet, another bolt tore through the air close overhead, and then another. |
| 386 |
Boulders offered some shelter from the midday heat. The water was rationed as sparingly as possible. |
| 387 |
Obviously the subject of death was in the air, but more as something to be avoided than harped upon. |
| 388 |
I then felt, to my dismay, his hand tear the ribbon of white silk from my collar. He threw it aside. |
| 389 |
Hap turned down the control a little, and wiped the sweat from his face and arms with a dirty towel. |
| 390 |
He slammed hard against a solid darkness and pulled himself along it until he reached a way through. |
| 391 |
A waitress had reached their table and had placed the dishes before them with quick, smooth motions. |
| 392 |
He pushed the men aside, eyed the boulder narrowly and worked his muscles to free them for the task. |
| 393 |
He was like a wild, hungry beast as he buried his face between her legs and look her into his mouth. |
| 394 |
To a man just freed from bondage, it was glorious to be aboard, even though I usually hated the sea. |
| 395 |
Master Li swallowed another pint and offered me another sip, which produced the same choking result. |
| 396 |
Like any good editor, Tasha was never without a notebook and a pen. She whipped them out of her bag. |
| 397 |
He said something rough and threw the cigarette to the ground. The next minute, she was in his arms. |
| 398 |
They drove down the beach road a way, till the tall tower was lost in the rain. Nobody was in sight. |
| 399 |
Fumbling fingers rattled the cuff links in the drawer. He could not fasten them. Had to ask Clarice. |
| 400 |
The zombie had almost pulled itself from the grave. It sat panting legs still trapped in the ground. |
| 401 |
Diamond nodded, the bulge in his cheek slowly rising as the investigation moved to the upper molars. |
| 402 |
It stood by the side of the basket, its head slowly moving as it stared at each of them in turn, Mr. |
| 403 |
But time was running out. Tomorrow morning, the party would be over and all the guests would depart. |
| 404 |
I turned her face to me. You said you know the King. You said your father was a member of his court. |
| 405 |
She stepped inside, announcing her presence to be certain he didn't misread her approach and attack. |
| 406 |
Between them they carried it to the tent and set it upright against the far screen of the bell tent. |
| 407 |
Women are so incredibly beautiful. It is a wonder that men do not scream with pleasure, seeing them. |
| 408 |
He sipped at the brandy and took another pull at the pipe, the comforting mellow bite at his tongue. |
| 409 |
She was nothing now but a robot at his command and weakly moved her limbs to comply with his shouts. |
| 410 |
He sat up and folded his hands wearily, allowing an expression of resignation to shape his features. |
| 411 |
I offered him a sip of ale. It seems we are aligned yet opposite. But you command the duke's forces. |
| 412 |
The Borg seemed puzzled. The concern he was showing was obviously beyond her range of understanding. |
| 413 |
He got out the pair of work gloves he was giving his mother and smuggled them into one of the boxes. |
| 414 |
He nodded to the backhoe operator and the machine's claw took a bite out of the weedy, sunken grave. |
| 415 |
Wallie assured the sorcerer that he could finance his attack. The tryst was almost ready for battle. |
| 416 |
Madison picked himself up off the pavement, wishing the guards had not taken the order so literally. |
| 417 |
I wonder how the eyes in the mirror can droop with so much pain when I feel absolutely empty inside. |
| 418 |
The harsh white of the fluorescent lights spilled out through the open door and across the corridor. |
| 419 |
The consultants retreated warily, resolving not to call their agents until they were out of earshot. |
| 420 |
He secured the breaker from the film room, and a moment later was leading the way into the corridor. |
| 421 |
I turned around. Gavin yelped and grabbed hold with both arms around my neck, all but throttling me. |
| 422 |
But as soon as the pups came into this world, she would join her mate on the other side of eternity. |
| 423 |
The priest's coat was covered with dust and his collar was torn, but his eyes blazed with holy zeal. |
| 424 |
She became even more earnest at this point, leaning in, threatening to attack him with her cleavage. |
| 425 |
I checked the attic door one more time, making sure it was latched, then headed down to the kitchen. |
| 426 |
I remembered being a mummy two Halloweens ago, and how the costume unraveled in front of my friends. |
| 427 |
Rice's small steam engine runs all the time, and runs perfectly. It supplies light and cooking heat. |
| 428 |
Neither had his daughter, Blake found out, and this relieved some of the burden of telling his wife. |
| 429 |
For an instant she thought she knew those eyes. Then the moment of familiarity passed, and he spoke. |
| 430 |
The light of the staff glowed, but then the glow began to dim, darken. The light flickered and died. |
| 431 |
And there was not one girl, naked and in her collar, in the entire class who did not raise her hand. |
| 432 |
He could feel sweat trickling down his cheeks like tears, could feel his shirt sticking to his back. |
| 433 |
Astrid nodded and called. A girl in her late teens with black braids under her Scots bonnet came up. |
| 434 |
The Candace held the burning rod now as a hunter might hold a lance, bringing it near shoulder high. |
| 435 |
I suspected that was maybe pushing too hard too soon. But there wasn't much time to create my cadre. |
| 436 |
Justen ignored us both, uncharacteristically, and unfastened his saddlebags with quick deft motions. |
| 437 |
Janie squinted against the sun and turned to look at Larry, who had moved further along the walkway. |
| 438 |
Then he yelled his need for freedom to the walls pressing in on him as his screams echoed from them. |
| 439 |
With that, she turned for the final time and walked off through the golden light down the long road. |
| 440 |
I flop back, exhausted, lights in front of my eyes again. I think I miss out on a little time again. |
| 441 |
And they were carried through the brass forest of wild but uncomplaining brutes and set in the dust. |
| 442 |
She stepped back and let me park, but her eyes lingered on Larry. Maybe it was more than lust. Damn. |
| 443 |
The black, gray, and white smoke plumes circling upward from the lower part of the hillside thicken. |
| 444 |
The fox watched carefully, not taking a sip of the wine until the wildcat had drunk from her beaker. |
| 445 |
He didn't seem to hear her. He stood at the window, staring out into the darkness as if in a trance. |
| 446 |
Then, as Kate watched in horror, the two men shook hands to conclude their transfer of guardianship. |
| 447 |
Harry dashed over, took up a position flat against the wall to the left of the door. Jamil followed. |
| 448 |
Shad untied the knot in the pillowcase. He felt serene and contented - a rare moment of moral clarity. |
| 449 |
The wall clock showed twenty minutes of midnight when there came the pounding on the apartment door. |
| 450 |
The chief saw the act and quickly fired, but without effect, as the bullet flow over the boy's head. |
| 451 |
Then Ida and Bet doubled into the room. Ida crouched next to the door and sprayed down the corridor. |
| 452 |
Or maybe it was like the ball in a roulette wheel, bouncing around and looking for the right number. |
| 453 |
Her frantic, grieving parents waited home by the phone. But no kidnappers called to demand a ransom. |
| 454 |
I heard voices from a long, long distance away. They echoed hollowly, as if coming through a tunnel. |
| 455 |
As they drove deeper and deeper into the Jovian night, the glow beneath them grew steadily brighter. |
| 456 |
Tom bounded ahead, pausing to wait for Roland at each new obstacle with a superior look on his face. |
| 457 |
Then she was back into their view and she moved up, cornering the animal at the end of the corridor. |
| 458 |
The Marine started to open his mouth, then closed it with a snap. After a moment, he shook his head. |
| 459 |
The creature gave a bound into the air and then hung, its hind feet now a foot or so off the ground. |
| 460 |
This particular man was counting bales of tobacco and would have succeeded but for the interruption. |
| 461 |
I noticed them only for a split second, because my attention was immediately drawn to the dead bear. |
| 462 |
Joke, that was. She was sure. She sat back down in her chair and clenched her hands till they ached. |
| 463 |
She hated coffee. She thought Louis must be insane to swallow the bitter stuff, and she told him so. |
| 464 |
The darkness was thicker. I had no idea of the hour. It could well be that night was really upon me. |
| 465 |
Saul hurried to reposition him, tensing when he suddenly felt a hand behind him clutch his shoulder. |
| 466 |
Wary about having to compromise his hands, Buchanan signed the bill and added a fifteen percent tip. |
| 467 |
Then his bronze form arched downward into the water in a clean dive. He entered without much splash. |
| 468 |
Again he grabbed the eraser and rubbed the message out. Slowly, letter by letter, it appeared again. |
| 469 |
He left the men's room and, without being obvious, checked the lobby to see if he was being watched. |
| 470 |
They could not find him now. They could look right at him and see only a continuous stretch of wire. |
| 471 |
Colin asked, gripping his knees in his delicate hands and leaning forward as if bent by the tension. |
| 472 |
With a renewed sense of assurance, he moved forward to the rail of the walkway to address the crowd. |
| 473 |
He was knocked flat with the butt of a spear before they were flung back into their darkened prison. |
| 474 |
One moment there had been firm footing beneath him. The next, and the ground seemed to rise swiftly. |
| 475 |
And by and by he seemed to get whatever it was he was looking for and he stopped, breathing heavily. |
| 476 |
The answer astonished him. Everything they taught him about that faraway planet came into new focus. |
| 477 |
Around her was the close murmur of the sea, and she could hear the grate of oars within their locks. |
| 478 |
A piercing whistle rang out from the stands. The noise level dropped. Faces turned toward the sound. |
| 479 |
They went on down a wide passage that at times ran very steeply downhill. The air suddenly grew hot. |
| 480 |
The other flat piece would fit here in the middle of the underside. It slid in from the pointed end. |
| 481 |
Sure enough, after only a few seconds the yellow window brightened, and it was a big vanilla cookie. |
| 482 |
Cinder moved to her other foot, leaving the first one to mellow in its tingling state of relaxation. |
| 483 |
Sam had remembered a word. Now for the first tune, he found an understanding of it. This was Beauty. |
| 484 |
Maybe it was a wall of the ancients, fallen over sideways. But no, it would have cracked as it fell. |
| 485 |
The rats nodded. They knew about dreams. Dreams had come as a big shock when they started to happen. |
| 486 |
The drive curved up around the bank of the hill. Halfway up, he could see the tops of the gateposts. |
| 487 |
He looked into the mirror. An alien face looked back at him, etched with lines of anxiety and dread. |
| 488 |
The captain's next few words were drowned by a wail of protest and accompanying emotional radiation. |
| 489 |
Then they heard the noise again, a low intermittent groaning that came from somewhere close at hand. |
| 490 |
He laughed again but it didn't have quite the same sound because he knew I was guying his colonelcy. |
| 491 |
She wasn't crying any more. Her fear was burning so very brightly that it had seared away her tears. |
| 492 |
Anyway, only the mad lived for long under illusions that the cosmos was meant for their convenience. |
| 493 |
The power of the anointed kings, the kings of the land, came from the sacred marriage with the land. |
| 494 |
The thread end poised before the screen of the cage. Tallahassee threw up her hands before her face. |
| 495 |
Already missing him and riddled with guilt for leaving him behind, she picked him up and hugged him. |
| 496 |
A group of angrily muttering stablemen were gathered at the east end of the barn, near the entrance. |
| 497 |
He knew he had been happy before he drowned, not perfectly happy, but happy. His life had been good. |
| 498 |
It was an image she could visualize all too well. She nodded sleepily and stumbled off to her berth. |
| 499 |
Roman stood in the street, thinking it over. Mister Baron stood beside him, watching his expression. |
| 500 |
We would, in any event, await the coming of darkness before addressing ourselves again to the marsh. |
| 501 |
But the silence dragged on. His heartbeat slowed to normal against hers, and the silence dragged on. |
| 502 |
The two head electrodes were in place and Dr. Carlton now began attaching a third to her left wrist. |
| 503 |
Antonina stepped to the door which led to the outer room of the shop and pressed her ear against it. |
| 504 |
They may have been summoned just as the other Rangers were. We can get more supplies there, shelter. |
| 505 |
Actually, a creature placed a hundred yards from the tape recorder still got plenty of music to eat. |
| 506 |
Hart got up, straightened his coat on his wide shoulders, and jammed his large fists in his pockets. |
| 507 |
Richard wiped the blade in the blood on his arm to give his sword a taste. The rage twisted tighter. |
| 508 |
But not for a single instant had the conviction left him that he was always master of the situation. |
| 509 |
The haze became more pronounced... but too slowly. It should have been faster. I should have vanished. |
| 510 |
The engineer stared unseeingly from the windows of the plane. He was faced with a desperate problem. |
| 511 |
Sooner rather than later, they are likely to find the spoor they seek. Then they will pick up speed. |
| 512 |
When the thunder had died away Death reached down slowly and picked up the boy, who opened his eyes. |
| 513 |
Already her thoughts were well ahead of her body, busy with the known demands of the day before her. |
| 514 |
He pushed a slip of paper across the desk at me, but I ignored it and kept staring at the money bag. |
| 515 |
There was a moon. It cast a white light, like that which might come from a distant gasoline lantern. |
| 516 |
Over the next ten days the circus turned into wholesale farce, with an occasional tragedy thrown in. |
| 517 |
Alone with Marlee, Faith smiled and wandered around the center, picking up toys and bits of cookies. |
| 518 |
I told myself that my fears were mere inventions of my mind, but I watched the shadows all the same. |
| 519 |
Another squall blew across the bounding boat and the deck was suddenly covered with flashing silver. |
| 520 |
Cal glanced back at the man, fumbling for woods. There was no use his trying to explain, he decided. |
| 521 |
We memorialize the great writers, even deify them, but we hold closer to us those who make us laugh. |
| 522 |
Ham seldom admitted Monk amounted to anything. Now the lean face of the lawyer held some admiration. |
| 523 |
He didn't know. But he would. He would make it his business to find out, before his father returned. |
| 524 |
But then she was looking at this place through adult eyes. It was just a kids' playroom, writ large. |
| 525 |
Outside the thunder of weapons continued as a Gazelle arrived with a new contingent of robot troops. |
| 526 |
My hands, outstretched to pull me on, suddenly plunged into wetness. Liquid rippled about my wrists. |
| 527 |
We lit new torches from the wall rings and discarded our old ones. We then continued on our journey. |
| 528 |
Sometimes children swarmed through or watched them with bright, curious eyes. Today there were none. |
| 529 |
He had courage. He grabbed for the gun. It wasn't where he grabbed. I sat back and put it in my lap. |
| 530 |
Cassandra sat back with a satisfied smile as Dr. Mitchell came in and commanded everyone to silence. |
| 531 |
His glance to each of them in turn was a silent request to hear him out before they started arguing. |
| 532 |
Anya stood to one side of me, her eyes pleading, her lips open in a cry that I could no longer hear. |
| 533 |
The sausages are for the ones who know what their sins are and wish to atone for something specific. |
| 534 |
He looked swiftly upon the woman beside him, and a pang of loss tore him as even his fear could not. |
| 535 |
More than one trip to civilization would be necessary in order to transport every one, it was found. |
| 536 |
I gave her a dirty look. While I had grown up around here, most of my relatives lived farther north. |
| 537 |
The people. His people, she thought. Like the guide who had led her to the ruins in the first place. |
| 538 |
A perfect landing. In the sense that I'm gonna be able to walk away from it. Or at least be carried. |
| 539 |
But Evan was earning every penny. Kermit was impossible. That was the only word for him. Impossible. |
| 540 |
Even after the movie's on television, the warning dots will still be there. Even on airplane movies. |
| 541 |
Nikki scooped the puppy up in her arms. The tiny dog snuggled against her cheek and licked her nose. |
| 542 |
Since he wasn't using it, she seated herself on the bedroll and rested her chin on her raised knees. |
| 543 |
All the while, Jones was hovering over the base's huge radar screens watching the approaching enemy. |
| 544 |
Obviously that was a private joke, because the brothers looked at each other and burst out laughing. |
| 545 |
But with this it was no different from the first attempt, it disappeared and was to be seen no more. |
| 546 |
So we got on our bikes and started out. It was fifteen miles. That didn't bother me. I had the legs. |
| 547 |
Nina was breathless when he let her go, and Anna had vanished. At least he'd accomplished that much. |
| 548 |
I could see he would not be silenced. He would say what I dreaded he would say in front of them all. |
| 549 |
Desperate to see if her face had returned to normal, she ran up to her front door and rang the bell. |
| 550 |
He lit a match on a hippo's toenail and cupped his hand around it to shield his cigar from the damp. |
| 551 |
His landlady had dumped his belongings out on the front lawn. The front door was latched and bolted. |
| 552 |
It was a morbid train of thought, which he tried to break by numbering his friends among the living. |
| 553 |
He went to the wall that contained Moravia's wardrobe and slid open one mirrored door after another. |
| 554 |
I felt the kitchen door. It was like touching my hand to a cast iron frying pan fresh from the oven. |
| 555 |
He was in agony at the thought of her being so helpless, but there was nothing he could do about it. |
| 556 |
He handed the bow to the blondish girl, she with blue eyes, who had been instrumental in my capture. |
| 557 |
Julie took the silk bathrobe and white shirt and put them on the hook. She touched Ramses' shoulder. |
| 558 |
No one spoke, their eyes riveted on her. She waited a moment, then her pale hand passed before them. |
| 559 |
Tiffany chose the tallest upright cone. It was more than two feet high and had big stars sewn on it. |
| 560 |
Before a lawsuit appears in court, the Master will have clearly set down the rules of verbal combat. |
| 561 |
The men, the nine big red ones and the three remaining hairy ones, wept as they put down their arms. |
| 562 |
I hope we can maintain that feeling for the entire visit without anyone feeling jealous or left out. |
| 563 |
Gabby shook her head tightly, in as much as she could with her face clamped in its implacable grasp. |
| 564 |
The boys shushed him, glancing nervously about to see if anyone had overheard his indiscreet remark. |
| 565 |
Though the mound had moved, it had not disappeared, only seemed to settle more deeply into the clay. |
| 566 |
A short, muscular hijacker stepped into the center aisle and cleared his throat rather theatrically. |
| 567 |
As soon as he was tossed into the car, Barney was enveloped in a rough wool burnoose and handcuffed. |
| 568 |
Joey was holding the flask again. Although he had opened it, he had no memory of unscrewing the cap. |
| 569 |
From one side of the pickup area, a hand reached into the transmission frame. The screen went blank. |
| 570 |
The voices were coming from a copse of straggly trees. The black hound slunk closer, jaws streaming. |
| 571 |
There was no sound out there now but the cold November wind, blowing grim advertisements for winter. |
| 572 |
A sour taste rose in his mouth, but he swallowed it down and looked at the fur under the microscope. |
| 573 |
Grant left his tray and headed out of the cafeteria. He had no desire to be caught in any crossfire. |
| 574 |
Fagin was silhouetted against the giant red orb, their destination. Jacob shook his head helplessly. |
| 575 |
For their appearance dispelled the sinister air of supernatural foes which hung over the lost liner. |
| 576 |
Fire lit the night, illuminating her way...as she fled directly into the path of yet another creature. |
| 577 |
Her mind sharpened and snapped out of the welcoming coils of oblivion that had all but engulfed her. |
| 578 |
She considered this, her face very smooth and relaxed. When she spoke, it was with quiet conviction. |
| 579 |
After a long silence the young man, without looking up at all, mumbled something that was inaudible. |
| 580 |
I crouched down in the snow and he came to me, to rest his throat on my shoulder. I hugged him hard. |
| 581 |
She stood behind him and began raising the cold reservoir of magical power up her spine to her eyes. |
| 582 |
Defense has always been permissible, Jeff replied. The Council now has other, more pressing worries. |
| 583 |
His face showing the depth of his displeasure and reluctance, Julian let go of her and stepped back. |
| 584 |
I'm going down to the magistrates court tomorrow, he said. Let you have all the gen when I get back. |
| 585 |
She lapsed into total silence. Her eyes became tiny and she sat with one hand curled under her chin. |
| 586 |
She half turned to pick up from the shelf immediately behind her a box of some dull black substance. |
| 587 |
It was made of twigs and fish skins. Twigs could be had from any bush, but fish were something else. |
| 588 |
Her voice to me was always sharp, as if she waited for me to commit some fault she could seize upon. |
| 589 |
Like Reynolds, much of his resentment seemed to have gone to be replaced by a helpless bewilderment. |
| 590 |
There was a small discreet buzz on Egerton's desk. He picked up the telephone receiver with a frown. |
| 591 |
Christie curled up in one of the leather chairs. She tucked her legs under her and crossed her arms. |
| 592 |
A monkey man, racing to the senseless form of Edna, would have slain the young woman with his knife. |
| 593 |
He couldn't see her face, but he could almost feel the blood drain from her face. He means it, Kara. |
| 594 |
Saul gaped through his goggles, hearing a scream despite the wind. He snowplowed frowning toward it. |
| 595 |
Even though I had worried earlier about getting Gus angry with me, somehow it didn't matter anymore. |
| 596 |
The abyss of total disaster yawned before them. They were pulled back from that pit by an old woman. |
| 597 |
However often he left, wherever he went, he would always be drawn back. For here was heart and soul. |
| 598 |
He hated to wake her, but he knew women enough to be sure she would be hurt if he left her sleeping. |
| 599 |
York pulled out her bag and sat in misery, staring at her knees, while the world wheeled around her. |
| 600 |
The evening shadows fell across his desk, and he replaced the Woodstock file and locked the cabinet. |
| 601 |
Now it was said. But not a flicker of expression was observable on the faces of the two Secretaries. |
| 602 |
That got Stanley's attention immediately. The engagement broke up and the two lined up for the trip. |
| 603 |
She had begun to sob as I turned my back on them and looked down on the holy man. He showed no fear. |
| 604 |
But it had, at that heated moment at the track, slammed the distance between them right in his face. |
| 605 |
If it did exist, then her memory was correct, then she had found yet another image of her lost life. |
| 606 |
That one chilling word was enough. It was what she had figured, and explained the state of the camp. |
| 607 |
But the radiance that wreathed the base was not the only beacon blazing that night from San Isadore. |
| 608 |
Frank reached into the envelope and took out a document and a letter. He scanned the document first. |
| 609 |
The enlisted men had rushed from their typewriters and were helping out and Heller had to work fast. |
| 610 |
The wreck of the aircraft carrier had occurred only a short time previously, near Norfolk, Virginia. |
| 611 |
Never had I taken such a liberty with her, but I knew her thoughts. We dazzled her. She idolized us. |
| 612 |
Dave and I sit in the visitors' dugout, watching the boys as the light slowly leaves the summer sky. |
| 613 |
Grateful for the green dress, she found a clump of bushes and crawled into them to wait and to pray. |
| 614 |
White men with whips and guns stood several paces away. They wore white suits with white straw hats. |
| 615 |
One foot pressed into the small of Rod's back, both arms pulled back against the base of his throat. |
| 616 |
He got out at the unpainted house where he lived, taking Doc's hand silently and nodding his thanks. |
| 617 |
She was just beginning to wonder where Peabody was when one of the domestic droids came to her door. |
| 618 |
Sat on the ground and moaned and howled like an old Hebrew. And poured dust and ashes over his head. |
| 619 |
We worked and worked until I was ready to collapse. Needless to say, that night I slept like a rock. |
| 620 |
Fascinated by the symphony of movement of his body, she watched the way his jaw flexed as he chewed. |
| 621 |
Some kid made an atom smasher out of two soup cans and five dollars' worth of auto electrical parts. |
| 622 |
Hands in his pockets, staring fixedly at a corner of the room, he spoke with the utmost seriousness. |
| 623 |
It was thinking of death, and the thought of death made it celebrate with rapture and an awful song. |
| 624 |
Peabody was determined to clear her brother and put him back on the path of his life in her own way. |
| 625 |
The faded newspaper from the sky had been carefully spread out on the floor of one of the old sheds. |
| 626 |
She hurried away, just in time. She had to call Alex, and the window for the call was pretty narrow. |
| 627 |
But it was all just beginning. And deep down, she knew that things would only get worse. Much worse. |
| 628 |
And he gave it back to Will, with a disconcerting, unreadable long stare out of his deep black eyes. |
| 629 |
One of the dogs took off at a clip, dragging its hapless handler into the brush. Obscenities ensued. |
| 630 |
She quickly averted her gaze and took another spoonful of yogurt, only looking up after he sat down. |
| 631 |
Grace had never wanted to reach out and hold anyone as much as she wanted to hold Julian right then. |
| 632 |
Martin was shocked at the deep hatred in Boar's voice, he listened intently as the badger continued. |
| 633 |
My reading was suddenly interrupted by the sound of footsteps pounding the stairs up into the attic. |
| 634 |
Having instructed them till they are really complete and ready for true initiation, tell them Truth. |
| 635 |
She didn't say anything. She just kept looking from the harbor wall to the hill wall and back again. |
| 636 |
It was getting dusk. I sighed. Look. The rising stars of the tinted evening that precedes blackness. |
| 637 |
He opened his mouth and snarled at me. He had fangs, upper and lower, like a great cat. Sweet Jesus. |
| 638 |
Buddy returned and threw me the sponge. I wiped up the coffee table while Suzi collected newspapers. |
| 639 |
They crowded around the monitor, looking at the undulating wave and the tiny ripples in the surface. |
| 640 |
Julian froze. His breathing labored, he closed his eyes as if struggling against an unseen attacker. |
| 641 |
No answer. The helmet was out there by his fingertips. He pulled it close and repeated the question. |
| 642 |
Five minutes later he was hurtling toward a stone gargoyle standing halfway along an empty corridor. |
| 643 |
The soft knock came again. Maybe it wasn't Pasha. Richard pulled his knife. He yanked the door open. |
| 644 |
Riggs turned and pounded madly toward the administration building. Behind him Pop puffed and panted. |
| 645 |
He opened the door, swung out, glided across the road and disappeared in the shadow of a high hedge. |
| 646 |
Instantly I regretted it. I wanted to take it back. And I couldn't understand what had drawn it out. |
| 647 |
Butler entered the kitchen. His face was slick with perspiration and his breath came in short gasps. |
| 648 |
She was bad. She knew it. She goofed on it. She played off it. She ragged her shelf life as a chick. |
| 649 |
I stopped. As if an invisible wall had risen before me. As if my body had suddenly become paralyzed. |
| 650 |
She fell asleep squatting there. Despite the emotional storm, she was too exhausted to remain awake. |
| 651 |
Trucks were pulling up in front of the school, men pouring from the trucks to aid in the evacuation. |
| 652 |
He slid a couple of feet to the left in his pew, nothing too obvious, nothing to draw any attention. |
| 653 |
Rosa finished the piece with a flourish, the notes sparkling almost visibly in the air between them. |
| 654 |
He was sitting on the bed beside her, staring into her eyes, when they fluttered open and found him. |
| 655 |
She cried out in anger, and then entered the house. She would enter first, for she was a free woman. |
| 656 |
The airplanes all seem to be gone now. He scans the convoy and finds no destroyers in working order. |
| 657 |
The horror of it made her sick. With the band at her breast she rocked back and forth, crying aloud. |
| 658 |
A whore in a pontiffs robes now came in from another door, followed by two cooks dressed as priests. |
| 659 |
But there was no answer at the house. Just missed them, he thought. He'd call them at the Inn later. |
| 660 |
She tossed her head defiantly, averting her face. A finger beneath her chin forced her to turn back. |
| 661 |
He pushed his way to the door out onto the plaza, hearing the sergeant major wheezing a step behind. |
| 662 |
Round and round went the currents of his mind. The lines on his long face were etched in deep gloom. |
| 663 |
And as for Irene... if she'd been visiting the town so frequently as to be noticed, Johanna must know. |
| 664 |
When he was through, it was as if Satan himself had sucked the air from the room. Nobody could move. |
| 665 |
Really there. The doctor's mouth was filling with water. He was going to be sick. Going to pass out. |
| 666 |
Well, at least he didn't have to face miniaturization. There was always that thought to comfort him. |
| 667 |
During the flight, as usual the man sitting next to her tried to impress her with his last big deal. |
| 668 |
The children hesitated for a moment. Norman raised his hand. They looked at him, startled, then ran. |
| 669 |
I was anxious to leave town and go somewhere, but it would be impossible until the killings stopped. |
| 670 |
His gaze followed my hand as it slipped beneath my robe and withdrew the shining blade of my dagger. |
| 671 |
He tried breathing again, and this time the coughing lasted only a little while. But he was so cold. |
| 672 |
He saw the paper on the floor and picked it up and looked at the headline, then threw it down again. |
| 673 |
But then that might be even worse. Besides, pregnant women couldn't travel through the time portals. |
| 674 |
She jumped in surprise when the bushes on the bluff above her parted and a blond head poked through. |
| 675 |
Then she thought about the nice family who would come home that night and find their valuables gone. |
| 676 |
Inky black shapes wavered in the gloom on the other side of the wall, specters floating in the deep. |
| 677 |
When Lucas talked to him that morning, Hart seemed more sad than angry, but the anger was there too. |
| 678 |
So they kept silently walking toward the rumbling wagon as it approached them on the gentle incline. |
| 679 |
That shocked her, too. His face was covered in thick blood, his hair matted red. But he was smiling. |
| 680 |
Not far away moved larger creatures, either eating from the wealth of berries or lying in the grass. |
| 681 |
I put it on the desk and swung the jewel face open and there, inside the receptacle, I found myself. |
| 682 |
The copter had taken to the air again, keeping pace with him and maintaining constant radio contact. |
| 683 |
Doc laughed unwillingly. Suzy's activity, so soon after giving birth, seemed dangerously phenomenal. |
| 684 |
Belle could stop me from reaching out to Richard, but she couldn't keep him from reaching out to me. |
| 685 |
As we walk up the steps, we are very close to each other. The sides of our legs are almost touching. |
| 686 |
Later, during the carols, she thought it might be gratitude that she heard in Jill's ethereal tones. |
| 687 |
Pile furs on my sleeping platform, put wood on the fire, I will come home when the stars have faded. |
| 688 |
We found the house at dusk. Megan used it once or twice a year. The key was under the front doormat. |
| 689 |
Despair slammed inside her, and she collapsed on a log. It was over. Everything. All of it was over. |
| 690 |
The pulse jumped wildly in her throat. Her voice tried to say something and couldn't. She swallowed. |
| 691 |
He stopped a few yards away and just tried to draw a normal breath while his stomach twisted wildly. |
| 692 |
There was a long pause. Something was obviously supposed to happen, but someone was missing her cue. |
| 693 |
Behind the hut the Abbot stopped, staring down at a tiny bush and the single flower that grew there. |
| 694 |
As always, the market was packed. Some merchants had stalls their families had held for generations. |
| 695 |
Several officers and firefighters held their ears. Evan's voice came out louder than he had planned. |
| 696 |
The final of the four rooms now contained far more medical equipment than when she had last seen it. |
| 697 |
There will be little to see for a while, Michael said. It will sweep across Mars, the asteroid belt. |
| 698 |
The two laughed together in the easy way of policemen who know everybody else in the world is crazy. |
| 699 |
They released her and stood up, standing away at a respectful distance as she scrambled to her feet. |
| 700 |
Purring so loudly that the windows rattled, the cat butted the top of her head into Judith's middle. |
| 701 |
No. The prospect of it was enough to freeze the desire. He would not touch any of them. He must not. |
| 702 |
Sam bit his lip, knew only too well what his father was about to do. Please God, let me faint first. |
| 703 |
She stared back at him so he shrugged and stood away from the door and readied to kick it in. Truly. |
| 704 |
He filed a formal request to roll back his eyelids and it took about an hour to go through channels. |
| 705 |
They were downcast, looking at each other as if hoping that one of their faces might hold an answer. |
| 706 |
The first was the thought of the rocky road, cool and buttery in a blue plastic bowl. A good choice. |
| 707 |
And all the while I kept moving forward, one cautious step at a time. The Fool himself did not move. |
| 708 |
The foil lifted once more over a crest, rolled heavily with the weight of the water they'd taken on. |
| 709 |
He did not mean to eavesdrop on the women's talk, but some of the words reached out and grabbed him. |
| 710 |
They paused. The slope beyond grew steeper. Here the constant wind had given the snow a thick crust. |
| 711 |
He didn't understand why the other three looked back and forth at each other and nodded their heads. |
| 712 |
Conan rose, shaking the splinters from his great shoulders, blinking blood and dust out of his eyes. |
| 713 |
He followed the man crawling behind him. To his right less than five feet away was the army of ants. |
| 714 |
Her hands were cupped around the shot glass, and she sat there looking intently at the empty jigger. |
| 715 |
He ran the film to the end. He rewound it. He showed it again. And again. And again. And he thought. |
| 716 |
The three companions looked to each other, not understanding what the mercenary might be hinting at. |
| 717 |
A couple of dice dropped on to the sand. They sparkled and crackled for a while and then evaporated. |
| 718 |
She recognized Michelle's voice. It was a struggle to awaken enough so that she could sit up in bed. |
| 719 |
Aunt Queen went on with a lovely animation, her voice more pleasant though the words were still sad. |
| 720 |
I did not move away from the foot of the stairway, but I half turned so that I could see the others. |
| 721 |
He said nothing. He turned slightly, stared into the fire. The other males came somewhat more alert. |
| 722 |
When he flashed on the semiautomatic, his hopes surged and then instantly fell. The weapon was gone. |
| 723 |
I knelt where she indicated. She took the shackles from the rear ring and snapped them on my ankles. |
| 724 |
He studied her a moment longer, then went down the hall and out the front door into the summer heat. |
| 725 |
The girl looked up at the praetor. The strap, in the hand of the guardsman, grew taut at her throat. |
| 726 |
The shiny artillery shells prevented Greg from seeing what data was in the cubes. He drank some tea. |
| 727 |
The teacups rattled in their saucers as the roaring rose and rose until conversation was impossible. |
| 728 |
Content then I went with the two women who were to me now, in the time of my lessons, as mistresses. |
| 729 |
She resumed breathing, cautiously. She listened, and heard only the receding footsteps. Good enough. |
| 730 |
Shockley's face was screwed up in anguish as if someone had just squirted ammonia into his nostrils. |
| 731 |
Conway told Stillman that he wasn't an expert in these matters but it sounded like a very good plan. |
| 732 |
She was so sleepy when she came out of the shower that she was scarcely aware of what she was doing. |
| 733 |
No matter, Viki thought. They were both involved in the murder of her parents. They both had to die. |
| 734 |
They were falling again. This time the tunnel was more commodious, and they were making better time. |
| 735 |
The figure reached the gap, stopped and then swung itself against the rock, feeling for the staples. |
| 736 |
The servant raced out and returned with a pot of boiling water, originally used for the evening tea. |
| 737 |
The howling in the tunnel had not diminished, and now Valeria heard another fierce sound joining it. |
| 738 |
I turned and silently bid the gelding to come to me. And gathering the reins, I turned to Gabrielle. |
| 739 |
Nothing had been driving that car. It had come in empty, smelling of something like rotting turnips. |
| 740 |
The man balanced the box awkwardly and fished out a card from an inner pocket. He handed it to Newt. |
| 741 |
He tossed more garbage aside and produced three more dead rats, all unmarked so far as I could tell. |
| 742 |
Eventually the night began to fade. The Moon went to the stream which constantly entered the garden. |
| 743 |
She made the calls again, with the same results. There is an explanation for this, she told herself. |
| 744 |
Getting the army was another matter. I had four knights sworn to me and that's where I had to start. |
| 745 |
And then they turned a corner by a stand of huge oak trees and met the little girl in the red cloak. |
| 746 |
A shaggy gray animal strolled out from among the bookshelves and eyed Marc with benignant tolerance. |
| 747 |
The scene changed. The new scene was similar, but the nearby houses and yards were subtly different. |
| 748 |
Both headlights were smashed and there was a deep dent stretching across both fenders and the grill. |
| 749 |
He reached the sidewalk outside the building and stood for a moment, looking up and down the street. |
| 750 |
I stopped. I looked at their serious, puzzled faces, and at the billow of pink satin in front of me. |
| 751 |
But Maggie realized she was still alive, still struggling in the darkness. The knife had missed her. |
| 752 |
They moved on, hurrying deeper into the hills. A few minutes later they reached a fork in the trail. |
| 753 |
With a shake of his head, he rolled to his feet, troubled by the dark thoughts rising up within him. |
| 754 |
The bushes shook, spilling the lurkers into sight. They came scuttling, at first on hands and knees. |
| 755 |
The laughter was like a wall of water, crashing against him and making it impossible to turn around. |
| 756 |
She felt as if she were coming awake from a dream. The world came back. She almost fell against him. |
| 757 |
The road straightened out on a mesa and, within a short distance, Mason saw the lights of the motel. |
| 758 |
And all the time the Ship bored on through space, heading for the target, heading straight and true. |
| 759 |
It was an all or nothing roll of the dice at this point, but it seemed like the only way to play it. |
| 760 |
Now all I had to do was run. All I had to do was get out of there with the proof safely in my hands. |
| 761 |
I followed my boss back into the boardroom and stood with him as he silently gazed at the cathedral. |
| 762 |
A meter in his hand should have been screaming. Instead, it let out the occasional halfhearted tick. |
| 763 |
The rickety transport crashed to the ground, and the slave driver lay still, a ruin among the ruins. |
| 764 |
Shortly the ship began to bob with activity. They were shortening up their lines, ready to cast off. |
| 765 |
Kevin gestured up toward his lab, then mumbled words to the effect that Esmeralda was expecting him. |
| 766 |
The doctor kept his face close alongside hers. He didn't want anyone to see that he was crying, too. |
| 767 |
For a moment, everything confused me. I couldn't put this century together with the one I came from. |
| 768 |
It blew past me like a tornado. The backwash of the rotors caught me and tumbled me through the air. |
| 769 |
The shriveled messenger backed away. Doc let him go, apparently not even glancing toward the fellow. |
| 770 |
The absurd flap of hair a vain and balding man grows long above one ear to comb it to the other ear. |
| 771 |
It was another ten minutes before he dared to slam the hatch and turn his attention to the controls. |
| 772 |
When they were inside Prentice's apartment, the old gentleman sat down on one of his big low chairs. |
| 773 |
Her fingers grip his, and the blackness dissolves into the piercing green eyes that search his face. |
| 774 |
She went on like that for a while, crouching at my side and dabbing my lap with a tiny handkerchief. |
| 775 |
Hannah found herself sitting up, leaning forward as far as the rope would allow, straining her ears. |
| 776 |
He felt content with everything exactly the way it was. He seemed to be suspended, his life on hold. |
| 777 |
He had nothing against men or women of color. Live and let live. One earth, one people. All of that. |
| 778 |
She wrenched open the door and the gush of air snagged at the flames. The next instant she was gone. |
| 779 |
He reached the doorway, keeping clear of the entrance, and then flattened his back against the wall. |
| 780 |
He was so blue and so shaking with shock, it took him quite a while before he could do much talking. |
| 781 |
But if we find that, then we can trail them. So we plant men in suitable eras and hope for the best. |
| 782 |
Terrel had considered what answer to give to this obvious question before he'd broached the subject. |
| 783 |
Somewhere off in the distance, a wolf was howling. Crows circled the broken tower, waiting for corn. |
| 784 |
Kinsman still felt a clammy cold sweat that made his coveralls stick to his chest and arms and back. |
| 785 |
Constance lashed about with a frying pan, the weapon making a loud bong every time she scored a hit. |
| 786 |
Slowly, the hall emptied until but a single guard stood in the archway from the main north corridor. |
| 787 |
Bill thought hard, then returned the lever to the middle. It must have been left there for a reason. |
| 788 |
The eyebrows returned to normal. A twitch of the man's lip showed that he was contemplating smiling. |
| 789 |
Spotting him, the great stallion reared and snorted, its breath coming out as a great cone of steam. |
| 790 |
He expected to hear the growl of approaching ghouls, but instead heard nothing. Warily, he advanced. |
| 791 |
Not everyone shared the Toma's delight. Some people were quick to decry the whole episode as a sham. |
| 792 |
Get away, Grant told himself again. There's nothing you can do to help here. Get away while you can. |
| 793 |
I wanted to refuse, to stay where I was, for the stone under my hand seemed now an anchor to safety. |
| 794 |
Terrel felt the artist's fingers gently probing his face and head, searching for any sign of injury. |
| 795 |
Up in the stands, Lady Helena continued to wave her pennants, smiling fixedly down at the spectacle. |
| 796 |
His door clicked. It swung open, and a narrow wedge of hall light shone in, unblocked. No one there. |
| 797 |
That should make a difference, she told herself. If it was all artificial, I shouldn't even miss it. |
| 798 |
She pulled into a paved drive, and killed the motor. The lights flooded a great double redwood gate. |
| 799 |
The girl whimpered, looking at us, nodding her head affirmatively. Then she put her head down again. |
| 800 |
The girl nicked her finger on that wickedly sharp tip, and began to cry, but Delly hardly heard her. |
| 801 |
The dining room lay beyond an archway, twenty feet from Hilary. It was as black as a grave in there. |
| 802 |
Richard was stunned to grasp the despair in her longing, but more than that, he was horrified by it. |
| 803 |
No, she realized, not yet the god. Still the mortal fought to hold back the power living within him. |
| 804 |
But there was still no response from his son. And with a sad smile, Paul Skinner walked to the door. |
| 805 |
He halted abruptly, but there had been a hint of returning life under the mock severity of his tone. |
| 806 |
More gulps ensued as they knocked back large quantities of drink to embolden their flagging spirits. |
| 807 |
People were fleeing the village. The stockade gate had been flung open. One of the huts was burning. |
| 808 |
Then the captain on the ridge ordered a charge and the remaining nine horsemen rode for their lives. |
| 809 |
Her action was playful, affectionate, but her violet eyes were anxious and her voice sober as death. |
| 810 |
Fuchsia had not heard Nannie's question, so the little old creature advanced to the side of the bed. |
| 811 |
The barking grew louder. They could hear the dog's heavy paws pounding the ground, approaching fast. |
| 812 |
This recognition had been precisely what they sought. Precisely the leverage their acolyte required. |
| 813 |
She paused for more applause, and after an uncertain beginning, she received a satisfactory ovation. |
| 814 |
It was almost dinnertime when Benson returned. He looked unhappy and his plump cheeks were drooping. |
| 815 |
They want what belongs to God, she said, and her body rattled with a cough. Please. Give it to them. |
| 816 |
My stomach still heaving, I hurried back over the wet grass to my open window and scrambled back in. |
| 817 |
I showed her the pictures, and explained my theory about how the woman must have rigged the machine. |
| 818 |
Nest felt her stomach go cold and her throat tighten. She shook her head slowly, awash in disbelief. |
| 819 |
She opened her mouth, but she had no answer she could put into words, no answer he would understand. |
| 820 |
Naturally he jumped like a terrified gazelle when his airlock door swung open and a slave walked in. |
| 821 |
There were seven men already seated in the room. All were enveloped in the surgical robes and masks. |
| 822 |
Power rests in music. No man today can say what sound broke the walls of Jericho, but once men knew. |
| 823 |
My head sank wearily and I closed my eyes, and sleep cradled me like a baby. I did not dream at all. |
| 824 |
There was something about this woman that filled him. That made him burn in a way no other ever had. |
| 825 |
Aside from the small stream that ran between them, and assorted gypsum deposits, the cave was empty. |
| 826 |
She waited a moment longer, letting the memories flood through her one final time, then turned away. |
| 827 |
O'Brien heard a tremendous crack from the ceiling, so loud it reverberated even over the rifle fire. |
| 828 |
Despite his initial cynicism, he could not help but be moved by this silent and expectant multitude. |
| 829 |
Instead she continued down the passage to the large room that they had used as a study and workshop. |
| 830 |
The Roman general met that gaze squarely. The moment had come, and it could be postponed no further. |
| 831 |
Mary Anne checked the calendar in our record book. Kristy ended up with the job for the new clients. |
| 832 |
The girl's ardor disturbed Jennie. Slowly she stirred her milky tea and considered a moderate reply. |
| 833 |
That answered in part my question. It must be a required ritual for those setting out into the pans. |
| 834 |
When she pressed her ear against the wall again, it was clear she'd missed some of the conversation. |
| 835 |
Roland tipped out the cylinder of his gun, dropped the spent casings around his boots, and reloaded. |
| 836 |
Because he was hidden beneath the masks and leathers, there was no other way to identify him at all. |
| 837 |
A fierce protective feeling for him was growing in Rowan. They really ought to leave this man alone. |
| 838 |
Steve thought he could detect an element of fear in the khan's voice, but if so, it was very subtle. |
| 839 |
She indicated a nearby chair, paying him not the slightest attention as he suckled her right breast. |
| 840 |
Ford Prefect grabbed his megaphone from out of the taxi and started bawling at the crowd through it. |
| 841 |
She shivered all over, her hands up to brush away the sensations as if she'd been caught in cobwebs. |
| 842 |
Jake had bolted from the car, was running down the street toward the cop car at Harriett's building. |
| 843 |
After a while he propped up what remained of my bench on two bricks from my stove, then sat me down. |
| 844 |
The waitress, who looked like a surfer girl wearing a Mexican peasant's dress, arrived at the table. |
| 845 |
She turned, gasping. Her hands shook as she fumbled the case closed and sat down heavily on the bed. |
| 846 |
But he made no move as the four entered the cell. No blink or flicker of his eyes acknowledged them. |
| 847 |
They were about thirty paces away. I stood sideways between them and the stretcher, my blade raised. |
| 848 |
He lifted his head and turned to see the President facing him once more, with his hand outstretched. |
| 849 |
Suddenly, Marco breathed deeply and put his arms around her. She clung to him like a drowning woman. |
| 850 |
She wrote the date in her rather spidery writing and then headed the paper with the convent address. |
| 851 |
It was as if a bright light had snapped on, bathing each one of them in its warmth and illumination. |
| 852 |
The boy never mentioned what he'd done, and his mother ceased worrying about him falling out of bed. |
| 853 |
He located his boardinghouse, brought the Gate into his own room. It was vacant, no furniture in it. |
| 854 |
She was so angry that for a moment she did not feel her hurt. Then the hurt overshadowed everything. |
| 855 |
He listened when the others spoke. They were talking largely for him, enjoying lecturing the novice. |
| 856 |
Leafed through the diary a little. Got a kind of inkling of the way a life like this is constituted. |
| 857 |
He must be very cunning. A process server would have to be. He was now a yard ahead of the Countess. |
| 858 |
Overseers herded Monk a short distance down the line of horror holes, and put him similarly to work. |
| 859 |
None of them asked any questions. They were all happy to wait a while to find out what had happened. |
| 860 |
The lasers in the sphere began flashing wildly, creating a light so intense that I had to turn away. |
| 861 |
Rachel must have realized I wasn't with her anymore. She stopped and started to come back toward me. |
| 862 |
Indeed, events had marched even more swiftly than she could have imagined. Her heart began to pound. |
| 863 |
Here, the Founder would come. Here, he would speak to them. And here the authorities would take him. |
| 864 |
She put her discarded clothing on a chair and climbed in quickly, pulling the covers up to her chin. |
| 865 |
The assassin stood in the shadow of the trees behind the practice putting green of the country club. |
| 866 |
A note. He uncorked the bottle, shook the note out into his waiting hand. By torch light he read it. |
| 867 |
Reeva's eyes widened and she clasped the baby even closer to her. I saw that she was pregnant again. |
| 868 |
No sweat. By the time she arrived in Memphis with the boat, she'd been up for a brutal thirty hours. |
| 869 |
The rider thought about that, then shrugged. In Sanctuary, one might have expected just the reverse. |
| 870 |
His voice was good, just as it had always been. It seemed to be the only unaffected thing about him. |
| 871 |
They waited a minute or two, some quite restive, for the agent to make his way to Wade's stage room. |
| 872 |
No. Stop making things worse, I scolded myself. Don't let your imagination run away with you, Wendy. |
| 873 |
But there was no sound of insects or birds, and this lack gave the whole a peculiar surreal quality. |
| 874 |
Not something he did often. He could forgive himself one, he decided, considering the circumstances. |
| 875 |
With that, Fitzgerald scrambled out of the ditch and started making his way back to their airplanes. |
| 876 |
The breeze flapped the remnants of her nightshirt as her Ladyship took up a new haranguing position. |
| 877 |
Jay and I helped Colin up to the lodge. He was still seeing double, and his headache was pretty bad. |
| 878 |
Lee felt puzzlement but did not know why. Perhaps it was something subtle in the waiter's movements. |
| 879 |
With all the dignity and grace of a highborn lady, she turned on her heel and swept out of the room. |
| 880 |
Bonnie nodded and relaxed back into the seat. Meredith's car had never seemed so comfortable before. |
| 881 |
He grabbed the beer mug, finished the contents hurriedly, and rammed it upside down on the tabletop. |
| 882 |
He brought them out and laid the wads in my hand and I stuffed them in the pocket of my trench coat. |
| 883 |
They hurried on, looking for a place. The cloud continued to build, eager to catch them in the open. |
| 884 |
He sat in the library with the Colonel and they sipped a light wine and reminisced for a long while. |
| 885 |
It was a silent meal. Jeff looked from one of them to the other with curiosity and faint uneasiness. |
| 886 |
I got laughed at but the adults most inclined to kid me were quickest to let me have their wrappers. |
| 887 |
The old man frowned, but did not press the issue, returning after a moment to his original question. |
| 888 |
The trio looked at each other worriedly and then, suddenly, there came a muffled roar from up ahead. |
| 889 |
She had never seemed more relaxed and cheerful. 'It would be another gift to us, Michael,' she said. |
| 890 |
The gentle cushioning jolt of the warship coming to a halt trembled through its length. Jack nodded. |
| 891 |
Baird's hands were already flipping switches and plugging the radar room apparatus into a new setup. |
| 892 |
No slaves were in sight. No other dragons or masters. The garden seemed totally empty except for us. |
| 893 |
Dreams. Broken sleep. He pushed the inconsequential thoughts aside and returned to the task at hand. |
| 894 |
Only the fact that his mate restrained him kept him from taking a bite out of that fluffy appendage. |
| 895 |
Surely he had pressed every button on the control panel. Nevertheless, the ghostly chorus droned on. |
| 896 |
I slashed down at the marsh with my shovel, gouged out a weight of mud and flung it to the mud raft. |
| 897 |
He seemed to have an air of refinement about him at times, which he also seemed to endeavor to hide. |
| 898 |
The sun was high when we reached the outskirts of town. No force had charged out to confront us yet. |
| 899 |
The sound of the incoming aircraft, which had sparked his disastrous rush toward cover, had stopped. |
| 900 |
When the song resumed its former placid wafting, it seemed to breathe grim satisfaction and victory. |
| 901 |
The wind was whipping his face. He couldn't keep his eyes open. The stretcher was rising in the air. |
| 902 |
He threw his cover back. His feet were bare, and his boots stood upright at the foot of the blanket. |
| 903 |
The Luggage plunged forward and struck the brickwork, which fell away to reveal a dark space beyond. |
| 904 |
He looked at Ash, who watched him with an arched brow as if he wanted an answer to that one himself. |
| 905 |
Meanwhile I slipped outside and noiselessly clambered to the roof of the taxi where I lay down flat. |
| 906 |
The prince put the dot of the holographic sight on the beast's temple, led it a little, and let fly. |
| 907 |
Then the foreman turned and ran. The wrong way. Down, away from the guard capsule. Toward the areas. |
| 908 |
In the center of the north wall, built against the living rock of the mountainside, was the reactor. |
| 909 |
It came from above her. From the roof. She glanced up and got the shock of this particular lifetime. |
| 910 |
Markov hurriedly left the room. Stoner turned. Jo was still standing there, between him and the bed. |
| 911 |
From time to time he ran across a stone spire. They were all over the place, growing thicker uphill. |
| 912 |
I searched my cell for a means of committing suicide. I found nothing that would serve this purpose. |
| 913 |
Miles thought to him. Stuff that up your regulation nose. He followed on feeling rather more serene. |
| 914 |
I just have to run. Make a dash for it. When no one is looking. Into the woods. Deep into the woods. |
| 915 |
Don't be ridiculous, the enchanter replied, but Terrel caught the flicker of doubt behind the scorn. |
| 916 |
There was no one in the house and there were no signs of a struggle. The beds had not been slept in. |
| 917 |
Likewise with the skin. Same distance all around, same temperature. A little cooler than the inside. |
| 918 |
Wayne drove home. Wayne dawdled. Fremont was packed. Rubes waved bingo sheets. Rubes hopped casinos. |
| 919 |
They saw the plane off from the observation platform and went back to the cab. She was still crying. |
| 920 |
The waiter checked the end table, the same one she sat at in the tape. Her regular table, obviously. |
| 921 |
And he still looked like somebody you'd expect to see in the back seat of a bus bound for Baltimore. |
| 922 |
There was a little pause, and the warden looked from one to another of the men with a sheepish grin. |
| 923 |
The teacher wrote down the partner assignments, and the students filed noisily out of the classroom. |
| 924 |
She regarded him much as a cat might, with the kind of impersonal curiosity that was hard to fathom. |
| 925 |
Avery was interrupted by the appearance of Ariel in the doorway. She was out of breath from running. |
| 926 |
And I kept them that way as I was driven home at a march along the back road and into the household. |
| 927 |
The bouncer came in behind Wayne, grabbed him under the arms and tried to slip a full nelson on him. |
| 928 |
The Patrician gave him a cool stare that went on for a couple of seconds beyond the comfort barrier. |
| 929 |
The next time he played hooky, prowling the streets with the Chinese gang, Ray offered a compromise. |
| 930 |
She'd spent the past seven years marking time, preparing for emptiness, and now it was finally here. |
| 931 |
Charlie paid the waiter and left a handsome tip. Daphne would have been proud of him, Becky thought. |
| 932 |
Then I was leashed like a dog, or less than a dog. It was a slave leash. I was leashed like a slave. |
| 933 |
Again, I made no answer. But I knew it. I knew that it was the reason she had been away for so long. |
| 934 |
The boy looked up at him curiously. He opened his mouth to speak and then blushed and shut it again. |
| 935 |
Becca and I nodded, but we couldn't look at anyone, not even at each other. We stared into our cups. |
| 936 |
Gillian refused to feel foolish. Gloved hands tucked under her arms, she shouted into the stillness. |
| 937 |
With the range falling away, and fully conscious of their own peril, each gun captain fired at will. |
| 938 |
Unsuccessful attempt to write to E. Weiss. And yesterday, in bed, the letter was boiling in my head. |
| 939 |
It was not that he lectured, or in any way held forth. His conversation was natural and spontaneous. |
| 940 |
He could get those pontifical bastards out of hibernation sooner than that if he turned on the heat. |
| 941 |
The goblin squealed but hardly slowed, even when Chipmunk's next blade stuck deep into its shoulder. |
| 942 |
I searched the wall for a button to push to bring our elevator back. I couldn't find one. No button. |
| 943 |
He ought to feel offended. Not buoyed up by her laughter as if floating in some bubbling hot spring. |
| 944 |
Life is good, Nate thought. For the first time in as long as he could remember, he was happy. Kinda. |
| 945 |
Eugene took it out of his pocket and handed it over. The woman dialed a number and looked surprised. |
| 946 |
He screamed in shock and grief. Catching her as she fell, he held her to him and raced for the gate. |
| 947 |
I ducked low. Grabbed his boneless arm with both hands. Swung my shoulder. Flipped him over my back. |
| 948 |
He dressed quickly, then stepped into the main room. Gail and Kara were asleep in each other's arms. |
| 949 |
He managed to pierce another tin, more carefully this time, and sucked thoughtfully at the contents. |
| 950 |
David walked into the kitchenette, tossed his supply of vegetables into the freezer, then hesitated. |
| 951 |
Rollo came in shortly after dark. He squatted down beside the other two and sat staring at the fire. |
| 952 |
She reached forth to touch my arm, as if she needed that to assure herself I did indeed stand there. |
| 953 |
This done, the two knights moved thankfully to the meager shadow cast by a squat and misshapen tree. |
| 954 |
Her dark eyes flashed with pleasure at Shana's cleverness, and she nodded her round head vigorously. |
| 955 |
The old man had put this off the record. He could hardly put Cedric himself off the record, not now. |
| 956 |
A great sadness washed over her then, an overwhelming despair, and she could not hold back the sobs. |
| 957 |
Monk turned around as if to look at Ham, but actually to hide the expression on his homely features. |
| 958 |
He directed us around a corner, where we were confronted by a ghastly portrait gallery of dead faces. |
| 959 |
The wormhole rotated into view now, a faint dark patch only really visible when a ship came through. |
| 960 |
Norman turned slowly to the empty seat that faced them. Together they scanned the rest of the coach. |
| 961 |
I heard chains. I felt myself literally turned about. I was now, I conjectured, behind Gloria again. |
| 962 |
The gentle movement of the screw ceased altogether. The launch lay heaving slightly upon the swells. |
| 963 |
The two men walked forward on the deck, and the tight breeze shifted past them in the cool fall air. |
| 964 |
Jamie came awake in the darkened cell, suddenly aware that someone was sitting in the room with him. |
| 965 |
Whatever impression reaches the consciousness is turned by it into a symbol or a simile of the Work. |
| 966 |
The district attorney had sat down at his desk and was glancing at several notations on his blotter. |
| 967 |
Because of Robert. With a soft moan she surrendered to the thought that she wanted to see him again. |
| 968 |
Burl would allow it. It surprised me how often I thought of Kettle and the children of the pilgrims. |
| 969 |
The fact was not lost on the women. Seeing the unmarked skin they muttered prayers, and backed away. |
| 970 |
Something in his eyes and voice must have impressed her, because she let go of him and stepped back. |
| 971 |
No way could he sleep. He crawled up to where plants thinned out to bare rock, and he kept crawling. |
| 972 |
At the time it had been a sight of wonder, to me now it was even more of a mystery and even delight. |
| 973 |
Ned tried to get up from the chair. The first time, his legs failed to support him and he fell back. |
| 974 |
I sniffed the air experimentally. Sure enough, the unmistakable odor was still lingering in the air. |
| 975 |
They clambered up the slippery grass together, the lantern's beam shining feebly on a sprawled body. |
| 976 |
A sudden bump made Marilyn reestablish her death grip on her armrests. She glanced around the cabin. |
| 977 |
She was very pleased and the next day she got up early in the morning to prepare a lunch box for me. |
| 978 |
I thought it over. I couldn't think of anything real intelligent to say, but I had to try something. |
| 979 |
Julian seemed distressed. He took a handkerchief from his breast pocket but then went on holding it. |
| 980 |
He gestured. The guards saluted, turned on their heels, and left one by one with a smooth precision. |
| 981 |
He stared at the inner gleam of the star systems. He had never seen a Lens so large or so elaborate. |
| 982 |
Basic was used for reply this time, but that did not make any more sense as far as he was concerned. |
| 983 |
Camber's boy was watching this with mild amusement, his hands stuffed into the pockets of his jeans. |
| 984 |
He rumbled for the water bottle, then concentrated to steady his hands as he drank the last from it. |
| 985 |
The annual vacation was the only time he and his sister had unlimited access to candy and junk food. |
| 986 |
He pulled upward on the ends of the loincloth. He heaved. Sounds forced their way between his teeth. |
| 987 |
They fell into the sand, clinking upon each other in a heap that glittered with merry golden smiles. |
| 988 |
Corvus, I told myself. Finally caught. I shut one eye, but the other refused to close out the scene. |
| 989 |
When in the land there was born at midnight of a full moon a goat with three heads, that was a sign. |
| 990 |
As the reporters hurried off to write their stories, the hero of the day stood alone in the hallway. |
| 991 |
But when the others joined her for the final assault, there were no tears visible on her dry cheeks. |
| 992 |
She dropped Candy who flopped into a naked heap. She picked the gun up off the floor. She cocked it. |
| 993 |
He found the crew chief inspecting the shuttle. The woman had a worried frown, was shaking her head. |
| 994 |
The boy heard the shot. It was muffled by the walls of the house, but it was instantly identifiable. |
| 995 |
This did not happen for four months. In that time she was repeatedly abused mentally and physically. |
| 996 |
Saying this, the nine spurred their farting porkers and sped away in a great cloud of dust and dung. |
| 997 |
As his eyes scanned the wall in front of him, his concentration was broken by a loud thumping sound. |
| 998 |
Heller reset his autopilot. He glanced to his left toward the very point I was talking to, Fort Jay. |
| 999 |
The thunder of all idling engines was menacing. A fine vibration began to build in the giant sphere. |
| 1000 |
There was more cursing, and the sound of someone crashing through the underbrush reached their ears. |
| 1001 |
Shooting a quick glance around the bar, the man picked up the watch and examined it, front and back. |
| 1002 |
Chase said nothing, could not bring himself to speak, for now he understood what the call was about. |
| 1003 |
Of all the sieges in all the cathedrals in all the world, she had to drive her meat wagon into mine. |
| 1004 |
Ham's step was light as he crossed the porch. His fingers twiddled the cane in a flourishing circle. |
| 1005 |
Several of them were holding tortoises on sticks. They looked a bit pathetic, like tortoise lollies. |
| 1006 |
Not only were the laws of the land abandoned, but the law of gravity and the laws of motion as well. |
| 1007 |
It was necessary to rearrange the parts several times before Doc had them in their proper positions. |
| 1008 |
Except me, she finished for him. And Julie's family. She felt the rekindling of warmth in her heart. |
| 1009 |
She looked vaguely at the calendar, where the smiling boy rode his sled through an endless February. |
| 1010 |
They cut through it. A current hit. They pulled left. They scraped sand. They capsized. They rolled. |
| 1011 |
He put away the car with exaggerated care and heard the phone ringing before he could open the door. |
| 1012 |
Pat came back, and began hunting for her heirloom. Doc and Monk pretended to help for a few minutes. |
| 1013 |
Pierre steered off the pavement and stopped on the shoulder of the road. He left the engine running. |
| 1014 |
I did my best to keep up with her, and to aid her, but she was definitely the one clearing our path. |
| 1015 |
Helpless with shock, she screamed and screamed, her mouth sagging toothily wide at the sight of him. |
| 1016 |
Motor activity impaired. I keep tripping over things, and it becomes increasingly difficult to type. |
| 1017 |
Her dark brown eyes. Her broad forehead. Her snip of a nose, which she had always wished was longer. |
| 1018 |
He had a large bag at his hip, and slung across his back was a rifle in a fringed and beaded sheath. |
| 1019 |
Jaeger. He told her only that they had been taken to Gestapo headquarters and released that morning. |
| 1020 |
Only to this world, he told them, in both of their minds at one time. She's only dead to this world. |
| 1021 |
Scott pushed Valerie ahead of him and into the bedroom, then slammed and locked the door behind him. |
| 1022 |
Fortunately there are ways to determine with reasonable exactness which doorbells are worth ringing. |
| 1023 |
Meantime, the Eskimo regained consciousness. He rolled his little black grape eyes and said nothing. |
| 1024 |
She didn't reply. He went out and closed the door behind him. She let out an audible sigh of relief. |
| 1025 |
Finally he leaves the store. Using the tagged key that he took from the pegboard, he locks the door. |
| 1026 |
He limped into the outer air where the shadows of evening were beginning to creep across the ground. |
| 1027 |
The wind had been moaning disagreeably at the chimney, plaintive without the rattle of ice, all day. |
| 1028 |
Doc was next. With the abruptness of a lightning stroke, the fantastic rigidity seemed to seize him. |
| 1029 |
His mom would not have approved. This was... well, this was the sort of thing that was... just not done. |
| 1030 |
Absolutely no one heard the faint tinkle as a little ventilation grille dropped off an outside wall. |
| 1031 |
Buzzard jumped in the back of the truck and hit keys on the kite's laptop. The kite went dead again. |
| 1032 |
Bloody useless boy, he thought. Served himself right for trying to talk to a barely coherent novice. |
| 1033 |
Karen turned to Marcia and the two women looked at each other for a moment, then burst out laughing. |
| 1034 |
He jumped awake, stared around, then turned toward me. I couldn't see more than a moving silhouette. |
| 1035 |
At the sink he washed his hands, then went to the refrigerator and got a small bottle full of blood. |
| 1036 |
I had guessed something of the sort, I suppose. At all events, it didn't come as much of a surprise. |
| 1037 |
Then there were shocked grunts. Some one exploded a curse. There was silence. Then came a new voice. |
| 1038 |
They were carefully threading their way through the edge of a marshy spot when a scream halted them. |
| 1039 |
He let the name hang there for a moment. The king frowned and said nothing. He looked uncomfortable. |
| 1040 |
The Indian got me on my feet. He pulled me back against the wall, holding me by both twisted wrists. |
| 1041 |
I gave up. If he did not want reasonable explanations, there was no point in my forcing them on him. |
| 1042 |
He turned his back on Fletcher, or at least believed he had, until the man appeared in front of him. |
| 1043 |
Oddly, this thought strengthened him. The thoughts of this day began to form new shapes in his mind. |
| 1044 |
But the haze was thickening. It was not fanning out. It hung before the control panel, taking shape. |
| 1045 |
Maybe it was the excitement. Maybe Shannon, distrusting us, sensed our will and rebelled against it. |
| 1046 |
The quake beneath my feet intensified. It took me a moment to realize that I hadn't banished anyone. |
| 1047 |
My voice choked with a tangle of emotions. She was a goddess, yet she would never abandon me. Never. |
| 1048 |
I looked back at her, mouth suddenly dry, desperate for an explanation that would cover my behavior. |
| 1049 |
With a foul comment, Sham pulled aside the fire screen and rolled the chair into the huge fireplace. |
| 1050 |
Then warm air gushed from the ceiling over him. The light grew strange, and he felt his skin tingle. |
| 1051 |
He shifted against her deliberately, and his head spun with pleasure. He laughed, but without humor. |
| 1052 |
Pitt turned to see a man who had the face of a canvas weary prizefighter and the body of a beer keg. |
| 1053 |
Knowing it was completely inappropriate, Jenny burst into slightly hysterical, but genuine laughter. |
| 1054 |
I tried to catch up, tripped on a stalagmite and fell. When I picked myself up she was out of sight. |
| 1055 |
The dance with death was really the definition of life itself, since all people eventually must die. |
| 1056 |
The Doctor thought about that for a moment. Obviously, this was a rather considerable leap of faith. |
| 1057 |
In their conclusion, though, the Commentaries set a harsh tone that very likely foretold their fate. |
| 1058 |
Linden tightened her grip on herself as she looked around for someone who might answer her question. |
| 1059 |
Tim nodded, gravely this time. Bed was approaching at an accelerating speed. Bed or unconsciousness. |
| 1060 |
I stopped. I guess I'd said about everything there was to say. Doc cleared his throat uncomfortably. |
| 1061 |
He shoveled the food in methodically, chewing, and swallowing with the aid of large gulps of coffee. |
| 1062 |
A light flickered, a wick flared up, and we saw the bright points of a circle of spears aimed at us. |
| 1063 |
She dressed a lot faster than I did, but I managed to struggle into the browns and pull on my boots. |
| 1064 |
Perhaps because Finn had always seemed to us the embodiment of loneliness, of magnificent isolation. |
| 1065 |
Everyone looked at him, startled. The starship was shaken hard by an enormous power eruption nearby. |
| 1066 |
Her face remained perfectly still, but a light flickered in her eyes. Then they grew a little bleak. |
| 1067 |
So when she finally crashed out of the tree and hit concrete, it merely knocked the wind out of her. |
| 1068 |
It would be enough if she wasn't in love. Enough to have only that if the man was anyone but Trevor. |
| 1069 |
We set off down the beach together. I knew Claudia was watching us and would be happy and not worry. |
| 1070 |
It shone for only a moment. Then black clouds began to roll westward like the vanguard of an attack. |
| 1071 |
The woman pulled back the hood of her black cape, revealing braided white hair, and squinted at him. |
| 1072 |
As if on cue, several of the tiny creatures materialized out of the dimness at the rear of the cave. |
| 1073 |
Oh, yes. Humans are the most important sentient creatures who have ever existed, or will ever exist. |
| 1074 |
Bugs almost killed her. Except for the arrival of the police, he might have been beating on her yet. |
| 1075 |
I was on a plane to Paris that very first night with the money I'd earned without ever calling home. |
| 1076 |
The man got his gun out, weaved a bit on his feet as if his leg muscles were unsteady, and took aim. |
| 1077 |
They walked down the crystal corridor that led to the Aviary and the small chapel room just outside. |
| 1078 |
The sun had now descended behind the hill. Dusk would deepen to night, and the night was his friend. |
| 1079 |
The priest had been startled. Then he'd almost laughed at the idea that someone could read his mind. |
| 1080 |
She chuckled to herself as she headed for her office that morning. She had forgotten the man's name. |
| 1081 |
Actually, I had been preparing to beat a retreat, but this guy wasn't about to leave me that choice. |
| 1082 |
Much better, thank you. Yes, it feels quite good. Now once again I look on the sunny side of defeat. |
| 1083 |
He settled down to clean his sword, completely forgetting his promise to cut out the dragon's heart. |
| 1084 |
The plane was not much more than a flying motor. A big, grim pilot sat ready in the control cockpit. |
| 1085 |
The blacksmith lifted his arms up toward the statue before him, laughing as tears ran down his face. |
| 1086 |
Her skin immediately began to sting but she resisted the urge to press a handful of snow against it. |
| 1087 |
There was a lot of damage. It would take a while to get it cleaned up so they could get under weigh. |
| 1088 |
A proper Molt was not supposed to go this way. This was coercion, not true consensus. This was rape. |
| 1089 |
The heat crashed down upon the turbans of the men, washed past them, came up again from the roadway. |
| 1090 |
Granny smiled. Hard though she stared, Nanny was unable to spot anything other than earnest concern. |
| 1091 |
Turner's scream had stopped. It had been horrifying while it lasted, but it had only lasted seconds. |
| 1092 |
Now that navigation was not so ticklish a proposition, Doc turned the controls over to gaunt Johnny. |
| 1093 |
Now they were seeing a moon vanish and then congeal into a cold, deadly, frigid mass of destruction. |
| 1094 |
The other monks scrambled, some heading back the way they had come to alert the rest of the library. |
| 1095 |
The door swung back and banged against the far wall, nobody there. No gunshots at the door. Silence. |
| 1096 |
That night he thought he heard a ghost bear, far away on the prairie, howling in answer to his song. |
| 1097 |
Wanting even to protect her. Mac, who'd never had anyone but Homer try to protect her from anything. |
| 1098 |
A city in which all life moved and existed only half as fast as on any planet in their own universe. |
| 1099 |
As Buchanan reached a shelter, the first twin shoved him again, knocking him across a plastic table. |
| 1100 |
No, I don't mind. She leaned over to the bedside cabinet and poured her tea from the silver service. |
| 1101 |
Raphael looked at her quickly, startled and with a sudden sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. |
| 1102 |
Now, sit in a comfortable chair and relax. Breathe deeply and slowly, and allow your mind to wander. |
| 1103 |
Tonight finished Long's room. As the author of the idea of living underground I felt he deserved it. |
| 1104 |
But the demons hesitated. The city stood silent, waiting. Both sides ceased their battle, listening. |
| 1105 |
Only remote, as remote as the eyes of men on some high plateau looking down into a jungle of beasts. |
| 1106 |
Groan, groan, groan. We all produced our dues. Stacey counted the treasury money and looked pleased. |
| 1107 |
Dr. Calvin backed away. The color had not returned to her thin cheeks. She motioned the others away. |
| 1108 |
She missed little things. Sometimes she longed to see the stars again. Falling stars, making a wish. |
| 1109 |
Valium or no Valium, her face was pinched, her mouth turned down as if she had eaten something sour. |
| 1110 |
The following day, when he saw his captor walking stiffly into the circle of cages, he called to it. |
| 1111 |
He went out the door, his eyes cold with calculation, his steps so soft that no one heard him leave. |
| 1112 |
Interesting, he thought, as those bare toes tried to work their way under his cuff. And complicated. |
| 1113 |
The dead lay at rest in their boxes and thanked God they were quiet and had found everlasting peace. |
| 1114 |
Haynes cut the tape–he had no time for an hour of mathematical dissertation–and called in his execs. |
| 1115 |
And through all that haze and blindness he knew what it was that he was not supposed to think about. |
| 1116 |
After that I have no recollection of anything until I found myself standing by the southernmost elm. |
| 1117 |
Some of the little knobs were linked by slender lines of dust. His own touch had disturbed the rest. |
| 1118 |
His eyes were moist as he looked at us, and so were his lips and mustache. He stroked his briefcase. |
| 1119 |
They were all in their transparent prisons at last. A surprising coolness and peace stole over them. |
| 1120 |
An unexpected voice chimed in for his support. Burns for once was paying some attention to the rest. |
| 1121 |
Static crackled. Gary wondered if he'd left the phone on, but then he heard a loud voice behind him. |
| 1122 |
But he kept his lips pressed firmly shut as he walked to the chair being held for him by the zombie. |
| 1123 |
She waited until he'd gone out, then she walked over and stared at her own reflection in the mirror. |
| 1124 |
Anna stared at him hungrily, without fear, helplessly pleased at the evidence of his desire for her. |
| 1125 |
I could not remove the grating at the top of the shaft. It was fixed into the metal, welded therein. |
| 1126 |
Further compounding his problems, he could no longer traverse realms. He was stuck in the human one. |
| 1127 |
He was successful. That day he avoided the peddler, and the same the next, and so on until Thursday. |
| 1128 |
They still did not look up when a helmeted warrior tore open the entrance and poked his head inside. |
| 1129 |
He paused for effect. As far as Arthur was concerned there was already quite enough effect going on. |
| 1130 |
Horst looked so enraged that his followers saw the need of placating the chief with a little praise. |
| 1131 |
The Dale's breeding program was small, producing enough animals to supply its own needs but no more. |
| 1132 |
Once this is done, the secret words are spoken and a link is forged between the doll and the victim. |
| 1133 |
The officer caught the native by his scaled shoulder and headed him out the door with a rough shove. |
| 1134 |
The remark seemed so to affect my visitor that I suddenly became conscious of a sense of loneliness. |
| 1135 |
Lady Patience stood slightly more than arm's distance away from me as she spoke past me to her lady. |
| 1136 |
But two figures watched the captain's exit with narrowed eyes, then looked at each other and nodded. |
| 1137 |
It was admirable, and infuriating. He'd never had a woman stir both emotions in him so effortlessly. |
| 1138 |
Indeed, some of her party were doing just that at the fountain. Their faces glistened with dampness. |
| 1139 |
I slipped on the gauntlet, adjusting it, and making sure the false boss was in the correct position. |
| 1140 |
Soft, silent blackness pressed in around him as he fought to resist it, until he lost consciousness. |
| 1141 |
He was panting and sweaty, but there was a gleam of purpose in his eye she'd never seen the like of. |
| 1142 |
Bandy hastily stripped off his money belt. He jammed it down back of the seat cushion, out of sight. |
| 1143 |
Without difficulty, Mary Morley perceived the writing over the entrance of the gray, large building. |
| 1144 |
With a wave of her hands the sand shifted, burying the rune and the marks her knees had left behind. |
| 1145 |
In a moment he was calm again. Now the next file. Again ciphers appeared and the lettering vanished. |
| 1146 |
In the meadow stood the skeleton main poles and wires of the main tent, waiting for its canvas skin. |
| 1147 |
Her tone said, and leave me alone because I have real work to do. She turned back to her microscope. |
| 1148 |
Now how many years' bad luck is that for someone, he thought, wondering if he had escaped something. |
| 1149 |
By the time he had pried a board off the bottom of the case, his long face had a foolish expression. |
| 1150 |
The girl smiled and waved, though not quite happily. She didn't like so many walls or people around. |
| 1151 |
It wasn't a good situation. But at the moment there seemed to be nothing they could do to change it. |
| 1152 |
About halfway back to the vacation place, Jamie remembered he wasn't going to be getting any supper. |
| 1153 |
He didn't answer, just walked over to the door and down the hall. Julia followed with a heavy heart. |
| 1154 |
Long black hair fell free around a face to stun a man. Inside all that ugly black steel was a woman. |
| 1155 |
Peeper. Cautiously, she cast forth a tendril of the Wind sense that had been hers almost from birth. |
| 1156 |
When you fall at your sport, then I stumble and fall. I have never been seen yet beneath a new moon. |
| 1157 |
It had been something else, too. As far as she could understand the language, it had been enjoyable. |
| 1158 |
The only excuse she had was that it seemed to make him even more confused and angry than it did her. |
| 1159 |
Amy stood there, unable to speak, knowing all too well the speed of the rumor mill in middle school. |
| 1160 |
Still smiling he turned to the controls, adjusting until the water poured through the side channels. |
| 1161 |
Holly drew a breath to ask for clarification, then thought better of it. A mistake as it turned out. |
| 1162 |
Then they were both crying. Nona got up and walked away, knowing that she was no longer needed here. |
| 1163 |
He grinned and winked past Dalton. Smiling, Teresa bowed her head in acknowledgment of his greeting. |
| 1164 |
Linden did not raise her head. She did not want to see sparks gather into conflagration in his eyes. |
| 1165 |
When she began to cry into his mouth, he moaned into hers, squeezing his eyes shut. He did not move. |
| 1166 |
Gentle had gone down on his haunches and was laying his fingers on the stones that bound the mosaic. |
| 1167 |
He would think no more of her or of his past. He had a higher calling. One that couldn't be ignored. |
| 1168 |
Yet there was a feeling of anxiety resting upon all, for none knew what the night would bring forth. |
| 1169 |
It was overkill. Carlos loved wet work. Carlos thought plans up. Carlos popped his rocks secondhand. |
| 1170 |
Outside the suite Ace and I recovered our guns and we all three took the elevator down to the lobby. |
| 1171 |
And at Johansen's amazed questions, he launched into a description of the race of beings below them. |
| 1172 |
With an effort that seemed to stretch the skin of her forehead, her eyes came into focus on her son. |
| 1173 |
They all began to laugh at that, while Tim kept looking from one face to another, clearly mystified. |
| 1174 |
Sighing in contentment, she forced him to sit back on the couch so that she could straddle his hips. |
| 1175 |
Casey hardly waited until the last was on board before he called to the larger vessel for a towline. |
| 1176 |
Hesitantly, he opened her bedroom door and peered inside. Gabriel lay on the bed, as still as death. |
| 1177 |
Time to end the sparring, he thought. Time to show her that I don't really trust her or believe her. |
| 1178 |
Becky stared up at the little house that was on three floors, its front covered in Virginia creeper. |
| 1179 |
They were unconscious. The cabin door closed behind the cursing mobsters. A bolt grated in the lock. |
| 1180 |
The crowd stared at the Senator, who shrank back before their gaze. The man with the mike continued. |
| 1181 |
We accompanied Bernard to the door, and watched him set off down the drive, with a wave of his hand. |
| 1182 |
Frank shook his head disgustedly, then leaned toward his screen and became absorbed in its contents. |
| 1183 |
These kills were almost simultaneous. The last man was dead long before the first one hit the floor. |
| 1184 |
His groin jerked, and all the blood rushed back into the region, making him hard and aching for her. |
| 1185 |
They all hated him. She was his if he wanted her, and he did, as he had never before wanted a woman. |
| 1186 |
Chunks of my hair fall into my lap, and I squeeze my eyes shut. I may need that paper bag after all. |
| 1187 |
The audience of witches was listening intently, sensing that something dramatic was about to happen. |
| 1188 |
The Tiger's electric doors swung up and the three men climbed from the car. Elvis took deep breaths. |
| 1189 |
He captured her hands, traced tendon and vein. She had brilliant hands. He did not know what to say. |
| 1190 |
She gasped as realization dawned. The Destroyer had given him a key, too, and placed him in control. |
| 1191 |
He put his hand on the presbytery floor and discovered that the wood was actually warm to the touch. |
| 1192 |
For the first time the prisoner's eyes rose from the dirt. He fixed the Queen with a searching gaze. |
| 1193 |
Jeffrey realized he'd not eaten since the shredded wheat that morning. The cheesecake was a delight. |
| 1194 |
Down in the basement, there was a man who was talking about the government. At the top of his voice. |
| 1195 |
Jack looked around for some evidence of the fire that had cooked the meat, but he could see nothing. |
| 1196 |
Which is just what she does for the rest of the night. The forest is so beautiful, and so untainted. |
| 1197 |
And Harry almost there now, where he would be offered up for sex, where he would be changed utterly. |
| 1198 |
He reached higher ground and continued inland. He saw his soul waiting up ahead and moved toward it. |
| 1199 |
No one spoke for a moment. He could not recall ever having felt so uncomfortable in his entire life. |
| 1200 |
Then she'd gone home and told everyone that Granny was dead. She was seven, and the world had ended. |
| 1201 |
As he watched, the smoke ended in a brief fountain of sparks. Harri dropped flat, covering his ears. |
| 1202 |
It was late when they awoke. Dick was the first, and he looked at his watch. He gave an exclamation. |
| 1203 |
For ten seconds the two women stared at each other, motionless, twin ivory images carved with flame. |
| 1204 |
The butts of lances entered saddle boots. The crossbows were restored to their hooks on the saddles. |
| 1205 |
Her orders were to avoid radical arguments and to maintain her role as a dutiful establishment wife. |
| 1206 |
Slowly he stood up and wrapped his cloak about him and raised the hood to protect his neck and ears. |
| 1207 |
Another dragon caught some coal and belched a fireball. The young man swung desperately to avoid it. |
| 1208 |
He feared that by the time he got out and circled back to Shallows, there would be no town standing. |
| 1209 |
Molly's fingers moved in the shadow of her jacket, a flicker of jive. The Finn watched, then nodded. |
| 1210 |
The fire roared around them. Aidan made his way down the stairs through the rubble to pick up Kevin. |
| 1211 |
The muzzles of the machine guns trembled. The hands of the thugs holding them were shaking a little. |
| 1212 |
Running water was relentless and steel clanged against steel and overhead lights allowed no shadows. |
| 1213 |
A single stately elm graced the corner they approached. One of the city guard loitered in its shade. |
| 1214 |
And so that's when our men break their handcuffs and then we are treated to scenes full of violence. |
| 1215 |
But it was not the boat's magical movement that caused my stomach to knot up and my mouth to go dry. |
| 1216 |
He could never deny her anything she wanted, in part because she rarely wanted anything for herself. |
| 1217 |
She drummed her fingers on the box as if accompanying a thought on the piano, and then picked it up. |
| 1218 |
He saw pinwheels of violent color that cascaded and spun behind his eyes till he fell in the street. |
| 1219 |
That unexpected flash of lightning had given her an early warning. There was still time to get away. |
| 1220 |
He sat back in his chair, his confidence restored, and Shana sensed that her advantage was slipping. |
| 1221 |
The Tips was a strange world of its own, the vegetable kingdom at its most imperial and most exotic. |
| 1222 |
I had only glimpsed my Master, but in the glimpse all the details of his being were fixed perfectly. |
| 1223 |
He read it anyway, though. You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it. |
| 1224 |
Not far from where they lay, the weed tore suddenly asunder, and water splashed up through the rent. |
| 1225 |
Collins leaped to his feet. A hole was opening in the wall, and someone was forcing his way through. |
| 1226 |
The two guards rushed outside. Doc started to free his hands. A rush of feet thudded over the rocks. |
| 1227 |
He extended his arm to Granny, who gave it an odd look before remembering who she was and taking it. |
| 1228 |
The fog had cleared in this quarter, and there was Lotus under all sail, three cables' lengths away. |
| 1229 |
The knight holding her clamped a gauntleted hand across her mouth. Kat tasted blood inside her lips. |
| 1230 |
He turned and went off without a word, sucking his bleeding thumb. The others looked at one another. |
| 1231 |
He knew that no man could be very happy about flying into the face of death with his eyes wide open. |
| 1232 |
It had never been locked before. Kaitlyn found it extremely suspicious that it should be locked now. |
| 1233 |
I must get word out to one of the schools, she thought. The mating index may show what has happened. |
| 1234 |
With my eyes on the fire, I barely saw her climb up and sink down into the straw mattress beside me. |
| 1235 |
In the morning, a rider came by to say that all ambassadors were required to attend court at midday. |
| 1236 |
At least he knew where the ground was now. He settled the sled vertically and played his light down. |
| 1237 |
The decision braced him. He turned to go into the bedroom, but paused as the voice of Prescott came. |
| 1238 |
The fingers abruptly ceased their ministrations, and he looked back to the bed. Something was wrong. |
| 1239 |
Carey's face was pale. She looked unnerved, but somewhere about her mouth was the shadow of a smile. |
| 1240 |
At that very moment, the lookout turned his head and whistled. Then whistled again, and twice again. |
| 1241 |
Chance chose a poet as its champion, while coarse circumstance on its behalf conscripted a murderer. |
| 1242 |
Cohn, arranging Barry's discharge from hospital, expressed satisfaction with all these arrangements. |
| 1243 |
Sorry, had to stop to wipe my eyes. I may have to do that several times before I finish this letter. |
| 1244 |
He paused for his Pepsi and realized he would appreciate the day when he would be permitted a vodka. |
| 1245 |
When they were back in their bedroom and she was shimmying out of the tiny dress, she ran it by him. |
| 1246 |
Twice. Once by the virtue of a girl and the love between them. Once again because of a spinning top. |
| 1247 |
After several minutes a number of blocks with occult symbols on them dropped into the output hopper. |
| 1248 |
And they ran back across the hilltop, down the far slope, heading for shelter in the vast landscape. |
| 1249 |
It hurt too much to nod his head and his tongue was so dry it felt swollen enough to fill his mouth. |
| 1250 |
She opened the cupboard door fearfully. She looked under the bed. She was, in fact, extremely brave. |
| 1251 |
A lie, of course, but Rey enjoyed the instant look of fear that appeared on the face of the cyclops. |
| 1252 |
He looked from the bush in question to others of its kind ahead and saw what he feared and expected. |
| 1253 |
Liz thought they would. She thought Stark might even begin to take over her husband's face and form. |
| 1254 |
And she was clutching her throat as her eyes rolled back into her head and her whole body went limp. |
| 1255 |
After that, we dropped off an average of two lances a day, one almost every morning and every night. |
| 1256 |
He shook his head as he pushed his chair back and stepped away from the table. He was smiling again. |
| 1257 |
He paused, taking out a handkerchief to mop at a trickle of sweat running down the side of his face. |
| 1258 |
It was then that the first ponderous, metallic steps of the fighter robots rang out in the corridor. |
| 1259 |
He leaned over the front seat and fished in the glove compartment, his fingers finding a fresh pack. |
| 1260 |
She felt a twinge of discomfort in her bladder but pushed awareness of it into the back of her mind. |
| 1261 |
Sentience, Duncan thought, was fragile. But final death in the cold of space can be a slow business. |
| 1262 |
He rose and clapped his hands. Somewhere a door came open and a shaft of light spread into the room. |
| 1263 |
He had beaten down the final wall, and they fenced now with energies like flights of blazing arrows. |
| 1264 |
Master anticipated a profitable stay. But the man who had ridden out to greet them was full of news. |
| 1265 |
The, hard, sick knot of fear and unhappiness loosened in her stomach when she raised her eyes again. |
| 1266 |
There were more notes of this nature. One set had to do with the growing of an enormous draft horse. |
| 1267 |
Lucifer's face was getting redder by the moment. He was shouting now, in his irritating whiny voice. |
| 1268 |
The cunning man mounted his mule and cast the reins loose from the rail. He was no longer shivering. |
| 1269 |
Catherine shrugged and frowned. She leaned back from her guest, propping her elbows against a shelf. |
| 1270 |
He cowered before her as she lowered the hood, then pulled his hands away so she could see his face. |
| 1271 |
I held my breath as a weird creature pushed itself out of the breaking shell. A yellow, lumpy thing. |
| 1272 |
Most of them got the feeling that something was coming, and that they'd better hold onto their hats. |
| 1273 |
The plane taxied up. A man out on the nose kept it from bumping the ice too hard, using a boat hook. |
| 1274 |
Block did not appear to hear, and remained outside the door. Mr. Lenoir beckoned him in impatiently. |
| 1275 |
She raised her left hand above her head, held it in place for perhaps five seconds, then lowered it. |
| 1276 |
Mr. Lenoir opened his mouth to say something at last, when footsteps came to the door. It was Block. |
| 1277 |
Zachary squinted one eye shut and smacked the left side of his lips. He was a very animated thinker. |
| 1278 |
No, he decided at length. He had to believe in the book, wanted desperately to believe in something. |
| 1279 |
Barbara Hughes examined a brass name plate on the door post. She uttered an exclamation of surprise. |
| 1280 |
Wherever here was. And, wherever it was, it certainly didn't seem to be where it was supposed to be. |
| 1281 |
They laughed, drawing a few curious stares. The children tugged at Mary, anxious to be off shopping. |
| 1282 |
The tool had heft. I liked the industrial look of the bit. The motor shrieked with satisfying power. |
| 1283 |
Cedric had thought that eavesdropping was not good manners. Apparently grandmothers had other rules. |
| 1284 |
The duke crouched in his seat, his face a panorama of fear. He extended what had once been a finger. |
| 1285 |
His stare held for a moment and then he nodded and turned to go up the ramp. The other two followed. |
| 1286 |
The tall monster lurched toward me, its dripping arms reaching out in front of it, ready to grab me. |
| 1287 |
They waited in silence, eyes that met and burned hatred, both of them listening but hearing nothing. |
| 1288 |
She laughed softly as she eased his jeans down over his hips. He wasn't wearing anything underneath. |
| 1289 |
Charles Percy stood there with both hands in his pockets, looking ten years older and sick at heart. |
| 1290 |
He went indoors again. The children said good night to their aunt and Mr. Roland, and went upstairs. |
| 1291 |
She turned it off and carried it into the house by the antenna as she might carry a rat by the tail. |
| 1292 |
Mack frowned slightly, then watched with interest as the front door of the bus creaked open halfway. |
| 1293 |
Dawn light gave those gathered about him substance and he could read the concern on all their faces. |
| 1294 |
Funny how nobody wants to come right out and say it. Instead they send a frog to do a buzzard's job. |
| 1295 |
I stood up slowly. I turned in a full circle, checking everywhere for a sign of the hairy creatures. |
| 1296 |
She nodded without speaking, walking straight to the elevators, giving him a clean shot at her back. |
| 1297 |
Larsen had already cruised the street twice to get a good look at the house. It was like a fortress. |
| 1298 |
She wept into my shoulder, and I felt very protective. The price of innocence was becoming apparent. |
| 1299 |
I left before she could say anything more. I drove down to the courthouse, and went up to my office. |
| 1300 |
Then he'd told them to leave him alone in the bunker, and ordered Webber to wake him in three hours. |
| 1301 |
Lowering his pistol, he steps back into the laundry room, lest she glance up the stairs and see him. |
| 1302 |
It was certainly time he had a personal look at the woods where Remington had chased her that night. |
| 1303 |
Now the bronze man ached, his stomach wanted to rebel, and there was uneasiness in his mind as well. |
| 1304 |
The fools on the council disagreed, naturally. No one had translated through time, they pointed out. |
| 1305 |
Wendy picked up the phone. Calling an overseas operator, she asked about the time. Then she hung up. |
| 1306 |
It moved away from him, a dark presence in the periphery of his vision, remaining scornfully silent. |
| 1307 |
The mayor's neck reddened. Obviously he did not understand the language, but he understood the tone. |
| 1308 |
Talbot nodded, reached for a phone, asked the exchange for the sick bay and was through immediately. |
| 1309 |
Deciding he had tortured the two of them enough, Julian reached behind him and turned off the water. |
| 1310 |
Because I'd fired another shot in the dark, and it had hit even closer on target than the first one. |
| 1311 |
The owl flew lower, hooting in its desire to leave. It was caught and it knew it. The owl hated him. |
| 1312 |
I started writing ten years ago. I wrote for a solid year and collected nothing but rejection slips. |
| 1313 |
There were some shouts of support from the crowd, but there were many who were still to be won over. |
| 1314 |
Or perhaps it had been the lonely nights in foreign ports that had long ago stopped being glamorous. |
| 1315 |
A person who looks around then when talking to you, to see if there's anyone more interesting about. |
| 1316 |
Now I was ready for the next stage. If this all worked, it would save my life in more ways than one. |
| 1317 |
This wasn't a case of the cabin being bigger inside than it looked outside. It was just the reverse. |
| 1318 |
Approaching the nurses' station, Noah was met by a uniformed officer who attempted to turn him back. |
| 1319 |
Jude opened her mouth, shut it again, then decided the best thing to do with it was drink after all. |
| 1320 |
Elizabeth must have also seen what was coming. Her whole body stiffened, and she glanced once at me. |
| 1321 |
Dixon glanced quickly over his shoulder at the sonar officer. There was a pleading look in his eyes. |
| 1322 |
Ignoring the sweat pouring down my forehead, I watched them make their way up the hill to the lodge. |
| 1323 |
I depressed the button on the phone, listened for the dial tone, and called my father at his office. |
| 1324 |
The loud clicking sound repeated. It was followed again by the grunting noise. Link opened his eyes. |
| 1325 |
Yes, that was the sensible thing to do. Unfortunately it did not make him feel pleased with himself. |
| 1326 |
Aries reached out and lifted a corner of my torn cloak, her slim fingers light on the silken fabric. |
| 1327 |
He picked it up and immediately he heard a voice crackling in the receiver. He lifted it to his ear. |
| 1328 |
His eyes hardened for a moment as he looked at me. In fact, his mask of a smile vanished completely. |
| 1329 |
Gooseflesh blossomed on Gillian's arms. She had the sudden, distinct feeling that she was in danger. |
| 1330 |
They glanced at each other. Embarrassed, they both started to answer at once. The gist of it was no. |
| 1331 |
Twice he had walked in enchanted places, twice in his life he had stepped out of old familiar earth. |
| 1332 |
Evidently Moira had decided the same thing, for when she spoke, her voice sounded much less anxious. |
| 1333 |
Chris looked puzzled for a moment, then glanced to the doctors with a pleading question in her eyes. |
| 1334 |
From autumn to summer was a happy time. Jeremy Winslow paid attention. Look again, it might he gone. |
| 1335 |
And sure enough, they now saw a tiny fist on a long spring protruding from the end of the telescope. |
| 1336 |
But denial didn't work. The sight refused to pack its bag and leave. It stayed. Demanded to be seen. |
| 1337 |
They stared at it for several seconds. Dom reached out and picked up a crystallized fruit, gingerly. |
| 1338 |
He must have made a noise. Suddenly her eyes opened, and she was staring right at him. She screamed. |
| 1339 |
Unlike the dolphins, no transcendent had ever asked Lark about his wishes. Yet, he felt pretty good. |
| 1340 |
The word spread quickly through the terrified crowd even as, one by one, the demons began to vanish. |
| 1341 |
Slowly, Agamemnon's flushed, heavy features arranged themselves in a smile. It was not a joyful one. |
| 1342 |
She waited patiently with her eyes on the blank pad, wondering when he was going to start dictation. |
| 1343 |
He pulled the Chicago book from the shelf under the wall phone and flipped through its flimsy pages. |
| 1344 |
And in another moment these magical attendants were gone, dismissed by a wave of a small white hand. |
| 1345 |
For now, he decided, the most important thing was that the Newborn was going in the right direction. |
| 1346 |
Monk put one hand in his right pants pocket, the other hand in his left pocket, and felt for a coin. |
| 1347 |
And all of a sudden the door flew open, pulling the marbles to the floor and scattering them loudly. |
| 1348 |
The sky was shot through and through with red, bloody as a sunset, fading slowly into blue daylight. |
| 1349 |
At the rear of the group, Rick took four more strides and two hands burst from the dirt at his feet. |
| 1350 |
It was hot, as if she lay on the hearth of some furnace breathing in the stifling heat of the blast. |
| 1351 |
Even speculation about what might lie at this journey's end was lost in the dull blur of discomfort. |
| 1352 |
He knew he was far outside the city, without any very clear idea of how he had come so far, so fast. |
| 1353 |
I couldn't tell what she was screaming. She was pointing down toward me, waving the case and pistol. |
| 1354 |
The prince was an extraordinarily handsome man. The flush on his cheeks complemented his blond hair. |
| 1355 |
It was impossible to tell from this distance how deep the submarine sank before encountering bottom. |
| 1356 |
I dodged away just as the comic book slapped down on the bedspread. Then I shot back out the window. |
| 1357 |
Parker had it in his hand, waiting. He read it, glancing now and then at the night beyond the booth. |
| 1358 |
When the girl screamed, it startled them both. There seemed no reason for it. They had seen nothing. |
| 1359 |
Matt picked up a revolver similar to the one he'd been carrying from the floor beside the bound man. |
| 1360 |
I'll come back for you. He had not meant to say that. He had not even thought it before that moment. |
| 1361 |
They stepped inside. The suite was small, with solid black walls and a grid of glowing yellow lines. |
| 1362 |
The door opened quietly. It had to be his man, Walter, the only one who would enter without a knock. |
| 1363 |
The guard was joined by others, swinging the stocks of their rifles at the heads of those who bowed. |
| 1364 |
In a few minutes it became clear that the sounds were becoming closer. I began to grow apprehensive. |
| 1365 |
I tried not to let my face show what I felt, but the very question must have made my feelings clear. |
| 1366 |
The wind accelerated. Snow was driven out of the sky at a severe angle and harried along the street. |
| 1367 |
The meeting broke up, but ten minutes before the press conference, Daniel called them back together. |
| 1368 |
Describe physiological sensation of being on the point of immediate extinction, requested the voice. |
| 1369 |
He ducked Morgan's retaliatory punch to wag a finger at him in mock indignation from behind a chair. |
| 1370 |
The film clicked on. There seemed to be a fog around the picture throwing box, blurring its outline. |
| 1371 |
No sooner had she finished when Jack heard the thudding of booted feet coming down the hallway fast. |
| 1372 |
But that slamming door had to be taken off first. The way it swung, it barred the available opening. |
| 1373 |
There was probably something you could do with a stick, he thought. Hopefully, it might involve sex. |
| 1374 |
The woman set aside her cup and rose. So did the others. Pol wondered dismally what he'd said wrong. |
| 1375 |
Leo raised the pistol. Behind his head, a thin black noose snaked up silently from the forest floor. |
| 1376 |
At that point there was a dull whoosh and a boom, and I found myself sitting on the living room rug. |
| 1377 |
Echoing loudspeaker. Rat of fear in the back of her mind, gnawing. All the faces were strange faces. |
| 1378 |
He leaned against his bench, mandibles withdrawn, face slit open just enough to permit him to speak. |
| 1379 |
We walked over to my rig and she went in ahead of me. I waited for a minute and then went in myself. |
| 1380 |
The spacecraft was so far from Earth that it took seconds for her boss's answer to come back to her. |
| 1381 |
The words were gentle, and I did, wondering why I had been thrown out before I even knew what I was. |
| 1382 |
The mercenary nodded to himself. You bet you got a system anomaly, he said silently to the computer. |
| 1383 |
But their joy was cut short as the child refused to respond to the old woman's attempts to wake him. |
| 1384 |
He raised his eyebrows. Ted looked at her carefully, and then drew the pipe out of his pocket again. |
| 1385 |
Then my uncle's voice, so clear down the broken flue that you would have thought he spoke in my ear. |
| 1386 |
It was a queer way of accepting an invitation for the afternoon, but what it meant was clear enough. |
| 1387 |
She did as he told her, then pointed the gun at him and pulled the trigger. A sharp click was heard. |
| 1388 |
The younger woman sighed as she looked over at Abby, her whole expression one of regret and apology. |
| 1389 |
A pang of panic caught me when I thought that she might, but he waved us both rapidly into the room. |
| 1390 |
And then, with the audience clapping and cheering, he scrambled up the rope after the fleeing Ghost. |
| 1391 |
At length I considered what had happened. The girl had renounced her history and her psychic powers. |
| 1392 |
She pushed her dark, ragged bangs back out from her eyes with a tired gesture. She looked wrung out. |
| 1393 |
Dreams took risks, she thought. And courage. Her deepest dream was standing, waiting for her answer. |
| 1394 |
He did not seem to want to talk about his feat. But he looked as if he were bursting with happiness. |
| 1395 |
He spread his hands, beaming at them mirthlessly. Shake drew the back of his hands across his mouth. |
| 1396 |
The man had just crossed three centuries. The least she could do was offer him some common courtesy. |
| 1397 |
I let Joshua sag back onto his pillows and strode out of his tent. That was the last time I saw him. |
| 1398 |
I tucked myself into a tighter ball, and I tried to fall asleep too. If only I could stop shivering. |
| 1399 |
I shrugged and took a step toward the door. Then I let my face fall and I sank back down on the cot. |
| 1400 |
Then they marched him out, between two armed guards, with his hands cuffed together in front of him. |
| 1401 |
A faint hiss drifted down through the treetops, and a familiar darkness appeared in the woods ahead. |
| 1402 |
He could give her pleasure for days on end without stopping, but for him there would never be peace. |
| 1403 |
The piece of leather which hangs off the bottom of your shoe before you can be bothered to get it mended. |
| 1404 |
And she fell into despair as the sound came of his door shutting and wet tears formed on her pillow. |
| 1405 |
An extremely late dance program had been interrupted, evidently, and a news bulletin was being read. |
| 1406 |
As they neared the corner, they heard a rhythm of faint snores to their right, from the new hallway. |
| 1407 |
They were Death's words, formed by his control of the elements. Death was again carried by the wind. |
| 1408 |
The body lay face down on the carpeted floor, at right angles with the bed from which it had fallen. |
| 1409 |
Her heart jumped. She was remembering how it was when they were close together and her face flushed. |
| 1410 |
There were hurrying feet behind them and a junior wizard ran up, holding a plate covered with a lid. |
| 1411 |
She was no fool. This one was sharp, unusually intelligent. The sooner he was rid of her the better. |
| 1412 |
These things that he had feared all his life, that he had buried at the back of his mind, were real. |
| 1413 |
After all, had the incompetent god backed up, her story would have had an entirely different ending. |
| 1414 |
Mine first. I smiled. I am at the head of an army, but I know little of how to fight a great battle. |
| 1415 |
He finishes the bottle of Corona. It is cold and refreshing, but it does not lubricate his thoughts. |
| 1416 |
The tester, it turned out, had been correct. Bird and man had attacked at precisely the same moment. |
| 1417 |
I couldn't argue with that. His constricted Berkeley life certainly cried out for such a vivid trip. |
| 1418 |
The other shook her head, but she went. Tallahassee sat down on the bench before the dressing table. |
| 1419 |
Frank placed the notebook on the table where they all could examine it and began turning more pages. |
| 1420 |
He ate a little, daintily, and in a mincing manner. But he took a healthy snort from the ornate jug. |
| 1421 |
Kathy was smiling and at the same time crying quietly, daubing at her eyes with a yellow dish towel. |
| 1422 |
Fortunate was about to give him something painful to think about when she heard the noise once more. |
| 1423 |
A familiar question from a familiar voice. Corry found himself smiling even before he turned around. |
| 1424 |
I knew of a dark spirit that was very real. I wondered if Ahriman was lurking in these dreary woods. |
| 1425 |
Everyone glanced to where he was looking and then watched him, puzzled by what he could be thinking. |
| 1426 |
He held out his arms and she came into them. They held each other as tightly as ever in their lives. |
| 1427 |
He took the bowl, but didn't elaborate on his words. He just sat there quietly eating his breakfast. |
| 1428 |
Souffle slithered quietly down the slope and into the water, still watching. The end had to be near. |
| 1429 |
Andy was right. They had to carry the stuff back to the toy store. Give it back. Just get rid of it. |
| 1430 |
In the meantime their bodies served as partial cover for the defenders under and between the wagons. |
| 1431 |
But though we tramped at a faster pace, all of us being eager to reach the ship, we did not find it. |
| 1432 |
The one name brought with it the other nowadays. And each brought with it a fist to crush his heart. |
| 1433 |
I'd never had to spell out the parameters of a mission with my local control before. It unnerved me. |
| 1434 |
I am not madam, I am Anna. Now give me your waistcoat, there is a button missing. He obeyed quietly. |
| 1435 |
But we just stood there and stared like a couple of rubes. Ned lay motionless and stared back at us. |
| 1436 |
I sat down so I could closer study his altered face, hoping that the expression there might help me. |
| 1437 |
Horse was behind the private, shaking his head and grinning again. Told you so, the grin was saying. |
| 1438 |
It seemed darker. And colder. I realized that the day was fading away as the blizzard grew stronger. |
| 1439 |
Mindy is absolutely furious with Phoebe and feels that she's trying to sabotage the new arrangement. |
| 1440 |
It's where they operate on the children. Where they take from them whatever it is the Breakers need. |
| 1441 |
For years the engineers had worried that it would slide down in a heavy rainstorm, but it never did. |
| 1442 |
He stood in her doorway, looking around slowly from left to right, and his gaze swept past the tree. |
| 1443 |
He let her go finally. She sat up, twisting her head from side to side with a crackle of neck bones. |
| 1444 |
He sat down in the stone alcove to brood over the Land below and wonder what he had done to himself. |
| 1445 |
Sean O'Sullivan shook his head. He looked out into the streets where the chant rose to a new height. |
| 1446 |
His new companion looked earnestly in our hero's face, and was satisfied that what he said was true. |
| 1447 |
Rourke eased the body to the ground, wiping the blood from his hands on the soldier's uniform shirt. |
| 1448 |
The black Labrador got off the coffee table and padded to his mistress, putting his head on her lap. |
| 1449 |
Chunks of expensive crystal sat in the spilled drink, like miniature icebergs in a thick yellow sea. |
| 1450 |
The egg creatures moved their circle closer. I watched them, my throat still tight, my legs shaking. |
| 1451 |
Mr Saveloy's hair streamed in the wind. He bounded through the dust, waving his sword and screaming. |
| 1452 |
And, strangely, he also grew up to be a hunter almost as good as his brother. But in different ways. |
| 1453 |
Dark Sinclair eyes. Not the eyes of a killer. That at least was resolved. Homer could rest in peace. |
| 1454 |
The girl sat in my easy chair behind the chess table. She wasn't doing anything, just sitting there. |
| 1455 |
Bond let his whole body slip down the ladder of wire and lunged through and down with all his force. |
| 1456 |
He lost even that morsel of pride when cramps knotted his guts and the first of the real pain began. |
| 1457 |
I kept it up. A few teachers called my father and ratted me off. The old man told them to ignore me. |
| 1458 |
No answer from the somnolent lizard, lying with its four arms crossed peacefully on its green chest. |
| 1459 |
A snap to cover this in four hours. With luck, Michael would sleep that long. The world would sleep. |
| 1460 |
He turned. She saw his anguished face and slumped shoulders, and all thought of accusation vanished. |
| 1461 |
I started to protest, then the impact of his theory hit me and my embarrassment gave way to concern. |
| 1462 |
I hunched down behind the old cabinet and waited. Time dragged by. Every second seemed like an hour. |
| 1463 |
Although I was as concise as possible in my story, I had not finished before Mr. Somerville came in. |
| 1464 |
Nanny gave him a sharp look, but there was nothing but a slightly glazed innocence in Walter's eyes. |
| 1465 |
And dear Christ, Susannah recognized that tone of voice, recognized it very well. The bitch was shy. |
| 1466 |
Inside, Doc's aids could see the room was luxuriously furnished. They stepped inside with Chemistry. |
| 1467 |
I fell asleep at once. Aching and exhausted, I found the hard ground as welcoming as my bed at home. |
| 1468 |
The small mountain of clippings gradually faded. At last only five remained of the many he had read. |
| 1469 |
Within the flashes the circle of runes began to glow like a wheel of fire. Then it started spinning. |
| 1470 |
The brutish men emitted cries, shrill bleats like the whimpering of puppies thwarted in some desire. |
| 1471 |
Kitty pressed his head tightly against her body and stroked his hair and whispered words of comfort. |
| 1472 |
The pilot slumped forward over the stick, his beret sliding off his head and onto the control board. |
| 1473 |
He felt his heart stop. His expression was vulnerable for those few seconds, and he actually winced. |
| 1474 |
The door swung open to reveal a woman who was as beautiful as Kitty, but with short dark brown hair. |
| 1475 |
The room smelled. Scents mingled. Spilled vodka and stale chink. Stale cheese spread and cigarettes. |
| 1476 |
This is the only way, Terrel, Alyssa told him. The Ancient will never accept you as a man. Trust me. |
| 1477 |
Then came a sound like an enormous tree cracking at the base, splintering and popping as it toppled. |
| 1478 |
They grounded me for two weeks. No movies. No friends over. No trips to the mall. No trips anywhere. |
| 1479 |
The reporter stared at him with dull eyes and then went in and sat down with the cigar in his mouth. |
| 1480 |
Mario knew it by heart. Every detail of an area a sixth of a mile square was pressed into his brain. |
| 1481 |
The man approached. He walked slow, then fast. The light struck his face. He was consumed with rage. |
| 1482 |
A large somebody stepped out of the wall a dozen feet ahead. His appearance was vague in that light. |
| 1483 |
Now, as she watched the sky brawl behind them, several things were combining to make her suspicious. |
| 1484 |
The man fell back, by the sound of it, on to other climbers. Men were yelling all along the parapet. |
| 1485 |
Abruptly, the twisted figure turned from the console to face her, almost as if he had read her mind. |
| 1486 |
He was having to think rather fast at the moment because the situation was becoming a little urgent. |
| 1487 |
They spoke of an oath, something more mysterious than the Proctor's words at the acolyte initiation. |
| 1488 |
Rose thought about that. The woman who had spoken, her spine curved like a bow, gazed steadily back. |
| 1489 |
The kiss began before she knew it. Everything was very sweet. Warmth flowed between the two of them. |
| 1490 |
With that thought, Cassandra reached down between their bodies and took his hard cock into her palm. |
| 1491 |
We shook hands and neither of us said anything. Cap was not a talkative man, and I am only at times. |
| 1492 |
He was bent forward in his chair, staring at the floor, his big bony hands folded across each other. |
| 1493 |
It was a label for an event, a statement withholding judgment. He studied Piaget's wide, bland face. |
| 1494 |
The waters were dark and cold and our wounds began to ache, and we shivered and our teeth chattered. |
| 1495 |
But the thought of the natives coming in behind the globe could not be accepted so easily by Travis. |
| 1496 |
He knew she was right. He had known it all along. That didn't mean that he was prepared to admit it. |
| 1497 |
Roger straightened up, and though he was not tall by human standards, he still towered over the elf. |
| 1498 |
The boys were happy to be able to order pizza once more, and the drones were delighted to join them. |
| 1499 |
He slowed to a trot, but two of his followers sped past and converged on the leader from both sides. |
| 1500 |
Vermin used his knife to idly chip away large chunks of plaster from the building he leaned against. |
| 1501 |
Still, Mina fought on. Her body twitched and jerked. Her throat was ragged and raw from her screams. |
| 1502 |
A blast of wind. And something else. Stinging granules that struck Gillian's face like tiny needles. |
| 1503 |
I expected to see Scarlett express astonishment at this news, but instead he merely nodded his head. |
| 1504 |
Bran hung, listening, suddenly afraid to go on. They might glimpse his feet if he tried to swing by. |
| 1505 |
Lament wasn't satisfied with that, but he had to make it do, for McFarland would simply say no more. |
| 1506 |
Bette grinned and led them back through the kitchen. She showed them the two heavy pails of garbage. |
| 1507 |
She rushed out, then returned moments later. William heard her tap the needle to remove air pockets. |
| 1508 |
He shuddered as he sat up. His eyes darted rapidly about, trying to pierce the surrounding darkness. |
| 1509 |
Australia without seeing him, but there was no reason to lay all her cards before him at this stage. |
| 1510 |
This has been since accepted by our courts to mean death, so his father's estates were passed to me. |
| 1511 |
He flashed me a dirty look and made some quick adjustments on some knobs on the pommel of his sword. |
| 1512 |
The madman came around to face his attacker, his bleeding hands thrown up to ward off the next blow. |
| 1513 |
He led me into a corridor with two doors on each side and opened the first one on the right briefly. |
| 1514 |
The sailor surveyed the painted faces, trying to pick out someone in command. Austin waved him over. |
| 1515 |
Further inquiries had been made and it was found that he had among his goods a set of false weights. |
| 1516 |
After one more penetrating stare, she relaxed suddenly, smiling with more characteristic gentleness. |
| 1517 |
The yeti stood up, looked down at the cruel iron trap around one leg, and concentrated for a moment. |
| 1518 |
Quite suddenly I saw her. She didn't know I was there. Her companion had sent her no mental warning. |
| 1519 |
When he looked up at the sky, he realized it was the color of slate now, and the daylight was dying. |
| 1520 |
Then each one of them couldn't help noticing that the others seemed to be walking faster and faster. |
| 1521 |
The Duke glares but slowly turns toward the dusty desk. Behind him, another coal on the grate pings. |
| 1522 |
Our eyes immediately fixed upon the dozen golden chicken coops that lined one wall of the huge room. |
| 1523 |
Just as suddenly as they had appeared from the heart of the golden cliffs, so did the scouts vanish. |
| 1524 |
Though he used a horse for transportation, he might well carry a rifle and the most modern sidearms. |
| 1525 |
Then they had to take cover once more, as another patrol appeared from the south and rode northward. |
| 1526 |
They dragged the hose to drench the shingles, to wash the silver, flood the evil mercury paint away. |
| 1527 |
This, by the way, is the supreme use of a record like this. It makes it impossible to cheat oneself. |
| 1528 |
A bronze thunderbolt hit them from behind. Doc had found the passageway that led to where they were. |
| 1529 |
His lips came down over hers and he tasted her essence as he felt the dart of her tongue inside him. |
| 1530 |
I laughed much harder than I should have. Louise was getting really angry before I was able to stop. |
| 1531 |
In reply, he pulled once more, and despite her best efforts hauled her even further from her target. |
| 1532 |
They'd found more signs. Old ones. A great big grubby notice pinned to the wall, covered with signs. |
| 1533 |
Marco sighed and padded down the last three stairs to wait for Tonio to toss him a cold, stiff line. |
| 1534 |
Some of them quit crying alone and started leaning on each other, weeping like the blasted bereaved. |
| 1535 |
Whatever the truth, Kyle knew the droid would spot him before the lock opened, assuming it ever did. |
| 1536 |
Her shoulders shook with sobs. I looked away from her. She was only a slave, and slaves are nothing. |
| 1537 |
There were tears in her eyes after all. One spilled over to form a clear droplet on her brown cheek. |
| 1538 |
Clouds gathering, darkening, and those black birds of the Waste creature were flying back and forth. |
| 1539 |
Filch opened his mouth furiously, mouthed for a few seconds, then raked Harry's robes with his eyes. |
| 1540 |
She grasped the rifle barrel, but I wouldn't let go. I was pulled into a standing position over her. |
| 1541 |
No, said the hollow feeling inside him. No. But I never expected to have to make a choice like this. |
| 1542 |
The tall man looked sharply at him and uttered a deep, low chuckle that caught them all by surprise. |
| 1543 |
But as division chief, he had to get things done, and there could be only one chief in the division. |
| 1544 |
Many people were of particular help in the various difficult phases of research for Zero. Thank you. |
| 1545 |
Ben could find only a vaguely encouraging answer to that. Which under the circumstances wasn't much. |
| 1546 |
I shook my head. In a low stammering voice I explained to her why this vision frightened me so much. |
| 1547 |
When he had awakened, it was to bright artificial light. A hospital room. He was hooked to machines. |
| 1548 |
Doc came up, caught a branch, and swung out of the water. His metallic features were expressionless. |
| 1549 |
Previously scattered clouds, as woolly as sheep, have been herded together around the shepherd moon. |
| 1550 |
The expectancy of Barton's silence was pressure enough that I skimmed and rushed through to the end. |
| 1551 |
And finally, forgetting all formality, I crept into the corner and sat rather like an exhausted boy. |
| 1552 |
She sounded happy, and in the glare from outside, Will saw her face full of joy and life and energy. |
| 1553 |
The Slayers had best beware. With such a woman at his side he felt there was nothing he couldn't do. |
| 1554 |
They stood waiting even as they had been positioned when I left them. Though another had been added. |
| 1555 |
Ray stood up to switch it off manually, but when he pressed the button, it merely sank into the set. |
| 1556 |
But they'd been making tentative noises about getting a small apartment together, maybe in the fall. |
| 1557 |
Now he lay in bed next to Jo, watching the stars through the transparent diamond ceiling above them. |
| 1558 |
The long leaf sight on top of the blued barrel was at maximum extension, set for one thousand yards. |
| 1559 |
I kicked him under the table. Not hard. Just enough to make him stop. Mom and Watson hate that song. |
| 1560 |
Eve was not about to allow Quinton to denigrate her entire sex because of two or three bad examples. |
| 1561 |
She could not help but look past him to the place she wanted to be, demanding again to be helped up. |
| 1562 |
Quickening our steps, we arrived at the door of a hovel in a poorly lit alley, sinister and Semitic. |
| 1563 |
Several truckloads of Russians suddenly roared up to a halt and they spilled out, joining the crowd. |
| 1564 |
Gus was sleeping by the footstool in the living room, snoring like crazy. No insomnia problem there. |
| 1565 |
And that conclusion helps little at all in determining how he will face the spring and summer raids. |
| 1566 |
That was a time of disaster for the comet, too. The black giant crossed its path for the first time. |
| 1567 |
The tall, lean man finally moved. With at least an exterior calmness he took a seat behind his desk. |
| 1568 |
So they sat and burned a sausage to the powers of the woods, or whatever forces Karoly was engaging. |
| 1569 |
She sent a silent prayer to whatever god would listen that this horrible secret would end with them. |
| 1570 |
By the time his body toppled to the ground, the creature had already gobbled its way into his chest. |
| 1571 |
All three watched as the voodoo woman led the girl down into the hall and through the silent crowds. |
| 1572 |
Tallahassee gave an edited version of what had happened since she had been kidnapped from the villa. |
| 1573 |
The wizards ducked as the latest discharge crackled overhead. It was followed by a louder explosion. |
| 1574 |
Colin bobbed up beside him. Colin was enjoying the ride down immensely and hoped that Ford was, too. |
| 1575 |
Downstairs, in their apartment, they faced each other across the small expanse of their living room. |
| 1576 |
This time Aiken didn't dare look. But he heard a triumphant bellow and a squawk of splintering wood. |
| 1577 |
They went out into the hall while I finished the story. When our screaming died down, they returned. |
| 1578 |
They all now dived into the rest of the bundle. They were anxious to see what fresh wonders it held. |
| 1579 |
He was out of his seat and diving through the access hatch. She turned and called over her shoulder. |
| 1580 |
They waited, believing Doc's mellow, unearthly sound meant he was devising ways and means of rescue. |
| 1581 |
Wayne slapped her. Barb stabbed down. The blade hit the table. It stuck. It twanged. The knife held. |
| 1582 |
Abbess Vale was up to her paws in oatmeal. She mopped it up from the floor and set the bowl upright. |
| 1583 |
In the confusion of many diners, I might be able to make some changes in the contents of the dishes. |
| 1584 |
The guardhouse was still ten yards distant. The sounds coming through the open door suddenly ceased. |
| 1585 |
They were ingenious enough, for suddenly relays clicked and motors whined and the big door moved up. |
| 1586 |
It was a handkerchief hanging on a gorse bush. Julian ran to it. It had the initial G on it in blue. |
| 1587 |
Daron swung through the door, and as the door closed soundlessly behind him, he stiffened in horror. |
| 1588 |
Jenny shut her eyes and leaned against the wall. Think, she told herself. Don't collapse yet, think. |
| 1589 |
The two remained silent this time. But from tense vibrations he could tell his question struck home. |
| 1590 |
And now, since there was nothing to say and nothing better to do, Vanning went to work on his drink. |
| 1591 |
Whatever the situation, she was going to help him if she could. She began swimming toward the shore. |
| 1592 |
Then he did. He was prepared to strike out for whatever canyon until he dropped or they were caught. |
| 1593 |
I was about to follow him out of the room, when something caught my eye. It was on Louis's old desk. |
| 1594 |
Thor was silent. It was a grim silence that seemed to be full of something that bothered him deeply. |
| 1595 |
Tense sadness filled the voice of the human corporal, reporting what had happened in Lark's absence. |
| 1596 |
The troll looked at its club as if seriously considering the possibility of beating itself to death. |
| 1597 |
They had staunched the flow of blood, and the innate vitality of the barbarian was asserting itself. |
| 1598 |
I had then continued to look at the girl for a few moments. She looked at me, miserably, frightened. |
| 1599 |
They rowed to the rocks on which the wreck lay. The tide washed over them. George took a look round. |
| 1600 |
Bela picked a hair off his shoulder. In his dirty white suit he looked like a lily beginning to rot. |
| 1601 |
With a crack and a flash of light, the boat suddenly lurched forward, throwing Rena into the bottom. |
| 1602 |
The children jumped up to hug their mother. As she hugged them back she asked me how everything had gone. |
| 1603 |
As he walked, his eyes searched for a place to hide, any place at all where they might not find him. |
| 1604 |
Her prayers were incoherent by the time she reached his lap, her fingers numb as she opened his fly. |
| 1605 |
Then all the silver men moved for the door, dragging the fellow who had been in the telephone booth. |
| 1606 |
Anderson silently stared down at her motionless hands. She kept licking her lips, trying not to cry. |
| 1607 |
It was easy enough for him to treat all this lunacy as an exercise in heraldic pomp, Wallie thought. |
| 1608 |
Glad of the chance to do something, the badger agreed. She and Alf strode off, talking of old times. |
| 1609 |
His pleasure made him voluble, so Kay had little difficulty getting the details of the murder night. |
| 1610 |
A moment later, there was the softest of bumps as it settled on some hard surface, and came to rest. |
| 1611 |
If he goes to his death, then that is the ordained pattern, and we cannot change it by all the arts. |
| 1612 |
He looked me full in my eyes, which unnerved me so much that I had to force myself to hold his gaze. |
| 1613 |
There was a sort of roar behind him. It began low and then rose up the scale like something wailing. |
| 1614 |
He waited a long time, body rigid. Then he turned the knob and stepped boldly out into the corridor. |
| 1615 |
Lauren was so overjoyed that for a moment she stood there, hands together, letting out a little cry. |
| 1616 |
We wait here, not knowing if our loves are alive and not knowing how long we ourselves may yet live. |
| 1617 |
The woman screamed, fell back, and the revolver dropped to the ground. Both hands clasped her chest. |
| 1618 |
That as the scale of nature descends, animals become less perfect, and more capable of reproduction. |
| 1619 |
Ward grabbed his belt. Ward dragged him. Ward kicked him into his office. Ward kicked the door shut. |
| 1620 |
This was also the time of great fertility among the women. Many babies were born, and most survived. |
| 1621 |
Yes, he was. But most of all he was weary. Too tired to get up and move. Too tired to fight anymore. |
| 1622 |
This was said with complete impassivity. The questions seemed neither to surprise him, or upset him. |
| 1623 |
The Midden took our conjectures the same way it accepts all else, with a patient, deathless silence. |
| 1624 |
She dug the edge of her nail into a particularly swollen welt, Stephen almost jumping off the table. |
| 1625 |
Lavinia Skinner was a tall, gaunt, bony female of fifty. She had a gruff voice and an abrupt manner. |
| 1626 |
Here she had heard things about herself so terribly true her heart resounded like a great deep bell. |
| 1627 |
I then threw her to her back in the snow, that I might begin to teach her the meaning of her collar. |
| 1628 |
He had two reasons for risking the blood of his army so lavishly, one immediate, the other alarming. |
| 1629 |
He said nothing. His chest was heaving, sweat trickling down his cheeks and into his grizzled beard. |
| 1630 |
She squealed like a girl when a butterfly fluttered by her face and landed on a tender bud to drink. |
| 1631 |
The material component for this spell is a one foot long, one inch in diameter rod of pure obsidian. |
| 1632 |
Ruthlessly, David bent over him, placing his point neatly above the center of Rutledge's collarbone. |
| 1633 |
He looked at his hand. How inadequate it appeared when measured against such creatures as that worm. |
| 1634 |
It was time to wake him. Again, her hand passed across his forehead. He stirred and opened his eyes. |
| 1635 |
He turned to face Ned. His expression was cold and imperious, that of a king greeting his conqueror. |
| 1636 |
That was, until recently. Somehow someone had found a way to get to the witnesses. Three in one day. |
| 1637 |
Stoner sat still and heard the garage door swing down again. Then the car's door locks clicked open. |
| 1638 |
It was the hat that did it. He looked like a military refugee from an overblown operatic production. |
| 1639 |
I heard them bashing about in the bushes and was alert, I pushed some fronds aside and peered forth. |
| 1640 |
So they waited for another chance to get me, a way that wouldn't look suspicious even to a reporter. |
| 1641 |
He found himself in a hall. It was circular with a diameter of about a hundred feet and fairly high. |
| 1642 |
No, she wasn't alone, and there was no reason to be afraid. There was every reason to play the tape. |
| 1643 |
Doc and his own party were running. They had a start on the red terror, enough headway to get clear. |
| 1644 |
Ham nodded agreement, turned, and immediately stumbled over something that emitted a startled grunt. |
| 1645 |
Revealed to view was an office, very bare, and packing boxes for desks and a mattress in the corner. |
| 1646 |
The woman struggled fiercely in the grasp of the two guards. She could not, of course, free herself. |
| 1647 |
Whitey nodded. But aside from that there was no reaction and he went on looking at the empty bottle. |
| 1648 |
He looked back at her, surprised, then bent and lifted one of the remaining sacks onto his shoulder. |
| 1649 |
She seemed to accept this and walked silently beside him for a time, leading her horse along behind. |
| 1650 |
Chlorine everywhere, and the inevitable burns of both flesh and fabrics made it an even slower task. |
| 1651 |
She forced the sword across, then slid out to the side, sensing a presence coming fast for her back. |
| 1652 |
She did not look up at the great cold sky either, though she felt it beating down upon her, calling. |
| 1653 |
The captain had been unfortunate enough to trip and fall into the embrace of a very unfriendly bush. |
| 1654 |
The Administrator leaned forward even more on his throne. He was said to wager heavily on the races. |
| 1655 |
She loved him, but couldn't live with the idea of being nothing more than a means to an end for him. |
| 1656 |
Uncle Ben brought us over to them and introduced us. There were four workers, two men and two women. |
| 1657 |
For once, it wasn't raining. The breeze shook the sooty poplars around the wall, making them rustle. |
| 1658 |
She shushed him with a kiss and they moved so that she was poised above him, his hands on her waist. |
| 1659 |
He jumped up and examined the bite mark on his arm. Then he growled at me, turned, and trotted away. |
| 1660 |
Doc Savage picked the knife up, turned it in his hands. He abruptly put it under a magnifying glass. |
| 1661 |
The dummy raised its head. He let out an angry growl and started to thrash his arms and legs wildly. |
| 1662 |
He stood in the stern of the boat with the heavy automatic in his hand, its barrel pointed downward. |
| 1663 |
But he felt a sinking sensation. Morey wouldn't make such a boast if he felt unable to carry it out. |
| 1664 |
Brutus knew he had to make a decision quickly. His men watched him in silence, waiting for the word. |
| 1665 |
The door to his bedroom opened to show him Cassandra standing there, her brow furrowed with concern. |
| 1666 |
He cried out as he fell, and the flashlight flew out of his hand and clattered against a gravestone. |
| 1667 |
There was a slight buzzing noise from the hedgehog's stomach. He gave it a sharp pat and it stopped. |
| 1668 |
From her seat atop her gold and red pillow on the floor, Althea cast the stones down onto the Grace. |
| 1669 |
He shuddered wildly. His breath caught and he buried his face against her body, groaning helplessly. |
| 1670 |
Harris, still blinking sleep from his eyes, walked into the laboratory with the new box in his hand. |
| 1671 |
No matter how many times they went back and forth over the threshold, they kept getting the hallway. |
| 1672 |
For a moment, he was simply bemused by this whimsical detail. Then he remembered why he'd chosen it. |
| 1673 |
His body began to move on her, slow and caressing, arousing and tantalizing. Her breasts felt heavy. |
| 1674 |
Too downcast even to look for a more comfortable bed, Terrel curled up where he was and fell asleep. |
| 1675 |
The moment I hung up, I remembered the lawyer with the funny name and dug his card out of my wallet. |
| 1676 |
Besides the happy accident of birthplace, I had the special good fortune to be my father's daughter. |
| 1677 |
But now something else was happening. She'd have it in a minute. The great brow furrowed in thought. |
| 1678 |
Doc opened it. Inside, mechanism was operating slowly. Two large magazines held a narrow movie film. |
| 1679 |
Below the screen was a round button. Thinking it would cause the message to repeat, Rick pressed it. |
| 1680 |
Furthermore, in the front seat of the black sedan were the dark silhouettes of three uniformed cops. |
| 1681 |
A big dust trail moved, perhaps ten miles away, across the plain. He forced his eyes to work harder. |
| 1682 |
What a relief to discover that in the main, psychology is nothing more than formulated common sense. |
| 1683 |
Breathlessly he splashed through the shallows to the line of rocks that stretched from shore to sea. |
| 1684 |
Then he drained the mug, and looked up at me with an oddly stricken expression. He groped for words. |
| 1685 |
And, in the lead, the iron cart. Steam poured out of its funnel. Urn must have got it working again. |
| 1686 |
He saw her for a bare moment while the numbness closed over him. He guessed he was seeing his death. |
| 1687 |
She folded her hands in her lap, toying with the streaked raincoat that she'd propped over her legs. |
| 1688 |
The Chief led us back into one of the mess rooms, we sat down, and he told us about the power plant. |
| 1689 |
The sun was lowering behind the garage. He held the snapshot up close to his face to see it clearly. |
| 1690 |
Chambers sighed, and shifted position, and felt the sweat dribbling down. Too bad Ernie wasn't here. |
| 1691 |
Without its weapon, the ogre across the hall raised its arms defensively and called out a surrender. |
| 1692 |
Then, hearing a door downstairs slam shut, Rafferty ran to the stairs and took them three at a time. |
| 1693 |
That night, beside the campfire, we tried to put into perspective the situation which confronted us. |
| 1694 |
Dash grabbed Lauren's hand and the two of them ran back toward the ballroom to dance the night away. |
| 1695 |
But there was something wrong with my voice. It came out all tiny and squeaky. Little mouse squeaks. |
| 1696 |
A mother and a small boy walked toward him across the clean and polished tiles of the station floor. |
| 1697 |
She rose from the hearth and went about the house slowly, with steady steps, turning on every light. |
| 1698 |
Mr Bucket picked up a violin. It was in two pieces, held together by the strings. One of them broke. |
| 1699 |
Her emotion passed into the cat. He lifted his heavy head well up for the first time to snarl at me. |
| 1700 |
He took the grain cake as soon as it appeared, almost including my fingers in the first greedy bite. |
| 1701 |
He sounded very sure of himself so I crossed my fingers behind his back and hoped that he was right. |
| 1702 |
Marcy returned with Kelly's address and telephone number on a slip of paper, which she handed to me. |
| 1703 |
Time passed, marked off only by the slithering and crunching of the vehicle's wheels on icy roadway. |
| 1704 |
At least they did not share the same table, and there was nearly the width of the room between them. |
| 1705 |
When Roger left the room, everything settled down. The computer was sitting there humming to itself. |
| 1706 |
He landed, in a leap that brought pain shooting through his thigh, almost knee deep in green growth. |
| 1707 |
He rocked on the greasy wood. The werewolves hadn't moved, but they were watching him with interest. |
| 1708 |
Kind of strange for a man to do something when he danged well knew he shouldn't. Kind of suspicious. |
| 1709 |
He wanted to see the lorry driver to thank him, but the man had disappeared. He had no time to lose. |
| 1710 |
That reassured me, at least to a point where I no longer considered jumping from the moving vehicle. |
| 1711 |
Someone pushed aside the thick velvet curtain that served as a door, and two women entered the room. |
| 1712 |
The soldier nodded and retreated with noticeably greater speed than he had displayed approaching us. |
| 1713 |
The lifers started whispering again, and the hostess relaxed, her hand curled loosely around my arm. |
| 1714 |
The black people of Africa who go barefooted from their very first step leave a distinctive flat imprint. |
| 1715 |
He would have preferred to dispense with one of his wives. He decided to ground on one of the moons. |
| 1716 |
And that was when the goblin charges sent fifty tonnes of rock, ice and snow tumbling to the ground. |
| 1717 |
Ivan gave a little laugh, one that promised his older brother that he'd be meeting a fist very soon. |
| 1718 |
He did not release Banner's eyes as he thrust both his fists into the hottest coals of the campfire. |
| 1719 |
Rain poured from the black sky upon the empty dooryard, into the canal and among the blue mountains. |
| 1720 |
Vader stepped into the room, and the door slid shut behind him. He made no move to sit, no surprise. |
| 1721 |
He heard the waitress calling again. He got up very slowly and unlocked the door and pulled it open. |
| 1722 |
Gus was so embarrassed he was blushing, but Inez Scull had her back to him and didn't see the blush. |
| 1723 |
Abruptly, he reached outward to the immense cyclone of descending spacecraft, identifying with them. |
| 1724 |
His hand smoothed over her damp hair. He seemed to understand her shattered response, as she didn't. |
| 1725 |
He put the box back in the drawer and picked up the note. He smoothed it out and read it once again. |
| 1726 |
When she opened her eyes, she found him lying beside her, his eyes burning her with their intensity. |
| 1727 |
I could see panic in their faces, yet they played all the faster, ignoring the sweat on their brows. |
| 1728 |
That was what he needed to focus on. He was the only thing standing between Amanda and annihilation. |
| 1729 |
Their arguing was interrupted by a tremendous grating, sending sparks dancing across the windscreen. |
| 1730 |
By the time Jack caned halfway across the office, his visitors had begun to knock on the front door. |
| 1731 |
The attorney was staring out the window, lips pursed in thought. He obviously hadn't been listening. |
| 1732 |
She restored the top of her garment and when her gaze met his, he realized that he had been staring. |
| 1733 |
No words were necessary, but Marjorie spoke the simple words as if they were an oath sealed in fire. |
| 1734 |
Both men were sinking slowly to the floor. It was plain that they were quickly becoming unconscious. |
| 1735 |
Though Jesse hadn't admitted it at the time, there had been strange things happening from the start. |
| 1736 |
Then his mighty bronze form plugged into the tiny seaplane cockpit. The motor purred like a big cat. |
| 1737 |
A piece of metal clattered to the floor only yards away. The clang echoed through the entire church. |
| 1738 |
Ben Adams collapsed on the ground and never stopped his moaning. The sheriff jerked him to his feet. |
| 1739 |
Frank cried out and fell sideways and clutched at the edge of a counter, trying to stay on his feet. |
| 1740 |
Then the bronze man began examining the dwarf. He gave attention to the little fellow's golden skin. |
| 1741 |
He straightened and went to the door. She commanded herself to watch, but her eyes had closed again. |
| 1742 |
Perhaps this work would block the harsh realities that had so suddenly surrounded the young scholar. |
| 1743 |
They returned to the bathroom where the secret safe lay. Doc Savage stopped suddenly in the doorway. |
| 1744 |
The woman seemed to understand her question from her memory of the future. She nodded affirmatively. |
| 1745 |
Roarke was standing behind her, leaning back against the wall, hands dipped casually in his pockets. |
| 1746 |
There we could sit and look out over the rising dam. Mike's mood seemed to change, becoming pensive. |
| 1747 |
And she could not stand that, that broken word caught in his mouth like a gaffed and wriggling fish. |
| 1748 |
Mona was on her hands and knees by the car's rear bumper. Slipped when she tried to get to her feet. |
| 1749 |
Bob shook his head uncertainly, for he was still frightened and dizzy from swinging through the air. |
| 1750 |
The three in turn repeated the procedure until they were close enough to the earth to drop unharmed. |
| 1751 |
Me, I'd be off to the Caribbean with my one point three, sailing my own ketch and sipping rum punch. |
| 1752 |
Again, sweat covered them both. She ran her tongue over his neck, delighting in the hiss he let out. |
| 1753 |
She nestled against him almost the way she had before the Agony. Almost. The difference tore at him. |
| 1754 |
The impossibility of any success was like a dead weight on his shoulders, a cloud over his thinking. |
| 1755 |
The butterflies which had hatched in the grove lifted in a spangled spray and settled on the shrine. |
| 1756 |
The hall emptied. The thieves ran for the doors, the windows, for every conceivable nook and cranny. |
| 1757 |
Harding wasn't convinced that she was either. But he was willing to consider she was something more. |
| 1758 |
The fallen fence pales clicked and rattled under Micky's feet as she entered the adjoining property. |
| 1759 |
Without waiting for a reply he turned and stalked out of the chambers, slamming the door behind him. |
| 1760 |
After a time they drew apart and, for another while, stared at one another. The wind boomed outside. |
| 1761 |
He looked at her, dazed, and she discovered that she was returning his gaze with the same intensity. |
| 1762 |
And then the handle seemed to twist. His foot slipped at the same instant, and he dropped the blade. |
| 1763 |
He twisted his lips over the sounds and nailed the meanings down in his mind, one by one, indelibly. |
| 1764 |
I lay beside her and she bent over me, her lips and mouth to my body. I felt her small, warm tongue. |
| 1765 |
He ceded to accomplish something and find someone who understood what it was like to have that need. |
| 1766 |
There was a little pause. The occupant of the other car was leaning forward, looking at her closely. |
| 1767 |
The coyotes were still calling. He took a bearing toward the sound and tapped Roscoe with his heels. |
| 1768 |
The panther paced about the figurine, gradually diminished, and faded to an insubstantial gray mist. |
| 1769 |
Two white cops strolled in lazily, as though they had smelled the fight, and took the battlers away. |
| 1770 |
But my Mistress had seen me looking at the turntable and with a stab of panic I turned my eyes down. |
| 1771 |
She did not pause in her ascent, but her voice sounded as if she was standing beside him. Or in him. |
| 1772 |
Grant lifted his eyes and made a small motion of his fingers. Remember they could have us monitored. |
| 1773 |
He looked around and saw an old colored woman beckoning to him. He went over to see what she wanted. |
| 1774 |
One massive shape lashed out in a final paroxysm, shattering the right front wheel of the Conestoga. |
| 1775 |
The blows rained down. She hung helpless. The pain was stunning. They pounded her toward the ground. |
| 1776 |
Doc Savage vouchsafed no reply. Instead, he made a silent round of the pit, assembling his five men. |
| 1777 |
There was a sharp burning sensation in my earlobe as the moth discharged its batteries into my skin. |
| 1778 |
That hare could be lying up there in the forest in agony. All you have to do is to follow the blood. |
| 1779 |
Time to go to ground. Through the gate and into the yard, gate closed behind me, no sign of pursuit. |
| 1780 |
Doc nodded absently. He was clever, this unknown enemy of theirs. He had decoyed Ham by a neat ruse. |
| 1781 |
Marjorie was very pale. She dabbed her lips with her linen napkin, then laid it neatly on the table. |
| 1782 |
Instantly, the interior of the tube was a bright, glowing blue. The air itself seemed to be glowing. |
| 1783 |
Feathers bent, then broke. It was a painless but exasperating injury. It would unbalance her flight. |
| 1784 |
Step remembered giving the same speech many times when he was elders quorum president back in Vigor. |
| 1785 |
Conan pointed with a muscular brown arm toward the east, banded in dazzling gold by the lifting sun. |
| 1786 |
Another whistle blew, closer to shore. I could hear the swimmers returning. Morning swim was ending. |
| 1787 |
The slim Elven faces nodded as one, the keen slanted eyes casting about in undisguised apprehension. |
| 1788 |
I then lay on one elbow, near the fire. I regarded the beautiful slave. It is pleasant to own women. |
| 1789 |
It was freezing in the hallway. Winter cold settling in the old house. I hugged my knees real tight. |
| 1790 |
The sentry with the light was making a round to see that all the picketed vampires were in position. |
| 1791 |
The boy became a man. For a while he adventured on Earth, then he went into space as he had dreamed. |
| 1792 |
When the sun dipped beneath the horizon it would not be seen again for half a year. I would miss it. |
| 1793 |
Heller then got under the wheel. He did all those things Mortie had done, with a few embellishments. |
| 1794 |
There were other things. There were rituals, there were incantations, there was a folklore of sorts. |
| 1795 |
From a cutlery drawer, Tom withdrew a knife. The largest and sharpest blade in the small collection. |
| 1796 |
Johnny dragged his tongue over dry lips. He mopped a sudden sheen of perspiration from his forehead. |
| 1797 |
He picked up the cage cover and put it back in place. And to Elissa's amazement, the parrot shut up. |
| 1798 |
I knew what she meant. My dad would leave for work early, come home late, and even work on weekends. |
| 1799 |
Jails have improved. This one was warm and I think they required the cockroaches to wipe their feet. |
| 1800 |
The bus was unusually crowded. I stood for a while. Then two people got off, and I slid into a seat. |
| 1801 |
Judge Fallon entered from chambers, stood for a moment at the bench, then seated himself and nodded. |
| 1802 |
Some of the techs came to even more slowly than she did, bending to their tasks as though exhausted. |
| 1803 |
A radio squad car careened into the street with siren moaning in a way that stood one's hair on end. |
| 1804 |
Stoner looked into his angry eyes. Already the pain and futility of the camp were reflected in them. |
| 1805 |
The boyfriend came forward, moving closer to the tank, but still he hung back. He never said a word. |
| 1806 |
Conan knew he had made a friend and not an enemy by his action, and he felt good for having done so. |
| 1807 |
I slipped into my tunic and picked up my sword, in its scabbard, the belt looped about the scabbard. |
| 1808 |
Loren finally opened his eyes and tried to focus them on the blurred figure floating beside his bed. |
| 1809 |
Both men turned. It was the little girl. She had followed Norton, perhaps curious about the odd man. |
| 1810 |
Skulls cracked. Jaws shattered. Noses flattened. Eyes were gouged out. Teeth went flying everywhere. |
| 1811 |
With a smile and a shake of her head, she reached automatically for the brush on top of her dresser. |
| 1812 |
And there, only a dozen feet below her, she saw the form of a battered but very much alive dark elf. |
| 1813 |
I put some patches on my face to hide the scratch marks. I hoped I would not be permanently scarred. |
| 1814 |
That question forever lived with those of us who had seen the glints of genius in his piebald works. |
| 1815 |
He didn't answer. Jill felt his mind and knew that he was contemplating, trying to grok. She waited. |
| 1816 |
The voice of the emperor sounded like snoring. Perhaps it was meant to sounded like ironic laughter. |
| 1817 |
That made his death in a swimming pool the more incomprehensible. Especially as opportune as it was. |
| 1818 |
The moaning was coming from the hole, and Lonnie began to force himself through the hedge toward it. |
| 1819 |
The Patrician said he was talking about easy terms. They wouldn't want to know about the hard terms. |
| 1820 |
She couldn't have said why, but she sat down on the floor, covered her face with her hands and wept. |
| 1821 |
Then to superheat the air and the rising water within the compression chamber above the tunnel roof. |
| 1822 |
The pilot's body was a mass of bruises, and one side bore a savage burn, but he smiled nevertheless. |
| 1823 |
When he obeyed, she sat for a moment, bringing herself under control. Then she remembered something. |
| 1824 |
He waited until Fletcher had regained his balance and was being escorted back to the detention cell. |
| 1825 |
When he reached the entrance, he found Mulch writhing on the floor, face contorted in genuine agony. |
| 1826 |
William continued to look at him for a long moment. His eyes were as cold as the eyes of a basilisk. |
| 1827 |
The splotches on the bald man's pate grew redder, and he pulled his chin down into a glowering pout. |
| 1828 |
He imagined he could hear spiders pouring into the office, thumping toward the wooden washroom door. |
| 1829 |
Two hours later, they reached the highest part of the pass and looked down on their secluded valley. |
| 1830 |
Albert held out a hand which shook uncontrollably with reaction, and Nick dropped something into it. |
| 1831 |
And sitting at the foot of the tree, gazing down at a white duck in the grass beside her, was Peggy. |
| 1832 |
You'll see. If the shaman was aware of the irony in his words, there was no sign of it in his voice. |
| 1833 |
He glanced around hastily, dumped the ashes in the geranium pot and left, sucking on his empty pipe. |
| 1834 |
The gas pedal was slicing a groove in her bare foot. Only the pain, always the pain, kept her going. |
| 1835 |
I was walking around pretty well. The ankle barely hurt at all. Dad's a pretty good doctor, I guess. |
| 1836 |
The orange blast lit up Sonny's distorted face and the roar of the gunshot sounded like a fusillade. |
| 1837 |
She brought the sword down in one vicious swipe. He smiled as its tip sliced flesh. And he vanished. |
| 1838 |
The inner lids of the tiny opalescent eyes closed one by one as she abandoned herself to the caress. |
| 1839 |
In that Doc's reasoning could not have been more accurate had he witnessed the arrival of the enemy. |
| 1840 |
She ran out of the first before the second left, but by then she was sleeping too soundly to notice. |
| 1841 |
When she had gone inside, Julius took a deep breath and clapped Brutus on the shoulder in affection. |
| 1842 |
Five hours in a sensory deprivation tank, back in the prehistory of psychology, had sent men insane. |
| 1843 |
The renegade archbishop folded his hands complacently across his narrow waist and gave a thin smile. |
| 1844 |
It was possible that the controls, moved in the manner shown, would send a high voltage through him. |
| 1845 |
Savage felt his stomach tightening becoming worse. It was the missing enemy ship, no doubt about it. |
| 1846 |
They rode down fast, and heard the din of the crowd rise like the sound of storm surf to greet them. |
| 1847 |
As the agent had said, near the outskirts of town the paved road suddenly narrowed to a single lane. |
| 1848 |
She shook her head, like one emerging from a daze. She no longer trembled, and her voice was steady. |
| 1849 |
In the meantime the M. I. will be in there, on the bounce and swinging, on the side of our own race. |
| 1850 |
It seemed he had hardly shut his eyes when Angela shook him. Wearily he struggled up, with her help. |
| 1851 |
She was unlocking the car door, trying not to dance for joy, when Alex's voice came from behind her. |
| 1852 |
She stared at it, but by the time she turned back to ask what it was and how it worked, he was gone. |
| 1853 |
She shivered with fear, but she wasn't going to let the stupid thing make her a laughingstock twice. |
| 1854 |
Conan walked out without waiting for the innkeeper's reply. It had nothing to do with him. He hoped. |
| 1855 |
That would never happen to me. When I walked down the streets in St. Louis, everybody would know me. |
| 1856 |
That arm looked as though it had been savaged by one of the carrion eaters, by a hyena or a leopard. |
| 1857 |
Then one of the defenders grew too bold or too reckless. That rapier beak stabbed and stabbed again. |
| 1858 |
I control the manner in which I live my life. How history remembers me is another matter altogether. |
| 1859 |
Awash in contentment, he held her close in his arms, the scent of her blood arousing another hunger. |
| 1860 |
Conway made himself smile in return, knowing that it looked forced, and that the other knew it also. |
| 1861 |
The captain ducked back, sat down and began flipping switches. The heavy whine of the jets starting. |
| 1862 |
He could not think of any better place to understand evil than in the army. The army used guns and bombs. |
| 1863 |
He turned away, staring at the violent sky. Shaky relief chased the energy from her quivering limbs. |
| 1864 |
The scene vanished. They were back in the box. The door opened, and they stepped back into the hall. |
| 1865 |
His powerful gaze seemed to soften a little in the strengthening light. His smile grew a little sad. |
| 1866 |
But she was gazing at me now with the most heartbroken expression. Sorrow, that's what I saw in her. |
| 1867 |
Outside they got into the car, Black in front with the driver, Wilson and Osborne on the jump seats. |
| 1868 |
He sealed the last of the three envelopes, which he had just addressed, and turned again to his son. |
| 1869 |
After the meal most of the Adventurers had been coaxed back into the bracing cold for a little game. |
| 1870 |
Albert looked at me searchingly for a moment. Then he sighed, and the burst began to go on bursting. |
| 1871 |
She could feel herself trembling on the edge of hysteria, but she wouldn't quit until the phone did. |
| 1872 |
Odo shrugged as best he could for someone lying on his stomach among a cluster of broken bar chairs. |
| 1873 |
And when he found it, he didn't close his eyes. He stared down at the woman who had given it to him. |
| 1874 |
Muttering curses about ungrateful bitches and butch women, he dropped back to the rear of the group. |
| 1875 |
Not all on the same vector. They were headed out like thistledown scattering from a pod. Everywhere. |
| 1876 |
She saw a note on the table addressed to her and opened it. It was a formal resignation from Gladys. |
| 1877 |
I reached out for her again, but she drew back, and the laughter was gone. She glanced at her watch. |
| 1878 |
A deep crimson tongue was licking as far as it could reach along the slash in the animal's shoulder. |
| 1879 |
She sprang to her feet and paced restlessly around the lily pond before she returned to where I sat. |
| 1880 |
At which point it first registered on Roger that he really ought to tell his wife what had happened. |
| 1881 |
Abandoning the key, she fumbled with the door, jumped into the rain. She left the door open and ran. |
| 1882 |
Startled, Varian composed her thoughts. She must discipline herself if she wanted to control others. |
| 1883 |
The whites slowed, as if puzzled by attacks from two sides, and half the lances swung slowly uphill. |
| 1884 |
And cried out at the pain his violent movement sent sizzling into his bruised and swelling genitals. |
| 1885 |
Celestina expected to be taken to a waiting room, but instead the nun escorted her to surgical prep. |
| 1886 |
They had all guessed that he was a priest, of course. His way of speaking would have told them that. |
| 1887 |
To celebrate she put on the kettle for tea and treated herself to a handful of cookies from the tin. |
| 1888 |
And the boy knew, as he watched the gun spin away, that his first and only shot had missed the mark. |
| 1889 |
I nodded mutely. It was as though I was surrounded by a fog, and that fog would not lift for months. |
| 1890 |
A harpist lived among them, and had his home where he was content. But he had yet to find his heart. |
| 1891 |
He glanced over toward Jane again. She surely didn't think that was true all over the world, either. |
| 1892 |
She had found the fatal flaw in Cal's bank heist code. Each robbed bank became the termination node. |
| 1893 |
Another rock thundered by me. I forced myself to test my handholds and not be reckless in my choice. |
| 1894 |
Deal reached out, caught it, then gingerly dropped the sopping sack onto the floor of the dive boat. |
| 1895 |
Everyone was in fatigues, but several of the officers wore polished insignia and even medal ribbons. |
| 1896 |
She looked at Alex, looked at the bloody chunk of lead in her hand, and knew she was going to faint. |
| 1897 |
And with that he trotted away after his master, and left several thoughtful faces staring after him. |
| 1898 |
And with a startled curse dropped back to the ground, the palm of his right hand welling with blood. |
| 1899 |
He started to slam up the receiver. Her quick cry stopped him, just before it went down on the hook. |
| 1900 |
The wheel flagged a cab, while the bodyguard looked all around, and then they got in and drove away. |
| 1901 |
She was in love with him, so she would have him. As soon as she figured out the best way to get him. |
| 1902 |
There was the click of a crossbow. Some tiny sounds carry well and have considerable stopping power. |
| 1903 |
I glared at him, but he didn't notice, and I wondered again just what were the limits of his talent. |
| 1904 |
A shadowy image appeared next to the stallion, mimicking the black horse in appearance and movement. |
| 1905 |
Johnny understood her Viking. It was a good suggestion. She was already fleeing. He loped after her. |
| 1906 |
The Tibetans pounced upon the coffin case. While untying the bindings, one man dared to look upward. |
| 1907 |
Michael's nose was bandaged. The flesh was bruised and swollen, but the cartilage had not been torn. |
| 1908 |
The Prince was trying not to gape after him. He sent me a glance but I looked hastily at the ground. |
| 1909 |
It has been nearly four months since I wrote those words. I am so furious, I can barely hold my pen. |
| 1910 |
She sipped slowly, giving the stimulant time to work. Condemned woman rejects last dinner. Sips tea. |
| 1911 |
The cat sprang up into the spaceship. It sailed onto my chest. It sat there glaring balefully at me. |
| 1912 |
He went to the wall and punched the button that rolled the airlock door open. He stepped through it. |
| 1913 |
Thus I stood in the dark, wondering if it were such a madness as this that forced a man to thievery. |
| 1914 |
He was gone and away on the computer floor before Pitt thought to ask him what he was talking about. |
| 1915 |
His face lifted as the bishop approached, aware through its blindness that it was again in open air. |
| 1916 |
She didn't make any reply to that, so that there was silence for a bit. Then she looked up suddenly. |
| 1917 |
The optimum vantage point from which one to view people undressing in the bedroom across the street. |
| 1918 |
Doc lifted one hand suddenly. A faint red light had appeared on a big panel at one side of the room. |
| 1919 |
She began to write her report, hoping that some of the facts she put in would trip over into theory. |
| 1920 |
It took only the sketchiest of descriptions to make the watchmaker's eyes light up with recognition. |
| 1921 |
They all turned toward Faith for a moment, but she just tensed her shoulders and kept on scribbling. |
| 1922 |
Fortunately, body stiff, the hydra had just fallen to its side. Only three of its heads still moved. |
| 1923 |
So he rode west while his heart and mind yearned east, and cursed the clouds that kept him helpless. |
| 1924 |
The excitement died as swiftly as it had come. I shivered now. The dark promised ill instead of joy. |
| 1925 |
Ham stopped suddenly, opened his mouth and began to giggle. Finally he laughed loudly and violently. |
| 1926 |
Bugs stared at its polished surface, a sickish disturbance spreading through the pit of his stomach. |
| 1927 |
He smiled gently, his eyes glazed suddenly, as though he were listening to grand and majestic music. |
| 1928 |
Moore stared at Wayne. Wayne stared back. They held the stare. Moore ran a red. Wayne blinked first. |
| 1929 |
With that, he turned and plunged into the brush, leaving me little choice but to trail along behind. |
| 1930 |
Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph. He polished his glass again and went back to his subject. |
| 1931 |
We were dancing as if we said no such things to one another. I held her tight and kissed her cheeks. |
| 1932 |
But she was trained for that, and a life of luxury and power awaited in return for what he demanded. |
| 1933 |
Green looked down, saw them pointing, and his gaze followed the direction of their extended fingers. |
| 1934 |
They traveled for three days from the spaceport before reaching the hills where the Ancestors lived. |
| 1935 |
I love you. It must seem like a banal way to begin, but is true. I still love you with all my heart. |
| 1936 |
Almost, she wished she could cut the flows being woven by Elayne. There had to be some other chance. |
| 1937 |
This couldn't be happening, she told herself. There had to be someone left alive down there, surely. |
| 1938 |
He looked wildly left and right. Even if he had possessed the strength to run, he had nowhere to go. |
| 1939 |
What an awful person, Rowan thought. But a suspicion was growing in her that this was a family call. |
| 1940 |
Besides, I had my own movie rolling in my head. I kept thinking of the incredible week I'd just had. |
| 1941 |
Any rocket vehicle sent out to intercept it would be going in the opposite direction from the comet. |
| 1942 |
When the story was finished, they tried to press on, asking about the hospital where he'd been born. |
| 1943 |
We shared a greasy handshake and he invited me to sit with him. I declined his offer of refreshment. |
| 1944 |
Michael had wriggled over on his left side and was staring at their preparations with a fixed glare. |
| 1945 |
The earth crumbled beneath his weight, but not quite enough. He sank in up to his thighs, and stuck. |
| 1946 |
By then no spacecraft on Earth was able to take off, primarily due to punctures in their fuel tanks. |
| 1947 |
But the fighter was frozen, his hands still over his face. The carpet grabbed him in a dozen places. |
| 1948 |
It simply disappeared and left not only empty space but the feeling of boundless loneliness as well. |
| 1949 |
Sandy met her at the door and greeted her warmly. Eva gave her name as Leah, with nothing behind it. |
| 1950 |
And then the world he knew blew up in a thousand jagged mirrors, each an image of screaming torment. |
| 1951 |
They went down the ladder one after the other, and Tully opened the envelope and examined the money. |
| 1952 |
We need some light, Fuchs said to himself. If I can set this drapery afire we can use it as a torch. |
| 1953 |
I waited for Luke to make fun of me. But he didn't say a word. I guess he was too worried and upset. |
| 1954 |
He was still trying to talk himself into staying away as he vaulted the orphanage's high stone wall. |
| 1955 |
A hand with hairy knuckles clamped over her mouth. I guess the elder Thaxter owned their house, too. |
| 1956 |
Silence. But it was a silence with an emotional quality now, and the emotion it radiated was hatred. |
| 1957 |
She slid from beneath the covers and sat on the edge of the bed. She was nude, and the air was cool. |
| 1958 |
She stepped away from him, her face still flushed, her eyes full of dreams she had to hide from him. |
| 1959 |
A less aristocratic dog would be hard to find, Laura thought now, a little rueful smile on her lips. |
| 1960 |
They shook hands ceremoniously and began effecting the trade. I seized the opportunity to interrupt. |
| 1961 |
First Sword had survived, and was standing a few steps up from the bottom trying to calm the people. |
| 1962 |
The two boys had already fallen into each other's arms. At this last, they went out in a dead faint. |
| 1963 |
Nicholas let Amos grip his arm while getting more comfortable, then adjusted the pillows behind him. |
| 1964 |
He doesn't ask if she has been in love before, nor does he volunteer such information about himself. |
| 1965 |
The Line was black against the sky. At its base was one small capsule, and a man leaning against it. |
| 1966 |
Jesus, Buchanan said. Not my head. I can't let anything happen to my head. Another concussion would. |
| 1967 |
Sir Nicholas looked extremely miffed, as if their little chat wasn't going at all the way he wanted. |
| 1968 |
She tucked the stuffed animal back in the box, closed the closet doors, and reached for the journal. |
| 1969 |
As soon as I had passed them they fell in about me and behind me, not coming close enough to engage. |
| 1970 |
When she returned to the others, she kept her gaze for a time on the glazed surface of the terminal. |
| 1971 |
My presence had been detected. With a yank which almost blew my hat off, the broken door burst open. |
| 1972 |
After thirty years and several million words there finally came a day when he couldn't write a line. |
| 1973 |
She didn't deny it. Her emerald eyes stared straight into his. Apparently she had overcome her fear. |
| 1974 |
I forced myself to walk erectly concentrating on resistance to the weariness. It helped immediately. |
| 1975 |
Nor were these all. In other parts of the city, men had been found dead with their eyes protuberant. |
| 1976 |
Sebastian stared up at her, the way people often stared when they first saw her, and shook his head. |
| 1977 |
Grave Digger reached down with his index finger and lifted the chicken's head from beneath the wing. |
| 1978 |
When he saw the village ahead, lights already twinkled in a few windows against the coming of night. |
| 1979 |
Children. Boys and Girls together, integrated. She thought nothing of it then. Later she remembered. |
| 1980 |
Even for Esme. Sooner or later, she'll come up against someone faster on the craftiness than she is. |
| 1981 |
Felix tossed his head and did a kind of petulant shuffle, kicking the toe of his shoe into the dirt. |
| 1982 |
No opportunity occurred that day, and I was required to attend more Assembly functions that evening. |
| 1983 |
The horse watched him from its stall, occasionally trying to eat his hair in a friendly sort of way. |
| 1984 |
There was dead silence in the transporter room, broken only by the humming of the transporter beams. |
| 1985 |
But there had been someone here. Someone he'd known. Cared for. Someone to make him stay for a time. |
| 1986 |
I drew a deep breath, relishing the loveliness of the smell of the spices, now stronger than before. |
| 1987 |
He had never before touched her outside her room. After a moment he got nervous, and Maggie did too. |
| 1988 |
George knew I wasn't fooling, and he knew better than to lie to me. I always caught him in his lies. |
| 1989 |
She started to say something, then started to chuckle, but Roger came forward and kissed her gently. |
| 1990 |
Ignoring the howling winds and heavy rain, he rode on, his familiar burgundy cape flying behind him. |
| 1991 |
She raked back her hair and stared blankly up into his face. She did not seem aware of his caresses. |
| 1992 |
Aardvark got the package off the table, and by the time I came back the paper was shredded all over. |
| 1993 |
The weird, blue illumination of the lightning showed a track leading directly toward a granite wall. |
| 1994 |
Again there was understanding, but with it there was a sudden return of the earlier fear and hatred. |
| 1995 |
Her face had already smoothed itself into sleep, her hair framing her face with a young boy's locks. |
| 1996 |
We got to the bridge and I offered to run the auxiliary engines while the captain got into her suit. |
| 1997 |
The spaceman walked to the line, crossed it, and then stepped back toward the center of the chamber. |
| 1998 |
Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad. |
| 1999 |
They followed him in gloomy silence until a turn in the canyon took them out of sight of the troops. |
| 2000 |
The man's eyes went blank. He turned and looked at the door, just for a moment. Then he turned back. |
| 2001 |
Then he folded his arms and walked slowly around the room. She could not guess what he was thinking. |
| 2002 |
Hugh smiled fully for the first time. It was as if he were glad, relieved to have shared his secret. |
| 2003 |
Parting the brush, Bay spied a ramshackle camp with a tattered, mildewed tent. Heard a moan. Voices. |
| 2004 |
Of course not. They must not. Fear of prison keeps them from doing more hurtful things than they do. |
| 2005 |
And then I was running down the slope, waving my arms and shouting, with Roscoe close upon my heels. |
| 2006 |
Brod had noted the bird's presence, and was evidently shrewd enough to understand what it signified. |
| 2007 |
He looked up at her uncomprehendingly, but she did not believe that he did not understand her words. |
| 2008 |
She didn't know what to say to that, so she said nothing. Her stomach growled loudly in the silence. |
| 2009 |
The Redeemers stepped back. No longer were their faces pale, and the cuts on their hands had sealed. |
| 2010 |
Dom waited until her mouth was full before he produced his final bribe. He held up the roll of maps. |
| 2011 |
In a huff, Gail sank back on the seat and stared out the window. A short time later, she was asleep. |
| 2012 |
The Latin music faded away. Here came another to the small pulpit, an elderly man, stooped with age. |
| 2013 |
An odd expression crossed Pancho's face. He could not determine what was going through her thoughts. |
| 2014 |
There were times when one needed to create one small disaster in order to forestall something worse. |
| 2015 |
Bernice mentally noted again that, when necessary, Martians could move swiftly and rather elegantly. |
| 2016 |
Long tables stretched off into darkness, where crewmen in flight must have stood to eat their meals. |
| 2017 |
The Cat made noises, even with the engine stopped. Little pops and sizzles, and the occasional ping. |
| 2018 |
The man himself was considerably grayer, fatter, sallower than the portrait. And he was not smiling. |
| 2019 |
There was the sound of Polly's heavy footsteps running toward the communications alcove in the hall. |
| 2020 |
Hissing came from assorted points in the darkness about them. It had a serpentine quality, menacing. |
| 2021 |
The officer paused as one of his subordinates whispered to him. He nodded once, looked toward Swift. |
| 2022 |
But I had seen it, racing up behind us out of the mist. I had seen someone sitting behind the wheel. |
| 2023 |
Coffin Ed appeared suddenly. No one had noticed him approaching from his parked car down the street. |
| 2024 |
Underneath it was sod that had died from lack of sunlight. There were no gaps between floor and sod. |
| 2025 |
Tau walked over to the waiting stretchers to see what he and his comrades might expect to encounter. |
| 2026 |
The looting of the barges was done at daybreak, two days later, and came off with brilliant success. |
| 2027 |
There was a sharp clang from the other side of the burning hulk, followed by the sound of an engine. |
| 2028 |
They went down the front steps and into the dark drive. Everyone felt safe with Timmy running ahead. |
| 2029 |
And then there was light where no light should be, touching his face on the side away from the fire. |
| 2030 |
Those enemies had been defeated. Doc had won out, but the loss of his father had been a severe blow. |
| 2031 |
Then the contact slipped, and the pleasure faded. Now Bane felt depleted. He sat heavily on the bed. |
| 2032 |
Victor looked away for a while, to lull the dog's suspicions, and then turned and glared hard at it. |
| 2033 |
A bird trilled, high on a branch. She looked up. A wren bobbed at her and fluttered to another twig. |
| 2034 |
Where before only columns of smoke had been visible, they now saw a ruddy glow and ascending sparks. |
| 2035 |
To her surprise, her reception at camp was cordial. She collected a few wary looks and that was all. |
| 2036 |
He stretched out his hands, waving them wildly in the air to ward off the attack he knew was coming. |
| 2037 |
It had seemed so simple a few hours earlier. A lot had somehow seemed so simple a few hours earlier. |
| 2038 |
It suddenly seemed to her that the stage was even bigger and even more distinctly empty than before. |
| 2039 |
He left the laser communicator set up where it was. He'd need it again after the operation was over. |
| 2040 |
She complied, but wondered how they could possibly have her palm print and sweat signature here in Syria. |
| 2041 |
No wonder he spends his time in the garden, she thought. He has to go out there just to turn around. |
| 2042 |
He made a small sound that might have been a grunt or merely the gift of life returning to his body. |
| 2043 |
Totally oblivious that I had all the evidence of absolute catastrophe around me, I went back to bed. |
| 2044 |
He met several people and they paid no attention to him. A few cars passed, but no one bothered him. |
| 2045 |
At the top, Coffin Ed stepped quickly into the pink light, his gun barrel moving from left to right. |
| 2046 |
Carrot had a punch like an iron bar, and he landed a couple of heavy blows on Wolfgang as he got up. |
| 2047 |
One star in particular seemed to beckon. Red, bright, hovering just over the horizon straight ahead. |
| 2048 |
This did not meet with what he considered to be a proper and dignified reception among the brethren. |
| 2049 |
Outside, moonlight broke through the cloud cover again, throwing a ghostly luminescence behind them. |
| 2050 |
He tied up the shirt in the back, sticking it into the binding fiber. He then went and cut a switch. |
| 2051 |
Then one day I felt the pressure, gentle and questing at first. I couldn't tell for sure who it was. |
| 2052 |
Doc left the cop where he lay. The fellow would revive after a time, none the worse for his slumber. |
| 2053 |
I will sometime see that woman again, he said to himself. And I will do something to her. In return. |
| 2054 |
We both do, Terrel said. Don't give up on me, my love. None of this would make any sense if you did. |
| 2055 |
I stood as it came near. I could see then that it was a jackal, a big one, its eyes fixed on my own. |
| 2056 |
She made no reply. I doubt if I've ever seen anyone who looked so completely miserable and defeated. |
| 2057 |
With a feeling of satisfaction, and pleasure, I then thrust the shovel deep into the mud at my feet. |
| 2058 |
He offered her his arm. Smiling, she hooked her arm through his and let herself be led to the table. |
| 2059 |
Merrick broke off for a moment, her eyebrows knitted, her mouth slightly open. Then she began again. |
| 2060 |
Within minutes their national origins and earlier lives were forgotten as they started talking shop. |
| 2061 |
Beads of sweat formed on the ridge of the chief's red nose and about the blue bags beneath his eyes. |
| 2062 |
He rose abruptly and stalked away across the bright and crowded quayside. The others watched him go. |
| 2063 |
Cream the butter with the brown sugar. Beat in the eggs, sour cream, and vanilla. Add cocoa mixture. |
| 2064 |
He moved on, slipped through the double doors, and his steps sounded remotely going down the stairs. |
| 2065 |
Tom gave a last pry, and caught the sheet of stone as it fell outward. It was perhaps an inch thick. |
| 2066 |
His hand felt dirty and damp in hers. She held it tightly and followed him, her heart in her throat. |
| 2067 |
There was a tiny rustling movement from the doorway, and the older woman stopped just short of Dana. |
| 2068 |
And suddenly he could feel himself being pulled. He could feel the acceleration of the tractor beam. |
| 2069 |
Swan looked over her shoulder. The stove was behind her, and red flames were crackling in the grate. |
| 2070 |
They focused, and their descent slowed. They came to land on a level plain surrounded by faint haze. |
| 2071 |
The Chinese servant stepped forward with downcast eyes and offered me the second glass of champagne. |
| 2072 |
Nevertheless, you find difficulty in talking with her. Let's jump back to the present and try again. |
| 2073 |
I began to read. We were halfway through the story when a doctor poked her head through the curtain. |
| 2074 |
A car was passing along the road he had just crossed. He stood, not moving, until it had raced away. |
| 2075 |
Phineas opened the front door and they went slowly down the porch steps, onto the cold, dark ground. |
| 2076 |
I lifted off the breathing apparatus carefully and stared into the painted eyes of the dummy inside. |
| 2077 |
He had a sudden vision of appearing in a circle of blue flame smack in the middle of the elven army. |
| 2078 |
Mort took the horse down lower, leaving a boiling wake of cloud that extended for miles behind them. |
| 2079 |
Auger shrieked, his body convulsed. He pitched forward onto his face and lay unmoving on the ground. |
| 2080 |
But it seemed to happen again, this time to my left. How long the interval between, I could not say. |
| 2081 |
Odo clutched it in a steel grip, squatting so that Quark could use him as a stool to get partway up. |
| 2082 |
Bill felt it building, too. He grinned, and the hydroponic lamps made his crooked teeth luminescent. |
| 2083 |
Tension grew as the two searched each other's eyes. Finally, Camber sighed and let out a tiny smile. |
| 2084 |
No one spoke up to correct him. They were, in fact, dying to hear what the young American would say. |
| 2085 |
I looked into the black water again, trying to spot the bottom. If there was one, I couldn't see it. |
| 2086 |
But before Joan could reply, he answered his own question. They must be picking up subliminal stuff. |
| 2087 |
She jumped and swung at me with her free hand. By the way she moved, I knew there was a knife in it. |
| 2088 |
So let it be a transistor, she told herself, and keep busy. She turned downhill toward the hospital. |
| 2089 |
That had been the pattern of their courtship, and marriage had simply slipped into the scheme of it. |
| 2090 |
But when she rose, a force more powerful than fear for herself drew her toward those mahogany doors. |
| 2091 |
She hopped off the bed and made for the washstand while I tried to find a more comfortable position. |
| 2092 |
She smiled warmly at the little gnome, patted him again on the shoulder, and turned and walked away. |
| 2093 |
Until she was completely wired and activated her linkage. Then she straightened up and took command. |
| 2094 |
Back in his own living room he felt much better. Except for a nagging headache, he felt much better. |
| 2095 |
Hermione looked as though she was restraining herself from rolling her eyes with extreme difficulty. |
| 2096 |
Ford would have to go after him. Turning quickly to the barman he asked for four packets of peanuts. |
| 2097 |
He dropped back into a ready position, but Honor shook her own head and removed her mouth protector. |
| 2098 |
He looked around the campsite. No footprints. No visible evidence. Fiske had taken time to clean up. |
| 2099 |
Now he could feel it coming and he had to restrain himself to keep from leaning forward expectantly. |
| 2100 |
Wars are the exclusive property of the men who fight, and should never injure the innocent civilian. |
| 2101 |
He had seen it shrink, however, and he stared at it now with a mixture of confusion and fascination. |
| 2102 |
She had to get a grip on herself. She couldn't let her emotions run loose. People died when she did. |
| 2103 |
They turned on the view screen. The huge building was burning. And the other computer was attacking. |
| 2104 |
Her eyes were deep blue and full of pain. It hurt him to see it and know that it was because of him. |
| 2105 |
Beyond the chair, in a pool of light cast upon the floor by the candles, knelt a man in black robes. |
| 2106 |
They did not doubt her. If there was one thing they obviously wanted, it was never to see her again. |
| 2107 |
She still hadn't told anyone she was going out with Gabe, and she wondered if he would say anything. |
| 2108 |
And there was a strange thin wire stretching from inside the darkness to the side of the stasis box. |
| 2109 |
Henry stared at him with the same expressionless glassy eyes with which he regarded everything else. |
| 2110 |
It was a nasty shot, one they took in the groin. There was no doubt where their kids went to school. |
| 2111 |
Having fans in useful places is a phenomenon that occurs when you least expect it, and most need it. |
| 2112 |
Nor did we have far to go. The path led to a row of large boulders and vanished between two of them. |
| 2113 |
It was almost true. With all the blood spilled this night, his was the only clean blade in the park. |
| 2114 |
Clouds were spread over the earth, a solid expanse, and these vapor masses swallowed the two planes. |
| 2115 |
I forgot. I looked in every brood box, every one, and if one got missed then I forgot forgot forgot. |
| 2116 |
The hand of the band's leader tightened on his crop, and his dark eyes took on a cold, steely gleam. |
| 2117 |
He looked up suddenly and our eyes met. It was too late to look away so I simply looked back at him. |
| 2118 |
Jo let him lead her. She only turned once to look down the street in the direction Stoner had taken. |
| 2119 |
After an hour I toted my book back to camp and, rounding up a pick and shovel, headed for the creek. |
| 2120 |
He had investigated the librarians. Their lives were usually short. Joining the staff was no answer. |
| 2121 |
Adam was nearest to the tiller, and he started undoing the lacing that held the boat cover in place. |
| 2122 |
He growled as she cupped his sac in her palm. Her warm hand enclosed him, squeezing him exquisitely. |
| 2123 |
She turned and padded hastily down the hallway, Nolan behind her. Together they entered the nursery. |
| 2124 |
At least while she was concentrating on that, it was easier to ignore her aching legs and shoulders. |
| 2125 |
Without releasing the bar, he carefully turned to face her. He hadn't liked being locked in the box. |
| 2126 |
The outer door looked solid. I got to it and put my hand on it to steady myself. I was totally shot. |
| 2127 |
It was back, the musky taint that had been strong before they came out into the cavern of the river. |
| 2128 |
I put aside my weapon, in its sheath, in the bottom of the longboat. I removed my sandals and tunic. |
| 2129 |
It was going to be a massacre. Silver Cloud had sent all the young men of the tribe to their deaths. |
| 2130 |
Without looking at his watch, he knew it was five minutes to one. The concert was due to start soon. |
| 2131 |
Erin smiled in her sleep. But as the darkness came for her again, an odd voice rang out in her head. |
| 2132 |
This safe is a lot better than that one was. Since he can't see the dial anyway, he closes his eyes. |
| 2133 |
Weird and incoherent thoughts streamed through her mind, making sense and no sense at the same time. |
| 2134 |
I let go of her wrists, closed the door with my elbow and slid past her. It was like the first time. |
| 2135 |
He closed the drapes and got slowly dressed, his mouth imitating the shape of the unearthly caldera. |
| 2136 |
The female put down one foot and raised the other one, bringing herself one pace closer to the male. |
| 2137 |
When she took a few moments to eat her lunch, Mitford approached her for a synopsis of her findings. |
| 2138 |
He closed his eyes. No sight, no sound. Nothing remained before him but the gaping hole of the Void. |
| 2139 |
She met his searching gaze with tears glistening on her lashes. He bent and kissed the wetness away. |
| 2140 |
The bronze man's fingers fell nervelessly from the car door. His big frame crumpled to the sidewalk. |
| 2141 |
He went back to the windows. Maybe it was all he wanted to know. It wasn't all I wanted to tell him. |
| 2142 |
The diversity of life so cherished by Bat was proceeding, in all its mundane and glorious confusion. |
| 2143 |
He peeped through the bushes. There was a little group of people on the lawn. Pip knew most of them. |
| 2144 |
Moments later the ground began to shake as a huge, echoing boom began to sound throughout the world. |
| 2145 |
He got a booth. He sprawled invertebrate. He ordered tea. He watched the door. He checked his watch. |
| 2146 |
Kelp watched him for a few seconds, then began to read the same chapter in his own copy of the book. |
| 2147 |
There was nothing he could do about the pain. It coursed through his body. His wounded leg was numb. |
| 2148 |
She regarded me, unpleasantly. She had not forgotten that I had shirked. She looked away, disgusted. |
| 2149 |
Angela got in first, followed by Calhoun. Before the door was closed behind them, David hit the gas. |
| 2150 |
The interference was off in the suite. I usually kept the sound off when I was away. I turned it on. |
| 2151 |
And then he was gone. At once the soft black scratchiness departed. That foremost of all, and first. |
| 2152 |
The men checked their watches. It was just after four in the morning, close enough, they all agreed. |
| 2153 |
The beast regarded Grunt, and then myself. Its lips curled back over the double ring of white fangs. |
| 2154 |
The great Aimee came in just then, followed closely by a man struggling to do something to her hair. |
| 2155 |
True. We are entering the region of telepathic carnivores. I can feel their thoughts as we progress. |
| 2156 |
My bare toes rocked the firing pedal forward and the world burst away from the axis of the main gun. |
| 2157 |
To the west, the prisoners continued to fill the wagon with the sludge from the empty settling pond. |
| 2158 |
Lord Dom, a bulbous creature from a mostly liquid world, was bouncing to his feet and coming at him. |
| 2159 |
They all waited for him to continue. Rafael sat back in his chair, stroking his beard with one hand. |
| 2160 |
By late afternoon, Michael and Rowan were back at the house conferring with the men around the pool. |
| 2161 |
Pol had been correct concerning the figure. It was, somehow, alive. It did not wish to be disturbed. |
| 2162 |
We explorers attained sexual relief of a more substantial sort from the young ladies of the village. |
| 2163 |
It was the memory of the last Owen, grinning in an armchair with a wire leading down into his brain. |
| 2164 |
One because he had long ago ceased feeling anything except the heavy burden of his responsibilities. |
| 2165 |
Panting at his effort, he returned to the room, slammed the partition shut against the bloody light. |
| 2166 |
The watchman became suddenly alarmed. Near him a bell was ringing noisily. It was the burglar alarm. |
| 2167 |
Gris took a look at her slitted, determined eyes. He looked at the hostile faces of the other women. |
| 2168 |
What intrigued and puzzled him was the fact that he thought he had heard the voice somewhere before. |
| 2169 |
A second snow figure came into view. This one was larger than the first, and moved with surer steps. |
| 2170 |
All at once, they both saw the funny side of the whole thing, and they burst into peals of laughter. |
| 2171 |
Most of that temper was spent now, and she huddled like a child on the big bed, fighting back tears. |
| 2172 |
Finding the site of the ambush again was probably the worst experience she had ever had in her life. |
| 2173 |
He checked the wardrobe of the five circus girls, augmented it and turned them over to the director. |
| 2174 |
This time, it came through the mirror so promptly that she had to jump aside to avoid being crushed. |
| 2175 |
He glared at her, but she gave him a bland look and even managed a smile. He wanted to throw things. |
| 2176 |
Unless therefore the Magician be first anointed with this oil, all his work will be wasted and evil. |
| 2177 |
That was a mistake, he thought, kneeling by the water's edge. Getting off was very surely a mistake. |
| 2178 |
His emotional radiation was so confused that for a long moment he could scarcely analyze it himself. |
| 2179 |
Then he blew out the taper and placed the bottle on the scrubbed yellow deal table and stepped back. |
| 2180 |
Hospitals and other emergency services are hereby warned, and invited to take necessary precautions. |
| 2181 |
Margaret realized she was still holding Casey's hand. She let go of it and reached for the banister. |
| 2182 |
Yet it was not Don who was the first to learn the truth. By the sheerest of accidents, it was Indra. |
| 2183 |
Valdemar closed his eyes and yelled, momentarily certain that the last instant of his life had come. |
| 2184 |
He could go back until he was out of sight. Ramsey thought, then try cutting across the countryside. |
| 2185 |
Richard was sitting on the ground just outside, his arms hooked around his knees, his hands clasped. |
| 2186 |
Sarah said nothing. She was looking forward. The stream was moving faster, the car picking up speed. |
| 2187 |
Idaho recoiled from this accusation. Slowly, the newly resolved assassin in him regained ascendancy. |
| 2188 |
Mason walked down the long, smelly corridor to a telephone booth which smelled of stale cigar smoke. |
| 2189 |
And the rock was solid again. The illusion cut off as abruptly as a storm at the slamming of a door. |
| 2190 |
I expected any moment somebody would lift the rock and I would come crawling out to be stamped upon. |
| 2191 |
I have seen nets spread for fish and the silver bodies leaping therein frantically and without hope. |
| 2192 |
Chris unlocked the door for the Professor. Kate got to her feet, color slowly returning to her face. |
| 2193 |
The members of the panel nodded their mitered heads. They had dressed ceremonially for the occasion. |
| 2194 |
For the past fifteen minutes I'd been looking for a way to break the news to her, but now I gave up. |
| 2195 |
She undid the wrist and ankle cuffs. As I rose, aching and wounded, she kicked my clothes toward me. |
| 2196 |
And for the first time in hours, she forgot to be afraid. Or perhaps it was for the first time ever. |
| 2197 |
Roi's thoughts were pleasurable too. It was very restful to make clean mental contact with a friend. |
| 2198 |
A plan as big as this would surely involve casualties. The question was, how many and on whose side. |
| 2199 |
But Ham was tumbled end over end. His head cracked a valve wheel. He was promptly knocked senseless. |
| 2200 |
Terrel rubbed his chin, knowing that his recent attempts at shaving had been only partly successful. |
| 2201 |
For the first time, Erasmus had tried to do a good deed. Serena hoped to coerce him into doing more. |
| 2202 |
Both men jumped, the larger producing a sword in the blink of an eye and leveling it the monk's way. |
| 2203 |
He smacked his lips for yes, rubbing his forehead against the back of her neck as he squeezed tight. |
| 2204 |
There was a wide circle of other stones. Very few of them had actually stayed on top of another one. |
| 2205 |
Amber let out a sound and even Jack felt the flare of energy. His brain seemed to explode with pain. |
| 2206 |
I was struggling with the dead man's wet, slimy jeans, trying to work them down his hips and thighs. |
| 2207 |
But horrid her hands seemed, knuckled and swollen, and the dust from her broom engraving every line. |
| 2208 |
Now Adam could actually feel the blood in his face, warming his freckles. He continued to look down. |
| 2209 |
He smiled grimly and stared up at the pale stars twinkling in the dark bracket of sky far above him. |
| 2210 |
Maybe it hadn't been. Maybe there were no shortcuts, no detours. Maybe you had to go through things. |
| 2211 |
He was, you might say, the first one to see the potential of shipping stuff by rail to the Outposts. |
| 2212 |
I brought the Flush around, then scanned my spotlight across the water and picked up the white boat. |
| 2213 |
Barb danced. Barb obliged horny sailors. They swarmed her. They cut in. They swarmed three per song. |
| 2214 |
He motioned across to the other side of the small ledge, where the next descending ladders were set. |
| 2215 |
Ross obeyed without question, landing with a paratrooper's practiced roll on one of the dune crests. |
| 2216 |
She was like a cat, Bugs thought. Perfectly relaxed, yet ready to spring instantly in any direction. |
| 2217 |
His two aides said nothing even though they both thought that their master had gone slightly insane. |
| 2218 |
And, just to be sure its letter made sense, the county cleverly let the landowner's lawyer write it. |
| 2219 |
Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns. |
| 2220 |
A man in common dress moved into the doorway at the top of the stairs. He held a rifle at the ready. |
| 2221 |
Even after all these centuries, he was no closer to being civilized. He took what he wanted. Always. |
| 2222 |
Yes, once he got the hang of it, flying his dragon was the most marvelous sensation he had ever had. |
| 2223 |
Frank bumped against one of the forklifts, stepped around the obstruction, and continued to retreat. |
| 2224 |
It was Gabrielle who finally broke the quiet. She rose and moved gracefully to the bench beside him. |
| 2225 |
Now more intensive mining began, and Federation technicians were brought in to speed up the process. |
| 2226 |
Maggie squirmed desperately and rolled to the floor. She landed hard. Pain shot up through her body. |
| 2227 |
The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it. |
| 2228 |
Then, as the jeweled teeth glittered at him, Sanders realized that he was looking into a gun barrel. |
| 2229 |
Most likely, if Victoria was entertaining, the visitor's car would have been parked in the driveway. |
| 2230 |
She let the rod trail from Pasha's chin, down her neck, down into the heart of her exposed cleavage. |
| 2231 |
Some murmured in support of him, others cried him down, and she waited until they were silent again. |
| 2232 |
Two Bears opened his eyes and stared out into the darkness, calm and distanced. Nest seized his arm. |
| 2233 |
He shook his head, focusing on the task at hand. He took his foil from the earl's outstretched hand. |
| 2234 |
Jemmy ignored that. Moving clockwise around the room, he opened every door and drawer he could find. |
| 2235 |
The hedge witch frowned and shook some flakes into her palm and popped a hefty pinch into her mouth. |
| 2236 |
The camera crew had arrived on the run and they were suddenly bathed with lights. Lord Turn groaned. |
| 2237 |
Meriel realized it was there. When she opened her eyes, it was with mild curiosity, not sudden fear. |
| 2238 |
The courtier looked almost as if he wanted to argue, but then he changed his mind and left the room. |
| 2239 |
The ship weighed his words for a nanosecond or two, decided no answer was called for, and made none. |
| 2240 |
She didn't crack a smile. She did arch an eyebrow, and the twinkle in her eyes grew more noticeable. |
| 2241 |
Plus, of course, a lot of dying. Pyre hoped they wouldn't have to find out too much about that part. |
| 2242 |
Doc's men did not return lead. The sharpshooters did not try a charge, showing they had become wary. |
| 2243 |
I glanced over at the door, and discovered my old mentor leaning against the frame watching me work. |
| 2244 |
She went a little way, watching the trees get realer as she approached them, and then looked around. |
| 2245 |
Her naked stomach, drum tight and round as a ripening fruit, bulged out above the tiny beaded apron. |
| 2246 |
The sudden shooting in the jammed room scared hell out of prisoners and cops alike. Everybody froze. |
| 2247 |
When the door rose again at noon the black Jaguar came out, bearing the doctor dressed for the city. |
| 2248 |
Sebastian sheathed his sword. His breath streamed out into the night as he considered their options. |
| 2249 |
The ranger let it go at that, knowing all too well that with Pony, he would never get the last word. |
| 2250 |
Perhaps the answer lay in the past, in those whose memories were longer than the records of mankind. |
| 2251 |
The tinsel scribble scoots off before them, across the satin dunes, to announce the bride's arrival. |
| 2252 |
They thought she was a male, hence the nickname. Attempts at gender verification were deemed unwise. |
| 2253 |
Hands are hooked in the back of my pants, tugging me in, hugging my pants and belt down over my ass. |
| 2254 |
The prisoners stumbled and staggered to the opposite goal, some of them falling over their own feet. |
| 2255 |
Without haste, the puppeteer tucked both heads beneath his forelegs and let his legs fold under him. |
| 2256 |
He lies on the couch, eyes closed and hands folded on his chest, and after a little while he sleeps. |
| 2257 |
The only sign of normality was the service crew unobtrusively going about it's business on his ship. |
| 2258 |
He stopped her with a little shake, pulling her to his side so he could see and greet the newcomers. |
| 2259 |
The gray otter nodded slowly. His curious eyes clouded over as he lay back peacefully and went limp. |
| 2260 |
The other two wandered up and inspected the result, as pieces of chaff gently drifted to the ground. |
| 2261 |
Her gaze, which had been focused on me, shifted suddenly. Her rifle barrel changed its aim slightly. |
| 2262 |
The living murmured and clasped hands, wondering if we offered hope or a deepening of their despair. |
| 2263 |
There was a loud, ominous crunching sound, as of stone collapsing. He forced himself not to look up. |
| 2264 |
Returning to the fire he fed it then settled down under his blanket, his head resting on his saddle. |
| 2265 |
He snatched out his own phaser and started forward, bursting free from the concealment of the ruins. |
| 2266 |
Warning fear tingled along his nerves. He put it down, slipped through the doorway into a stairwell. |
| 2267 |
His fingers started plucking then, and the ghosts shivered like a schoolgirl getting her first kiss. |
| 2268 |
Tim took out a card and thrust it at the policeman. Then he scurried toward the intersection beyond. |
| 2269 |
The steam was a dead, gray wall in front of his eyes. He cursed himself for letting it get so heavy. |
| 2270 |
There was another muffled gurgle as this man ceased speaking in the same abrupt manner as the first. |
| 2271 |
He was surprised and a little disturbed to see Aaron appear, with a troubled expression on his face. |
| 2272 |
The suite was locked, and his key wouldn't open the door. Jon swore softly. She must have bolted it. |
| 2273 |
The grief they saw on his face was not simulated. He wore it openly when he returned to his console. |
| 2274 |
But with this flash of intuition came more questions, questions that Hunter knew had to be answered. |
| 2275 |
The waitress smiled at us. It was a smile that could launch a thousand ships. We were in good hands. |
| 2276 |
Jamie glanced down at the floor, completely subdued. After a moment Melanie looked at him curiously. |
| 2277 |
Molly looked relieved. She tapped the ball through a hoop, then used the mallet to push it back out. |
| 2278 |
Or, you can just have your tank put you to sleep until the rest of the world has caught up with you. |
| 2279 |
The line began to move. Jinny opened a refrigerator case and took out a salad wrapped in cellophane. |
| 2280 |
And then the reward. He loved watching creatures with four digits try to flip him the middle finger. |
| 2281 |
I did as I was told, and I noticed there wasn't any fuss or clatter coming from the kitchen anymore. |
| 2282 |
She did wave at a buzzard, circling lazily under the clouds, and she was sure a tiny dot waved back. |
| 2283 |
Both puzzled and encouraged, she packed the book and the yarrow stalks away and set off up the path. |
| 2284 |
She seemed to relax a little, but her posture was still rigid, and she didn't take her eyes off him. |
| 2285 |
Detective Downey, by a personal search, corroborated this statement then the revolvers were lowered. |
| 2286 |
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. |
| 2287 |
He walked into his evening staff meeting feeling pretty good, until he saw the looks on their faces. |
| 2288 |
I grabbed at my control star. I pressed the top prong, that should have given him an electric shock. |
| 2289 |
But she moved by stages and at last reached the railing. From there, she had only a short way to go. |
| 2290 |
There was silence for a few minutes, and then there was a sudden sharp clap and a simultaneous jerk. |
| 2291 |
The words caught her by surprise, hung in the air and in her thoughts, and she knew them to be true. |
| 2292 |
Eventually, and in spite of knowing what the result would be if he did so, he found himself talking. |
| 2293 |
There was another roar of thunder but under it something else which pulsed even as the thunder died. |
| 2294 |
There was heavy mist now over the marsh, and when he opened the front door, the rain was relentless. |
| 2295 |
The girl, who had been watching them with interest, shook her head and spoke sharply to her brother. |
| 2296 |
Proceeding more cautiously, she eased herself onto a horizontal limb and sidled toward the open air. |
| 2297 |
With that, she did an impromptu dance across Hubert's scales as the dragon beat time with his wings. |
| 2298 |
Not far from Streakers position on the globe, a small cluster of flashing red symbols was displayed. |
| 2299 |
Then the thought flew out of her mind as she saw the blood dripping from the top drawer of the desk. |
| 2300 |
Beth turned away from Eric, opened the shopping bag, and reached into it as the brown paper rustled. |
| 2301 |
I opened my eyes and found I was staring at a pair of dark trousers and shoes with somebody in them. |
| 2302 |
Sunshine held strength, courage, and fire. She was her own person and he loved the challenge of her. |
| 2303 |
Telegraph scrambled to his feet. His features were flushed, his eyes protruded. He stroked his neck. |
| 2304 |
And then my eyes came level with the face of my assailant, and all thoughts of my own pain vanished. |
| 2305 |
They were in mountains. Ahead was a thickly wooded slope. The peak of the mountain had a purple hue. |
| 2306 |
I howl. I throw me against the door. I bark and howl. The light goes on in my head. I howl and howl. |
| 2307 |
Earthquake country, Curtis Wilcox said in my ear. That's earthquake country in there, so be careful. |
| 2308 |
Perhaps someone else has. Perhaps no one else has. In either case, we have good reason for humility. |
| 2309 |
Project prodded at him. He had always had a certain cold hatred which could crystallize into a spur. |
| 2310 |
I called the house from Fritz's back room and got no answer. I walked over and checked entry points. |
| 2311 |
He took her into another room, and keyed up a monitor viewer. Her breath blew out with a small moan. |
| 2312 |
Richards turned away sickly, nauseated. Thin, invisible fingers seemed to press against his temples. |
| 2313 |
She lay naked in the grass, moonlight sprinkling over her. When she reached for him, he drew her up. |
| 2314 |
These are only his frustrations coming out of him, and nothing more. This is not the way he will be. |
| 2315 |
He was just in time to see the cart rumble straight on. The road, on the other hand, curved sharply. |
| 2316 |
Habeas Corpus was a wise pig. He was only a few slats of ribs put together on ludicrously long legs. |
| 2317 |
We began to slide faster. I gasped in mouthfuls of the hot, damp air, struggling to catch my breath. |
| 2318 |
It was to Monk's credit that he fired his first burst above the men fighting about the tunnel mouth. |
| 2319 |
She reached up and put her arms around his neck, and pressed her face into his fur, unable to speak. |
| 2320 |
We walked along the cobbled street. The sound of our thudding sneakers echoed off the cottage walls. |
| 2321 |
Now the room was high with light and even the beams of the hall stood forth, heavy in their ceiling. |
| 2322 |
To test him the Angel suggests that his enjoyment of illusion is identical with that of the profane. |
| 2323 |
Jack turned toward the living room, instinctively crouching slightly and holding Davey even tighter. |
| 2324 |
An update on the cannon's targeting status came in just then, and Lisa had to let those thoughts go. |
| 2325 |
The young savage threw a beaded collar to one of the warriors near the girl. He approached the girl. |
| 2326 |
There was a change inside her, she thought. Awareness, understanding. And a soaring kind of triumph. |
| 2327 |
He followed the sound of footsteps ahead of him, barking his shin on a bench and holding in a curse. |
| 2328 |
As it turned out, the release came with nothing more physical than a slight trembling of the ground. |
| 2329 |
A wizard was the only one really meant to help with this kind of trouble with another wizard's gift. |
| 2330 |
Harry was still dealing with the same basic problem, still getting used to the fact of his new body. |
| 2331 |
A fractional turn of his head was enough to dash his annoyance like a glass thrown in the fireplace. |
| 2332 |
Half an hour later the machine had been rolled entirely out of the shed, on the new concrete runway. |
| 2333 |
Ross looked up to see Morrie back away from his periscope and climb on a box, opera glasses in hand. |
| 2334 |
He stirred, and added another datum. I appear also to be in a tank of fluid, and yet I do not drown. |
| 2335 |
Colin came to attention and saluted the officer, who responded just as snappily and then eyed Frank. |
| 2336 |
Go right ahead and check your ass off, he told the machine. Check yourself into a nervous breakdown. |
| 2337 |
After the trade schools we tried the colleges and then the high schools. There we discovered Shelia. |
| 2338 |
Chang nodded and, though he seemed overwhelmed by the man's effusiveness, he and Naomi kept working. |
| 2339 |
The crossbow quarrels sleet from the corner of the banquet hall like the briefest of thundershowers. |
| 2340 |
Doctor Murphy snorted and headed for the door. Reaching the threshold, he paused and wheeled around. |
| 2341 |
Now, in the light of day, she knew it had only been a dog barking. There were no wolves in the city. |
| 2342 |
It wasn't much of a chase. Trigger caught the mailman easily. The mailman was the size of a hamster. |
| 2343 |
Of course I hadn't. I was scarcely a mandarin or member of the imperial staff, as he knew very well. |
| 2344 |
She pushed back her hood and looked back at them with that belief in herself which was her heritage. |
| 2345 |
The old slave was waiting in the passage when they carried out the rolled carpet on their shoulders. |
| 2346 |
The one time they had not been able to remove an abused Sleepless child legally, they kidnapped him. |
| 2347 |
It was early enough that the mists snaked up from the green, softening the air, softening the light. |
| 2348 |
Benjamin, though, would not be bluffed. He referred to his wrist chronometer then spoke three words. |
| 2349 |
Obviously they needed help. Sim poked his beak cautiously into the pool. And got kicked in the tail. |
| 2350 |
He came over and took it from my hand. His hand was large and hairy. It was much steadier than mine. |
| 2351 |
And every night he listened to the recording, learning more and more until finally the Watcher came. |
| 2352 |
The axle scraped. The shocks creaked. The undercarriage shimmied. Two hubcaps popped off and rolled. |
| 2353 |
As we had agreed, he left his two aides at the hangar door and accompanied me inside all by himself. |
| 2354 |
The entire group gasped, though Edge seemed most intent on what she had to say and held his silence. |
| 2355 |
Deanna oversaw every step and stage. A loss or a victory, she was determined that it carry her mark. |
| 2356 |
They stood watching as Tommy scurried off across the hull, squeezed himself into it and disappeared. |
| 2357 |
The sages want me to play it close. Try to find out at least as much from her as she learns from me. |
| 2358 |
She looked down. Her eyes stopped on the orange hair of a man who raised his head and looked at her. |
| 2359 |
Ingra shouted questions at the new guards, and the answers she received explained what had happened. |
| 2360 |
Smith watched the virus hunters' truck pull away from the station, escorted by motorcycle outriders. |
| 2361 |
Nest hugged herself with her arms and dug the toe of her shoe into the wet earth, growing impatient. |
| 2362 |
Fuchsia was just below him, and he was startled to hear her voice come up jerkily through the smoke. |
| 2363 |
As his men fell on the soldiers, a great cry rose up. As men fell, their screams filled the morning. |
| 2364 |
The three pronged mirrors were speeding up. The lifeboat resumed its northern course at a fast pace. |
| 2365 |
Terrel didn't really understand any of this, but he knew it was the only answer he was going to get. |
| 2366 |
They saw their own reflection scurrying single file down the hall of a wizard's house, nothing more. |
| 2367 |
He tapped his fingers on the damp stonework, feeling he ought to make his position absolutely clear. |
| 2368 |
Whatever they had not attained today would be theirs tomorrow or the next day. Clothes. Food. Water. |
| 2369 |
The auctioneer indicated me, taking his attention from the figure who had recently entered the hall. |
| 2370 |
For the second time he flicked his wiggling fingers back and forth. Then his slit of a mouth opened. |
| 2371 |
I gibber some more. The blades of the helicopter rotor are spinning mere inches from a tower of ice. |
| 2372 |
As the beamer caught the narrowing of those rough walls the Princess slackened pace, looked puzzled. |
| 2373 |
I was free and I was running, but I had made it this far. I now had the chance I'd wanted all along. |
| 2374 |
And the privateer was now darting diagonally across the Triton's bow, picking up speed every moment. |
| 2375 |
That same day, he dared to visit two galleries. Neither of them had a pewter candlestick on display. |
| 2376 |
Dennis looked up at him, not sure if he should be glad or start swearing about the fix they were in. |
| 2377 |
All my sense of possession came to the fore, that she was mine and that she now dared to turn on me. |
| 2378 |
But Ava's face was knotted into such a serious frown that I decided to ask her what the trouble was. |
| 2379 |
Justen forced a sense of order into the black staff, then extended it to Gunnar, who shook his head. |
| 2380 |
He looked toward Scarlett, whose eyes had been fastened on the dead man with a stare of fascination. |
| 2381 |
Everyone should know this, and therefore it was odd to see that the big signal arms were stationary. |
| 2382 |
Under the appalling force of his muscular pressure, the loose ends of the bars shuddered, then bent. |
| 2383 |
Compassion and revenge are two sides of the same coin. Necessity dictates which way that coin falls. |
| 2384 |
But now he was grateful for the strength that flowed into him as she draped a charm around his neck. |
| 2385 |
He stood hesitantly, sensing the presence hovering around him, wanting to confront it but afraid to. |
| 2386 |
With misery I suddenly realized my genetic heritage was that of a type which could be caught by men. |
| 2387 |
People passed – laborers of the morning, an old man with a crooked stick. I barely saw these people. |
| 2388 |
She veered away from thinking about him. This wasn't hard. There was plenty to occupy her attention. |
| 2389 |
Fully twenty horse and riders are spitted on the waiting pikes. The others slow into a milling mass. |
| 2390 |
I decided that I should have a little chat with my moll as soon as the opportunity presented itself. |
| 2391 |
Next day they paddled on. Bone, not content merely to paddle and guide, chatted about this and that. |
| 2392 |
They piled in the stretch. They huffed hard. The windows fogged up. The stretch wiggled and bounced. |
| 2393 |
But only the darkness, and the memories, and the aching loneliness heard his cries or felt his rage. |
| 2394 |
Martin had not spoken. He was staring at Bella as she sat at the table. It came to him like a flash. |
| 2395 |
And as I stared at the clumps of low, tangled trees up ahead, a thought pushed its way into my head. |
| 2396 |
Regis motioned for it to slip back down, just a bit, and grab the rope again. The creature complied. |
| 2397 |
Tasting her. Kissing her. Parting her and licking her in long, hot, relishing strokes of his tongue. |
| 2398 |
It was my first official sitting job for Charlotte since my return, and we were both pretty excited. |
| 2399 |
I gasped and put my hand to my throat as though it had been skewered out of the darkness by a spear. |
| 2400 |
She was smiling peculiarly at him, as if she were enjoying the conflict between his hunger and fear. |
| 2401 |
Louie knew he'd done something wrong and he slunk out of the library with his tail between his legs. |
| 2402 |
Paul nodded again. I didn't know if I was making progress or not I seemed to have broken his spirit. |
| 2403 |
The trolls came pouring from the bridge and went scurrying up the hillside, yelping with excitement. |
| 2404 |
He moaned softly. But it was not a sound of pain. It was as if he were trying to talk, and couldn't. |
| 2405 |
Drew strained on the line. Desperate, he dragged Ray over the side, slumping with him onto the deck. |
| 2406 |
The last thought came as an additional bright revelation, but one that made her sit up and go still. |
| 2407 |
The weapon's crew yelled a hearty cheer, hoisting their banner and waving for the whole army to see. |
| 2408 |
A column of swirling light shot skyward from the center of the wooden circle and the ground rumbled. |
| 2409 |
This inner protest always immersed her in the events that had elevated her to this awful prominence. |
| 2410 |
On the far side of the river, the fog cleared and another torch could be seen, just a wink of light. |
| 2411 |
I sat down at her table and opened the envelope with my name on it. It was written in block letters. |
| 2412 |
The librarian would burst into the front entryway any second. And there I'd be. Trapped at the door. |
| 2413 |
Not witless enough, however, to realize that sooner or later the wolf pack would tear him to pieces. |
| 2414 |
Tallahassee tried to edge away from that heat, unaware as yet of anything else. She opened her eyes. |
| 2415 |
Dawn tried to explain why they had to go, while figuring out the fastest way to get the girls there. |
| 2416 |
Tristan laughed, happy to hear that in spite of all that had happened, Marissa was capable of humor. |
| 2417 |
It slammed shut on the multiple tentacles, trying to catch as many as it could, and began crunching. |
| 2418 |
Smoke washed over the street, the squat body of the tank barely visible through the swirling clouds. |
| 2419 |
And then came the barbecue shrimp, which was nothing short of fantastic, and she started in at once. |
| 2420 |
She buckled into the combination shoulder and lap belt. She suspected that she was going to need it. |
| 2421 |
He was very much weaker then. I stooped down beside him so that he wouldn't have to raise his voice. |
| 2422 |
I waited long minutes. I went up to the surface for air. They were still gone when I came back down. |
| 2423 |
More often than not, both stubborn competitors would wait too long and would plunge to their demise. |
| 2424 |
Her gaze did not recognize him. She stared blankly through him as if her soul had lapsed within her. |
| 2425 |
They stared not so much at the humans, as at the great black beast that ambled placidly behind them. |
| 2426 |
He looked up at me, his big blue eyes filled with tears, his lips trembling and as pale as his face. |
| 2427 |
The elevator door had opened. My Victim and his daughter were rising floor after floor into the sky. |
| 2428 |
The two rose and padded out, and he sat in deep thought for a moment before ringing for his servant. |
| 2429 |
Queen in the near future and thought that these limited supplies might have to last for a long time. |
| 2430 |
Three of the white birds clustered around her feet, their tails trailing gracefully down the stairs. |
| 2431 |
Her breath jammed in her throat as she heard a muffled curse and a body being dragged past her door. |
| 2432 |
Beyond the curving windows Terra was a verdant background streaked with white, mostly in shadow now. |
| 2433 |
Dane managed a weak nod, but contrived that he did not lean too heavily on his avidly helpful guide. |
| 2434 |
If the amphibian plane had not had retractable wheels, the landing gear would have been sheered off. |
| 2435 |
Then there was silence again, then a muted clang as one of the sentries shifted his weight uneasily. |
| 2436 |
The scout dipped as its dying drives coughed. The high whine of the gravity generator began to fall. |
| 2437 |
So I agreed to try the formula. I prayed that it might really allow us to travel back into the past. |
| 2438 |
Carrie shot Sam a look of admiration. She hadn't known her friend had it in her to be so perceptive. |
| 2439 |
Standing on the ledge, he watched the headlights pierce the darkness as she drove down the mountain. |
| 2440 |
Caleb folded the letter and put it back in his pocket. He was not sure what they were talking about. |
| 2441 |
Since I was finally alone, though, I was free to take a shortcut to speed up my healing. I vanished. |
| 2442 |
Lincoln sat up straight, and Grant saw the flash of fire. Lincoln pounded a heavy hand on the table. |
| 2443 |
Grace ran her tongue along the column of his throat, delighting in the way he shuddered in her arms. |
| 2444 |
The footman's nerve broke at last. He turned and ran in the direction from which the coach had come. |
| 2445 |
The room was uncomfortably quiet, until Bismarck laughed his short laugh and shrugged his shoulders. |
| 2446 |
Oh, the things we've put you through, dear thing. This was but the latest trial for their poor ship. |
| 2447 |
Around them, the fog seemed to press heavily. The mist felt very cool, and exuded a sense of danger. |
| 2448 |
Soil began to cry, sensing beneath this brute visage a gentle personality. It was her only recourse. |
| 2449 |
Just sitting there on the wall in the phone nook, lights dark, looking like a snake ready to strike. |
| 2450 |
Stephen would not even have known it was a woman. He saw no resemblance to the photograph of Hannah. |
| 2451 |
He heard a roaring, as of waters unlocked, and a far portion of the citadel burst and was scattered. |
| 2452 |
All the while I spoke to them in a consoling voice of the miracles I had seen in the changing world. |
| 2453 |
Hillary sat down. His teeth clamped down on his lower lip and he stared sullenly at his fingernails. |
| 2454 |
The nurse leans over him and slowly lifts his arm. Stiffly, he finally follows the tug of her hands. |
| 2455 |
Worse yet. We would have to have a repair crew work on the hull, and that was treacherous in battle. |
| 2456 |
Ham's neck reddened. His hands clenched on his sword cane. He looked as if he could have slain Monk. |
| 2457 |
Though Philip was slow to pick up on the changes being wrought in her, realization finally did come. |
| 2458 |
Human blood baptizes the alien, which stands a grotesque statue until the artery has ceased to pump. |
| 2459 |
Touching heels to the stallion's flanks, he rode to the front of the battle line and lifted his arm. |
| 2460 |
Not for you, beloved. You would want no part in what I do here tonight. So this last is not for you. |
| 2461 |
I also took time before answering, but in my case it was a struggle for control rather than thought. |
| 2462 |
Evan stuck out his hand. Then remembered Conan's crushing handshake. He tried to pull back his hand. |
| 2463 |
Eyes watched Jack from the backs of dark rooms, between lattices, from crawl spaces beneath porches. |
| 2464 |
That journey seemed to go on forever. Fear chilled me. Yet the emotion was a goad to keep me moving. |
| 2465 |
One of the men then was drawing her hands behind her back. He snapped her wrists in slave bracelets. |
| 2466 |
Rowan took a deep long breath, ignoring the sweat that clung to her face and the warmth of the lamp. |
| 2467 |
They fell, seemingly endlessly. Water was all around, in columns. Below was a frightening whirlpool. |
| 2468 |
The stoat who had been acting as driver swung his willow cane viciously at the unfortunate squirrel. |
| 2469 |
Gabriel regarded Delacroix for a long while, faintly amused by the man's unexpected show of courage. |
| 2470 |
Sitting upright the animal measured about three feet. The refrigeration box was a cube half as high. |
| 2471 |
Mister Spiro had warned them to look out for suspicious vehicles, and this was certainly suspicious. |
| 2472 |
She allowed herself to be dragged out into the street, where William took a deep breath and relaxed. |
| 2473 |
Warmth ringed his wrists, fingers tightened there as if to drag him out of the encroaching darkness. |
| 2474 |
The elders froze as they saw it was a woman wearing a long black gown, her head covered with a hood. |
| 2475 |
The look in her eyes when he said that, though, made him think he should have quit with a simple no. |
| 2476 |
For a tense moment, the only sound was the mechanical swish of the ties circling their narrow track. |
| 2477 |
Bram was dead. Maybe a protector could will his heart to stop. His last words were suspiciously apt. |
| 2478 |
The enemy had started using better drones. This time the added expense saved them from annihilation. |
| 2479 |
The balcony overlooked one of the inner courtyards. Mort glanced over the parapet, and then mounted. |
| 2480 |
Cordelia came gravely to attention, returned the salute, and slipped quietly out the apartment door. |
| 2481 |
I skirted a large cooking area. I could smell freshly baked bread, and the cooking of eggs and meat. |
| 2482 |
Dad was understanding. He simply gave me a hug, waved to Mr. Pike, then turned around and drove off. |
| 2483 |
Hunter suppressed the urge to kick the man in the head. Instead, he went back over to the Commander. |
| 2484 |
She fished in the pocket of her jeans and found the scrap of paper, and dialed the telephone number. |
| 2485 |
He holstered two weapons and started reloading the other two as the cavalry about him began to fire. |
| 2486 |
She knew she was trapped and joined my hilarity, throwing her head back and giving a delicious yell. |
| 2487 |
Disgusted, Carolin turned his back on one cousin he had once loved, and went to deal with the other. |
| 2488 |
Ignoring him, Alfred had started to walk back, and nothing was happening. The ground remained still. |
| 2489 |
The little act of kindness made the tears start to Ellen's eyes. But she shook her head impatiently. |
| 2490 |
The lorry skidded around slowly, bounced lazily off a wall, and rolled a little way down the street. |
| 2491 |
Crofts felt good. He would know now where to find that second man whenever it came time to kill him. |
| 2492 |
Persis averted her eyes from the mirror. Washed out was a very mild term for what she saw there now. |
| 2493 |
Although he had sensed that she would be waiting, her words were welcome reassurance, and he smiled. |
| 2494 |
Nicholas nodded, looked at Harry and unnecessarily adjusted the coat around his small sleeping form. |
| 2495 |
The phone clicked in his ear, there was a moment of silence, and then the vapid hum of an open line. |
| 2496 |
The last wizard in the group lagged behind his colleagues and looked around the square with disdain. |
| 2497 |
A minute later a couple of cuboid robots trundled along the tunnel and started to clean up the mess. |
| 2498 |
Having said that, the young man turned his back, walked through a curtained doorway and disappeared. |
| 2499 |
I followed her as long as I could. I saw a spark traveling across the great night. And then nothing. |
| 2500 |
He opened the bag, peered inside briefly, then poured a stream of uncut diamonds into his left palm. |
| 2501 |
Mark let out a giggle. I knew he was trying not to laugh at Stanley. But the giggle escaped somehow. |
| 2502 |
Since there were no blips, hostile or otherwise, he wondered about the reason for the course switch. |
| 2503 |
Harry stiffened, his eyes narrowing for a moment. Then he shook his head and gave a humorless laugh. |
| 2504 |
Not everything was in place, though. Not everything was ready. Everything had to be done just right. |
| 2505 |
An eagle soared high on the thermals with wings spread, seemingly static as it rose on the warm air. |
| 2506 |
It was not a scream of fear, but a riotous cry of unbridled rage. It sent a shiver through his soul. |
| 2507 |
I don't remember how long I stood there. When I returned to my own rooms, I began to plan my escape. |
| 2508 |
There was a short peculiar whistling sound, the kind of a whistle by which a man might summon a dog. |
| 2509 |
Claudia was brushing tears away, and Lisa just stared at the sea, not knowing exactly what she felt. |
| 2510 |
I know, he cut in. But if I can convince it of a few things, it will end the plague. I'm sure of it. |
| 2511 |
I stopped screaming when I realized I had felt nothing but a dry, feathery caress. I opened my eyes. |
| 2512 |
The three of them almost hit the ceiling when I hopped over the sectional and landed in their midst. |
| 2513 |
Gussy crawled out, scratched on face, hands and knees by the gorse prickles. He was nearly in tears. |
| 2514 |
The swordsman yanked away and tore the pack from his blade, then looked back to the dwarf curiously. |
| 2515 |
Hugh knocked the pipe's ashes out in the hallway, tucked his pipe into a pocket of his leather vest. |
| 2516 |
Somewhere in the distance someone was having hysterics, punctuated by an occasional worried whistle. |
| 2517 |
Anne Marie, however, had finally galvanized the council into action. The long wait was about to end. |
| 2518 |
Unnoticed, Tom pulled a handwritten note from his pocket and slipped it into Decker's jacket pocket. |
| 2519 |
That first try was going to be successful. He was free of the Hill system, and he wasn't going back. |
| 2520 |
Basset did not answer. He seemed to be deep in thought, watching the figures on the ground intently. |
| 2521 |
The monk in back was moaning now, struggling against his trusses. Suddenly, he began kicking wildly. |
| 2522 |
She was already turning on the tiny shower in the washroom off her bedroom when the ringing stopped. |
| 2523 |
Only her head moved as I crossed the mosaic. The place was very quiet and she pitched her voice low. |
| 2524 |
Another long pause ensued, during which Cecilia was compelled to smother a giggle in his shirtfront. |
| 2525 |
Wayne had rules. Wayne enforced said. Do not paw women. Do not hit women. Treat whores with respect. |
| 2526 |
He would dismount and walk into the cave, fetch the Armour and wait for the enemy he could not slay. |
| 2527 |
In her room, she locked the door, then dragged a chair in front of it as an added safety precaution. |
| 2528 |
He shakes his head, then grins back at her. They wait as the Griffin is moored to the stone bollard. |
| 2529 |
Five hundred physicians attending the celestial court, each carrying a silver box with golden pills. |
| 2530 |
Enoch Root has an old cigar box on his lap. Golden light is shining out of the crack around its lid. |
| 2531 |
Those that were there that day would later swear they had never seen such a display of flying, ever. |
| 2532 |
Apache nomads in the wide southwestern wastes of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
| 2533 |
Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the experience of experiences is being alive. |
| 2534 |
But inside his brain he saw the sand and the squatting robot and the hills with the years upon them. |
| 2535 |
Unheeded, her protest trailed into silence. In the chill spring wind she looked like she might weep. |
| 2536 |
The second Mercedes pulled up and a team of technicians got out. They were all carrying their tools. |
| 2537 |
I was instantly awake. I heard Lana cry out with pain. I jerked my head and felt another sharp pain. |
| 2538 |
Mac didn't think this young woman was capable of anything. She looked like a lost, bewildered child. |
| 2539 |
The cart was soon unloaded, Billy taken out and turned out to feed, and then they went in to supper. |
| 2540 |
Amy squeezed in with Jenna and me, furious. Jenna tried to make small talk with her. It was ignored. |
| 2541 |
Audrey looked pale in the blue and purple lights, her lipstick garish. She seemed ready to cry, too. |
| 2542 |
His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous recrimination. They stirred and began to shout him down. |
| 2543 |
There was a sudden clang of the judge's bar and the rope stretched before the tarns was jerked away. |
| 2544 |
As they approached the site of the laser beam combiner, they saw a lot of robot transporter traffic. |
| 2545 |
The rising sun, striking a section of balustrade, cast a long dark shadow that fell but a foot away. |
| 2546 |
Anne Sloane, the slim delicate mutant girl with the gift of psychokinesis, did not blink an eyelash. |
| 2547 |
He grabbed it and heaved it off its supports. Or tried to, at least. It was rusted solidly in place. |
| 2548 |
Every time his dewy tongue touched her, she shivered and he entered her waiting mouth a little more. |
| 2549 |
She looked at the sleeping figure and then with a pensive expression, chewed and swallowed the note. |
| 2550 |
I saw a gray, quilted cover over something large. Maybe it's some kind of treasure chest, I thought. |
| 2551 |
He ended with a shout, and the Army shouted with him, clashing their weapons in tumult and approval. |
| 2552 |
As the three approached, the passenger door of the taxi opened and a flood of cold air swept inward. |
| 2553 |
Such cruel treatment from her kindly old nanny made her hold her breath a long time. Then she cried. |
| 2554 |
There was a pause as everyone complied. It took a distressingly long time for them to figure it out. |
| 2555 |
There was no time to think, no time to protect himself from the spiraling fury rising out the abyss. |
| 2556 |
The flame moved toward him, hovered directly before his eyes. He closed them against the brightness. |
| 2557 |
With a smile on his face and lust in his heart, Alex closed the door quietly at his back. Locked it. |
| 2558 |
Jack is loading his magazines and you sit on his cot and take a cigar from your pocket and light it. |
| 2559 |
The wall around the house, in the rear, was coated with ivy vines. This foliage was thick and green. |
| 2560 |
Closing his eyes, he took a deep breath. Perhaps now he would be able to formulate a plan of escape. |
| 2561 |
He opened it, and sat riveted in his chair as he read. This was really serious, very serious indeed. |
| 2562 |
It's best to be prepared for the worst, after all, and wise to learn to walk before breath runs out. |
| 2563 |
Colt was wiping his hands very deliberately now, looking at Kinsman with his back to the two miners. |
| 2564 |
With luck he could make it back to the Common before they realized they were following a dead trail. |
| 2565 |
The horned puppet followed them. He ran with more grace and with less noise than even the two women. |
| 2566 |
The lizard blinked, turned slowly and walked majestically away, with Mariel shaking the sword at it. |
| 2567 |
Fifteen minutes later I was still creeping, and the indicator dial hadn't jiggled half a millimeter. |
| 2568 |
Nathan slapped his knee and howled with laughter. None of the other four so much as cracked a smile. |
| 2569 |
To my terror I saw him unroll heavy furs and cast them scornfully over the rugs near the small fire. |
| 2570 |
There was no shortage of women wanting to share those accommodations. Astonishingly beautiful women. |
| 2571 |
Behind his back, however, he sifted through the dark soil. His fingers closed around a smooth stone. |
| 2572 |
It was a pity that all of a sudden she had no feeling for him. None at all. Even her anger was dead. |
| 2573 |
The phone rang five times before Bertie realized where she was. The water in the shower was running. |
| 2574 |
We had just reached the family room doorway when the piano began to play. A strange jumble of notes. |
| 2575 |
Wrapped in each other's arms, amid tangled sheets and sweaty afterglow, two lovers began to quarrel. |
| 2576 |
When she had finished, she tucked the small canvas package up under her skirts, and went up on deck. |
| 2577 |
I missed a good meal and everyone informed me that I had, and there was genuine regret in his voice. |
| 2578 |
Monk grinned. The grin had the effect of making his incredibly homely face very pleasant to look at. |
| 2579 |
Again he said nothing, but held her closer and stopped her words, and let her tears bathe them both. |
| 2580 |
After a moment, Doc Savage broke the circuit, and stillness came again to the vast white laboratory. |
| 2581 |
Too many enemies, before and behind. Matt slapped the gun out of Castro's hand, then turned and ran. |
| 2582 |
Her hands were on the door handle. She tried to take them off and couldn't. They would not obey her. |
| 2583 |
One of the bones in his forearm was broken and she could not free it from the metal garment he wore. |
| 2584 |
I let him have the plump center portion, keeping my fingers positioned so he couldn't take too much. |
| 2585 |
Jason slowly reduced the pressure of his fingers. Breathing heavily, he spoke as calmly as he could. |
| 2586 |
They would hate him if they caught him. They would brand him traitor. But there was no other answer. |
| 2587 |
Doc went directly to the house in which he had awakened from the mysterious period of senselessness. |
| 2588 |
A little conflagration of panic flared inside me for a moment. I clung to him a little more tightly. |
| 2589 |
Brian remounted his horse and started down the causeway. Jim fell in beside the large white charger. |
| 2590 |
And from the cut that ran darkly off to his right, just beyond John's, the sound of taunting voices. |
| 2591 |
He closed his eyes wearily, the blood gathering in his nose and his mouth and in his quivering eyes. |
| 2592 |
He was tempted to draw his own sidearm, but Harry preferred to handle this courteously, if possible. |
| 2593 |
He heard an amused chuckle from Ford. Angrily, tossing the menu aside, he forced himself to look up. |
| 2594 |
Five days later, they locked up the house and started walking to the public transportation terminal. |
| 2595 |
The horses were blown also. Bad riders were hard on their mounts, as surely as the reverse was true. |
| 2596 |
She held still, lying just as they had put her. Her eyes were wide open. She lay so for a long time. |
| 2597 |
The cornstalks rose above our heads. The breeze made them lean over us, as if trying to close us in. |
| 2598 |
They made a right, then a left. Bullhorns exhorted the crowd monotonously to move back, to disperse. |
| 2599 |
It was near dawn on the eighth night when I finally wandered up to Roget's door and pulled the bell. |
| 2600 |
Pacing there miserably around the safety of his living room, he remembered what had happened to him. |
| 2601 |
They excused themselves and went into the house. Stick watched them, no doubt thinking about supper. |
| 2602 |
Suddenly a leather loop fell about my neck. I was startled, and turned. It drew tight. I was snared. |
| 2603 |
Harvey saw the interfering Bitch's fire. He wanted to go. Now. Tonight. But something made him wait. |
| 2604 |
He stood there, staring after it, until the vehicle swerved around a corner and was gone from sight. |
| 2605 |
Minor points began to occupy more time as the overall fitness and readiness of the troops increased. |
| 2606 |
Trevelyan glanced up with a sudden consciousness and felt his pulse quicken. Nicki had just come in. |
| 2607 |
One of the massive hands reached in, closed around Thomas' neck and jerked him out into the passage. |
| 2608 |
Inspector Higgins had slashed one end of a stick of powder. In this he had stuffed an explosive cap. |
| 2609 |
The key was still sewn securely to her right glove. She pinched it between her thumb and forefinger. |
| 2610 |
I struggled from the chair onto the floor, where Taylor sat with the chemicals and measuring spoons. |
| 2611 |
Ralph removed the long black cheroot from between his teeth, and gave a parody of a military salute. |
| 2612 |
Every book I read was a twisted homage to her. Every mystery solved was my love for her in ellipses. |
| 2613 |
Whitaker looked down in the direction the pilot pointed and saw a small wood with dense undergrowth. |
| 2614 |
She giggled delightedly. She rocked forward on her knees, and burrowed her head against my shoulder. |
| 2615 |
The little gunman was canny, much more canny than it appeared on the surface, as it later developed. |
| 2616 |
Confessor had helped when Abby had feared all was lost. She wondered what would become of the woman. |
| 2617 |
Camilla's voice trembled, and it was barely louder than a whisper. But Amy heard her loud and clear. |
| 2618 |
Louis made an answer he hoped was noncommittal. He sensed the other's disappointment, or guessed it. |
| 2619 |
He had laughed but not in ridicule. He had thought of something one of his friends once said to him. |
| 2620 |
Kevin breathed out noisily then took a bite of hamburger to avoid saying anything he'd later regret. |
| 2621 |
Frowns. They were worried. Wondering what had happened to their envoys. Beginning to get suspicious. |
| 2622 |
Theo looked away and walked to the dark cabin, wishing that there was someone there waiting for him. |
| 2623 |
I thought it was time for me to interrupt lest Beef by his tactlessness should lose his opportunity. |
| 2624 |
There was a dull boom from above. Sand and rock rained down. The upper part of the tunnel collapsed. |
| 2625 |
But she had met the entire ordeal with a courage and strength of heart he'd not seen in a long time. |
| 2626 |
He heard the softly spoken command in Spanish. He heard the scratch of the dog's claws as it leaped. |
| 2627 |
I did not talk to Logan. In school, we avoided each other. He sat with his guy friends at lunchtime. |
| 2628 |
More keys were found in the morning. When Acacia announced lunch, Crane gathered his staff together. |
| 2629 |
Reggie and Beth look really nervous, Todd thought, edging past a display on how trash gets recycled. |
| 2630 |
In the quiet of the church Robyn untied the first package, and unpacked the contents onto the table. |
| 2631 |
She did, filling one for Simon as well, and talk went to general subjects rather than personal ones. |
| 2632 |
And so far too, there'd been little to show for the blood and suffering of the past hour and a half. |
| 2633 |
And as he stood wondering, the door burst open and something came hurtling at him like a wild beast. |
| 2634 |
Then I swung a single ball down with a double force. The opposite ball flung out with similar force. |
| 2635 |
He had been shoved out of the way, so that it was not necessary to step over him to get to the door. |
| 2636 |
Monk and Ham were weak. Unconsciously, they had been straining continuously with all their strength. |
| 2637 |
Both groups then broke into convulsive and abusive laughter, picked up their wounded, and went away. |
| 2638 |
Later she would question her sanity. For now, feigning a lack of fear was all she could think to do. |
| 2639 |
Ten minutes later they had swung round in a wide circle as if to approach the island from the north. |
| 2640 |
Stern swallowed again, the action becoming increasingly harder because of the dryness of his throat. |
| 2641 |
But something seemed to have gone out of her. She seemed a little frightened, a little apprehensive. |
| 2642 |
She stopped. She bit her lips. Her eyes swam in moisture. They were very big, enthralling blue eyes. |
| 2643 |
But there was no response from the mad woman, who had now resumed her vacant staring at the ceiling. |
| 2644 |
That was the best she could hope for tonight. She was damned sure she wasn't going to get any sleep. |
| 2645 |
The small gray man sat in a small gray office in the ship. He was looking at small gray instruments. |
| 2646 |
He was young enough to appreciate the compliment, but not quite old enough to receive it graciously. |
| 2647 |
They all put on fur cloaks and left the palace. The snow had almost stopped, and the wind was brisk. |
| 2648 |
He had given her the backdrop and the proscenium arch for this little drama to be fully appreciated. |
| 2649 |
Saturday stepped forward. Green sparks flew out to his hands as he gripped the jacket and put it on. |
| 2650 |
The thought finally came into clear focus. He was too surprised to keep from blurting out the words. |
| 2651 |
Ham was a highly skilled airman. He proved it. He got down without even wetting the wing tip floats. |
| 2652 |
I peered down into it. The light from our helmets was swallowed up in a well that seemed bottomless. |
| 2653 |
For a moment, she looked away. Her face was like a mask, from the effort of fighting down the tears. |
| 2654 |
Flick found the right button. The glass was one of the barriers the watchman had mentioned. It rose. |
| 2655 |
Kroner was silent for a moment. Suddenly he shouted into the phone, almost rupturing Paul's eardrum. |
| 2656 |
The three men inside heard the key turn, and in a trice Jake was at the door, pulling at the handle. |
| 2657 |
The moment he turned the machine on, the itch went away and the vision of the sparrows went with it. |
| 2658 |
Snip could hear a faint buzzing and eyed the old gentleman's ears with growing interest and respect. |
| 2659 |
The light grew and the morion continued. Whatever was below seemed a pale yellow with smoky patches. |
| 2660 |
The fallen man took told of his mouth and nose with both hands and pinched, so he could not breathe. |
| 2661 |
He turned to face the solid wall of advancing soldiers now slowing to close with him, weapons ready. |
| 2662 |
He studied her for a long time without moving or speaking, a stone face wrapped in cloak and shadow. |
| 2663 |
She was right. Until I dealt with Antonin, or he dealt with me, there would be no answers. I sighed. |
| 2664 |
The man's lips twitched, he seemed about to speak. His mouth opened and blood gushed down his chest. |
| 2665 |
This duty was performed, and the hammocks piped down as the last glimmering of daylight disappeared. |
| 2666 |
If I didn't nip in and get myself established, someone else would come along and do it over my head. |
| 2667 |
Deep in thought, trying to envision all requisite elements of the strategy, Dalton waggled a finger. |
| 2668 |
Carver turned quickly. He was holding a gold nugget in both hands. It was pulling him to the ground. |
| 2669 |
Without further word, Magician Murphy turned and departed. The three girls breathed sighs of relief. |
| 2670 |
Through it all, the bugler continued to play, although the snatches of sound came from farther away. |
| 2671 |
The Duke scowled, busied himself with the controls as they came into turbulent air over the crawler. |
| 2672 |
His parents were always scolding him for taking matters into his own hands. For being too impulsive. |
| 2673 |
He limped heavily on to a place where a spring bubbled through the earth to feed a trickle of brook. |
| 2674 |
He stumbled up the wide steps, his gown muddy and bedraggled, his mouth smeared with Barlow's blood. |
| 2675 |
When the voice had come on, a green panel inset in the center of the steering wheel started to glow. |
| 2676 |
Aidan waited until Kevin let himself in the front door, using his own key. No one came to greet him. |
| 2677 |
I had struck a blow that Heller would not soon forget and certainly could not possibly recover from. |
| 2678 |
There was no receptionist. I walked right through the empty waiting room and into the second office. |
| 2679 |
That's the whole point, he told himself. This is where everyone finds out if you can, including you. |
| 2680 |
Alison handed him a mug of black tea and placed milk and sugar on the table in matching earthenware. |
| 2681 |
Perhaps it was just as well that deliverance was on its way, from a completely unexpected direction. |
| 2682 |
As they flew across the room, Spiro was being led from the lab. He had finally managed to calm down. |
| 2683 |
She'd been unsure as to what would happen when the charge was purged, but Sonja never expected this. |
| 2684 |
As she went to get out of the car he took hold of her arm, his fingers gripping her so hard it hurt. |
| 2685 |
The profane being thus purified are capable of receiving the benefit of the Initiation of the Adept. |
| 2686 |
It felt like something tore inside her ear when the gun went off just outside the confessional door. |
| 2687 |
Four Rings could clearly be seen, were stiff and blue and she wished for boots such as the men wore. |
| 2688 |
I unlocked the door of my room, and pushed it open for her. She took my arm and we went in together. |
| 2689 |
Merrick stood for a long moment looking up, as though she'd found a chink in the rooftop of foliage. |
| 2690 |
By the second day even the most tireless of the workers had given up hope, but still they toiled on. |
| 2691 |
I shut the door. She walked slowly across the room, stared blankly at the wall, then turned quickly. |
| 2692 |
There was another long pause, but this time Mort kept the telephone screwed tightly against his ear. |
| 2693 |
Norman decided to take another shower. As he stepped under the spray, he made a startling discovery. |
| 2694 |
Red flame plunged at him from a doorway. He had all but fallen into the arms of a party of Tibetans. |
| 2695 |
A young woman stood behind him. She was holding a device the size of a Maxim gun, but a lot sleeker. |
| 2696 |
The elf maiden set her bow to furious work, hardly aiming, just firing for the mass of enemy bodies. |
| 2697 |
Her shout was drowned by a deafening sound that hit her like a physical blow and made her ears ring. |
| 2698 |
They parted that day without speaking, and he spent the evening at the betting parlor, losing money. |
| 2699 |
But Claire was shaking her head. Umlaut dreaded to think what that might mean, so he didn't inquire. |
| 2700 |
The man was looking back as he came around the angle in the trail, wondering if Doc had come closer. |
| 2701 |
The larder door was locked, its hoop handles wrapped in heavy chains and secured by a heavy padlock. |
| 2702 |
She chuckled. The sound was pleasant, and Rey was surprised at how it touched him to hear her laugh. |
| 2703 |
I didn't have time to think about that, though. Right then, things started happening pretty quickly. |
| 2704 |
He sighed himself before he left her there sleeping and crept into the living room to use the phone. |
| 2705 |
He waited for her to respond by offering her own first name, but she only looked at him expectantly. |
| 2706 |
That's the beginning of the story. The story itself can be told very simply, and in far fewer words. |
| 2707 |
A smell of death and foulness seemed to surround her, rising from the bodies of the horse and Rider. |
| 2708 |
And for the first time Powell's artificial aplomb was shaken and his hands shot forward for the map. |
| 2709 |
The old man sputtered, half strangled, and took the bottle from his face. He used it to point again. |
| 2710 |
The dragon flew slowly, only a few feet above the ground, wings sculling gracefully through the air. |
| 2711 |
Pleading fatigue, the Queen dismissed her ladies and ordered a hearty dinner brought to her chamber. |
| 2712 |
With Alyssa trembling inside his shirt once more, he began his descent into the whispering darkness. |
| 2713 |
So, an hour later when he heard Robyn calling to him from higher up the slope, he ignored her cries. |
| 2714 |
The engineer turned suddenly and departed. The clerk was abruptly stricken with a spasm of coughing. |
| 2715 |
Her mouth opened to cry a warning and he ducked, turning to meet the rush of feet from the darkness. |
| 2716 |
The headman clapped his hands sharply and the tribesmen stepped back. Hakim circled, his eyes sharp. |
| 2717 |
The voice like a bear coughing in the woods came on the line. Austin told his father what he needed. |
| 2718 |
He made a signal in the direction of where he knew the button camera was and sat down. He was tired. |
| 2719 |
There was bitterness in his voice. He was out to prove to his father that he could be a worthy heir. |
| 2720 |
There was an irregular black opening some ten feet away. Cautiously, we crept closer and peered out. |
| 2721 |
That did not matter. What mattered was the perception that perhaps they would not always come empty. |
| 2722 |
He spared the boy a friendly nod. Davina was out of sight, taking dishes into the kitchen in relays. |
| 2723 |
I spun around to see Mr. Dawes, his eyes narrowing as he read the inscription on his own gravestone. |
| 2724 |
When they were not alone together, they spent most of their time planning and scheming how to be so. |
| 2725 |
Evan actually flushed. He gave Harden a cold glare and went to listen to what the doctor was saying. |
| 2726 |
I looked at a spot beneath a birch tree some twenty yards away and visualized myself standing there. |
| 2727 |
Night had fallen when he awakened, and a delicious aroma of cooking reminded him he was very hungry. |
| 2728 |
It was not a laboratory to the eye. It was more nearly a library, with an ornate desk in the corner. |
| 2729 |
She had hardly taken two steps, however, when a flicker of light caught at the corner of her vision. |
| 2730 |
Outside, the fat moon vanished into the western horizon, like a silver coin into a drawstring purse. |
| 2731 |
In the rear of the plane, Habeas Corpus awakened abruptly and scrambled forward, big ears distended. |
| 2732 |
A piece he chose. A piece he decided was right. Because by Christ it was his work and no one else's. |
| 2733 |
All three stared in amazement. The infant was showing them something they had not thought of so far. |
| 2734 |
We passed a couple of girls jiggling along in thin summer dresses and the boy from Memphis whistled. |
| 2735 |
The engine started on the second try, and he pulled away from the curb and into the line of traffic. |
| 2736 |
Grave Digger gripped the bartender by the back of his neck and pushed his head toward the nude body. |
| 2737 |
Suddenly she saw her chance and struck a sharp, whipping blow that broke the skin on Sam's forehead. |
| 2738 |
The touch had broken the spell. The webs of air around him snapped soundlessly, and he was plunging. |
| 2739 |
She went back to her desk and sat down. She didn't need expression on her face to look sad, somehow. |
| 2740 |
They never satisfy you, the ones you make. In silence the estrangement and the resentment only grow. |
| 2741 |
She could hear them laughing now. They were laughing in relief, she knew, glad she was leaving them. |
| 2742 |
Like the confrontation with the Chairman and the victory that ensued, the food was oddly flavorless. |
| 2743 |
The room went dead silent. She could hear the soft ticking of someone's wristwatch, it was so quiet. |
| 2744 |
I helped him rise. He looked embarrassed, like a man who has shown something of which he is ashamed. |
| 2745 |
Electricity arcing between his claws. The two are done for. Maureen puts her hand over Penny's eyes. |
| 2746 |
Honey, it was like a hurricane was happening just over that house, the way those trees were blowing. |
| 2747 |
I felt like I was caught in a pinwheel. Our motions were far beyond what gravity coils could handle. |
| 2748 |
I said nothing, but put my hand on his shoulder then turned and walked back to my lonely apartments. |
| 2749 |
He kept digging. The sounds were getting closer. And then, he heard voices. His hands opened a hole. |
| 2750 |
We told you, Hermine thought smugly. You wanted to join us all along. Ever since you saw up her leg. |
| 2751 |
A computerized voice told him to wait a moment. Almost at once, Bugs Benet's face filled the screen. |
| 2752 |
He got to his feet and walked stiffly out of the cafeteria, leaving his untouched tray at the table. |
| 2753 |
He reached out to embrace her, wanting to weep with relief and joy, but she recoiled from his touch. |
| 2754 |
I tried to form a plan as we approached the city, but in truth I was not sure at all how to proceed. |
| 2755 |
The image froze, then disintegrated before Alex's eyes into a colored tangle of blocky video trails. |
| 2756 |
Somewhere in the house, he was either at play or resting until he was ready to begin the game again. |
| 2757 |
Dolph gave a sound that was more snort than laugh. No words were needed to say he didn't believe me. |
| 2758 |
At that point the cook got careless and the little pack mule took a kick at him which barely missed. |
| 2759 |
It was no use wondering how it was done, or for that matter why the laundry returned freshly ironed. |
| 2760 |
And picking it up, he let it drop on the floor upside down, so that the binding split of its weight. |
| 2761 |
He slowed the truck to a crawl and idled back among the huge corpses. His companions were reloading. |
| 2762 |
But people were listening to him. A girl in baggy shorts and a midriff top stopped hefting her rock. |
| 2763 |
Developers gleefully will be counting them, one by one, to prove that their land isn't worth saving. |
| 2764 |
And then she ran on, slipping at the top of the stairs. A glass slipper slithered across the marble. |
| 2765 |
Richard heard a metallic snap. He felt something brush at his neck, felt something fall at his feet. |
| 2766 |
And before my eyes, the shape grew denser and more vivid, and I saw the aspects of a particular man. |
| 2767 |
Nellie closed her eyes and willed herself to calm down, commanded her breathing to return to normal. |
| 2768 |
A trumpet fanfare cut through and rose above the drums. The clear, piercing notes rose into the air. |
| 2769 |
It was starting to sound like a pizza contest to me, but I kept my mouth shut and kept on listening. |
| 2770 |
The two of them were alone in the middle of the field and the Boer rifles were seeking them eagerly. |
| 2771 |
The bronze man kept his lenses trained on the yacht. There was, he saw, no name upon the black hull. |
| 2772 |
Some of the men apparently had never seen Lawn before, and wondered how he came to be giving orders. |
| 2773 |
The nurse's eyes were bright and wet. She reached for the hypodermic, but the doctor shook his head. |
| 2774 |
But first came the storm and with its howling innumerable flashes of lightning blasted over the men. |
| 2775 |
Indeed, this man was the only one of the first party to seize the young woman who was now conscious. |
| 2776 |
I left him below opening up the sofa bed while I ambled up the stairs, talking to him over the rail. |
| 2777 |
And again I closed and opened my hand, and in its hollow stood a man with a sad face, turned upward. |
| 2778 |
The sergeant sniffed and pulled out his watch. It was useful, though not an instrument of precision. |
| 2779 |
The instruction formed in Terrel's head, not heard but understood. There was no denying that demand. |
| 2780 |
There were no old people. Well, no old people who looked really old. White hair framing young faces. |
| 2781 |
And it scared her. It reminded her that if eagerness went too far it could become a form of suicide. |
| 2782 |
Not a man moved They stood staring at nothingness, their submachine guns slung over their shoulders. |
| 2783 |
In a minute she was home. She made a dash for the bathroom. After that, she walked into the kitchen. |
| 2784 |
It wouldn't open. I shut my eyes, closed out all sensations, felt for the tumblers. Clicked it open. |
| 2785 |
He did, tumbling with her to a spread of floor cushions while the sun died brilliantly in the ocean. |
| 2786 |
He shook the dice in his hand and threw a seven. He threw four more sevens, then switched to eleven. |
| 2787 |
No one seemed to notice her, so Winnie stood in the doorway for a few minutes and took in the scene. |
| 2788 |
They finished the first session in complete accord and organized cargoes for the second hour's work. |
| 2789 |
Nina stepped back, her gaze intense, and he wondered if she could sense the depths of his revulsion. |
| 2790 |
Seated in the living room, Hayden got straight to the point. She displayed a picture on her notepad. |
| 2791 |
The expression on their mother's face as they entered the house made up for some of the sudden hurt. |
| 2792 |
Janie neither looked at him nor spoke. She knew by now that a silent subject did not make good copy. |
| 2793 |
Her happiness wasn't something he could achieve by asking her to subordinate her desires to his own. |
| 2794 |
Mighty warrior, I told myself after each of those silly little raids. Terrifying women and children. |
| 2795 |
He had the chance to dominate me already when he took over the executive during Brendan's redaction. |
| 2796 |
Weakened by their own vast multitudes, they were ripe for the pestilence that came out of the north. |
| 2797 |
Occasionally they didn't bother with the tent, and simply left her chained to the stake, like a dog. |
| 2798 |
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. |
| 2799 |
Silence. Three robots stood facing the wall, their right hands fluttering like tethered butterflies. |
| 2800 |
She touches him, his arm. It's all he can do not to flick it away like an animal flicking off a fly. |
| 2801 |
Rob looked past the dark, heavy shapes of the living room furniture to the window. It was just dawn. |
| 2802 |
The Journalist had by this time found a sort of microphone. He pushed a switch and bellowed into it. |
| 2803 |
Even after they warned him that he must never, ever, turn off the suit while inside something solid. |
| 2804 |
Hedwig's large, round, amber eyes gazed at him reproachfully over the dead frog clamped in her beak. |
| 2805 |
Holmes had looked up when I'd come in, and now he was wandering across, a cup of coffee in his hand. |
| 2806 |
Pony growled and slapped a plate from her night table, hardly noticing that it crashed to the floor. |
| 2807 |
I've hurt myself. She said it like an accusation. They were both flushed and panting from the climb. |
| 2808 |
He looked very gloomy. It was peculiar with him that he looked the saddest when he was the happiest. |
| 2809 |
He had not once looked up at Robyn, though she had not been able to tear her own eyes from his face. |
| 2810 |
Doc was not under arrest. But that was simply because there happened to be no officers on the train. |
| 2811 |
One of the Falconers sent his bird aloft. It spiraled about, well above the dark blot of the island. |
| 2812 |
He hesitated and looked down among the faces to see what could be found there, but he was uncertain. |
| 2813 |
Ever so slowly Trevor shook his head, never looking away from the redneck's bleary, glittering eyes. |
| 2814 |
A quick, bright flame was spreading on the floor of the alcove. A tongue of fire darted up the wall. |
| 2815 |
He knew it was not going to last when the familiar padding of sandals came from one of the bedrooms. |
| 2816 |
One of the nicest ones in recent times was on my trip back to Dresden with my old war buddy, O'Hare. |
| 2817 |
Now the unicorn was a speck on the moorland. As they watched, it disappeared into the evening gloom. |
| 2818 |
But here was a gorgeous woman, with heaps of brown hair in big natural ringlets, American oval face. |
| 2819 |
She was shocked at this. Blasphemy and rebellion had never been on her agenda. He knew her thoughts. |
| 2820 |
Your sadness shimmered about you, flashing in your young eyes and in the softness of your new flesh. |
| 2821 |
He narrowly avoided careering into the side of a hundred Italian washing machines in a German lorry. |
| 2822 |
And after several more driving lessons, and a new clutch, she realized Julian was a hopeless driver. |
| 2823 |
In the hallway, Lhasa Nilsson put a hand on the doorknob and turned it. The door opened noiselessly. |
| 2824 |
The men flashed their torches about the boat and lifted up the folded sail. Nobody there, of course. |
| 2825 |
The farmers bobbed in terrified gratitude and backed out of the presence, framed between the guards. |
| 2826 |
The men swinging from the parachutes all laughed heartily as they fell. But they did not look happy. |
| 2827 |
The army of light bodies was posted in front of the horseshoe gate and seemed to wait for something. |
| 2828 |
The grimness was still on her face as she went under the full effects of the morphine and fell back. |
| 2829 |
They looked at each other, then at their soup. Sympathy was there, with a trace of contempt beneath. |
| 2830 |
Thus again I was made aware of how my family considered me, that a servant and not kin brought this. |
| 2831 |
First thing in the morning, he was going back into the mines and bring out the black obsidian skull. |
| 2832 |
For five days they sailed on through the calm ocean, every sail unfurled to give them maximum speed. |
| 2833 |
But all the blood in the world couldn't stop the horrors from coming over me when I went to my rest. |
| 2834 |
It'd been an eternity since he last slept with a woman. Years of bitter, aching loneliness and pain. |
| 2835 |
A heavy silence fell over the room as the three of them stared at the skeleton of James and the dog. |
| 2836 |
Then he set off on his way to that invisible world floating somewhere out in the blackness of space. |
| 2837 |
He removed his helmet, and then sagged as if he'd finally allowed a weight to drop on his shoulders. |
| 2838 |
Veil lay with his eyes half closed, listening to the crackle of the fire and waiting for his chance. |
| 2839 |
The man flinched and grunted under the blows, and finally began to howl, his flat nose running snot. |
| 2840 |
An examination disclosed the hull to be intact, although three or four bulkheads had been blown out. |
| 2841 |
Then his back was hard up against the wall, and he was looking into the laughing eyes of a dead man. |
| 2842 |
I have paid for this place. I am emptied out with the cost of it. I will not give it up for any man. |
| 2843 |
The band exploded through the last chorus of the song and gifted the audience with merciful silence. |
| 2844 |
Luis could feel the weight of the rock. It was much lighter than a rock that size would be on Earth. |
| 2845 |
That was the last thought she remembered. When she opened her eyes again, the room had grown darker. |
| 2846 |
He was disconcerted by the way she put a thumb or knuckle in her mouth, her pink lips sucking at it. |
| 2847 |
It worked. The Image melted while the wolf was still caught in the prolonged instant of translation. |
| 2848 |
Nor could Bell come up with some plausible reason. He gave up his speculations in utter frustration. |
| 2849 |
He had discovered a broken series of smaller ledges, like irregular steps, down which they could go. |
| 2850 |
The old man's head indicated a spade half stuck in the dark mound. The young man shrugged and moved. |
| 2851 |
Doc Savage looked at the wax likeness which he was gripping, holding a few inches off the white bed. |
| 2852 |
Wayne sapped him. Pete flashed him. The bulb was bright. The bulb was hot. The bulb burned his face. |
| 2853 |
I never spoke to either of them idly. They were too grand for that. I addressed them only in prayer. |
| 2854 |
He was all mixed up. Thinking of it, it seemed to him that they had been mixed up for some time now. |
| 2855 |
Karen had been in a daze all the way to Acre. Now, in the prison, it seemed even more unreal to her. |
| 2856 |
Without pausing, the bronze man walked straight ahead, and the door of the office closed behind him. |
| 2857 |
Nothing happened. The violent twisting motion had jammed the atomic bomb against its tight quarters. |
| 2858 |
We got along. It was good that we did. We were living in each other's shadow and stink every minute. |
| 2859 |
Other strips hung down front and back, indited with vertical rows of red and black circular symbols. |
| 2860 |
It seemed round, and about the size of a well, and could not be less than a hundred feet to the top. |
| 2861 |
She climbed onto her bed, where she'd left dinner unfinished. Although she had no appetite, she ate. |
| 2862 |
Feeling better, Jude turned to put her empty bowl in the dishwasher and discovered there wasn't one. |
| 2863 |
Babe was sitting there with her radios. She looked up with a glad smile when the door light came on. |
| 2864 |
Shaking her head but still smiling a little, Joyce Weldon walked back down to the front of the hall. |
| 2865 |
A civilian shouted to the man next to her and pointed. She was looking at something in the distance. |
| 2866 |
Before he could act, she had recovered herself. She stepped forward, lifting a hand to point at him. |
| 2867 |
He marked how deeply she breathed, with tension in every movement, the glazed appearance of her eyes. |
| 2868 |
I don't know how many times I heard it before I realized that it was calling my name, calling for me. |
| 2869 |
He crept the land engine up the lane and into the yard, where he began to shut down the steam system. |
| 2870 |
Then a shudder went through her. The body, vacated by spirit, keeled over. She lay dead in her blood. |
| 2871 |
Two of the men who had been looking after the animal jumped in too, crying to the beast to come back. |
| 2872 |
Then they came out of the hold of the ice, into a world they could not believe at first look existed. |
| 2873 |
From the mob in the tiers, dozens of men began leaping into the arena. Then hundreds. Then thousands. |
| 2874 |
Because to kill to eat or to protect was in the natural order of life. To kill to do a wrong was not. |
| 2875 |
In fact, Miami is not at all like Casablanca. For one thing, the handgun laws are much tougher there. |
| 2876 |
The two women slipped along the narrow alley between a cluster of houses and began to climb the path. |
| 2877 |
Finally, I drew out my handkerchief and wiped my face. I drew in my breath and tried to speak calmly. |
| 2878 |
He turned around, resealing his pants, and started at the shape staring at him through the cell door. |
| 2879 |
For the second time in her life, after she had been asleep for a while she felt herself being kissed. |
| 2880 |
Wolff studied the environment as best he could. The cylinders were all about the size of skyscrapers. |
| 2881 |
Solemnly they turned away from the motionless figure on the floor and set out on their investigation. |
| 2882 |
Then they came to where they had talked to Luke at the circus, and how he had come to them one night. |
| 2883 |
Necessity seen to and finished, I hurried 'round the house and climbed into the carriage with Oliver. |
| 2884 |
The air around them sizzled with electricity as the sky above turned dark. Erin trembled in his arms. |
| 2885 |
Then Deanna told her to close her eyes and drift. Kira did as she asked, wondering what would happen. |
| 2886 |
More than perceptibly, I realized. The ground was trembling, vibrating as if an earthquake had begun. |
| 2887 |
Before I could decide what to do next, this song I like came on the radio. So I turned up the volume. |
| 2888 |
Bond and Solitaire sat down. Bond lit a cigarette and threw the pack and his lighter on to the table. |
| 2889 |
The captain warned his gunner to be cautious and gave the same instructions to the second helicopter. |
| 2890 |
Nicholas had never seen her in this mood, and the depth of her powers of concentration impressed him. |
| 2891 |
The whole woods seemed full of sighs and whispers. An owl called. Jozef jumped, and laughed about it. |
| 2892 |
I caught a blessed breeze and soared up and away, my own silent, voiceless scream echoing in my head. |
| 2893 |
Juliet was furious with herself. This was exactly the kind of stunt her brother had warned her about. |
| 2894 |
He was not at all surprised to find it marked with a small drawing of a turtle. He was the lucky one. |
| 2895 |
His nostrils flared like a stallion's as he surged to his feet. The breath he drew swelled his chest. |
| 2896 |
Frank's lumbering bulk heading in his direction. Vinnie remained behind, keeping watch on the others. |
| 2897 |
I drew back my wrists. I looked about, fearfully. The boys approached more closely, closing about me. |
| 2898 |
The troops responded with a general murmur of acquiescence, certainly nothing approaching enthusiasm. |
| 2899 |
He eyed them closely. They were made of alloy, the first pair he had ever seen made of such material. |
| 2900 |
The soup that followed the flying fish was a fiery mulligatawny, well adapted to West Indian palates. |
| 2901 |
The man continued his grisly struggles for possibly thirty seconds. Then he slumped over, motionless. |
| 2902 |
He laughed softly. His father had been right. He'd finally gotten himself in an impossible situation. |
| 2903 |
She rose and pushed the cabin door open. The raft floated in the midst of void. And Cascade was gone. |
| 2904 |
They both laughed together. They were close enough to Nels to know that he would appreciate the joke. |
| 2905 |
The hooting was widespread, and many repeated Ion's gesture of clasping their hands above their head. |
| 2906 |
That happened when he was in the shower. He'd long since had a phone installed just outside the door. |
| 2907 |
Griswold Rock had not been enthusiastic about taking to the air, having admitted a fear of airplanes. |
| 2908 |
It was a date that every schoolchild knew, though for some its significance had become a bit blurred. |
| 2909 |
I halted and turned. It took me a moment to locate him, as he was back behind the stairs. I returned. |
| 2910 |
What I endured and learned in the process may well be another book, but that can be negotiated later. |
| 2911 |
Rowena said nothing, but she gazed into his handsome face and saw the fear lurking below the surface. |
| 2912 |
He had attempted to follow. The delivery truck blocked his way. Pat Savage dodged it by a few inches. |
| 2913 |
The stretch before them looked more inviting than that way over which they had just forced a passage. |
| 2914 |
Sean heard a low drumming of hooves as though a train passed in the distance and started to his feet. |
| 2915 |
Then they disabled all the other machines in the garage, making neat piles of the various components. |
| 2916 |
Gillian's throat still felt as if her heart was beating there. But some of the panicky feeling ebbed. |
| 2917 |
Astonishingly, the woman hung onto the railing by one scarred leg, a knotted cord of striated muscle. |
| 2918 |
Colt grinned sardonically. Not every dude has his own bodyguards following him around. Status symbol. |
| 2919 |
Her eyes narrowed ominously, her lips thinned, and he wondered how he had ever thought her beautiful. |
| 2920 |
The wind howled through the bare trees. The branches above her head shook and rattled like bony arms. |
| 2921 |
We watched the oars of the approaching ships. There was no hesitation or vacillation in their unison. |
| 2922 |
She skewed to a stop. Then she turned and stared back, expecting to correct the glitch in her memory. |
| 2923 |
Red ink for headlines went out of fashion years ago, even for the Blade. But this one was in red ink. |
| 2924 |
Berta looked extremely scared by now, and was inclined to refuse to go. Julian put his arm round her. |
| 2925 |
Still half asleep, I blinked my eyes open and raised myself on my pillow. I struggled to see clearly. |
| 2926 |
Her arms slid around him. Her hard nipples brushed his bare chest, and her heady scent enveloped him. |
| 2927 |
They moved quickly, silently, following Pitt. He stopped outside the hospital and paused at the door. |
| 2928 |
They ignored lunch, stopping only at Lily's command as she studied the recordings and made notations. |
| 2929 |
When a female slave is given the releaser, she knows that she may soon expect to be hooded, and bred. |
| 2930 |
For the gates were wide open, and beyond them the inhabitants were going peacefully about their ways. |
| 2931 |
They boarded their ship quickly and went immediately below to the cramped cabin beneath the aft deck. |
| 2932 |
John Acre ignored this, but his irate breathing was a series of noisy rushing sounds in the darkness. |
| 2933 |
As Carrie stood there, too stunned to speak, the door to the suite banged open and two people ran in. |
| 2934 |
Miss Smith raised her left hand. Unsteadily their two arms came together. The gold touched her wrist. |
| 2935 |
He stretched out on the sand to relax half an hour without moving a finger. He let his mind go blank. |
| 2936 |
A piece of cornucopia shrapnel bounced off the roof of the Turtle, which rocked on its spiked wheels. |
| 2937 |
It was getting late. Already the sun was down the sky, and a series of dead cities lay ahead of them. |
| 2938 |
She gripped his heart tighter still, feeling it swell against her hold. Still beating, still beating. |
| 2939 |
His breathing was labored as he inhaled the heavy warm air and exhaled an even heavier, warmer vapor. |
| 2940 |
Now Var believed. He fancied he could smell the scorching flesh as men spun about, smoking, and died. |
| 2941 |
The red blob turned itself inside out again, and dashed off to meet the still approaching white form. |
| 2942 |
Surreal clamped her teeth together. Screw small talk. In this place, it turned into verbal quicksand. |
| 2943 |
When maybe she'd had a family of her own. They were still as they had always been for her ever since. |
| 2944 |
I saw the fins of sharks near it, and saw their snouts pressing it, and then beginning to tear at it. |
| 2945 |
None of the guard had showed up in the villa. Naturally not, the Amazons would not have allowed that. |
| 2946 |
Of these trivial offenses, there was an incredible array of convictions. Doc Savage asked about that. |
| 2947 |
Gerard escorted his prisoner to a cell in darkest corner of the block, hoping he would escape notice. |
| 2948 |
The eyes closed and the face was gone. The bushes wiggled and whispered from something crawling fast. |
| 2949 |
The dog walked sadly on. It was momentarily satisfying to frustrate him, but hardly worth the effort. |
| 2950 |
She looked up and smiled, but it was an ingratiating smile. Pitt bowed slightly and pressed her hand. |
| 2951 |
He could feel sweat trickling down his cheeks like tears, could feel his shirt sticking to his back. |
| 2952 |
But it seemed more focused. He felt it entering his head through his own eyes and examining his soul. |
| 2953 |
As Doc surveyed the place, he observed the window was unlocked and open widely. He glanced out of it. |
| 2954 |
He searched several floors before he finally had the presence of mind to ask the House where she was. |
| 2955 |
At last we were settled at a round oak table, whose white painted surface had been wiped quite clean. |
| 2956 |
In the mirror, the fact of the cut on his jaw, gummed up and aching more badly than his rotted tooth. |
| 2957 |
Kai turned back to the browsing predator who hadn't paused in his voracious consumption of the grass. |
| 2958 |
Maybe this is yet another test. They are seeing how far my patience can be stretched before it snaps. |
| 2959 |
Minute scraps of paper, some of them chewed into tiny wads, were all that remained of Melinda's note. |
| 2960 |
The ax caught the beast transversely and the side of its head struck me sliding from the great blade. |
| 2961 |
Dogged, refusing to listen to himself, Rowan took a deep gulp of oxygen and plunged into the inferno. |
| 2962 |
The more I thought about the jewel, the more convinced I became that it had to be an object of Power. |
| 2963 |
Bond shook himself, then he picked up his knife and selected the thickest of the pieces of hot toast. |
| 2964 |
Doc was almost to the castle gate when automatic gunfire erupted from the entrance into the fortress. |
| 2965 |
An hour dragged past. Another. Doc worked tirelessly, with every ounce of his enormous concentration. |
| 2966 |
He looked up from the small battle formation he was creating from the things on the table. He smiled. |
| 2967 |
Soon the storm passed. They got out, righted the boat, and resumed their travel toward the mountains. |
| 2968 |
Understanding of his error immediately leaped into the eyes behind the goggles. The masked one moved. |
| 2969 |
The hill was beginning to steepen and his lorry was heavy with Danish thermostatic radiator controls. |
| 2970 |
On that same hour of the next day, the feast was still in progress and showed no signs of slackening. |
| 2971 |
He shrugged. Only a few weeks a vampire, yet it seemed like centuries since he had tasted solid food. |
| 2972 |
The proprietor eyed them suspiciously. He walked over to them and addressed them in guttural Chinese. |
| 2973 |
Hydra withdrew from the professor's unconscious and patiently orchestrated the next step in its plan. |
| 2974 |
Might as well be entering hell itself, she thought and had a horrible feeling that might be the case. |
| 2975 |
Then St. Clare's scored a most unexpected goal in the next two minutes and that made the score equal. |
| 2976 |
Charlie turned to thank her, but she had already closed the door and disappeared back into the house. |
| 2977 |
Mr. Pretty was talking loudly and Mrs. Fan cracked open her door, out of concern, to check on things. |
| 2978 |
She was inelegantly licking crumbs from her fingers as her great violet eyes turned in his direction. |
| 2979 |
With these words the man whipped out two revolvers in the twinkling of an eye, and covered the crowd. |
| 2980 |
Then he mounted the Kawasaki and rode away, groaning. Harry was a firm believer in natural selection. |
| 2981 |
Kelly looked almost ill as he paused. No one in the room did anything but breathe until he continued. |
| 2982 |
She looked at the future again. It hadn't changed. They were still wandering along that stupid shore. |
| 2983 |
Higher up a squeaky voice, moderated as best its owner knew how, greeted him from the darkness ahead. |
| 2984 |
He could not tell what hour of the night of life it was for himself, the boys, or the unknowing town. |
| 2985 |
I grinned at her weakly, then flopped back into my previous position. I was pretty frightened myself. |
| 2986 |
He went to the door, and let himself out, leaving the small apartment reeking of European cigarettes. |
| 2987 |
I remembered, and at that moment I knew that Barton was right. I had no brother. I was an only child. |
| 2988 |
The chant became more intense, and the drives took on solidity. They became opaque, then substantial. |
| 2989 |
She didn't answer immediately. She took a drink of rum from her glass, her eyes focused on the altar. |
| 2990 |
This remarkable and beautiful young woman needed no rescuing. She was seated calmly in Doc's library. |
| 2991 |
Candle flames wavered behind glass as she stepped out, pulling her uniform jacket tightly around her. |
| 2992 |
She let go, hurling Lark's talisman in an arc across the busy chamber, toward the center of the room. |
| 2993 |
She sat for a long time in the musty armchair thinking, her knees drawn up limberly against her chin. |
| 2994 |
He watched them explore, trying not to remember that he'd said almost the same thing twenty days ago. |
| 2995 |
Sitting against a tree, he was pulled back from the brink of sleep by his companion leaning over him. |
| 2996 |
Whatever his mind's resolve, his body knew that respite was close. His body wanted that surcease now. |
| 2997 |
But no other vessel appeared while they ate. Nor all the rest of that day or the morning of the next. |
| 2998 |
It was pitiful because they did not know what a rifle was and did not realize they were being killed. |
| 2999 |
I didn't intend to sell only one box. That meant going to the mills to find woods, preferably scraps. |
| 3000 |
All the screens on the bridge lit up to show a sky full of dazzling stars. And Hegemony dreadnoughts. |
| 3001 |
Kinsman nodded, and the servomotors' buzz made his forehead twinge with the beginnings of a headache. |
| 3002 |
And become a spectacle for every juvenile hood in the area. Vita retorted with a certain grim relish. |
| 3003 |
He sounded to Grant as if he were trying to convince himself of something he didn't actually believe. |
| 3004 |
Nicholas held out a hand to encourage and if necessary to help the boy up the high step into the cab. |
| 3005 |
He stood up and started back up the river bank to the edge of the forest where the two forces waited. |
| 3006 |
The mere comment gave Jimmy energy. He held up the cross and began to recite the liturgy of exorcism. |
| 3007 |
He did not need these things to believe in hysterical strength, because he had expressed it. Himself. |
| 3008 |
I took a slow, calming breath and tried to speak in the somber manner they would expect of a demigod. |
| 3009 |
Thinking of something, Johnny changed drums on his machine pistol. He put in a drum of mercy bullets. |
| 3010 |
With a shaking finger the woman pointed along the road that led into the hills and the desert beyond. |
| 3011 |
I was sitting by a brook when she came to me, her face only slightly bruised. She sat down beside me. |
| 3012 |
The rapidity and sureness with which their pursuers approached indicated they were following a trail. |
| 3013 |
He sat there staring at the thing. He found his hand shaking when he reached to punch the off switch. |
| 3014 |
She cleaned her teeth, and went into her father's office. She woke up his computer and wrote a story. |
| 3015 |
The soldiers were looking at him, especially the officer, whose armor was all gold and red and green. |
| 3016 |
After they'd sung all the traditional verses, Chief Hans added a few new verses to roars of laughter. |
| 3017 |
Tiffany stared at him, then picked up one of the most expensive wands from the display. It glittered. |
| 3018 |
Idaho felt perspiration run down his face around the place where he pressed a cheek against the rock. |
| 3019 |
The man moaned. He was waking up again. This spot, at the base of the cliffs, was no place to linger. |
| 3020 |
It still amazed her, this woeful place. Not in its physical particulars, but in its unpredictability. |
| 3021 |
He took a pop. He took six steps. He imbibed again. Pete counted steps. Pete tailed him. Pete yukked. |
| 3022 |
He dropped to the ground, lugging the two big cases. He limped off past the moonlit plantation house. |
| 3023 |
Its olfactory remains were fading, but Chan took enough sniffs to be sure he could identify it again. |
| 3024 |
Marissa turned away. Tristan looked up at the captain in disbelief. Bentley climbed over the railing. |
| 3025 |
He began to stand up straight, then flinched. He couldn't see the roof, and feared crashing his head. |
| 3026 |
She pushed him away, scrambled off the bed, and knelt with a curious excitement beside the old woman. |
| 3027 |
Slaves. In doing so we made slaves of ourselves, he thought. Slaves to tradition, slaves to our past. |
| 3028 |
Tuppence unrolled the little parcel and drew out a magnificent string of pearls, exquisitely matched. |
| 3029 |
Everyone was now down on their knees, scraping sand and heather away. Julian sat back and considered. |
| 3030 |
Even though he had sort of warned me in advance, I found the troll's position to be a bit unsettling. |
| 3031 |
Genna paused a long time before answering. For a while, Robyn wondered if she had heard the question. |
| 3032 |
Doc successfully smothered an impulse to shake her, and dragged her on ignominiously to the fighting. |
| 3033 |
And when all of these five men were dead, their bodies had seemed to become of the lightness of cork. |
| 3034 |
And it is all true. Goddess, it is all true. But not as he believes. What I say is not what he hears. |
| 3035 |
Doyle rolled back onto his feet, only to be confronted by a seven foot mass of hair and rotten flesh. |
| 3036 |
My mother always irons during times of disaster. Some people drink, some take drugs. My mother irons. |
| 3037 |
And sure enough, the dolphin with the striking markings flew into the air, giving a cry of happiness. |
| 3038 |
The grasp of the wraith grew tighter on my throat, and the vision in my one good eye began to darken. |
| 3039 |
I let go of her shoulders and found she was inside my arms, holding me. Holding me, for Guards' sake. |
| 3040 |
Screams like large animals being disemboweled, probably an accurate description of what was going on. |
| 3041 |
Jeremy began, but the cart was already moving off, with the merry jingle and tinkle of fragile items. |
| 3042 |
He threw the car in gear, the motor roared. At the first corner, the car was doing better than forty. |
| 3043 |
Doc led the way toward the stairs, at the foot of which lay the body of the man with the broken back. |
| 3044 |
The village did in fact contain a smithy, but the forge was cold. The smoke came from somewhere else. |
| 3045 |
Motor Mouth pushed off from a bunk, caught the handle of the locker, then pushed himself to the deck. |
| 3046 |
Then they hang up. They never have to remind me to do anything. They just have to have the last word. |
| 3047 |
In some secluded cove, with moonlight on the Mediterranean and soft music playing, he would nail her. |
| 3048 |
It could have been years before he heard his own voice speak again. That strange, hard, remote voice. |
| 3049 |
Every hair on his head flared with the pain, like all his human wounds had been bathed in salt water. |
| 3050 |
Then that small point of light which was a fixture of my hood was triggered and I could see a little. |
| 3051 |
I sensed someone coming forward, others perhaps about him, slapping him about the shoulders and back. |
| 3052 |
She drifted down further, down below the conscious, into the darkness beyond the circle of firelight. |
| 3053 |
His breaths coming quick and heavy, Oliver scanned the chamber for other dangers. He recognized none. |
| 3054 |
The Professor suddenly capitulated. He had had his little joke, and didn't want to prolong the agony. |
| 3055 |
We heard the sound of people coming through the dunes. The meeting of the full members had broken up. |
| 3056 |
Gibbering, he rushed madly at Doc. His arms were thrust straight out, but he tried to strike no blow. |
| 3057 |
The monster opened his mouth and made the best noise he could without a tongue. He pointed at a door. |
| 3058 |
There were hard lumps of muscle at the corners of his jaws. His eyes had a reddish glare behind them. |
| 3059 |
He looked at Granny's face. His grin stayed where it was but the rest of his face began to edge away. |
| 3060 |
Before that, the two young men had worked long, patiently and with determination to bring this about. |
| 3061 |
She tried to evade him, but he had been a trained warrior in his youth and he still kept in practice. |
| 3062 |
They did not even stop squawking when Richard opened their door and cradled both of them in his arms. |
| 3063 |
Jo's bitter smile faded. The hardness in her expression thawed. Now there was a question in her eyes. |
| 3064 |
When his cell door opened, he sprang up with a jerkiness that told him how thin his nerves were worn. |
| 3065 |
The voice of the chapter leader goes slowly around the room. Two men to a fight. No shirts. No shoes. |
| 3066 |
Really, there was only one real problem with machine storage after death, and that was relative time. |
| 3067 |
My brows rose a few millimeters. He was quite tall for a Frenchman, but painfully thin. Half starved. |
| 3068 |
I have been employed by your firm for the last three years. I am sure that you have no idea who I am. |
| 3069 |
The next instant the bronze man was alongside him. Both were being carried along. Faster than before. |
| 3070 |
She found herself speaking, though she was sure the creature could not begin to understand her words. |
| 3071 |
Pain like none she had known before blotted out her world. The sounds of battle went almost unheeded. |
| 3072 |
I sat down again. She didn't move. Her eyes came down millimeter by millimeter and looked at the gun. |
| 3073 |
He knelt and bowed and all his samurai followed him, and he cursed the ship and all who sailed in it. |
| 3074 |
And even then, knowing it had overtaken him, Gavin could find nothing in him that approximated grief. |
| 3075 |
Pete's recoil was only partly sufficient. A brown, crumbly mass struck his left foot and broke there. |
| 3076 |
They both understood. Merely looking and physically searching wasn't going to yield what they sought. |
| 3077 |
Several laughed. One of them said something about teaching her a lesson. There was muttered approval. |
| 3078 |
Upon one particular set of prints, Doc bestowed a great deal of attention. Then he joined the others. |
| 3079 |
Their footsteps echoed hollowly in the corridor but they failed to hide the sound of other footsteps. |
| 3080 |
She stamped past Ned and tried to slam the door of her room. It wasn't heavy enough to do a good job. |
| 3081 |
Kristy did a quick check and nodded. The kids were armed with towels, suntan lotion, and lunch money. |
| 3082 |
The glint in his eye told me he knew it was unfair and was daring me to refute it. Damned if I would. |
| 3083 |
I went home with my slightly lesser bale of lira. I put it in the safe. It was only four days' worth. |
| 3084 |
In the Captain's cabin, eleven stories above, things were now less silly but becoming more dangerous. |
| 3085 |
The family detested the whole idea, but part of the routine in such accidental deaths was an autopsy. |
| 3086 |
With that he started down the steps, haltingly, like a man who really did not care which way he went. |
| 3087 |
Arthur was thrashing around hopelessly two or three miles behind her, on the upward side of the hill. |
| 3088 |
Down these mean streets a man must walk, he thought. And along some of them he will break into a run. |
| 3089 |
She looked around at the circle of blank faces and felt embarrassment rise inside her like hot jelly. |
| 3090 |
You win some and you lose some. Sometimes the other guy eats your lunch, and sometimes you are lunch. |
| 3091 |
There were several similar dials, beneath various switches, doubtless one for each of the containers. |
| 3092 |
It was only as a short cut to the stars that the Forge had turned out to be a complete waste of time. |
| 3093 |
I edged along the canal bank, adjusting my eyes, watchful to see if anything broke the black surface. |
| 3094 |
Tiffany leaned closer and finally lowered an ear to the skinny chest to see if there was a heartbeat. |
| 3095 |
For the next hour four men judges viewed the paintings and sculptures, frequently jotting down notes. |
| 3096 |
The survivors were shouting, charging about madly, falling over the fallen forms of their companions. |
| 3097 |
Bruce watched Cop stretch himself and yawn baring his teeth, drawing his lips and exposing his teeth. |
| 3098 |
The proprietor, faced with that growl and about three hundred pounds of famed muscle, got very quiet. |
| 3099 |
That's when I smelled the smoke, and realized that those colors could suggest another interpretation. |
| 3100 |
The question came to her in her own voice, but so wispy and cold that it sent a chill down her spine. |
| 3101 |
It worked. Put your trust in the God, they said. And he always had. As far back as he could remember. |
| 3102 |
But it was not primarily the dream of sanctuary, power, or wealth that brought me here. It was Megan. |
| 3103 |
But I wasn't going to let that bother me. Not when there was an evening with Anna to look forward to. |
| 3104 |
Var didn't see the relevance. But before he could speak again, there was a bellow from the labyrinth. |
| 3105 |
Then there are those who like the practice simply because it feels good, and makes for excellent art. |
| 3106 |
Slowly I went up, and then out over the roof of the hotel, until I was hovering above the white sand. |
| 3107 |
The man searched the slope in front of the jacarandas and found something that made his mouth twitch. |
| 3108 |
Jenny looked at Che. She knew she wasn't going to touch die stuff, but he had to make his own choice. |
| 3109 |
The Jack guarding the prisoners gave a hoarse cry and leaped forward, grabbing at a bail of necklace. |
| 3110 |
Marry only stood there. I shook my head in a vain effort to clear it, then rubbed my face vigorously. |
| 3111 |
There were about seven hundred answers to that, and I burst out with the first one that came to mind. |
| 3112 |
Bitterly disappointed the boys went back to Anne. She scrambled out from under her bush as they came. |
| 3113 |
The man with the shotgun was trying to get around the tree which now blocked his aim. He pulled back. |
| 3114 |
My father walked back into the house. I saw him and my mother standing on the back porch watching me. |
| 3115 |
I struggled to one knee, fearful of being knocked off the branch by the snake's bucking and writhing. |
| 3116 |
It was perhaps better than an hour, judging from the position of the sun coming through the curtains. |
| 3117 |
He bought a plant in a pot as a gift. Green leaves, no flowers. Nothing remotely romantic about that. |
| 3118 |
Susan sat on the bed, wiping the tears from her face, smelling the old smell of charcoal and incense. |
| 3119 |
With a struggle, O'Hara pushed herself up from the couch. Grant heard her spoon clatter to the floor. |
| 3120 |
For the first time, it also occurred to him that one other organization would have similar resources. |
| 3121 |
The other raised a bandaged hand clumsily to his own jaw and winced as it touched the swelling there. |
| 3122 |
He bowed from his seated position, palms together, and then rose fluidly. He started toward the door. |
| 3123 |
The young woman also got out, but not peaceably. She stared about as if looking for some one to bite. |
| 3124 |
He clenched his hand over his face, gripping his forehead in an effort to control the pain of memory. |
| 3125 |
Kai needed no urging and followed her across the cliff top to the doubtful shelter of the vegetation. |
| 3126 |
I had only two spare wheels left. Lose two more and the next broken wheel meant abandoning one wagon. |
| 3127 |
Ellis seemed reluctant to leave the office, but Mason arose, signifying the interview was terminated. |
| 3128 |
He stared at the map, as if trying to extract information from it by the sheer intensity of his gaze. |
| 3129 |
Greybeard slammed the door without answering. They listened to his heavy tread descending the stairs. |
| 3130 |
Grant heard a groan. It didn't come from anyone on the bridge. It was a metallic, grinding complaint. |
| 3131 |
He continued on for more than two hours, then climbed to the crest of a low hill and stopped to rest. |
| 3132 |
Another Willoughby opened her mouth to speak. The senior technician shushed her with a quick gesture. |
| 3133 |
The candles left burning were as much illumination as stars on a clear night. There was no one there. |
| 3134 |
Finally, I went out and visited Larry's place. He was gone from his grove and the house seemed empty. |
| 3135 |
He turned to the wall of instruments once again, ignoring me for just a fraction of a second. Enough. |
| 3136 |
She kicked back at him, using his grip across her chest as leverage to lift both feet off the ground. |
| 3137 |
Aaron said nothing. He relinquished command to me at this moment completely, but he stood his ground. |
| 3138 |
Instead, she forced herself to go back to her cabin. Down into the darkness rather than away from it. |
| 3139 |
Charley put the fox down, and it pulled on ahead. They pushed through the dark, down the uneven road. |
| 3140 |
He was about to leave when he glanced down, beneath the counter, and his face broke into a huge grin. |
| 3141 |
However, it was to go down or return and she knew that she had nothing to hope for in that direction. |
| 3142 |
He snatched his hand away. The fierce pain made him clasp his fingers under his other arm, and groan. |
| 3143 |
Further questioning elicited information that the warnings seemed to have been distributed generally. |
| 3144 |
There was no sound from the weapon firing them, but only the eerie squeal of the missiles themselves. |
| 3145 |
He watched the data stream in from the blazing missile as it prepared to cross two narrow time zones. |
| 3146 |
Professor, Matron and nurses looked equally baffled. Then a slow smile spread across Anderson's face. |
| 3147 |
Very slowly Manny lowered the glasses and turned to face the tall man, who stared back at him calmly. |
| 3148 |
The men glanced at each other, but said nothing. They looked back at the others with hard, cold eyes. |
| 3149 |
We complained, but we didn't get very far, since everybody else was complaining about the same thing. |
| 3150 |
They landed in the plowed earth behind the blades, alive but unlikely to do any moving for some time. |
| 3151 |
The four chains her bed hung from creaked once as she settled down, and then all was dark and silent. |
| 3152 |
Joel looked away, not caring to see Hell so close, trying to ignore the sudden weakness in his knees. |
| 3153 |
Acknowledgments came back, some mere static sputter. Gods knew how many were following. Or who would. |
| 3154 |
They went back. The first man in the room where the captives should have been emitted a violent yell. |
| 3155 |
The second time he abandoned the idea of maps, instead concentrating on the flows of order and chaos. |
| 3156 |
She was a queenly beauty, yet there was in her manner an air of restrained panic, a pervading terror. |
| 3157 |
An uneasy silence settled over the two men as Pitt digested the enormity of the admiral's revelation. |
| 3158 |
Only Nikko bothered to look up as they rejoined the campsite, giving the pair of them an angry glare. |
| 3159 |
Naomi ignored this. She reached Dave and fell on her knees beside him, crying his name over and over. |
| 3160 |
And he turned and walked out and knew he would never see her in tangible form, never touch her again. |
| 3161 |
There was no more argument. The sampan surged away from the beach, propelled by lusty paddle strokes. |
| 3162 |
They got Gris into the witness box. He looked very ill at ease, squirming until his manacles rattled. |
| 3163 |
By the time they came in sight of the riverbed, only a small strip of sky remained clear in the west. |
| 3164 |
His tone was casual, but he sounded suspicious. I noticed he had not taken his hand off his crossbow. |
| 3165 |
The women seemed intimidated by the thicket, and avoided going any deeper than necessary to cut wood. |
| 3166 |
The next instant the fellow had snaked a revolver from inside his uniform coat and was menacing them. |
| 3167 |
Ham was a lean man. He dressed in most perfect taste. And he was one of the world's smartest lawyers. |
| 3168 |
I found that I could open my mouth. My voice was scratchy, coughing, as if I had not spoken in weeks. |
| 3169 |
And then the jockey could see the bucket and he knew what was going to happen and he started moaning. |
| 3170 |
Jericho resolved things when he emerged from the hall leading to the kitchen carrying a covered tray. |
| 3171 |
The fellow dropped his gun, spun and ran. He got out of the control room, banged the door behind him. |
| 3172 |
Someone took hold of her shoulders gently and spun her about, away from the maddening, irresistible gray. |
| 3173 |
I sagged with relief. I knew exactly what the prisoner felt when they told him he had been reprieved. |
| 3174 |
One of the men opened the metal door. He then stood to the side, and gestured that I might go within. |
| 3175 |
I'm not insane. The doctors went all over that when I was nineteen and just beginning Medic training. |
| 3176 |
I was feeling generous, happy even, at the final piece for my puzzle. And he looked kind of pathetic. |
| 3177 |
It was not until the incident with the panhandler that he ever carried the gun outside the apartment. |
| 3178 |
With a proud flourish, Rupert inserted a module into the display device and pressed the start button. |
| 3179 |
The commander waved a farewell as the supply sergeant headed off, then turned back to the front desk. |
| 3180 |
Such was the effect of his certainty that I half turned, expecting to see trouble close at our backs. |
| 3181 |
The new commander of the Guard was revealed in the doorway, and looked at the leveled weapons evenly. |
| 3182 |
Rick could feel a chill tingling up his spine. His intuition told him that they had hit on something. |
| 3183 |
Elinor had buried her head against her mother's sweater, and was peeking out with one frightened eye. |
| 3184 |
With infinite labor, he turned his hand to point to the furred one, still lying across the threshold. |
| 3185 |
She followed me in silence as we climbed higher along the rocky crest line, but Juno kept whimpering. |
| 3186 |
The white mare saw the shadow at the same time. She blew hard through her nose, and pawed the ground. |
| 3187 |
She didn't bother to answer, but he saw her shoulders lift slightly as if to shrug the question away. |
| 3188 |
Hilary was awake when they got back into bed and she sat up and demanded to know where they had been. |
| 3189 |
He felt himself being lifted effortlessly, swooped up over the railing and placed back on the ground. |
| 3190 |
The ensuing moments passed like hours, giving Dawson the unwanted opportunity to absorb every detail. |
| 3191 |
In a few depressing sentences, I brought him up to date on my assignment and Rodrick's disappearance. |
| 3192 |
Juan Mindoro only glowered back at his tormentor. No quiver of fear rippled his distinctive features. |
| 3193 |
Three teams of sturdy horses were picketed nearby, and they all helped to harness them to the wagons. |
| 3194 |
The people looked around to see who had said this. None of them looked down, because dogs can't talk. |
| 3195 |
His feeling that he ought to do something was yielding rapidly to the obvious logic of the situation. |
| 3196 |
She let the word trail off, but it made its impact. Slowly I became conscious of the world around me. |
| 3197 |
His expression told he would clamp his jaws on that cryptic statement. I returned my mug to the tray. |
| 3198 |
As we will burn through the Turks for attempting to keep our own fires from burning, Ibrahim thought. |
| 3199 |
I ran a hand up and down the door frame. It felt slimy. Just touching it made me want to take a bath. |
| 3200 |
Luke stared at it in amazement. Then he went to feel in his coat, which was hanging on a tree nearby. |
| 3201 |
Robyn gasped as she knelt beside the frail figure. An unfocused fear prevented her from touching him. |
| 3202 |
Now he reached out and his fingers closed firmly, and none too gently, about her arm above the elbow. |
| 3203 |
Just as she reached the front room, Momma called down from her room, her timing as faultless as ever. |
| 3204 |
Before now, he would have taken a substantial bet that it was impossible to be annoyed by this woman. |
| 3205 |
Tim and Mary and the children sat together on the couch, silent and unmoving, faces blank with shock. |
| 3206 |
Davey's exhaustion had eventually proved greater than his fear. He was sound asleep on the back seat. |
| 3207 |
Her loud shout made the two blackbirds flutter off their tree limb. They soared away, cawing angrily. |
| 3208 |
The slabs passed under his feet like a dream, like squares of movie clicking through the picture box. |
| 3209 |
They moved to the back of the car and gathered up several packages that had been stowed in the trunk. |
| 3210 |
By now everyone round the table had fallen silent, while they concentrated on what Daphne had to say. |
| 3211 |
He was right in the midst of them, arms folded across his burly chest a triumphant smile on his face. |
| 3212 |
As his wife, she had access to most of his secrets, could even have discovered this room by accident. |
| 3213 |
He peered over the bar and saw that things were just as he had seen them for the past couple of days. |
| 3214 |
I turned back to wolf-shape and licked her hand. She rumpled my fur. I slipped off into the darkness. |
| 3215 |
They were all but ready to take their leave when the young Daniel came in and stared at both of them. |
| 3216 |
Swamp dragons shot determinedly out of the wreckage like champagne corks, wings whirring frantically. |
| 3217 |
He hit the lava on his left side. His hip and hand took the initial impact, but his head struck also. |
| 3218 |
She thought. It was nice to watch her thinking. She still had her legs crossed, and still carelessly. |
| 3219 |
The girl in the red hat watched him over the rim of her glass. Her eyes widened, got a little glassy. |
| 3220 |
St. Jean opened his mouth to protest, but at that moment there was a discreet scratching at the door. |
| 3221 |
Bradshaw's words died. His face turned a sickly hue. His mouth opened and closed, but no sounds came. |
| 3222 |
Monk emitted a roar, picked up the most convenient stick. Ham grasped his hairy arm, restraining him. |
| 3223 |
But covering those for the most part were hides, painted as brightly as the clothing the owners wore. |
| 3224 |
Nothing in the shelter changed. No new noise, no vibration, no sense of having accomplished anything. |
| 3225 |
This time it was his turn to laugh. I could see nothing funny so I ignored him until he was finished. |
| 3226 |
The candle on the table had burned out. It was dark outside. I returned from the window of the cabin. |
| 3227 |
But she was lonely walking into her husband's tent alone, without sisters or ceremony or celebration. |
| 3228 |
Obviously she had been entertaining a client in the back bedroom, but now she was wailing tragically. |
| 3229 |
The place was dark, although wired with electric lights. Doc did his exploring by the sense of touch. |
| 3230 |
It was the hour of decision. I went to Roulette's chamber. For this I was dressed, and I had a knife. |
| 3231 |
I stepped back. I would not dispute the labor with her. I feared to approach this group of fifty men. |
| 3232 |
Snowy nodded his head, slowly, thoughtfully. He looked down at the glass of sarsaparilla in his hand. |
| 3233 |
He held her, rocking her gently, until she fell asleep. And even then he was reluctant to let her go. |
| 3234 |
Fire and rage consumed all his pain. The triangle and the will of the Clave splintered and fell away. |
| 3235 |
Laura's fingers nudged the wires aside as the eyes that rode over each finger examined the mechanism. |
| 3236 |
There were half a dozen of the chorus dancers in the canteen, sharing a stick of celery and giggling. |
| 3237 |
He reached for his wine glass. The Horde reached for their glasses too, while watching him carefully. |
| 3238 |
Jeff tried to be serious about it, and managed for about fifteen seconds. Then he burst out laughing. |
| 3239 |
He was left with his flagship, his crew and himself. They would be sufficient. He hated unwieldiness. |
| 3240 |
For the first time she wondered if she should continue seeing patients in this hyper emotional state. |
| 3241 |
The steam rising from the plastic cup of coffee left a foggy ellipse on the inside of the windshield. |
| 3242 |
Maria nodded sarcastically, and tried to say something belittling, but the words stuck in her throat. |
| 3243 |
She reached out with her good arm and touched his lips with her fingers, then turned and walked away. |
| 3244 |
As he turned to go, there was a faint rustling in the cells, and then all within were on their knees. |
| 3245 |
She turned and slipped a gun out of her bag and shot him three times through the coat he was holding. |
| 3246 |
I give you lots of kisses, And I give you lots of hugs, But I never give you sandwiches with bugs in. |
| 3247 |
And there were no bingo fields ashore if someone miscalculated and planes started running out of gas. |
| 3248 |
Long Tom's mouth dropped. Doc thought of everything. Eagerly, he put one of the watches on his wrist. |
| 3249 |
Var the Stick was that man, for he was pledged to save the empire by killing the mountain's champion. |
| 3250 |
Even a trained field agent would be lucky to withstand the pressure that Interpol was about to apply. |
| 3251 |
And I bent to the ground in thanksgiving, knowing that my prayers had been heard and my penance done. |
| 3252 |
A scream that echoed through the room, reverberated off the ceiling, the walls the inside of my head. |
| 3253 |
Which brings me now to you, my friend. I do not hope for your forgiveness. Indeed, I do not even ask. |
| 3254 |
Justified anger. He did not need the reproach he was receiving from the two falcons to tell him that. |
| 3255 |
After a while, someone raised the question of the fighting, which clearly needed to be taken care of. |
| 3256 |
I don't know whether I slept or not, but my eyes finally sprang open when I heard a knock at my door. |
| 3257 |
He had removed a pair of light bracelets, joined by about five inches of light chain, from his pouch. |
| 3258 |
Monk was also slipping into a bulletproof undergarment. He draped Ham's bulletproof vest over an arm. |
| 3259 |
He had only gone a few kilometers, though, when his suit's emergency alarm shrilled in his earphones. |
| 3260 |
None of this had any effect. Ham tried clucking as he were driving a horse. That did not work either. |
| 3261 |
Perry started after her, but was brought to a jerky halt by the failure of his hind legs to function. |
| 3262 |
He and Ito entered the main administration headquarters building, encountered another security guard. |
| 3263 |
Mick turned to Judd. His face was difficult to see the twilight. But his voice was sober with belief. |
| 3264 |
I should point out that music plays its part, too. Sing a poem and the effect is multiplied manifold. |
| 3265 |
There was every reason for the older and wiser wizards to start returning things to the proper order. |
| 3266 |
Monk slumped and never felt the gun club down on his head twice again, the blows murderously vicious. |
| 3267 |
The anachronistic reference to a supreme deity had sounded oddly fitting to the beauty of the moment. |
| 3268 |
It was a weird and terrible screech that made them all jump in alarm. Anne clutched Julian in fright. |
| 3269 |
This was a complicated thought and he puzzled over it while I chewed and swallowed. He finally spoke. |
| 3270 |
The road below was a dirt road. It was dusty and hot. It was long and narrow. It stretched northward. |
| 3271 |
A book of shadows that lets somebody change characters like I change socks. Come on. I don't need it. |
| 3272 |
I shrugged and moved on. All would come clear in due course. Meanwhile we had a maneuver to complete. |
| 3273 |
This time the lights stayed on. I waited, but the toggles stopped flipping. Damn, but that was weird. |
| 3274 |
He followed her. He stared at her. He saw her neck veins and cheek veins. He saw her pulse on a roar. |
| 3275 |
Myers did not reply. By this time they both knew that that promise had been nothing more than a ruse. |
| 3276 |
Christ, he thought. What lousy, miserable luck. He turned to Molly and they exchanged glances mutely. |
| 3277 |
The last thing he heard as his eyes closed was the clash of steel as his guards rushed into the tent. |
| 3278 |
Ryan decided that it was nice to give orders and have them carried out. A man could get used to this. |
| 3279 |
In a few seconds, she paused breathlessly to listen. The feet crunched again. She was being followed. |
| 3280 |
The pain in her hands and her arms was so severe this time that she had difficulty staying conscious. |
| 3281 |
Angus had no way to read those messages. But he could trace them because he already knew the routing. |
| 3282 |
Agriculture, however, came into being some ten thousand years ago and that introduced a great change. |
| 3283 |
Things were really getting to be very nice on Earth, because human technology hadn't stopped, either. |
| 3284 |
You can look at the crashing, undulating sea from the railing of a deck forever, or just for so long. |
| 3285 |
I pushed my chair back into place and headed for the corner of the room where I had leaned the stick. |
| 3286 |
There were at least a dozen men in the room. Monk, the optimist, didn't want any of them to get away. |
| 3287 |
Yet in spite of what she felt, her voice trailed away. He wasn't paying any attention to her refusal. |
| 3288 |
Furious beyond reason, I saw in the grass the discarded slave bracelets, the hood and leading chains. |
| 3289 |
The waitress's smile shrank by a couple of molars. Artemiss vocabulary had that effect on most people. |
| 3290 |
For a minute or two they just lay there, breathing in shuddering gasps. Finally though, Sylvie spoke. |
| 3291 |
A few curious customers crowded in behind her as she raised a paw and pointed imperiously at the bed. |
| 3292 |
Smith walked away. Edwards started to rise, but the girl's hand came out of the bag and took his arm. |
| 3293 |
I can assure you of good sport and interesting company. Please let me know if you are able to attend. |
| 3294 |
She did. Doc raced her madly to the opposite door, but she got through it, got it locked in his face. |
| 3295 |
The running footman grabbed the headstall of the near leader as the bays shied and swerved to a halt. |
| 3296 |
One of the men emerged now, looping a nylon rope through eyelets along the upper portion of the wall. |
| 3297 |
And now he had a radar contact forward. The speaker for the guard radio frequency started chattering. |
| 3298 |
Slowly, words penetrated her dismay. The First was speaking in a voice thick with suppressed anguish. |
| 3299 |
I'll bury him tomorrow. Right over in that soft patch to the left of the house. In sight of the lake. |
| 3300 |
My father had sired Adam and me and all fourteen of his children by the time he was the age I am now. |
| 3301 |
I had reread most of the introduction and was puzzling over another one of the more obscure passages. |
| 3302 |
She reached the lectern and looked out over the audience, her face clearly betraying her nervousness. |
| 3303 |
By the end of that day the children had sixteen planks of different sizes piled up. Andy was pleased. |
| 3304 |
Everyone climbed on board. The sampan operator pushed off and they motored out into the turbid water. |
| 3305 |
Eventually the landlord lurched across to them with a lighted torch, and motioned them to follow him. |
| 3306 |
One man yanked at the brim of his navy cap, as if anxious to get it over his eyes. The man was Shade. |
| 3307 |
Security Council had voted unanimously to offer substantial financial incentives to these immigrants. |
| 3308 |
True enough. Kari had stepped on the stick on purpose, courteously calling attention to her nearness. |
| 3309 |
The priest nodded sagely. When first I came, as she was sinking into the coma, I touched her spirit. |
| 3310 |
She shook her head. I did the same. The sting had faded, though my cheeks still felt tender to touch. |
| 3311 |
She shook her head. She looked off a bit, desperately biting into her lip, and then she looked at me. |
| 3312 |
In the lead bounded an apparition in brilliant yellow robes and a purple mask of Bron, the yak demon. |
| 3313 |
The ring of the phone startled her, but she kept reading, deciding it was probably for Robert anyway. |
| 3314 |
The world's moneyed elite had much more to say about it, of course, because they knew more big words. |
| 3315 |
They all walked down the gangway to the pier. They found Tim waiting for them. He had heard the news. |
| 3316 |
Yes, she thought, she must turn again to her messenger. She must know if what she only felt was true. |
| 3317 |
It was as if she'd just suddenly come into existence here on this beach. A big bang and here she was. |
| 3318 |
He aimed at the pile of metal drums and fired three quick shots, then ducked back behind his cabinet. |
| 3319 |
Wood, on taking over the camp established by Tigris, had quickly reorganized its layout and defenses. |
| 3320 |
She approached the light, found the torch. Her ankle began to ache where the shackle had prisoned it. |
| 3321 |
The deputies and policemen pulled and tore at the chaparral, and quickly discovered the hidden trail. |
| 3322 |
Jason realized that his secret was out in the open when a delegation of bankers invited him to lunch. |
| 3323 |
No man could shield himself simultaneously on every side, and he knew his death would soon claim him. |
| 3324 |
Suzanna was by no means certain she believed any of this, but she wanted to hear the story completed. |
| 3325 |
An old man, thickset and balding, stepped from a garden to the right. His face was flushed and angry. |
| 3326 |
A dark opening had been cut into the side. Holly ducked into the low entrance. Buddy followed her in. |
| 3327 |
Monk peered, trying to make out the features of the speaker. He got a slap in the face for his pains. |
| 3328 |
Shad snatched it away, flipped on the dome light and examined the find. His hopeful expression faded. |
| 3329 |
There was silence except for the muffled sounds of Carrot, outside, and the occasional buzz of a fly. |
| 3330 |
She was watching one tent in particular, there was someone in it that she wished to have a chat with. |
| 3331 |
The exterior sound monitor suddenly filled with a crackling noise of its own, and her blood ran cold. |
| 3332 |
They accomplished nothing at the next soup kitchen, and never located the shelter supposedly near It. |
| 3333 |
The count smiled and offered her his arm as they all moved toward a door on the far side of the room. |
| 3334 |
The four young Neanderthals, suddenly alone except for a few drifting feathers, turned to gape at me. |
| 3335 |
Yet the oldest guard reacted calmly, lowering his halberd and motioning his companion to do the same. |
| 3336 |
He wanted to ask them not to wake him, to let him sleep and leave him be, but it came out as a grunt. |
| 3337 |
Their main task accomplished, the enemy had surged on, bringing flame and blood and terror with them. |
| 3338 |
Albrecht spat the piece out into his hand and looked up at the ceiling for a moment. While he chewed. |
| 3339 |
He tore out one sheet of paper, then held it at arm's length like a dirty diaper, out over the floor. |
| 3340 |
A servant handed his shotgun to a fellow. He stepped past Daniel and put his weight against the door. |
| 3341 |
The house was dark, her parents not home yet. They stood on her porch and she shook his hand gravely. |
| 3342 |
Memory stirred. Once before he had seen just that same small wink of red and yellow through the dark. |
| 3343 |
He paused to sniff around the base of a rock outcropping and mark it with his scent. Then he went on. |
| 3344 |
Hillary sat down. His teeth clamped down on his lower lip, and he stared sullenly at his fingernails. |
| 3345 |
They see it and don't see it at the same time, Bibi had said. Young people are such wonderful idiots. |
| 3346 |
Indeed it was so. The driver dropped us off at the edge of the park and took his pay and buzzed away. |
| 3347 |
But no. It was the Christmas tree that was whining, whining like a pack of dogs, as it spun and spun. |
| 3348 |
So fast the human eye could not see it. First her hand out, then her hand an immobilized paw in pain. |
| 3349 |
All was darkness now and silence. The silence jarred him, but his head ached too hard to consider it. |
| 3350 |
I turned and pushed open the swinging door, just as tentatively as Eddie had opened the outside door. |
| 3351 |
Wishing that I was one tenth as sure of myself as I had acted. This was going to be a very rough one. |
| 3352 |
Shouts and cries broke from all about them. In the courtyard below the Gnomes began to come together. |
| 3353 |
All his carefully rehearsed conversational gambits were for people now on the other end of the table. |
| 3354 |
His dark hair awry, his jaws working strangely, Doctor Koral evidently believed he was trout casting. |
| 3355 |
But the devil knew how to use the torment in my mind, how to employ that hatred for his own purposes. |
| 3356 |
The answer to that was that the dangers might be real, and that was all that mattered to a policeman. |
| 3357 |
And so the moment had come. It had been so quiet, actually, with the closing of the door of her room. |
| 3358 |
His father gave him a push and said something sharp to him. He disappeared under the nearest caravan. |
| 3359 |
While wading though a deeper patch, floundering in water up to his armpits, he felt a warning shiver. |
| 3360 |
I looked at the mistress luxuriating in her warm bath, beautiful in the multicolored foams of beauty. |
| 3361 |
She could possibly have just been left in the one place, unseen by anyone, for such a period of time. |
| 3362 |
He hefted the sock, whirled it once or twice, and smashed the Thing on what he hoped was its kneecap. |
| 3363 |
I replaced both drawers, being careful not to lock the smaller one, before I continued my inspection. |
| 3364 |
He had to nod in agreement to that, too. Kathy had an annoying habit of spiking the guns of rhetoric. |
| 3365 |
He was the only one in the office. The fox and the other passengers already had destinations in mind. |
| 3366 |
The young king took a little breath of his own. For just a second, a shadow seemed to cross his face. |
| 3367 |
She would never understand. But, then, she had been involved in a struggle for survival all her life. |
| 3368 |
I studied the fellows in the tavern. I did not see any here who had been in the vicinity of our camp. |
| 3369 |
Sure enough, he found the collie standing in the guest bathroom, wagging its tail happily to see him. |
| 3370 |
They were about eighty yards away. They did not hurry, but moved with the fluid menace of their kind. |
| 3371 |
Tyrone real hungry. Tyrone eat it all. But all. Including the white stringy, thing, that hard to cut. |
| 3372 |
He was dozing happily now, aware only of an occasional squeaking, like that of a very cautious mouse. |
| 3373 |
This was his favorite expression. Also, he had a voice something like a troubled bear in a deep cave. |
| 3374 |
There was a series of small flops and splashes which faded as some sea creature departed in darkness. |
| 3375 |
When she took her own shape again, the staff appeared beside her. She hadn't been sure that it would. |
| 3376 |
Charlie ran down the stairs and out into the yard. His driver was dozing peacefully behind the wheel. |
| 3377 |
A flicker of a shadow moved in the darkness of the forest on the trail ahead and Dennis relaxed, too. |
| 3378 |
Now, her shoulders, muscled from carrying tubs of earth like that out of which these rosebushes grow. |
| 3379 |
The comm unit began to bleat at him. Taking several deep breaths he got to his feet and back on duty. |
| 3380 |
She put an arm on his shoulder and kissed him on the chin, spilling some of her martini on the floor. |
| 3381 |
Like the room, like the walls, they were milky white in color. But that appearance did not last long. |
| 3382 |
His hand could wait, though. There were other things to tend to first. There were other debts to pay. |
| 3383 |
She couldn't help herself. Much as she tried to stifle the impulse, she broke into a fit of giggling. |
| 3384 |
He thrust the oilskin pouch into the belt around his waist, hiding it beneath the folds of his shirt. |
| 3385 |
Percy Smalling was a withered collection of hide and bones who looked fully old enough for a pension. |
| 3386 |
Instantly his strength returned, and with it a soaring sense of hatred and a lust to cleave and kill. |
| 3387 |
The beast hopped two feet from the ground and landed back to its feet, breathless, then it fell dead. |
| 3388 |
It's strange how we feel cold. You can ignore it. And then very suddenly, you can take it personally. |
| 3389 |
At the railing he looked down into the street and watched Flood come out at the bottom of the stairs. |
| 3390 |
Heme the Hunted, god of the chased, crept through the bushes and wished fervently that gods had gods. |
| 3391 |
It couldn't be allowed to go on. Abruptly he placed his hand more firmly over hers and held her gaze. |
| 3392 |
Summer circled the well, sniffing. He paused by the top step and looked back at Bran. He wants to go. |
| 3393 |
Ignoring the pain in his neck, he threw off the blankets and went to the next room in search of food. |
| 3394 |
He strapped himself into the pilot chair, ignited the yawl's jets and slammed into full acceleration. |
| 3395 |
Spirit's knee came up suddenly. There was a solid contact. The man grunted and collapsed into a ball. |
| 3396 |
She closed her heart to the desperate plea in his voice. What he was asking her to do was impossible. |
| 3397 |
Finally, Victor Vail pointed at his own eyes. It was a simple gesture. But its meaning was unbounded. |
| 3398 |
The entries had apparently been logged chronologically, one by one, as Bernini created each new work. |
| 3399 |
He let his voice trail off, leaving unsaid what was already common knowledge between the two of them. |
| 3400 |
The faint whine of the late fall wind rattles the closed tower window, but neither woman looks to it. |
| 3401 |
He broke the shafts in their hands, blinded their eyes, impelled them into collision with each other. |
| 3402 |
Restlessly, Markov glanced at his wristwatch. Six hours to go before they rendezvous with the tanker. |
| 3403 |
Jeffrey stared at her in the dim light. Cars passed, filling their car briefly with their headlights. |
| 3404 |
The dog kept on barking, and the sour stink of the house exhaled out through the partially open door. |
| 3405 |
Several of the monsters were quite willing to try. White wakes appeared as the heads coursed forward. |
| 3406 |
Doc walked over, opened the door, and entered calmly into the room where the crouching figure lurked. |
| 3407 |
As he spoke, he touched the match to something he held in his hand, and threw it down upon the table. |
| 3408 |
I was quite surprised. There were quite a lot of people in the place, especially for early afternoon. |
| 3409 |
I tried to think of a tactful way of saying that this still looked pretty bottom of the barrel to me. |
| 3410 |
He was looking at the graceful, curving neck of an enormous creature, rising fifty feet into the air. |
| 3411 |
I moved nearer, calculating my words as well as the distance. I was glad that he had remained seated. |
| 3412 |
The detective was conscious of those strange shrewd eyes summing him up before the other spoke again. |
| 3413 |
It was one matter to keep dangerous secrets privy, quite another to guard craft skills to extinction. |
| 3414 |
On my way through secluded alleyways, I had to pause several times to recover from fits of dizziness. |
| 3415 |
They dipped their hands and brought sips of the water to their mouths. It tasted faintly of medicine. |
| 3416 |
Then the high priest handed my mistress the golden spoon and led her by the hand to the funeral slab. |
| 3417 |
The measure of Mindy's contrition was that she did not once pull out her pad to sketch or make notes. |
| 3418 |
And the big man in the center of the room looked as cruel as such a spider might be expected to look. |
| 3419 |
Even as I struggled out of my trousers, I wondered if Annalise had really meant anything by that nod. |
| 3420 |
He carefully pushed himself out from behind the cover of the foundation and in that moment he saw it. |
| 3421 |
To himself Emmanuel said, I am being poisoned. The vapors of her realm poison me and vitiate my will. |
| 3422 |
The two men stood up and started for the door. As he walked, Eddie clapped a hand on Pete's shoulder. |
| 3423 |
The second Russian took out a pad of paper and a pencil from his overcoat and prepared to take notes. |
| 3424 |
I afterward spoke to the master, who stated when he had purchased her, and the sum which he had paid. |
| 3425 |
Thank God they slipped shoes onto his feet before leading him away from the camp, out into the woods. |
| 3426 |
The black northeast wind that greeted him in the street was no more cruel than the rest of the world. |
| 3427 |
In the human, the male was usually the killer. She would give herself features that would disarm him. |
| 3428 |
Darkness gathered in Covenant like venom. It leaped instinctively toward his ring. White gold. Power. |
| 3429 |
Clearing her throat she stepped into the room, the children following her, bearing sacks of supplies. |
| 3430 |
He kicked the door in. He looked down the hall. He saw the bedroom light. He walked up and looked in. |
| 3431 |
That was off to my left. I peered across the gully and into the trees out there. I could see nothing. |
| 3432 |
But what truly filled me with joy was that he had forgiven me at last, and we were friends once more. |
| 3433 |
Came a strangled yell from the edge of the clearing. The hooded figure shot into view, running madly. |
| 3434 |
He entered his own chamber, closing the door carefully behind him so that he should not be disturbed. |
| 3435 |
When she does raise her head, ever so slightly, an enigmatic smile plays across her lips momentarily. |
| 3436 |
The ghost wavered, paused, staring in fell passivity at the old man who had hobbled into the gallery. |
| 3437 |
I followed him, along the hallway and into the foyer, in time to stop Carmella from opening the door. |
| 3438 |
She came back, battled irresolutely with herself, then sighed and slowly got into bed with the child. |
| 3439 |
And plumbing. What a great idea that was. It was amazing what you could do with a hole in the ground. |
| 3440 |
It must have been a minute before Tom Idle said anything. He sank back on his cot and just sat there. |
| 3441 |
The closet door slammed so hard that it jumped partially out of its track and rattled back and forth. |
| 3442 |
Pharaoh greeted me with a curious mixture of respect and nervousness, most alien to a king and a god. |
| 3443 |
The men with the guns yelled at him. They fired, but their bullets only made oil leak from the drums. |
| 3444 |
The late arrival peered intently at the prisoners. His mouth came open and round. His eyes flew wide. |
| 3445 |
Horns as long as a finger joint had shrunk to mere thorns. The beasts actually seemed to have shrunk. |
| 3446 |
Bug accidentally used the term information superhighway, and so we were able to administer a beating. |
| 3447 |
He felt a sick sense of disappointment, for he had been anticipating tomorrow with great expectation. |
| 3448 |
Finally, as a salve for my own nerves, I called everyone into the reception room for a staff meeting. |
| 3449 |
His voice. His beautiful voice could take her into dreamland. Could weave fairy tales and bring hope. |
| 3450 |
The world seemed to grow a little less dark, the frantic tossing of the coach to slow gradually down. |
| 3451 |
Arthur looked at her for a moment, in surprise, then recognized her and gestured her to come forward. |
| 3452 |
And she was dead tired, and quite ready to eat seconds of the delicious meal Cater prepared for her. |
| 3453 |
It went on for a long, uncomfortable while, a battle of wills that teetered on the brink of violence. |
| 3454 |
Flash walked to the hut. Flash dragged two dead men out. Flash dumped them and pissed on their heads. |
| 3455 |
Shana scanned the sky anxiously. So far, the elven lords had not yet traced the fleeing wizards here. |
| 3456 |
She dropped her head against a shaking hand and drew a deep breath and tried to get herself in order. |
| 3457 |
She raised her crest as the men came near and coughed loudly. The soldiers looked at her in surprise. |
| 3458 |
There were also those who noted that, under some circumstances, magnetism exerted a repelling effect. |
| 3459 |
These two who stood over his basket now did not radiate that smell. But that female in the house did. |
| 3460 |
Destiny murmured a goodbye to the priest, brushed back Sam's hair once more and started for the door. |
| 3461 |
Doc came over to the prisoner and relieved that strange paralysis by a pressure on the nerve centers. |
| 3462 |
When you cross realities, what you have recently eaten remains behind, for it is not of your reality. |
| 3463 |
Dan trumpeted cars and people out of the way and Max ducked down, holding onto the big elephant ears. |
| 3464 |
Mr. Hodges went in first, with the revolver extended. I had him switch on the light before I entered. |
| 3465 |
The creatures around us exploded into more laughter. The sick gagging sound made me feel like puking. |
| 3466 |
He could not look away. Not that terror froze him as it had at the window. He simply wanted to watch. |
| 3467 |
No radio. No com laser. The base was a third of the way around the planet, and I'd have to go myself. |
| 3468 |
Idaho looked out into the room, finding himself the center of attention for all of the guards' faces. |
| 3469 |
Before we get to the taxi, I hide my bloody hands in my pockets. The gun sticks to my trigger finger. |
| 3470 |
The voices in die taverns and in the wine shops told me I ought to go North to see paintings as well. |
| 3471 |
Sure as a gun, they told him, so I intruded the kind of question that occurs only to minds like mine. |
| 3472 |
You've been so kind and so loving to me that I know this letter will come as a terrible shock to you. |
| 3473 |
Chief Clements was an honest, stubborn man, who had learned he was wrong. He was trying to apologize. |
| 3474 |
It sounded a bit muffled. There was a towel hanging over one of the speakers. He took down the towel. |
| 3475 |
Claudius took the thing in his manacled hands, and his black eyebrows came together as he studied it. |
| 3476 |
Everyone on the beach then began waving at the dolphins and chanting the name to show their approval. |
| 3477 |
And after a long, long time that was timeless but filled with an abundance of time, he met Catherine. |
| 3478 |
Darius made the keel adjustment, then carved several tiny paddles and poles. He set them in the boat. |
| 3479 |
And the song of the Knife soared in indescribable beauty as it sang its blessing upon the holy place. |
| 3480 |
The sweeping trail led around the counter and through the aisle farthest from the store's front door. |
| 3481 |
Sobbing, she struggled closer to him, pressing herself against the car seat and drawing him over her. |
| 3482 |
A long silence followed, punctuated only by Monday's forlorn attempts to whistle on the step outside. |
| 3483 |
The cunning man's vision cleared, though it remained two dimensional. He could hear the monster roar. |
| 3484 |
He doubted there would be a happy ending for himself and Kara, but he could grant one to his vampire. |
| 3485 |
Could be interesting. Could be fatal. Well, he wouldn't worry about that. This was a large continent. |
| 3486 |
Ibrahim and Mahmoud turned smartly, then returned to the tunnel. They stood there facing one another. |
| 3487 |
The Israeli authorities have no comment as to the motive or murderer and no suspects have been named. |
| 3488 |
She didn't realize until she was halfway to the door that she still held her knife in her right hand. |
| 3489 |
They led their horses along the back of the tents and gained the cover of the gully without incident. |
| 3490 |
He got the contingency payment approved and stood in tine at the phones to tell the detective agency. |
| 3491 |
A scant few minutes later, as they peered past the mouth of their retreat, she revised her statement. |
| 3492 |
The egg creatures all began to chatter. I spun around in surprise. They sounded a little like chimps. |
| 3493 |
It sounded as if it came from a mouth that had never known the pleasures of spittle. It sounded dead. |
| 3494 |
The throbbing engine stopped. The sound of it died across the water. They strained their eyes to see. |
| 3495 |
There were two of them, riders. But not like the muffled black one who had tried to reach her before. |
| 3496 |
The slow paling of the attractive young woman's face was final proof that she was an espionage agent. |
| 3497 |
Helen Keller's brilliant career was inspired and made possible because of her blindness and deafness. |
| 3498 |
The vision ended, Her cold white skin was dosed beneath my lips. I kissed her now. I no longer drank. |
| 3499 |
Charlie smiled and removed them both from an inside pocket like a child having his prep list checked. |
| 3500 |
His voice was so soothing that the appearance of a question startled her. 'Well, yes,' she stammered. |
| 3501 |
He left only daughters, so now we have a queen. I find this less troubling than I would have thought. |
| 3502 |
A lot better than it was in the twentieth century, Joseph admitted. I don't remember all these trees. |
| 3503 |
The subject of murder was skirted with the greatest delicacy, and clearly left as a last contingency. |
| 3504 |
But the needle swung when the woman screamed and I watched it carefully. Her heart was still beating. |
| 3505 |
All that time, the girl hadn't said a word. They seldom do immediately after an experience like that. |
| 3506 |
Claudia smiled. That boy was obviously the ringleader. She figured he was probably the infamous John. |
| 3507 |
I covered my mouth with both hands and watched him reach into the head. His eyes widened in surprise. |
| 3508 |
Dolph saw no point in this, but didn't argue. He turned slowly, until he was facing the opposite way. |
| 3509 |
When it didn't come after a long while, he knelt and slowly began gathering the papers off the floor. |
| 3510 |
Jessica went for her backpack, opened it, and took out a saltshaker. She sprinkled salt on the leech. |
| 3511 |
There was no way down from the balcony. But from this perch I had a good view of all which lay below. |
| 3512 |
He might find it impossible to get back to the ropes and climb up to the wing and make the final cut. |
| 3513 |
There was a knock on the door and his steward came in with a small tray which he placed on the table. |
| 3514 |
He held the photo, patiently, until at last the woman's eyes flickered toward it. The doctor frowned. |
| 3515 |
Huck swiveled three stalks toward me in a look of surprise. It's not often I can catch her like that. |
| 3516 |
The stowaways could sense the tightening of the gas bags as pressure of the surrounding air lessened. |
| 3517 |
There is no verbal response to this. Only the lowering of three heads accompanied by triple cowering. |
| 3518 |
The great Roman warrior's entrance into the hall was announced with a flourish of long gold trumpets. |
| 3519 |
Poole twisted round in his chair, and found himself looking into the soulful eyes of a baby elephant. |
| 3520 |
An eerie call of a sea bird startled him. He could see a single pair of wings wheel and dip overhead. |
| 3521 |
A distant scream pulled him to the present. Somewhere out in the darkness another soul was suffering. |
| 3522 |
Cold wind rustled the branches of the trees. And, across the frozen creek, a few dry leaves scuttled. |
| 3523 |
The rain had stopped but the wind was sharp, and there were still occasional stinging bursts of hail. |
| 3524 |
Now trains were starting. Thousands of motors started unexpectedly. Hundreds were caught and injured. |
| 3525 |
He saw anguish move like the shadow of a summer cloud on the faces of the other men in this poolroom. |
| 3526 |
It didn't even take one minute. They were all feverishly anxious to leave, and no one tried to cheat. |
| 3527 |
Every phone call I get fills me with joy and terror since this could be the caseworker or the killer. |
| 3528 |
The boys thought so too. Philip wondered how the girls were getting on. They would be worried by now. |
| 3529 |
The Senator passed a hand in front of his eyes and nodded solemnly. Then he looked up at the monitor. |
| 3530 |
Clay was clay. She'd hoped there were all different sorts, and it turned out to be as common as dirt. |
| 3531 |
The Keepers were silent. Hugh straightened from bending over the map, regarded her with a dark frown. |
| 3532 |
Monk and Ham were still giving their attention to the window of the shadow. Doc slipped between them. |
| 3533 |
Then angrily Inge and Rena stood before me, clad in the brief, simple garments of female work slaves. |
| 3534 |
Lorn steps into the tower and takes several steps along the dimmer inner corridor as his eyes adjust. |
| 3535 |
Antonina, throughout, simply responded with a sweet smile. Until his ship was halfway to the horizon. |
| 3536 |
Fontaine sighs, climbs off his wooden stool, and carries the steaming soup into the back of the shop. |
| 3537 |
Out where the two planes had met, there was a hole in the earth which would require two days to fill. |
| 3538 |
With difficulty, he resisted a lunatic impulse to put his fingers in his mouth and suck at the wound. |
| 3539 |
He felt the invisible chains holding him disappear, as did the vision. The old woman opened her eyes. |
| 3540 |
I started to lift it. I had underestimated its weight from the ease with which Heller had carried it. |
| 3541 |
I tried to struggle to my feet. But a booted foot, that of one of the men behind me, pressed me down. |
| 3542 |
With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men. |
| 3543 |
I put my forehead against his feet, to the straps of his sandals, my hair falling across his sandals. |
| 3544 |
The blue liquid oozed down the front of Conan's muscle shirt. All three boys stared at it in silence. |
| 3545 |
The thought ended. A feeling of blankness held him for a moment. Then came a churning wave of terror. |
| 3546 |
Here the spine ridge of the uplands had been cut almost in two by a section of bog running well back. |
| 3547 |
The choleric woman turned to strike Nanny with her fan, but a skinny hand tapped her on the shoulder. |
| 3548 |
They bathed her, not permitting her to do anything for herself, in a bath foaming with perfumed oils. |
| 3549 |
Here was her son on his stallion, glancing back at her one last time and lifting his sword in salute. |
| 3550 |
Guess I've lived around them too long. Too late now to flee, to get back among whites and white ways. |
| 3551 |
When he had located the entrance as exactly as possible, he pressed once on the center of its lintel. |
| 3552 |
Granny gasped, and little threads of green and blue burned like marsh gas along her arm for a moment. |
| 3553 |
Colon couldn't hide the flicker in his eyes. The black ash in the fireplace was, by now, overflowing. |
| 3554 |
The whole thing was getting more and more baffling. Ham felt nerves crawling on the back of his neck. |
| 3555 |
He paused, looking around the circle of interested faces. He smiled himself with a certain enjoyment. |
| 3556 |
I had more important things to do. I had to talk to Dad about the dogs. I had to make him believe me. |
| 3557 |
Ms. Wolfe held up her hands to quiet everyone down. But it was Jill who took charge of the situation. |
| 3558 |
There was a faint tinkle, and a swish of air. After a while the cat sat up and watched with interest. |
| 3559 |
For all my hopes, the shock of hearing my own name unnerved me. My legs trembled as I got to my feet. |
| 3560 |
That was true. The girl could think of no effective answer. Except one. A gesture of verbal defiance. |
| 3561 |
The green elf lifted her hands to her mouth and sent a high, ringing call out into the ruined forest. |
| 3562 |
But the couch remained only a couch, and the wall beyond looked back at me with its great blank face. |
| 3563 |
He was still turning his own head to look up into the tree as he rejoined the others around the fire. |
| 3564 |
Fortunately, my mind was wrenched away from that unpleasant train of thought by the arrival of Guido. |
| 3565 |
The disguise was pretty good by now. It ought to be. She had been perfecting it for well over a year. |
| 3566 |
And now he was at home with the lake and the boat and the crisp Alpine light sculpting the mountains. |
| 3567 |
Ma Costa was setting a saucepan of milk on the iron stove and riddling the grate to stir the fire up. |
| 3568 |
When I returned to the hilltop with an armload of firewood, Anya showed me the answer to my question. |
| 3569 |
At the western edge of the Home meadow was a single monumental tree in a regular array of white dots. |
| 3570 |
I did not know what, sort of place the world was, but sometimes it seemed to me to be very wonderful. |
| 3571 |
He found the captain standing in the port, and out beyond the port stretched the redness of the land. |
| 3572 |
A thought came to him from one of the network officials in the control room. Mercer has been injured. |
| 3573 |
The older woman remained silent, her gray head bowed over the notebook, which she held in both hands. |
| 3574 |
Bane looked into the fearful faces of his followers and held back the laughter that raged within him. |
| 3575 |
He was back in a couple of minutes, having evidently seen her to the door at the end of the corridor. |
| 3576 |
She untied the ribbon about a scroll and searched down the parchment until she found what she sought. |
| 3577 |
Very distant. Time's stream flowed faster there in relationship to my present situation. Interesting. |
| 3578 |
But as he placed his hand on the door it opened from without, and his wife appeared on the threshold. |
| 3579 |
The tape was snapped into the board. But before they activated the autopilot, they had one more task. |
| 3580 |
If you do not remit a check within three days, we shall be forced to discontinue your water services. |
| 3581 |
The liquid had a penetrating, sickening smell. It was a smell such as surrounded the fallen soldiers. |
| 3582 |
Long Tom's eyes grew wider. There had been rumors of such a device, but he had never seen one before. |
| 3583 |
Fontaine gestures back, toward the simmering pot on the hotplate. Smells its bitter brew, thickening. |
| 3584 |
He glanced at me as I approached and then looked over my shoulder at the apparition ten steps behind. |
| 3585 |
Every one could feel the sharp swerve of the war giant of the seas. Men yelled. Signal bells jangled. |
| 3586 |
In the outside world, he said, people were visited in their houses by spirits they called television. |
| 3587 |
Then, before she could ask any questions, he let out a shout and hurled the stone with all his might. |
| 3588 |
They stood listening. Like the muffled beatings of a giant heart, the sound permeated the golden air. |
| 3589 |
Gaynor, our radio producer, thrusts a microphone at me and asks me to describe what we're looking at. |
| 3590 |
His hold tightened. They might make the dare this once, take and give what was their desire and need. |
| 3591 |
Yes, intelligence in the hands of ignorant children was a dangerous weapon. But Robert knew a secret. |
| 3592 |
They have captured Finesse, Hermine announced. They are taking her somewhere in a car. She is afraid. |
| 3593 |
Carly Beth stopped at the doorway and turned back to him. Her smile gave way to a puzzled expression. |
| 3594 |
I knelt, watching in frozen horror, fully expecting to witness the immediate demise of my two allies. |
| 3595 |
The master villain had been clever enough, or perhaps lucky enough, to be out of the tiny steel room. |
| 3596 |
He looked up at the old Oriental standing at the high counter, his face barely visible above its top. |
| 3597 |
The more violent captive of the two roused first. They could tell by the sudden tautness in its body. |
| 3598 |
Bunker looked into his wife's face. Even in the flickering shadows he could see how troubled she was. |
| 3599 |
Her tone indicated disbelief. It was unlike the People to so lightly surrender so great an advantage. |
| 3600 |
I had not seen on the skeletons themselves any sign of wounds. Each skull was entire without a break. |
| 3601 |
The ground heaved, then rocked, and the mists and fog had grown so much that it seemed like twilight. |
| 3602 |
So they won through the narrow ways meant only for techs, on major repairs, into the living quarters. |
| 3603 |
Silent and unmoving as the dead, the living were constrained to stare down into the eerily lit arena. |
| 3604 |
In a bit I knelt her before a horizontal bar, about a yard above the dirt, and tied her wrists to it. |
| 3605 |
She was alone in the post. Why and for how long she could not tell, but for the moment she was alone. |
| 3606 |
It felt good to be out in the crisp air, getting some exercise. Everything seemed so fresh and clean. |
| 3607 |
Already he could tell the radiation was having an effect. The vampire's facial skin was turning blue. |
| 3608 |
He handed the Earl some toasted bread and honey which he wolfed down, following it with watered wine. |
| 3609 |
His eyes flickered from me to the blade, and another flash of flame darted toward the spinning blade. |
| 3610 |
A few moments later, Wessex stood in one of the four small rooms on the ground floor of the premises. |
| 3611 |
There was a shocked silence as the Wad bounced and squashed on the floor. Then a gasp from all sides. |
| 3612 |
To the Riders, the rest of the world was a mosaic of stunned observers and slowly tumbling fireballs. |
| 3613 |
It was midnight. Between the first stroke and the last, the prayers of pious men would have no power. |
| 3614 |
The med said her nose was not broken. A tooth was loose, but that was all right, it would fix itself. |
| 3615 |
Dr. Angstrom seemed to be tangled up in a very difficult explanation. Thomas decided to help him out. |
| 3616 |
With that he ran out of conversation, and so did she, so he stood there watching as she ran her loom. |
| 3617 |
Then the rope swung back to him, the harness empty. He caught it and worked his way into the harness. |
| 3618 |
Taylor looked up at his wife. She was thinking too much about it, the last few months. They all were. |
| 3619 |
The President had other things to do in any case. He lifted his desk phone, and a secretary answered. |
| 3620 |
By the time the message was complete the initial S was almost illegible. But it didn't spoil the fun. |
| 3621 |
Then I was seized by the thought that everything I felt might be no more than the effect of the drug. |
| 3622 |
He fills the beaker from the bottle and drinks fully half what he has poured, wincing as he swallows. |
| 3623 |
Ham now divulged the information which several transatlantic telephone calls to England had gathered. |
| 3624 |
He started walking toward the kitchen area, barely aware of anyone else, still followed by his harem. |
| 3625 |
The naked blade shone with a hundred fiery highlights and a nest of inset jewels glinted in the hilt. |
| 3626 |
The Dastard tried to picture that liaison, and failed. He had to take it on faith. Becka seemed rapt. |
| 3627 |
The Doctor shot off down the butterfly tunnel of the time vortex. His voice echoed in a single shout. |
| 3628 |
And then there was the racist dogma that rivaled the worst armpit regions of the grim world. Of home. |
| 3629 |
It was just fine with me that they parked there. I could spot the place exactly for Torpedo. A setup. |
| 3630 |
Valerie's sister was sitting with several other tour guides and secretaries at the staff lunch table. |
| 3631 |
He buried his head in his hands to quiet and deaden the pounding, and then he knew what he had to do. |
| 3632 |
I waited for my parents and Mickey to come running in. This time, they must have heard the dogs, too. |
| 3633 |
The prince stood and bowed to Scaler. There was, Scaler thought, a malevolent gleam in his dark eyes. |
| 3634 |
The end of the last stray survivors of the demolition he had ordered on the planet Earth, he thought. |
| 3635 |
He takes her wrist and pulls her out the door. Martha and Zachery exchange looks, but neither speaks. |
| 3636 |
He turned the key around. But what was the use of thinking now about what that might have led him to. |
| 3637 |
Harvey admitted that he'd fallen for all of them, but there was one that impressed him in particular. |
| 3638 |
He pushed the diary to the side of his desk and sat considering the two grave young faces before him. |
| 3639 |
Kaiser was hesitant. He had the look of a little boy who was in trouble and afraid to tell the truth. |
| 3640 |
On Cyprus the joy of the people was boundless and around the world there was one long sigh of relief. |
| 3641 |
Or before those civilizations could get living representatives of themselves into interstellar space. |
| 3642 |
The interference lasted only a few seconds. It was followed by a short call and all was silent again. |
| 3643 |
Wayne locked the files up. The clerk locked the vault. Wayne got some coffee. Wayne killed some time. |
| 3644 |
None of those aboard the big airship spoke. There was no need for words. Each knew what he had to do. |
| 3645 |
Noticing the attention, the skulker abruptly turned on his heel and walked in the opposite direction. |
| 3646 |
He couldn't stop the trembling, and when the phone rang he had to steel himself to lift the receiver. |
| 3647 |
Under and behind and inside everything the man took for granted, something horrible had been growing. |
| 3648 |
That got our thief's immediate attention, and he sat down near the tipsy fellow, hoping to hear more. |
| 3649 |
Biron fell upon it, rolled with it, and came up on his knees and one hand. In his other was the whip. |
| 3650 |
Unsteadily, his heart beginning to pick up speed as his senses became unnumbered, he got to his feet. |
| 3651 |
He spent the time going through his pictures of the three mining tugs. We didn't talk, but I watched. |
| 3652 |
The faintest murmur slipped up the walls from the courtyard, so faint I could not make out the words. |
| 3653 |
Justen did not answer, even when Tamra pulled her mount alongside his, though his face remained grim. |
| 3654 |
I was so caught up in the story it took me a few beats before I remembered that I really didn't know. |
| 3655 |
He wrapped his arms around her, holding her tight, until she felt her heart beating in time with his. |
| 3656 |
There wasn't even an echo from below. The bowels of the house seemed to consume the shouted syllable. |
| 3657 |
Turning around, I saw that we were in a small chamber, something like a hangar or a narrow boathouse. |
| 3658 |
As the man started down the steps the two caterpillars waiting by the mailbox twitched with interest. |
| 3659 |
Then he wandered along, pretending to be making notes, and kept his eyes open for the public library. |
| 3660 |
The track was bare dirt. The meandering ruts had been made by animals driven to the city, not wheels. |
| 3661 |
The cat concentrated. The scene shifted. There was a young male serpent slithering contentedly along. |
| 3662 |
He had drawn her toward him and her left leg was now extended back, toward the stake, the chain taut. |
| 3663 |
Doc, for his final stage used no electricity at all. He used no tubes, bulbs nor elaborate apparatus. |
| 3664 |
But without death. The beast would see that he lived, tortured and agonized, until he was an old man. |
| 3665 |
Decker just stared. The name meant nothing to him. It had been many years since he had last heard it. |
| 3666 |
Jeff's eyes remained fixed on the wavelets, the slowly growing motion of the sea. He would not budge. |
| 3667 |
I stopped and began to sob. Chad was right. There was nothing we could do. We couldn't prove a thing. |
| 3668 |
I took him up again, and as I settled his head against me, his eyes opened and he knew me. He smiled. |
| 3669 |
He swiveled it. He dipped it. He strafed the airplane. He caught a window. He saw shotguns and vests. |
| 3670 |
They stood looking at each other, and the conversation seemed to have burned itself out in two lines. |
| 3671 |
The Korean nodded and looked around the room. There were no dissenters. Just seven inscrutable masks. |
| 3672 |
They were twenty yards from one of the several staircases that ran up from the garden into the house. |
| 3673 |
It takes an army to fight an army. But sending one scout out to locate the enemy is the sensible way. |
| 3674 |
Slowly we walked along the bank of the river, the mighty Nile, flowing steadily through all the eons. |
| 3675 |
I glanced around. I could see a paperboy on his bike halfway up the block. No one else on the street. |
| 3676 |
With a rising rush there was sound all around her. She pushed the inner hatch wide and found her man. |
| 3677 |
So I did not touch the blaster and stepped carefully over and around other bits and pieces of debris. |
| 3678 |
It was a famous duet. And a beautiful one. Agnes ought to know. She'd been singing it all last night. |
| 3679 |
Monk listened, then shook his head. It was difficult to conceive of any one moving with such silence. |
| 3680 |
I followed the men down the passageway. I stopped once, when they stopped, to extinguish the lantern. |
| 3681 |
I make some lame remark along these lines. Mark frowns at me and a cloudy look comes into Don's face. |
| 3682 |
She followed him, her hand at her side, hidden from view. He sat on the bed and she stood before him. |
| 3683 |
Silence made her look up. They were gathering around to watch her, stopping at a respectful distance. |
| 3684 |
Then she began walking. Her home was not much more than two kilometers distant, a little over a mile. |
| 3685 |
Beyond Measurement can stand. Where it is used, there will it break the tie between us and the earth. |
| 3686 |
He did not even suggest that she take a seat, but she drew one calmly up to the railing and sat down. |
| 3687 |
Not a little disgusted, Doc landed and launched a hunt afoot for the masked man. But it was too late. |
| 3688 |
Six bodies. Two women. He clumped past them and into the corridor that ran through officers' country. |
| 3689 |
I'm afraid you get used to it, I felt. It becomes just another way of seeing. Of being, she answered. |
| 3690 |
With these slung on his back, he mounted the silk cord. No stir, no sound of life came from the ruin. |
| 3691 |
Instead, she cast her arms about him and laid her mouth on his. Just for a minute. Just for a memory. |
| 3692 |
He met my eyes, but there was nothing in them. It was funny. Like they were painted on, or something. |
| 3693 |
He choked. Even speaking her name summoned up grief like a thick glutinous wave and burned his heart. |
| 3694 |
The fairies were silent for a moment. Hearing it from Fowl suddenly brought the reality home to them. |
| 3695 |
He sighed and tugged at the fringe of his mustache. Then he nodded. Very well, we would do it my way. |
| 3696 |
The innkeeper had arrived, clinking the two flagons of wine down on the table in a lackluster manner. |
| 3697 |
Then I heard her roll over to me. I could sense her lying near me, on her elbows, looking down at me. |
| 3698 |
When Crofts registered that barely credible scene he became sane in the blink of a thunderstruck eye. |
| 3699 |
His eyes picked up the gleam of the cat mask and followed that to and fro for an instant as it swung. |
| 3700 |
As they drew closer, Michael saw that there was a tiny barred window about five feet from the ground. |
| 3701 |
That may have hit me harder than it did her. Amelia had lived with Ellie, but I had lived inside her. |
| 3702 |
A few minutes later she felt the life stream past her. Death had the decency to leave without a word. |
| 3703 |
Monk took two or three stamping turns around the office, then stopped and glared dramatically at Ham. |
| 3704 |
She went back into the cool of the cottage and sat down in the rocking chair, staring at the doorway. |
| 3705 |
He raced through the night, his preternatural speed carrying him quickly to where she waited for him. |
| 3706 |
She dragged herself to lie by the door. Something was telling her Storm was near. She would be ready. |
| 3707 |
The spray of his matter cannon went miraculously close to the other ship. She was forced to veer off. |
| 3708 |
The room plunged into darkness. Hendricks got up and made his way past the curtain, into the kitchen. |
| 3709 |
Within moments, the rocks had been pulled back sufficiently to let the guards and the Doctor through. |
| 3710 |
I began dragging the box down the hall. Anna followed, holding the teapot as if it were made of gold. |
| 3711 |
She made her way over to him, squeezing between two old set pieces she recognized from their musical. |
| 3712 |
She was silent, then stepped forward and slipped her arms around him. For a time, they just embraced. |
| 3713 |
Barbarians, Michael told them haughtily, and dropped into the armchair hastily vacated by a new chum. |
| 3714 |
The entire third salvo fell inside the fortress. Marika sensed that that presaged a steady hammering. |
| 3715 |
He was always close beside her and the one who held the strap. Others came behind, three or four men. |
| 3716 |
Albert stood at the rear of the plane and looked forward along the large, empty tube of the fuselage. |
| 3717 |
He was making pointless conversation just for the pleasure of the company, and doubtless she knew it. |
| 3718 |
Machines who came all on their own to do even methodical tasks might be programmed for other actions. |
| 3719 |
Her voice was very soft and shaky. She didn't look at Riordan, but kept her gaze fixed on her cousin. |
| 3720 |
I laughed and set off on a lap across the pool. At least you were spared any memories of mortal life. |
| 3721 |
Slowly, the scene assumed its natural perspective. Again the little man fiddled with his wrist watch. |
| 3722 |
Running down the hall right into the cells, where he would undoubtedly find a welcoming party by now. |
| 3723 |
Up close, underneath its massive sheltering bulk, anyone could tell the Egg was made of native stone. |
| 3724 |
He struck his balled fist against his thigh to drive out the itchy, satisfied feeling in his fingers. |
| 3725 |
She thought he might refuse. But instead he turned his head and uttered a crooning sound to the bird. |
| 3726 |
So we pulled off clothes and put them where we could and curled into the cold newer linens and quilt. |
| 3727 |
Something bounced on the bridge beside him. He reached down to pick it up and dropped it with a yelp. |
| 3728 |
He could have sworn he felt the grating shudder as if the engines looming above him were starting up. |
| 3729 |
I started out for the bench where I had stashed my coat receipt. I drew up short after a dozen paces. |
| 3730 |
And now, from eating and napping, she'd recovered energy enough to begin healing her painful muscles. |
| 3731 |
Over the course of twelve years, his flesh and soul withered until he knew he had become transparent. |
| 3732 |
One guy resuscitated. One guy grabbed at the shoe. Pete kicked him. Pete bit him. Pete kept the shoe. |
| 3733 |
The voice was well disguised by the metal, and also by the hollow acoustics of the helmet's interior. |
| 3734 |
Leaving everyone else to stew in traffic, and try to remember why they moved here in the first place. |
| 3735 |
One Eskimo in particular rambled a short distance from the others. He floundered through a snowdrift. |
| 3736 |
The people only shrugged, not knowing or caring what the barbarians did or which direction they went. |
| 3737 |
The house was very still. Just outside, the branches of a tree brushed against the window like claws. |
| 3738 |
Moving carefully, the man pulled forward a silver pair of wings, hanging from a chain round his neck. |
| 3739 |
Suddenly Nora banged on the table. She was at the head of it. Everyone at her table stopped speaking. |
| 3740 |
Alex had come in in the middle of something. Seeking enlightenment, he plucked earphones from a rack. |
| 3741 |
Then for the first time he considered what this creature would have done to the people in the castle. |
| 3742 |
Again Gifford raised a hand toward the double portrait, but this time his finger indicated the youth. |
| 3743 |
There was a pocket of it trapped under a tread fender. He stuck his nose up into it and got a breath. |
| 3744 |
He dug faster, freed her shoulders. She was limp beneath his hands, but he detected a slow heartbeat. |
| 3745 |
With a vast quaking and heaving he pulled back until once more only his face showed through the hole. |
| 3746 |
The next wasn't as zealous, or as good with his blades. He fell immediately, and then there were two. |
| 3747 |
The road took them steadily north. They crossed two small streams, then the road led steadily upward. |
| 3748 |
Still stunned, Oliver nodded. Penelope agreed eagerly. She seemed to be sucking all this in joyfully. |
| 3749 |
The picture wavered, then disappeared in a maze of vertical lines and a wash of red, then went black. |
| 3750 |
Morrows threw the switch back and the view faded. He was sweating and his hands were trembling badly. |
| 3751 |
He picked up a paddle. He pretended there was water, and dipped the paddle where the water should be. |
| 3752 |
He had been certain it was going to eat him right then. But it hadn't. It had tied him up like a dog. |
| 3753 |
Without further words, Zak stepped onto the pale circle, and once again the world blurred around him. |
| 3754 |
Forester began to wish he had called the police after all, for this man knew far too much to be free. |
| 3755 |
Then a couple of much heavier rocks danced free from the walls of the pits and thudded into the sand. |
| 3756 |
Erica was confident, moving straight ahead, as if her destination was definitely in mind. And it was. |
| 3757 |
We had come all the way around to the place of the black smear. I stopped. I squatted and studied it. |
| 3758 |
Now was his time to act, and to act quickly. He raised his arms and called upon his powers to strike. |
| 3759 |
Inna and Rachel crouched on either side of the despairing mother seeking the source of this new pain. |
| 3760 |
Confusion and panic might reign on the docks at this moment, but a single goal would soon unite them. |
| 3761 |
On the beach from which we'd started I put her down and stretched out beside her. Soon I slept also. |
| 3762 |
Lifting the girl to one shoulder, Doc stepped down, bent the paper spears back and opened a trapdoor. |
| 3763 |
A momentary pause. Think of your answer quickly, Calvin Miller. Find a way to deceive me, if you can. |
| 3764 |
She nodded at the Count, who'd slowly raised his hands to the red wound that ran all around his neck. |
| 3765 |
We tossed our empty cups and boxes in a trash can and waited in front of the theater for our parents. |
| 3766 |
He glanced down at the plate of cookies she was holding in her hands, seeing them for the first time. |
| 3767 |
For all the good that's going to do me, he thought wryly. And for all the good that will do humanity. |
| 3768 |
Steve felt strange. He could hear his ears singing, very quietly. Bad wine always made his head ring. |
| 3769 |
He raised the wavelength adjustment slightly, then cut the microphone into circuit and spoke rapidly. |
| 3770 |
The old agent let out an annoyingly hearty belly laugh that followed Cover all the way down the hall. |
| 3771 |
Jack had probed to the roots of the man's true motivation, but he had gained nothing for his efforts. |
| 3772 |
Somehow, despite the distance and flickering haze, I had the sense of something probing for a way in. |
| 3773 |
It began with a veritable flood of suppressed information suddenly rising to the surface of her mind. |
| 3774 |
But there was no other way. The Indian attack planes were breaking through toward the American ships. |
| 3775 |
Baffled, Tuppence was forced to withdraw and hold a further consultation with Tommy outside the gate. |
| 3776 |
Fran shook his head. He baited a hook, cast it, and settled back scowling to wait for a fish to bite. |
| 3777 |
When it was fully light, Mister Wolf reined in his steaming horse and proceeded at a walk for a time. |
| 3778 |
The days yielded one to another. The months went by. Winter gave way to spring, and spring to summer. |
| 3779 |
And the bodies piled up in a huge mound of yellow feathers, like some kind of giant canary graveyard. |
| 3780 |
But they did not. Their vaunted warlock seemed as panicked as the rest. The survivors shifted course. |
| 3781 |
Finally, it was agreed that we would hold the wedding at his church in three days, on Monday morning. |
| 3782 |
He flipped on the switch and pressed the starter button. The engine kicked over and started right up. |
| 3783 |
Two laborers got out and took down a long, heavy box. Heller showed them where to put it in the ship. |
| 3784 |
The noise of the storm made it too difficult to speak. The girls just bailed and held on to the boat. |
| 3785 |
He backed slowly away and stood by the doors. He put a cigarette in his mouth but forgot to light it. |
| 3786 |
And in her dream Coraline saw that the sun had set and the stars were twinkling in the darkening sky. |
| 3787 |
The brothel keeper thought the boy was dying. He was afraid of the law. He stood before me in terror. |
| 3788 |
A miracle, Lord. I need a miracle. Silas had no way of knowing that hours from now, he would get one. |
| 3789 |
He does, but once he moves around the inner ceramic privacy screen, he stops cold in the entry foyer. |
| 3790 |
The speakers seemed to be growing angrier with every sentence. Soon their words were clearly audible. |
| 3791 |
She steadied the pearly ball on her knee, her fingers well to its bottom so as not to hide the sides. |
| 3792 |
The cunning man frowned in concern. When Ellie saw the gun, her mind had turned to ambush and murder. |
| 3793 |
Vinnie gave him a look. He despised people who wished you a nice day, a nice night or a nice weekend. |
| 3794 |
Me didn't have to finish. Both men were devotees of knowledge, but loved peace and civilization more. |
| 3795 |
Kirby tensed, certain that the witch had done something. Certain that trouble was now headed her way. |
| 3796 |
But perhaps, before then, she could enjoy the show of slaughter and butchery presented by the humans. |
| 3797 |
Tears welled up in her eyes as she clenched her hands into fists, fingernails cutting into her palms. |
| 3798 |
It surprised him then to glimpse a few wry smiles among the women. They all returned to their eating. |
| 3799 |
He twitched the reins, his current predicament almost forgotten in the tide of hereditary resentment. |
| 3800 |
Boats, she understood at once, although again she had no idea where this information was coming from. |
| 3801 |
Igor lurched through the castle corridors, dragging one foot after the other in the approved fashion. |
| 3802 |
The second rocket widened the hole in the White center. Justen leaned against the stones and groaned. |
| 3803 |
She had a drink. She took a swallow from it and gave me a cool level stare over the rim of the glass. |
| 3804 |
She started to protest. He looked at her, his eyes expressionless, and she swallowed and fell silent. |
| 3805 |
Doc's arrangement for the immediate tracing of incoming calls with the telephone company, had worked. |
| 3806 |
Pitt, anticipation surging through his veins, stepped inside and swung his beam around the storeroom. |
| 3807 |
One of the paramedics, smitten by Erin's attire, cheerfully obliged. He asked if she knew the victim. |
| 3808 |
Phipps put the limo into motion. The van carrying the other men and Adonis lumbered into line behind. |
| 3809 |
And then while Bowman was still considering his next move, Whitehead asked an extraordinary question. |
| 3810 |
The plane tore its runners loose from the ice, wallowed forward like a duck, splashed into the water. |
| 3811 |
Doc Savage, stooping swiftly, wrenched at two short sticks which were a part of the raft's structure. |
| 3812 |
I reassured him and hung up. If Sinclair's patent attorney thought it was a star drive, maybe it was. |
| 3813 |
Marissa nodded. She needed something to keep her from thinking about the horrible scene in the hotel. |
| 3814 |
I copied their tag number, then bought a dozen red roses for Lucy. Serendipity should not be ignored. |
| 3815 |
Despite his worry, he dozed and then slept deeply, not waking again until three full hours were gone. |
| 3816 |
In some there would be Jews and they would be fed and clothed and sheltered and sent along their way. |
| 3817 |
Finally he sighed, the wisdom of the ages having surrendered in the face of modern toilet technology. |
| 3818 |
He walked around to the back of the coach. There was another, much larger arrow high in the woodwork. |
| 3819 |
Doc scratched his head thoughtfully. It was not often that he made any kind of gesture when thinking. |
| 3820 |
The stalls booed him. He spat at them, waved his sword, and the boos became louder. The horse staled. |
| 3821 |
Ullman was telling his little tale well, and three pairs of eyes now betrayed an unexpected interest. |
| 3822 |
Then he cleaned his rifle, dried it as thoroughly as he could under the circumstances, and loaded it. |
| 3823 |
Jinny swallowed hard several times but managed to keep herself together. Kinsman watched her closely. |
| 3824 |
He returned his gaze to my face and stared for a moment. Then he plucked at the chain about his neck. |
| 3825 |
I heard Tom's voice. And I smelled a subtle combination of things that meant he was not too far away. |
| 3826 |
And in the golden light of the early sun they saw something not far off that made them shout for joy. |
| 3827 |
In the meantime, we amassed canned meat and grains, enough to feed twelve thousand people for a year. |
| 3828 |
For a seer, the truth is that all living beings are struggling to die. What stops death is awareness. |
| 3829 |
Slight applause for the scramble suit. And then expectant gazes at Fred, lurking within its membrane. |
| 3830 |
The wall at my back seemed to be melting, as if it were cast of wax and had been set too near a fire. |
| 3831 |
Man is but a pebble dropped in a pool. And if man is but a pebble, then all his works can be no more. |
| 3832 |
I only listened to this last with half an ear, as something else had momentarily caught my attention. |
| 3833 |
The hand closed, carefully. They all tumbled together in the palm, held by loosely clenching fingers. |
| 3834 |
Heller was up bright and early the following day, the viewer alarm blasting me out of a sodden sleep. |
| 3835 |
The site was too quiet. Never trust a workplace where absolutely nobody is standing around aimlessly. |
| 3836 |
Then the delight of their wild presence stayed long with him, warming him on the dark cold ride home. |
| 3837 |
The driver realized the man was a stranger. The fellow had the kind of face that interests policemen. |
| 3838 |
Doc's powerful voice interrupted what promised to be a wordy discussion of his matrimonial prospects. |
| 3839 |
We were separated and each thrust back to our own places, the chain line being then again strung out. |
| 3840 |
Fresh pain stroked Brian's head and he rocked on his feet, suddenly quite sure he was going to faint. |
| 3841 |
Monk shook his head in a slow, bewildered way. He reached into the car, carefully lifted a limp form. |
| 3842 |
Then the hook jerked my hands up over my head, jarring my wrists and shoulders, and I was motionless. |
| 3843 |
Holly grabbed the bag. Holly grabbed a steak knife. Holly stabbed one brick. Holly dipped one finger. |
| 3844 |
The Yale professors said there had been a central earth disturbance about ten thousand miles distant. |
| 3845 |
The stage was big and bare and empty, except for a sack which was scuttling determinedly for freedom. |
| 3846 |
That look of discontent, faint as it had been, was gone. Her smile no longer was either angry or sly. |
| 3847 |
Then he rose, with catlike tread, retraced his steps to the door from behind which he'd heard voices. |
| 3848 |
I stepped aside as the twins rushed the bar. She went to the couch, sat, and signaled me to join her. |
| 3849 |
By himself, he lay on his back thinking, waiting for someone to come. The doctor eventually returned. |
| 3850 |
I let her think about it. The hook was set now, and there was no way she was going to shake it loose. |
| 3851 |
Just brains. Sitting around, trying to decide how to outwit other brains, at other conference tables. |
| 3852 |
The captain of a King's ship calls himself by the name of that ship when he is on board a small boat. |
| 3853 |
I am at peace, he realized as he drifted off to sleep. I am at peace, and it's not all that pleasant. |
| 3854 |
He sensed the man's presence as they drew near the small pond located at the far reaches of the park. |
| 3855 |
Heat rushed out at him, not flame. He threw up his arm to protect his face and stepped into the room. |
| 3856 |
They chatted idly for several minutes, a dozen different conversations buzzing around the long table. |
| 3857 |
I really had to pay him back. Something way creepy. Maybe I could do something out here in the woods. |
| 3858 |
She leaned back in her chair. Her little face was thin and angular now. Her eyes had a watchful look. |
| 3859 |
These abilities, and skeleton animation, are performed at a level of magic use equal to the hit dice. |
| 3860 |
Then the billion voices ceased, instantly, as if the train had plunged in a fire storm off the earth. |
| 3861 |
Her father and her uncle had lost their bet. It would never last, but at that moment we were friends. |
| 3862 |
There were also lead bracelets fitting around their ankles, and heavy enough to keep their feet down. |
| 3863 |
The men waited, listening so hard that they could almost hear the gurgle of blood in their own veins. |
| 3864 |
An immortal has a great deal to remember. Sometimes its better to put things where they will be safe. |
| 3865 |
Her feet, which a moment before had been moving gracefully across the floor, tripped over themselves. |
| 3866 |
They all dropped through, and Ham exposed the mouth of the tunnel shaft he had discovered previously. |
| 3867 |
I squirmed in the ropes. I belonged to him. I began to sweat. For the first time I felt genuine fear. |
| 3868 |
Agnes was asleep against the table, the cape spilled out around her and the cart hugged to her chest. |
| 3869 |
Holly entered with Mulch in tow. The dwarf was wearing cuffs and looking extremely sorry for himself. |
| 3870 |
I turned instinctively, for something had stirred in me. I found myself wandering across the kitchen. |
| 3871 |
Doc determined these were powerful lenses. They were of the type employed in the greatest telescopes. |
| 3872 |
No one was in the jeep when it blew up, but soldiers throughout the area scattered, bawling warnings. |
| 3873 |
That night Jill cooked some potatoes in their skins, and let them go cold to take with them next day. |
| 3874 |
Tani had spent an earlier part of the day at the graveside of her father. Anders had taken her there. |
| 3875 |
Doc Savage passed out completely, and came out of it to find himself on the surface, swimming feebly. |
| 3876 |
He didn't consider it an unreasonable request, but they only stood there, huddled together fearfully. |
| 3877 |
They were standing on a very large heap of coke in the middle of a big cellar. At the end was a door. |
| 3878 |
The acolyte hesitated before obeying. She returned in a moment with the mug steaming on a small tray. |
| 3879 |
The room was completely quiet for about five seconds. Everybody looked stunned. Then Kristy spoke up. |
| 3880 |
The bronze man started to go on and he seemed to stagger. He tried to catch himself and all but fell. |
| 3881 |
No drums, no. But from the sky overhead there came a screech such as pained the ears of any listener. |
| 3882 |
The wild dog had stopped in the middle of a yowl. Broken it off with an almost impossible abruptness. |
| 3883 |
There was a bit of breeze on the roof of the Citadel. It also offered a good view of the high desert. |
| 3884 |
At least he was coming out of the fog of pain that filled his head, and he had bought some more time. |
| 3885 |
He simply did not belong in this game. He understood nothing whatever about internal politics either. |
| 3886 |
Tongues that repeated messages might do so to more than one person if there was urging strong enough. |
| 3887 |
I knew that he was jesting, but the compliment brought a blush to my cheek. Bernice also was pleased. |
| 3888 |
Damn, I thought, recalling the notebook and backpack I had left behind. I figured I'd be coming back. |
| 3889 |
She had replaced the loops of her jewelry and knelt before me, in the position of the pleasure slave. |
| 3890 |
He drew up sharply when he saw two figures ahead, making for the same break in the thicket as he was. |
| 3891 |
She slowly faded from his sight, but he could not call her back. He had already collapsed into sleep. |
| 3892 |
Mike sat up trying to rub the pain out of his eyes. It was several seconds before he could open them. |
| 3893 |
Bond got to his feet and stepped over the sprawling legs of the dead man and turned on the top light. |
| 3894 |
Doc shoved the unconscious one ahead, picked him up, and carried him as he leaped into the shrubbery. |
| 3895 |
As we made our way through the desolate and godforsaken old neighborhood, neither of us spoke a word. |
| 3896 |
He did so. Her legs were marvelously sleek and firm. He found her knees, and gripped just below them. |
| 3897 |
She screamed when she saw all the blood. Her knees buckled and she felt as if she was going to faint. |
| 3898 |
He was seized unceremoniously. More men came running. The little island seemed to be alive with them. |
| 3899 |
Will nodded to Jim and they ran quietly over to pick their way through bushes and look into the room. |
| 3900 |
Death looked around at the endless desert. He snapped his fingers and a large white horse trotted up. |
| 3901 |
The serving girl took Justen's empty mug, flipping her braid by his face as she left to get a refill. |
| 3902 |
He chuckled to himself as he strode out of the pentagram and began leisurely inspecting the premises. |
| 3903 |
He gestured at some of the sheets adorning the interior, and the cab veered dangerously to the right. |
| 3904 |
It wasn't until the second course appeared that Miles realized what was bothering him about the food. |
| 3905 |
The blow had snap and power. Boat Face's arm flailed, he wavered off balance, then toppled overboard. |
| 3906 |
Smith sprang to his feet, grabbed his revolver, and ran across the room to flick on the light switch. |
| 3907 |
Muffling a cough, he wheeled himself to the door. He moved manually, careful not to engage the motor. |
| 3908 |
Half an hour later as she was hooking the last eye on her dinner dress there was a knock on the door. |
| 3909 |
I stood and turned. I think I might have groaned as I dropped back into the seat and shook the reins. |
| 3910 |
In the living room, the wind blew over a lamp. All three of us jumped when it shattered on the floor. |
| 3911 |
Richard looked up. He felt his face creasing into a smile, hope hitting him like a blow to the chest. |
| 3912 |
One's to savor, he could crave the boon of a swift death. That wan hope was all that was left to him. |
| 3913 |
I peered through the window of the hut, studying the still darkness of the interior for some minutes. |
| 3914 |
A soft rain sprang up in brilliant blooms that touched all around Eden with whispers that said, Soft. |
| 3915 |
He lifted the edge of the blankets and slipped into the bed and Anna jerked violently away from him. |
| 3916 |
She couldn't help herself. She laughed. She was beginning to feel better. It must have been the food. |
| 3917 |
Mongols. Their horse technology was much superior to ours. When we expanded eastward we were careful. |
| 3918 |
Sammy glanced at the arrow, which looked too weak to penetrate cat hide. He walked before the archer. |
| 3919 |
The man who ducked his head a little to enter was not an islander and Persis got to her feet quickly. |
| 3920 |
Doc Savage said nothing for the moment. He moved to the office door and stood gazing idly through it. |
| 3921 |
The Tube was gone. It was sealed shut, fused over. Only a dull surface of cooling metal greeted them. |
| 3922 |
And then there was nothing to be done for it. The order had been given, and honor bound them to obey. |
| 3923 |
She thrust out an arm. Stone groaned, and a slab of roof thudded down, throwing up spray and pebbles. |
| 3924 |
He waited, but this time she didn't say them back. She just gave him a look full of hurtful sympathy. |
| 3925 |
Lucy laughed at the noise as I unbundled her. But in seconds, a loud crash came from the living room. |
| 3926 |
The howling echoed again, still distant. Corporal paced nervously while Hal thought about his answer. |
| 3927 |
My watch tour for that day was about up when Frey marched in and presented himself before my console. |
| 3928 |
We did not go down the long channel to Hamilton but anchored at the port nearest the sea, St. George. |
| 3929 |
We climbed through the little snout, I unlocked the entrance, and we got aboard without much trouble. |
| 3930 |
As he came to his feet, he was renewed and made whole again. The black staff fell away from his hand. |
| 3931 |
She answered that she wouldn't bring him a beer if his face was on fire. He hit her in the other ear. |
| 3932 |
A whole series of thoughts flashed through her mind as she sat frozen at the wheel staring up at him. |
| 3933 |
I mean, you could buy a machine to do that. They exist. And women don't buy them. Neither do gay men. |
| 3934 |
Ham walked back and faced Monk. The hairy chemist was grinning cheerfully. He added to his statement. |
| 3935 |
Brooke stopped babbling for a moment to point at a tree across the stream, then she resumed babbling. |
| 3936 |
Max glanced up as Laverna eased into the room through the bedroom door, gently closing it behind her. |
| 3937 |
But then he discovered a loose group of prisoners gathered near the sidelines, shouting and clapping. |
| 3938 |
The fins stared at her, eyes opening still wider as they began to realize what she was talking about. |
| 3939 |
In other words, I looked forward for over a year to the book you are presently holding in your hands. |
| 3940 |
Debera looked to her left to the farthest hearth, which had tables and chairs set invitingly near it. |
| 3941 |
Attached to their waist belts were intricate filter systems designed to refine clean, breathable air. |
| 3942 |
I turned and headed toward the place of the stairway, treading my tomb's lengthening shadow eastward. |
| 3943 |
He stepped through a steel door. Waiting just inside, he could hear what was said without being seen. |
| 3944 |
When he awoke, the Moon had swallowed up half the sky, and the braking maneuvers were about to begin. |
| 3945 |
I am a lone knight, surrounded by unworthy souls. And I will have to decipher the keystone on my own. |
| 3946 |
Deborah tilted her head to the side and squinted her eyes as if she were assessing Spencer's motives. |
| 3947 |
Silas felt as if his lips had just caught fire, but the air pouring into his lungs was sent from God. |
| 3948 |
The hair began to rise on the back of my neck. It always did when she fixed her eyes on me like that. |
| 3949 |
The top sergeant widened her eyes and raised her eyebrows as she pursed her lips in a silent whistle. |
| 3950 |
As he reached his car and fumbled for his keys, curiosity forced him to sneak one peek at the window. |
| 3951 |
I expectantly rounded one last corner and came to an abrupt halt. I had found the source of the odor. |
| 3952 |
I blinked several times. Sat up and stretched. My body felt stiff. My back ached. Every muscle ached. |
| 3953 |
Of course, we weren't that tired, but my mother had been the one to suggest we enjoy the guest house. |
| 3954 |
Shutting the door, Maurice went to the entry hall. The front door was closed, locked from the inside. |
| 3955 |
Worst of all, great drops of rain began to fall, plopping down on the rocks and causing great dismay. |
| 3956 |
George reddened, put down his cup and tried to deny it, but the older man laughed and shook his head. |
| 3957 |
The baby, however, laughed in delight and reached out a hand to try to grab the king's graying beard. |
| 3958 |
Despite his position, the queerly clad Ham was grinning as if he knew something he could not divulge. |
| 3959 |
Sticks and feathers were flying in every direction and they were even pulling down their tree houses. |
| 3960 |
The Council members stood and stretched and left the chamber to head for the alehouse or their homes. |
| 3961 |
Naked and cold, tied by the wrists to the corners of the bed, ankles spread to the bottom of the bed. |
| 3962 |
Quarrel picked up a fork with his free hand and clanged it against a glass. The big Negro hurried up. |
| 3963 |
Once the car was started I asked for directions to keep her talking. She gave them in a sleepy voice. |
| 3964 |
Faint steam began to rise from the water, and dust puffs rose off the road below as the ground shook. |
| 3965 |
She waited for him to answer, to say something to her, anything. Even anger would mean that he cared. |
| 3966 |
The bureaucrat was just as adamant not to waste good soldiers on what would be essentially a gesture. |
| 3967 |
Impulsively, I leaned forward. Our lips met within the mirror. Whatever she was, we had been friends. |
| 3968 |
When I issued forth from my chamber, it was near midmorning, so long had that drug kept me in thrall. |
| 3969 |
Machinery had been activated overhead, servos were coming into play and the sound was growing louder. |
| 3970 |
The holiday rep wilted before him and slunk back into line, wishing her uniform wasn't quite so pink. |
| 3971 |
A pressure hypo slammed up into the vein under her chin, and Ace fell back on to the bed, shuddering. |
| 3972 |
I cleared my throat and stared at the forest floor, assuring her it was only fatigue from my journey. |
| 3973 |
I then went to the shattered window at the rear of the cabin. I did not make my surveillance obvious. |
| 3974 |
I let fly and saw that my shot was true. He dropped his bow half pulled, clutched his chest and fell. |
| 3975 |
Hank had wanted to turn back. His son, Bill, had laughed and continued to paddle ahead in their boat. |
| 3976 |
Dimly she remembered the carton was no longer there. It was between the mattress and the box springs. |
| 3977 |
He led the way into the basement and pointed at two bales, wrapped in heavy paper and tied with wire. |
| 3978 |
It was a metal rod about eight inches long and two inches in diameter with a button on one end of it. |
| 3979 |
Howling like a crippled wolf, he raised the ax over his head with both hands and rushed on the chair. |
| 3980 |
His face came within an ace of crumpling up. This was the nadir, surely. They had no further to fall. |
| 3981 |
Momentarily their ears focused on the distant wail of fire engines that came from the hillside above. |
| 3982 |
When the sun had climbed past its zenith and was once again casting slight shadows, the woman halted. |
| 3983 |
She left, moving hurriedly out the door after exchanging a few words with the soldiers as she passed. |
| 3984 |
There was also the stink of his horse, sweat of panic and labor of flight and of foam from its mouth. |
| 3985 |
But he had gained freedom, at least for a space, and he must use that to the best advantage he could. |
| 3986 |
She nodded, the light sliding down her long gold hair, and sat down at his feet. Slowly the sun rose. |
| 3987 |
Back in his office Mason paced the floor, his head thrust slightly forward in frowning concentration. |
| 3988 |
The wiry man stared at the picture. He wet his lips. He reached over and put a finger on the picture. |
| 3989 |
Puzzled, Grant moved from the bedroom to the living room. His window looked out on the swimming pool. |
| 3990 |
But none of that was there. All the grackles had flown, it seemed, and the telephone lines were bare. |
| 3991 |
Mark took his wife's hand, but then let it go when the touch seemed to cause her some new discomfort. |
| 3992 |
I shot up my hand even though Kristy had said at my first club meeting that I didn't have to do that. |
| 3993 |
The bronze man set out through the jungle, following the natives who were returning to their village. |
| 3994 |
He clapped his hands together and the rosy light vanished. The bales fell to the carpet with a thump. |
| 3995 |
The humming became louder, and turned into words of some exotic, guttural song in a foreign language. |
| 3996 |
Gregory squatted down, rubbing his hands together and eyed the notch through which they were passing. |
| 3997 |
Solemnly, as he thought would befit a god, he conducted a laborious conference with himself in space. |
| 3998 |
Then everything flared white hot about him, and it felt as if a giant fist had slammed into his back. |
| 3999 |
He tuned in to the beginning other isolation and turned the sand green. Now he was in phase with her. |
| 4000 |
She made a big show of spreading her blanket and then hesitated, not sure how she would get on to it. |
| 4001 |
Only in very special situations, such as in costumed drama in the Game, were serfs permitted apparel. |
| 4002 |
For a moment I was afraid that I could never exert strength enough to draw myself to complete safety. |
| 4003 |
He surveyed his shining self complacently in the mirror, smiled faintly, exposing a section of teeth. |
| 4004 |
The kitten slid out smoothly. The cat panted a moment, then sat up and checked the small, damp baby. |
| 4005 |
Then they kissed in a fairly chaste fashion, insofar as camels are any judge. A decision was reached. |
| 4006 |
Jupiter told them about the lieutenant's journal, and showed them the page he had duplicated from it. |
| 4007 |
She helped Evans up. His cut was bleeding again, and his mask was red, frozen stiff against his face. |
| 4008 |
No, it wasn't the way she did things. He destroyed planets. He kept her around as a blunt instrument. |
| 4009 |
A cheer erupted from the crew and men leaped to their duties, anxious to be heading at last for home. |
| 4010 |
Or ever. I'd hardly endear myself to the child by expressing an honest opinion to him about Clarinda. |
| 4011 |
Consulting a computer printout on a clipboard, he walked down one of the aisles with Austin trailing. |
| 4012 |
Her eyes hurt because she had been crying. She tried to see even the edge of the drive to the stable. |
| 4013 |
With good reason. Now, old as she was, she was still a smasher. Her voice sliced through my memories. |
| 4014 |
She drew a deep breath and realized she felt at peace as she hadn't since meeting Linden on the dock. |
| 4015 |
To her dismay, she saw two cots set up on the porch and an old chiffonier, clearly intended for them. |
| 4016 |
Griff felt a shudder pass through the body so close to his. He drew a deep breath of the tainted air. |
| 4017 |
The girl's voice died away. With a hand that trembled violently, she replaced the telephone receiver. |
| 4018 |
They pushed forward more rapidly. Dust was thick on the country road, a soft pad for their footfalls. |
| 4019 |
He swung through, dropped. His landing was noiseless, padded by the spring of tremendous leg muscles. |
| 4020 |
He asked for permission to enter. She stopped pacing and whirled around, her face twisted with anger. |
| 4021 |
The children listened in awe. The old lady seemed beside herself, and rocked to and fro as she spoke. |
| 4022 |
His eyes wandered first to the door, then to the window. He had to turn slightly in his chair to see. |
| 4023 |
Finally, the whole remnant of the statue fell to the floor, and burst into a small pile of dark dust. |
| 4024 |
Artemis composed himself. He would have to present a convincing case or Butlers last chance was gone. |
| 4025 |
She was not. It took her longer to pass instructions to Smoke's attendants than to prepare to go out. |
| 4026 |
However, when he heard the two feminine titans saying how sorry they were, he rolled down one window. |
| 4027 |
The glowing spots on the giants seemed to grow larger, although the monsters were being carried away. |
| 4028 |
But the animal on which the chief was mounted seemed the speedier of the two, for he gained steadily. |
| 4029 |
The specter wavered, almost looking away again. If I made him nervous, my ferrets made him doubly so. |
| 4030 |
He has to stop this. He would like to concentrate on the matter at hand, but that is still a mystery. |
| 4031 |
It didn't matter. Something hit his jaw as he began to get up. The next he knew, he was in the water. |
| 4032 |
There was no sound of footsteps in the alley. He waited a moment and stuck his head round the corner. |
| 4033 |
Then he started violently and looked at his own hands. From them, he shifted his stare to his fellow. |
| 4034 |
It might have amused him to know he was not the only person having trouble with the Sparrow's spells. |
| 4035 |
From Doc's lips came a low, whizzing moan. He interspersed sharp popping noises made with his tongue. |
| 4036 |
Evan shook his head hard. The daydream had seemed so real. His mother's voice still sounded far away. |
| 4037 |
I waited until I thought all of the counselors had passed by. Then I slowly pulled myself to my feet. |
| 4038 |
This was more like it. If there was going to be a massacre, then it ought to be shared by both sides. |
| 4039 |
The aide's surface shouted stupidity, but the eyes betrayed him. They laughed at everything they saw. |
| 4040 |
Heller examined her leg. The ankle was a compound fracture with a splinter of bone extending from it. |
| 4041 |
That announcement brought another gratified hum from the grenadiers. And especially from their wives. |
| 4042 |
Tristan, Robyn, and Newt lay behind a fallen tree trunk. They stared in awe at the massive structure. |
| 4043 |
He stood up, bowed his head briefly in a gesture of politeness that was almost mocking, and was gone. |
| 4044 |
Down a hall and through more doors. And upstairs again, until they came out in another concrete hall. |
| 4045 |
I cleared my throat, so he wouldn't think he was alone and go into some soliloquy of teenage despair. |
| 4046 |
Scaler swallowed as he watched the lantern light dance on the ebony features of the man in the chair. |
| 4047 |
He ranged in a circle, alert golden eyes probing the smoky mist. He soon located one of the lookouts. |
| 4048 |
Ben Holiday and his companions watched them go until they were out of sight and did not speak a word. |
| 4049 |
The room was comfortably warm. Nevertheless, she closed her eyes and shivered against a sudden chill. |
| 4050 |
He withdrew his hands and I shuddered against the post, fearing only that he might again so touch me. |
| 4051 |
Doc Savage came up out of the chair. He seemed to have reached some kind of a conclusion, a decision. |
| 4052 |
But that gave him little satisfaction, for by losing the first two hands, he had lost the first game. |
| 4053 |
Richard walked out of the bedroom and closed the door. A key turned in the lock, then he spoke again. |
| 4054 |
They had their meal by the lake. It glittered at their feet, calm and blue, and looked very inviting. |
| 4055 |
The brown heel lifted off the ground. The toe bent and took the weight. Now the second foot had gone. |
| 4056 |
A moment later, a flash of white light pulsed against the night. The Sidewinder had found its target. |
| 4057 |
They slowed their pace to accommodate Ali, and went linked together by touch as they had in the maze. |
| 4058 |
George caught Anne's eye and grinned mischievously, but said nothing. Anne owned up, red in the face. |
| 4059 |
But Miles' fingers had jumped once more to the communications section of the console in front of him. |
| 4060 |
Because the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. |
| 4061 |
His fingers flexed, and blue sparks crackled out from them to slither across the surface of the desk. |
| 4062 |
Barnabas watched her for a few minutes, then left, promising himself that he would not do this again. |
| 4063 |
That was the chief perplexing quandary dogging the fugitive Earthlings for three long, hellish years. |
| 4064 |
But the great game went on at many levels, Death knew. And often it was hard to know who was playing. |
| 4065 |
No duck pond, nothing but gray sky above, gray ground beneath. They were back where they had started. |
| 4066 |
She turned to the dog and started to whistle. A tuneless whistle, just a bunch of shrill, flat tones. |
| 4067 |
He got the door open and helped her out. The gravel seemed to slide away from them in all directions. |
| 4068 |
But there was no warning to stop as they approached. Though neither did anyone move to open the gate. |
| 4069 |
I made my way through the thick trees and tall weeds, the whole time thinking of how to scare Mickey. |
| 4070 |
The rest of us are so numb from politics now we couldn't even muster up the will to shoot him a yawn. |
| 4071 |
The Doctor's voice cut across the babble of accusation like a schoolmaster correcting unruly infants. |
| 4072 |
Kai lifted the neglected shell in gentle salute and drank the juice before he began to eat the fruit. |
| 4073 |
Swiftly, almost whispering, Edith told him that she had to get to the studio and do a live broadcast. |
| 4074 |
Obediently the griffin descended, through layers of cloud and slanting sunlight to the waiting earth. |
| 4075 |
Just the way the rule of noninterference with the piggies had been broken before Ender ever got here. |
| 4076 |
Still, the inconveniences were substantial, and she was considering putting an end to the experiment. |
| 4077 |
Richard Lewis is a man who has worked out a foolproof way of getting snappy answers to his questions. |
| 4078 |
The issue of time travel is handled as a problem in quantum physics. To me, Orion is science fiction. |
| 4079 |
Her glum slouch answered his question, even as his white face and rapid breathing finished asking it. |
| 4080 |
I gave Louis a good hard thwack between his shoulder blades, and the crab ball flew out of his mouth. |
| 4081 |
Monk had picked up two stout clubs en route. One in either hand, he laid about with terrific results. |
| 4082 |
They had been ordered not to speak to the other slaves. They disobeyed this order in fervent fashion. |
| 4083 |
He started, and awareness came into his eyes. He glanced around at terrified doctors and technicians. |
| 4084 |
I moved, and he came close to me. His eyes went round, and a single word sighed from his slack mouth. |
| 4085 |
And he continued to be angry at his magician for allowing Karel to prevail and put them all to sleep. |
| 4086 |
The turmoil under the water was increasing. More flying fish soared aloft, flopping miserably ashore. |
| 4087 |
The creature hissed, nodding toward the book. She opened the volume and looked at the printing in it. |
| 4088 |
Despite the whistle, the revelers continue to sing, waving their arms in a rough semblance of rhythm. |
| 4089 |
There was no more light here than in the room they'd exited, but the murk lent mystery to the images. |
| 4090 |
There were still sun banners in the sky at his back, giving enough light for this difficult maneuver. |
| 4091 |
Bush had served with his captain through too many fights to have an exaggerated idea of his strength. |
| 4092 |
The men pushed them forward roughly, and they stumbled over a rocky path, not seeing where they went. |
| 4093 |
But before the consul could answer, the door opened and Lyra came in bearing a little branch of pine. |
| 4094 |
There. That was surely vague. A comment that could be taken as a compliment or an insult, or neither. |
| 4095 |
After steaming wedges of French apple pie, Jessica excused herself, and went into the guest bathroom. |
| 4096 |
The captain saw the abyss ahead, but the sentence had plunged on with a horrible momentum of its own. |
| 4097 |
Stanton and Bob. Carlos logically. Trace it back. Track the time line. Trust the time line logically. |
| 4098 |
Again the cowl swung and this time it was turned to the one of the councilors who had not yet spoken. |
| 4099 |
Pete watched her. Barb rubbed her cheek. She looked around. She saw the wall stains. She saw the pix. |
| 4100 |
Smoke was rattled right down to his ankles. He had no color left, was whispering some sort of prayer. |
| 4101 |
And then she was gone into a netherworld of formless mist, of stars that shone from below the ground. |
| 4102 |
A few minutes later, Madam glanced out of the window and saw that the troops were quietly moving out. |
| 4103 |
At one side of the room a red light appeared. It glowed for a moment, then went out. It glowed again. |
| 4104 |
And the next thing he spotted was a pair of booted feet disappearing around a corner in the crawlway. |
| 4105 |
Jupiter didn't answer. Instead he turned and walked almost a hundred yards in the opposite direction. |
| 4106 |
He gaped and nearly let the pot slip from his fingers before his customary dignity reasserted itself. |
| 4107 |
Instead of genetic booty, the crew will find their station smashed, their colleagues killed or taken. |
| 4108 |
Marlene licked her lips gently. She must not allow herself to be frightened, to be anything but calm. |
| 4109 |
The thud of its strike against his shield nearly sent Milo off his feet. He choked at its fetid odor. |
| 4110 |
I had a sudden impulse to crack it open and see what was inside. But of course I would never do that. |
| 4111 |
The hallway was empty. The silver men had gone back into an apartment. Doc stepped out into the hall. |
| 4112 |
Mr. Goon did not answer. The Inspector turned to the children, and gravely shook hands with them all. |
| 4113 |
A victory today, Marika reflected, and she would be in a position at last to do something about that. |
| 4114 |
In a moment of sheer reflex, all heads and every eye followed Pitt's gesture toward the shouting man. |
| 4115 |
The huge striped cat stalked him for a time, then gave up and slunk off in search of less agile prey. |
| 4116 |
She crouched and pulled, then lay on her back and kicked up at it, then looked at him quite woefully. |
| 4117 |
Then he noticed the Second he had spared. He was cowering beside a post, hunched and still shivering. |
| 4118 |
I saw no way of getting Dagny up that climb without rendering myself almost defenseless under attack. |
| 4119 |
Hans Albert, still glowering from the argument with his brother, came to sit in the chair beside him. |
| 4120 |
Shooter looked at Mort for a long moment, then turned and reached through the open window of his car. |
| 4121 |
The cloud of darkness dissipated. Light returned, penetrating as the thickness of the darkness eased. |
| 4122 |
They went with Ivy and got changed and snatched a bite to eat. By that time the day was getting late. |
| 4123 |
So I told her everything, even the bits about the two girls and my feeling bad about the stable girl. |
| 4124 |
At half past eight, I walked into the staff meeting and took my usual place at the head of the table. |
| 4125 |
Twenty thousand years later, I knew, medical researchers would still be hunting along the same trail. |
| 4126 |
As the glasses were drained Hornblower, looking round him, saw that he was expected to reply in form. |
| 4127 |
The Librarian landed on his shoulders. To the orangutan's surprise, this made very little difference. |
| 4128 |
He replaced the earth carefully, making sure there remained no evidence of its having been disturbed. |
| 4129 |
The dying man closed his eyes for a while and rested. After a moment or two he started talking again. |
| 4130 |
Ashe was on his knees, peering northward to where the bulk of wrecked ship was embedded in the plain. |
| 4131 |
She went off by herself to kneel by a little stream and throw cold water against her aching forehead. |
| 4132 |
Ted's top five percent. But at its best, science fiction is wonderful. And it tends to be optimistic. |
| 4133 |
There must be a threshold of consciousness such that when you pass it you acquire godlike attributes. |
| 4134 |
Weaving patterns were produced by those lustrous fur bodies to draw the eyes and focus the attention. |
| 4135 |
Darlene picked up the phone and said hello followed by several yeses. Then she put the phone on hold. |
| 4136 |
She spun about and buried her face in his chest. He held her and gazed over her shoulder at the body. |
| 4137 |
But I knew nothing of that. I knew only that I wanted to die. Nothing but death could stop my horror. |
| 4138 |
After a couple of hours the baskets were full and the men returned to the boat. Var and Soil relaxed. |
| 4139 |
A short time later, the warriors finished their meal. Wearily, they moved to take up the Quest again. |
| 4140 |
Restoring what the elves had twisted was rather like untangling several skeins of madly snarled yarn. |
| 4141 |
Chan hurried back, paid his bill, and walked swiftly out to his rented car. He drove south once more. |
| 4142 |
That was true. Since Burgess could travel here only with difficulty, he was a liability to the party. |
| 4143 |
I spent the rest of the day exploring my valley, and the city that the metal ladies had built for me. |
| 4144 |
I nodded, overcome and unable for the moment to speak. With quick gestures I pleaded for her silence. |
| 4145 |
I kept looking him in the eye. It was a fun game. Wellington couldn't take it. He looked at the door. |
| 4146 |
A couple of people at the next stall were looking at Mort thoughtfully. His mind went into overdrive. |
| 4147 |
Killian said he couldn't tell her. He pulled one hand free and made a zipping motion across his lips. |
| 4148 |
The radio station had attempted several times to contact the two machines, each time without success. |
| 4149 |
The Scholar wet his lips nervously. His grayish tongue looked like nothing so much as a large maggot. |
| 4150 |
The five moved their seats and Heller took his place back on the dais. The men were close to him now. |
| 4151 |
Waller made a sound that was akin to a laugh, but it was bereft of humor. Obviously he wasn't amused. |
| 4152 |
They devoted about five minutes of frenzied search for the funnel in the sand, but did not locate it. |
| 4153 |
He would not fail, he was sure of it. Because even though he had no proof, he knew that he was right. |
| 4154 |
Barefoot we left the barge and stepped out onto the pier, walking along the left sides of the wagons. |
| 4155 |
The boy's father gave him that complicated shrug used by adults in a situation involving adolescents. |
| 4156 |
Whatever I say about cologne, the entourage will repeat to the police if he turns up choked to death. |
| 4157 |
He took the nose ring between his thumb and first finger and lifted it. I stood painfully on my toes. |
| 4158 |
Alfred walked into the room, but when he saw them all staring at him, he started backing hastily out. |
| 4159 |
Michelle turned and looked out through the glass to the waiting room, but Susan was not there either. |
| 4160 |
Night came. Doc and his friends had not found the mysterious strong man who had worn the white beard. |
| 4161 |
Castro, feeling himself hoisted by the armpits, reasonably anticipated dismemberment or evisceration. |
| 4162 |
She felt his body stiffen beneath her palm, felt the tension that pulsed through him as he drew back. |
| 4163 |
I cannot be a hunter if I am always waiting to be prey. And so I must hunt him before he can hunt me. |
| 4164 |
His face was contorted by pain. He was clutching his left thigh, and there was blood on his trousers. |
| 4165 |
Whether they were walking out or being carried out, everyone leaving that building was covered in it. |
| 4166 |
He woke to find a gourd of water being held to his mouth by a powerful tan hand. He gulped the water. |
| 4167 |
Timmy whined. George remembered that they must hide him, and make plans for him. She turned to Sooty. |
| 4168 |
She'd timed herself to match my own readiness. Somehow, she always seemed to know that exact instant. |
| 4169 |
And that was the end of that one. I sped ahead to the next light flash that showed the door was open. |
| 4170 |
Storm and Tani came out after the performance still smiling. His father looked at him in resignation. |
| 4171 |
He turned to make his way back to his camping place. Through the snow from above came a flying thing. |
| 4172 |
On the other hand, the authorities might want to keep these spies for themselves if they caught them. |
| 4173 |
Doc Savage and the girl were both keeping out of sight behind the steam shovel. Doc wanted to listen. |
| 4174 |
The ambulance driver tapped his ear, then pointed eastward, as if that was the only answer necessary. |
| 4175 |
I was alone, with my new Animator. While I was looking at it my wife came downstairs in her bathrobe. |
| 4176 |
This was not strictly the truth. Monk was rated one of the half dozen greatest chemists ever to live. |
| 4177 |
I did not speak further with him. The cart was pushed past the four individuals. I did not look back. |
| 4178 |
Navajo came down, feeling its way through stacks of angry air, and landed with a final jarring thump. |
| 4179 |
Doc Savage had been dozing. He came awake instantly. His trained ears told him all he needed to know. |
| 4180 |
The doctor was a shade paler, and his big hands tried to express what his paralyzed tongue would not. |
| 4181 |
The crowd stopped heading for the exit and turned toward him, some looking expectant, others puzzled. |
| 4182 |
Mrs. Pierce stopped at a group of computer monitors. She put her hand on the top of the first screen. |
| 4183 |
It was only one man who had called out, a guard perhaps, one patrolling this supposedly cleared area. |
| 4184 |
I brought still more food and water. The male followed me to where the containers of food were piled. |
| 4185 |
She burst into tears. Smith stood up, angry and embarrassed at himself, and stumped off to the forge. |
| 4186 |
He folded up the scythe and stuck it into its sheath behind the saddle. Then he looked at the window. |
| 4187 |
He showed Richard which ones to look for, where they grew and why, and put names to everything they saw. |
| 4188 |
He stood by himself, looking across the way to the shrine that his people had never been able to use. |
| 4189 |
He logged lounge time. He watched Barb. He took side seats. He looked backstage. He got candid shots. |
| 4190 |
Sir Arthur suddenly shouted in an agonized tone. Plainly, his brain was giving away under the strain. |
| 4191 |
Their captors spent much time examining their right hands and seemed puzzled when they found nothing. |
| 4192 |
Gunnar nodded, a faint smile on his face, a smile that faded as Justen watched. He wrinkled his brow. |
| 4193 |
They stared at each other, assessing the changes that the years had wrought since their last meeting. |
| 4194 |
I looked at this Tina. She was obviously too beautiful to free. She would be kept as a slave for men. |
| 4195 |
He must have sensed her determination, because he gave up that line of questioning and tried another. |
| 4196 |
Do not deny it, little sun. I have come here to help you. You have been waiting for me all this time. |
| 4197 |
Monk, listening curiously, had to get out a question that was bothering him. Out it came with a rush. |
| 4198 |
Finally it was sheer fatigue, and not magic, that caused his head to drop back and his eyes to close. |
| 4199 |
Having your dog killed must mean something different here than it means back in Texas, Tuck realized. |
| 4200 |
I pursed my lips to reform the question, until the general's quiet simper told me he had answered it. |
| 4201 |
He thought his words pitifully inept, but the mummy responded, sliding back to its original position. |
| 4202 |
And after we were back in the air and headed for Australia, then the pilot parachuted to his freedom. |
| 4203 |
The robbery of the merchant simply confirmed his viewpoint. Sealed his opinion like lead seals a jar. |
| 4204 |
The soldiers are silent, standing quiet and still above as the people stand below on the gravel path. |
| 4205 |
I went to my first support group two years ago, after I'd gone to my doctor about my insomnia, again. |
| 4206 |
He paused and looked directly at Shea, his hazel eyes suddenly hard as they bored into the young man. |
| 4207 |
My shoes pounded the grass. I kept my eyes on Elliot and the finishing line as I ran. Faster. Faster. |
| 4208 |
Valdez turned toward the door, where he paused and seemed about to speak, but once again turned away. |
| 4209 |
I looked down at my dress. It was probably wrecked. Good thing I hadn't worn the little black number. |
| 4210 |
Jason closed the door and bolted it, although there was probably no point, when you thought about it. |
| 4211 |
A phone rang in the background. One of the animal handlers watching from the sidelines ran to get it. |
| 4212 |
Then he remembered about the pull lights. Those stories were little more than ghost tales these days. |
| 4213 |
The resulting explosion was extremely satisfactory. A whole building tipped over to make a barricade. |
| 4214 |
She thanked him, saying that she would think carefully about what he had said. And indeed she did so. |
| 4215 |
Marissa stared at him in disbelief. She was beginning to wonder what kind of ally she'd come up with. |
| 4216 |
Wallie could not argue further, not with the contemptuous sailor listening. He rose and stalked away. |
| 4217 |
Far below, Seaman Phelps's hands loosened on the wreckage he had clutched. He sank beneath the water. |
| 4218 |
The cop kicked a couple of times and was dead. The knife must have cut his heart in half from behind. |
| 4219 |
I looked at him dubiously. This man was too smart to even seriously consider a mere stab in the dark. |
| 4220 |
Crossing the yard, he activated the opening in the rock face, then stepped out onto the narrow ledge. |
| 4221 |
I could almost have screamed with exasperation when I realized that he was being funny at my expense. |
| 4222 |
I moved farther down the row. Two black girls shrank back. I gathered they were new to their collars. |
| 4223 |
Arthur Tyne. Ruthless cutthroat. Not for long. He'd wish himself dead before I was finished with him. |
| 4224 |
Doc stared with a certain grimness into the slitted eyes of his enemy. He spoke what he was thinking. |
| 4225 |
But the second vision was more powerful than the first. She saw a ship, and upon it a tall, thin man. |
| 4226 |
The site contained four major palaces and a number of smaller ones. These opened off a central court. |
| 4227 |
Ariel looked dubious. They reached a wide area lined with elevator doors. She tapped a code into one. |
| 4228 |
Downstairs, she heard the clink of glass on glass. She moved as quickly as she dared to Frank's room. |
| 4229 |
They were seated at a semicircular banquette in front of a huge picture window overlooking the ocean. |
| 4230 |
Before he reached the path, there came a burst of blows and grunts. Sounds of a mad scuffle followed. |
| 4231 |
I nodded and drank out of the nice crystal glass I was holding. What was in it had a nice warm taste. |
| 4232 |
If she was honest, the problem wasn't that Rider might still want her, but that she still wanted him. |
| 4233 |
At the end of the narrow passage a door was ajar. She forced it open with her nose and looked around. |
| 4234 |
The little man put his hirsute hands on his hips and stared back at Charlie with undisguised disgust. |
| 4235 |
Albert had bent over again when Nick left him. Now he straightened slowly and took a step toward him. |
| 4236 |
He thought from the corner of his eye he saw Liane start to follow. Her father caught her by the arm. |
| 4237 |
He walked over to the window, pulled aside the curtain, stared out unseeing into the lighted streets. |
| 4238 |
Patiently, he spoke until his words had penetrated the drunken haze from which the man stared at him. |
| 4239 |
The rifle bullets began to go farther and farther amiss. The sharpshooters were baffled by the smoke. |
| 4240 |
He turned into the kitchen and sat under a table waiting for a handout. The cooks were like the dogs. |
| 4241 |
I rode over to Stacey's and spent the afternoon with her. It was nice to take a break from my search. |
| 4242 |
Everything was going to work out fine, after all. Nothing could go wrong. Nothing could go wrong now. |
| 4243 |
Now he wanted to fight. He wanted to live. He could not bear to let that voice have its way with him. |
| 4244 |
Mr Fox looked at his wife and she smiled. He loved her more than ever when she said things like that. |
| 4245 |
Grant saw them, faint and fuzzy at this distance. But the scene made a dreadful kind of sense to him. |
| 4246 |
The black curtain rose around the Tribunes from beneath the dais, but not for long. I didn't time it. |
| 4247 |
They advanced slowly until their eyes adjusted and they saw that the scene, in fact, was illuminated. |
| 4248 |
The tall dark figure was suddenly there, in the doorway, and then in a few strides was in the circle. |
| 4249 |
Jed and Sara were already at the table. They glanced up from their cereal bowls, but didn't say anything. |
| 4250 |
My heart was pounding. I continued to hold my breath. If I didn't, I knew I would burst out laughing. |
| 4251 |
The bundle rolled over, staggered upright and extended two scruffy wings. The rat stopped kicking it. |
| 4252 |
An elevator lifted them to the top floor. Both men now had a spray of cold sweat on their evil faces. |
| 4253 |
Nicole looked up at the man, watching his Adam's apple bob involuntarily at the mention of the names. |
| 4254 |
Women and strong men wept unashamedly, beggars and scullions howled, philosophers covered their ears. |
| 4255 |
A slight restless milling on the flatboats. We were very close. They could kill us all if they chose. |
| 4256 |
She took his good arm over her shoulder, bracing him. Somehow, they managed to get him onto his feet. |
| 4257 |
Cass sidled forward unobtrusively and slipped his hand beneath Amanda's blankets. Something crinkled. |
| 4258 |
He threw back his head and gave such a loud and mournful howl that all the children jumped violently. |
| 4259 |
Arnold grabbed the canteen. Before the boat could knock it again from his hand, he had taken a drink. |
| 4260 |
Steve tapped his lip, put his handkerchief in his pocket and stood searching the floor with his eyes. |
| 4261 |
In the stark silence which followed, a moment passed before she understood the point of his question. |
| 4262 |
As he spoke, a broad red slice appeared on his upraised arm as if drawn there by an invisible artist. |
| 4263 |
She knows guns, was his first thought. His second was, Someone is probably offering a reward for her. |
| 4264 |
He paused again. Disappointment crept into Arthur's face and snuggled down into its accustomed place. |
| 4265 |
I knew all about broken hearts, yes sir, I knew all about it. I burned all but the first three pages. |
| 4266 |
The other two filled up their glasses when he had gone, instinctively settling more closely together. |
| 4267 |
Nothing made any sense at all since that truck had nearly run them down on the road through Kentucky. |
| 4268 |
A second man emerged in the same helpless fashion. This one was older, and he had a civilian's tunic. |
| 4269 |
A moment ago there hadn't been any marks or cracks in its surface. Now there were. They were growing. |
| 4270 |
The charge around the corner came fast and silent, a handful of dark elves rushing out, swords drawn. |
| 4271 |
He didn't dare take up manual controls which would give him away. So instead he called up pilot mode. |
| 4272 |
O'Hara swung her long legs over the edge of the tank and slipped into the water with hardly a ripple. |
| 4273 |
I used the circular work shed as a flying buttress, leaning into the tower and squeezing it together. |
| 4274 |
I have seen so much, such an explosion of comprehension. And all because of a tiny, misshapen fungus. |
| 4275 |
I lowered the trowel carefully beside it. Then I slowly, slowly slid it under the throbbing creature. |
| 4276 |
But you should stop considering it some particular malice on my part that I succumbed to that effect. |
| 4277 |
He remounted and made his way to the public buildings near the palace to listen and to ask questions. |
| 4278 |
Perhaps he no longer really knew her. He had made an assumption, relied on old data, and gotten hurt. |
| 4279 |
As he sat on the plush divan and positioned the photo album on his lap, he felt a carnal hunger stir. |
| 4280 |
Looking back, she saw the tree burning, and the fire spreading laterally in fingers along the ground. |
| 4281 |
As the silence between them lengthened, he couldn't move toward her any more than he could move away. |
| 4282 |
It seemed the troops were beginning to get demoralized, but they followed when we ordered them ahead. |
| 4283 |
Somewhat out of sorts, she repeated her request. God still ignored her. It was as if He hadn't heard. |
| 4284 |
Shooting from the hip, Doc cut the flying horror almost in halves with the scarlet thread of bullets. |
| 4285 |
Fargo sang the coded notes. After the last note rang out, they watched the hassock. Nothing happened. |
| 4286 |
I rose and crossed to the stone. Gerard followed me. There, in the moss, I traced its tiny hoofmarks. |
| 4287 |
He suddenly pointed the weapon at the fallen side of beef, and it erupted with a soft stutter of air. |
| 4288 |
Within the space of three or four minutes, Doc and the others had overcome the occupants of the dory. |
| 4289 |
Granny advanced, holding the poker in front of her. The unicorn backed away, and pawed at the ground. |
| 4290 |
The waiter returned with a clear soup in which shreds of egg and some green vegetables could be seen. |
| 4291 |
Jones rose and lifted a bottle from a dresser drawer. He poured two glasses and handed one to Parker. |
| 4292 |
Beaten or not, the oarsmen could only draw their oars so rapidly. And it would not be rapidly enough. |
| 4293 |
Everyone laughed, and the discussion died a merciful death as the hostess invited them to the buffet. |
| 4294 |
A growl of immediate assent from his men and Alfred's, all of whom had won their way by battle alone. |
| 4295 |
Suddenly, he was at the edge. His foot struck the raised border and he felt himself falling backward. |
| 4296 |
But since he was completely out of his depth with an Asian, he was still making no effort to intrude. |
| 4297 |
Buster bounced over to him in delight. It was quite plain that he adored the plump boy who owned him. |
| 4298 |
He looks undignified, thought Harlan with satisfaction, undignified and unsavory. So much the better. |
| 4299 |
Sandals of what looked like pale leather, secured around the ankle by a thong, completed the costume. |
| 4300 |
There was indeed magic to this music, which could transform the blackest sorrow to the brightest joy. |
| 4301 |
We may only take comfort in the fact that such situations, for ill or for good, are exceedingly rare. |
| 4302 |
The Transcendent interrupted. Its sleek form began dissolving, folding inward toward a ball of light. |
| 4303 |
Richard seemed to glow around her as he hugged her in his arms, held her in his warm, loving embrace. |
| 4304 |
For the next minute or two, the redhead let out occasional gasps. Her brother swore under his breath. |
| 4305 |
The thought of the fellow whom I had seen in the restaurant briefly troubled me. Then I dismissed it. |
| 4306 |
But not hopelessly. She refused, flatly and completely, to admit that she might not find her way out. |
| 4307 |
Her eyes whitened. Then they darkened until they seemed to be all pupil. Her nostrils looked pinched. |
| 4308 |
I recognized the girl who handed the tankard to me. She served in my mother's quarters upon occasion. |
| 4309 |
Bobby laid the figure down on the bed. He ran to the closet and dragged out a bulging carton of toys. |
| 4310 |
The gray spot was sharper, somewhat brighter. Yet it had none of the promise of sun or even daylight. |
| 4311 |
I told him what had happened at Florian's and why. He started at me solemnly and shook his bald head. |
| 4312 |
So I breathed a sigh of relief when he finished his assigned task and put his hands back on his head. |
| 4313 |
Julia dropped to one knee, and her right hand flashed downward. I felt the blade enter my left thigh. |
| 4314 |
There was a crunching, and a section of the rock flew up, lid fashion. Doc dropped into the aperture. |
| 4315 |
His captors fed him once a day, and he complained bitterly over the meals, claiming he was no canary. |
| 4316 |
Fifty feet in from the surf and the sand wet from the ebbing tide. It might slow the war horse a bit. |
| 4317 |
At the elevator door to our apartment, I picked my wife up again, and carried her over the threshold. |
| 4318 |
William stared at the printed page. An idea crept over him. It seemed to evolve from the page itself. |
| 4319 |
He soon located him and began cutting his way through the struggling throng in order to confront him. |
| 4320 |
She sounded so piteous that I abandoned my plan and released her, though I was irritated by her fear. |
| 4321 |
I saw two of the wheeled models slide back down into the shaft, gone forever, the poor little devils. |
| 4322 |
It was all to the good, I told myself. They hadn't killed him out of hand. There might still be hope. |
| 4323 |
One of them was in his left hand on his chest. He'd pulled the ring and let the safety lever pop off. |
| 4324 |
Specifically, we were asking the Lord for thirty decisions for salvation by the end of the first day. |
| 4325 |
No, it wasn't a cry. It was a great sigh of relief, so sharp and sudden that it sounded like a shout. |
| 4326 |
He moved at the best speed he could manage, through the last twilight the dying town would ever know. |
| 4327 |
Chet was too groggy to talk. But being used to rough treatment in football games, he tried to sit up. |
| 4328 |
There was a brief silence between them, as the lights grew visibly dim with distance, and winked out. |
| 4329 |
Muller stood looking down for some time at this poor victim of a strange crime, then he turned to go. |
| 4330 |
A moment later, the men were traveling rapidly uptown in their car, with the taxicab trailing behind. |
| 4331 |
He was momentarily taken aback by the speed with which the bronze rider's knife appeared in his hand. |
| 4332 |
A loud thump sounded at the door. The youth eased himself upright as his cellmates' shouts died away. |
| 4333 |
And perhaps it would. Because it was now precisely twelve hours from the big bang. And counting down. |
| 4334 |
If the clouds appeared again and lightning struck, she would have to run away as quickly as possible. |
| 4335 |
A moment later, all three felt a new very warm presence behind them and heard still faster breathing. |
| 4336 |
Doc sent the big metal suitcases by aerial express, and took a plane himself, returned to Washington. |
| 4337 |
Felicia nodded, agreeing without having to say anything, her strange eyes full of thoughtful shadows. |
| 4338 |
Old Nathan dropped two gate bars and led the mule into the enclosure with the cows. His face was set. |
| 4339 |
He squeezed through the cleft entrance and climbed the slope, avoiding all the snow patches he could. |
| 4340 |
Two riders howled and fell from their running horses. They struck and their bodies rolled like sacks. |
| 4341 |
He was limping rather badly and utterly fagged when he finished the futile exploration of his domain. |
| 4342 |
I sighed. He had tried. He was just a clerk. He had so little authority everyone ran rings round him. |
| 4343 |
By the twelfth visit, Nest had stopped thinking about anything but how good this was making her feel. |
| 4344 |
The blue shook her head, trying to clear her muddled mind of the familiar voice that confused her so. |
| 4345 |
The Indian liked that. He closed his mouth slowly and winked an eye solemnly and then almost grinned. |
| 4346 |
There were sounds of gunfire now. They were short bursts, cover fire. Striker had definitely arrived. |
| 4347 |
She blew him a raspberry, then brought her arm from around her back and shoved a book into his hands. |
| 4348 |
I heard the door open behind us, but neither of us turned. We were too busy making major eye contact. |
| 4349 |
As I caught my breath I tried to put together where I was, what I was doing there. Besides surviving. |
| 4350 |
The bomb. Tomorrow the shuttle would be back with another one. And the day after that, still another. |
| 4351 |
Shooter sounded faintly amused. Well, I heard on the radio news that someone burned down your house. |
| 4352 |
He sat up slowly. He still was rubbing at his eyes. He didn't seem to understand what I had told him. |
| 4353 |
Caught off guard, he fumbled for words and reminded her that he still had half a year at the Academy. |
| 4354 |
I realized then that I was holding my breath. I couldn't move. I have to admit I was scared to death. |
| 4355 |
As he began to turn his head she seized his face, pulling him down with her behind a protruding rock. |
| 4356 |
Jack's face reddened slightly, and Laurie was touched. She thought he was immune to such compliments. |
| 4357 |
The Writer backed away, muttering his thanks and wondering if the desk sergeant actually was a robot. |
| 4358 |
Dana put her right hand on his knee. When she stopped at a red light, she leaned over and kissed him. |
| 4359 |
They gathered around the bronze man, crowding somewhat as if anxious to be first to use their knives. |
| 4360 |
I guess I'm just adapting to the times. There may be no place for intellectuals in the world to come. |
| 4361 |
The creature seemed oblivious to him. It hunched over the spit, pouring some gravy from a stone bowl. |
| 4362 |
He picked up the Mongol he had struck. The fellow was the only one of the three messengers now alive. |
| 4363 |
They dumped kerosene. They torched the jeeps. The fire burned and died. The cave contained the fumes. |
| 4364 |
Thankful that the place seemed deserted, he lurched into the dark shadows of the barn behind the inn. |
| 4365 |
It was tantalizingly fragmentary. David's skills at keeping his thoughts inside were simply too good. |
| 4366 |
The sergeant moved a foot tentatively. The atmosphere would have induced claustrophobia in a sardine. |
| 4367 |
Power, though Frost did not seem ready to rouse her talent. Perhaps she was anchorage for the shaman. |
| 4368 |
Men poured into the court. Yelling excitedly, they pounced on the armor. They thought Doc was inside. |
| 4369 |
She pushed back her long, light brown hair with one hand, a motion that made her coat open even more. |
| 4370 |
Legend said that any mortal man who read more than a few lines of the original copy would die insane. |
| 4371 |
They matched steps, going up the ramp. Elli sauntered behind, watching the performance with interest. |
| 4372 |
A specialist had arrived from Chicago, and was as mystified as anybody as to the cause of the deaths. |
| 4373 |
Slowly she slid down with her arms still encircling him, until she was on her knees hugging his legs. |
| 4374 |
He stopped, turned slowly round, and with bated breath listened until his lungs were nearly bursting. |
| 4375 |
Jefferson. The warring memories in his skull seemed enough for a wild moment or two to drive him mad. |
| 4376 |
He flicked the sword point upward, thrust it forward an inch or two to prick against Duncan's throat. |
| 4377 |
Ned flopped casually into one of the chairs facing the desk while Willy leaned up against a bookcase. |
| 4378 |
Tank grabbed the guy by the back of his shirt, lifted him off his feet, and threw him out the window. |
| 4379 |
The bronze man heaved half a dozen smoke bombs which made loud hissing noises and spewed black vapor. |
| 4380 |
Bergman's knife lifted higher, then down it chopped, the wide blade glinting dully in the half light. |
| 4381 |
Ark's men began running for safety. Monk howled at them, shot in the air, but they paid no attention. |
| 4382 |
Twice, Doc spiraled the big plane over the spot. He saw no one, could see no signs of recent tenancy. |
| 4383 |
He put the bottle down again with a thud and sat back. The gnomes glanced at each other meaningfully. |
| 4384 |
Thomas Worth disappeared again. There was absolutely nothing to show how or why. He just disappeared. |
| 4385 |
The street outside held no sign of the violent raiders. There was no trace of the bundle of clothing. |
| 4386 |
The generals stood like scarlet ice statues, eyes filled with the headlines, ears pounded by the din. |
| 4387 |
As she hesitated on the bank of the stream, Meriel heard a rhythmic crackling through the underbrush. |
| 4388 |
I planned to speak my mind sharply when I caught up with her, but as I saw where she stood, I paused. |
| 4389 |
But Jo took a small black plastic oblong from the pocket of her skirt and ran it over the open hamper. |
| 4390 |
I spoke aloud again. Perhaps some part of me wanted to do so, that I make very sure of what I learned. |
| 4391 |
It had to be unconscious, something automatic ignited by defeat. So they did not really accept defeat. |
| 4392 |
The proprietor seemed all right. He could not have any Chesterfield manners and run a place like this. |
| 4393 |
He tried the door. It was unlocked, and he opened it an inch or two. Their yellow dog started to bark. |
| 4394 |
Nikki was sound asleep almost instantly, but she could hear Renard twist and turn, and finally sit up. |
| 4395 |
I tiptoed over to the writing platform and opened the single drawer. Empty. The whole space was empty. |
| 4396 |
Her gaze shifted. Sunlight streamed from out of the eastern skies overhead. The new day was beginning. |
| 4397 |
Pete tried to talk. His throat clogged. He hocked phlegm. His dick burned. He pulled his catheter out. |
| 4398 |
As provided for in the terms of our contract, I am not going to renew our contract at its termination. |
| 4399 |
His anger. He tensed as his attention stopped circling around that answer and finally settled upon it. |
| 4400 |
For five days the wind howled outside. On the sixth, the thaw began, and lasted until the seventh day. |
| 4401 |
There was a sickening crunch as her knees changed direction. Her legs shrank and thinned and grew fur. |
| 4402 |
The official nodded, a gesture so commonly used that it had been retained even in Utilitarian fashion. |
| 4403 |
I went to bed early that night. I woke up way before dawn. I saw the pictures before I opened my eyes. |
| 4404 |
Alfred invoked the possibility that they were there and not here and, quite suddenly, they were there. |
| 4405 |
The creature who had spoken grunted some more. Then he looked about at his fellows and shook his head. |
| 4406 |
The sun baked down on the children, but they appeared not to mind it. Their game interested them more. |
| 4407 |
She looked at the man in the white tie and saw that Frank was right. The twitching had all but ceased. |
| 4408 |
Pol cried out his frustration. The Fire on either side of the mirror jumped and shimmered in response. |
| 4409 |
There was no doubt that the plane could get down safely. Whether it could take off again was doubtful. |
| 4410 |
Then, in an instant, there was a gust of cool air and a freshness on the meadow. The wind had changed. |
| 4411 |
The bronze dragon nodded. That's how it begins. Sometimes it takes a long time to find the right spot. |
| 4412 |
Then something actinic and mighty flashed, striking like a fist toward the heart of a great land mass. |
| 4413 |
Dismissed, the warriors began to file down the stairway from the gallery room and leave the main hall. |
| 4414 |
She was so angry I became helpless, I leaned against the wall behind us, and laughed until I was weak. |
| 4415 |
A muscular young man, who had come from behind the cottage to take their horses, offered a suggestion. |
| 4416 |
Just then the keeper came up behind me. He'd evidently been running, as he was a little out of breath. |
| 4417 |
She took three paces and was gone, as etiquette prescribed, out the same way by which she had entered. |
| 4418 |
The deadly storm of arrows had slowed now, for the archers on the slopes were running short of shafts. |
| 4419 |
Miss Tick sighed. It was difficult to talk to someone who paid attention all the time. It put you off. |
| 4420 |
I started with the middle one and worked my way up the left side and down the right, drawer by drawer. |
| 4421 |
The woman nodded. She called out something in French and a man answered gruffly from inside the house. |
| 4422 |
Taken in that light, it seemed a wonder just a quarter of the crew had fallen to devolution psychosis. |
| 4423 |
She naked under the heavy bed coverings and, her plans quite made up for the morning, was soon asleep. |
| 4424 |
Shadow pushed the door open for her, and they were hit by a blast of heat and music. They went inside. |
| 4425 |
Doc plunged down a passage. Yells and curses indicated the killer had been cut off from the elevators. |
| 4426 |
Darting into the sky, she raced above the moors and forests. She had much to do, and very little time. |
| 4427 |
It would have taken a close examination to show the door of this adjoining suite had been forced open. |
| 4428 |
Precisely half an hour later, the machine emitted a strangled squawking noise and switched itself off. |
| 4429 |
Monk took one look at the two occupants of the rusty steel chamber and let out a loud grunt of relief. |
| 4430 |
He had looked at her blankly, not comprehending, as she bit her own wrist and pressed it to his mouth. |
| 4431 |
Once these sleek and beautiful creatures had roamed free and deadly in the winter wastes to the north. |
| 4432 |
Now this guy was afraid he was going to die, too. Maybe he was having second thoughts about his cause. |
| 4433 |
Suddenly an arrow sped from the ship, plunging into one of the dolphins as it soared out of the water. |
| 4434 |
He had not gone very far from the camp before he saw a form suddenly spring from the grass before him. |
| 4435 |
A plume of smoke had arisen from the brush ahead. It crawled straight up the sky, flattened, darkened. |
| 4436 |
The triplets probably needed help watching for their relatives, anyway. They would be so hard to spot. |
| 4437 |
Slade remained seated. The gun muzzle looked no more angry and threatening than did the Deputy's eyes. |
| 4438 |
Doc straightened and whipped a glance over the place. It was the first time he had seen the apparatus. |
| 4439 |
He galloped off, muttering of voodoo curses and evil spirits. He couldn't understand what he had seen. |
| 4440 |
The uproar grew louder, the action more dizzy. Men were all over the floor. Other men came running in. |
| 4441 |
The girls giggled over the pictures. Alicia was very struck by them. A wicked idea came into her head. |
| 4442 |
He finally employed the telephone directory as a foundation on which to rest his paper while he wrote. |
| 4443 |
Without, the rain pattered on the stone and dripped from the capping on the walls in a steady cadence. |
| 4444 |
The green man had courage. A moment later his shaking fingers were wiping the object he had excavated. |
| 4445 |
Colon had declared his wish with a weak but unmistakable nod, his red eye never leaving Martin's face. |
| 4446 |
The major turned the buckle in his fingers and frowned at the jagged characters etched into the metal. |
| 4447 |
He stood in front of the split wiring and wood and shards of glass and triumphantly spit down upon it. |
| 4448 |
When he was back in his offices, though, a phone call brought welcome news that turned his day around. |
| 4449 |
I also knew that, coming from a small household, they were far more versatile than our slaves at home. |
| 4450 |
The other minute was spent discovering that the computer system already had a mental block. A big one. |
| 4451 |
The last of the craft moved by, dragged through the disturbed water. Sanders turned and watched it go. |
| 4452 |
The wind was rising, here on the edge of the forest. Bits of grass and leaves whirled through the air. |
| 4453 |
She had no trouble locating the shadow. Black suits were not plentiful on Lisbon streets at this hour. |
| 4454 |
The manner in which he snapped out the words gave a hint that the questioning was not exactly welcome. |
| 4455 |
Umlaut opened the door, and they stepped and slithered out to rejoin the women. And paused, surprised. |
| 4456 |
Levi, who let Jacob number his worries endlessly and nodded grimly at our father's direst predictions. |
| 4457 |
They took a security lift up two floors, and followed a dimly lit corridor for what seemed like miles. |
| 4458 |
He hung up. Wanting more privacy, he went to the phone booth that was near the stationer's. He dialed. |
| 4459 |
We said we didn't, either. I fished out some money and left it for the drinks, and we made our escape. |
| 4460 |
All he could do was know, and wait, which in its way was more painful than believing himself forsaken. |
| 4461 |
But next time, after the money was passed, he'd be asked to take note of the times they came and went. |
| 4462 |
The chief engineer checked his watch against the wall chronometer and took a bite out of his sandwich. |
| 4463 |
She was up the tree and beside him in seconds, edging out along the branch to be clear of the foliage. |
| 4464 |
The mathematician stared confusedly from one to the other but neither of them enlightened him further. |
| 4465 |
He lifted the window slowly. Halfway up, something loud and brassy began to clang inside the building. |
| 4466 |
The two men came swinging down, feet first, from the larger of the holes Timmy had been looking up at. |
| 4467 |
The dust seeped into their eyes, and they were forced to clench their lids and keep them tightly shut. |
| 4468 |
I put the phone down slowly and I think my hand shook a little. Driving too fast, or not enough sleep. |
| 4469 |
Melville hated to speak ill of the dead, but in the end that summed it up and all he could do was nod. |
| 4470 |
Heller swung out of the car and looked southward at the sky through the withering leaves of the trees. |
| 4471 |
The crackling stopped. The red dot on Ned's visor halted, and the ground shook as the vehicle dropped. |
| 4472 |
In rage at the puny number of their prey, nearly a third of them broke ranks and charged the campfire. |
| 4473 |
Suddenly he choked, could talk no further. He flung his arms around the horse's neck and leaked tears. |
| 4474 |
It was a pretty big turtle. About the size of a lunch box. Anne and I wondered how it got to her curb. |
| 4475 |
Charlie was so stunned by this suggestion that although he stopped pacing he made no attempt to reply. |
| 4476 |
Swan dumped his last meal. Even so, he looked shamed, as though he thought he had contributed nothing. |
| 4477 |
Doc quickly untied straps holding the scientist's wrists to the chair arms. He spoke rapidly, briefly. |
| 4478 |
Bellows looked expectantly at Susan, sipping his coffee and waiting for a response. Susan only smiled. |
| 4479 |
Death sat on a bollard, looking out to sea. He had decided to stop being drunk. It made his head ache. |
| 4480 |
Three bore no stamp. Two were invitations from local families to some festivity or other. One was not. |
| 4481 |
Murray put down his glass, and the click of the crystal against the wood of the table was unduly loud. |
| 4482 |
A low cheer rises from the score of workers and others who have lined the pier to watch the launching. |
| 4483 |
Monk and Ham exchanged speculative looks, wondering if their new acquaintance was touched in the head. |
| 4484 |
The swordsman's fists were clenched. Wallie prepared to intervene. It was fun, but very dangerous fun. |
| 4485 |
So I lock myself in the bathroom to try to collate what's all happened. The downstairs green bathroom. |
| 4486 |
I half turned, then something barreled past me, positioning itself between me and the oncoming menace. |
| 4487 |
They might have cut Tracy up in the van. They might have dumped her body parts in different locations. |
| 4488 |
And there they made discoveries which threw them into the same bewildered panic as the ship's officer. |
| 4489 |
He halted, opened the box, looked down at the slips of paper already in it. Then he added the new one. |
| 4490 |
Then the mist parted very briefly, and the rays of the full moon spilled unfiltered into the clearing. |
| 4491 |
Monk half turned his head toward the plane, as if hoping his agonized bellow would carry to the craft. |
| 4492 |
I again thrust his face into the dirt. He coughed and spit, and twisted his head to the side, gasping. |
| 4493 |
The light in the stone died, and the gem sank slowly to the floor, landing on the rug without a sound. |
| 4494 |
The taxi driver shuddered and resolved to buy some life insurance. He had never believed in insurance. |
| 4495 |
It was a blow he'd remember for a long time. It was sweet. It was textbook. Rust went down like a log. |
| 4496 |
But the voice remained, and was uttering slow words, as though each syllable exacted agonizing effort. |
| 4497 |
I stared at him for a long, wordless moment. Kept out of the way, my mind echoed. Until it's finished. |
| 4498 |
In spite of the pain, she wriggled and struggled out of the debris of the slide, crawled away from it. |
| 4499 |
The children listened to all this in silence. It was the most extraordinary thing they had ever heard. |
| 4500 |
Lars replaced the tub before he began to inspect the corner joint. Once again he gave an exultant yip. |
| 4501 |
Kincaid was right on line, and the first thing my dear brother would have done is to displace Kincaid. |
| 4502 |
Jan shook his head, then realized that the frozen hologram image was waiting for a verbal instruction. |
| 4503 |
Nothing happened. Icarus disappeared into the star. There was no explosion. The bomb failed to go off. |
| 4504 |
The Sutherland steadied to an even keel, and then heeled over again as she paid off on the other tack. |
| 4505 |
Something that had been knocking on Susan's attention for the past ten minutes finally used its boots. |
| 4506 |
I was walking silently because I was still in the heavy snow. But those were footsteps on packed snow. |
| 4507 |
Carson looked up. A number of blue hoses dangled from the ceiling, metal valves affixed to their ends. |
| 4508 |
Crofts found himself staring at Laura in a state bordering on shock as his hurt welled to the surface. |
| 4509 |
She could dive well too, and swim under water even longer than the boys could, much to their surprise. |
| 4510 |
Great, muttered Aide. I travel across the vastness of time in order to become a circus sideshow freak. |
| 4511 |
Two heads popped out of an upper window of the apprentice barracks, two more at the journeyman's Hold. |
| 4512 |
Christine didn't come again, but he could hear the soft mutter of her engine. Not coming, but waiting. |
| 4513 |
The hard young man's automatic dropped from his hand. He pitched forward and lay huddled on the floor. |
| 4514 |
Winnie lifted her fist and tapped, a soft knock that hopefully wouldn't wake anyone else on the floor. |
| 4515 |
There was a pause as a bottle gurgled. Villagers murmured respectfully. The voices moved out the gate. |
| 4516 |
Let's start with the nearest ridge and work our way along it, scanning downhill as we go, said Joseph. |
| 4517 |
Chet raised his head and looked at his office mate. Jack's domed forehead was wrinkled with confusion. |
| 4518 |
She pointed to the name of the dead man carved into the stone above the shelf on which his coffin lay. |
| 4519 |
The guard handed our buckets to other girls to be taken to the kitchen shed, and he then unleashed us. |
| 4520 |
Justen waved, and they waved back, although he wondered how Gunnar had known his brother had returned. |
| 4521 |
As he turned and walked through the enlarged opening leading to the passageway, Yuma felt little fear. |
| 4522 |
Bumble fetched my brandy and returned to serving the rest of the bar while I set my efforts to spying. |
| 4523 |
The representatives of the foreign powers went into action. Scores of undercover men were put to work. |
| 4524 |
The neat printing shrank down into fine hairlines, faint black meanderings over the pearly background. |
| 4525 |
Over at the edge of the field, the motor of the shabby cabin monoplane came to life. It roared loudly. |
| 4526 |
The slim figure of a woman was silhouetted in the window above the door. After a little it moved away. |
| 4527 |
He sat up and let the blanket fall off to one side of his dugout shelter. Already it was getting cold. |
| 4528 |
They weren't trying. They seemed to be neither following nor fleeing. And they looked harmless enough. |
| 4529 |
Casey was tugging at his weight belt, signaling with exaggerated jerks of his arm for a quick retreat. |
| 4530 |
Delia shrieked again. Horrible memories had stirred in her when she heard the demon speak Wood's name. |
| 4531 |
The bronze man sprang clear. He dropped his rocks and shoveled up handfuls of the fine sand underfoot. |
| 4532 |
They started work on the planes. It was promptly ordered stopped. They became aware of a complication. |
| 4533 |
Tony lurched at the phone, and the base of it shook on the rose marble. His mouth was a hard dry knot. |
| 4534 |
Ute jerked us to our feet and we wept with pain. Our hands, our clenched fists, remained at our sides. |
| 4535 |
As I limped bravely, the senator's daughter helped me to hurry with her sensible hand gripping my arm. |
| 4536 |
The commander held out his hand for the phone, which the chief passed him after a moment's hesitation. |
| 4537 |
The big dog had run up to Rick and was sniffing at him excitedly. Rick patted the furry animal's head. |
| 4538 |
He squinted, his eyes obediently following my gestures. Then I saw the dawn of excitement on his face. |
| 4539 |
The others halted. They listened. Voices were coming out of a cabin to the right, and they crept near. |
| 4540 |
Darius stepped forward and took the dial from the boy's flaccid hand. He turned the dial down to zero. |
| 4541 |
Another series of horn calls stabbed the day, and a faint rumbling, and trembling of the ground began. |
| 4542 |
An engine was slightly out of tune. One or more of its eighteen cylinders was not firing continuously. |
| 4543 |
Bruce was all warmed up and the cobwebs were being swatted away with each furious swipe of the racket. |
| 4544 |
He slipped the bullet into his jacket pocket and unfolded the scrap of paper that had been beneath it. |
| 4545 |
Obedient to a fault. They say you can judge a man's leadership ability by how well he handles animals. |
| 4546 |
I was out of money. Come morning they would boot me out of the wino hotel for failing to pay the rent. |
| 4547 |
The guard didn't look up. Tuck climbed to his feet, dusted himself off, and made his way to the beach. |
| 4548 |
Jo's lips pressed together even tighter. Her dark eyes flared with barely controlled anger. And guilt. |
| 4549 |
This 'gator was the same one which had given Johnny such a start on his arrival at this sinister spot. |
| 4550 |
Deirdre gave me a sleepy smile and Flora a nervous one. I added my good nights and watched them leave. |
| 4551 |
I found a sewing kit, and threw it in with Roxanna's booty, along with a few pounds of tea for myself. |
| 4552 |
The thing slid closer, seeming to exude a chill even more profound than that of the high alpine night. |
| 4553 |
The car was up in the hills now, beyond even the infrequent street lights of the residential sections. |
| 4554 |
She studied his eyes. No dilation. The swelling didn't seem to be any worse, but that told her little. |
| 4555 |
Crystal jerked back in the saddle. She hadn't thought her gentle mother capable of that tone of voice. |
| 4556 |
He spread his hands and looked down at them. A faint metallic smile showed at the corners of his lips. |
| 4557 |
The small man lay helplessly on the sidewalk, bellowing drunken obscenities in his huge rasping voice. |
| 4558 |
Rita scooted out from between them. She got to her feet and moved to the rail. Her heart was pounding. |
| 4559 |
A feeling of dread swept over me. Nat and Pat grew quiet. They actually stopped picking on each other. |
| 4560 |
Wilson's plane was different, sleek and long and black. It was a Scavenger, one of seven in the world. |
| 4561 |
On the heavy oaken table, the mirror lies shattered. The lamps on the wall behind her are snuffed out. |
| 4562 |
We admitted, rather sheepishly, that they had. Conrad clasped his hand to his brow and shook his head. |
| 4563 |
I stared at him. One hears of legends. They are the foundation for much careless talk and speculation. |
| 4564 |
Iron People to let us go with honor all the way around, and that isn't going to get anyone in trouble. |
| 4565 |
And they walked out of town as the sun rose above the hills and the grass burned greener on the lawns. |
| 4566 |
I took a torch and made the rounds of the mutant pens. Already the majority of the creatures had gone. |
| 4567 |
She had said worse to him. But when people got too close they hurt each other, that was the way of it. |
| 4568 |
Prudence flushed angrily. The other girls grinned. They liked seeing Prudence taken down a peg or two. |
| 4569 |
After a time Charley thought, Maybe he'll go through with it. Stick by her. The stupid son of a bitch. |
| 4570 |
The helmsman dialed the annunciator handle. The engineers responded at once, and again Chicago slowed. |
| 4571 |
They sat in silence for a few moments, alone with their thoughts, listening to the trill of the birds. |
| 4572 |
Arthur turned, with a sigh, back to the girl that he found it hard to say whether he was in love with. |
| 4573 |
The swinging cane rapped the man flatly across one ear. The man grunted once and slipped to his knees. |
| 4574 |
Then she caught his scent going down the corridor toward the stairs. That had to be new. She followed. |
| 4575 |
Beside him, his bent and withered chauffeur guided the ship gently through the upper winds and smiled. |
| 4576 |
He chose a small, quiet eating place and was surprised at the wide array of dish dials he was offered. |
| 4577 |
The metal ball was lifted high above the giant's head. Its descent would have crushed stone and metal. |
| 4578 |
Hour upon bloody hour the battle continued, savagely fought by both sides, with no thought of quarter. |
| 4579 |
Age was catching up with it. The heat of its painted sun was undoing it, image by image, tile by tile. |
| 4580 |
We returned to my house and quietly made our way to the side door, where Dad stored the garbage pails. |
| 4581 |
Now he walked forward with some confidence, passing through the opening to face once more the unknown. |
| 4582 |
It is never easy to see your own death close ahead, know there is no escape, and go calmly to meet it. |
| 4583 |
I didn't say anything, or make any movement, but for the first time in my life I wanted to kiss a man. |
| 4584 |
And now, with no priest to fight, he felt even more confident. I need just a little luck and patience. |
| 4585 |
He started to shift her off him with the end goal of getting as much distance on his side as possible. |
| 4586 |
Through some weird magic she couldn't explain, Jill had morphed into her best friend. It was for real. |
| 4587 |
The matter is not closed. Almost he wished it were. Almost he wished that God had chosen someone else. |
| 4588 |
The young woman was apparently piqued by Doc's refusal to answer her questions. Her voice was waspish. |
| 4589 |
Only a child's toy. An information slate, such as every young person had. He felt keen disappointment. |
| 4590 |
On all other subjects he was talkative enough and the longer we were together the more that he talked. |
| 4591 |
The golden egg rocked violently, and a massive crack split it lengthwise. A tiny golden beak appeared. |
| 4592 |
Details. He scrolled through the reports filed sometime in the early morning hours by his field techs. |
| 4593 |
He took the bull's scrotum in his left hand and drew it out, then with a single stroke lopped it free. |
| 4594 |
Two or three men attempting to connect the rod wires were knocked down by Inspector Higgins's bullets. |
| 4595 |
A small problem, the outfitter swore. Easy to fix. Just pinpoint the problem, and we'll make it right. |
| 4596 |
Monk fumbled in a cabin pocket and came up with a pair of powerful binoculars. He focused these ahead. |
| 4597 |
Like that, he vanished. Like that, he was gone from my arms and from my living room and from my house. |
| 4598 |
A fan of dense black beard sprayed across his barrel chest masking his face well up on the cheekbones. |
| 4599 |
This most certainly would cause them to wonder as to the origin of this transition through hyperspace. |
| 4600 |
His mother had always wanted him to play the violin. And he had been an indifferent scholar in school. |
| 4601 |
Doc had the speedboat controls now. The craft lifted its snout out of the water and knifed downstream. |
| 4602 |
He set the brake. He pulled Leroy up. He ripped up the tape. He ripped off skin and half his mustache. |
| 4603 |
Colon crossed the street and rubbed at the grime. There were dark shapes vaguely visible in the gloom. |
| 4604 |
By damn, he might salvage this afternoon yet. Smiling fondly, he turned with her toward the staircase. |
| 4605 |
Now she did take it from me and read it through. She said nothing. Words were unnecessary. Inadequate. |
| 4606 |
That was probably one of the more useful things I did in my life. It was also one of the more painful. |
| 4607 |
About the general himself, setting aside his scandalous marriage, the gentility had little ill to say. |
| 4608 |
They reached the other side of the bridge where the highway gradually swung back toward the northwest. |
| 4609 |
With what seemed to her like unceremonious haste, he then guided her across the floor to the platform. |
| 4610 |
They came to the wide, curving corridor which led to the entrance chamber. There were no troops in it. |
| 4611 |
Perhaps three minutes later a hand tried the doorknob, found it locked, and delivered a sharp rapping. |
| 4612 |
Their eyes locked, and for a moment Dawson believed that he could do just as his friend had requested. |
| 4613 |
The boy turned quietly. He gave each of his parents a crushing hug. He kissed them both several times. |
| 4614 |
I swerved in tight past the donkey. It was either my bump on his nose or it may have been the singing. |
| 4615 |
Gerard's gaze went to her breast, where the medallion of her faith had once hung. Its place was empty. |
| 4616 |
Harold again plunged a glowing loggerhead into his drink, sending up a hissing cloud of pungent steam. |
| 4617 |
Within an hour, they had became aware that someone was following them, maintaining a careful distance. |
| 4618 |
His head was very high and every nerve in his body seemed alert, but puzzled. He looked about himself. |
| 4619 |
I groaned. I couldn't cope with all this mania for looking nice. My reluctance must have provoked him. |
| 4620 |
She turned away to take care of Ken, who was tossing and mumbling as he began to regain consciousness. |
| 4621 |
Fifi was the type of character most susceptible to truth serum, so Doc began his questioning with her. |
| 4622 |
Finally he walked back into the kitchen and picked up a towel to help dry the dishes Nest was washing. |
| 4623 |
Another appeared an instant later, in another quarter, and vanished again before she could do it harm. |
| 4624 |
The shout came from the fighting platform. The assault had moved around to the other side of the ship. |
| 4625 |
We now leave the attic window open a crack every night. Peter and I often sit up there in the evening. |
| 4626 |
Timmy licked her all over, shocked at being scolded by George. She was too exhausted to push him away. |
| 4627 |
My mother was calling to me from downstairs. I was supposed to be helping with dinner. It was my turn. |
| 4628 |
At night there was Jesse, leaping and wailing, a kind of force of nature that had taken over her life. |
| 4629 |
He spoke with the Island intonation, with a thickening of the vowels and a slurring of the consonants. |
| 4630 |
He found his striped workout pants and rubber sandals, grabbed a clean towel, and headed for the door. |
| 4631 |
After what seemed an eternity of pain and darkness, he became aware of quiet shapes moving around him. |
| 4632 |
Reassured by the way I was gripping the shotgun, Ahmed did as he was told. He prudently stepped aside. |
| 4633 |
A frown crossed his Irish face. Half irritated, he walked down the wharf and addressed the first mate. |
| 4634 |
I loved my father, Paul thought, and knew this for truth. I should mourn him. I should feel something. |
| 4635 |
She stared at me a long dreary minute. Then with effort she unhooked the door and turned away from it. |
| 4636 |
We soon found out that they had a spear with a long, thin point and sharp edges that was sheer murder. |
| 4637 |
The woman put her arms slowly around Darius, embraced him, and tried to draw his head down for a kiss. |
| 4638 |
I leaped to my feet, whipping the sword from my sheath and stood over her, the blade raised to strike. |
| 4639 |
Christopher leaned back in his chair and exhaled in pained exasperation. Decker waited for his answer. |
| 4640 |
The man at the front of the line found his credit cards in his briefcase and was laughing with relief. |
| 4641 |
Five men in all cluttered the basement floor, as the bronze man reached the top of the short stairway. |
| 4642 |
I thought he might weep. I stared ahead at the flashing rain that rushed to meet us. The train slowed. |
| 4643 |
The Yokel's squawk of protest was smothered by the blast of the first mortar shell hitting the ground. |
| 4644 |
I took her arm to steer her back toward the way to the tree, and she was suddenly standing very close. |
| 4645 |
Greybeard had often acted as peacemaker in such disputes. Now he turned away, and made for the cattle. |
| 4646 |
Sabrina pulled more gently, but the mask didn't budge. She lowered her hands to the cheeks and pulled. |
| 4647 |
Perhaps I could not bring the whole ship into being, but the cabin was smaller and we had roots there. |
| 4648 |
She was a remarkable beauty, brown of eye and hair, features thin and aristocratic. She was very tall. |
| 4649 |
Possibly. I think not likely. The assailant does not appear to have been suicidal. Quite the opposite. |
| 4650 |
I thought that I would leave the fair tonight. There seemed little point now in remaining at the fair. |
| 4651 |
She went wordlessly to Cassandra and helped the princess to her feet. Blood trickled from her cut lip. |
| 4652 |
It was almost dark by the time he finished, and the night was black and rainy. Time to go, he thought. |
| 4653 |
He felt the bump. He felt tape. He pulled. Something tore loose. Said something was textured and flat. |
| 4654 |
As she grew older, she had stopped believing in angels. There were no such things as heavenly escorts. |
| 4655 |
Maguire shook his head. The child, not seeing the thing wavering on the air behind her, misunderstood. |
| 4656 |
Then he heard a humming. He looked, and there was a bright little hummingbird, hovering over the path. |
| 4657 |
Julian brushed by me on the way out, trying to look somewhat less than sinister and almost succeeding. |
| 4658 |
Doug almost stopped running. We're going to kill a man, he realized. Deliberately kill him. Or try to. |
| 4659 |
His hand made a reassuring warm spot on the middle of her back as he guided her toward the passageway. |
| 4660 |
He saw all of this in one prodigious glance. In his second the vision laid before him began to change. |
| 4661 |
Harlan was first confused, then anxious. Surely these rattling irrelevancies must be hiding something. |
| 4662 |
It was hard to ignore such an urgent request, but in the circumstances it seemed the best thing to do. |
| 4663 |
Chris hurried them all over to a fire escape that led to the street, motioning for them to follow her. |
| 4664 |
I then lifted up a sack I had retrieved from the concourse, on our return earlier from the slave camp. |
| 4665 |
It was a guttural chuckling, and the volume of the sound was enough to vibrate through the whole room. |
| 4666 |
Mr Sock looked up at the sound of the door opening, and then cowered back against the sausage machine. |
| 4667 |
The wall of the Corridor began to dissolve. They saw a large gaping black hole, and nothing beyond it. |
| 4668 |
I stood there for a few more moments in sheer disbelief, then turned and marched back over to the bag. |
| 4669 |
The three of them looked back together. There was a stirring in the water, and a vague shape appeared. |
| 4670 |
His head tipped slowly forward, excruciatingly slowly. He opened his eyes half way and focused on her. |
| 4671 |
He moved out of the small entrance chamber into a short narrow corridor and stepped nervously down it. |
| 4672 |
They marched me to the security officer's office and sat me in a chair that was a size too big for me. |
| 4673 |
Then the image disappears for the first time. The Buick and the shed are both gone, lost in the white. |
| 4674 |
Ashen found herself naming them, aloud and with the certainty that she was right, not merely guessing. |
| 4675 |
He was setting the dishes in the dishwasher when the phone rang. He hesitated, then decided to answer. |
| 4676 |
The big man drank out of his glass and rubbed the edge of it up and down on his lower lip. He went on. |
| 4677 |
The Flushing elevated tracks were not far away and a train passed on it, making much clank and rumble. |
| 4678 |
He opened his mouth and let out a spray of water and saliva and stale air, and then gagged and gasped. |
| 4679 |
When she signaled to them, they started down into the Close as if they were struggling into a furnace. |
| 4680 |
As the first bell rang, he decided he needed to hurry if he wanted to wash up before the evening meal. |
| 4681 |
But we had arrived at the old house. The afternoon sun was quite strong but the rain had thinned away. |
| 4682 |
Wessex accomplished little more before he retired, in a black and dangerous mood, to dress for dinner. |
| 4683 |
Her breath made a rushing sound. She caught the bag out of his hand, ran out of the car, and was gone. |
| 4684 |
He was snapping his fingers toward the door. A clerk appeared with a tweed overcoat and a homburg hat. |
| 4685 |
Instead of leaving, Slim fidgeted in his chair, glanced at his commander out of the corner of his eye. |
| 4686 |
The man and the robot waited, the man with little jerky clenching of his fists, the robot impassively. |
| 4687 |
Victor had also had the opportunity to ruminate over his sins ever since, thanks to his brother Denis. |
| 4688 |
Mrs. Ruth Angus was moving uncertainly around the house with her dusting cloth when the doorbell rang. |
| 4689 |
His fingers hesitated an inch from the combination board and the expression on his face grew lowering. |
| 4690 |
Galvanized by the incongruous desperation in his high, kind voice, the men below him started hurrying. |
| 4691 |
He looked around, and pointed to a gnarled fruit tree strewn round with windfalls across the clearing. |
| 4692 |
The sound grew. He went and woke Charley, and they stood together down by the water's edge, listening. |
| 4693 |
Grant fumbled with his optical fibers in his hurry to get linked. Zeb shot him an understanding smile. |
| 4694 |
When I had finally referred or otherwise disposed of everything, I glanced up. The ghost had vanished. |
| 4695 |
They passed a larger room with a rack of blasters on the wall and various storages boxes piled within. |
| 4696 |
Once more I tried to speak. This time, to my sudden fear, I found that I could not move even my mouth. |
| 4697 |
The captain glowered at me for a few moments, but when I didn't drop my return gaze, he heaved a sigh. |
| 4698 |
Krista Wu had died of her wounds in the night. They buried her upslope, with a handful of apple seeds. |
| 4699 |
Surge after surge after surge, the tractor beams held on. Roar after roar after roar, the engines bit. |
| 4700 |
Like the roll of the sea, the murmur of voices rose and fell in the hall of the commissioner's office. |
| 4701 |
He picked it up and looked it over, wondering what impulse had made him pick it up in the first place. |
| 4702 |
The two missiles dropped clear of their shackle points and ignited, leading the Tomcat to the targets. |
| 4703 |
The President kept gazing at the wording on the paper as if unwilling to accept the frightening truth. |
| 4704 |
Sarah gasped, alarmed by the predatory expression in the vampire's eyes, by the coldness in his voice. |
| 4705 |
The man swore, and the nature of his profanity indicated he had lived some of his past on a cow ranch. |
| 4706 |
As I leaned forward to pat the last of these cakes into shape, my cat pendant swung free into the sun. |
| 4707 |
He led the way out in the garden, to a spot which was visible from the door, and began to peer around. |
| 4708 |
He looked at her, and nodded his appreciation for her noninterference. Then he bent to his task again. |
| 4709 |
The last thought that Ace managed as she spun into the lunar surface was that she'd made it after all. |
| 4710 |
The innkeeper paused to let that strange statement pass, being perhaps more used to Conrad than I was. |
| 4711 |
Clarence Travers looked straight ahead at the radiator fixture on the car front and started the motor. |
| 4712 |
Envy for a man who's just condemned himself to death, he thought. The mace seemed heavier than worlds. |
| 4713 |
A young lieutenant with a beard leaned out of the wheelhouse of the patrol boat and raised a bullhorn. |
| 4714 |
The small brown fellow moistened his lips. The color of his skin was changing, becoming a hue of lead. |
| 4715 |
But nothing worked and Norman worried about that, but now he had more important things to worry about. |
| 4716 |
Once every hour a volcano erupts in light and flame. Once every hour a pirate ship sinks a man o' war. |
| 4717 |
Her voice had dropped very low, almost to a whisper, and Bran found himself leaning forward to listen. |
| 4718 |
Howie put his spectacles on again, bringing Fletcher's face back into focus. There was no smile on it. |
| 4719 |
Ham would almost have parted with an arm rather than have Monk know he had expressed fondness for him. |
| 4720 |
I am sending you some money, which I hope you will use to buy some cute outfits to wear on dates, etc. |
| 4721 |
Una looked at him in surprise. The Falconer had never questioned her about any personal matter before. |
| 4722 |
They're not coming, he assured himself again, and crossed his arms against the cold. At least not yet. |
| 4723 |
Nothing. There was no way he could look around, and there were still four hostile fighters behind him. |
| 4724 |
He broke off and bawled out in utter horror. There was the stamping of feet, as if he struggled madly. |
| 4725 |
The moonlight followed us for about six paces. By then, though, I had spotted the turnoff to the left. |
| 4726 |
Nathan cried out. Clarissa cried out. Verna froze. She could feel something sharp pressed to her back. |
| 4727 |
The News photographer held the flashbulb holder high up in his left hand, leaned down over his camera. |
| 4728 |
After blazing for half an hour the distant fire died out, and then all was blackness upon the prairie. |
| 4729 |
A cold wind came up out of the south, out of Tor, making the pennon flutter and snap like a challenge. |
| 4730 |
Council. As a community of scholars, our sole purpose is to seek and organize lost lore from the past. |
| 4731 |
Once again the handles were turned, but the doors would not open. The men began to get very impatient. |
| 4732 |
As he was about to leave he looked above his head and saw a row of six animal traps hanging from pegs. |
| 4733 |
A quarter of an hour later he heard again the click of the outside door and the swish of the curtains. |
| 4734 |
He shook his head nervously, then looked across the great forest and into the golden dust of twilight. |
| 4735 |
A shadow crossed the floor, outside her door. That meant they were now on both sides of the cell door. |
| 4736 |
Heller held the gun behind his back. He was trying to see through the slots of the armored windscreen. |
| 4737 |
Gaby was strapped to a chair on the other side of the compartment, sucking coffee from a plastic bulb. |
| 4738 |
She retreated. The centaur looked the same, but didn't sound the same as the one who had braced Edsel. |
| 4739 |
A man leaned out, looked behind, then turned swiftly and seemed to be giving directions to the driver. |
| 4740 |
Scores of automobiles were arriving on the bluff above. Their passengers were climbing down the bluff. |
| 4741 |
The boys all flattened themselves close to the bank of the deep arroyo. They spoke in hoarse whispers. |
| 4742 |
He started down the corridor, turned back to the next grating, and tried it. It was locked as solidly. |
| 4743 |
His eyes met those of the Italian. The bluster went out of the big man. He was like a pricked balloon. |
| 4744 |
It was a simple document, without preamble or salutation, and it made sweat break out on his forehead. |
| 4745 |
One developed a guide sense through practice. And this part of the ruins held no unpleasant surprises. |
| 4746 |
Nikki called down the stairs to say that the medical examiner had arrived. Angela went up to meet him. |
| 4747 |
After searching for several hours until all the debris was pulled aboard, they returned to their ship. |
| 4748 |
Above the village Behemoth came to his senses, shook his great head, and turned back to the mountains. |
| 4749 |
I went over near her and stood looking down at the orange hair. There was plenty of gray at the roots. |
| 4750 |
Then my eye caught a flick of movement on the viewer. A knife was being drawn through a piece of meat. |
| 4751 |
There was a passage leading on from the foot of the stairs, running in toward the heart of the temple. |
| 4752 |
He reached down through the companionway hatch and threw the switches of his radio on. He spun a dial. |
| 4753 |
Bush looked down the precipitous hillside that fell to the bay and could see a few figures down there. |
| 4754 |
The girl went through the gestures of wringing her hands, but still kept a tight grip on the hand bag. |
| 4755 |
She stopped now and then to rub one sweaty hand over the picture, renewing her own chemical signature. |
| 4756 |
Monk raced to the front entrance, and almost at once there was a violent scuffle. It subsided quickly. |
| 4757 |
Abruptly, the royal head was thrust through an opening in the bed curtains, the brown hair disheveled. |
| 4758 |
The human giggled delightedly, clapping her hands together. Holly noticed her nails, long and painted. |
| 4759 |
It fell into one of the two green slots in the wheel and Bond's heart lifted at the escape he had had. |
| 4760 |
Jake smoothed his hair back and looked up into her green eyes. The bay paled and grayed in comparison. |
| 4761 |
So I told her. Putting down a good finish to a driveway surface is one of the things I know how to do. |
| 4762 |
Nan Tester, showing herself recklessly, watched the surface of the inlet. Her pretty face was anxious. |
| 4763 |
From prayer towers up and down the contours of the Citadel the deacons chanted the duties of the hour. |
| 4764 |
Mal looked from Stacey to me with interest. She's just beginning to think that not all boys are jerks. |
| 4765 |
Praise be to Jupiter, the girl was still herself. I glared in return at her modishly frazzled topknot. |
| 4766 |
One fact became evident. At least one person in the party they were following knew where he was going. |
| 4767 |
The lights of distant houses, the lights on the river, were suddenly visible. The black had gone away. |
| 4768 |
More silence fell. His parents did not decamp. Obviously, Miles concluded, he wasn't repulsive enough. |
| 4769 |
I was laughing too hard to answer her, but I managed to shake my head. Then she started to laugh, too. |
| 4770 |
And now he refused to meet Elizabeth's eyes, as if he knew something that he did not want her to know. |
| 4771 |
That multitude made her giddy. Each reflection carried the imprint of a face from the inner multitude. |
| 4772 |
He came, seeming to rise out of the rocks themselves so close in color was his coat to their surfaces. |
| 4773 |
I showed it to Mr. Northrop, who read it silently. He hardly smiled at all. Just in one or two places. |
| 4774 |
She ladled a generous helping and the two of them sat back, side by side but at arm's length, and ate. |
| 4775 |
He was reminded of it suddenly and wanted to give back something of the comfort she was giving to him. |
| 4776 |
Lieutenant Kiley moved to a window and peeked through a crack in the shutter, down into the courtyard. |
| 4777 |
She heard movement in the garden. A hand touched her. Heat roared through her chest and she cried out. |
| 4778 |
As I stood debating my next course of action, someone slipped up behind me and put hands over my eyes. |
| 4779 |
Warming to his subject, he got up from the chair, leaned forward and placed his hands on Mason's desk. |
| 4780 |
Then he rose and put on his overcoat. He entered the commissioner's room and took up his hat and cane. |
| 4781 |
Hugh the Hand waited for her to continue. When it was obvious she wasn't going to, he shrugged, spoke. |
| 4782 |
He expressed surprise and then inquired if she planned to attend the opening of the Graham exhibition. |
| 4783 |
Occasionally during the night, Duncan had defied the order for silence and tried to make conversation. |
| 4784 |
The water was chilly but not cold, and Tarzan swam just strongly enough to keep from becoming chilled. |
| 4785 |
If there were, then he wasn't going to risk her finding one and getting into the palace before he did. |
| 4786 |
It was growing dark fast here in the trees, evening descending quickly on the rolling farmlands ahead. |
| 4787 |
Time passed. The sunbeams lowered, lengthened, took on a golden hue. A bit of cold crept into the air. |
| 4788 |
It was the only noise inside the Odium. Calliope had stopped playing and was staring up at the screen. |
| 4789 |
He glanced over his shoulder again as strange barred shadows flickered across the face of the pyramid. |
| 4790 |
Grunting under its weight, they lowered the stout frame of wooden poles into the pit where they stood. |
| 4791 |
She spun on her heel, mind made up. She joined the throng crowding the arcade, calling for her cousin. |
| 4792 |
He looked up at the stalactites hanging above him from the cave roof. Confused, he looked over at her. |
| 4793 |
Dragging the sheet over, he hoped he would meet his end with no less fortitude. Somehow he doubted it. |
| 4794 |
The horse took another shaky step forward. He stumbled, recovered with a grunt, and took a third step. |
| 4795 |
She fancied that there was a momentary flicker of the man's eyelashes, but he answered readily enough. |
| 4796 |
She picked it up and carried it back to her apartment, carefully wiping off the sand with her fingers. |
| 4797 |
She had not given him any explanations but he had been pleased that she had needed him for this quest. |
| 4798 |
The woman seemed to calm down, and although her eyes went wide with wonder, she managed a small smile. |
| 4799 |
Either she couldn't hear him, or had no intention of heeding him. The result was the same, either way. |
| 4800 |
A feeling of openness suggested that there was another cellar beyond. It stank of rot and burned wood. |
| 4801 |
In their midst, watching and laughing with his young queen by his side, sat a ghost in a golden crown. |
| 4802 |
The Procurator was on his feet with an easy gallantry that negated her first wild attempt at a curtsy. |
| 4803 |
The silence that followed told the shade he was correct. Smiling at his victory, he resumed his march. |
| 4804 |
Possibly the elven lords had cooperated that way in the past, but they certainly weren't doing so now. |
| 4805 |
The others showed surprise. They could see nothing to indicate that the slain man had opened the door. |
| 4806 |
The explosion of profanity which came out of the telephone receiver caused Cackle to wrinkle his eyes. |
| 4807 |
Bond glanced at the four thin shafts of light, and then he looked up again into the great African sky. |
| 4808 |
Again, Zeno bellowed. The second line of Knights swiveled, moved back. The third line stepped forward. |
| 4809 |
Something dropped on his head and landed in his lunch. It was a black iron screw, several inches long. |
| 4810 |
Eighteen years ago, he would have said that as a joke, Stoner remembered. Now he's completely serious. |
| 4811 |
I stopped. Hilda wasn't listening to me. As far as I could tell, her eyes were on the deputy director. |
| 4812 |
He went out and dragged the unconscious cops in. He took their own cuffs and locked them back to back. |
| 4813 |
Now he stroked the dull gem with the forefinger of his other hand. Fingers touched lightly on his arm. |
| 4814 |
It was the stuff that had been hauled up from the lake bottom by the divers. Shattered rock fragments. |
| 4815 |
Anya moved close to me. I could feel her shuddering. From that night onward we always slept in shifts. |
| 4816 |
To follow the meal there were custards and a range of fresh fruits, including delicious golden melons. |
| 4817 |
I had trouble cutting her bonds off. Miss Pinch was hugging me and letting out little snarling sounds. |
| 4818 |
We had killed it like a foot soldier slips his stiletto between the armor plates of a mounted warrior. |
| 4819 |
With a magician's gesture, he flipped over the photocopy and showed us his notes, printed in capitals. |
| 4820 |
Nervously, I stared after her. Then I picked the seven dollars off the floor and went back to my room. |
| 4821 |
It was the truth. My eyes were slowly getting used to the glare, allowing me to look around the place. |
| 4822 |
When thou didst destroy it and the good old man that didst dwell within, thou didst seal thy own fate. |
| 4823 |
One morning, on the return from Sanitation, he was stopped as he was about to step back into his cell. |
| 4824 |
As he preceded the thin man over the threshold he knew that was utterly and absolutely in their power. |
| 4825 |
The nearest community was less than a day's ride, so Turner retrieved his team from the royal stables. |
| 4826 |
I felt her tight and warm against me. Her body surged with vitality. Her beautiful arms held me tight. |
| 4827 |
Megan turned her gaze on Tocsin, her ancient enemy. She said no word. Then she turned her back on him. |
| 4828 |
Baltimore morning, with the yellow leaves beneath her feet and the faint tang of woodsmoke on the air. |
| 4829 |
He got to the stairs and threw the carpeted body over his shoulder and went down five steps at a time. |
| 4830 |
Hammond stared thoughtfully at his beautiful aide. Normally, he trusted her reactions in such matters. |
| 4831 |
There was a loud and fierce conference with frequent glances and gesticulations at the four strangers. |
| 4832 |
Buddy continued chanting out slogans to the crowd of counselors. His eyes were wide. He never blinked. |
| 4833 |
Rachel pointed up at the sky. The sun was setting fast, but I could see Tobias circling high overhead. |
| 4834 |
Parker pulled on thin latex gloves, picked up the gun, and retreated in the direction of the cruisers. |
| 4835 |
She walked toward her bathroom and then stood there, propped against the door, a hand across her eyes. |
| 4836 |
That was the Hilda I knew. There was going to be a catch to her generosity. And, of course, there was. |
| 4837 |
She was alone once more. He had left the water trickling from the pipe in the sink. Her mouth was dry. |
| 4838 |
I had hoped to avoid the subject of the Brute, but since it had come up, I decided to face it head on. |
| 4839 |
She was beautiful. And something else. Ethereal, a poet might have said. Spooky is good enough for me. |
| 4840 |
Then, after an animated conversation with the bait fishermen, they cast off and headed toward the sea. |
| 4841 |
The breed shivered from head to foot. The gusty sounds were too peculiar to be made by a natural wind. |
| 4842 |
Immediately the forest was unmarred, the village whole again, secure and peaceful in a small clearing. |
| 4843 |
He did that and gave me the key. I walked with him as far as the first landing and saw him on his way. |
| 4844 |
I could see the tiled roof of the gym in the distance. Hang in there, Mickey. Just a few more minutes. |
| 4845 |
Downslope to shore, then across the overgrown fence, then up. Likely enough he'd be shot as a burglar. |
| 4846 |
The pair began making fierce faces. An onlooker would have thought sudden death impended for somebody. |
| 4847 |
A faint crash came to their ears. A cloud of dust rose far down in the canyon. Doc's plane had struck. |
| 4848 |
His remarkable voice had a crashing volume and a penetrating vibrancy that echoed throughout the ship. |
| 4849 |
I had been killed by such a bear once, in another millennium. The sudden memory of it made me shudder. |
| 4850 |
He paused, subconsciously stripped one heavy glove from a hand to wipe the perspiration from his face. |
| 4851 |
Leaping back, the men stared beyond the firelight at the edges of the encroaching and uninhabited sea. |
| 4852 |
From then on all was quiet again and we had sighted nothing that looked like a vehicle of the prowler. |
| 4853 |
Her friends clustered around their mounts, swiftly field dressing the dead deer then loading the kill. |
| 4854 |
Nobody said anything. They all looked at Amy. They all looked at her like they wanted not to be there. |
| 4855 |
The others answered the teacher with scorn. Of course Bean was competent. Of course they'd follow him. |
| 4856 |
He did awaken, and then he wished that he had stayed in the forest and taken his chances with the elf. |
| 4857 |
I saw them burst through the other side of the tunnel. They split up, running in different directions. |
| 4858 |
In the paved kitchen yard he pulled the motorcycle up on its stand, and went in through the back door. |
| 4859 |
Touching my lip with my fingers I discovered that it was still dribbling blood. Perhaps she was right. |
| 4860 |
When the class was over, and the kids were getting ready to go home, Claudia approached Stacey and me. |
| 4861 |
Little ones and not so little ones. Charis began to reckon how many boys had survived the white death. |
| 4862 |
She turned her head so that he could see the intricate braids that extended below the back of her hat. |
| 4863 |
If there was, Laura liked him none the worse for it. Indeed, she preferred that to too much assurance. |
| 4864 |
Stacey told me what she'd read, and I nearly fainted. I just had to get a copy of the book for myself. |
| 4865 |
There was silence in the cabin, only broken by the noises on deck, until Gambier stirred in his chair. |
| 4866 |
As Doc came out of the shop, two men down the street hastily settled low in the car they were driving. |
| 4867 |
I turned the card over. There was a photo of a gila monster with black and white patterns on its back. |
| 4868 |
There was the protest of wood scraping on wood. The panel above them opened and a fireman looked down. |
| 4869 |
He hadn't always had the rank. The wood had seen its share of hard knocks, as had the man carrying it. |
| 4870 |
St. Jean bent to retrieve his drink. The crystal tumbler was dwarfed by the size of his enormous hand. |
| 4871 |
She didn't answer. He put a finger under her chin and forced it upward so that she had to look at him. |
| 4872 |
Louis sucked in some crab and clutched his throat. His face got red, then purple. He flailed his arms. |
| 4873 |
She noticed that the conversation had died down. Everyone understood the question behind the question. |
| 4874 |
Beer sloshed over the sides of the frosted mug, spilling out on the scarred wood surface of the table. |
| 4875 |
She nodded, fixing me with eyes that I suddenly noticed were pale yellow. Very strange. I stared back. |
| 4876 |
Ruth's head came around, his eyes gleamed more brilliantly blue in the darkness. You never neglect me. |
| 4877 |
And then he remembered where he saw her and who had taken the pictures and why she had now killed him. |
| 4878 |
His hand drew a small case from inside his parka. With the contents of this, he made his preparations. |
| 4879 |
We all settled into listening attitudes, and Callahan passed around fresh beers to them as needed 'em. |
| 4880 |
Silk stalked and growled. She continued yowling. Her fur sparked blue stars when she swished her tail. |
| 4881 |
After three blocks he braked at the side of the street again and turned to give me a hard level stare. |
| 4882 |
The cosmonaut spoke almost angrily back to ground command, and more urgent words burst from the radio. |
| 4883 |
Wordlessly they regarded one another. All four of them seemed eager to open the door and step through. |
| 4884 |
They reached an avenue lined with palms. In the palm shadows, it was very dark. Doc was still leading. |
| 4885 |
Had Mark not seen the spoor in the earth he would never have suspected that his pack had been touched. |
| 4886 |
It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training. |
| 4887 |
It took me a few moments to realize what she was doing, then I followed suit, scarcely daring to hope. |
| 4888 |
The sports director had not come up to tear my muscles and limbs apart yet. I stalked over to Madison. |
| 4889 |
The combination of rigid left eye and bejeweled teeth was bizarre. The man resembled a carnival freak. |
| 4890 |
The air whooshed out of her lungs. His eyes were filled with the hatred he no longer bothered to mask. |
| 4891 |
Anne looked alarmed. This was such a queer house, with queer happenings. She wished George would come. |
| 4892 |
Kinsey sighed, pushed his feathered hat back over his stringy hair, and kept tugging at the duct tape. |
| 4893 |
From out of the river where the stone had fallen there arose something which chilled and sickened her. |
| 4894 |
My heart had stopped beating some time before. I could only stare at him appalled as the truth dawned. |
| 4895 |
Griffin sank beneath the water as a weight landed on his shoulders from behind. He came up sputtering. |
| 4896 |
She was in love and would follow her husband. I was only her brother and it wasn't my place to object. |
| 4897 |
After a moment's stunned reflection, the chieftain turned from the destruction and asked the question. |
| 4898 |
By this time, Adam had enough of the boat cover off to stick his head out into the air above the boat. |
| 4899 |
Then everything began to shake. The walls, the chandelier, the ancient floorboards beneath their feet. |
| 4900 |
With that the Regent succeeded in convincing itself that it was perfectly in control of the situation. |
| 4901 |
The Nadir began to move forward in a seething furious mass, their pounding feet sounding like thunder. |
| 4902 |
They were still in empty land when they camped that night, but had altered their course farther south. |
| 4903 |
Having finished his task the man raised his head to look at her, as he picked up the bowl in one hand. |
| 4904 |
Running away was damn hard work, even harder than memorizing multiplication tables and state capitals. |
| 4905 |
The witch closed her eyes and raised her gem until it touched her forehead above and between her eyes. |
| 4906 |
For another five minutes, anyway. The captain led me to the evidence room and gave me back my clothes. |
| 4907 |
There seemed something, however, that was familiar about his speech. I could not identify what it was. |
| 4908 |
Edmund, the only one of the party who had read several detective stories, had meanwhile been thinking. |
| 4909 |
The signal vanished for agonizing seconds, then came back much clearer, though not appreciably louder. |
| 4910 |
There were a couple of trolls lounging just inside the entrance. Susan ignored them. They ignored her. |
| 4911 |
As conversations sprung up again across the room and the Doctor made for the bar, Mac's eyes met mine. |
| 4912 |
That was her initial reaction, as she tried to take in all of the changes and make some sense of them. |
| 4913 |
Peering into the darkness, Carly Beth watched them until they were nearly right in front of the shrub. |
| 4914 |
He sighed and produced the effect of bowing without, in fact, doing more than bend his knees slightly. |
| 4915 |
Father and daughter were staring after the receding bronze man when a low voice sounded at their side. |
| 4916 |
Before he could finish the sentence, two of the human leaders came to their own feet and drew weapons. |
| 4917 |
He sat looking at me, without moving. Then very slowly he moved out from under the table and stood up. |
| 4918 |
Eventually they got down to the coffee and were so stuffed they had to stop laughing. It was a relief. |
| 4919 |
Long rest, then crawled into the booth, reached up. Knocked the receiver clear. Damn. Needed a nickel. |
| 4920 |
From behind him came a snarl, then a growl, the staccato rustle of undergrowth violently thrust aside. |
| 4921 |
Four vampires swarmed onto the first cruiser, quick as Gleaners, and climbed toward the driving bench. |
| 4922 |
The arm arced viciously forward, slapped with flat vehemence against the stop at the end of its throw. |
| 4923 |
I watched him admiringly. I did hope we made it home to Yurt alive, because he would be a superb king. |
| 4924 |
When the first of the teams flatly refused to climb more than ten yards up a tree, I called them down. |
| 4925 |
The lad turned justifiably pale at these somewhat ominous recommendations. I was pleased I was not he. |
| 4926 |
He jumped from his seat and walked briskly to the agitated woman dog trainer, holding the sniffer dog. |
| 4927 |
Miles smiled, and let just such a silence stretch between them, curious to see who would flinch first. |
| 4928 |
There was an awkward silence. Julian shot an annoyed look at poor Jock, who could have kicked himself. |
| 4929 |
The other soldier heard a noise and fired a shot into the brush. Both men listened, but heard nothing. |
| 4930 |
To throw open the shutters was a task she fumbled over, though she was usually quick with her fingers. |
| 4931 |
But Rachel wailed and fell on her knees and begged her sister to take her place under the bridal veil. |
| 4932 |
Pitt was still daydreaming when he was interrupted by the steward telling him to fasten his seat belt. |
| 4933 |
He turned and looked back at the darkroom entrance. Again, Donaldson's head flicked back out of sight. |
| 4934 |
At this he looked suddenly so melancholy that she changed her tone, and reaching over patted his hand. |
| 4935 |
The staff no longer supported him. It was heavy and burdensome. He couldn't figure out what was wrong. |
| 4936 |
Some time during the night, he was awakened by something soft and warm squirming against his shoulder. |
| 4937 |
Johnny, whose geology knowledge included an understanding of such phenomena, seconded Doc's reasoning. |
| 4938 |
That was all he needed to say on that subject. They knew each other too well to have to enlarge on it. |
| 4939 |
Big Julie heard us out, listening with rapt attention. When we finished, he sighed and shook his head. |
| 4940 |
Junior was a hider. Junior was a watcher. Junior lit flames. Junior torched. Junior lived in his head. |
| 4941 |
The camera withdrew, the action flowing languidly in reverse until a point just before the explosions. |
| 4942 |
Leaving the precious book in Merrick's upstairs bedroom, back we went to the city of dreams once more. |
| 4943 |
And then there was a real silence, broken only by the swish of Lily's dress as she fled up the stairs. |
| 4944 |
I moved warily away from the beast. I did not think, now, I would have great difficulty in eluding it. |
| 4945 |
The proof came in such a way as to arouse all my foreboding, to alert all my personal warning signals. |
| 4946 |
Two of the swordsmen had come back and gone by him, one helping the other. The third had stayed, dead. |
| 4947 |
How remarkable he looks, she thought, watching the projection of the Baron against her closed eyelids. |
| 4948 |
I regarded him for a moment before I answered. To say the least, I had the room's undivided attention. |
| 4949 |
Doc Savage opened the door and looked at the girl. She was still tied, and there were still no snakes. |
| 4950 |
Block did not appear at lunch time. Sarah said he had asked not to be disturbed, if he did not appear. |
| 4951 |
They drew up in the courtyard behind the house and the proprietor and his wife came out to greet them. |
| 4952 |
I turned away and left him there in the moonlight, gazing after me and scratching the top of his head. |
| 4953 |
She held the page in both hands and studied it, perhaps reading the words herself, for her lips moved. |
| 4954 |
He spat in the face of a young man who tied his wrists together with thick rope. The man said nothing. |
| 4955 |
And that produced the fourth, and final, impression in the minds of the Constantinople men that night. |
| 4956 |
For a moment my blood ran cold, and I stopped my hand from going to the pistol in the back of my belt. |
| 4957 |
No matter. He would land and check it out. At least he'd get off this blasted ship, breathe fresh air. |
| 4958 |
So Burton lost immediate interest in the brain. And his mistake was compounded by his next experiment. |
| 4959 |
There was something roughly the size of a large camper van parked about a hundred feet above her lawn. |
| 4960 |
He continued to sit and ponder, as the schooner surged northward in the direction of Alligator Island. |
| 4961 |
For those of us who have devoted our lives to scaring people away from Florida, it was a magic moment. |
| 4962 |
He rose, lifting Logan to carry him to a bed. Then he permitted himself to consider the words briefly. |
| 4963 |
He saw her eyes reflecting shadowy doubts, but he sensed his arguments were beginning to reassure her. |
| 4964 |
The dead were fewer, but the stench of them hovered about the tent, and the dreadful night was coming. |
| 4965 |
Doc Savage waited. Nothing seemed to happen. For that matter, nothing visible had happened previously. |
| 4966 |
He rolled to his elbow, and saw that the fire was still burning. Then he lay down and slept once more. |
| 4967 |
Then her mother turned, shaking with silent sobs, and moved down the mountain and out of Lyra's sight. |
| 4968 |
As the other riders dismounted and tended their horses, Steve spoke quietly to Hunter from the saddle. |
| 4969 |
When the pace slackened again, Sara slid off her mount to walk. Soon a low voice spoke from her right. |
| 4970 |
She killed the rest of her tequila, and helped herself to another glass as she went on with her story. |
| 4971 |
Colene looked perplexed. Finally she drew a figure with seven points, but evidently wasn't sure of it. |
| 4972 |
The man backed away, looking as if he had discovered himself smoking cigarettes in a dynamite factory. |
| 4973 |
He snapped his fingers and indicated that Ina should approach us. She did so and then looked up at us. |
| 4974 |
She screamed for her maids and two stumbled in to her, half awake and naked, carrying small oil lamps. |
| 4975 |
He heard the whistle of the whip, and its cord lashed at his ankles. But this time he did not go down. |
| 4976 |
She had to fight back a wild impulse to scream. She was able just barely to suppress it into a gurgle. |
| 4977 |
I almost laughed at the way I was giving so many orders. But, hey, I was like an actor playing a part. |
| 4978 |
Part of that tale was new. And, as his mental pictures built in my mind, my own remembrance sharpened. |
| 4979 |
And landing lightly on the damp ground, he disappeared into the darkness, as silent as the rising sun. |
| 4980 |
I had seen the subject of that picture once before that day, in my news screen over my shaving mirror. |
| 4981 |
Then, as if with a surgeon's delicate lancet, the light beams started carving all three vessels apart. |
| 4982 |
When she looked out the window again, the sun had set. The golden band was turning richer, and darker. |
| 4983 |
Slowly, the smoke cloud lifted. Fresh currents of air swept through the canyon, rolling the mist away. |
| 4984 |
Powerful lights were illuminating the course the submarine was following. That course was a weird one. |
| 4985 |
A little later there was subtle clink of metal, so slight as to be almost beyond the range of hearing. |
| 4986 |
This was no ordinary plague. This was a plague started by magic, by a man who wanted to kill them all. |
| 4987 |
I selected the meal that looked as if it had the most calories and took my tray over to sit by Potter. |
| 4988 |
What followed turned out to be a long period of getting him and his body back into operation together. |
| 4989 |
He obeyed, seeing little flecks of orange drifting in across the whites. The sense of peril was acute. |
| 4990 |
What a city. In the spring, the river caught fire. About once a month, the Alchemists' Guild exploded. |
| 4991 |
The tame world lived on solar energy and was free of strife, and to Lou it was hateful in consequence. |
| 4992 |
My own instinct was to question this, but he had already given it as the reason for wanting the Butte. |
| 4993 |
Whatever stalked them would gain no help from him in its quest, and only sharp steel if it found them. |
| 4994 |
It had proved inordinately simple for him to fool it, lie to it, tell it his carefully doctored story. |
| 4995 |
The wizard bowed. A white cat that had been sleeping by the furnace woke up and watched him carefully. |
| 4996 |
Almost at that instant the sun appeared through broken clouds and the rain lessened, the sea settling. |
| 4997 |
Trembling she thrust down her dress over her hips, and stood then within it, it down about her ankles. |
| 4998 |
Not being seen wasn't a big problem. It was the things that she kept seeing that were more of a worry. |
| 4999 |
The homely chemist, seizing his pig, prepared to leap upon Ham and force fulfillment of their bargain. |
| 5000 |
The place was deathly still, the fog clamped tight around, cutting visibility to less than five paces. |
| 5001 |
Tallahassee stiffened, tense. Both cats roused, turned on the bench to stare at some point behind her. |
| 5002 |
Carefully, he lifted the silver visor. Carina's eyelids flickered once, as the prince stared in shock. |
| 5003 |
Although it made no difference, really, once one considered it. For the important pay was not in cash. |
| 5004 |
Beyond the archway, he heard the sounds of the closet door, saw Grant piling his clothes onto the bed. |
| 5005 |
They went diving out of the airlock, sprinted past the faintly moonlit plantation house and were gone. |
| 5006 |
On the floor was a film of colorless fluid not unlike pale, sticky molasses. It was hardly noticeable. |
| 5007 |
Morley, who had been eager to evacuate some time ago, now jumped all over me for wasting half a night. |
| 5008 |
Gritting himself against incipient vertigo, he hurried to join his companions on the lip of the cliff. |
| 5009 |
Miles was grinning. As he took her hand and gripped it to his arm again, he vented a sinister chuckle. |
| 5010 |
Without adhesive tape, the thing had to be held on by wrapping gauze around my head and under my chin. |
| 5011 |
We approached. The birds were gone. So were the eyes. The man was in uniform. His throat had been cut. |
| 5012 |
A big mechanical box behind the girl began to buzz. Doc walked around on the other side of the screen. |
| 5013 |
Pete gulped in fright as his light shone up into the long, scarred face of the man with the eye patch. |
| 5014 |
He took both her hands and kissed them reverently, and then handed her into the back of the limousine. |
| 5015 |
I heard no footsteps and had no warning before strong arms seized me, prying me loose from my beloved. |
| 5016 |
If she was going to have a conversation with a cat, she must find a topic of interest to both of them. |
| 5017 |
Burrows continued, stating wild facts as if he were repeating the current market prices on conch meat. |
| 5018 |
It was time to gather forces magical and mundane. He had arrangements to make and a baroness to trick. |
| 5019 |
Guns ready, the men darted to the door. That door was unlocked. It had been locked ten minutes before. |
| 5020 |
Government the separation between the peoples of Earth and those living in space had never been total. |
| 5021 |
Brian looked down at his wrist and saw that his watch had also stopped. All their watches had stopped. |
| 5022 |
The creature quailed as if struck a mortal blow. But it shook its head and resumed its defiant stance. |
| 5023 |
The boys heard her promise of revenge, and seemed content to have the matter taken out of their hands. |
| 5024 |
Professor Archer displayed keen understanding. Only a few scientists would have identified the device. |
| 5025 |
My joy took a little sag. I thought of my present relationship there. My problems were not all solved. |
| 5026 |
Katie was really fast. She beat me twice before the rest of our guests arrived. They all came at once. |
| 5027 |
Pons now returned to the body and bent to examine the hilt of the knife, looking at it from all sides. |
| 5028 |
Sturm and Derek immediately raised their swords, standing back to back. Steel flashed among the elves. |
| 5029 |
Mason held the exit door open for Boring, who smiled affably then turned and walked down the corridor. |
| 5030 |
Mort pulled himself together, and stepped through the barrier which was no barrier at all. It tingled. |
| 5031 |
The tower gave a shake. Then she stared blindly down at me, her mouth poised to start screaming again. |
| 5032 |
Snarks turned a deeper shade of green. The dwarf's remark seemed to render him temporarily speechless. |
| 5033 |
Gerry Hart didn't answer. He poured cream into the last little drop of his coffee and drank it slowly. |
| 5034 |
It was, of course, thoroughly soaked with the water displaced when Lars overbalanced her into the tub. |
| 5035 |
She stared at him silently with wide, liquid eyes, clutching the sword to her breasts with both hands. |
| 5036 |
There are two kinds of change that we can gather from the universe about us. One is cyclic and benign. |
| 5037 |
In the front raft, Leigh stood up. When the snake rose from the swirling water the magician was ready. |
| 5038 |
As she spoke, a broad red slice appeared on his upraised arm as if drawn there by an invisible artist. |
| 5039 |
But he was still tormented by nightmares that not even the strongest of sleeping potions could banish. |
| 5040 |
I chewed on a piece of meat and drank from the shallow, chipped bowl of clay which contained the wine. |
| 5041 |
Pia discovered that she was getting to like this archaic man. He was a gentleman in the classic sense. |
| 5042 |
Matthew followed quickly, Braddock somewhat more reluctantly. The pilot opted to remain with his ship. |
| 5043 |
Then I felt a gentle stirring of the humid air, and the blackness of the entrance disgorged a machine. |
| 5044 |
He regretted it the next moment. The Warlock turned on him the look one gives a presumptuous stranger. |
| 5045 |
The directors at the table stared at him. One squinted as if seeing a familiar face, then looked away. |
| 5046 |
She moved back to the vicinity of Morrison, still studying the stunner and turning it in various ways. |
| 5047 |
The Baron was not afraid of me or anything else. But he had been born to the options that power gives. |
| 5048 |
I had been putting on weight and picking up strength slowly. The process would have to be accelerated. |
| 5049 |
The state had given me two slots for field investigators, and I had not filled either one of them yet. |
| 5050 |
But this time I was very much in control, knew exactly what needed to be done, and proceeded to do it. |
| 5051 |
She heard nothing but the trickling of the stream over rocks and the sighing of the wind in the trees. |
| 5052 |
Surely last night had been a dream. She felt fine now. She put a hand to her neck, smiling to herself. |
| 5053 |
He thrashed his tail in frustration. His flukes struck the ceiling painfully. His breath came heavily. |
| 5054 |
There was no roof over the room where he was deposited, and grass and weeds grew from the stone floor. |
| 5055 |
He leaned forward and put both elbows on the table, crowding me back and away from the console screen. |
| 5056 |
George had pocketed the key when she had locked the door. She answered Mr. Roland in a cheerful voice. |
| 5057 |
A momentary stillness fell like a chill over the room, followed by an angry stir of bewildered dismay. |
| 5058 |
So maybe it was just her. Or maybe someone had used all three wishes and died before writing about it. |
| 5059 |
Again the flashy salute, which the commander was obliged to return before turning back to the company. |
| 5060 |
A weight lifter. Kinsman guessed. Pumps iron every day and now he wants to show off his muscles on me. |
| 5061 |
The guard who had spoken stood his ground, but his companion backed away looking lost without his Uzi. |
| 5062 |
The bishop reached into his cassock and withdrew the thing. He held it forth in his outstretched hand. |
| 5063 |
She hastened to sit up but fell back again with a sharp cry of pain she was not quick enough to quell. |
| 5064 |
Monk grew rather white around the eyes. Ham set his jaw as tightly as he could, and tried not to look. |
| 5065 |
This time I studied the overhanging trees, and the underbrush. But now there was a sense of emptiness. |
| 5066 |
A cloud of burning oil rained down. It splattered across type metal and old rocking horses and dwarfs. |
| 5067 |
My arms were so tired, I could barely pull myself out of the pool. I was one of the last swimmers out. |
| 5068 |
Now, Paul held himself in near catatonic immobility, knowing he had only his wits to meet this threat. |
| 5069 |
Still he had to try. The black spot grew, calling him in, and the anger rode into his veins like fire. |
| 5070 |
There were no steps up the platform and I felt too weak and giddy to try to haul myself up beside him. |
| 5071 |
I ignored him. The women had a few yards to go yet. Even Rose's sour face had begun to show some hope. |
| 5072 |
Verna lit a small flame above her upturned palm. The woman's eyes widened, and then filled with tears. |
| 5073 |
But she'd already gone deep into her own thoughts. She drank another swallow directly from the bottle. |
| 5074 |
He thought that he had at that moment when he had stormed out of the chamber after the fleeing sniper. |
| 5075 |
He ran away again, but this time not as far as the pony. He had suddenly realized he would need proof. |
| 5076 |
What she said was not as significant as her scent and that of the paper. It carried danger, wrongness. |
| 5077 |
They told it in relays, a garbled rush of words, interrupting each other and arguing over the details. |
| 5078 |
When he left the diner about ten minutes later, his coffee sat there, cooling like a forgotten corpse. |
| 5079 |
Ham was saying bitter things to himself. The ground was muddy, his immaculate attire was being ruined. |
| 5080 |
Then two figures leaped from the driving seat of the truck. They caught the sides of the closed sedan. |
| 5081 |
Brim had never seen her nipple shriveled and colorless as it was now. He heard himself gasp in dismay. |
| 5082 |
The name caused Merlin to sit back down, slowly. His hand dropped to the knife in the top of his boot. |
| 5083 |
So this is what war is like, he thought. The battles are over quickly, but the misery goes on forever. |
| 5084 |
In the silence that came between them, a breeze from a ventilator could be heard fingering the blinds. |
| 5085 |
He knelt beside Dave. The old man's eyes were shut and he was breathing in harsh, almost random gasps. |
| 5086 |
He rapped on the door. It slid open. He stepped through and closed it behind him without looking back. |
| 5087 |
And nobody hit me. They teach you in the Apparatus never to talk when you're being beaten or tortured. |
| 5088 |
The next morning broke dark and gloomy. The gang woke to find Zeta sitting guard at the cave entrance. |
| 5089 |
He returned unseen to his sleeping quarters and slipped into bed once again and stared at the ceiling. |
| 5090 |
We felt our way down a crude ladder into a rectangular space that was lit by a small central campfire. |
| 5091 |
He let the glory gallop down his throat. Then he filled it up again after locating the tequila bottle. |
| 5092 |
Soon a number of isolated spots were scattered above and below the dotted line on the muddy sea floor. |
| 5093 |
Then there was a sharp turn onto another highway, a concrete one, and that did not ease the situation. |
| 5094 |
He led me down the line of stalls. Horses eyed me over the half doors that kept each in its own place. |
| 5095 |
The eastern edge was ambiguously defined. When the view improved, you knew you were out of the valley. |
| 5096 |
I activated my gyroscope and reset my pedal locomotion circuits. I walked around the room on my hands. |
| 5097 |
Flattery wasn't screaming anymore. He stood there clutching a stanchion, glaring out of the faceplate. |
| 5098 |
He scratched his chin thoughtfully, making a noise like a porcupine shouldering its way through gorse. |
| 5099 |
Travis calling back and Josh answering the call. She tried to figure out how to take her message back. |
| 5100 |
I was hotly embraced by the sincerity of his words. The anguish and the pleading that lay behind them. |
| 5101 |
The curator was waiting in a private office. It was a Monday, and the museum was closed to the public. |
| 5102 |
This brought something resembling a truce. Together, the three men moved on toward the center of town. |
| 5103 |
My men came up between the houses and barns, looking less sure of themselves than I would have wished. |
| 5104 |
Doc got the hatch shut then ran to the bulkhead door admitting to the forward part of the submersible. |
| 5105 |
The room gradually returned to silence. Wright was slumped against his chair, as if frozen into place. |
| 5106 |
In another room, Dr. Spencer joined Ray looking at a monitor watching the woman watching the entrance. |
| 5107 |
She was in the void. If the glow she could not see failed her, she would die quicker than the thought. |
| 5108 |
For Doc had taken the only course which offered security to the unfortunate individuals he was aiding. |
| 5109 |
He reached out for the weapon. Moon shadows darkened the base of the rock like thickly roosting crows. |
| 5110 |
He felt her surprise and then her surrender as she leaned in to him, her arms twining around his neck. |
| 5111 |
Pike pushed himself up. His face was a mask of blood. His shirt was wet with it. He picked up his gun. |
| 5112 |
She held the door open for him. He was very aware that her fingers brushed his thigh as he passed her. |
| 5113 |
Daemon clamped his tongue between his teeth. Yes, he really needed to have a little chat with Surreal. |
| 5114 |
The flight ran smooth. A stew served drinks. She saw his gun. She played up. She asked dumb questions. |
| 5115 |
Then she bent forward and with some care replaced the book where she had found it, under the mattress. |
| 5116 |
Feeling a good deal brighter, Dahlia left the bag in her lap and began groping around for the cupcake. |
| 5117 |
Deacon Johnson smiled and stuck out his hand, but the doctors regarded it as if it were a rattlesnake. |
| 5118 |
But on the whole, especially for the higher elven lords, reality was always preferable to an illusion. |
| 5119 |
We struck aside more sticks from the rear of the hut and emerged into the rustling darkness behind it. |
| 5120 |
Becca whirled around in a huff and stomped off to her room. I grabbed my sweater and was out the door. |
| 5121 |
Not a nice way to treat someone who's saved your life, Grant said to himself. Sorry, my Jovian friend. |
| 5122 |
I sat across from Mickey, trying hard not to look at his dumb face. I was still really steamed at him. |
| 5123 |
He sat down, and I knelt close to him on the bare floor, and then out of me came the whole lurid tale. |
| 5124 |
Justen flicked the reins and walked tiredly toward the end of the stable. The gray lumbered after him. |
| 5125 |
When I went up to the Palace I had thought it was all over. The cases you hate most never seem to end. |
| 5126 |
The secret is cornmeal and brushing the fur the wrong way. The tricky part is keeping your mouth shut. |
| 5127 |
Ursula seemed shamed by all of this, and held me gently with her long fingers. I looked into her eyes. |
| 5128 |
Dance looked at me and shrugged. My guess was the football team had just endured a practice from hell. |
| 5129 |
I saw his big wooden hand fumble over the table of supplies. Then he grabbed a paintbrush in one hand. |
| 5130 |
The steersman pointed with his hook at the black, forbidding tunnel mouth in the castellated entrance. |
| 5131 |
The starveling waifs retreated before their strange new keepers, heading toward the rim of the Forest. |
| 5132 |
She pulled it by the top of the head. Then she tried stretching it out and tugging it from the cheeks. |
| 5133 |
Any of those ends could be gained by working out in the open, without the need for secrecy and murder. |
| 5134 |
Then there were more guards in the room, until it became quite crowded and I could not see the Doctor. |
| 5135 |
The grayness closed as the sand changed color, but altered almost immediately. Now the sand was green. |
| 5136 |
I was trembling now, more frightened than I had ever been in my life. She knew it, and it pleased her. |
| 5137 |
When finished drinking, she picked up the fish and bit into it ravenously, as she had seen sailors do. |
| 5138 |
I looked back down the stairs past Snarks. Hubert tipped his top hat and showed the fellow his ticket. |
| 5139 |
The pair of gray sewer rats had rolled on their backs. Their legs were rigid. They hadn't even kicked. |
| 5140 |
My left side was partly numbed by the blow, and I felt as if I had been driven a foot into the ground. |
| 5141 |
The old sage clambered ungracefully into the saddle, patted the gray reassuringly, and made no answer. |
| 5142 |
God, it's hot in here, he thought. If there were only one window open. Just one. Just one window open. |
| 5143 |
She still looked at the dragon, and she spoke in the language of the dragons, the words of the Making. |
| 5144 |
His face was flushed with excitement, and he held a huge photograph spread between his upraised hands. |
| 5145 |
It was full daylight now, but the shadow in the room would not let the sun's rays penetrate the gloom. |
| 5146 |
Thoughts come unbidden, the mind weaving its perspectives, assembling meaning from emotion and memory. |
| 5147 |
Fiesta was not unacquainted with manifestations of jealousy in the male breast. She recognized it now. |
| 5148 |
We started to walk back when we saw Briggs round the corner of the apartment building and race inside. |
| 5149 |
Sunlight filtered down again for a brief instant, lighting the clearing, snow sparkling like diamonds. |
| 5150 |
Ignoring the hint, the policeman pulled up a chair and parked himself on it as if he had been invited. |
| 5151 |
A wave almost overturned the boat. Rain hissed on the surface of the sphere, sent up a scalding spray. |
| 5152 |
The cab took off. Presently it was descending at the enclosed field of his company's central building. |
| 5153 |
What she had seen in the past few days made her believe that the Light had indeed forsaken this world. |
| 5154 |
But Random came clear, seated before a drum set, sticks in hand. He set aside the drumsticks and rose. |
| 5155 |
It was a motive Colene could trust. She knew about wrapping things up in this life, before leaving it. |
| 5156 |
Well. He turned away from the window and walked off with his driver to the car. The process had begun. |
| 5157 |
The receptionist motioned him in. The Legate scowled at him and this time did not ask him to sit down. |
| 5158 |
Sinclair finished his ouzo and left. Their muttered comments had followed him back along the quayside. |
| 5159 |
The dragon twisted its wings, swung its huge bulk around on a pivot of air, and bore down on the roof. |
| 5160 |
Jack knew there was no point in resisting them. His protestations would only amuse and encourage them. |
| 5161 |
He forced his eyes to the book on the copy stand and began to replicate the letters on the new vellum. |
| 5162 |
He faded into uncomfortable sleep. But after the darkness came, and the light again, he was no better. |
| 5163 |
He looked depressed. Humans had no fun. Incredible complications surrounded the most basic activities. |
| 5164 |
They all looked at Jordan in cold speculation, the enormity of the whole thing growing in their minds. |
| 5165 |
The shaking stopped. The lighting sorted itself out and the lift proceeded down in an orderly fashion. |
| 5166 |
The chaplain was busily putting the chess pieces back in the box, clearly in no mood for another game. |
| 5167 |
My captor himself had set me the work of tending the coals in the brazier, where the iron was heating. |
| 5168 |
He began scanning the waterfront almost as if he had heard me. Then he shrugged and went into a cabin. |
| 5169 |
Doc Savage stood up in the cockpit and gave a vehement nod. That seemed to be all the answer required. |
| 5170 |
The old man thanked the lawman kindly and shuffled on toward the skyscraper which had been designated. |
| 5171 |
Ahead of him, the rip neared. He dropped his hand to the rheostat which controlled the cabin pressure. |
| 5172 |
The dapper lawyer minced toward the door, still sparring with his cane. A broad smile was on his face. |
| 5173 |
She put her hand on his arm and let him lead her across the runway like a Victorian lady under escort. |
| 5174 |
The bug pushed the brown ball over. He began cleaning Pete's boot, adding the substance to his sphere. |
| 5175 |
He stepped back from the window, suddenly chilled, and went down to heat and drink a cup of chocolate. |
| 5176 |
He considered, and came to the conclusion that something must be very wrong with him. He must be sick. |
| 5177 |
She rolled away from me and stared at the wall. After a time she spoke, her words cruel with contempt. |
| 5178 |
Then at least you could die in the attempt. That might be preferable to letting magical war break out. |
| 5179 |
A death certificate. Rowan had written his own death certificate. Well, maybe that made things easier. |
| 5180 |
She was picking her way along as though afraid of the dark, making slow progress. One person, not two. |
| 5181 |
But Greybeard moved up the road. The parson was again using the dead man by his platform for his text. |
| 5182 |
Edward quickened his pace. He did not like this man, whose muscular arms glowed blue in the moonlight. |
| 5183 |
Mr. Big sat looking at him, his huge head resting against the back of the tall chair. He said nothing. |
| 5184 |
The attendant was talking with a tall, urbane man dressed in the uniform of an Imperial civil servant. |
| 5185 |
And so Oliver did not see his nemesis until the moment it hurled itself upon him from behind the tree. |
| 5186 |
He got them up and got them dressed. I got them out to the taxi and, in the cold dawn, packed them in. |
| 5187 |
No one said anything for a time. Then Valdemar, yawning, announced that he intended to get some sleep. |
| 5188 |
Poor commuters crowded the bus, those unable to afford a car, the Untouchables of the freeway society. |
| 5189 |
Surprise seeped into her, then fear. She sat up in bed. There was a taste in her mouth like cold iron. |
| 5190 |
Behind him men began shuffling their feet, anxious to end the long siege and enter the hated fortress. |
| 5191 |
The rain was starting to fall as he lifted the last piece of sod in place over his face and shoulders. |
| 5192 |
He walked up to the little creature and simply swatted her on the head. She fell over, and he ate her. |
| 5193 |
When the way was clear, the Acceptor entered, and climbed on spindly legs to its place within the web. |
| 5194 |
The troops were jamming the war carts up against the forward drawbridge, again to increase the impact. |
| 5195 |
Walsh approached the exhibits as though they were the cathedral communion plate and he the archbishop. |
| 5196 |
Once more, a ghostly outline moved across the glow at its head. Meanwhile the will hurled her forward. |
| 5197 |
He did not want to accept her certainty. But before he could speak again, she was holding the pendant. |
| 5198 |
If the temperature dropped and the forecast for snow proved out, both would be open by tomorrow night. |
| 5199 |
Now that she was on a level with the post, she saw that the dome was larger than it looked from above. |
| 5200 |
Stealing a fine horse, he rode from the settlement and out into the clean, sweet air of the mountains. |
| 5201 |
The walls of the room faded to gray, then darkened and began to close in, forming a tunnel around him. |
| 5202 |
A roar of rough mirth greeted these words, and the captain turned purple, thinking he sensed ridicule. |
| 5203 |
It was an ecstatic moment. Success with that silly child's spell was a major triumph over my handicap. |
| 5204 |
He hung up quickly, and wiped his brow. Then he immediately put through another call to the satellite. |
| 5205 |
Though he was painfully aware that this particular nose presently had no notion of where his prey was. |
| 5206 |
I concentrated on the message. Madison was pushing a sandwich at me. I followed it with a second Coke. |
| 5207 |
By some miracle, the first pay phone I found was free. I dropped the change in with trembling fingers. |
| 5208 |
The audience let out a cheer and applauded while the dragons interrupted their hum to bugle a welcome. |
| 5209 |
Antonina sat up. Her full breasts swayed gently, distracting her husband. Seeing his gaze, she smiled. |
| 5210 |
Hardboiled shook the leather sap down out of his sleeve and swatted the palm of a corded hand with it. |
| 5211 |
She reached and keyed through the translator channel, heard Tully's steady input, jabbed it out again. |
| 5212 |
Suddenly, Ryan understood what it was there for, and chalked up another point against the blond bitch. |
| 5213 |
It wasn't even so much that he was horny. Screwing was just something he could really lose himself in. |
| 5214 |
Major Estrada, sitting in the back seat next to him, refilled the general's gun when it was necessary. |
| 5215 |
You could walk into the fireplace of brown chipped stone and there were logs laid ready for the match. |
| 5216 |
But then they were interrupted as crew members took shelter from the rain, and they could say no more. |
| 5217 |
Her wrist was loosely but inescapably grasped by long, tapering fingers, and she was brought up short. |
| 5218 |
Luke was about to comment, but she made a quieting gesture. The attendant had arrived with their food. |
| 5219 |
Some jugglers, to one side, were exhibiting their astonishing talents with colored plates and torches. |
| 5220 |
She hoped they could not read the revulsion in the face she had so carefully schooled to be impassive. |
| 5221 |
Doc Savage was escorted to a neighboring room. This chamber was small, and windowless like the others. |
| 5222 |
As the hours passed, I was exceedingly relieved that I could not physically speak the wretched tongue. |
| 5223 |
I touched my face with one hand. My skin was looser than it should have been. And pebbly to the touch. |
| 5224 |
The monster was lying still with its flippers limp on the sand and its eyes closed. It did not answer. |
| 5225 |
Her eyes lurched into focus on him, flared in horror or rage as if he had threatened her with leprosy. |
| 5226 |
The elementary school had also been hit. The third of the building still standing was a mass of flame. |
| 5227 |
Antonina could not hear those exchanges, but it didn't take her long to understand what was happening. |
| 5228 |
The Doctor stared up at the creature his companion had become, a look of horror washing over his face. |
| 5229 |
There, at the limit of the light, stood a dozen or more short clay forms like the one in front of him. |
| 5230 |
The slender woman leaned back in her chair, crossing her ankles and folding her arms across her chest. |
| 5231 |
He blew his head off. He blew up the trunk. He blew out the undercarriage. He blew the spare tires up. |
| 5232 |
As he said that the door opened and a strong faced businessman poked his head out of the inner office. |
| 5233 |
She found only the faintest hairlines at the corners of her eyes yet they made her discontent extreme. |
| 5234 |
I was amazed that my father had even tried to interfere. It seemed that for once I had misjudged Dyan. |
| 5235 |
Hood spent an hour lying in bed with his kids. After that, he spent two hours making love to his wife. |
| 5236 |
The expression on a man's face when he has just zipped up his trousers without due care and attention. |
| 5237 |
The young officer was pleased by this comment and asked how much money a doctor could make in America. |
| 5238 |
He had quite a lot of questions about this location, but first things first. The questions could wait. |
| 5239 |
The pilot leaped at the gunman, swung a fist from near his heels and knocked the man flat on his back. |
| 5240 |
He made an absent gesture at putting the cigar in his mouth, but missed that cavity fully four inches. |
| 5241 |
He reached the bed and waited for a moment, leaning on the scythe, until he could get his breath back. |
| 5242 |
The woman heard him. She saw him. She looked right into his eyes. But she made no move to let them in. |
| 5243 |
The foliage swayed and the crystals near the top tinkled from the passage of air the creature exhaled. |
| 5244 |
Somehow he got his arms under him and braced his body off the ground, but the effort left him panting. |
| 5245 |
That concluded the session. I had to admit that, given the present situation, what he said made sense. |
| 5246 |
It took me an effort to shift mental gears. I studied the screen for a few moments, gathering my wits. |
| 5247 |
Stooping, he lifted the boy by his underarms, and stood him on his feet. Then he helped Kitty to rise. |
| 5248 |
She looked skeptical until I invited her to listen to them at work. Then she nodded her understanding. |
| 5249 |
But there was no time to be keenly analytical. He had to get things done and get back within the ship. |
| 5250 |
When he was dressed, he signed the releases. His hand was so cold that he could hardly write his name. |
| 5251 |
Devlin. Devlin, concentrating on opening the handcuffs with his free hand, didn't see the blow coming. |
| 5252 |
Bond's gun gave a single muffled grunt. A blue keyhole opened just beneath the peak of the white hair. |
| 5253 |
The kicking and writhing went on. Across the water through the darkness came a sharp scornful whisper. |
| 5254 |
He dropped down until his feet almost touched the red lava. He felt the heat coming through his shoes. |
| 5255 |
The humor had the desired effect as reflexive laughter broke the ice and resounding applause followed. |
| 5256 |
There was a short silence. Then Fatty pursed up his lips, raised his eyebrows, and scratched his head. |
| 5257 |
And if frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their asses every time they took a step, Wiz thought sourly. |
| 5258 |
There was nothing to drink. There was nothing chasing him anymore. There was nothing to do but paddle. |
| 5259 |
She placed her bowl on the floor near me and then went back to the chest where the doll had been kept. |
| 5260 |
Watching them, Marion felt a deep pervading delight, and it was a long time before she moved on again. |
| 5261 |
There was a muffled sound from the direction of his belt, like someone hollering behind a closed door. |
| 5262 |
Monk only grinned amiably. If Ham could not think of a better comeback than that, he must be slipping. |
| 5263 |
The captain's steward was the only ordinary seaman in the ship who did not have to sleep in the tiers. |
| 5264 |
Pitt sat silent, scratching the irritating chest bandage. Might as well nibble at the bait he thought. |
| 5265 |
Colonel Murdock's expression could have turned sweet cream into paint remover, but he remained silent. |
| 5266 |
No matter how many turns and twists the boat ahead of them took, they could follow without difficulty. |
| 5267 |
Halfway down the block, cops in flak jackets have broken open a garage door. Voices crackle on radios. |
| 5268 |
Monk belted the man senseless with a hairy fist to the jaw, let the fellow fall, and leaped after Doc. |
| 5269 |
He threw another one. It splattered crimson across Mort's name and began to drip slowly down the wall. |
| 5270 |
As the world split, wanting to swallow you back willing to give up everything to lose you in darkness. |
| 5271 |
Without a word, Pitt inserted a thin metal shaft under the lid of the box and carefully pried it open. |
| 5272 |
She stole an intimate and meaningful glance at me. Rebecca's clothes. The shiver in me was relentless. |
| 5273 |
Clancy was holding his favorite derringer leveled at him, the bore immense when viewed from the front. |
| 5274 |
But no. He might be shocked. Certainly many members would be, if they found out. Better not chance it. |
| 5275 |
Then while he was still smiling at the thought, comedy changed swiftly and without warning to tragedy. |
| 5276 |
Bending over them, he wiped the blood from the shattered faces, kissed each one on the chill forehead. |
| 5277 |
The boy bowed gracefully to the distinguished guests, but made only a polite murmur of acknowledgment. |
| 5278 |
She shrugged, a pitiful gesture which touched him. How quickly the desert cut away previous attitudes. |
| 5279 |
He did not open it. He did not need to. He knew what was inside. Six words that spelled two lifetimes. |
| 5280 |
With that, he veered through the door of the place we were passing, leaving me to follow along behind. |
| 5281 |
Dirk shifted his weight uneasily, unsure of the correct course of action if he received such an order. |
| 5282 |
And that was it. The phone was dead, and four of the nation's leading labor leaders were going to die. |
| 5283 |
I went to her and seized her by the upper arms and threw her to her feet. She looked at me, frightened. |
| 5284 |
Pete nudged Bob and pointed to a bulky piece of equipment that hung on a tree near the soldiers' tent. |
| 5285 |
Reed nodded. He leaned slightly forward, his fingertips advancing the work sheets in Hawks' direction. |
| 5286 |
He laid the ragged strip of cloth over his shoulder and turned to prepare himself a meal by starlight. |
| 5287 |
I felt like running from the ship, as far as I might. But there seemed to be no sign of life about it. |
| 5288 |
With the daylight, the fire around which the warriors had been dancing, became only a smudge of smoke. |
| 5289 |
I looked at the rat pack. Without breaking their frozen tableau, they pleaded with me with their eyes. |
| 5290 |
I did not answer, but followed, keeping it in sight. That it was meant to be followed I did not doubt. |
| 5291 |
Death. That long descent into darkness. It was an appalling thought for a man who could live for ever. |
| 5292 |
Donations are half what they were only seven years ago. Fewer and fewer men are entering the seminary. |
| 5293 |
The restaurant is made of wood and sits on heavy teak pilings driven into the shore and the river bed. |
| 5294 |
The ramp began to close behind them and the ship shivered into life as engines obeyed the final order. |
| 5295 |
The gates would not be closed. A magic had been done, and once open, the massive portal remained open. |
| 5296 |
Once again, she found she liked his attitude. The region wasn't cold, but it remained a dandy pretext. |
| 5297 |
If I had ambitions, in fact, it was not toward respectability. I kept wanting to write funny material. |
| 5298 |
The word dropped off in midair as they came to the top of a steep wall of rock nine hundred feet high. |
| 5299 |
By high noon, all the new arrivals had been fed a decent meal and had some place to lay their blanket. |
| 5300 |
And suddenly, with the cynicism born of covering countless wars and tragedies, it all fell into place. |
| 5301 |
He drove more rapidly. They could make out a crowd, ambulances, squad cars and many policemen in blue. |
| 5302 |
I looked at the small men. They seemed friendly enough. Yet none of them made any move to help Janice. |
| 5303 |
He decided to finish his inspection. The State might have missed something. It was his ship, his life. |
| 5304 |
In the belly of me, though I would scarcely admit this to myself, I did not object. He was such a man. |
| 5305 |
He continued to concentrate on the first target, pushing his throttles full forward, picking up speed. |
| 5306 |
In the cut given below we see a face that might be duplicated among the old men of any part of Europe. |
| 5307 |
As was her unfortunate tendency, the imperious princess had not been able to resist the royal gesture. |
| 5308 |
That earned him a wan chuckle and, feeling a little better, he turned his attention back to the trail. |
| 5309 |
Leo bowed slightly. He had long black hair and a lock of it fell down over his forehead when he bowed. |
| 5310 |
They'd only be captured and taken to another hole, probably far worse than the one they had just left. |
| 5311 |
William was too exhausted to lie. I wanted to see how much seventy thousand dollars weighed,' he said. |
| 5312 |
That corridor didn't have a glow at the end, that pulled at him like a magnet pulls at an iron filing. |
| 5313 |
Johnny came hobbling back, favoring his injured chest, holding a chart in both bony hands. He pointed. |
| 5314 |
Also the skull was misshapen with a high dome of forehead as if to give room to a man's bulk of brain. |
| 5315 |
I pushed my cart over to the elevator, hit the button and waited. The doors opened and I rolled on in. |
| 5316 |
Pol had never seen the like. He stood stunned and incredulous, unable to think what he had done wrong. |
| 5317 |
It grew distant and hollow as my solid hand began to fade and vanish along with the rest of the world. |
| 5318 |
Weirder things have happened, his brain insisted right before he came to. None of it had been a dream. |
| 5319 |
She stalked back into the house and slammed the door, and only then did Joe slip between the branches. |
| 5320 |
Below us, the water swirled and smashed on the rocks, and the hot steam cascaded upward and around us. |
| 5321 |
His first night of luxury in many years shattered by a doorbell. He would have to get it disconnected. |
| 5322 |
Except that now he was a fugitive and branded upon him was the ultimate crime, the murder of a Squire. |
| 5323 |
Susan took another blank request form and, carefully placing it over her own, she headed for the desk. |
| 5324 |
She felt a momentary pang at the memory. Robert was the only real friend she had left from those days. |
| 5325 |
The speaker hesitated and moved about. Dido hoped he would step out into view, but it was a vain hope. |
| 5326 |
Someone spoke at her shoulder. She ignored the sound, the words. A hand shook her into accepting them. |
| 5327 |
He jammed her knees out. He spread her full. She pulled him in. She squeezed a fit. She shut her eyes. |
| 5328 |
Only then, when the mermaid had begun to feel fully at ease with him, did Cosmo's magical tests begin. |
| 5329 |
Of nearly a dozen men thus held, all but two were giving vent to their suffering, each in his own way. |
| 5330 |
I can't imagine why the Dowager insisted so much on my stealing this insignificant thing, she thought. |
| 5331 |
As I started to fall into the bubbling green stew, the same hands grabbed my waist and pulled me back. |
| 5332 |
Several minutes of dry sneezing ensued, finishing with him draped over the hatch rim, breathing hard. |
| 5333 |
The question was so casually put that the priest found himself momentarily unable to phrase an answer. |
| 5334 |
She met his gaze steadily, and it seemed all the stars concentrated their brilliant light in her eyes. |
| 5335 |
She used instead the staff to tap out a way ahead, hoping that she could avoid any perilous surprises. |
| 5336 |
Unseen hands grabbed me under the armpits and by the ankles, and the journey began to the city limits. |
| 5337 |
And the minister of defense swung open the big jail doors, and three people came out into the roadway. |
| 5338 |
When at last they were right in among the animals, the animals all stopped talking and stared at them. |
| 5339 |
I looked up. The audience was silent. My near accident had caused the assembled masses to gasp as one. |
| 5340 |
Then the bomb detonated. There was a burst of light. The planet split into two halves that flew apart. |
| 5341 |
She was answered by quiet assent and nods of the head. She did not acknowledge it but plowed right on. |
| 5342 |
Three carriages were lined up by the grain exchange, with the drivers standing by the middle carriage. |
| 5343 |
Just as I was in the middle of belting out a really romantic love song, the door to my room flew open. |
| 5344 |
Then suddenly, overborne by the strength of the personality confronting him, Frank Carter surrendered. |
| 5345 |
A trio of rocket grenades slammed in around us, throwing us against the crumbling sides of the crater. |
| 5346 |
Wayne heard gunshots due north. Call it cop familiar. Broke gambler blows town. Broke gambler unwinds. |
| 5347 |
The commander called the order into his mike just as the bogey ship's reply was heard on the speakers. |
| 5348 |
The face was reproachful, and the words seemed to blow away in the sound of the wind beyond the walls. |
| 5349 |
They sat over a small fire, huddled against the chill blowing in through the big gate from the street. |
| 5350 |
They waited. The wind stirred the branches of the pines around them, making a mournful, sighing sound. |
| 5351 |
From the tiny pouch, hung on strings at her belt, she produced the ring. She slipped it on her finger. |
| 5352 |
Officer Simmons shifted his position, and a bead of sweat rolled down his temple. He looked terrified. |
| 5353 |
It seemed a long walk from the lab back to his office. His secretary was in now, and noticed his mood. |
| 5354 |
Overhead, the domed cupola shone with a field of illuminated stars and the seven astronomical planets. |
| 5355 |
She kissed him. She ran down the stairs, happiness surging up in her, happiness and a kind of triumph. |
| 5356 |
And when Shayla's parents got divorced, her father moved out and her mother stayed in their apartment. |
| 5357 |
In that instant of hesitation, the dream became a nightmare. Through the gusting dirt he saw the Rake. |
| 5358 |
Iggy finished his cigarette, flipped the butt on the ground, and carried the lumber into the new wing. |
| 5359 |
I looked at the women, first one and then the other. They appeared to be sleeping. There was no death. |
| 5360 |
The boy fell in beside him. Hendricks strode along. The boy walked silently, clutching his teddy bear. |
| 5361 |
He cried out in wild exhilaration. Bach filled his brain, living triumphantly before him in cold fire. |
| 5362 |
Just then there was a commotion near the door. It opened, and a creature new to the group stood there. |
| 5363 |
The pain of their separation pierced him anew, as sharp as it had been the night she died in his arms. |
| 5364 |
In the dirigible control cabin, Doc found the iron mike intact. He saw the course on which it was set. |
| 5365 |
When Reed finished, Clay was back in uniform. They took a few seconds to get some clothes on the girl. |
| 5366 |
This sound which wafted with such horrible portent through the high tower room was music. Piano music. |
| 5367 |
A cry brought more men running as a wounded seaman was found hiding in a fold of rocks above the road. |
| 5368 |
She had a sweet smile on her face, too, and a calm look that made something serene out of elderliness. |
| 5369 |
Only two miles and they would be through the danger area, over the ridge and into Johannesburg proper. |
| 5370 |
They rounded a corner, and made their way back to the girls, who were now waiting impatiently for them. |
| 5371 |
The man seemed satisfied. He chewed the end of his ballpoint pen, then turned over the sheet of paper. |
| 5372 |
But just as I began to fear that I would betray myself to my mothers in a flood of tears, I was saved. |
| 5373 |
I didn't dare try to enter the cave. Be it man or booby trap, whatever had stopped Emil would stop me. |
| 5374 |
It was so clearly visible because through it streamed light as green as the frozen essence of emerald. |
| 5375 |
There was not much of a side canyon. And there was certainly nothing in it. Nothing unusual, at least. |
| 5376 |
In the flickering yellow light he saw a smile appear on her face, unmistakable this time, unambiguous. |
| 5377 |
The taxi driver did not like that. He and the man seemed to have quarreled before. The driver got out. |
| 5378 |
And we would die. That went without saying. Quite literally, it was knowledge that none of us uttered. |
| 5379 |
Heller looked down at his baseball shoes. They were coated with blood and fragments of bone and flesh. |
| 5380 |
Pure illusion. They would still die here on the shore before daybreak. But at least a moment to think. |
| 5381 |
There was a bright flash of light at their feet while they were still above the surface of the ground. |
| 5382 |
The blond girl stared at Johnny for a moment as though trying to figure out what on earth he had said. |
| 5383 |
Quinn was waiting out in the hall with a uniformed police officer, a checkerboard band around his cap. |
| 5384 |
He turned quickly to see both appraising him, paleness next to paleness, hands on knees as if to bolt. |
| 5385 |
If you can keep your Wits about you enough to tell her what I see, I would not mind doing such a task. |
| 5386 |
The years rolled on like a caterpillar tractor at Dachau, up to the penultimate day of the millennium. |
| 5387 |
They both laughed, pleased with their duet of the nursery song. They must have learned it as children. |
| 5388 |
One by one, the Aesthetics regarded each other in shocked silence, wondering what doom this portended. |
| 5389 |
James paused to catch his breath. The trip had been all of eleven inches and he had come at top speed. |
| 5390 |
Because there was no other sane course, Doc and his aides stepped out when they were ordered to do so. |
| 5391 |
Suddenly the dancer on the sand threw her hands before her face, and screamed. Then she pointed at me. |
| 5392 |
Emma thought for a moment. Well, that was awfully presumptuous of me, to think that he was unattached. |
| 5393 |
The man whom Ham had overcome was also gone. Evidently the dapper lawyer's assailants had rescued him. |
| 5394 |
They were both silent then, lost in the wonder of their discovery. Nicholas broke the silence at last. |
| 5395 |
The interviewer lifted his eyes from his display screen and looked directly at her for the first time. |
| 5396 |
For minutes they all lay panting. They were covered in stickiness and filth and nearly unrecognizable. |
| 5397 |
And Stoner realized that the terror he had felt in his star brother was not merely fear. It was shame. |
| 5398 |
In his free hand, the man was carrying a small case which might have contained a physician's tool kit. |
| 5399 |
Sally Carrol smiled and dried her eyes on the tip of a handkerchief protruding from his breast pocket. |
| 5400 |
Logan leaped out of the hiding place Kristy had shown him. He ran for the boy, but the boy raced away. |
| 5401 |
Right then all it would have taken to make him happy would have been a banana and a beer, and freedom. |
| 5402 |
When he sat by her hip and touched her cheek, she closed her eyes. Within seconds her lashes were wet. |
| 5403 |
Sitting on the narrow bed was the very last man in the world that Evans had expected or wanted to see. |
| 5404 |
She led the woman over to the consultation couch and eased her onto it. She plugged in the microphone. |
| 5405 |
Louis stood up abruptly and crossed to the window. He was looking down into the street as he answered. |
| 5406 |
They'd been snatched from that instant directly to this one, though decades had passed in the interim. |
| 5407 |
In my haste, I was not strictly impartial, searching only for warships of apparently different origin. |
| 5408 |
The raiders pushed on, leaving Mrs. Stone and her child to weep over the scrap of flesh in their yard. |
| 5409 |
Doc Savage ran through them swiftly. He was interested only in those dated during the last six months. |
| 5410 |
Until someone finally came along, with more curiosity than sense, intruding on the tomblike stillness. |
| 5411 |
Leaving the shelves, Mrs. Pierce strode off at a determined pace. Marissa and Wendy hurried after her. |
| 5412 |
The sound from the television in the corner screening a baseball game or something suddenly increased. |
| 5413 |
I followed his outstretched arm and saw the dull reddish star glowing sullenly in the brightening sky. |
| 5414 |
I heard a peal of thunder as I rose to my feet. I began walking. I had to try to keep ahead of things. |
| 5415 |
Roger Brooks drove south, then angled west. For two days there had been cornfields and no sign of war. |
| 5416 |
The wizard smiled at him, drawing his eyes to hers, then pointedly slipped her hands into her pockets. |
| 5417 |
He pushed the wheel forward. The altimeter needle began to move more swiftly beneath its glass circle. |
| 5418 |
Kinsman made a circle of thumb and forefinger. At least I can do that without servos, he told himself. |
| 5419 |
I nodded as I slipped out of the pack straps. My father laid the pack carefully next to the low table. |
| 5420 |
She sat down under a tree, muttering something. He hesitated, for she looked powerless and vulnerable. |
| 5421 |
So it was. The water rose higher and swept over the floor. It began to make a noise. Tom felt alarmed. |
| 5422 |
This sound attracted the attention of the creature again. It had alighted a few yards before the pole. |
| 5423 |
As Susan saw it, the world offered two choices. She could go back to bed, or she could follow the rat. |
| 5424 |
The king demanded that the count show more respect for blacksmiths and should henceforth act like one. |
| 5425 |
Wiz picked his way up the edge of the street carefully. The last thing he needed now was a broken leg. |
| 5426 |
He picked up five small plastic squares and laid them on the board that lay just in front of the rack. |
| 5427 |
She rose and walked slowly around the chair to settle her messenger into a nest of clean silken cloth. |
| 5428 |
That was it. He walked to a nearby boulder and put his hand on the top, pressing down. The stone sank. |
| 5429 |
A good team could be used almost like your own extensions. But it was more trouble than it was of use. |
| 5430 |
His eyes bulged half out of his head and for a few moments she expected steam to billow from his ears. |
| 5431 |
Sturm gasped. His hand loosened its grip on Eben as the knight stared, amazed at the sight before him. |
| 5432 |
Will put the small golden strip into the case and fitted the cap on tightly. Then he handed it to her. |
| 5433 |
The thing was, the computer had been taken over by an alien presence. At least that was how it seemed. |
| 5434 |
The bony, scholarly Johnny was dancing up and down. He was looking through a pair of the huge goggles. |
| 5435 |
Their eyes met and they exchanged smiles, Dan moving a little closer. They stood there, both hesitant. |
| 5436 |
The captain looked round at the lieutenants, fear and triumph strangely alternating in his expression. |
| 5437 |
Someday no doubt they would get together and discuss the future of man. But it scarcely seemed urgent. |
| 5438 |
After a few minutes of listening, even Ernie had to admit that it looked as if it might actually work. |
| 5439 |
It stood there, raging at us, the noise of it filling all that world of sand and bouncing off the sky. |
| 5440 |
His hands slowed. Wherever you go, whatever you do, my heart walks in silence until you touch my hand. |
| 5441 |
I honor you because you have lived a life that places the good of your people above your own ambition. |
| 5442 |
Alfred nodded, to show he understood. His face could have been used as a mask in a play called Terror. |
| 5443 |
She took the child with her now when she went into the village, or any distance at all from the house. |
| 5444 |
She laid the spoon in the saucer with a clink that echoed around the hall, and gave the Count a smile. |
| 5445 |
With these words he collapsed, muttering inaudibly to himself. Dr. Forester intervened at that moment. |
| 5446 |
They did not search steadily, but kept a sharp lookout through the windows. They saw nothing alarming. |
| 5447 |
He walked about me, as a man walks about a woman. I had the feeling he saw me naked beneath the robes. |
| 5448 |
The girl watched them wordlessly, and with interest. She did not understand just what they were doing. |
| 5449 |
That made him feel a little more comfortable, but not much. He summoned a trike to take the specimens. |
| 5450 |
To my eyes the stone was solid, as solid as it had ever been. But my hand had sunk in up to the wrist. |
| 5451 |
I saw that the screws holding the lighter grille in place had been removed. That is why it lifted out. |
| 5452 |
They heard the sound of hooves outside, and Albert pushed the door open and came in rubbing his hands. |
| 5453 |
He bent to look carefully at it, reached for it. Jan stopped breathing. Then the man dropped his hand. |
| 5454 |
Already a fellow was loosening one of the shackles. In a moment my hands were manacled before my body. |
| 5455 |
All of these announcements, as you can well imagine, filled Trot and her companions with astonishment. |
| 5456 |
Sara and I laughed. George didn't glance up. He was curled up, napping on the carpet beside the couch. |
| 5457 |
The Princess shivered, but with more than just the chill of the passage through which they walked now. |
| 5458 |
Nikki was straining against her seat belt, excitedly leaning forward to peer out the front windshield. |
| 5459 |
They came to what Colene thought of as the living room. There on the table was a small pile of papers. |
| 5460 |
Those books the Earthlings printed. They have secrets of metallurgy. We must share, or be left behind. |
| 5461 |
Doc was coiling the cord about the grapple, which was collapsible, and stowing it within his clothing. |
| 5462 |
Stoner almost laughed aloud. He looked up at the Hungarian president, though, and immediately sobered. |
| 5463 |
I could walk, barely. I could keep walking because he kept prodding the small of my back with the gun. |
| 5464 |
He wiped die blade on die dead man's robe and then walked shakily to die opposite side of die chamber. |
| 5465 |
He hurried back to get the two peddlers who had been following him. They should be asleep on the walk. |
| 5466 |
The void of shrieking wind swallowed Doc's bronze form. He glided to the right. His speed was amazing. |
| 5467 |
Things were no better on the third floor. Henry's door was wide open. I had never seen it open before. |
| 5468 |
So did her mother with your mother, he added silently, and then she had a word with me. Lots of words. |
| 5469 |
The prisoner looked dully at them. He was a small man with graying hair, very old by nomad definition. |
| 5470 |
Destiny was barely aware of his knees pushing hers further apart, of his thighs settling between hers. |
| 5471 |
They entered, feeling their way down a passage which was very dark and full of plaster and rat smells. |
| 5472 |
There were many strange names in her story, and a melody that was sadder than anything I'd ever heard. |
| 5473 |
The other three stared at him and at each other, and shrugged. So much for the need for companionship. |
| 5474 |
Now that youth stirred in his saddle, and his hand jerked a little in the direction of his sword hilt. |
| 5475 |
Roger grabbed the arms of the command chair as another concussion rocked the shuttle like a high wind. |
| 5476 |
A touch on his shoulder roused him. His flying jacket had fallen from his shoulder and he felt chilly. |
| 5477 |
Time passed. The tide turned. The sailors prepared to cast off. And still there was no sign of Morley. |
| 5478 |
There were no waves. Instead, the expanse seemed to bend with the swell, not unlike a flexible mirror. |
| 5479 |
Once discovered, of course, the techniques for agriculture spread out slowly from the original center. |
| 5480 |
Rose relaxed a bit as he retreated, acknowledging his departure with nothing more than a vigorous nod. |
| 5481 |
Janus had promised. Janus had assured him someone on the inside would make the necessary arrangements. |
| 5482 |
Down in his office, Derek lifted a snifter of brandy to his lips and took a deep swallow, then paused. |
| 5483 |
Two mortals carried the torches for them, and they appeared to be simple and expensive Persian slaves. |
| 5484 |
I nodded as though all this were quite intelligible to me, and as though I weren't experiencing agony. |
| 5485 |
Two burly figures emerged from the Needle. They were grinning and punching each other on the shoulder. |
| 5486 |
A car motor burst into life, headlights blazed white and the machine went bouncing up the rutted road. |
| 5487 |
Its voice sounded hurt, but not in physical pain, as if its feelings had been hurt more than its body. |
| 5488 |
This time, though, my father looked at my mother. She looked back at him. Then they both looked at me. |
| 5489 |
Pain sliced at my hand, blood slicked my palm. I could not hang on for long. A shadow loomed above me. |
| 5490 |
I was very pleased with the way Lola had handled the meal. All was simple, tasteful and unpretentious. |
| 5491 |
They said no words over the assassins, but the River boiled as hard for them as it had for honest men. |
| 5492 |
After a while though, Bruce just couldn't resist making a few digs of his own, he had nothing to lose. |
| 5493 |
He rose to his feet and began to walk back along the jetty, the reporter following a few paces behind. |
| 5494 |
A pair of wooden caskets rested beside two freshly dug graves. She wondered who had built the coffins. |
| 5495 |
As one, the three paused for a last look at their defenders and then moved quickly inside the shelter. |
| 5496 |
Her voice carried to the bronze man. The cabin of this plane, like the modern ships, was soundproofed. |
| 5497 |
But when she pushed open the rear door of the auditorium, she found the auditorium anything but quiet. |
| 5498 |
The first time she saw a Doc standing motionless before her she yelped out loud. She couldn't help it. |
| 5499 |
But America had become such a jungle that it was just not safe to enter it without protection anymore. |
| 5500 |
Victor pulled out the book to cover his embarrassment. Chanting and lighting fires. Three times a day. |
| 5501 |
The bugs were everywhere. Crawling on the walls. Flying through the air. Buzzing. Whistling. Clicking. |
| 5502 |
But he realized that the situation was far more serious than he had believed it to be a few hours ago. |
| 5503 |
The Mongol was desperate. He slashed his sword at the cop and the cop shot him, killing him instantly. |
| 5504 |
The expression on the other mother's face did not change. She might not have heard what Coraline said. |
| 5505 |
The monkey however continued to stare at the snake boldly and curiously. It did not seem to be afraid. |
| 5506 |
Marissa unlocked the door and opened it. She barely had it open before the person waiting barreled in. |
| 5507 |
The band was confused. Some kids continued to play, others had stopped, several had lost their places. |
| 5508 |
Maybe it would be the tennis rackets themselves. Maybe only refugees playing with graphite get asylum. |
| 5509 |
Carefully the two girls lowered the mast into the holder. The sail immediately started to flap wildly. |
| 5510 |
The real reason for the police surveillance of the place was made evident through a gesture by chance. |
| 5511 |
I sensed a tender brooding sensuality in her, a sensuality which she herself did not trust or nurture. |
| 5512 |
Even with his perceptions enhanced by Mother, there were limits to what his organic brain could grasp. |
| 5513 |
Areas of the body that had been covered by clothing were in much better shape than the head and hands. |
| 5514 |
So intense was her concentration, so quiet the still forest, that sudden words were like thunderclaps. |
| 5515 |
Mike put the limp cat in his lap, He massaged her rib cage with his thumbs, his face tight with worry. |
| 5516 |
The cart is moving again, into the shade of the ornate black gates. They swing open and a man appears. |
| 5517 |
He kissed her harshly even as her fingers found the buckle at his waist. But she pulled her head back. |
| 5518 |
But they were young and their love could not wait. So they married, despite their parents' misgivings. |
| 5519 |
The tree was artificial, but never mind that. Offices have safety regulations, many of them justified. |
| 5520 |
He felt a hand take his. Colene, offering comfort. As she had when they had first met, in her reality. |
| 5521 |
The sight of him suspended there in his manacles filled her with such triumph that she nearly shouted. |
| 5522 |
As the smell of burning flesh and hair filled the room, other goblins sprang forward, howling in rage. |
| 5523 |
Granny heard it scream and collapse noisily, by the sound of things taking a couple of others with it. |
| 5524 |
Shouting the most violent curses, Liane wiped his eyes free, but the door to the hut had slammed shut. |
| 5525 |
I tried frantically to scramble up from the mud. But I slipped again and tumbled forward with a splat. |
| 5526 |
No commands had been spoken. They were functioning like a deadly machine, following a deliberate plan. |
| 5527 |
It was the last gasp of hope within him, for certainly nothing he ever saw looked less like that city. |
| 5528 |
Blade, in that instant, did not care for consequences. He was not going to allow this thing to happen. |
| 5529 |
It's children all right, said the first man. He spoke to the three, and his voice was rough and harsh. |
| 5530 |
For long minutes he stood motionless, taking in once again the milky luminescence of the Sun's corona. |
| 5531 |
The stars were no longer sharp points above as the copter set down under Thorvald's practiced control. |
| 5532 |
She shivered as she stepped out of the theater and felt a brush of preternatural power sweep over her. |
| 5533 |
The farmer laughed again, clapped Silk on the shoulder and then showed him where to put up the horses. |
| 5534 |
Buddy whirled his arm like a discus thrower and a chord sprang away and into the ears of the audience. |
| 5535 |
Ought to take a bath, she thought. Thinking that, she plopped on a low couch and was instantly asleep. |
| 5536 |
It was true. I could hear a child crying. I now could place that the sound came from the second barge. |
| 5537 |
There was no need to state the obvious. He had seen death in Habib's eyes before the man hit the sand. |
| 5538 |
The horsemen went past their hiding place. A few moments later, they heard the horses enter the woods. |
| 5539 |
The corpse from the closet sucked up the liquor and partly digested meat it found in Justin's stomach. |
| 5540 |
It had not been there long, as evidenced by the fact that the wrapper had not decomposed in the water. |
| 5541 |
Most of them were liable to exaggerate their own experiences connected with their different interests. |
| 5542 |
I started pedaling along the street, steering with one hand, keeping the other hand on top of the box. |
| 5543 |
Then he caught from the tail of his eye a chain of dark figures crossing the open hillside below them. |
| 5544 |
There was a brief silence, that seemed to get up, stretch its legs and then wander off into the night. |
| 5545 |
The next thing that happened may possibly be the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to me. |
| 5546 |
Before his parents could stop him, David did as he was told. He braced himself and pulled the trigger. |
| 5547 |
There was only one spot of comparative levelness, and that was no greater than an acre or two in area. |
| 5548 |
Doc Savage led the way into the room where the gnarled, shapeless figure lay on the floor and pointed. |
| 5549 |
The guard at the gate had been changed. The new man nodded to Garv and asked how the fishing had gone. |
| 5550 |
He was still struggling to look away when the other sagged into a sitting position and quit breathing. |
| 5551 |
She uncorked a wine bottle, poured two glasses and brought them over. Then she began serving the meal. |
| 5552 |
Then a column of smoke rolled upward, black and heavy, and the wind brought the smell of burning wood. |
| 5553 |
They will undoubtedly kill you, no matter how good you are, or how inept their swordsmanship might be. |
| 5554 |
At that, I saw Martha's beautiful smile once again. It warmed me as much as any room full of applause. |
| 5555 |
He closed his eyes and tried to fall back asleep. It was no use. The dream was emblazoned in his mind. |
| 5556 |
The incision was enlarged, its edges pulled apart, and the bowel lifted higher in the operative field. |
| 5557 |
She opened her eyes, afraid of what she would see. He was standing beside the bed, gazing down at her. |
| 5558 |
I caught hold of my former adversary and raised him into the most comfortable position I could manage. |
| 5559 |
With my prepared speech done, and nothing left to say, I stopped talking and waited for the explosion. |
| 5560 |
Doc Savage started to order a stop, but held the words back, realizing they would betray his presence. |
| 5561 |
Very slowly she pivoted where she still knelt, giving each section she could see a questioning survey. |
| 5562 |
I wanted him to follow me. But I wouldn't so much as turn my head to see whether or not he was coming. |
| 5563 |
Yearbook photographers converged on the pack. Tyler, who was in charge of candids, closed in on Janie. |
| 5564 |
I tried the com of the hopper. It was open and working, answering with the thrum of a waiting channel. |
| 5565 |
He stared at her in surprise. His smile disappeared, and his seamed face suddenly lost all expression. |
| 5566 |
Monk fell suddenly silent. He had thought of something. A new look of concern overspread his features. |
| 5567 |
The crackling and popping was left behind. Whatever made it did not seem capable of traveling swiftly. |
| 5568 |
The other power mongers gathered there nodded, sharing the sly smile, their eyes alight with ambition. |
| 5569 |
Again the hairs on the back of Sue's neck rose and her scalp crawled as she began to feel quite faint. |
| 5570 |
That voice was quickly replaced by another, and a screen image of a stocky man in a captain's uniform. |
| 5571 |
Five minutes later, the man came out, stood and beckoned for a taxicab. One drew up and he stepped in. |
| 5572 |
Theodora soaked the hem of her imperial robes with wine. Gently, she began washing Justinian's wounds. |
| 5573 |
Staff mugs were hung on a peg board next to the coffee machine, and I looked for mine with no success. |
| 5574 |
But several minutes passed, and no Ham. Monk crawled forward. The young woman kept close at his heels. |
| 5575 |
The breath the word came upon seemed to flutter in the threads. The face grew long, the mouth tearing. |
| 5576 |
In the evening he read aloud his verses to me. He sang to me, softly accompanying himself on the lute. |
| 5577 |
At the moment, however, her remembrance trick was drawing a major blank. So she measured her options. |
| 5578 |
The stars were bright in the sky and the moon shone full. 'I trust you slept well, lord,' said the man. |
| 5579 |
The big policeman with whom Doc had changed clothes was still present. Doc gave him back his garments. |
| 5580 |
They looked set for a prolonged wrangle, and Bernice decided it was time to ask the obvious questions. |
| 5581 |
Finally they emerged at the edge of an open space, wide enough to admit the sunlight. The boy stopped. |
| 5582 |
That caught her. Once more her eyes met his, flinched from the strength that was there, then steadied. |
| 5583 |
He had thanked them for their counsel and agreed to meet in five days' time to answer their proposals. |
| 5584 |
He held Covenant's gaze for a moment as if to enforce his words. Then he went and knocked at the door. |
| 5585 |
The darkness had receded to the east. As they got to their feet, it dwindled to a point and dissolved. |
| 5586 |
If necessary, the bronze man could even sway the minds of men of almost equal intelligence to himself. |
| 5587 |
She looked up. It was a man in a Tyrolean hat, turned partway around in his saddle and smiling at her. |
| 5588 |
The Doctor sat suddenly, and rested his chin upon the crook of his umbrella, a grim smile on his face. |
| 5589 |
Not north, where his unreasoning heart wanted to start for. But someplace where he knew he could hide. |
| 5590 |
Once above the planet Wanderer, the incomprehensible structure of an even more incomprehensible being. |
| 5591 |
May it be looked upon as a few hours of entertainment and, perhaps, even a historic artifact of sorts. |
| 5592 |
And Bond bent down and put an arm round her thighs and picked her up and laid her gently on the floor. |
| 5593 |
Wanda dug into a straw handbag that looked as if it had been recycled from a Mexican family's sandals. |
| 5594 |
The boys exchanged tense glances. It was hard for them to bring themselves to admit what had happened. |
| 5595 |
He made his way past the stacked cases of rifles to the door of a secluded office and knocked upon it. |
| 5596 |
This simple solution seemed to pacify Norris somewhat. He turned his gaze on the burgeoning landscape. |
| 5597 |
You made yourself the pinch in the hourglass, the fulcrum on the balance, the roll around the sausage. |
| 5598 |
Inna came to deliver Rachel. The baby's feet were down and there was bleeding long before he appeared. |
| 5599 |
She glared at him for an instant, then turned on her heel and strode away toward the waiting Coursers. |
| 5600 |
After a bit, he got one of the newspapers and began to read, looking up from time to time at the gate. |
| 5601 |
He raised his hand and two of the men fell over. He raised his other hand and the other two fell over. |
| 5602 |
A hand shot up. It belonged to the correspondent of a stuffy scientific magazine, Future Technologies. |
| 5603 |
Without their own recollections, it would be extremely hard to explain convincingly what had happened. |
| 5604 |
In a minute, because of Gaby's damned insistence that she come along, he might have to shoot somebody. |
| 5605 |
No wonder Charley left me a thousand dollars for psychoanalysis. I was really on the verge of the pit. |
| 5606 |
He went back to where Saul waited in the darkness, and together they lay and watched the dawn come on. |
| 5607 |
This morning in her backyard, I had told Anne I was going to take the egg creature to the science lab. |
| 5608 |
He then looked me over possessively, and slowly and with pleasure. He began to rub his hands together. |
| 5609 |
He thought of the bodies he had seen this morning and this afternoon, those hideously ravaged corpses. |
| 5610 |
She would acknowledge its recognition explicitly. Such things are good for the discipline of a female. |
| 5611 |
She opened her eyes. His face was inches from hers, blue eyes filled with mischief, warmth and desire. |
| 5612 |
Tombstone's hand was no longer shaking. He flexed it a couple of times, then grasped the stick firmly. |
| 5613 |
First, you will find yourself engaged in an educational process that is both intriguing and priceless. |
| 5614 |
At the first turning there was a footstep behind them, and a light hand came down on Biron's shoulder. |
| 5615 |
The inspector looked at her blankly. As if he thought she was asking him to explain the facts of life. |
| 5616 |
Then I dived for the pile of baggage in the back of the big cabin. I anxiously pawed through my boxes. |
| 5617 |
Irene lifted a foot and stomped on it warningly, and it shut up. She knew how to handle the inanimate. |
| 5618 |
In the distance I heard the sharp blat of the horn Sounding the alarm. Our escape had been discovered. |
| 5619 |
He started to lift one of the boxes and then stopped to give me an awful look. I gestured impatiently. |
| 5620 |
Her eyes shut, Kathy felt the hands brush her shoulder and armpits and backside. The hands were brisk. |
| 5621 |
Galloway didn't quite follow the allusions, but he got the general drift, and respected the viewpoint. |
| 5622 |
A Fore zombie had crawled up to the window. It leered at them, pounding with the flat of an ashy hand. |
| 5623 |
Then there was a crash. The light went out. Doc had hurled the machine gun at it, had burst the globe. |
| 5624 |
Dr. Livingstone was in the Negro's lap. Joe got slowly to his feet, still holding it. He seemed dazed. |
| 5625 |
The thought that the men might soon return even angrier than they had been before was most unpleasant. |
| 5626 |
The dapper lawyer squirmed around, managed to inch his way up until he could see out the plane window. |
| 5627 |
She didn't quite see what he felt the need to apologize for, so concealed her bewilderment in a shrug. |
| 5628 |
The sword drew blood. The dragon screamed. The spear held poised far on eternity. The sun stood still. |
| 5629 |
Sara's name pours from his throat with involuntary clarity. His body finally acts, leaping in pursuit. |
| 5630 |
He set the circle on the ground and reached out for the square. But he did so with visible reluctance. |
| 5631 |
The presence of this garage was known but to few persons outside Doc's immediate circle of five aides. |
| 5632 |
Three times outright, once after eleven hours extra time, and twice when the other finalists ran away. |
| 5633 |
Pym returned him a fixed smile over eyes blazing with fury. Aunt Alys remained rather frozen in place. |
| 5634 |
The cell occupant aroused, took one look at his visitor and acted as if confronted by a genuine witch. |
| 5635 |
Also, he had a house in the city itself, where he stayed when there was much business for the Council. |
| 5636 |
I shook my head and laughed. The thought of my cavorting in this place brought me images out of Swift. |
| 5637 |
Her heart picked up the beat of fear, her breath came faster in shallow gasps. She could not remember. |
| 5638 |
He yanked the covers over his ears so violently that he pulled the blankets off one of his naked legs. |
| 5639 |
After the main course was demolished and plates thrown in plastic refuse cans desserts were assaulted. |
| 5640 |
It was about an hour's walk down, and appeared to be the only one, at least as far as they could tell. |
| 5641 |
Rain drenched him suddenly. As far as Wood could tell, the rain and lightning were completely natural. |
| 5642 |
She bent back and looked at me with an astonished expression on her face. She snapped her fingernails. |
| 5643 |
Slowly I climbed to my feet. There were cuts from the broken glass on my hands. I was physically sick. |
| 5644 |
The stuff was hooked to an electrical detonator which would have been set off had Doc opened the door. |
| 5645 |
They all laughed and went inside, where it was cool amid the softening shadows of the Texas afternoon. |
| 5646 |
She had thought that saying it out loud might make her feel better, but somehow it didn't help at all. |
| 5647 |
Petra looked at him oddly. He raised an eyebrow, hoping she'd realize that this was not about tobacco. |
| 5648 |
I threw the cold water over the girl who, shuddering and sputtering, pulled back in the branding rack. |
| 5649 |
I shrugged and picked it up. There was no point trying to hide. She had found us, and that was enough. |
| 5650 |
And me. Orion. The Hunter. I see all my pasts and futures. At last I know who I am, and what, and why. |
| 5651 |
Both trotted to the doorway, then slowed as they went into the hall and looked up and down its length. |
| 5652 |
Up and up we climbed, passing one sumptuous house after another. Locked gates. The bark of guard dogs. |
| 5653 |
I drew out the veil, not looking myself, and held it up as if I were Veronica showing it to the crowd. |
| 5654 |
Before he could secure his grip, she swung her leg with all her strength and kicked him in the crotch. |
| 5655 |
He got onto his hands and knees and crawled to the little door. He pushed on it, and it swung outward. |
| 5656 |
Coolness on his eyes, soothing their burning. He drew a breath that was a little broken sigh, relaxed. |
| 5657 |
Viki was not buying. She backed up behind the bed and sat down, crossing her legs to bring her hem up. |
| 5658 |
Vatican. He found himself wondering who on the inside had betrayed the church and coughed up the keys. |
| 5659 |
Gabriel stood up. He loomed over Lilith, glaring down. The camp had gone quiet, everyone watching him. |
| 5660 |
But the pain scorching his hand was insignificant. His only thought was to put an end to Sara's agony. |
| 5661 |
Seaworthy rolled the piece of rug, tucked the bundle under his arm, then squinted at the diamond girl. |
| 5662 |
And with that he turned, his face still shadowed and hidden from me, and passed around me and went on. |
| 5663 |
Besides, she had run out of any kind of wherewithal whatever and didn't have anyplace to stay tonight. |
| 5664 |
The dog, though seemingly unhappy about leaving him behind, did as it was told. It sped for the woods. |
| 5665 |
When they finished their conference, they awakened the others and departed. Honey Hamilton could walk. |
| 5666 |
Somewhere in the distance, there was a soft thump as a bundle of sandbags landed gently on the boards. |
| 5667 |
Not only was her visage faintly foul, but that odor we had sniffed from the beach arose about us here. |
| 5668 |
Rachel began to hope. She showed her swelling belly to her sisters, who danced in a circle around her. |
| 5669 |
For a moment I was swayed. It was possible that it could do just what it had offered, if I would help. |
| 5670 |
He eyed the address of the hotel, then tucked the paper in his tunic pocket. He pedaled on his errand. |
| 5671 |
Sometimes he was pleasant, sometimes so agitated you felt he was going to fly apart in screaming bits. |
| 5672 |
She shrugged, as if she couldn't remember, though she remembered very well. A week before the wedding. |
| 5673 |
He turned. The shadow was still by his sides but when he looked at it directly it seemed to disappear. |
| 5674 |
I felt her mind seep into me, taking up my unused spaces, and then seal itself around me like a shell. |
| 5675 |
And she felt a rumbling from the back of the thing carrying her. It sounded like deep, quiet laughter. |
| 5676 |
Nobody else was in the apartment. Guy had gone to meet Allan and have some contracts explained to him. |
| 5677 |
I knew it was me, when a dozen lights flashed on in the little houses along the rim of the dark canal. |
| 5678 |
The Investigators beamed. Ian smiled along with them, safe now, and no longer the frightened fugitive. |
| 5679 |
In the meanwhile, Miles staggered over and curled up on the couch after all. He was asleep in minutes. |
| 5680 |
I was immediately attentive. To this point the tall, angular, dour Scribe had given us no information. |
| 5681 |
The admiral took the envelope and examined the contents. When he looked up, tears brimmed in his eyes. |
| 5682 |
To make sure they fled in the right direction, Doc glided over and kicked the glass out of the window. |
| 5683 |
Robert thought for a moment. The idea had some merit. It would give him and Marissa time to cool down. |
| 5684 |
He led her off the dance floor, found her a quiet place to sit down, brought her a glass of champagne. |
| 5685 |
Beau switched off the monitor but made certain the light on the hard drive kept up its rapid blinking. |
| 5686 |
Doc dropped his bundle of guns. It thumped down and landed beside a bobby, who sprang wildly backward. |
| 5687 |
When the job was done, they had several speedy craft, capable of carrying from one to a dozen persons. |
| 5688 |
Monk was disgusted. Ham's interest in clothes was giving him something in common with the young woman. |
| 5689 |
Addison Doug exhaled raggedly. You nowhere autocratic mother, he thought. You probably knew all along. |
| 5690 |
He sailed straight through them, and landed sprawled on his hands and knees on the other side of them. |
| 5691 |
She looked up at me and I knew exactly what she meant and she knew that I knew exactly what she meant. |
| 5692 |
Another silence between them, both readying. Then Casey nodded a polite good night and began to leave. |
| 5693 |
Ferris nodded carefully, amazed and grateful that the duke seemed to be willing to listen to his side. |
| 5694 |
Outside a confused clatter, followed by soft pops as of something wet being dropped into a deep fryer. |
| 5695 |
He gulped another tablet from his new supply, knowing that it would have less than the desired effect. |
| 5696 |
Steam fountained where the water struck, and Justen turned the water into ice, and then back to water. |
| 5697 |
She pushed past me and started down the passageway to the observation blister, the camera in her hand. |
| 5698 |
Again, that would have been too swift and merciful. I had something considerably more hideous in mind. |
| 5699 |
Her face lightened with instant gratitude at this release. Therefore, I must have been pressuring her. |
| 5700 |
The corridor was a mass of fighting men. But none could see whom he was fighting. None dared use guns. |
| 5701 |
The doctor told her she ought to go home. Several new nurses had just come on duty. She ought to rest. |
| 5702 |
Several flat leaves, fragments of chewing tobacco, came to light. The tobacco was very black in color. |
| 5703 |
Despite the tranquilizer the medics had given him, Doug was quivering like a knife thrown into a wall. |
| 5704 |
The thimbles were so cleverly constructed that only a close examination would disclose their presence. |
| 5705 |
For a moment she did not understand, when she did her bruised pride strengthened her to meet his eyes. |
| 5706 |
He stood drumming his fingers impatiently on the back of a chair, and the others watched breathlessly. |
| 5707 |
West was smoking a Carlton. She'd sort of quit months ago, but at times like this she needed a friend. |
| 5708 |
Doc's fabulous strength served him to good advantage as he worked through the maze. He made good time. |
| 5709 |
Slowly he pulled away from her, straightening. Blood coated her hands and arms where she had held him. |
| 5710 |
Lewis shook his head. There was a pain at his temples, which might go if he could only close his eyes. |
| 5711 |
But they were no better than sheep, and never had been. He should have expected nothing different now. |
| 5712 |
Dolph became an armored dragon. Smoke puffed out as he breathed, signaling a formidable internal fire. |
| 5713 |
She turned then and leaped upon me, clinging with all four paws to my neck. Her claws were very sharp. |
| 5714 |
It gushed like a spouting geyser from its source in the fire, rolling out in a wave in all directions. |
| 5715 |
I then left the men and they, behind me, set themselves to replace the grille in the ventilator shaft. |
| 5716 |
A rather square, stupid face was revealed. The eyes were ugly, the mouth twisted in a perpetual sneer. |
| 5717 |
Outside his tent stood three men bearing rams' horns, waiting for his signal. And the sands flowed on. |
| 5718 |
He stepped out of the men's room, just as the digital clicker of his watch registered the full minute. |
| 5719 |
They all trembled with excitement, knowing that he would soon hear their voices as they now heard his. |
| 5720 |
But they would never march again. They had been crippled forever, had been left with shattered bodies. |
| 5721 |
There had been an insignia painted on the flyer's side but those markings had no meaning for the girl. |
| 5722 |
Lying where it did, it should logically have been about the most completely lost thing upon the earth. |
| 5723 |
Lawn sat and frowned at the desk top. He chewed his lower lip. He whistled for a moment, then stopped. |
| 5724 |
Johnny, the bony geologist, was still trying to figure how a quake could occur in quake proof country. |
| 5725 |
The pier is short, and they arrive by the unguarded gangway as the mercenary steps back onto the pier. |
| 5726 |
She took the handkerchief and then only looked at it, as if she had never seen one before in her life. |
| 5727 |
The words rang in her head, not her ears. Nor could she tell which of the creatures had addressed her. |
| 5728 |
Bush was approaching now, paper in hand, having agreed his figures regarding the recruits with Gerard. |
| 5729 |
And Fisher left, fully realizing that he had been sent out on his most crucial fishing expedition yet. |
| 5730 |
His shoulders gave a quick little jerk, as if he was cold Otherwise he didn't move or change position. |
| 5731 |
He turned toward the drinking fountain. The cold water tasted like expensive wine. Then he saw Church. |
| 5732 |
We are in a time of great change, when old Houses will fall and be forgotten and new ones shall arise. |
| 5733 |
It had doubtless been its plan to lure me to the north. I smiled. Surely its plan had been successful. |
| 5734 |
As the soldiers rode up to the thicket, the officer dismounted and led his horse to the pond to drink. |
| 5735 |
My master extended to me his metal tankard. Gratefully I filled it again with the steaming black wine. |
| 5736 |
Ross rolled his eyes at Ray and popped back into his room for his essay, then trotted down the stairs. |
| 5737 |
It is sated, Hermine thought. Not hungry. It will not bite unless disturbed. Stand still, let it pass. |
| 5738 |
It dawned on Albert as the pause lengthened that it was up to him to get the conversation going again. |
| 5739 |
Thereupon he lapsed into a gloomy and dignified silence, which was broken only when it was lunch time. |
| 5740 |
A sudden silence hit the Earth. If anything it was worse than the noise. For a while nothing happened. |
| 5741 |
He ran his eyes up and down and back and forth across my entire person, as if searching for something. |
| 5742 |
The gaunt phantom in skin garments whipped back from view, the tall coonskin cap being last to vanish. |
| 5743 |
Reeve's neck bent with difficulty, as if he had a brace on it, and he saw that he had made no entries. |
| 5744 |
Colors, sounds, movements filtered through the crystal wire. He clamped the controls off and stood up. |
| 5745 |
It wasn't her state of undress that had done that, for the boys had not so much as glanced at the bed. |
| 5746 |
Bending over the warder, he stripped off its garment, and used the leather to cover his own nakedness. |
| 5747 |
The doctor let a little time elapse before replying, as if choosing his words for an effective answer. |
| 5748 |
She cried out in pain, jerking in the bracelets. She had been kicked, as might have been a mere slave. |
| 5749 |
His fit ended almost as soon as we were out in daylight, but it took him a moment to catch his breath. |
| 5750 |
He woke with a start as the door burst open and Barrett entered the room, his face flushed with anger. |
| 5751 |
My back and legs were covered with welts from the rope lashings I had been given. My thighs were sore. |
| 5752 |
But a new thought struck him and suddenly he smiled up at the ceiling, alone in his curtained cubicle. |
| 5753 |
He went out of the room and up the stairs. Shrugging, Barney headed for the kitchen to fetch his cake. |
| 5754 |
It was on a summer afternoon in the middle of the twenty thousandth year that the city ceased waiting. |
| 5755 |
She slid her legs from under her and lay on her back, her hands at her sides, palms up, her legs open. |
| 5756 |
The sneer on Florian's face was very clear to see. He sketched a bow that nearly cost him his balance. |
| 5757 |
Bruce picked up one of the baby's clean nappies from the pile beside the bed and wiped the tears away. |
| 5758 |
He lifted one foreleg high over his head and touched something high in the wall which I could not see. |
| 5759 |
Doc and his aids had climbed down from the stage again and were preparing to shove off in the rowboat. |
| 5760 |
She had interrupted him. Reeve stopped his story and drove on, looking straight ahead, his body stiff. |
| 5761 |
Lady Sedgwick passed behind the desk, tapped on the door and went in without waiting for any response. |
| 5762 |
At the same time, and through no fault of her own, it was what doomed her parents and younger brother. |
| 5763 |
Slowly consciousness slipped away from him, and he felt himself falling into a deep but natural sleep. |
| 5764 |
He helped her into the boat, enjoying the unsteady moment when she lost her balance and leaned on him. |
| 5765 |
The bed was too soft, she was alone in it, and neither the sounds nor smells around her were familiar. |
| 5766 |
Dismayed whistles ensued, accompanied by waves of aromatic stench so overpowering, Lark almost gagged. |
| 5767 |
They reached the gate. Beyond it they saw the main walkway between gates. It was thick with travelers. |
| 5768 |
Artemis settled on to the couch, taking care not to accidentally press the power button on his mobile. |
| 5769 |
Suddenly an idea came to me. I found some change in my purse, headed for a pay phone, and called home. |
| 5770 |
She turned to her maid, and examined the girl. Under that scrutiny, the maid lowered her head timidly. |
| 5771 |
She smiled. It wasn't a beautiful smile, being on slightly the wrong kind of face. But it was a smile. |
| 5772 |
Not that he had even a quarter mark left in his pouch, but maybe they'd take a sketch or two in trade. |
| 5773 |
The shelf of the landing field, the frowning precipice which held the cliff dwelling, hove into sight. |
| 5774 |
The other three Jacks looked from the massed glitter on the floor to the private guard and back again. |
| 5775 |
But there were fifty or sixty gemstones there, and all of them were different. It was a daunting task. |
| 5776 |
In outrage, Martha screamed as loudly as she could. The men put her out with another chloroformed pad. |
| 5777 |
Monk muttered something about going ahead if he was so danged anxious, and sank back to the road sand. |
| 5778 |
The machine banked ponderously astern of them. This time, as it passed, it let loose a full broadside. |
| 5779 |
Ibid picked a stunned seagull out of his wine cup and laid it on the table. He was looking thoughtful. |
| 5780 |
Steel said nothing, but his hand gripped the sword's hilt more tightly, until the knuckles were white. |
| 5781 |
At the ninth circle, they blaze in the searing blue of sapphire, the purest glory of the star Canopus. |
| 5782 |
After dinner the boys went to unpack their things in their own bedrooms, and the girls went to theirs. |
| 5783 |
He was wasting no time. His scrutiny of the earth below had been brief, and now he was running easily. |
| 5784 |
The electron ram stabbed out another searing blaze of light and took out the wall next to the machine. |
| 5785 |
He squeezed his eyes shut and saw the dead cosmonaut again. Hanging in space. Oxygen lines ripped out. |
| 5786 |
His mount tried to spring away from the shift. It shied sideways, and started straight down the slope. |
| 5787 |
Courtney wanted to run, but she didn't know how she would get off the row without running into people. |
| 5788 |
He considered her briefly again, wondering why she had chosen those words, then returned to the ships. |
| 5789 |
But I knew each of us was quite prepared, if a chance arose, to take separate steps to deal with this. |
| 5790 |
Kevin. Or I might have died of it myself. Pop Merrill was the cure. He was a hard cure, but he worked. |
| 5791 |
Kinsman took the proffered plastic cup as people in the crowd turned to watch, and handed it to Diane. |
| 5792 |
Sybil turned over the pages with care. She had put a sheet of tissue between each one to protect them. |
| 5793 |
Moira shrugged her shoulders and turned away. Darrell stared after her in dismay. She turned to Sally. |
| 5794 |
Nor, when she was urged to stand, could they lead her more than a step or two over such harsh footing. |
| 5795 |
Jane had her own coat on properly now and fumbled the scarf out of her coat pocket with stiff fingers. |
| 5796 |
I crawled out of the clamshell slit, wrapping a sheet around myself. They were staring at me with awe. |
| 5797 |
They knew the truth an instant later. The fantastic monster of stillness had entirely surrounded them. |
| 5798 |
He checked around to make sure he had no more work to do and put his desk in order for the end of day. |
| 5799 |
Ham writhed under the appellation of pretty boy. But he kept the oily smile of admiration on his face. |
| 5800 |
He wanted to strike the careless young one. He almost lifted his fist. But Marius held his arm firmly. |
| 5801 |
The ramp was blocked by debris, but the stairs were intact. Roger climbed up, pausing at each landing. |
| 5802 |
She couldn't watch him eat and moved away to gather flowers. When he had finished she returned to him. |
| 5803 |
Brim raised an eyebrow, but Valerian quickly ushered him through the back door of a limousine skimmer. |
| 5804 |
As sure as I am that I have a wolf's nose and not a useless lump of flesh beneath my eyes. My brother. |
| 5805 |
Rowe shook a little, and made some kind of sound that might mean anything, but obviously meant relief. |
| 5806 |
He struggled to find himself, struggled to talk, his head now filled with sand dunes and desert winds. |
| 5807 |
Their heads shake slowly. Unable to look his fingers feel the rim and rolled threading of the jar cap. |
| 5808 |
Although she was hurt, she determined to find all the possible comfort she could in the circumstances. |
| 5809 |
The chauffeur finally woke up to the intrusion, leaped from the car, and grabbed her around the waist. |
| 5810 |
Once more we came out of the rocks into a wide stretch of turfed country that had rings growing in it. |
| 5811 |
When one looked back, their finding the apartment seemed simple and direct. But it had been hard work. |
| 5812 |
She froze. Hank's dark gaze gleamed viciously as he grabbed her arm and forced her down onto the sofa. |
| 5813 |
The girl raised her eyes from looking at her face and inspected him in the mirror, briefly and coolly. |
| 5814 |
He sought, as he always did, to learn more about the new person by carefully examining their features. |
| 5815 |
Weakly, she tried to obey, willing to answer any order that might put an end to her torment. Pressure. |
| 5816 |
I saw him walking quickly behind the weeds, his shoulders bent, his mangy head bobbing with each step. |
| 5817 |
She leaned forward suddenly and tossed the collar wound with the chain onto the top of a nearby table. |
| 5818 |
He sat down in the chair again, gripping its arms with his shaking hands, listening to the man go out. |
| 5819 |
Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive. |
| 5820 |
The fellow who had done the hacking and gasping in the corner of the schoolhouse was a tall young man. |
| 5821 |
Behind the disguising goggles, the strange eyes were shifting back and forth between Doc and the ring. |
| 5822 |
I lay down on my back and scrunched under the computer and instrument board, switched on the computer. |
| 5823 |
The poor devils would have to answer to Beltran for sleeping at their post. But I'd done what I could. |
| 5824 |
The man looked back at his tracks, scowled, then tried scuffing along to leave more pronounced prints. |
| 5825 |
The sward drew blood. The dragon screamed. The spear held poised far an eternity. The sun stood still. |
| 5826 |
Meaningful sounds began to come up from the lower deck. Men shouted. There seemed to be a small panic. |
| 5827 |
A bluish flare in the viewing globe. Garrick blinked and jumped, and that was the end of that section. |
| 5828 |
The male unicorn was either stupid or had lost a favorite. They do become mercurial when that happens. |
| 5829 |
Again she paused. No immediate counterargument. It gave him hope that she might actually be listening. |
| 5830 |
The five look at each other again, but no one speaks as the hooves of a single horse echo on the road. |
| 5831 |
About four in the afternoon, with Pete's flat head resting on my chest, I went happily to sleep again. |
| 5832 |
The workers looked at Kaufman. There was a certain deference in their faces, which he found appealing. |
| 5833 |
She kicked the foreman of the transport crew in the side. He cringed, scuttling sideways on the floor. |
| 5834 |
Fog formed, and swirled about them and the canoe, and dissipated. But Mach did not feel any different. |
| 5835 |
And not, unfortunately, anywhere in the vicinity of an enemy ship. Another harmless plop into the sea. |
| 5836 |
Bring life to the dead. The Wave must correct itself. Bring life to one and another will die untimely. |
| 5837 |
Such tactics gave the kin the ability to deal with carnivores far larger and stronger than themselves. |
| 5838 |
Playing the part of an offended hill fighter, the bronze man glared at them, fists jammed on his hips. |
| 5839 |
He was face down in the riverside mud. As if through a muffling fog he could hear the voices over him. |
| 5840 |
Both packages safe and awaiting pickup. Please come right away before packages are returned to sender. |
| 5841 |
Seeing that he really didn't intend to discuss it any further, Marissa turned and walked out the door. |
| 5842 |
Madge was long known to them, and that her son was being groomed to continue this passage arrangement. |
| 5843 |
It was with pain that she felt herself drag across the dead waste of years into the present once more. |
| 5844 |
The driver picked up the wallet and flicked it open, his gaze going between its contents and the road. |
| 5845 |
All the upper windows of the chapels were full of fire, and so was the rose window above the crucifix. |
| 5846 |
Ellis was the next to drop out. He had a lot of hair on his chest but evidently not much on his balls. |
| 5847 |
The twins came into the kitchen to sample the sauce, letting no vegetable contaminate their spoonfuls. |
| 5848 |
Doc and his men had been foresighted enough to circle a bit, coming upon the sentinels from the sides. |
| 5849 |
There was enough petroleum seepage for medical use, but not enough to satisfy the lamps of the nation. |
| 5850 |
It was an entertaining idea, but there wasn't much chance of it being more than amusing entertainment. |
| 5851 |
Carson looked up at him with his customary mild expression and nodded. The hayseed stared dumbfounded. |
| 5852 |
She stopped singing. She put her hand to her throat. She nodded to the musicians and they began again. |
| 5853 |
The rifle was standing in a corner. Random went to it, dug the shell out of his pocket, and loaded it. |
| 5854 |
In good time he remembered that he was running on a time limit. He walked around to the ticket window. |
| 5855 |
And like the traditional bewildered foil so much beloved of detective fiction, Grant followed blindly. |
| 5856 |
All the other pages were pristine white, but this one was tan with age and crumbling around the edges. |
| 5857 |
The doctor looked at the patient, who looked at first stunned, then a slow smile spread over his face. |
| 5858 |
But the person who entered the chamber was not a breathless runner, coming with important information. |
| 5859 |
Her voice strangled. She looked piteously at him, facing the accusation in his eyes and in his manner. |
| 5860 |
He stood there listening for close to a full minute without speaking. Then he hung up and faced Oates. |
| 5861 |
She won't be knocked down. The fellows with the dynamite and the bulldozers will find out if they try. |
| 5862 |
Heller looked at two very dirty men who stood nearby, evidently Armenians. They were nodding brightly. |
| 5863 |
Three minutes after the advance resumed, Lon thought that they might have finally run into that force. |
| 5864 |
One final shot resounded in the audience room stopping any further traitorous words from the madwoman. |
| 5865 |
The baby rested in the woman's lap now apparently sated a little white liquid dribbling from his lips. |
| 5866 |
Dr. Sloane had time only to catch a flash of blue that ended in a tree. Leaves rustled and he lost it. |
| 5867 |
A whine broke in on Alfred's thoughts. The swipe of a tongue, cold and wet on his skin, made him jump. |
| 5868 |
And men moved about him, doing things that would not help him and probably would not catch his killer. |
| 5869 |
Two hours passed before any news was forthcoming from the Captain. Then it was brief and to the point. |
| 5870 |
All that had smoldered for months burst into flames of ecstasy, engulfing them, in this first embrace. |
| 5871 |
Terran pressed his fingers into those hollows desperately, hoping for but not really expecting action. |
| 5872 |
I was heartbroken. I went on a long vodka bender and blew my rent money. My landlord evicted me again. |
| 5873 |
But the most important one, which they all agreed to follow, was the sign directing them toward Medic. |
| 5874 |
Maybe. But something was moving around on the landing up there where she couldn't see it. Not a draft. |
| 5875 |
He got me to my feet and I leaned on him. We started for his car. I only remember the first few steps. |
| 5876 |
Something made her feel that while the officials might have left, eyes were still on her and the ship. |
| 5877 |
The tingle of her lips on mine had not yet faded when the others around us stirred to life once again. |
| 5878 |
The workroom felt warm when they opened the door, and was full of a golden light from the sinking sun. |
| 5879 |
I was able to see the warlock, but he maintained that he was as mystified by the situation as we were. |
| 5880 |
Nicole stopped herself. It was still difficult for her to talk about Katie without becoming emotional. |
| 5881 |
So it was somber business after all. Worse than somber. Rom recited what had to be a memorized speech. |
| 5882 |
In time, his feet touch the hard clay that is already turning to ooze under the pounding of the skies. |
| 5883 |
Without being told a second tune, Adrian and Summer began splashing awkwardly through the narrow tube. |
| 5884 |
The infantrymen backed away and fell into line, nervously clicking on their safeties and sloping arms. |
| 5885 |
Burn them. I only want to apologize. He felt alone. It did not help that he knew it was his own fault. |
| 5886 |
Dr Hopkins spilled his tea because of the speed with which he got up and reached into his coat pocket. |
| 5887 |
She shook black strands from her face, clasped both arms around her knees as she stared raptly at him. |
| 5888 |
In the quick flurry of swords that followed the director's signal, it became clear what was happening. |
| 5889 |
She knew that tune. Had heard it often when she was a little girl stuck in the darkness of this place. |
| 5890 |
Courtney and Denise were facing the other direction, unaware that something was happening behind them. |
| 5891 |
It took him five minutes to squeeze out the last of the drink, and by that time he was feeling sleepy. |
| 5892 |
My pa wants to see you in his study. And the messenger wrung one hand in a parody of looming disaster. |
| 5893 |
The little black and white animal stood smugly in the middle of the path, several yards ahead of them. |
| 5894 |
Gaby shoved her way out of the bag and looked around frantically. No one was paying her any attention. |
| 5895 |
She would not do as I asked her. She hovered near the coffin, her elbow on the lid, her face stricken. |
| 5896 |
The victim was on all fours, clawing for the dropped automatic. Doc nudged the weapon away with a toe. |
| 5897 |
Now his surprise gave way to an anger every bit as intense as hers, and in his turn he shouted at her. |
| 5898 |
They're not getting out of the van. I think there are two of them. I can hardly see through the glass. |
| 5899 |
In a sense, Garth herself became our greatest ally. Her injured but still subtly powerful web of life. |
| 5900 |
Miss Tick lifted her left hand. Feathers and beads and egg and pocket junk spun in the web of threads. |
| 5901 |
I gritted my teeth, said please, and asked why she would not get her hand cut by her opponent's blade. |
| 5902 |
She had figured that for at least once in her life, she was going to be right in the midst of trouble. |
| 5903 |
But that towering pyre of hydrogen died away quickly. Universal burned hot, but it was not unbearable. |
| 5904 |
Safe, she thought bitterly. In the ground. In the cold. In the dark. She put her hands up to her face. |
| 5905 |
When they had walked only a little further, Sarah understood the reason for the other woman's silence. |
| 5906 |
Milo imagined. Perhaps though, with it about him the moisture on his skin would not evaporate so soon. |
| 5907 |
Several dozen of the most senior wizards were clustered around the stool, staring in awe at the floor. |
| 5908 |
After a while he began to turn down the lights. There was nothing to see. Nothing was about to happen. |
| 5909 |
The rain beat against the glass. The thick drops flattened out and washed down the pane in tiny waves. |
| 5910 |
Doc Savage was silent. Outwardly, at least. But his strange, small trilling noise was briefly audible. |
| 5911 |
Alert now, she noticed that the keys were in the lock of the trunk, as if someone had tried to open it. |
| 5912 |
Robb hesitated a moment. Then, slowly and deliberately, he dismounted and stood with his sword in hand. |
| 5913 |
I glanced down at my hands. They were covered with smudge and mud and goodness knows what else besides. |
| 5914 |
But most puzzling of all was an entry in one log that hinted the colonists had died by their own hands. |
| 5915 |
Angel watched the young priest move away across the hall. The boy stirred in his arms. His eyes opened. |
| 5916 |
She hugged him back, tears starting in her eyes for almost the first time in this whole night's ordeal. |
| 5917 |
There was a little silence. Nicky said something under his breath. De Ruse didn't move or make a sound. |
| 5918 |
Valentine hid her face behind her hands for a long moment. Then she got up and headed out of the house. |
| 5919 |
Ethan remained on deck, watching the last glow of sunlight shift steadily from yellow to red to purple. |
| 5920 |
She saw the doubt in his eyes, the fear that she would not be strong enough to endure what was to come. |
| 5921 |
He glanced toward the sleeping porch, where sunlight spread across a blanket, outlining two large feet. |
| 5922 |
When the last note died away there was silence, and then the sudden thunder of axes banging on shields. |
| 5923 |
The three men knocked down a length of camouflage wall in getting outside. They stared in astonishment. |
| 5924 |
She reached for the bar which only human hands could remove, not hoofs. It came up, releasing the gate. |
| 5925 |
But that was hypnotism, motivational conditioning, I argued back at myself. They don't do that anymore. |
| 5926 |
She was speaking now to the restaurant attendant in a clear, courteous, but completely autocratic tone. |
| 5927 |
A popping sound snapped her back into place. The portal rocked slightly on the desk. It was closed now. |
| 5928 |
She shook her head as if her thoughts were not in accord with mine but she was not able to reveal them. |
| 5929 |
Apparently, they had that instinctive thought themselves. They rushed madly for the door of the garage. |
| 5930 |
Lily tightened her grip around his waist and gave him a gentle push toward the house across the street. |
| 5931 |
Vegetation flamed into a holocaust during that crazy spin. Death of plant or animal came in an instant. |
| 5932 |
But none of that mattered now. What mattered was that the threat was plain, and he had to deal with it. |
| 5933 |
I took a deep breath and turned away from her. Marguerite seemed willing to call an armistice, as well. |
| 5934 |
The goblins recognized those names. They made way. In half a dozen moments they were at the base level. |
| 5935 |
He was certain that somewhere ahead would be a refuge for them and the thing he could not leave behind. |
| 5936 |
He shook his head and calmly snapped the back of the camera shut, then slipped the strap over his head. |
| 5937 |
Horace didn't think so. He got all upset again after a bit, and began to shout wildly down in the hole. |
| 5938 |
Due to the necessity of accomplishing his mission without being observed, he was delayed fully an hour. |
| 5939 |
But they were gifts, the first he had ever received, and the handles were pretty and handsomely carved. |
| 5940 |
Dinah gave a squeal and covered her head up at once. Then there was silence. They were all fast asleep. |
| 5941 |
Decker nodded agreement. He was tired and he thought it would be a relief to get back to his apartment. |
| 5942 |
Now this strange bulky figure broke off his oration to gaze up at the thick clouds that masked the sun. |
| 5943 |
Something dropped from Coraline's head height to the floor. It landed with a sort of a scuttling thump. |
| 5944 |
The gooks buckle. The gooks absorb. The gooks gyrate. The gooks scream. The gooks thrash and pop veins. |
| 5945 |
The commander rapped out a hurried order. The submarine tanks hissed. The undersea craft was coming up. |
| 5946 |
After another penny tram ride Charlie was beginning to wonder where he would end up spending the night. |
| 5947 |
The buccaneers from the other longboats had stopped their preparations to watch, but did not interfere. |
| 5948 |
Blood welled from the backs of his fingers. His pulse throbbed in the cuts, throbbed in his fingertips. |
| 5949 |
He rolled over to bury his face in the pillow and pinned a live cockroach to the spread with his cheek. |
| 5950 |
Thoughts struggled in my brain like exhausted swimmers. I was far too tired to think. I went up to bed. |
| 5951 |
The waiter came with the food. He set it out with a flourish. Vegetables, salad, hot rolls in a napkin. |
| 5952 |
Ashley nodded again, and went to the bed table to pick up her own purse, stepping away from the window. |
| 5953 |
It must have been quite a scramble to get out. No wonder they had abandoned so much of their equipment. |
| 5954 |
When all of these were boarded, I allowed the rabble to come swarming on to the wharf below the temple. |
| 5955 |
Other men came, two of them, this time. Then three fellows arrived alone. Eight were in the next group. |
| 5956 |
Looking at it that way, he had a point. Suddenly I didn't feel as clever as I had a few moments before. |
| 5957 |
Finally Leah caught her breath and gave welcome, offering the stranger a place to sit and bread to eat. |
| 5958 |
The doctor didn't answer. Apparently they had warned the woman what happened to those who spoke to her. |
| 5959 |
Gravity behaved oddly in an extension cage. The pull was outward now as the cage moved into the future. |
| 5960 |
He put his hands into my hair until they were tangled in knots and it took us long moments to free him. |
| 5961 |
They all ran back to the stream and peered up the tree. But there was nobody there. The Negro had gone. |
| 5962 |
Jack lowered Richard the rest of the way to the ground and he got up, his suit dusty from the dry soil. |
| 5963 |
For a moment, he could not tell what she was doing. He just stared at her in the pink light of Nemesis. |
| 5964 |
Doc Savage nodded. He said nothing. Never before had he encountered a woman who could think so clearly. |
| 5965 |
Fencing it was, then. Masks came out of the chest, and Wallie selected the shortest foil he could find. |
| 5966 |
He went up the stairway. The hall above was a wreck. A door at the end had been pretty well demolished. |
| 5967 |
The abhorrence of rape was as deep in me as anything. I would not be the person I am, were this not so. |
| 5968 |
He had meant to ask what girl to solicit next, but was glad to know the identity of this helpful woman. |
| 5969 |
To him it seemed that there was nothing else in the room, yet the cat was obviously tracking something. |
| 5970 |
The redheaded man started to talk, tried to say something but couldn't with the blackjack in his mouth. |
| 5971 |
Monk's plane scudded across the river, and was in the air about the time the hangar doors were closing. |
| 5972 |
Tully's pose was much the same. But he turned to face her, with that haunted look he had worn for days. |
| 5973 |
In the next instant, as she reached for her sidearm, the first explosions thundered across the chamber. |
| 5974 |
That was an improvement. I stepped back from the henchman, knowing he was no good as a hostage, anyway. |
| 5975 |
For to truly fulfill our second wish, we must and will expand the habitat of the human race into space. |
| 5976 |
Being the bodyguard to this Empress is going to be interesting. Like being a bodyguard for the monsoon. |
| 5977 |
Heller looked at the open door to the hall. He took the papers from the Countess and glanced over them. |
| 5978 |
Gillian blinked as Streaker's engines let out a wail of exertion, yanking the ship out of normal space. |
| 5979 |
A window shaped like a pool of spilled water looked out upon a row of dark green cones capped in white. |
| 5980 |
He struck the polar bear just back of the small head. He slugged again, hitting a more vulnerable spot. |
| 5981 |
Markov stood there feeling empty and terribly sad as Stoner clumped down the tube toward the cosmonaut. |
| 5982 |
I didn't want to shout back a reply and frighten the poor beast. I placed my hand gently upon his neck. |
| 5983 |
Poor Emerson. Fought over by resentful factions until his scout craft was swallowed by enfolding light. |
| 5984 |
The air was rushing past Tiffany now. It was a lot colder. She kept her eyes fixed firmly on the cloth. |
| 5985 |
Her right hand was behind her, as though clutching for support to something at the rear of the machine. |
| 5986 |
He was almost to the house or barn, or whatever it was, when he saw his first fellow creature close up. |
| 5987 |
Light was admitted through the highest point of the dome, which from the inside looked open to the sky. |
| 5988 |
Gods help you, Tully. Whatever your name really is. Whatever you think you are and wherever you go now. |
| 5989 |
Zeb reached up and swatted the light bulb overhead, shattering it, plunging the landing into blackness. |
| 5990 |
There'll be more volumes, but begin by reading this one. You will make an old man very happy, you know. |
| 5991 |
Once more the head descended. Once more he saw up at the soft underside of its throat. Again he fired. |
| 5992 |
The smell of baking bread was overwhelming. Olive gasped. A flicker of memory burst into enlightenment. |
| 5993 |
He quickly descended two more steps and looked along the hall toward the front door. The way was clear. |
| 5994 |
They raced back for the black box of a hangar. Reaching it, Doc cast his flash beam into the structure. |
| 5995 |
His heart thumped as he studied the face of the man who sat down at the table. He didn't recognize him. |
| 5996 |
She opened the new box. The angel appeared immediately, showing her in a split second what she must do. |
| 5997 |
Doc Savage ran forward, leaped mightily, and was inside the fantastic old mansion among the sand dunes. |
| 5998 |
They were hunting in a team. Stalking the duckbills with the care and coordination of a pack of wolves. |
| 5999 |
Talisman strode to the rampart steps and climbed them, swinging back to stare down at the gathered men. |
| 6000 |
Elvis squeezed the trigger and without further words wasted, shot Jonathan's brains out. On prime time. |
| 6001 |
Levering stiffly to my feet, I kicked away the shroud and brushed at the earth clinging to my breeches. |
| 6002 |
But Nina could have done it. Yes, she could have. And the timing. The timing could mean only one thing. |
| 6003 |
It was his first opportunity for a comprehensive survey, and Doc delayed a moment to take in the scene. |
| 6004 |
Sergeant Simony waited until he was back in his own quarters before he unfolded his own scrap of paper. |
| 6005 |
Without thinking, she lowered the sculpted head. And pulled it down hard over her hideous monster head. |
| 6006 |
That brought him up short. He turned to me with an angry retort on his lips, then he saw my expression. |
| 6007 |
That was the only question spinning through my mind now and the unavoidable answer was that I couldn't. |
| 6008 |
Delphi looked up. Summer took a step forward, the identical expression of doubt showing in their faces. |
| 6009 |
On the front step lay a wrapped package with Judah's name on it. Judah came from the back of the house. |
| 6010 |
But then he heard it all the way to the end and realized it was not entirely that, it was not doomsday. |
| 6011 |
They worked back toward the operations office and, wishing to avoid the throng, made for the rear door. |
| 6012 |
When Angela had talked herself out, Calhoun told her that he'd made some progress in the investigation. |
| 6013 |
It was not the least use throwing pails of water on the flames. The policeman yelled for the chauffeur. |
| 6014 |
I forced myself to remember that she was for the other fellow, the one slumped across the nearby table. |
| 6015 |
The sergeant of the watch let out a sigh of relief and motioned his men forward with a jut of his chin. |
| 6016 |
Color holographs jumped out at me. I was looking down through a pair of windows over two morgue tables. |
| 6017 |
They heard a huffing and puffing. Dodson had retrieved his rifle and ran toward them with a flashlight. |
| 6018 |
When I got back to the waiting room, everybody was beaming except for Earl, who looked a little groggy. |
| 6019 |
There were few real heights on San Isadore. It was an island born of the sea, not of volcanic eruption. |
| 6020 |
Immediately, a wisp of smoke rose from the spot where it struck, accompanied by a tiny crackling noise. |
| 6021 |
Nobody replied, but there was somebody in there, he was sure of it. Gavin slapped his palm on the door. |
| 6022 |
He found that he was gasping hoarsely, panting as if the air in the room were too rancid for his lungs. |
| 6023 |
Colt bolstered his gun and leaned against one of the stainless steel jackets. Kinsman stood before him. |
| 6024 |
We spent an hour going over all of the clothing, including shoes and belt, and nothing else fluoresced. |
| 6025 |
Stoner could see the helicopter now, a dark spot moving fast across the sky to the west of the village. |
| 6026 |
He hadn't thought things could get worse, or imagined that he could find another way to foul things up. |
| 6027 |
Two policemen ran out. They seized the girl, hauled her out of the cab and put handcuffs on her wrists. |
| 6028 |
He drained his chalice and put it down beside him. Immediately one of the slaves filled it to the brim. |
| 6029 |
Then he was seemingly heading for a collision with the angle formed by the flank and front of the herd. |
| 6030 |
By the time the driver had got out, Nyssa was a white and red speck in the sky, lost in the neon glare. |
| 6031 |
In an instant he had transferred both of her wrists to one hand. The other sought and found her throat. |
| 6032 |
And then she heard what sounded like a big bone popping and the pillow was gently taken from her mouth. |
| 6033 |
He showed Fatty something written down on a page of a notebook. The others peeped over his arm to look. |
| 6034 |
Unfortunately, the whole thing had been my idea in the first place, and I would have to see it through. |
| 6035 |
It had been a long day, but these were a very ceremonial people, and what we did was important to them. |
| 6036 |
Right after I got home that day, the phone rang. It was Mallory, wanting to know if I'd made it or not. |
| 6037 |
Which was how he found himself out here with that incredibly irritating sensor ghost dogging his heels. |
| 6038 |
He stretched out beside her, bit a hole in her throat, drank her blood. He cleansed it and returned it. |
| 6039 |
Slowly the group became aware of faint but swelling music. The picture rotated, rectified, and focused. |
| 6040 |
A shimmering touch of chaos brushed the sleeves of the three, and the red apprentice stripes were gone. |
| 6041 |
He stared into the gray river. All that water, and look what they've done to it. Fouled their own nest. |
| 6042 |
Then his arms were grabbed and pulled behind him and something cold went round his wrists with a click. |
| 6043 |
He was taking her to the clinic that might bring back her sight and make her talk. She should be happy. |
| 6044 |
Once the scan was completed, the computer would analyze results and print the data within five seconds. |
| 6045 |
And then, when he came to find us dead and see what prize we had won for him, he would find me waiting. |
| 6046 |
And I found myself in the midst of an astounding scene, unlike any surroundings I had ever seen before. |
| 6047 |
I rushed back to the crew's berthing. I found the room and bed of the base construction superintendent. |
| 6048 |
Jemmy went to help with the cooking. Faintly from down the Road they could hear the popping of gunfire. |
| 6049 |
That evening, beside the campfire, I opened the box that I had grabbed off the table in Knight's shack. |
| 6050 |
The bronze man listened intently. He never killed or seriously injured any one, if it could be avoided. |
| 6051 |
They followed one of the baron's servants to comfortable quarters on the second floor of the main keep. |
| 6052 |
The city was old, even beyond the imagining of the most fanciful. It was and it had simply always been. |
| 6053 |
His fire trickled away against the black coolness I held around me, and his hands dropped to his waist. |
| 6054 |
Scott grinned. It was so simple. Brian Boru would not die. Scott had kept him alive for another attack. |
| 6055 |
The speedometer arm jumped around to seventy. Doc touched a switch, and a siren started a banshee wail. |
| 6056 |
He put his knees right up to his chin and closed his eyes. He didn't bother to ask for divine guidance. |
| 6057 |
Doc Savage halted suddenly. He poised, motionless, metallic. No breath steam came from his strong lips. |
| 6058 |
We followed him, and I opened the kitchen door without difficulty. As soon as I did, he rushed past us. |
| 6059 |
The tall, handsome stranger with the heavenly eyes and the impossibly blond hair handed me a wineglass. |
| 6060 |
Mystery was being piled upon mystery which would require enormous skill, on someone's part, to unravel. |
| 6061 |
Julian did not want to say anything much in front of Mrs. Lenoir. So he changed the subject completely. |
| 6062 |
When he knew he must soon heal himself or die, he raised up on one elbow and looked around for shelter. |
| 6063 |
The gunners turned and raced for the brick buildings. Half of them dropped their weapons along the way. |
| 6064 |
As the sun rose toward noon, dignitaries began to appear, wearing ceremonial robes and ancient emblems. |
| 6065 |
In irregular open formation the trolls advanced, followed closely by the jeering mob of volcano nymphs. |
| 6066 |
The horror of those was the worst, for they were connected with the bodies in the book's vile pictures. |
| 6067 |
The voice was not loud, but it had a peculiar carrying quality. The call echoed in the silent corridor. |
| 6068 |
And his descendants would use them, with ever increasing skill, until it was time for the next meeting. |
| 6069 |
Maybe it was the yawn. It meant so little to him. And the horror of this evening's misadventure hit me. |
| 6070 |
He fully expected the monster to hump its body, endeavoring so to throw him off. But that did not come. |
| 6071 |
The doctor had risen as she entered with this congratulatory smile on his face and motioned Sue to sit. |
| 6072 |
There was mud there, brought in on Sharpe's boots from the creek bed, mud that led to his hiding place. |
| 6073 |
I hardly slept at all that night. I kept having nightmares. Actually, I kept having the same nightmare. |
| 6074 |
As soon as I got back to the Maude, I drew myself a pitcher of whiskey, and sat down alone to drink it. |
| 6075 |
He handed her her clothing, and she was dressed and jamming her feet into boots with astonishing speed. |
| 6076 |
Just about the only thing I could change was my shirt. So I did. And my jeans, too, for the heck of it. |
| 6077 |
That did it. I saw her shoulders slump a little. She was losing me, if she wasn't careful, and knew it. |
| 6078 |
Hammerhead Lake shuddered. Great bubbles of steam burst in a warm haze that drifted over the buildings. |
| 6079 |
Slade's finger was on the trigger as he stood, alone of living men, within the parlor. He did not fire. |
| 6080 |
Turning, he walked back toward the elevator. Marissa followed him, looking nervously over her shoulder. |
| 6081 |
What happened in the next three weeks or so was that Leigh and I played detective, and we fell in love. |
| 6082 |
Holding his breath, he raised the hammer, his gorge rising at the mere idea of what he was about to do. |
| 6083 |
In the belt of his tunic he had thrust the sword that I had had the officer give him before the battle. |
| 6084 |
I had the wallet open. My fingers reached in and touched the cup, my forefinger slipping into the bowl. |
| 6085 |
The pilot felt personally responsible for the attack. He reprimanded himself for not acting on his gut. |
| 6086 |
The enormity of it all overcame the priest and he stepped back from the window and sat down on the bed. |
| 6087 |
I looked upon her. She looked at me, tears in her eyes. She had been marked incontrovertibly, and well. |
| 6088 |
The tables roared with laughter, and the men pounded with their fists on the wood so pleased were they. |
| 6089 |
Feebly waving an arm, she stood quivering in the middle of the road like a wounded deer, imploring aid. |
| 6090 |
They did talk me into a summer helmet, which resembled a Chinese coolie hat, and we tooled up for that. |
| 6091 |
He looked me askance but settled. The crow watched him. His fingers teased at that fold of black cloth. |
| 6092 |
Monk grimaced and yanked several stiff red bristles from his nubbin of a head, then eyed them intently. |
| 6093 |
After exchanging farewells and good wishes for the weekend, the four returned to their respective jobs. |
| 6094 |
He appraised her for a long moment, before bending to the kind of kiss he had been longing to give her. |
| 6095 |
The headman nodded in appreciation, and one of his wives received the bundle Lee removed from his pack. |
| 6096 |
It was a tiny thorn bush, growing so fast that its twigs visibly moved. Its shadow danced on the grass. |
| 6097 |
She stared at him for a long moment. Before she could say anything else, however, he had read her mind. |
| 6098 |
Their leader turned back to Mort. He gave a final glance at the other two. They both nodded decisively. |
| 6099 |
In the walkway Perez fumbled with his keys for a second, found the right one, and pushed open the door. |
| 6100 |
Carrot stepped forward, saluted, folded an enormous hand into a fist and rapped gently on the woodwork. |
| 6101 |
Then Monk cranked up the thick glass windows, making it unlikely that the pair would attract attention. |
| 6102 |
The big man in the general's uniform tried to speak. The words would not come. His throat seemed glued. |
| 6103 |
George felt a pair of small warm hands on his neck. They started to massage the tight shoulder muscles. |
| 6104 |
I knew what that meant. Blood feuds, dozens of them, all descending on Odysseus and his family at once. |
| 6105 |
The six weeks were lazy. When they had gone by, Monk and the others suddenly awakened to a realization. |
| 6106 |
They sat awhile not touching their coffee. Then they lifted it slowly and drank, looking at each other. |
| 6107 |
A fellow nearby was sharpening a knife on a whetstone. It was his turn, as I recalled, to cut the meat. |
| 6108 |
Agnes hurriedly lit the candles when she got into the cottage, and wished there were bolts on the door. |
| 6109 |
Ace lifted the sword and broke it over her knee, throwing aside the pieces. Then she advanced on Boyle. |
| 6110 |
The men tiptoed, guns alert, beyond the ship's aseptic light to gaze at the long sea and the low hills. |
| 6111 |
Var, seeing that it was hopeless, picked up his sticks and went. This time he found the proper passage. |
| 6112 |
Another enemy in winter camouflage was rapidly approaching from the lab area, his weapon ready to fire. |
| 6113 |
Nobody escapes me, said Uriel. When the spirits left, I remained here to keep watch until their return. |
| 6114 |
Dull stuff, but they watched. Louis wondered if Weavers would become addicted to passive entertainment. |
| 6115 |
At the last possible instant he moved them to the left, away from the center of the toppling gray mass. |
| 6116 |
We ducked inside, the door was closed softly behind us, and moments later I heard the police rush past. |
| 6117 |
He found no rope, but took three stakes and an old hide that seemed sound enough to be cut into thongs. |
| 6118 |
Zeb pulled the door shut behind her and turned to wait. To keep the world full of her opponents at bay. |
| 6119 |
Agnes knelt down, loosened his collar and tried to unwind the rope that had caught around arm and neck. |
| 6120 |
This second victim, in its struggle to pull free, caught and tore one of the dog's ears with its teeth. |
| 6121 |
The seasons long for each other, like men and women, in order that they may be cured of their excesses. |
| 6122 |
As the young sleuths crossed the frozen cove, they found that the snowy prints were more widely spaced. |
| 6123 |
He gunned it. He smoked tread. He smashed the barrier fence. The car flew. The car upended and flipped. |
| 6124 |
Reluctantly, she had to leave them on him, knowing that his feet were likely to be numb in the morning. |
| 6125 |
The dragon looked at him. Finally, slowly, it inclined its nose slightly forward in an affirmative nod. |
| 6126 |
Doc imparted the information that the bullets had been aimed, for most of the night, at his flashlight. |
| 6127 |
Chet put down his scalpel and stepped over to Jack's table. Vinnie moved to the head to give him space. |
| 6128 |
Without hesitation, they dropped their weapons and leaped into the water, to swim swiftly toward shore. |
| 6129 |
She took her time swallowing a mouthful of coffee, playing calm but buying a moment to silently recoil. |
| 6130 |
I did so. Within it was a sheet of folded paper. I opened the sheet of folded paper. On it was writing. |
| 6131 |
As he watched, Covenant's head began to throb. He was flushed and sweating under the weight of the sun. |
| 6132 |
The meat tasted sweet. Windy gobbled it up quickly, shoving moist chunks of it into her massive cheeks. |
| 6133 |
I banged on it, then spotted a doorbell and rang it. Then I alternated knocking and ringing. And again. |
| 6134 |
Cara motioned Marlin to his feet. When he didn't move fast enough for her, she punched his cracked rib. |
| 6135 |
He muttered angrily. He felt that infuriated rage which was appropriate because something worried Gail. |
| 6136 |
Edwards commanded himself to lie down and sleep. He couldn't think about this. First he had to survive. |
| 6137 |
She started swimming again, heading out toward the horizon. But, another look behind her made her stop. |
| 6138 |
I continued to follow the stream as about that the land was open and looked to offer the easiest going. |
| 6139 |
There were voices raised in protest against this defeatism, but the man demanded the right to be heard. |
| 6140 |
Almost the moment Wynn mentioned waves, Marissa felt the boat start to shudder against a building chop. |
| 6141 |
She waited for a response. None came. No one spoke to her, but she was convinced that someone listened. |
| 6142 |
They found where the tracks moved on, and leaning forward in the saddle, Melody started following them. |
| 6143 |
There was no point in lying to him, Gabriel thought. At best, Delacroix had only a few minutes to live. |
| 6144 |
They did. Immediately Ender felt the leg of the suit grow stiff, immobile at the knee and ankle joints. |
| 6145 |
I turned my head to the left. The Indian was sitting on the third white stool against the black velvet. |
| 6146 |
The ripple effect passed as swiftly as it had come. The red warding runes flared again. The dog snored. |
| 6147 |
Only such a sensation and such a cognizance can now destroy the egoism completely crystallized in them. |
| 6148 |
I hung up and wiped my mouth off. The fat softy was leaning against the counter, white around the eyes. |
| 6149 |
Rocky prodded a box of mothballs that had spilled out across a dressing table and rolled into the dust. |
| 6150 |
I vacillated, then ran to the fallen body. Closer, and in the dim moonlight I could see it was the boy. |
| 6151 |
Doc had followed the trail less than half a mile when his sharp eyes caught vague movement to the left. |
| 6152 |
The cook didn't seem to notice him, so Mort pulled up a chair and sat down at the white scrubbed table. |
| 6153 |
But she couldn't tell them about Gabriel, so she only shook her head, silent tears tracking her cheeks. |
| 6154 |
As soon as they entered his room, Neville locked the door behind them, and then drew her into a clinch. |
| 6155 |
It must be clearly understood that the life of the slave girl, of course, can often be far from joyful. |
| 6156 |
So I fetched the wastebasket from beneath the desk, got down into a hunker and began policing the area. |
| 6157 |
Suddenly the Princess was trying to keep from weeping. But for the time being her lover did not notice. |
| 6158 |
He sat himself on the sofa with the baby while Sue revived her mother and dragged her into the kitchen. |
| 6159 |
My amulet moved, striving to turn as if it would work itself between my fingers. I looked down upon it. |
| 6160 |
She had twisted around to look where the side of her skirt was torn away. She was wearing nylon tights. |
| 6161 |
Will found himself breathing faster, as the meaning of the inscription began to take shape in his mind. |
| 6162 |
Monk went into an adjoining room in which the other three members of Doc's group of five aides lounged. |
| 6163 |
He pointed to the blank wall of the room opposite the one of glass overlooking the beach and the ocean. |
| 6164 |
Phyllis tossed her head and looked away, over the heads of the crowd, nothing but contempt on her face. |
| 6165 |
After a passage of six weeks, I arrived at Plymouth, and had exactly completed my six years' servitude. |
| 6166 |
A survey of the island situation was his immediate object. It might be possible to organize resistance. |
| 6167 |
She was about to ask him how he knew when Sally rapped lightly on the door to announce that very thing. |
| 6168 |
The soldier backed away toward the massive doors and pulled them open. Two figures moved into the room. |
| 6169 |
This was intriguing and my fear melted just a little as Stirling came back in his careful polite voice. |
| 6170 |
It was nearby, ten feet farther downriver. As he regained the surface, he struck out along the current. |
| 6171 |
The soldiers stood silently. The fluffy gray flakes collapsed and blew a little way in the dawn breeze. |
| 6172 |
Tamas grudgingly laid down ten coppers, which he had been reserving for the night's supper and lodging. |
| 6173 |
Luke has already picked up the deck, and now he's shuffling the spots with his usual, casual expertise. |
| 6174 |
Henge pointed toward the ravine. The wizard staggered over to the edge and peered down into the stream. |
| 6175 |
Erin skidded to a halt. If she had been terrified before, it was nothing compared to what she felt now. |
| 6176 |
And now the guide spoke. It was a different voice, they thought, but with the same kindness and warmth. |
| 6177 |
Patricia had said that, for several miles, there was no other way of crossing the violent little river. |
| 6178 |
As he sat at the table, Patch beside him, he wondered why he had been offered such a ridiculous choice. |
| 6179 |
I really don't believe it, he said to himself. Walter will probably change his mind before he wakes up. |
| 6180 |
He twisted the disassembly screw and the gun opened up for inspection. Link looked, and shook his head. |
| 6181 |
He'd almost reached it now. It shimmied above him, a rectangle with length and height but no thickness. |
| 6182 |
The great falcon soared eagerly eastward, and then circled slowly as the riders below tried to keep up. |
| 6183 |
Miranda was stroking him, and Loony was licking him. It was plain that the chimpanzee was very unhappy. |
| 6184 |
Sam started to offer Dave his hand, then thought better of it. He bent over the old man and hugged him. |
| 6185 |
He leaned back. My eyes were getting used to the dimness now. I could see that his fat face was amused. |
| 6186 |
She tried to kick him but they were walking so fast she would have lost her balance if she'd succeeded. |
| 6187 |
I had stretched my talent considerably. I was still no threat even to Smoke but my progress excited me. |
| 6188 |
His cabled, surgeon's hands moving with the wizardry that had made him famous, Doc Savage went to work. |
| 6189 |
I didn't feel like eating more, but I forced myself to finish the stew, taking one slow bite at a time. |
| 6190 |
After a time, shivering in the afternoon chill, he eases his mount into the full sun as the wind rises. |
| 6191 |
When she finally took the goggles off, she just sat there, staring at a white painting on a white wall. |
| 6192 |
The hermit dropped back into the stern and adjusted the set of the sail still further. He said nothing. |
| 6193 |
Tristan led Marissa to the elevators. Marissa didn't relax until the elevator doors closed behind them. |
| 6194 |
The killer's figure stepped into view. A small funnel was held in one hand, close in front of his body. |
| 6195 |
It was fifteen minutes before starting time, and we had our first fight. It was going to be a long day. |
| 6196 |
Doc quickly wrenched away a section of the lifeless trunk. A cavity was revealed. The trunk was hollow. |
| 6197 |
He gave the ship a quick examination. Judging from his expression, he was not pleased with what he saw. |
| 6198 |
Thatcher jabbed him in the ribs. Water cascaded off the leaves above them and tunneled down every neck. |
| 6199 |
Lucy stepped out of the door and told me to come in. Boxes had been put away. Furniture had been moved. |
| 6200 |
The phaeton was secured with a lock which controlled not only the ignition, but the gear shift as well. |
| 6201 |
It didn't occur to her that, as the psychic reader in the room, perhaps she should not have had to ask. |
| 6202 |
Now the men and fen of Streaker had still another obligation, and secrecy was more important than ever. |
| 6203 |
Paul Murphy saw the auto jump at him and instinctively swerved hard to avoid it. Then he heard gunfire. |
| 6204 |
I mean the right to an education, paid for by the community, to the extent of the individual's ability. |
| 6205 |
There was no sign of a rising sun, she realized some time later. Instead, clouds were thicker overhead. |
| 6206 |
After that her double life had come upon her. She was bright and cheery in public, suicidal in private. |
| 6207 |
Kristy bolted out the door. I started cooing over Lynn, telling her softly that a snack was on its way. |
| 6208 |
The Master heard no more. Once again the darkness swept over him and he sank down into unconsciousness. |
| 6209 |
Saunders looked at him, snorted disgustedly, and stalked away. We backed out of range and let her blow. |
| 6210 |
Both he and Sean were silent then, awkward and inarticulate, for neither of them dealt easily in words. |
| 6211 |
The rebel spacers filled the tank now. Fuzzy and gray, but still distinct, stretched out in a long arc. |
| 6212 |
He carried her into the bathing room. The bathing pool was still filled with water. He stepped into it. |
| 6213 |
He came to an abrupt halt, his mind seeking Elisabeth's. She was lethargic, on the very brink of death. |
| 6214 |
Astounded to see us agreeing, when she had been expecting us to get violent, Roxanna meekly nodded yes. |
| 6215 |
Between now and Saturday, he could undoubtedly accomplish the first two injections on the young couple. |
| 6216 |
The little man probably was ill. He was ill, in fact. The blow he had received hadn't been a light one. |
| 6217 |
She hugged them against her in paralyzed confusion, eyes riveted on the battle taking place before her. |
| 6218 |
His finger traced its way here and there on the map. Then George gave a cry and dabbed her finger down. |
| 6219 |
The room now was a crypt or sumptuous tomb, its vault illuminated by a carbuncle of extraordinary size. |
| 6220 |
Roger's daemon, tail tucked firmly between her legs, shivered against him and gave a little quiet howl. |
| 6221 |
She had posed the fire ball on the palm of her hand as if she steadied it for tossing. Then she smiled. |
| 6222 |
By Monday morning, he had grown used to the gun. It seemed perfectly natural to carry it to the office. |
| 6223 |
To emphasize the point, it pressed its claws into Mara's flesh. Mara gasped in pain. I could see blood. |
| 6224 |
I looked up at him, gratefully. He was very strong and handsome, and I was a slave. I wanted his touch. |
| 6225 |
Bob stared at her, frightened. He realized his hands were clenched into fists. He forced them to relax. |
| 6226 |
Within seconds of my extinguishing the pyrotechnics, a brief shower of black powder drifted down on us. |
| 6227 |
They said nothing for a moment or two, and then the girls' two scared faces looked out from their tent. |
| 6228 |
Since we did not go into hyper for such a short trip, we unstrapped as soon as we were on stable speed. |
| 6229 |
I went over and took it out of her hand. I sniffed the muzzle. Yes. That made two of them fired around. |
| 6230 |
He began to wonder how many raw rats a day the thing had to consume. But he could find that out easily. |
| 6231 |
The second I was out of the room I leaned against the wall and turned to the back page to see my grade. |
| 6232 |
Then the windows too went dark, and very shortly there were not four torches that I could see anywhere. |
| 6233 |
Pete loves Barb. Pete rotates home. Pete stays off rotation. Barb lured him home. Ward licensed him in. |
| 6234 |
They advanced and shook hands. Again laughter overcame them and they rocked in a shaken spasm of mirth. |
| 6235 |
They reached the outer air a moment before the octagonal arch finally broke and smashed into the flags. |
| 6236 |
Padded benches paralleled clean tables in the dining room, and the kitchen was as shiny as the hallway. |
| 6237 |
Soon they came to the Isle. The boat ran up on the land, making its way to the duck pond in the center. |
| 6238 |
I gulped, imagining myself talking to someone official, someone who would question all my observations. |
| 6239 |
After our guests were gone, I told Verna I thought it would be neat if she entered her jam in the fair. |
| 6240 |
She didn't ask him how he knew. But she was comforted by what he said, even though it was just bluster. |
| 6241 |
I am locked beneath the earth until the sun sets. You cannot leave me, Juliette. You know you must not. |
| 6242 |
The path simply ended. No switchback, nothing. It just seemed to end, about ten meters above the water. |
| 6243 |
Chester revised his initial appraisal of the newcomer again. He was not, he decided firmly, a handyman. |
| 6244 |
The vehicle mounted the pavement, and ran a few yards before Richardson brought it under control again. |
| 6245 |
Just then, the balcony they were standing on began to shake. A deafening rumble shook the whole castle. |
| 6246 |
Ignoring hostile stares and murmurs from all sides, he accompanied his new friend, hoping for the best. |
| 6247 |
The three men sent a glance circling around. They shrugged. Some things were best learned the hard way. |
| 6248 |
Carefully, she avoided them. She always knew where they were, so they could not catch her nor stop her. |
| 6249 |
Now that the subject had been brought up, Patricia was too comfortable to want to do anything about it. |
| 6250 |
Possibly when the charge goes, the assassin thought. Thought discarded. We will need every gun we have. |
| 6251 |
The doctor stayed in the examination room for another ten minutes. Then he came out with the clipboard. |
| 6252 |
That was why he had to watch others deal with their fears. He needed a solution, a way out for himself. |
| 6253 |
She clamped her lips tight. Staring down at her crusted toes, she shook her head in frightened refusal. |
| 6254 |
He grabbed Agnes, clamping his hand over her mouth. His other hand flew to his belt and drew his sword. |
| 6255 |
I sensed him howling with wrath. The stars themselves seemed to shudder with the violence of his anger. |
| 6256 |
The girl shrank back against a wall, her whole thin body trembling violently, her eyes staring crazily. |
| 6257 |
When he spoke next his voice once again had the cold distant tones of someone speaking in a steel room. |
| 6258 |
She tried. She set her feet in the remembered pattern, and her body moved, but the magic was not there. |
| 6259 |
Buster sat, his ears pricked as if he were quite ready to listen. Fatty went quickly through his notes. |
| 6260 |
I stared at the ceiling, watching the shifting shadows and reflections from the small, perforated lamp. |
| 6261 |
Mr. Goon soon lost his excitement over his finds, and became puzzled. He gazed at his clues in silence. |
| 6262 |
The boy and girl did not know that help was on its way. It would not have aided them if they had known. |
| 6263 |
Kira shook her head, trying to stop the room from reeling around her. But her dizziness quickly passed. |
| 6264 |
She did not pull away. Instead, her face met his. They kissed. There was a marvelously romantic melody. |
| 6265 |
The force of the blast blew Dr. Brisbane out the door through the balcony's railing, and over the edge. |
| 6266 |
They were supposed to get to the central filing system before the operators had a chance to destroy it. |
| 6267 |
Don't think about them, he told himself. Thinking about them will demoralize you, make you want to die. |
| 6268 |
It was his human face he found staring back at him, the face he had not seen in more than thirty years. |
| 6269 |
I shrank back in the chains. I was acutely conscious of the clash of the steel on my wrists and ankles. |
| 6270 |
Mays looked slightly alarmed, though not unduly so. We had moved to strategic positions round the door. |
| 6271 |
But it seemed my advice was badly timed. The stranger turned his head to stare at me, and he was wroth. |
| 6272 |
With the level afternoon sun shining full on his back, Mario walked to the portico, pressed the button. |
| 6273 |
Clovis Porter had barely finished depositing his coat on a hanger when he began to answer the question. |
| 6274 |
Doing so was both reasoned and intentional. She had a clear, biting sense of what was and what was not. |
| 6275 |
More rockets flared in the background, out toward the west, although some fell far short of the Finest. |
| 6276 |
The clerk nodded, stealing another quick glance at Willow, smiling warmly when she noticed him looking. |
| 6277 |
Michael went down on his shoulder into the sand and rolled with his knees drawn up against his stomach. |
| 6278 |
He tried to test how deep the ocean was but it was almost impossible to get his legs down in the water. |
| 6279 |
Somewhere behind I heard a scream and the judge's bar signaling that a ring had been missed. I sped on. |
| 6280 |
This was no flame pillar, for rather a woman stood there, her white body untouched by any sign of burn. |
| 6281 |
The water didn't look that different when he poured it into the two bottles, except marginally clearer. |
| 6282 |
Regis shook his head and wailed helplessly, dramatically dropping his forehead again against the table. |
| 6283 |
That was when the radar pinged. Both men looked at the screen and saw a ship approaching at high speed. |
| 6284 |
It flashed past his vision briefly, and was gone. He tried a few times more, and couldn't see it again. |
| 6285 |
All the statues regarded just then was a roadway covered with gold paint. It didn't seem to upset them. |
| 6286 |
A thing this size could even gobble a land walker. Especially if one came along that was not too large. |
| 6287 |
The other flared brighter and was gone faster. Four shapes leaped like fleas, a pincer closing on Bram. |
| 6288 |
He left the Gazelle well screened in a little clearing of the forest which was far away from the roads. |
| 6289 |
He put out a strong brown arm and anchored them to its side, looking into the excited faces before him. |
| 6290 |
A slight smile touched the corners of the singer's mouth as he turned slowly. There was no humor in it. |
| 6291 |
Gentlemen, as far as I am concerned you can cart off the whole blasted reef piece by piece if you wish. |
| 6292 |
The soldiers had surrounded the man in the green mantle, and two of them took hold of his arms roughly. |
| 6293 |
The charcoal blazed white. The thick liquid in the pot began to churn. Mrs Gogol peered into the steam. |
| 6294 |
He heard Betty's responses given in a debonair tone, and even in this burlesque the sound thrilled him. |
| 6295 |
Time whizzed. He watched the house. He watched the driveway. Time cranked. Dusk hit. The workmen split. |
| 6296 |
Finally it came to rest at the end of the furrow, almost invisible under a heap of former architecture. |
| 6297 |
As they did so, one of the men raised a blaster and brought its butt down hard on the skull of another. |
| 6298 |
She shrank from him. As always when he dared approach this dangerous ground, the mental wall sprang up. |
| 6299 |
I shook with fury, a humiliated slave girl. My action seemed uncontrollable, and I hated myself for it. |
| 6300 |
The emir fell and lay gasping out his life. I waited for his men to collect their wits and remember me. |
| 6301 |
And then the man nearest the door stretched out an arm and drummed a slow, padding rhythm on the table. |
| 6302 |
I didn't open them. I opened the third bag and saw the dress and brassiere my mother wore to her death. |
| 6303 |
Bursting from the trees, the elf saw the canyon. Instead of stopping, it ran more strongly than before. |
| 6304 |
I was too confused to answer, too confused to will courtesy to build a temporary bridge of polite lies. |
| 6305 |
He caught a vine with his beak and pulled it free. Trailing it, he flew swiftly back to his companions. |
| 6306 |
They both scowled, sure I was holding out. Sure. Blame it on Garrett when weird things start to happen. |
| 6307 |
But I doubt if I should have slept at all in the hut, aware of the monstrous sentinel on guard outside. |
| 6308 |
McKay, who was standing nearby, shouted. They turned to look in the direction at which he was pointing. |
| 6309 |
Marguerite turned slightly and smiled at me. A pale smile, I thought, but it made me smile back at her. |
| 6310 |
A feeble thrust of the will that had held Tallahassee and made her obey strove again to enter her mind. |
| 6311 |
There were undoubtedly other differences also, but those were sufficient to prove a point of some sort. |
| 6312 |
The keg was half weight by the time it got back to me. I took a good long guzzle before I passed it on. |
| 6313 |
Armor scraped against stone. Booted feet came down heavily on the stairs. Steel was trying to find him. |
| 6314 |
The riders guided their horses westward, so that they could fly around the back of the old ruined city. |
| 6315 |
Souffle followed, staying mostly behind cover, observing. He still wasn't quite sure what was going on. |
| 6316 |
The candles in the temple guttered suddenly, as if a breeze had sprung up in the midst of the building. |
| 6317 |
Austin studied the shaded portions of his map. A substantial amount of coastline had yet to be covered. |
| 6318 |
And others, as Zach paged back through the book. So many others. So many beautifully drawn dead bodies. |
| 6319 |
The mute warrior could only grunt. But his mimed gesture was clear enough for the Doctor to understand. |
| 6320 |
Earthlings certainly did have a knack for making trouble for themselves. They'd always had that talent. |
| 6321 |
Someone was holding her hand. It was a warm, pleasant hand, gently caressing hers. She opened her eyes. |
| 6322 |
The face was still expressionless. Slowly the big round head bent forward and then straightened itself. |
| 6323 |
The crowd roared. The girl on the block, naked, was being forced to perform blindfolded before the men. |
| 6324 |
There was a splintering, a radiation of cracks running out from where the hammer head had met the wall. |
| 6325 |
The sweeper bowed, while the abbot started to beat the acolyte gently over the head with a wooden bear. |
| 6326 |
Joe shushed the baby unnecessarily, then tiptoed over to Linda and planted a big juicy one on her lips. |
| 6327 |
People had ways of dealing with it. There was a sort of script built into the human mind. Life went on. |
| 6328 |
Still, that was irrelevant. Right now, his job was to put himself beyond the reach of unwelcome prying. |
| 6329 |
He looked up. A pair of kites were circling over one particular clump of Thorn scrub on the river bank. |
| 6330 |
The window was open. Fatty was just about to shine his torch through the opening when he heard a noise. |
| 6331 |
In order to communicate with you, I had to taste your pattern since you do not understand vocal speech. |
| 6332 |
Twenty minutes later they heard the sound of the jet Ranger returning, and they monitored it anxiously. |
| 6333 |
They are watching me this very instant. Very little escapes my Sisters. They will know my plan in time. |
| 6334 |
Now it was on his finger. It tingled. As he waved it around, the head of every bird turned to watch it. |
| 6335 |
Cutting the connection to the Peacekeepers, Doug punched up a request to rerun the outside camera view. |
| 6336 |
The guard rushed forward, removing his bow from it place on his back, puffing an arrow from his quiver. |
| 6337 |
She also bore the tattoo of a serpent that wound around her leg, across her body, and up to her breast. |
| 6338 |
Them, as if realizing she had said too much, she hastily gulled aside the blanket and entered the cave. |
| 6339 |
This was another one of the expressions he had picked up from Bell. There were many more, less refined. |
| 6340 |
Then Covenant was gulping at water that splashed into his face and mouth. It was as fresh as night air. |
| 6341 |
Renata nodded briskly and hurried out. Erminie blushed, then looked up briefly and smiled at Valentine. |
| 6342 |
There was a tense conference of U. S. government bigwigs. No one ever told exactly what was said there. |
| 6343 |
He looked at the old man, his face illuminated by the dull glow of tiny lights on the instrument panel. |
| 6344 |
He took up his cloak and flung it over his shoulders, then donned a helmet Public had procured for him. |
| 6345 |
Alas, that approach had one drawback. You have only yourself to blame when things blow up in your face. |
| 6346 |
She glanced up at him, smiling. He smiled back, and wandered in to say hello again to his new daughter. |
| 6347 |
Tuck stood just a few feet behind her and for once he'd dropped the doll and his face was long and sad. |
| 6348 |
The others hunted for good branches. The ones lying on the ground were too brittle and old, they found. |
| 6349 |
Instead, he turned and crossed the street and went into a liquor store. He wanted to pick up some beer. |
| 6350 |
Lavonne waited up for us. She said she read her old statement. It didn't spark any fresh recollections. |
| 6351 |
Unfortunately, it was beginning to look like the people who'd hoped that were going to be disappointed. |
| 6352 |
They were extremely thankful for the rugged surface of the iceberg, now that the situation had changed. |
| 6353 |
Ray slumped and suddenly collapsed, rolling out on his back. His head hit the floor with a solid whack. |
| 6354 |
She stood up abruptly, and the chair she had been sitting in fell over as she shoved it violently back. |
| 6355 |
Julian went to the other side of the bed. George began to pour out to him all she had been thinking of. |
| 6356 |
It was no good. None of it was any good, and he had to leave the control room, which had grown crowded. |
| 6357 |
Borderer had drawn a flap over his quiver as if those remaining shafts must be protected from the rain. |
| 6358 |
Well, she was passed out now. And even if I did succeed in waking her, there might be a pitched battle. |
| 6359 |
The gyro flung in alongside the enemy ship. They made a discovery which was nothing if not interesting. |
| 6360 |
They all sat down in a sandy corner of the beach. George looked across at the little island in the bay. |
| 6361 |
Ender's message expired after five minutes. After a while, a message from Bernard appeared on his desk. |
| 6362 |
The same creed bound his five men to Doc. That, and their love of adventure, which was never satisfied. |
| 6363 |
Dark eyes rose from the book they had been reading and stared coldly at him from a chiseled ebony face. |
| 6364 |
This country was open meadowland with thick, lush grass, not even a bush to break the open lines of it. |
| 6365 |
There was another moment's hesitation, then Ramirez took a deep breath and let it out in a long whoosh. |
| 6366 |
I came to a spring and drank thirstily, washing from my muzzle and throat the dust of that dark cavern. |
| 6367 |
He saw a look of fear spread slowly across her face. She was mouthing words but he could not hear them. |
| 6368 |
But I knew I wasn't fooling her. Dazed she might be, but she could still tell the living from the dead. |
| 6369 |
Preludes and fringe benefits. Money and debits. Barb and white horse. Barb and ennui. Barb and Vietnam. |
| 6370 |
Her expression changed, something dawning on her as she ruminated on this evidently absurd possibility. |
| 6371 |
After remounting, he glanced toward the northeast. The smoke billowing into the sky was thick and gray. |
| 6372 |
Something which resembled the forepart of a giant worm was pulling into the light and it was not alone. |
| 6373 |
It was not sound which reached me, rather a vibration which shuddered through whatever form I now wore. |
| 6374 |
It worked like a machine. That was fine except for the occasional people who got crushed in the wheels. |
| 6375 |
But a liner carried a thousand or more passengers. This cache could not contain supplies for that many. |
| 6376 |
A rustle ahead of him suggested that there was a rat right in front, slipping quietly through the dark. |
| 6377 |
Mort was already well down the corridor, his shoulders hunched like vulture's wings. She ran after him. |
| 6378 |
Ned's neck was rigid with tension. For a moment he was so angry that he did not trust himself to speak. |
| 6379 |
When she woke again, he was still sleeping. Overhead, the sky was lightening with the approach of dawn. |
| 6380 |
Loren saw the facial details clearly. Her hands gripped the deck rail and her heart felt locked in ice. |
| 6381 |
Uncle Felix had already eaten, but sat down to join us and ate enough for six men just to be, sociable. |
| 6382 |
There was a wailing sound from beyond. Pain in it as well as feral hatred and determination to be free. |
| 6383 |
I lifted my hand, acknowledging that I had heard him, and continued my pace toward the wharves of Fina. |
| 6384 |
And one which, he reminded himself again, was useful in direct proportion to being held a close secret. |
| 6385 |
Doc swung the car in front of the hangar. He regularly employed a crew of a dozen mechanics and others. |
| 6386 |
After a pause, the boy follows, holding the watch with the black dial as though it were a small animal. |
| 6387 |
A lone man was on the roof. He was smoking, unaware of any danger. The cigarette made him easy to spot. |
| 6388 |
The voice of the recording rang startlingly loud through the chamber, and I hastened to cut the volume. |
| 6389 |
But the kid was doing fine. The Lord only knew where the third tank with its newbie crew had gotten to. |
| 6390 |
Dover merely nodded, mumbled something incoherent through the toothpaste, and turned back to the basin. |
| 6391 |
The moon changed the shape of the window pattern on the floor. Antonio awoke. Maria was not beside him. |
| 6392 |
Kids and parents were running in all directions, frantic, frightened expressions locked on their faces. |
| 6393 |
Maybe that's what it had been. What a helpful ghost it was to be sure. No strength left in me to smile. |
| 6394 |
Polly slithered back down the slope and found Blouse steadying himself against a tree, wheezing gently. |
| 6395 |
They had just stepped out onto the road and Charlie stooped down. He picked something up from the snow. |
| 6396 |
He settled down on a pile of rough sacking, which still gave forth the not unpleasant odor of the bark. |
| 6397 |
For anyone would wonder, even the final gentleman would wonder, why his shirt tails had a knot in them. |
| 6398 |
At this moment I could speak for only a small portion of my mind, while the remainder went its own way. |
| 6399 |
The officer nodded, fumbled in a uniform pocket and produced a notebook. He thumbed through the leaves. |
| 6400 |
I could feel the painful shuddering of the small body pressed to mine. He gasped, but he did answer me. |
| 6401 |
Hearing her son, Jessica marveled at the awareness in him, the penetrating insight of his intelligence. |
| 6402 |
We cleaned up Haley and her apple juice. Then we cleaned up straw papers and napkins and plastic forks. |
| 6403 |
My friends were all looking at me with expressions that mixed delight with incredulity, so I continued. |
| 6404 |
Smiling in the moonlit shadows, he trotted off to a level spot next to a boulder and lay down to sleep. |
| 6405 |
I passed the niche and kept going. Beyond it, there was a natural trail winding upward. I mounted this. |
| 6406 |
She took appraisal of the troops clogging the dingy stone corridor. There had to be close to a hundred. |
| 6407 |
He told her she would live and not to worry. Land was only a short distance away. And then he was gone. |
| 6408 |
The ocean was right in front of us, a solid wall. The Lieutenant turned his head and shouted something. |
| 6409 |
The dozen or so of us who made it to the foot of the dark tower were faced by a final guard contingent. |
| 6410 |
Heller called for silence and the cymbals had to sound five times before the shouts in the room ceased. |
| 6411 |
I pointed to the sign and giggled, which made Dad smile, but didn't get us to his apartment any faster. |
| 6412 |
The packet which the man handed over was the size of a pocket match box. Fuzzy tapped it with a finger. |
| 6413 |
Breaking off the conversation, I strode hurriedly to the screens, accepting the booster band as I went. |
| 6414 |
Though known to be for most living things, it would seem that now I dealt with one not to be so judged. |
| 6415 |
The room burst into applause, wide grins and wild shouts as everyone pressed forward to shake his hand. |
| 6416 |
It rocked him. He, who had always craved physical affection, had never thought to offer her an embrace. |
| 6417 |
The Mouser made a courteous and formal bow behind the drapes, then glued his eye once more to the slit. |
| 6418 |
A few more perilous moments and we reached him, the sweat sticking our hair to our foreheads like caps. |
| 6419 |
The fire chief and police detective were there as promised, and there were questions, also as promised. |
| 6420 |
Within ten seconds, Bob Herbert's startled assistant was summoning the intelligence chief to the phone. |
| 6421 |
Her name seemed to stream through his fingers, as impossible to hold as smoke whipped away by the wind. |
| 6422 |
Ham switched his anxiety for a black scowl and came over and kicked Monk, far from gently, in the side. |
| 6423 |
There was a keening sound like that which the wind makes when it drives through a tiny chink in a wall. |
| 6424 |
Junior was already there, at a little table in the corner, chatting amiably with the cocktail waitress. |
| 6425 |
She had only the remotest sense of straps being fastened around her, of purposeful movement beside her. |
| 6426 |
It was the sort of noise that makes the silence that comes after it roll forward like a warm avalanche. |
| 6427 |
Remembering made her indignant, which made her more talkative. They had snatched her in broad daylight. |
| 6428 |
My hands grabbed the highest root I could reach. I pulled myself up. I heard a crumbling of loose dirt. |
| 6429 |
Winter finally ended. The grip of ice and cold released and the first greens of spring began to appear. |
| 6430 |
In fact, the headquarters was a maze of scientific gadgets to protect the bronze man and his five aids. |
| 6431 |
Another clod of dirt flew from the crowd and struck a dancer's shoulder. None of the five men faltered. |
| 6432 |
Evan sighed. He couldn't abandon his cousin like that. Even though Kermit was definitely asking for it. |
| 6433 |
I felt a little sorry for Mom. I probably don't tell her stuff as much as I used to when I was younger. |
| 6434 |
His voice was cold, but it was evidently warmer than the men had expected. They brightened perceptibly. |
| 6435 |
Gentry of evil ways haunted the town, however. But they masqueraded as honest traders or tribal nomads. |
| 6436 |
The children stared at him in disgust. They thought he was weak and unkind. Mr. Roland nodded his head. |
| 6437 |
Then he was back into the hotel, puffing, almost dancing with impatience as he waited for the elevator. |
| 6438 |
He turned, starting down the sidewalk. At the corner he stopped for a surface cruiser that was turning. |
| 6439 |
Chandra looked at Max with such a steady, confident gaze that the younger man quickly dropped his eyes. |
| 6440 |
Sara glowered at the news. It had seemed the best possible solution to a problem gnawing at her lately. |
| 6441 |
The sergeant slapped his hand to his cheek. He looked at it when it came away red, then glared at Ruby. |
| 6442 |
The two mercenaries walked on, laughing oblivious to the curious and indignant stares directed at them. |
| 6443 |
Hearing this, Harvey wondered what grief it was Mrs. Griffin had known or seen to make her so mournful. |
| 6444 |
Morrison exhaled a tense sigh. Only then did he turn his back on the miserable weather and walk inside. |
| 6445 |
She got off his face, stretched her legs, grabbed a washcloth and washed the pussy juice from his chin. |
| 6446 |
Everything went absolutely still. No one said a word or made a murmur. No one knew what should be said. |
| 6447 |
Beyond the citadel, the mountain went on up, to lose its head at last within a clinging scarf of cloud. |
| 6448 |
The police bundled him and his officers off to jail, along with such crew members as didn't look right. |
| 6449 |
I nodded agreement, but I wondered how Achilles would take to the prospect of a long life as a cripple. |
| 6450 |
I say to the crowd, I'm sorry. I never meant any harm. We should go. We should talk about this outside. |
| 6451 |
Two figures hurled themselves from the cockpits of the raiding planes. Parachutes blossomed above them. |
| 6452 |
He put the sword back in its sheath. Jim let go the trees and half jumped, half flapped down to ground. |
| 6453 |
Lisa felt several more twinges, followed by what seemed to her a loud snap. She knew her head was open. |
| 6454 |
I had to agree with her, but secretly I was glad I hadn't been asked about it before the deed was done. |
| 6455 |
Five minutes ago this microscope had tried to kill him. And he knew he had blasted it out of existence. |
| 6456 |
Paul motioned for him to stop, left the hangings of the door and moved down the passage to the courier. |
| 6457 |
Jill nodded. There was no need for her to say anything, even if she could have said it. They both knew. |
| 6458 |
The woman covered the receiver and said that that would be fine, and Pike and I went out into the hall. |
| 6459 |
Sensing in my posture and her beauty the very shape of weakness, they forfeited their strength at once. |
| 6460 |
The girl's eyes lit up. She smiled with relief. She could not have been more than thirteen or fourteen. |
| 6461 |
Phony conquistador. Pitt finds a planted body in the sinkhole dressed like an old Spanish conquistador. |
| 6462 |
Friday was two days away. Time for one last binge of conflicting emotions before the balloon went up. |
| 6463 |
I hooded my wings around my kill, shielding it from any other predator that might try to steal it away. |
| 6464 |
And so they had continued their travels and their studies, seeking always the man with the violet eyes. |
| 6465 |
It was not yet dawn. The corner street lamp was furnishing them enough light to study the square house. |
| 6466 |
Bean put his hand on a narrow shelf formed by the frame that allowed the garbage truck to lift the bin. |
| 6467 |
Doc had encountered his aides some distance from the cabin. They retraced their steps to the structure. |
| 6468 |
His arms wrapped around me, Bob's hand palms my head against the new tits sprouted on his barrel chest. |
| 6469 |
Igor really did have his grandfather's hands. And now they were bunching into fists, all by themselves. |
| 6470 |
He reached out to take her bitten arm and then his fingers snapped back as if they had been beaten off. |
| 6471 |
She licked the blood from the back of her hand, marveling at the film of saliva, and she began to walk. |
| 6472 |
Doc took a chance and lifted a corner of the canvas. He could just barely glimpse two of the prisoners. |
| 6473 |
The monster just stood there staring at him. Then it sat down in the chair and looked at him some more. |
| 6474 |
She ate pain pills. She drifted off. Wayne fluffed her hair on a pillow. Wayne pulled a quilt over her. |
| 6475 |
The whole twenty million dollars' worth of good government bonds were not good. They were counterfeits. |
| 6476 |
I'd gone over a cliff in my car, and into a lake, I suddenly remembered. And that was all I remembered. |
| 6477 |
I nursed my last pack, enjoying each one like a love affair. When they were all gone, I felt depressed. |
| 6478 |
You fell into the trap before you ever started, Hermine thought. Yet you keep struggling to break free. |
| 6479 |
Manny rang back from the engine room and Pitt could feel the engines begin to vibrate beneath his feet. |
| 6480 |
The waiting room was packed with nervous kids and parents. Some had to wait outside in the parking lot. |
| 6481 |
On the other hand, it was amazing how the evidence could stack up against you when people wanted it to. |
| 6482 |
I could still hear him somewhere up ahead. I could hear the soft thud of his paws on the marshy ground. |
| 6483 |
He drew away from her. She was glad of his tears. They were a veil between his gaze and her duplicity. |
| 6484 |
A cabin. An old one, in need of fresh mud to chink the holes in the walls. Long out of use, apparently. |
| 6485 |
The Ranee had stood aside during the excitement, saying nothing, and now they gave her their attention. |
| 6486 |
They had been granted permission to have a second child, because of the first boy's inward turning eye. |
| 6487 |
Ah, thought Ender. It isn't as important to her to maintain the illusion of solidarity as it is to him. |
| 6488 |
She stood completely still, staring down the slope at him, making no gesture of recognition or welcome. |
| 6489 |
Heller looked at the flags and signs on the truck. The ditty had stopped. He looked at the green derby. |
| 6490 |
Yet again she had set him back by her amazing temerity. This was definitely not the Becka he had known. |
| 6491 |
And the shooting stopped as if it had only been some recorded sound effect which had been switched off. |
| 6492 |
Meyer twisted. The second leg piece separated and fell away. Sweat tacked the pants legs to her thighs. |
| 6493 |
Conway had returned all of his attention to the operating screen and was speaking quickly as he worked. |
| 6494 |
I braced the barrel of my weapon on the rocks and, allowing for the proper angle, I pulled the trigger. |
| 6495 |
He waited. He wandered to the strange kitchen, thawed some iced huckleberries, ate them disconsolately. |
| 6496 |
When the vampire killers walked toward the mounds, an army poured out of the holes and took up station. |
| 6497 |
The Sentience gave a tremor that might have been a laugh but certainly concluded the current interview. |
| 6498 |
Then there was a man beside her, his arm tightly holding her. I could see fear and concern in his eyes. |
| 6499 |
Perhaps a hundred yards distant, he discerned a slight movement. His eyes focused intently on the spot. |
| 6500 |
And now all paths were open, like a normal life, except that there was something that she needed to do. |
| 6501 |
Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the processes of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks. |
| 6502 |
I was still nothing but a tanker first class. No promotion had come along with the thing, just the job. |
| 6503 |
Om rubbed his forehead. I spent too long down there, he thought. I can't stop thinking at ground level. |
| 6504 |
The four of us went to a quiet corner of the school building and sat down on some empty packing crates. |
| 6505 |
The air was cold but exhilarating. A gust of wind scattered powdery snow from the face of the Jungfrau. |
| 6506 |
She broke off as I caught her eye and flattened my head. For a moment she held my gaze, then continued. |
| 6507 |
I climbed into bed, having moved an oil lamp from Helena's bedside to my own so I could just about see. |
| 6508 |
Dad returned late that afternoon. He'd been putting shelf paper in the kitchen cabinets of his new pad. |
| 6509 |
Anya put up both her hands and the lightnings vanished. The featureless golden expanse reformed itself. |
| 6510 |
After a few seconds Otto opened his eyes and then looked sidelong at the dwarfs. He dropped the packet. |
| 6511 |
Murat quickly moved to support her. Lifting her tenderly, he turned and carried her back into the tent. |
| 6512 |
She briskly returned it. He left and she turned around to stare sourly into the empty half of the room. |
| 6513 |
A bolt of light stabbed so close Marika imagined crisping heat. She tore her attention from her victim. |
| 6514 |
Bradshaw shoved the petition across the desk and took out his pen. Dov looked at the document a moment. |
| 6515 |
Against a tumbled pile of firewood lay carelessly stacked saddles, saddle blankets and other harnesses. |
| 6516 |
The muscles of her calves twitched as her feet tried to make running motions. There was nowhere to run. |
| 6517 |
There was no more than I could learn with my eyes shut, so I opened them and half rolled onto one side. |
| 6518 |
Charged up with the excitement of success, Chris and the others ran outside, congratulating each other. |
| 6519 |
Then she sat down herself, with a slight sigh and an even slighter wavering of her pleasant expression. |
| 6520 |
I lifted her into my arms and carried her to one of the stalls, where I placed her gently on the straw. |
| 6521 |
She gave the box a last fond, grieving look, then placed it gently and reverently in the Keeper's hand. |
| 6522 |
Suddenly the woman threw one arm across her eyes. The car was filled with an unearthly, blinding light. |
| 6523 |
Dripping wet and still choking on water, he knelt on the pad and tried to look every which way at once. |
| 6524 |
Windows blew out and iron gutters melted. Roofs lifted into the air and settled again. Buildings shook. |
| 6525 |
He looked up when she stepped into the room. The look in his eyes, the guilt, stabbed her to the heart. |
| 6526 |
He looked around at her. The skull was still capable of tears. They welled on the curve of his sockets. |
| 6527 |
Duncan screamed. Both of his parents tumbled to the floor, lifeless mounds of blistering, burned flesh. |
| 6528 |
Her accusation stopped the man in his tracks, and a stunned expression crossed his usually stolid face. |
| 6529 |
But it was too ridiculous. She had a family. A perfectly normal family. They loved her. She loved them. |
| 6530 |
The largest, blackest of the rats shook its head. It had an unpleasant sort of smile, Coraline thought. |
| 6531 |
I stared from one to the other as the nonsense ran down in shorter and shorter spurts and then silence. |
| 6532 |
Johnny had not used a long word for hours. And it was not exactly relief they were going to be offered. |
| 6533 |
Mulch tended to grind his teeth when he thought. It sounded like nails being scraped down a chalkboard. |
| 6534 |
The gobble of the rapid firer galloped over the bay surface like satanic mirth. Then the noise stopped. |
| 6535 |
Hornblower turned away in disgust. The man in his excitement had clean forgotten every order given him. |
| 6536 |
He looked up at her again. She saw that the uncertainty was still strong in him. His eyes reflected it. |
| 6537 |
Breeze drank some more of his drink and scratched his chin with a thumbnail like the blade of a shovel. |
| 6538 |
My father reached the car and put me in the front seat. Then he got in on his side. He started the car. |
| 6539 |
I stepped lightly to my right, circling away from his spear arm, hefting my own spear in my right hand. |
| 6540 |
Even Doc's skilled hands could not prevent a second spin, could not prevent them being yanked downward. |
| 6541 |
His black eyes were lustrous in the light of the many lamps. But his expression was his finest feature. |
| 6542 |
The gorilla balled one mighty fist and smashed it against the steel wall of her pen. The metal buckled. |
| 6543 |
They watched her leave, listening to her slow, careful footsteps until the sound faded away completely. |
| 6544 |
He had no interest in what might lie on the canyon floor. He halted the tug halfway down and looked up. |
| 6545 |
Shoulder to shoulder, chopping in wordless frenzy, trampling the fallen saplings as they moved forward. |
| 6546 |
Kneeling and standing in two ranks, Jack and his party began hosing fire all around the command center. |
| 6547 |
Shadow walked in something that was half stroll, half controlled stumble, into the center of the arena. |
| 6548 |
Ina quickly got to her knees and put her head down, low, to the dirt. I tied her hands behind her back. |
| 6549 |
He jumped out and was on his way back to the house as Becky came rushing out in the opposite direction. |
| 6550 |
Only then could he look at the green stuff, whatever it was, at sixty thousand diameters magnification. |
| 6551 |
Her brows lowered and eyes narrowed with irritation. Perhaps I was not as pleased as had been expected. |
| 6552 |
Around them, voices picked up the chant until it was no longer a chanted request, but a roaring demand. |
| 6553 |
After a moment or two, the meaning of her words finally registered on them. Both sisters' eyes widened. |
| 6554 |
Except it was not love which had stared at her hungrily from those eyes. It was more. Almost adoration. |
| 6555 |
A claim so bold caused the last challenger's companions to withdraw a little from him, looking worried. |
| 6556 |
For a wild instant she was snapped back into that other place and watched the foulness in action there. |
| 6557 |
Mostly, I was trying to think of what we could talk about next, having exhausted the subject of beauty. |
| 6558 |
But I heard her gasp. And then I began to feel warm. As if someone had covered me with a heavy blanket. |
| 6559 |
Raymond stopped speaking. He took the phone away from his ear and looked at it. Taylor had cut him off. |
| 6560 |
Turning gently so as to disturb Nora as little as possible, I noticed that her eyes were slightly open. |
| 6561 |
I noticed that, though to the affirmative, their answers were slower and less enthusiastic than before. |
| 6562 |
He stalked through the house then and broke mirrors, tore down drapes, and kicked in the kitchen stove. |
| 6563 |
There was the same wallpaper in both rooms. In every room on that floor. That horrible green wallpaper. |
| 6564 |
He punched out. He did not break the phone. He took a sip of his soft drink and unwrapped the sandwich. |
| 6565 |
Granny staggered on a little, and stopped in a puddle of black water that began to rise over her boots. |
| 6566 |
Shaking my head, I let my skepticism show through as I looked over the incipient chaos, saying nothing. |
| 6567 |
She concentrated. She didn't know where this was coming from, but it seemed to know exactly what to do. |
| 6568 |
He gazed at the map for several more silent moments, then straightened and turned to his command group. |
| 6569 |
The witch settled her branch into a steady speed beside the basket as they moved north toward Svalbard. |
| 6570 |
The two shouting men were almost thrown overboard. They disappeared at once to see what the damage was. |
| 6571 |
The third took time from a busy day to take a red telephone from a dresser drawer in his sleeping room. |
| 6572 |
The downfall of man happened not gradually but in one dreadful rush, like the collapse of a tall tower. |
| 6573 |
No one had appeared. The piping voice was very loud, however. It penetrated to all corners of the room. |
| 6574 |
I thanked him and, after lighting one of the altar lamps from his, started up the steep winding stairs. |
| 6575 |
Covenant looked away with a sour expression on his face. He did not believe that it would be that easy. |
| 6576 |
There was no settlement, no indication except for slag scars, that any spacer had set down here before. |
| 6577 |
Doc Savage went out, the door opening weirdly for him, and closing when he had left the vicinity of it. |
| 6578 |
Nicole in the flesh, and Ian had not. That made all the difference, although he was not sure quite why. |
| 6579 |
He waited for her decision, playing humble and anxious servitor. At last she shrugged again and nodded. |
| 6580 |
He turned, and began leaving. Halfway to the door, he stopped and bestowed a last gaze upon the elders. |
| 6581 |
He might think it was nothing. I felt like I had just been wrapped around and around with heavy chains. |
| 6582 |
Doc went on. He discovered a wide stairway, leading down. To the wine cellars, naturally. He descended. |
| 6583 |
Linda pushed back the curtain from the sleeping area and stepped uncertainly into the main compartment. |
| 6584 |
The young woman said nothing. She seemed less irritated than daunted by a conspiracy to keep her there. |
| 6585 |
The hot, bright sun on his face had awakened him, had blinded him when first he opened his bleary eyes. |
| 6586 |
Besides, if this meeting went awry, I wanted my mentor close at hand to share the consequences with me. |
| 6587 |
He drew a deep breath, then sank back into the cover of the forest edge and waved his friends in close. |
| 6588 |
They shook hands and the young man at once went on his knees beside the charred remnants of the parcel. |
| 6589 |
As I sat in his office that day eight years ago, I envied him and wished that God had made me like him. |
| 6590 |
Mrs Twit looked down at her feet and by golly the man was right. Her feet were not touching the ground. |
| 6591 |
Fontaine will fit her to history in some different way, she knows, and it is a history she has avoided. |
| 6592 |
It took him only a moment to decide. They were inside the castle. There was nowhere else they could be. |
| 6593 |
While Ivan was trying to decode this last cryptic remark, Olivia looked up, her gaze caught by someone. |
| 6594 |
Six years of clean living is entirely too much. It was time to get my liver back into proper condition. |
| 6595 |
First I dropped my tray in the lunchroom. The trays were all wet, and mine just slipped out of my hand. |
| 6596 |
So there is no apparent conscious time lag. If you live a dull, human existence, it seems brief enough. |
| 6597 |
I had a vehicle now. My new school was three miles from my pad. My roaming turf expanded exponentially. |
| 6598 |
He led me to a daybed, suggested I lie down, and left to secure the door and fetch me something to eat. |
| 6599 |
Plots within plots, wheels within wheels. Ace shuffled across the floor, trying to find a continuation. |
| 6600 |
Evan watched the ball fly out of sight. Then he leaped joyfully in the air and began running the bases. |
| 6601 |
I didn't say anything. I lit a cigarette. I took one draw on it and sat down on the bed again, quickly. |
| 6602 |
The animal handler approached the screen, his hands twitching nervously, his pendulous lower lip moist. |
| 6603 |
Doc slapped the flames licking at his shoulder until they subsided. He rose, ignoring the pain he felt. |
| 6604 |
After a moment, the mercenary began to snake his way up the sloping deck until he had reached the rail. |
| 6605 |
Tigris settled herself in the central saddle and flicked the reins. Her mount sprang back into the air. |
| 6606 |
Aide verbalized his thoughts. A man who rides a tiger long enough begins to think like a tiger himself. |
| 6607 |
I always thought you was too big for your britches. Now I can see you've filled them out mighty nicely. |
| 6608 |
With some understandable dread, the young warrior crept to a turn in the corridor and peered around it. |
| 6609 |
De Ruse let the clerk go. He looked expressionlessly at cigar ash on the front of the pudgy man's coat. |
| 6610 |
The name had no meaning to some of them, but Angelo gave loud voice to the sudden concerns of the rest. |
| 6611 |
I pressed the button, listened for the dial tone, and called Claudia without even hanging up the phone. |
| 6612 |
Monk tried to leap after the cat. He was spun aside by a bronze flash. Doc Savage had gone into action. |
| 6613 |
Patterson was sitting in the corner of the passageway, his hands over his face. The cell door was open. |
| 6614 |
The guard clapped a hand on the man's shoulders. The worker squirmed, panicked. All pretense slid away. |
| 6615 |
All night Coyote sat outside his lodge shivering and listening. At one point he heard his wife cry out. |
| 6616 |
The audience spilled out into the street. The wizards gathered around the Dean, snapping their fingers. |
| 6617 |
Slade noticed Austin peering back toward where the tugboat was nudged up against the stern of the ship. |
| 6618 |
No, Margot would have to be subtle, and also treat them with respect. She would have to tantalize them. |
| 6619 |
Curiosity would never let him go to sleep without finding out who had arrived at such an untimely hour. |
| 6620 |
The darkness formed, expanding as it had before. In a moment it encompassed them. The vertigo returned. |
| 6621 |
After they had reached the proper altitude, Oliver stared in wonder at the moonlit landscape far below. |
| 6622 |
The boy was already across the street, walking fast, with the two bags of groceries hugged in his arms. |
| 6623 |
Hansen waited anxiously as, this time, Jackie listened while the phone rang. Still there was no answer. |
| 6624 |
Angelina and Sybil looked quite fetching. I quickly averted my eyes from one, blew a kiss to the other. |
| 6625 |
This thought always made her conscious of the network that adjusted to her movements wherever she went. |
| 6626 |
Kinsman sat on the edge of the bed and helped the old man out of his jacket, then pulled off his shoes. |
| 6627 |
There were times he woke up at night sweating, from dreams of the man he might have become in the Land. |
| 6628 |
They had no choice. They followed her into the woods. Behind them, the roaring and bellowing continued. |
| 6629 |
John Sunlight's bony, dark face did not change a particle. He was not a man who showed what he thought. |
| 6630 |
The woman from the Dust sniffed at her twin triumphs, ran her hand a last loving time over her statues. |
| 6631 |
It occurred to her then that her eyes should belong to the category of missing and nonfunctional items. |
| 6632 |
Blue light. A tiny figure of blue light, a bright shadow thrown on the inside of the upturned iron pot. |
| 6633 |
The woman quickly joined them in the boat, and they hastily explained about the deadly invisible cloud. |
| 6634 |
This guy looked criminal, just an eye patch short of a pirate. Tucker didn't want to tell him anything. |
| 6635 |
He took a running start, jumped off the edge, spreading his arms and soaring like a bird into the void. |
| 6636 |
There was no response, but at that moment the metal being dragged stopped, as if someone was listening. |
| 6637 |
Midnight's flesh paled. She had not even considered the possibility that the spell might work too well. |
| 6638 |
Wilberforce left the engine open and unlocked the driver's door and poked his head into the front seat. |
| 6639 |
For the first time since we'd met him, our youthful guide showed an emotion other than boredom or fear. |
| 6640 |
We looked at one another. Richard would soon be picking us up. Once he arrived, the date would be over. |
| 6641 |
The black bell was floating along the edge of the pool at a height of about seven feet above the floor. |
| 6642 |
Dropping the reins on the ground to keep the stallion in place, he followed Talbot to the open doorway. |
| 6643 |
A queer bird and far from ingratiating, thought Hobart, staring after him as he finished the cigarette. |
| 6644 |
But there really was a ghost in my house, a ghost playing my piano. And I was the only one who knew it. |
| 6645 |
Doc Savage had already heard. Men were running. They clattered rocks with their feet, breathed heavily. |
| 6646 |
He tossed the little leather pouch down on the desk. Marty looked at it curiously, but didn't touch it. |
| 6647 |
The excitement increased throughout the day. There were two persons, though, who were unaffected by it. |
| 6648 |
Krispin smoothed its feathers, using those slurred sounds which were soothing and plainly gave comfort. |
| 6649 |
It was a useless question. The moment of disbelief faded, and he knew very well who the questioner was. |
| 6650 |
The blast caused silence to seize momentarily upon the low hill. The voodoo men were surprised, uneasy. |
| 6651 |
It struck her that it might be easier to channel the magic into a spell, rather than try to contain it. |
| 6652 |
The officer held out his hand. Ben surrendered it and watched the officer turn it on and punch buttons. |
| 6653 |
There was nothing for it but to either bluff or fight our way in, or to stay out here for the duration. |
| 6654 |
He might have even made it without a body and regalia, given enough dope to use on a conclave of Lords. |
| 6655 |
There was silence as his audience looked at him stubbornly, challenging him to make good on his pledge. |
| 6656 |
Snarks and I accompanied the dealer outside the dwelling, where we found a somewhat disgruntled dragon. |
| 6657 |
Time elapsed while my brain finished booting up. Then I asked Denis what the hell he was doing up here. |
| 6658 |
The man behind you in church who sings with terrific gusto almost tree quarters of a tone off the note. |
| 6659 |
Mustering all his strength he delivered a punch to the tree beside him that shook the foliage overhead. |
| 6660 |
Richard was a flea in a vast canyon. Even so, the place was not limitless, as it was outside the walls. |
| 6661 |
Claudia burst into giggles, smacking her hand over her mouth to stop the Oreo crumbs from spraying out. |
| 6662 |
Kate collected the guns. Abbey held back the dogs by simply placing her hand in warning on their heads. |
| 6663 |
There was the faintest feeling of acceleration and then a vague, barely noticeable sensation of motion. |
| 6664 |
I removed the whip from the wall, and shook out the strands. There were five of them, pliant and broad. |
| 6665 |
Mia stabbed the disconnect with a trembling hand and leaned back in the chair, thrilled and frightened. |
| 6666 |
He smiled down at her, as if he knew perfectly well the devastating effect he was having on her senses. |
| 6667 |
I typed my essay out carefully. Then I closed my eyes, held my breath, and prepared for the worst part. |
| 6668 |
Muller and Horn looked at each other in silence, then they turned their eyes again toward the dead man. |
| 6669 |
They ran on. Doc Savage produced a small flashlight and sprayed light over two lumps on the hall floor. |
| 6670 |
Rice has been our mainstay so long we cannot afford to lose so generous and wholly helpful a companion. |
| 6671 |
I wiped my forehead, even though I knew neither the sun's heat nor glare had reached through my shield. |
| 6672 |
Gwen got on her tiptoes and kissed him for that, and they both had tears in their eyes. Well, so did I. |
| 6673 |
The Orb was gone. Soon it would be in the hands of his enemies. They would wield its power against him. |
| 6674 |
Powell's eyes swept the jagged glitter of Mercury to the horizon and winced at the gorgeous brilliance. |
| 6675 |
Hastily, Mavra explained what had happened. The girl nodded sympathetically, but was plainly concerned. |
| 6676 |
Chris raised himself slightly and looked down at her. He glistened with sweat, and she liked that, too. |
| 6677 |
It was the condition of this man which caused little pricks of horror to tingle the skin of Doc's aids. |
| 6678 |
He pulled back the lever and the island began rising, though still maintaining its horizontal attitude. |
| 6679 |
This emptied the bottle. The bronze man had already poured some of the stuff through two other windows. |
| 6680 |
And after eating little else for six days, he was getting thoroughly sick of the worthy legume himself. |
| 6681 |
What other unpleasant dwellers this hillock might have I did not know, but I had no desire to discover. |
| 6682 |
I was still worried, but realized that that was about the most restraint I would get out of my partner. |
| 6683 |
The Jews were beginning to pull away. Poland had paid its small indemnity for the years of persecution. |
| 6684 |
Claudia pulled herself together. She wiped her tears with a tissue and sat up as straight as she could. |
| 6685 |
He looked at me. I put my head down before a free man. He did not summon me forward. I must still wait. |
| 6686 |
I climbed up on the boulder. The sun was setting behind me. That was the west. In front of me was east. |
| 6687 |
She charged the net. She limped. She cramped. She slammed shots. She made points. She won by attrition. |
| 6688 |
I heard a sword leave its sheath. Then I heard six swords more leap from the sheaths. I was frightened. |
| 6689 |
The day was fine, a high sun shimmering off the calm sea. The rowers were still strong and disciplined. |
| 6690 |
There was no other break in the wall after she left the door of the laboratory. Also the hall narrowed. |
| 6691 |
She nodded. Her face was radiant. She looked like anything but your stereotypical exhausted new mother. |
| 6692 |
And old animosities surfaced like ghosts, troubling a present in which humans knew they were not alone. |
| 6693 |
The sack he carried was pitifully small, and we buried it deep in the earth in a plain earthenware jar. |
| 6694 |
The other recruits snored. In the next stable a horse whinnied softly. Beside Sharpe the straw rustled. |
| 6695 |
But because Peter did not bring it up, Achilles modestly refrained from talking about his achievements. |
| 6696 |
If nobody told them, they'd never know. He bit into dry bread, and chased it with a large gulp of wine. |
| 6697 |
Zed needed no urging. He and his companions shot away around the house as though released from springs. |
| 6698 |
She put her hands into her pockets and touched the lucky stone. And the string. And the piece of chalk. |
| 6699 |
This last wishful thought Marshall had to strike. It was a nebulous thought on which he could not rely. |
| 6700 |
Guy, I will always adore you, and be assured of my utmost loyalty whatever decision you should come to. |
| 6701 |
Krisha wasn't the only one to find herself on that transparent spiral leading down to the city, though. |
| 6702 |
The doorbell rang. Feeling as if he were in a trance, he crossed the carpeted living room to answer it. |
| 6703 |
Janie was not making her Johnson mother and father carry the burden either but was carrying it herself. |
| 6704 |
Modestly I admitted that I had seldom been solitary for long, and said that I supposed neither had she. |
| 6705 |
She didn't deny it, and the knowledge that she was truly afraid of him sliced through him like a knife. |
| 6706 |
The two power plants at the mine permit continued work at full force. Fuel will readily last till dawn. |
| 6707 |
Hardly thirty seconds passed before Jackson appeared through the connecting door to the adjoining room. |
| 6708 |
Bay's quick fingers stilled, and she turned slowly in the swivel chair to stare at Pol, her face ashen. |
| 6709 |
Half the kids had abandoned the poppers. Once again they were crowded around Danielle, talking eagerly. |
| 6710 |
The vampire snarled, snapped open its month with fury, showing fully its sharp bloody fangs. It hissed. |
| 6711 |
It was as if thinking of her opened a window in his mind. He could see her. He could, somehow, see her. |
| 6712 |
The laughter from the back of the room rose in peals of hilarity. Jason sipped his lemonade and waited. |
| 6713 |
Wayne nodded. Then he waited, as one of the two civilians asked questions. His partner remained silent. |
| 6714 |
And so I did. Eyes shut so that I did not have to watch them fading into the fog, I repeated my action. |
| 6715 |
Shaking his head, he left the house. The sun was hidden now behind dark clouds, and rain began to fall. |
| 6716 |
If she would just go away for a minute or two, Cavendish thought. Just long enough to let me slip away. |
| 6717 |
I squatted down on my heels to view them but I did not put forth my hand, even my staff, to touch them. |
| 6718 |
She bent to crush out her cigarette and again she speared the stub and dropped it into the wastebasket. |
| 6719 |
Half a dozen army ships were streaking toward them. They did not see the tiny scouting plane far above. |
| 6720 |
Agnes hurried across to the big window and turned to look at Granny, who was standing by the fireplace. |
| 6721 |
Effects of the gas lasted only a short time. The tall man recovered swiftly, blinking his eyes rapidly. |
| 6722 |
The speaker seemed to want to match the auditorium darkness with the lack of light in his own analysis. |
| 6723 |
For several seconds, he was aware only of the reality of his escape, that and Brennan's supporting arm. |
| 6724 |
Instead, she walked over to him. Perhaps he would relent just a little and let her slide into his mind. |
| 6725 |
The captain grunted with satisfaction. That was good news. Excellent news, actually, and on two counts. |
| 6726 |
The children arrived at the police station and marched in, much to the surprise of the policeman there. |
| 6727 |
Double the most a man wants is something I probably shouldn't have wished on my worst enemy, but I did. |
| 6728 |
His gun clicked on empty and he dropped it. He began groping around in his pocket for another revolver. |
| 6729 |
In an effort to avoid the light, Alex turned his head to the side, and saw Barrett staring down at him. |
| 6730 |
They dragged the bodies aside and listened at the door. Nothing came through it but a sinister silence. |
| 6731 |
Imagination, she told herself. If the place was crawling with goblins, they'd have attacked us already. |
| 6732 |
Someone had left it for her to find with the red ink circling this one ad, so she would be sure to see. |
| 6733 |
Eventually he emerged from what must have been a vast expanse of parkland. He was soon on some streets. |
| 6734 |
When Doc and his aids climbed out of the pit, they were surrounded by men with lances and short swords. |
| 6735 |
Bink turned to Humfrey. The man was snoring quietly in a comfortable chair. There was an awkward pause. |
| 6736 |
He moved restlessly, his suspicion growing. With his hand on his hilt he peered into the gloomy arches. |
| 6737 |
Sean's anger was gone, replaced by guilty thankfulness that it had not been Saul out there in the open. |
| 6738 |
And best of all, here was a great armada that would meet a charge with no guns, and fought only hunger. |
| 6739 |
As he made his way up the stairs to the main deck the turbines roared up from the moon, out into space. |
| 6740 |
He blew his nose on the handkerchief, carefully folded it up, and produced another one from his pocket. |
| 6741 |
The major whipped his head around, looking to the electronic box to see who had scored the touch first. |
| 6742 |
He strode toward me and seized me by the back of my neck and an ankle. He lifted me high over his head. |
| 6743 |
He had missed the friend far more than he'd missed the lover, but he had missed those hours in her bed. |
| 6744 |
She sat up, angrily, pulling at the collar that encircled her throat. It remained well fastened on her. |
| 6745 |
Columbus raised an eyebrow. This was not the sort of thing he expected to hear from a Franciscan prior. |
| 6746 |
Robert's senses had grown. He looked again at the thread in her hands and felt a thrill of recognition. |
| 6747 |
Friday night. The lights at the football field on the edge of town were the brightest things for miles. |
| 6748 |
Moments passed, but she knew he was not ignoring her and waited, enjoying the warmth and the closeness. |
| 6749 |
That herbal guy could see what he could find edible in the vegetable line. There might even be berries. |
| 6750 |
When Adam was downstairs, I tossed his jacket over his shoulders and hurried the two kids out the door. |
| 6751 |
Of Eda's many remarkable traits, perhaps the most striking was his modesty. He rarely offered opinions. |
| 6752 |
He turned his full attention to the computer printouts, trying to get the vision of Jo out of his mind. |
| 6753 |
Winter. Stars. The endless sky. Spiders. Snakes. One another. People had been afraid of so many things. |
| 6754 |
This was all he needed. Four years of work and this bum was walking away with his race. And his number. |
| 6755 |
A masculine hand had written the same five words that were on the seal. Below them was the translation. |
| 6756 |
Rachel knew what Leah meant, but the fact that she had not yet begun to bleed meant nothing to her now. |
| 6757 |
The giant lifted his head and sniffed at the air, then made a series of obscure gestures with one hand. |
| 6758 |
He did, of course. But so much pain had come with that labor, and he was ill equipped to bear it again. |
| 6759 |
Before they approached the door of the cabin, Long Tom made a swift examination of the dead man's guns. |
| 6760 |
Many had thought it to be the end of the world. For much of the earth's population it was exactly that. |
| 6761 |
A rumble of assent came from the armed men. The priest bent his head and wept, clutching his medallion. |
| 6762 |
He looked up at the patchy sky overhead. Through long ragged openings in the clouds he could see stars. |
| 6763 |
If she was tuning in, she knew what she was doing. He nodded agreement, and they ran in that direction. |
| 6764 |
He waved them over, handed out some of our dwindling supply of tablets, and told them how to take them. |
| 6765 |
I've been coming here every week for two years, and every week Bob wraps his arms around me, and I cry. |
| 6766 |
Sun made silver droplets of the bubble shelters as Charis lurched into the open ground around the base. |
| 6767 |
She was older than he had first judged, and she wore none of the fashionable gold or silver cheek leaf. |
| 6768 |
Ten minutes went past. The red lines began rapidly to wink out. Red blotches appeared south of Atlanta. |
| 6769 |
Thomas Curl was not convinced. He remembered the neatly centered bullet hole in his brother's forehead. |
| 6770 |
He smiled and his smile matched the gentle radiance surrounding him. It was impossible not to love him. |
| 6771 |
There was a sharp crack from the east, and a little spray of dust kicked up two inches from Doc's knee. |
| 6772 |
The two of them were very cute. And all of a sudden I had another reminder of why I was feeling rotten. |
| 6773 |
And yet she wanted him to read it. And after all she had done for him, he could surely do this for her. |
| 6774 |
It was also said, however, that he never entered the circle against the net or other unfamiliar weapon. |
| 6775 |
That connection and analysis took a little longer than quick, but still consumed less than two minutes. |
| 6776 |
He slid. He fell. He hit gravel. He ate alley grit. He smelled cordite. He licked cigar butts and dirt. |
| 6777 |
Same room. Now most of the furniture had been removed. A sleeping bag was laid along one wall. A table. |
| 6778 |
Lee replied, and they moved through half a dozen languages before finding one in which they could talk. |
| 6779 |
The presence of the beggars was not strange, for tropical cities are commonly infested with mendicants. |
| 6780 |
Nicholas performed the charade conscientiously, aware that Harry was staring at him through the window. |
| 6781 |
He slipped out of the room on to the landing, closing the door quietly, so as not to disturb the child. |
| 6782 |
There was a whoosh of air as the door closed behind her, plunging her into complete and utter darkness. |
| 6783 |
Up on the roof, a whistle started. It was low at first, but became louder after the fashion of a siren. |
| 6784 |
Long Tom suffered unutterable tortures as he was lifted and tossed bodily into the awful black opening. |
| 6785 |
She dropped the cigarette lighter and grabbed the pistol with her other hand. Aimed right at his chest. |
| 6786 |
She felt then a hot breeze from surface sand touch her cheeks where they were exposed above the filter. |
| 6787 |
A shriek of rage broke from the wounded, foiled chief, and wounded though he was he bounded toward Joe. |
| 6788 |
He was leaning far forward in the saddle, and the point of my blade entered his neck on the right side. |
| 6789 |
Quentin understood. He did not feel right about himself anymore either. Everything seemed out of joint. |
| 6790 |
Then they all saw the nest. A dull brown bird flew off, showing a grassy cup with five blue eggs in it. |
| 6791 |
The stallions trotted onto the dusty road and then, at a slow walk, the party made their way into town. |
| 6792 |
I love charging around with a duster. It's one of the only jobs I do where I can actually see a result. |
| 6793 |
He wondered if some of that fright she'd felt as a child when hearing the tale was still living in her. |
| 6794 |
His wrist was twisted by an overwhelming force. Remorselessly the weapon continued to point out Tigris. |
| 6795 |
Jacob picked another rake and rolled it in his fingers. The light slip of tool steel felt smooth, cool. |
| 6796 |
Charlie puffed away at his first cigar, wondering what it must be like to suffer in this way every day. |
| 6797 |
The surprise silenced her for a time. Then she thought of something that made her lips part with shock. |
| 6798 |
He chuckled and then stopped, rather abashed, as her cold anger seemed to fold him about and chill him. |
| 6799 |
Kim opened her mourn. No pun came out. She wasn't surprised. Their situation did not seem at all funny. |
| 6800 |
And that's about it. The club is successful and fun, and Jessi and I are really glad we became members. |
| 6801 |
Suddenly I stopped. I rocked and steadied myself by rudely grabbing hold of the younger man's shoulder. |
| 6802 |
And a light grew between her hands, spinning and spinning in a way he had seen once and more than once. |
| 6803 |
He had caught a single glimpse of the big man, and the circumstances had given him a perverse pleasure. |
| 6804 |
But the room was small. It was an easy matter for the killer to maneuver into a better firing position. |
| 6805 |
The man screamed. He floundered. They held him. He screeched so hard that spray flew through his teeth. |
| 6806 |
She found that she was starting to get tired, so she leaned back against a cushion and closed her eyes. |
| 6807 |
Bond looked into her eyes. There was no message. They were not focused on his. They looked through him. |
| 6808 |
I am hoping no one else notices it because it clearly points the way to the continuation of the series. |
| 6809 |
The noise startled the woodcutters. But then, seeing that the jest was not aimed at them, they relaxed. |
| 6810 |
Marissa asked. She thought that should give her enough time to get there no matter how far away it was. |
| 6811 |
Sue wasn't aware of how long the screen remained like that. Time now seemed to have no meaning for her. |
| 6812 |
Homely Monk hung his jaw in surprise. Words, voice, they were unlike anything he had ever heard before. |
| 6813 |
The wizard uncurled his stinging fist and the roll of gold coins slipped between his throbbing fingers. |
| 6814 |
When they turned to look, the boy was petting the young stallion and feeding him pieces of wild carrot. |
| 6815 |
With her left hand she carefully restrained her right hand which wanted to strangle her at this moment. |
| 6816 |
I let go of the dragon's foreleg. I opened my eyes, surprised to find it was still night all around me. |
| 6817 |
He followed the trail until it dropped into a small arroyo. He shut off the motor, lighted a cigarette. |
| 6818 |
Operations chatter. Quiet stuff. She got to her feet hanging onto the chair and held to the back of it. |
| 6819 |
He felt his heel bump land, touch pebbles and rocks, scrape sand. The river had moved him toward shore. |
| 6820 |
I hung up. I cannot believe how rude I was. Around me were six dropped jaws and twelve bewildered eyes. |
| 6821 |
That would be all he needed tonight to make the evening complete, a failure on his listening exercises. |
| 6822 |
The old man leaned forward. It was so unexpected that the stranger pulled his foot off the bottom step. |
| 6823 |
He did not see or hear his pursuers, but he knew they were back there. They would always be back there. |
| 6824 |
Hammer motioned for her to be silent. Brazil clamped his pencil between his teeth and crossed his eyes. |
| 6825 |
Charlie took the little silver coin, and slipped quickly out of the room. In five minutes, he was back. |
| 6826 |
The final trial would not be separate as the others. We must wait until the rest who survived returned. |
| 6827 |
A handful of coins slid across the counter. They felt icy cold, and most of them were heavily corroded. |
| 6828 |
The diplomat turns without a word and trudges up the hill, his grinning bodyguards trailing behind him. |
| 6829 |
Because she had tried to possess him. And because he had spared her the full consequences of his power. |
| 6830 |
After a while, Hex gave an answer. Apart from one small but significant point, it was entirely correct. |
| 6831 |
I was starting to feel almost angry. He was acting as if nothing much out of the ordinary had happened. |
| 6832 |
Marguerite Olsen was wearing a ski suit. She was at the far end of the deck, refilling the bird feeder. |
| 6833 |
He could not bring himself to look at her. He smelled the melange of her cosmetics, cleared his throat. |
| 6834 |
Jack opened the apartment door for her. His mind formed a question as he spotted what she was carrying. |
| 6835 |
His drones abandoned ship, their controls taken over by a teammate, and were taken aboard another tank. |
| 6836 |
It was in midwinter, nearly three decades after the elf had first met Anna, that time began to run out. |
| 6837 |
The woman also, he was sure that some of his feeling at least had been shared by her, known to her now. |
| 6838 |
On either side of them, some twenty paces distant, dark shadows could be seen moving from bush to bush. |
| 6839 |
There seemed to be something going on now at the post of the wharf praetor, so I returned to that area. |
| 6840 |
Wood landed blows of his own. Then he got to his feet, leaving his opponents sprawled out on the floor. |
| 6841 |
The ship wobbles in the sand, leaning to the left as the patched mainsail's taut curve strains seaward. |
| 6842 |
As he stood there, tension ebbing from his body, a giddy wave of exhaustion shuddered through his core. |
| 6843 |
Spinning the knotted rope in a skillful blur, Mariel dealt six lightning blows to the nuts on the rock. |
| 6844 |
Then I opened my eyes and what I saw was that skull face and it was laughing, its direful eyes upon me. |
| 6845 |
A statement which did not seem helpful to me, but which appeared to awaken new life and purpose in her. |
| 6846 |
If the first ones to come back had only returned with seashells, I doubt that Heaven would be out here. |
| 6847 |
More of the birds were dislodged from their feeding and flew clumsily perhaps as far as the next field. |
| 6848 |
Therefore, it stood to reason that if the cause be not just, the sword would refuse its wielder's hand. |
| 6849 |
Soon we reached the place where the trail plunged into the greater darkness. We halted and regarded it. |
| 6850 |
Near the throne was a backless stool, low enough to destroy the dignity of anyone who sat on it. I sat. |
| 6851 |
It stirred slightly, but did not seem inclined to wake up. So I reached out and prodded it with my paw. |
| 6852 |
Lorn takes her arm, and they walk down the corridor and then down the steps to the main Traders' Plaza. |
| 6853 |
Mama looked at Daddy. He was already looking at her. Squirt smashed his spoon into his mashed potatoes. |
| 6854 |
In the gloom, it was impossible to tell from where the thrown object had come. They renewed the charge. |
| 6855 |
They watched him around the first turn of the hallway and then stepped back inside and closed the door. |
| 6856 |
He heard the door of his office open and close. Dimly, he made out a tall, lean figure approaching him. |
| 6857 |
There was a faint shriek from outside the chamber, and then another, louder one. The eye tyrant turned. |
| 6858 |
His foot encountered an obstacle on the floor. He shoved against it gently. It gave way with a clatter. |
| 6859 |
They weren't the revolution, they were the sustaining force behind the injustice that had created them. |
| 6860 |
While the crews fought to control the dragons, rough hands grabbed Judith and hustled her out the door. |
| 6861 |
There was a silence. Nobody looked very pleased. In fact, George looked furious. She burst out at last. |
| 6862 |
They stayed a little over an hour. When they left, I went back down to bed. That night I slept soundly. |
| 6863 |
Six party tables were clustered at one side of the room, complete with knives and a few electric irons. |
| 6864 |
He came to a stop with an arm leveled at the starved young man who seemed gripped by some weird stupor. |
| 6865 |
Stepping back a pace, the shadow raised his knife and struck. A moist thud cut the snores off abruptly. |
| 6866 |
Vittoria motioned to the far side of the hole where a rotting, wooden ladder descended into the depths. |
| 6867 |
Thinking that she meant to run along side wearing a military drone, I said that she was always welcome. |
| 6868 |
I gave myself a chance, though. I stood there for a few minutes and thought about having a third drink. |
| 6869 |
Back into the refuge they went, to the terminal of the ancient ways. But in the tunnel no break showed. |
| 6870 |
Radcliffe did not lower his eyes this time and there was an unaccustomed note of hardness in his voice. |
| 6871 |
He heard the sound of the horse again, and the faint jingle of a harness. It stopped a little way away. |
| 6872 |
The officer aimed at the guerrilla's body and fired. Dust puffed from the shoulder of the black jacket. |
| 6873 |
Then she remembered hearing some friends talk the previous afternoon about a big jewelry store robbery. |
| 6874 |
It dropped from my limp fingers as my back slid slowly down the tree until I was sitting on the ground. |
| 6875 |
Fortunately, his response to that was muttered softly enough that she could pretend she didn't hear it. |
| 6876 |
Shivering in the chill air, he shifted his weight in the saddle, wishing he had thought to wear gloves. |
| 6877 |
I nodded. I supposed things might not have been much different if the foragers had been soldiers of Ar. |
| 6878 |
Behind us we heard two girls squabbling over garbage, contesting desirable scraps from the wire basket. |
| 6879 |
Slowly, he puts the maps in the order he wishes, then rolls them up and ties them into a single bundle. |
| 6880 |
He has heard the same bitterness from his mother, and indirectly from most of the other western rulers. |
| 6881 |
Her aim was rotten. She was upset, could barely see. The dagger grazed the animal along the left flank. |
| 6882 |
When he looked back at Antonina, his lips had disappeared entirely. The lemon had been swallowed whole. |
| 6883 |
He straightened out, realizing that he was soaked in sweat and yet his teeth were chattering with cold. |
| 6884 |
Torches glittered in all directions. There were villagers on the slope both above and below the temple. |
| 6885 |
The younger man stares along the stone pier, out toward the oncoming storm, for a time before he turns. |
| 6886 |
Your chances of a place in a future cabinet and possibly one day the premiership, she finished for him. |
| 6887 |
The discarded muskets were recovered and one proved to be identical to those that the Hessians carried. |
| 6888 |
He moved to the man, who was now kneeling, his hand clamped to a badly bleeding wound on his upper arm. |
| 6889 |
One of the hammerers scowled in our direction. The other half dozen or so turned to look at us as well. |
| 6890 |
The chilly white of her bedroom was not comforting. She wished she still had the room of her childhood. |
| 6891 |
She turned her left side from me. She pulled at the bracelets which fastened her hands behind her back. |
| 6892 |
The scream cut off abruptly, and when the juvenile lifted his head, Grant saw ragged flesh in his jaws. |
| 6893 |
Hornblower took him to the cabin window and pointed out through it, just as Sharpe had done previously. |
| 6894 |
And then Nils laughed and the world was sane once more. Christina looked at him, puzzled but reassured. |
| 6895 |
That would place a person to the right of the desk in the front room, in a position near to the window. |
| 6896 |
If I grow much smaller, trying to keep my height under his, I believe I must soon disappear altogether. |
| 6897 |
The egg blanket covered him. I watched him struggle underneath it. And I listened to his muffled cries. |
| 6898 |
She tightened the blanket around herself. She could not imagine ever coming out from under the blanket. |
| 6899 |
Up above them, rack on rack of dragons sizzled contentedly. Wisps of steam drifted through the shadows. |
| 6900 |
She stood frozen. My nails raked across her cheek, scratching it. First the marks were white, then red. |
| 6901 |
Six thousand cultures. And he wouldn't have to lose her. For an instant, Paolo almost changed his mind. |
| 6902 |
The roadster led the way outside the city. It turned in toward a big house set well back from the road. |
| 6903 |
A handful of riders wearing blue trots across the meadows to the southwest, out from behind a low hill. |
| 6904 |
There seemed to be no strength or feeling in his legs, and the robot seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. |
| 6905 |
Gliding across to her big chair, the Abbess put on a mock frown. Silence fell in the hall like a stone. |
| 6906 |
She had only just left, I was informed, and a maid was engaged in preparing the rooms for a next guest. |
| 6907 |
She was touched. He had brought a sweater and a book, which meant that he was staying. And now pudding. |
| 6908 |
The chancellor came in, bowing and uttering apologies about the poor status of the reports this waking. |
| 6909 |
Joseph's robe, decorated with bands of red and yellow, earned him some awful teasing from his brothers. |
| 6910 |
He pulls his arm out of the sling and wiggles his fingers, then sets his elbow on the table beside him. |
| 6911 |
Hugh shook his head and was immediately sorry. He thought his eyeballs must burst out of their sockets. |
| 6912 |
He walked off. And then, abruptly, began the craziest series of actions I had yet seen him engage upon. |
| 6913 |
I went back to my airbus. I told my driver to go up someplace and hover. I needed some peace and quiet. |
| 6914 |
A tall young man in prison pajamas appeared in the van door, holding a bloody combat knife in his hand. |
| 6915 |
I stared at him. I wanted to say something, but I didn't know what to say. It just kept getting deeper. |
| 6916 |
For in olden times such warmth had been impossible, and bitter winter had been the common curse of all. |
| 6917 |
Gingerly she picked up his arm and placed her fingertips over his wrist. There was no detectable pulse. |
| 6918 |
The sound continued for several minutes, then ceased. Realization transformed the Princess' expression. |
| 6919 |
When my parents announced we were moving from the city into a house in the woods, I was a little tense. |
| 6920 |
It was very apparent now why the house had been surrounded so completely by the sprinkler installation. |
| 6921 |
When he came to that part of the story, he faltered, for he could not himself explain how he was freed. |
| 6922 |
Donal stopped talking, walked back across to the desk, and pressed the keys. The schematic disappeared. |
| 6923 |
She took a deep breath then walked across to her bag, digging around until she found Evan's gold chain. |
| 6924 |
The two pets went scrambling into an open gate, and were heard prancing up steps to balconies overhead. |
| 6925 |
The bony man looked after the bronze giant. He seemed happy, since a broad grin was on his wasted face. |
| 6926 |
The water lapped on rocks only feet from her head but seemed, despite the rising level, quite peaceful. |
| 6927 |
None of the knights moved a muscle in the saddle. They kept their horses under strict control, as well. |
| 6928 |
This was a word she understood. Spared. It had been explained to her when she learned the dancing song. |
| 6929 |
The manager kept puffing out his cheeks and seemed to be trying to say something, but nothing came out. |
| 6930 |
Lost in euphoria, she rose from the chair, and quietly followed the two men as they made their way aft. |
| 6931 |
Fifi had the cutest form of any small girl Doc had ever seen. Short girls are usually spread out a bit. |
| 6932 |
Now she cuddled Ted against her cheek, and she could pretend that it was her own arm holding him there. |
| 6933 |
Tommy bent over and looked where Tuppence's small finger pointed to a portion of the verse in question. |
| 6934 |
I felt sickened and cold in my misery. I looked up to the Queen and I could form no prayers with words. |
| 6935 |
Gerard heaved a sigh. This alarm had nothing to do with him. He forced himself to stand still and wait. |
| 6936 |
Wiz forced himself to calm down and think. Through all the hunger and cold and terror, he had to think. |
| 6937 |
The second reason is more subtle, for it involved a change in the nature of the science fiction writer. |
| 6938 |
The line went dead. Lily gave the phone in her hand one incredulous glance, then set it down and stood. |
| 6939 |
He stood. The pain under his ribs made him walk carefully. He dreaded what it would feel like tomorrow. |
| 6940 |
Pete hit Wayne. Wayne took it. Pete apologized. Pete was frayed. Barb was in exile. The biz was exiled. |
| 6941 |
Lake's weapons of war, covered in oiled leather, had been placed on six wagons which headed the column. |
| 6942 |
Closer, closer. The eunuch pointed to the Empress. John turned his head, following the pointing finger. |
| 6943 |
Boy, I couldn't have been more wrong. Not five minutes after Vanessa left, a knock sounded on the door. |
| 6944 |
How unfortunate that she couldn't act upon it. Her mother would have a fit. And that would be tiresome. |
| 6945 |
I nodded. I had gathered that there might be trouble brewing. I myself had seen the movement of troops. |
| 6946 |
Instead, they got angry. They accused me of never taking anything seriously, and sent me up to my room. |
| 6947 |
Smoke whispered something. I think he accused me of lying. I was developing an intense dislike for him. |
| 6948 |
Suddenly a random shaft of sunlight moved in under the scudding clouds. It was from directly behind us. |
| 6949 |
He stepped out of the wheelhouse and snapped on a spotlight and slowly swept its beam across the water. |
| 6950 |
Nicholas was moved. It was not a game to the boy. But he could not resist teasing it out a little more. |
| 6951 |
Gratefully Bruce walked out onto the deck and sat at the table where quite a little crowd had gathered. |
| 6952 |
Then they turned and put up their hands. All three walked outside and gave themselves up to the police. |
| 6953 |
Hunter silently set down the microphone. There was no need to translate. The message was all too clear. |
| 6954 |
He would not let the two archaeologists accompany him when he returned to the vaults to view the crown. |
| 6955 |
I reached with my right hand across to her right ankle, and with my left hand across to her left ankle. |
| 6956 |
I could not see for the salt water in my eyes. It burned in my nostrils for a moment. I spit water out. |
| 6957 |
Another tarred, flaming javelin fell hissing into the water. This time in fell only fifty yards astern. |
| 6958 |
A slug thumped into the top of the sofa, instantly followed by the sound of the shot from the corridor. |
| 6959 |
Later, a ramshackle delivery car ran around the truck with a great clatter, cut in sharply and went on. |
| 6960 |
The Doctor drew back the curtain of the trotting cab and indicated an alleyway ahead with his umbrella. |
| 6961 |
She knelt at the edge of the dark stain, ignoring the faint queasiness resulting from the rancid smell. |
| 6962 |
Jim reached over and shoved the quarterstaves away among the luggage. He looked back at Curt, scowling. |
| 6963 |
The men fell back onto the barge, shooting. Three of them went down, were dragged aboard by the others. |
| 6964 |
Louise duly kept the appointment, generous terms were arranged, and she started work the following day. |
| 6965 |
What he sought had been placed directly below the throne whereon the Emperor sat at all state services. |
| 6966 |
Now the path became less steep. Now it was level, and here it intersected another path at right angles. |
| 6967 |
The man glanced over his shoulder, and there at the bottom of the slope stood a woman in a white dress. |
| 6968 |
That thought, also, was picked up. The churning within the other became chaotic in eagerness to answer. |
| 6969 |
A soft laugh sounded from Sara's right and she whirled around. She had heard no footsteps, no movement. |
| 6970 |
This time, the fish didn't sink back into the depths. It stayed on the surface, thrashing convulsively. |
| 6971 |
Then I worked on putting it all together into an essay. I tried to keep it short, sweet, and really me. |
| 6972 |
Sarah and Elizabeth saw me looking. Sarah fiddled with her mitten. There was a guilty look on her face. |
| 6973 |
One side, if that's what you could call it, was fleeing the field of battle with the others in pursuit. |
| 6974 |
Granny sidled quickly across the room to the fireplace, and then back to her station by the front door. |
| 6975 |
But finally, at an altitude of seventy thousand feet the batteries did show they could work no further. |
| 6976 |
Jenny shook her head and waved dismissively, as if clearing distractingly angry thoughts from her mind. |
| 6977 |
With that they shook hands, and Wendell made his departure into the mist. He was gone in three strides. |
| 6978 |
His brows pulled down into a terrible scowl. His cheeks puffed out and his nostrils flared dangerously. |
| 6979 |
A chaotic mix of emotions played over the girl's face. She began to speak, but Madame held up her hand. |
| 6980 |
Oliver squinted to make out what Turner had seen and finally noticed dim forms near the tunnel's mouth. |
| 6981 |
He removed the rope, hauled the victim to his feet, and propelled him briskly through the outer office. |
| 6982 |
Illuminati and their covenant against the Vatican, the scope of this situation was starting to sink in. |
| 6983 |
Jerkily, the robot loosened his hold. Not entirely, but Lucky's legs came free and his head could move. |
| 6984 |
Ham had his feet on the bottom stair. Here, he could be plainly seen. He started backing slowly upward. |
| 6985 |
For a moment his elation knew no bounds. Now, at last, he could go back to producing works of true Art. |
| 6986 |
A couple had entered the empty dining room, looking bewildered, as if they had come on the wrong night. |
| 6987 |
A slender brown haired girl, rather shabbily dressed, entered and stood hesitating. Tommy came forward. |
| 6988 |
Finally one of the figures knelt and reached forward, extending slender fingers to the water's surface. |
| 6989 |
I walked slowly out of the hallway, and down the marble steps and into the night, ignoring my carriage. |
| 6990 |
There was a soft carpet under their feet. They groped forward into the room and blundered on to a sofa. |
| 6991 |
The canoe swerved inshore and slackened speed. The boat passed Doc slowly at a distance of thirty feet. |
| 6992 |
When she returned a few moments later with her glass of milk, she was stifling a naughty little giggle. |
| 6993 |
Rowan entered and shut the door. Air immediately began to pump into the small room, restoring pressure. |
| 6994 |
As Chet shouted, the intruder streaked across the cabin and out the door, which was swinging wide open. |
| 6995 |
He blinked against the afternoon sunlight. A body lay sprawled on the sand up ahead, half in the water. |
| 6996 |
So there was no doubt at all that a new star in the sky was a sign of a particularly spectacular order. |
| 6997 |
His torn leg collapsed beneath him, throwing him to the ground. His face was suddenly white with shock. |
| 6998 |
But when he was still a dozen feet away from the nearest window, a frostily casual voice addressed him. |
| 6999 |
With battle stations once again manned, Cheyenne slowed to five knots as they approached weapons range. |
| 7000 |
On the rock where our earlier adventure had begun the inscription flared briefly, as if in endorsement. |
| 7001 |
Someone on the inside. Incredible. The more he considered it, the more he realized it was child's play. |
| 7002 |
Maureen spotted the subtle shift of responsibility, the Cardinal's way of involving her in his problem. |
| 7003 |
Marissa could tell he was grateful to be excused. Before he left he gave her a quick peck on the cheek. |
| 7004 |
The spatula flicked the two pink cards over on their backs. The gay red queens smiled up at the lights. |
| 7005 |
Then again the great voice roared out the names of the seven dogs belonging to Morgan and the shepherd. |
| 7006 |
Depart, Covenant mumbled. Now. The importance of the words was hidden. His brain felt like a tombstone. |
| 7007 |
Monk picked up one of the suits and ran toward McCoy, intending to force the handsome man to put it on. |
| 7008 |
The noise of the pounding of the hooves was so intense that it was hard to hear anything else above it. |
| 7009 |
He walked until he heard footsteps approaching, when he stopped and listened. Heavy footsteps. A man's. |
| 7010 |
Doc said nothing. And in a moment, Monk emitted an astounded gasp, and sagged back on the cockpit seat. |
| 7011 |
Joseph did not reply, staring forward through the dust of the windscreen, clutching the thermos bottle. |
| 7012 |
The band on the stern deck stood still together, watching the fire reflected against the clouds behind. |
| 7013 |
She resisted an impulse to snatch the sponge from the basin and scrub the hateful stench from her skin. |
| 7014 |
With a bitter invective, Ham jiggled the receiver bar. A half minute later, he replaced the instrument. |
| 7015 |
She glanced down at the checklist on which her left hand rested. She held a chewed pencil in her right. |
| 7016 |
My explanation that I'd had a long day of walking and had stopped for a rest did not sit well with him. |
| 7017 |
She glanced at it, then gave a sharp cry and leaped to him, took hold of his arm to look at it closely. |
| 7018 |
With a start, Gwen realized that for the first time Marie had said something which required a response. |
| 7019 |
He turned away and walked back to the demon horde. A path opened before him and he vanished from sight. |
| 7020 |
The storeroom walls were intact, so were ceiling and floor, and there were no windows. And no Mr. Wail. |
| 7021 |
The soldiers continued to move ahead purposefully. Hood watched as coverage shifted to another monitor. |
| 7022 |
Yet as the heat waves from the land before him beat down, he could find no trace of any promising lead. |
| 7023 |
The driver seemed to be a rational person, but Decker found it difficult to believe what he was saying. |
| 7024 |
That smoke bomb was a very particular type. A great deal of experimenting had gone into its concoction. |
| 7025 |
Her breath drew in. I think that would be obscene. These relics had clearly been life and death to him. |
| 7026 |
The werewolf howled like a damned soul and jerked about as if in the throes of some strange affliction. |
| 7027 |
Doc Savage did not tell him his head gear must have be lifted to get a decoration for the strange belt. |
| 7028 |
It was pointed right at her. And the barrel was not soft. She thought she must surely die on this spot. |
| 7029 |
A man got out. He had a black face and wore shabby clothes, but his features were not those of a Negro. |
| 7030 |
Her face must have registered her distress at his state, for the tendrils empathized, and grew jittery. |
| 7031 |
They climbed up a narrow path to the ragged mouth of the cave and stood peering into the cavern beyond. |
| 7032 |
She hesitated. Finally the idea intrigued her, but she put her lips together firmly and shook her head. |
| 7033 |
In the end, the Five were permitted to talk among themselves. She systematically bade farewell to each. |
| 7034 |
Hours went by, but I didn't want to rush them. They knew what they had to accomplish better than I did. |
| 7035 |
Justen claimed the bowl with the meat and sauce and ladled a liberal amount across the pile of noodles. |
| 7036 |
Emerson labors to fashion words, using their rare power to lock the recollection back where it belongs. |
| 7037 |
Good riddance to both of you. You would have been drags on my boat, thorns in my side, pains in my ass. |
| 7038 |
I was on my own. Under disciplinary procedures, I didn't rate counsel, not that it would have mattered. |
| 7039 |
The implications were apparent to the Suzerain before the investigators' report reached its conclusion. |
| 7040 |
Jan started to protest again, then thought better of it and sipped at his tea. Sara nodded approvingly. |
| 7041 |
Examination showed the skylight of this roof had been smashed. There was a small pool of blood near by. |
| 7042 |
She stared at him. He could not maintain his grave demeanor for long, and both dissolved into laughter. |
| 7043 |
The clearing was quiet. The humped bodies of the dead werewolves lay at the edge of the outer darkness. |
| 7044 |
If they noted that a fantastic gray vapor filled the street, they ignored the fact in their excitement. |
| 7045 |
There were other machines on the ship that completely baffled us. We didn't know what they did, or how. |
| 7046 |
The wasted, rotted body tossed like a rag doll upon the impaling horn as the unicorn bucked and reared. |
| 7047 |
In the meantime reports of the Pirate became fewer and fewer as less and less money was shipped by air. |
| 7048 |
She shook her head dumbly and studied the wreckage of the catapult as if she couldn't believe her eyes. |
| 7049 |
One had a cut to the head that bled copiously, and the other had taken a crossbow bolt in the shoulder. |
| 7050 |
Everyone had expected the impact, held on through the violent jarring. No one was shaken over the side. |
| 7051 |
The gunman drew back. He panted. His pinched face threatened to rival in color the white shirt he wore. |
| 7052 |
His arm freed, Hunt whizzed the tent peg through the air, catapulting it with just a flip of the wrist. |
| 7053 |
She searched for her own self among the figures down below, shaking with terror lest she might succeed. |
| 7054 |
Phyllis looked at me in fury and turned, leaving the room. She walked beautifully, sinuous in her rage. |
| 7055 |
Then the click again and the droning on the wire and I hung up and went back across the office and out. |
| 7056 |
Vittoria opened her mouth to respond but was interrupted by a knocking at the door. Olivetti opened it. |
| 7057 |
By midday, those in orbit had a nonstop show of the disciplined but constant activities on the surface. |
| 7058 |
Bink's eyes had returned to Chameleon. His need for her became as big as the sky. He continued forward. |
| 7059 |
Doc and his men were only one room from their destination. That room suddenly became an airtight vault. |
| 7060 |
The blond man put a toe under one of the purses, flicked it back to the Swedes, flicked back the other. |
| 7061 |
He kept darting glances at Wednesday, as if he were concerned that the older man were about to explode. |
| 7062 |
She looked for a long time, longer than she needed to so that she could think of the best way to react. |
| 7063 |
He could, he noted wistfully, actually walk the streets without falling over his feet or anyone else's. |
| 7064 |
The words were all there and they made sense, but each sentence was fired out into the world as a unit. |
| 7065 |
One of the watchmen flung a casual beam from an electric lantern. The glitter impinged upon Doc's form. |
| 7066 |
Bart and I talked about his band and music and school until, before I knew it, we had reached my house. |
| 7067 |
The potter scowled at her, and she went back to the sink and started stacking plates in the dishwasher. |
| 7068 |
Right now the wizard, at the moment feeling very old indeed, was confronted by more immediate problems. |
| 7069 |
Once more he fought for words, but this time he could no longer hold fast to the last wisp of strength. |
| 7070 |
He stuck the finger up one of the liability's nostrils. Then he repeated the drill with the other hand. |
| 7071 |
I thought I heard a huge bottle uncorked, a lid sprung. Then this monstrous thing crawled down my back. |
| 7072 |
Swiftly she knelt before me, in the tiny cage, in the perfection of the position of the pleasure slave. |
| 7073 |
When she said these words to me, she looked up at the Queen as though acknowledging the interpretation. |
| 7074 |
They camped that night below the escarpment, just before the path began the climb up the vertical wall. |
| 7075 |
She raised her eyes to check the site for further damage, and found that someone was standing over her. |
| 7076 |
In a short time their craft was tied up, and the three boys hurried straight up the slope to the cabin. |
| 7077 |
With an effort, Carson pulled his eyes away from the ruined complex. Then he turned to her and grinned. |
| 7078 |
He ground into her, pressing with his knees, lifting her and dropping her down. She groaned in ecstasy. |
| 7079 |
Vietnam war was a pustule on the national conscience that no President so far had the courage to lance. |
| 7080 |
On the second day, beside a road we were alertly watching, I took a moment out to get a look at Heller. |
| 7081 |
So from other years there jumped forth images which flowed and found new substance here within the ice. |
| 7082 |
I wondered if Susan were right, if I needed a master. Then I put such thoughts from my mind, as absurd. |
| 7083 |
Sam snorted back a laugh, and motioned to Carrie, Emma and the others to shush so they could listen in. |
| 7084 |
She peered over the top of the steps. There was no one around. Only the fog hung between the buildings. |
| 7085 |
Hornblower had to struggle hard to keep his face immobile and to receive the news as if he expected it. |
| 7086 |
Doc Savage complied with the command. It put him at a distinct disadvantage. The other advanced warily. |
| 7087 |
Something quite large rustled away in the undergrowth. Helena grabbed my hand. Perhaps it was a badger. |
| 7088 |
He castigated the very idea of kingship, insisting that a democracy and a tyrant can never be at peace. |
| 7089 |
They led him down to the cellars, and anywhere less like his own quarters he could never have imagined. |
| 7090 |
Another foot bounced him, unseen by any of the pious, between the forest of legs. The world was a blur. |
| 7091 |
Stepping over to the bed, he wondered if he could sleep. He had to do something. He eyed his briefcase. |
| 7092 |
The heat of the hunt finally drove Doc to the remote reaches of the glacier and rock crest of the land. |
| 7093 |
Harrison started eating. Calvin could see a remnant of table manners. Once he had been a civilized man. |
| 7094 |
A tense silence intervened. Melanie glanced at Candace. Candace shrugged, suggesting she was at a loss. |
| 7095 |
No expression at all crossed the officer's face. It seemed, in its rigid immobility, like an iron mask. |
| 7096 |
He turned away. The moment he started downhill toward the town, three voices challenged and warned him. |
| 7097 |
A projectile slid from the underpart of the ship, extended stabilizers, and spiraled toward the ground. |
| 7098 |
I don't think that is exactly what I was doing, though. I was thinking about funerals of Bureau agents. |
| 7099 |
The aluminum hue lent by the chemical bleaching agent had faded, allowing Doc's bronze color to return. |
| 7100 |
A pebble rolled past my head as I heard Theodora shifting. I looked toward her and froze. She was gone. |
| 7101 |
He looked around the new section. It was the twin of the other except for the absence of a raided tank. |
| 7102 |
They went through the gate, heading straight out toward the forest. The hordes of Pandemonium followed. |
| 7103 |
Then Edith's smile faded. Knowing the truth would be of little help in getting the story to the public. |
| 7104 |
She sighed again, deeply. There was nothing left except the novel, and no one would publish it. Unless. |
| 7105 |
And its indecision or inability gave me a chance at rescue. I shrugged the storage bag off my shoulder. |
| 7106 |
I went quite cool all over. I had been ready to walk on, but now I stood stock still and looked at him. |
| 7107 |
This time he stopped and stood thoughtfully for a moment. But there was nothing to do but try to go on. |
| 7108 |
In spite of a million to one odds, it was at that precise moment that the figure bent low to the earth. |
| 7109 |
The car plunged into the vapor. The driver had locked the brakes, and the car slewed from side to side. |
| 7110 |
Eb closes his eyes, which is what he does during memory access, then gets up and walks out of the room. |
| 7111 |
I laughed, too, sitting that much straighter because he had singled me out as conversant with his jest. |
| 7112 |
He rubbed his fingers gently behind its ears, and the beast twisted its muzzle around to lick his hand. |
| 7113 |
In the meantime, Mavra Chang felt more and more a prisoner in a pixie paradise as events passed her by. |
| 7114 |
The village around him was slowly starting to come alive. People were moving quietly along the streets. |
| 7115 |
The toe of her shoe caught the bitch in the throat, lifted her off her knees and knocked her sprawling. |
| 7116 |
By the time the sun arose, Antonina was awash in grief. Bleak certainty. She would never see him again. |
| 7117 |
And so it was. Her white arms came up around his neck, and the magic of midsummer began for them again. |
| 7118 |
Most of the Dearer passengers had returned to their seats. The more distant ceased craning their necks. |
| 7119 |
The whistle moaned a long blast, and Elaine waited until the mournful orchestration of echoes had died. |
| 7120 |
Many backed out then. Something else had entered the area. Until it left, there would be no going home. |
| 7121 |
Alia reviewed the letter as she walked down the ramp to the antechamber where her guard amazons waited. |
| 7122 |
Good thinking. We're looking for caves and electromagnetic anomalies that would suggest old excavation. |
| 7123 |
This drew a gasp and a murmur as might be expected and the gray man waited a moment until he continued. |
| 7124 |
He put a hand on the veiled woman's arm. That started it. Her escort clapped rifle stocks to shoulders. |
| 7125 |
But he did not smile bade. He had stopped talking, and he was staring at me with a startled expression. |
| 7126 |
If my terms are not complied with, my giants will visit your city. They will not be in a pleasant mood. |
| 7127 |
A dream, she told herself coldly, firmly. Nothing more. Nothing I can ever attain. I threw it all away. |
| 7128 |
Great. All I need is partial blindness in a place where reality literally can sneak up on you and bite. |
| 7129 |
Jacob hurried to his feet and offered her his hand. Neither of them saw anything funny in the archaism. |
| 7130 |
I was hanging high in the air. By turning my head slightly I could see for a very great distance, down. |
| 7131 |
They chatted easily while Clare sketched, drinking the wine and watching the sunset over the mountains. |
| 7132 |
Three figures moved out of rock shadows into the full sunlight. One was a Jack, armed like his fellows. |
| 7133 |
Gripping the spoon in his left hand, he held it up in front of him boldly, and walked over to the door. |
| 7134 |
He'd hushed her with kisses then, and said that if she were to die he would die too, of a broken heart. |
| 7135 |
Far off in the sky to the north a dark winged shape moved, drawing nearer. It was large and serpentine. |
| 7136 |
Her mother's words pleased Laura. They made her feel old and important. Her small pale face brightened. |
| 7137 |
I cannot hear them, he said finally, his mental voice soft and as full of worry as a dragon's could be. |
| 7138 |
I looked down again on the splendid face of shining green stone with its blank eyes and flattened nose. |
| 7139 |
Jim's head swam suddenly. He took a strong grip on himself internally, and the room steadied about him. |
| 7140 |
There was also no problem of balancing the book to insure sufficient variety. That took care of itself. |
| 7141 |
There was a thud, and a gasp from Wiglet. An arrow had hit him in the chest and had gone right through. |
| 7142 |
With paws that resembled hands, the silver dragon raised the magical lance and threw it toward his foe. |
| 7143 |
At this point Sun drew a pistol he was not authorized to be carrying, and shot the two assailants dead. |
| 7144 |
The broken rifle almost slipped from his hands, but he saved it and caught at the handrail for support. |
| 7145 |
She answered the little monkey solemnly when he had finished his excited announcement, whatever it was. |
| 7146 |
The twins unemotionally waved goodbye. She had hardly made a dent in their existence, nor they in hers. |
| 7147 |
Tommy drew a long twisted mesh of string from his pocket, and proceeded to tie a couple of knots in it. |
| 7148 |
After a time, Monk put his head through the door, careful that the clothes he was wearing did not show. |
| 7149 |
Stoner took the check from the waiter, asked the young man for a pen, and signed the back of the check. |
| 7150 |
We want your understanding, yes. But don't try to make us understand you. We already know what you are. |
| 7151 |
It slowed her for only a moment. She had been eating while sickness melted the flesh from her daughter. |
| 7152 |
A man in his sixties, wearing a priest's collar with everyday clothes, answered the door and let me in. |
| 7153 |
Chiang was still addressing the captain. He'd grown hysterical and was yelling at the top of his lungs. |
| 7154 |
Assuming they knew what the stasis field was. Their technology seemed up to date in all other respects. |
| 7155 |
Mildred and Doc rose from the weeds, both of their weapons pointed straight toward the barefoot beauty. |
| 7156 |
She pointed at him and clapped her hands. His eyes went wide and he made a kind of dull mumbling sound. |
| 7157 |
Her creator and her victim were approaching her where she stood, only a short distance from the church. |
| 7158 |
The thin electrical wizard pressed a button on a near wall board. The blue electrical display subsided. |
| 7159 |
His captors began falling to the floor. All four went down. They scarcely stirred after they collapsed. |
| 7160 |
So much for that. But Colene refused to be balked, now that she was making progress. She looked around. |
| 7161 |
The younger man looked back at the stairs, imagining all that filthy water rushing through the tunnels. |
| 7162 |
The waitress smoothed the bill, quickly checking its denomination, then retreated without another word. |
| 7163 |
In three or four of the pictures the thing that made the cuts was still there. He knew the word for it. |
| 7164 |
His blade flashes once, then again, as he ducks and lets his body follow the patterns drilled into him. |
| 7165 |
And some part of him saw it was going to be all right. The heart is pleased by one thing after another. |
| 7166 |
There was a series of jerks and tings as the hobnails tore out of her boots and sped toward the stones. |
| 7167 |
Out and out, farther and farther projected what seemed to be no tree trunk but a platform of some kind. |
| 7168 |
A portion of the red cloud darted about the construct, noting its shape and looking at its clear color. |
| 7169 |
But then she would turn away to seek again what reality was now, in her crystalline soul, hers forever. |
| 7170 |
He paused for a long moment, his eyes reaching into mine to find places I was afraid to share with him. |
| 7171 |
For a moment he closed his eyes. If prayer does any good, he thought, then this is a prayer for Glenda. |
| 7172 |
Steel knew this place well, far better than he had implied. Perhaps his coming had not been accidental. |
| 7173 |
Harry didn't wait to see what they would become. He ordered the pilot program to hurry away from there. |
| 7174 |
Heller's other foot rose and caught Joe on the button. The snap of bones followed the impact instantly. |
| 7175 |
It didn't go over. The four of them looked solemnly back at him, like a jury circling his hospital bed. |
| 7176 |
He had one last hope. Margaret would explain it to him. She'd always made him feel better about things. |
| 7177 |
The six of them ran down the concourse together toward the escalators and all the outside world beyond. |
| 7178 |
The man noticed the comely youthful form revealed under the sari, which rain had plastered to her body. |
| 7179 |
The hair came off smoothly at the application of a depilatory salve by the carefully gloved technician. |
| 7180 |
But they did. Even in such cases, practical applications of the new technologies could be contemplated. |
| 7181 |
Georg stood close behind his father, who had let his head with its shaggy white hair sink to his chest. |
| 7182 |
Resisting the impulse to run away, Adrian began to work his way through the crowd directly toward Wood. |
| 7183 |
For a long moment Charis stared at him, her small spark of hope crushed before it had time to warm her. |
| 7184 |
Below the wire the leg had gangrened and the smell was nauseous, summoning a black moving wad of flies. |
| 7185 |
The sorcerer put away his writing equipment and leaned back in thought again, gazing up at the rigging. |
| 7186 |
Doc was ushered out, taken inside the place. He was pushed into a small room, far back in the building. |
| 7187 |
We scouted our noon stop well before we left the car to eat. Though the sun was high, it was cool here. |
| 7188 |
I was angry with her. Too, I envied her. Too, she had looked upon me as though I might be a naive girl. |
| 7189 |
Her eyes, Cordelia realized, must be huge as some nocturnal animal's. She never could control her eyes. |
| 7190 |
At the same time, she was so angry that when she bit down her lip to keep herself quiet she drew blood. |
| 7191 |
She found herself still gazing at the strong young man. And she found him pleasant indeed to look upon. |
| 7192 |
Jessi and I spent the week thinking up fun activities. I'll admit, we were as excited as the kids were. |
| 7193 |
Lacey shook his head. There were tears in his nose, that muffled his words, but they were clear enough. |
| 7194 |
A moment or so later, the sorcerer was not disappointed by the results of his own addition to the meal. |
| 7195 |
She wasn't sure she agreed with this, but she nodded anyway, not wanting to get into a debate about it. |
| 7196 |
I could feel it fighting. I could feel the spider's legs squirming and fighting to get out of my mouth. |
| 7197 |
But this was alive, and as a doctor he was supposed to do everything possible to make it stay that way. |
| 7198 |
Not a command but a question, and a fierce promise of what would happen if the wrong answer were given. |
| 7199 |
Fear hammered at him. But he also noted that she didn't harm the irreplaceable paintings and sculpture. |
| 7200 |
The effort of maintaining the bass voice became too much for her, and she broke into a fit of coughing. |
| 7201 |
Cool metal against her lips. She sipped and then choked and coughed, for the liquid had a spicy warmth. |
| 7202 |
I guess the cruiser had other matters to attend to. Anyway, it'll be back to pick up their foray party. |
| 7203 |
It took him a few seconds to realize the clicking and sputtering wasn't the phone system. It was Smith. |
| 7204 |
Trout, he thought. Suckling pig. Damn my father. He stared mournfully at the bones, his belly rumbling. |
| 7205 |
Now the small party was leaning forward against the drag of the hill and almost running in its anxiety. |
| 7206 |
Still, from time to time during the day, Carlo continued to express his doubts about his father's plan. |
| 7207 |
The servant bowed and set off through the maze of the palace halls. Linden followed close on his heels. |
| 7208 |
I thought that whoever eventually owned her would be a lucky fellow. She had excellent slave potential. |
| 7209 |
Cocking an eyebrow to see if he surprised them, Pitt drew an old service revolver from his coat pocket. |
| 7210 |
Intoxicated with mingled terror and hope, Meriel staggered forward, across the threshold of the church. |
| 7211 |
The knife slid down along the other bindings. Doc stretched his cramped arms and legs, got to his feet. |
| 7212 |
She said it wearily, almost without bitterness nowadays, and turned away and went back down the stairs. |
| 7213 |
Benin bowed himself out with a small, wry smile, to be escorted from the building by the embassy guard. |
| 7214 |
She was standing, leaning back against the edge of her desk, her arms folded across her chest. Waiting. |
| 7215 |
Something like a shock, only pleasurable, seemed to run through me. A tingle that almost made me laugh. |
| 7216 |
She shoved a hand confidently inside, and groped around. Then she bent over and stared into the recess. |
| 7217 |
Doc and his aids slept that night in crude platforms which they constructed in the forks of a big tree. |
| 7218 |
Chaste hands sponged the water over my shoulders. I sat slumped against the warm metal back of the tub. |
| 7219 |
There was a soft click. Bond put down the receiver and walked thoughtfully across the lawn to his room. |
| 7220 |
The freak oil paintings clapped hands high on the last standing pennant poles, then plummeted to earth. |
| 7221 |
When he did raise his eyes to survey them with a control he fought to hold, the obscurity had deepened. |
| 7222 |
I thought I would go mad just looking at the faces. I thought I would go mad just looking at the hands. |
| 7223 |
Another wolf came up behind and to one aide of him, stopped with its head at the first wolf's shoulder. |
| 7224 |
After the barren stones of the mountains and the deserted Skill road, this abundance of life was heady. |
| 7225 |
He had not come to bed at the sun's rising, leaving her to wonder where he was now that the sun was up. |
| 7226 |
The place had been ransacked. A thorough job. The searcher had made no effort to conceal his handiwork. |
| 7227 |
His eyes, though. His eyes were still fiery, and they glared at Shadow as he walked through the cavern. |
| 7228 |
He linked his arm in mine. I discovered that I was going to the lounge. Volition did not enter into it. |
| 7229 |
Nevertheless, when she came in among walls, breath shuddered from a breast cage that had begun to ache. |
| 7230 |
As Liss did, indeed. She was doing her best to keep her face dignified, but she was rising on her toes. |
| 7231 |
The Vietnamese woman lingered at the door a fraction of a moment too long for servility before exiting. |
| 7232 |
She sounded very normal. I wondered if Rachel could be wrong. She does have a pretty vivid imagination. |
| 7233 |
The last word was a shout. After a while a door opened on the far side of the shack and a man appeared. |
| 7234 |
Cynthia reached out again, grasped the woman's lower face again, turned it back in her direction again. |
| 7235 |
It's beautiful, she said, and kissed him. To know that she shared his passion for flight delighted him. |
| 7236 |
Turning toward the surface, it again began to rise. There still remained a great deal of killing to do. |
| 7237 |
It is quite another to wage war with coins in the shadows and softly striking words in hidden chambers. |
| 7238 |
When the sled jolted to earth its occupants stared in open amazement at the source of the mirrored ray. |
| 7239 |
The aides started to run. They headed toward the cabins of the Arcadia colonists. Fear gave them speed. |
| 7240 |
A swarthy fellow kept watch over this drag for the sake of safety. He carried a stubby automatic rifle. |
| 7241 |
But her hands had been spattered with blood. That was real. And about that her feelings were not muted. |
| 7242 |
Thanks to the way in which her first questioners had treated her, she'd had the wit to act very stupid. |
| 7243 |
She and Harlan were seated on laboratory stools on wheels that allowed them to zip from bench to bench. |
| 7244 |
There was a sharp popping sound, like a vacuum tube imploding. Suddenly, another vision misted the air. |
| 7245 |
He paused. Shadows of thought and memory crossed his face like the shadows of clouds crossing the land. |
| 7246 |
A deep rumble reverberated through the ceiling as the secret pillar was pushed back over the stairwell. |
| 7247 |
She knew nothing of the conditions, of Thalia's imprisonment, and did not relish finding out firsthand. |
| 7248 |
Melody tried to duck, but several of the warts struck her. They stuck to her body and wouldn't rub off. |
| 7249 |
They might even have wondered about the piece of bent piping which turned with a faint squeaking noise. |
| 7250 |
There was nothing to gain by hesitating longer. He walked to the doorway of the hall and looked inside. |
| 7251 |
Acrid smoke was drifting up from one end of the corridor, so he walked along it in the other direction. |
| 7252 |
Then, things fall apart. Things turn to fat. Things sprawl. The time gets out of joint. The milk sours. |
| 7253 |
She wiped a trickle of blood from her face, felt an awful stinging as her fingers passed over the gash. |
| 7254 |
The tentacles quivered. Then the monster moved. It backed away from the fire, carrying Darius above it. |
| 7255 |
There were some sharp metallic clicks as the barbed wire strands were cut, then silence. Jan was alone. |
| 7256 |
Good question, and I don't know the answer. Maybe you would have achieved this state anyway eventually. |
| 7257 |
The massive head swiveled slowly, bringing the crimson gaze toward the helmeted guardsmen at the doors. |
| 7258 |
She put his tea down on the table in the living room, sought out the Scotch, and set it beside the cup. |
| 7259 |
He hated it when she patronized him, even as a joke. He wasn't in the mood for joking right now anyway. |
| 7260 |
As the grief strafed her heart, a new emotion surged into Vittoria's conscious. This one was far worse. |
| 7261 |
Something started rising up to meet the hand. He sensed it clearly. Something that was part of himself. |
| 7262 |
Ah, so much for the ignorant, who still to the day five hundred years from then tell lies about Cosimo. |
| 7263 |
The knocking reverberated around the castle again. Several vampires were creeping across the courtyard. |
| 7264 |
Jan took a sip from the glass and was determined to show no guilt, no matter how bad the situation was. |
| 7265 |
Gentle took it, pocketing it without unfolding it. There'd be plenty of time to study it on the flight. |
| 7266 |
Wiz wondered what Danny's mother would make of getting letters on parchment, but he decided not to ask. |
| 7267 |
Poke, he blames you most. You're the one he has to smash in order to wipe out the agony of that memory. |
| 7268 |
I caught the frightened expressions on my two friends' faces. Ivy and Jan were just as scared as I was. |
| 7269 |
The sentry looked through the field glasses for some sign of life down the mountain. There was nothing. |
| 7270 |
More love than mistakes. He supposed that was what life was about. She had been a wise woman, his Bree. |
| 7271 |
Sammy went to a side section of the cave. There was a pile of rocks of all sizes. He nosed a small one. |
| 7272 |
I asked her who was party to the Domitian conversation. She listed some names that meant nothing to me. |
| 7273 |
The men who asked me who my mother was flicking. One of them bought me a candy bar a million years ago. |
| 7274 |
Home is filth piled on filth, but that's where my wife is and where my children are and where I belong. |
| 7275 |
At last she sat up. It was hard to think so many thoughts and reach so many decisions at the same time. |
| 7276 |
Taking one last glance at the closet door, I crossed the room to my desk and started to do my homework. |
| 7277 |
Then he felt the pain, flooding through both jaws, and he could taste the bitter iron of his own blood. |
| 7278 |
Victor Vail could not help but wonder and marvel at the powers of this strange man who had rescued him. |
| 7279 |
Quickly he took me away. We went in a carriage to his palace. He deluged me with kisses. I dung to him. |
| 7280 |
There still was a trace of pain in her voice, the memory in her nerves of the strike of the slave goad. |
| 7281 |
He wore underwater goggles. So did all his men. That would preserve their eyes from the sulphuric acid. |
| 7282 |
Jones instinctively snapped off the engine, grabbed her pole and slopped the skip, then turned to look. |
| 7283 |
He did not say that a long day in the swamps offered more than enough exercise, but agreed that he did. |
| 7284 |
The music ended, and there was a moment of silence. Then came the sound of someone clearing his throat. |
| 7285 |
He nodded his thanks. He looked in pain. He looked in anguish. His eyes had the dull gloss of distress. |
| 7286 |
She had turned so that she did not see the amused glances that the admiral and the commander exchanged. |
| 7287 |
To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen. |
| 7288 |
Somewhere on his colossal desk a magnesium telephone began to ring. Harry scrambled up and answered it. |
| 7289 |
Hearing this news, several of the commanders grunted. The sounds were inarticulate, but full of import. |
| 7290 |
Mrs. Weston hugged herself for joy and lost no opportunity to triumph over her still skeptical husband. |
| 7291 |
Reality. Marvelous as medicine is it cannot repair amputation in a couple of hours or a couple of days. |
| 7292 |
But if that were true, there was a way of using the Power which could not be affected by the nullifier. |
| 7293 |
With her hand on the doorknob, she made a quick psychic probe of the entryway. No one. Nothing unusual. |
| 7294 |
I could give her a song and dance, make up something that would serve, but she'd probably spot the lie. |
| 7295 |
The secretary of state trotted off happily, leaving the president alone at her desk in the oval office. |
| 7296 |
I looked about the small amphitheater. There were some hundred men present in it. Bets were being taken. |
| 7297 |
Doc glided for the spot where the man would leave the vegetation. He moved soundlessly as a jungle cat. |
| 7298 |
She couldn't bear not to look at him, yet meeting his eyes was like a hot knife searing into her heart. |
| 7299 |
Outside, it rained steadily. Water stood on the walks, streamed off roofs and ran furiously in gutters. |
| 7300 |
I did not try to hide my disgust at his tone, and when he saw my contempt he dropped his head in shame. |
| 7301 |
She was his now, she thought exultantly. Only his. He would never leave her, never send her away again. |
| 7302 |
Above them, the Oriental undersea craft swung slowly broadside. The snout of the machine gun poked out. |
| 7303 |
Fuchs almost leaped with sudden joy and hope. He banged the butt of his pistol against the steel hatch. |
| 7304 |
George had never believed them but he had had nightmares, and now closed his eyes and felt pure terror. |
| 7305 |
Norby pulled in his head, and with the small attack robots hanging onto his arms and legs, disappeared. |
| 7306 |
Came a louder explosion. A man screamed. There was a second blast. The chemical pellets were exploding. |
| 7307 |
Brown stood waiting for orders while the coachman and footman were hauling the baggage out of the boot. |
| 7308 |
They moved away from the training area, into an open spot beside a small mound at one side of the yard. |
| 7309 |
He was halfway nice. And she was out of tricks. So she went outside, and looked back and smiled at him. |
| 7310 |
It had taken them five minutes or so to get started. They were barely under way before the tsunami hit. |
| 7311 |
I wasn't really scared. Just kind of tense, like I was waiting for something important to happen to me. |
| 7312 |
They stopped outside the entrance to the complex, still out of breath from rushing up the three floors. |
| 7313 |
He handed back the letter. Sheila moved in closer to take it from him and brushed her body against his. |
| 7314 |
I looked at my master. The heat in my thighs made me want to run to him but I dared not leave the line. |
| 7315 |
The reporters weren't interested in the legal fine points anymore. They had something new to deal with. |
| 7316 |
Dusk hit. The roof crews rejoiced. They arced their guns. They shot tracer rounds. They made fireworks. |
| 7317 |
Then with shaking hands he gripped the radio transmitter and began sending out an urgent call for help. |
| 7318 |
I need two hours in a good weight room. I need to go three hundred stories on a stair climbing machine. |
| 7319 |
He had escaped, although he would bleed to death soon if he did not find something to staunch the flow. |
| 7320 |
One short scream came up out of the depths. There was a splash and then a great commotion in the water. |
| 7321 |
It was while Junior was still far enough away to be seen as a whole that the scene was at its grandest. |
| 7322 |
They walked silently from the tropical garden. The opening in the hedge rustled and closed behind them. |
| 7323 |
He held his temper. To allow it any rein would seem but overreaction, confirming her error in her mind. |
| 7324 |
It was Wendy who'd asked the question, in that long night of debate which had ended in her leaving him. |
| 7325 |
As I berated myself, I worked with Adena to revive the others. Swiftly she told them what had happened. |
| 7326 |
And listened to the sounds of the Legacy giving up cargo to create space for the deals she'd just made. |
| 7327 |
Too late Set realized he had lost control of my body. I felt his shocked surprise, his desperate panic. |
| 7328 |
I saw the light of the lantern on the boxes ahead of me, as it was lifted at the passage I had entered. |
| 7329 |
She started to run hectically down the hill, still clutching the watch and shouting that she hated him. |
| 7330 |
The night guy rolled his eyes and then pretended to yawn. He did things like that, had different poses. |
| 7331 |
When she opened her eyes again, it was to find Alex watching her, his dark eyes filled with tenderness. |
| 7332 |
With quick strokes, Doc strung the gummy white paste around the window, effectively sealing all cracks. |
| 7333 |
He crouched belly down to the earth, seeking somehow to become a very part of it, not to be identified. |
| 7334 |
He stood for minutes while his thoughts grew fangs. When he continued, the knife was in his right fist. |
| 7335 |
Sometimes when the weather is good I sit and look out over the city, fingers hooked through the mesh. |
| 7336 |
There was a lamenting in each word. The famous voice caressed, rasped resentfully, then caressed again. |
| 7337 |
A rousing cheer came from the back, but he pretended not to hear. He peered around trying to find them. |
| 7338 |
It was his hands acting by themselves that brought the kettle to the proper halt at the proper Century. |
| 7339 |
She said that we, as humans, bear the burden of having to be every animal in the world rolled into one. |
| 7340 |
She turned her head until she was looking into my eyes. I sat on the edge of the bed, holding her hand. |
| 7341 |
He could name some of the trees he smelled out there but those names were not in the library's records. |
| 7342 |
But before he'd completed the second dictum, the phrase was taken up by a mellifluous voice from above. |
| 7343 |
I thought of Philip, wondering how, until I remembered the mailer with dates and names scribbled on it. |
| 7344 |
He ran his fingers back into her hair, holding the sides of her head as he kissed her. She pulled back. |
| 7345 |
The door of the laboratory opened slowly. A misshapen figure with a twisted head showed in the doorway. |
| 7346 |
There had to be hangings ahead. No light from the fire outside reached us. How I wished for some light. |
| 7347 |
The rear of the chalet was a solid wall of glass, the picture window of a dimly lit, empty living room. |
| 7348 |
She paced up and down and blew her nose again. Jericho was taking his time bringing the tea and brandy. |
| 7349 |
As that mad thought struck Jack, the pit suddenly grew larger than the shed that had once contained it. |
| 7350 |
You've given yourself away there, my boy, Jan thought. When he spoke again he was as cool as the other. |
| 7351 |
Sir, Ryan thought. Damn it. But he had another decision to make. Jack scanned the room before replying. |
| 7352 |
Alex kept an uneasy eye on that mining rig, offering a silent thanks to his ulcer. His earphone beeped. |
| 7353 |
The police were letting them talk, and listening with interest for what information they could pick up. |
| 7354 |
When he opened them again, he found himself standing on the empty road beneath the solitary light pole. |
| 7355 |
Letting go of her legs, I surged up and glimpsed her taking aim at Edmond's broad back with the pistol. |
| 7356 |
The air in the room was heavy and close, and the open windows seemed only to admit heat, not dispel it. |
| 7357 |
On the other hand, playing the poor scholar wouldn't have been the best choice either, it seemed to me. |
| 7358 |
He looked around at the other boy, who was digging into a steaming plate of turkey and cranberry sauce. |
| 7359 |
Heller walked toward the financial district. Shortly he was into the crowds. He began to go quite fast. |
| 7360 |
As he walked slowly across the cabin to the bathroom, Bond met the blank eyes of the body on the floor. |
| 7361 |
Pitt tenderly laid her on the bed and looked down. The sight of her body made the fire burn within him. |
| 7362 |
What had started out as the worst night of her life really had changed into the best night of her life. |
| 7363 |
Then a soft stroke of her hand swept the cobwebs from his eyebrows, and he found that he could see her. |
| 7364 |
Jessie looked around the galley. Not a dish had been moved. Violet looked at the beds and the curtains. |
| 7365 |
One more ring and the answering machine would pick up. He could not have Vinnie notice anything amiss. |
| 7366 |
The silver balls on the tree were rocking, gently. Not just the balls. The tinsel and the branches too. |
| 7367 |
It was as though the silent rhythm of the chronometer set up the little singsong in the Squire's brain. |
| 7368 |
Long Tom settled back luxuriously on the cushions, entirely unaware that he was riding to a death trap. |
| 7369 |
She nodded, feeling tired and altogether unready to witness the end of the universe. Or any part of it. |
| 7370 |
Cole turned a little as the huge Pole tossed down his briefcase and seated himself on the window ledge. |
| 7371 |
They were passed through the various checkpoints and back to the roof where their vehicle awaited them. |
| 7372 |
And his star brother told him, You know that whatever physical damage they do will be quickly repaired. |
| 7373 |
The four goons were standing in front of the shop when they got there, and let them in without comment. |
| 7374 |
I shall have my revenge, Gianni. She shall suffer for days, but your suffering shall last for eternity. |
| 7375 |
Stop now, Nicole said to herself as she studied her colleague. There's nothing more you can learn here. |
| 7376 |
She struggled to sit up, rolling her eyes at the pain in her head, trying to remember what had hit her. |
| 7377 |
Reaching his shack, he fastened himself in securely. Exercise seemed to have lulled his fears somewhat. |
| 7378 |
All that passed through my mind while I tried to muster strength enough to cross the hills to our camp. |
| 7379 |
It was not difficult. Indeed, it was as though I had been parched and there was cool water in my mouth. |
| 7380 |
But a quick round of the three rooms, a moment of listening in each, convinced Doc the quarry had fled. |
| 7381 |
Dee went to the nearest door leading to the ferry's outer deck, slid it open, and quickly went outside. |
| 7382 |
The man came to. He screamed. He collapsed. The body went into the final twitches of the death agonies. |
| 7383 |
Then there was a shuddering difference. A sound like a sighing screech was transmitted through the tug. |
| 7384 |
Franklin was spared the trouble of answering this question, for the director gave him no time to reply. |
| 7385 |
So there was a species of logic to all of this but it kicked the performers out of the nest into chaos. |
| 7386 |
The thing had somehow blocked the street ahead of him and then gone on, planning to come up behind him. |
| 7387 |
But, as may be supposed, the principal terms used are those which are borrowed from trade and commerce. |
| 7388 |
The terrified old man shook his head, dropping the earthenware bottle slowly to the ground with a thud. |
| 7389 |
Presently the moon Icarus rose in a confusion of silver which coalesced to a half shield as it climbed. |
| 7390 |
But the prison van carrying Achilles was undisturbed. No one had emerged from it, not even the drivers. |
| 7391 |
She pounded her fist on the sprawled, sleeping form of the Snitch. He squalled, and leaped to his feet. |
| 7392 |
I looked uneasily at the heavy door, behind her. I did not know who might enter that door, to claim me. |
| 7393 |
He didn't mind at the moment. In a minute or two he might be very angry. And, then again, possibly not. |
| 7394 |
Derek smiled, noting how neatly she had sidestepped giving him her opinion and foisting it back to him. |
| 7395 |
I stood and watched them until they were almost out of sight, then went down the hill and back to camp. |
| 7396 |
Alexander shrugged. It took less than no effort at all to read her mind, but he couldn't tell her that. |
| 7397 |
The woman pushed Susan's arm away and hurried on without looking back and without saying a single word. |
| 7398 |
But it soon developed its own distinctive voice, a blend of four voices into a beautiful warbling tone. |
| 7399 |
Doc sped down a hallway, only to stop as he saw two men guarding a door that led outside the big house. |
| 7400 |
A bitter laugh escaped her at the thought. She was already damned. No one could save her, not even Jon. |
| 7401 |
His somber face, in which his eyes were far too old and shadowed, became a little lighter as he smiled. |
| 7402 |
The bony archaeologist and geologist did not lift his eyes. He seemed frozen in his crouching position. |
| 7403 |
The plant walked off a meter's length or so and stood still. Lindsay poked interestedly at the gimmick. |
| 7404 |
Dawson shook his head once, uncertain if it was the correct response but wanting to give her something. |
| 7405 |
The wizard lay quietly on the pillows and it seemed the talk had ended, but again he stirred and spoke. |
| 7406 |
The masked man did not see him. He howled with rage, rushed into a small cave. He pulled a lever there. |
| 7407 |
He covered the distance between himself and Biron in a stride and seized the young man's hand heartily. |
| 7408 |
He drew back, his body filled with stolen warmth, the taste of the woman's blood lingering on his lips. |
| 7409 |
The sow responded to the sudden action. She started to stamp the straw, showing the whites of her eyes. |
| 7410 |
Before he could move, she grabbed his chin in her thumb and forefinger and held tight. His eyes rolled. |
| 7411 |
I would have laughed, only lizards can't laugh. So I just followed Chapman as he marched down the hall. |
| 7412 |
Long before she got to the house she had been spotted and three men were on the porch, holding muskets. |
| 7413 |
The booths. The low ceiling. The base of the L off to my right. Everything matched my old mental print. |
| 7414 |
The door to the cellar was adjacent to the defunct staircase, and Cameron could hear voices from below. |
| 7415 |
Kelly fought to keep his composure. It was apparent that the man was deeply troubled by his conscience. |
| 7416 |
No sooner had I seen this moving lantern than it went out. It seemed the streets were utterly deserted. |
| 7417 |
That was all the opening I needed. Reaching out with my mind, I brought the pendant winging to my hand. |
| 7418 |
Jack stood up. Pete pushed him down. Jack reached for the jug. Pete poured it out. Pete saved a chaser. |
| 7419 |
They went behind the big house, to the stream, where an army of roasted pigeons had been buried in mud. |
| 7420 |
Mickey made an ugly face at me. When Mom turned around, he changed his expression to an innocent smile. |
| 7421 |
I suddenly reared up, struggling, my shoulders some two or three inches above the surface of the couch. |
| 7422 |
Timelessness grew like ice. Waves froze on the sea. Birds were pinned to the air. The world went still. |
| 7423 |
This was followed by a high scream which ended abruptly as if a hapless wench had been choked to death. |
| 7424 |
Some birds lit quietly in a nearby tree and her breathing slowed to normal. The music was sedate again. |
| 7425 |
They went quietly round the caravan to the door at the back. It had no key in the lock. Julian frowned. |
| 7426 |
Boris tore his eyes from them, and looked to where their clothing had been abandoned on the gravel bar. |
| 7427 |
He had seen not a single human being, though there should be a few in England along the southern coast. |
| 7428 |
I thought, Seven days. You had seven sober days and most of an eighth, and you lost them. They're gone. |
| 7429 |
Leaving a trail of annoyed and pained patrons in their wake, the witches trod their way to their seats. |
| 7430 |
I could feel one of his hands loosening itself from me to get to his gun, and I began struggling again. |
| 7431 |
It was almost as if one of them was standing before a mirror. Or as if the soldiers were seeing double. |
| 7432 |
Still, they took the elf's money readily enough and told him what he wanted to know in exchange for it. |
| 7433 |
He shrugged on his plain civilian tunic, and the sinister shoulder holster disappeared from view again. |
| 7434 |
He selected the other one. It was a bit thin, but docile, and he managed to get on after only two tries. |
| 7435 |
Horrified gasps echoed throughout the ballroom. Whispered words mixed with shocked murmurs flew rampant. |
| 7436 |
They all went into the warm kitchen, where Mrs. Sanders was cooking something that smelt most delicious. |
| 7437 |
Thurman gave them their salads and started a couple of hamburgers. Marty came in and asked for the same. |
| 7438 |
She was readying herself to resist him if he attacked, but it wasn't murder in his look, it was disgust. |
| 7439 |
As she staggered back, away from the shelves, she realized that the angry cry hadn't come from the mask. |
| 7440 |
The skeleton is just a way to keep your tissue off the floor. Your sweat is just a way to keep you cool. |
| 7441 |
Luke leaned against the wall, thinking furiously. It was a long way across an open floor to the doorway. |
| 7442 |
It was for that reason he felt he must sacrifice a little of the proper caution and risk a small crisis. |
| 7443 |
Then a rabbit popped out of a hole on the hillside and capered about, running suddenly up to the hollow. |
| 7444 |
Suddenly Snorer, who was less affected by the motion of the bus than the others, felt water on his feet. |
| 7445 |
Kohler took his cell phone from the armrest. He dialed an extension and fought off another coughing fit. |
| 7446 |
But it was the feel of the dead breast behind that pocket that captured his attention. Hard. Unyielding. |
| 7447 |
Conan had lost the toss, so he got into position. The rest of us dropped back about five hundred meters. |
| 7448 |
The bony archaeologist and geologist was falling back upon his large words, now that danger had receded. |
| 7449 |
Alex stood in the shadows, watching as the guard left his shack and ambled toward the gate in the fence. |
| 7450 |
The only actual modification he had been persuaded by a friend to make to it was to reinforce the seams. |
| 7451 |
She pressed against him, lips on his neck. The pressure agitated the life in her womb. She felt it stir. |
| 7452 |
Later. Sending again. Chicago now, with all the power we can get. The aurora is small, so there is hope. |
| 7453 |
Johnny made a platter of his left hand, a fist of his right hand, and smacked the fist into the platter. |
| 7454 |
Then Elizabeth's face twitched, she made a choking sound of her own, and we suddenly burst out laughing. |
| 7455 |
Doc interposed calmly. He was holding the amphibian in a tight spiral over the turmoil of the sea below. |
| 7456 |
I was so stupid after last night, not even a sixth sense warned me of the catastrophe this was to begin. |
| 7457 |
She might not be the type to return a presidential medallion, but she could definitely hang him with it. |
| 7458 |
The others were silent. But he could see in their faces the grudging admission that the point was valid. |
| 7459 |
They returned wearing black sunglasses and Hawaiian shirts. Then they bopped their way through the song. |
| 7460 |
I bit my lip. In all the excitement over the living tree, I had forgotten we were playing a deadly game. |
| 7461 |
I suddenly realized I was being drawn into a much more thoughtful discussion than I cared to partake in. |
| 7462 |
Suddenly an enormous shape filled the window, blotting out the sunlight. A dank, dark smell choked them. |
| 7463 |
He settled her into the curve of his arm, her head pillowed on his shoulder, his cheek against her hair. |
| 7464 |
They directed their taxi around the corner and got out. Long Tom stood on the curb, scratching his head. |
| 7465 |
Then, as they settled themselves to sleep again, there came through the darkness the roar of an exhaust. |
| 7466 |
The young man rose and bowed once more before gathering up his cloak and walking back through the trees. |
| 7467 |
Barbara Ellington stood in the open door to the adjoining library, watching him, face serious and alert. |
| 7468 |
And in fact, even as the words popped out of his jaws, he realized that they were correct. He felt fine. |
| 7469 |
Bartlett glanced at Casey. She gave him neither a yes or a no though he knew the lure had her in spades. |
| 7470 |
So he had found the cup and had given them a ration, and now he was sipping his, trying to make it last. |
| 7471 |
Ham surveyed the likenesses with interest, it being his first hint of what the two actually looked like. |
| 7472 |
They drove to the nearest hotel, and found a telephone booth. Batavia scowled at the seismograph expert. |
| 7473 |
That which has to be cleaned off castle floors in the morning after a bagpipe contest or vampire attack. |
| 7474 |
Alchemy is the science of coming up with what one needs when one has foreclosed all other possibilities. |
| 7475 |
They went to another chamber, where a man sat behind a desk piled with papers. They approached the desk. |
| 7476 |
Alexander smiled at her. How perceptive she was. English was not his first language, or even his second. |
| 7477 |
She clung to him blindly, rocking back and forth and letting the sobs cry out wildly over the bare snow. |
| 7478 |
Monk should have all but dropped dead from surprise at Ham agreeing with him on anything. But he didn't. |
| 7479 |
She stirred, muscles moving with liquid grace under her soft fur. Her head pointed away in a quick turn. |
| 7480 |
Obviously Maxine hadn't known about this little detail because a look of raw disgust came over her face. |
| 7481 |
Hertha ran her tongue across her lips, tasted a little of the bitter coating she had laid upon her face. |
| 7482 |
His questions and his formal termination of the conversation were the result of one more effort of will. |
| 7483 |
And having extracted what juice he could out of imaginary revenge, he sobered and looked about the ship. |
| 7484 |
Karen was testing the weights of the bats when Mom dashed into the backyard, waving a paper in her hand. |
| 7485 |
It should have come roaring, but the only sounds were the creaking of wings and the snapping of banners. |
| 7486 |
A committed piece is one given a specific duty. It often becomes the focal point of an opponents attack. |
| 7487 |
Prince Edmund's cadaver was following behind them, leading a bewildered, seemingly stupefied young duke. |
| 7488 |
The contaminated water spilled out into a shallow stinking pool with a broad rim of the poisonous green. |
| 7489 |
He swung his feet up on the instrument panel and picked fitfully at something on one of his fingernails. |
| 7490 |
The commander produced a sheet of paper from his pocket and set it on the desk in front of the governor. |
| 7491 |
Ute laughed. It was the first time I had seen her laugh in the camp. I was pleased I had made her laugh. |
| 7492 |
He touched the buzzer outside the man's door. Footsteps, and the bespectacled foreman peered out at him. |
| 7493 |
He came to a halt about seven meters away, flung his green cloak back over his left shoulder and smiled. |
| 7494 |
The thane hesitated. He called to his wife and children, dressing hastily, spoke to them in a low voice. |
| 7495 |
Then he broke out abruptly into a smile and what I had just felt in the room withdrew. I breathed again. |
| 7496 |
With humans, the force required to knock one unconscious is very nearly that required to knock him dead. |
| 7497 |
Lord knows what I looked like in that moment, a cod on a slab likely. She lifted a swift warning finger. |
| 7498 |
Now Var understood the term. It occurred to him that he had not had a close look at a man of this tribe. |
| 7499 |
He would not have been so sure of this had he known that she was no longer upon the surface of the Moon. |
| 7500 |
People gasped. A hush fell over the room for a moment before worried whispers spread among those gifted. |
| 7501 |
She was more than a little mad anyway. She drove herself mercilessly, carrying out a task without point. |
| 7502 |
Quietly he left. Quietly he thought of the hospitals. Thousands of babies must be appearing at each one. |
| 7503 |
The young woman looked concerned, a bit nervous. She moistened her lips and made fists out of her hands. |
| 7504 |
The bronze man's usual cultured tones had vanished, and he had assumed the voice of a typical tough guy. |
| 7505 |
Jo understood bargains. She nodded. Joan pulled her to her feet and half led, half carried her upstairs. |
| 7506 |
The bonfire was so high that Shadow could barely approach it. The wolf padded around the crackling fire. |
| 7507 |
On the northern cliffs of the Wedge, six shadowed forms slipped swiftly into the darkness and were gone. |
| 7508 |
He was mortified with embarrassment, but plainly she couldn't have cared less. She had other priorities. |
| 7509 |
Richard decided that this conversation had gone far enough. He had more important things to worry about. |
| 7510 |
He spoke in a rough kind of voice, so that the man would not suspect him to be any other than he seemed. |
| 7511 |
She smiled down at him, and in that moment he knew he wanted to live long enough to kiss her, just once. |
| 7512 |
It was unfortunate that salvation could not discriminate. If others were saved, then these would be too. |
| 7513 |
From one of the heads a round, spinning ball of flame erupted. A ball of flame that flew like a missile. |
| 7514 |
Just for the hell of it I tried to flick my eyes away from her for a second before training them on her. |
| 7515 |
Like a bursting dam, the power exploded from her with the suddenness of birth after nine moons of labor. |
| 7516 |
Blake took it at arm's length, and sniffed. His eyes widened. He tasted it. His mouth widened in a grin. |
| 7517 |
I ran my hands quickly over the walls. Maybe I could find something to hold onto. Some way to climb out. |
| 7518 |
The great gates creaked open and the Nadir troop wheeled their mounts, riding swiftly back to the north. |
| 7519 |
The cortege rounded a corner where the rock had been opened for a glimpse of the bridge in the distance. |
| 7520 |
Meta howled in triumph as the runabout shook loose the station's tractor beams and lunged toward safety. |
| 7521 |
Death felt attention on him. He looked up at the universe, which was watching him with puzzled interest. |
| 7522 |
They wandered through the market, reminiscing about the taste of food. Kelly stopped in the candy aisle. |
| 7523 |
And stranger still to walk upright, balancing on two legs. She felt as if she were always about to fall. |
| 7524 |
Heller bowed and sat down. He got his assent and he got the proclamation written and sent on its rounds. |
| 7525 |
The fourth and last of the party was strange enough to center all their attention once they sighted her. |
| 7526 |
Wessex had fired, his ball going wide in the confusion. But by then Wessex had closed with his attacker. |
| 7527 |
He was not sure he was up to it, only that he must try, that he must do what he could to save them both. |
| 7528 |
She came to him where he stood nursing his wrist and there was much, much in the glances they exchanged. |
| 7529 |
Only the fixed felt pain. The protean lived in everything, always. One country, living one immortal day. |
| 7530 |
At this moment the Beaver again popped its head out from behind the tree and beckoned earnestly to them. |
| 7531 |
I spent more than a week walking the battlefield and, as ever, received much help from the local people. |
| 7532 |
He did not yet suspect that a certain acquaintance of his was going to seriously scuttle any such plans. |
| 7533 |
The island was nearby. But the lifeboat was still hovering close to them, nervously roaring its engines. |
| 7534 |
Slim nodded in satisfaction. Turning, he ran off to join the troop heading out to their assigned picket. |
| 7535 |
Soil didn't wait for more. She ran out of the tent and threw herself at the monster, hands outstretched. |
| 7536 |
When I step on a switch hidden by my foot, that will release the doves. Walk. Talk. Doves. It's a cinch. |
| 7537 |
Modeling. Commercials. That might be a relief after all this ballet anxiety. I had a lot to think about. |
| 7538 |
Grosvenor went with a sense of dread. There had been a tone in the captain's voice. Something was wrong. |
| 7539 |
He began to have a special dream, one that recurred with predictable regularity. The dream was of women. |
| 7540 |
He wheeled about and disappeared, moving hurriedly, blotted from Duncan's sight by the clump of willows. |
| 7541 |
Richard cast out his hand and the air filled with roses. Rose petals flew and swirled in a red blizzard. |
| 7542 |
Danny kissed her long and gently. Then he broke away with a sigh and reached behind him for his clothes. |
| 7543 |
He tossed the screwdriver onto the porch and held poor old Bump in his right hand like a bundle of rags. |
| 7544 |
At zero time Biron drew a deep breath and yanked a lever the full length of its arc, from left to right. |
| 7545 |
A silken line came out of his clothing. It was thin, strong. One end he looped securely about a chimney. |
| 7546 |
The girl began to talk like a woman telling a boy it was better to pull a tooth out than to let it ache. |
| 7547 |
William and Otto arrived at the palace at five minutes to ten. There was a small crowd around the gates. |
| 7548 |
Tom stopped suddenly, and cocked his head. After a silent moment he slid his needier out of its holster. |
| 7549 |
As if understanding its fate, the worm bucked and thrashed even more, but it was already growing weaker. |
| 7550 |
I think so, too. I'm willing to trade. She stood and allowed him to take the pouch from around her neck. |
| 7551 |
However, Doc's enemies had a way of perishing in traps which they themselves had set for the bronze man. |
| 7552 |
When Foster set down the bundle, in order to remove his baldric, one of the Irish daggers clattered out. |
| 7553 |
I could see we were moving into dangerous territory, so I tried to change the subject to a safer ground. |
| 7554 |
I watched as Jack finished his business, ready in case he required assistance, grateful that he did not. |
| 7555 |
Carlo looked agonized, but he had learned to tell when arguing with his father was certain to be futile. |
| 7556 |
The fellow ran out of words, and only then did he notice that the dark stranger had already disappeared. |
| 7557 |
This is a complete record of its thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it. |
| 7558 |
Reluctantly, the soldiers began to move, afraid of a sneak attack by the one woman arrayed against them. |
| 7559 |
Mr Saveloy's foot tapped gently against the large parcel under the table, alongside a nice new cauldron. |
| 7560 |
Outside of the two small holes now lay the cardboard. I could see a little light from the overhead lamp. |
| 7561 |
At the very end, he cried out. His cry of despair was in our heads. His cry will always be in our heads. |
| 7562 |
I thanked her, she left. I latched and bolted the door, collapsed in a chair and gave way to the shakes. |
| 7563 |
Something was shaking my shoulder. I bolted upright, blinking my eyes as the world swam back into focus. |
| 7564 |
We listened for a few moments to the soft cries of the captive, in the arms of one of the fellows of Ar. |
| 7565 |
The three senior squad leaders in the open foyer freeze as Lorn walks in, followed by the armed lancers. |
| 7566 |
It bothers me, not having a diary entry for the fourteenth, either. Somebody's been working on me again. |
| 7567 |
Two more burners arranged. Rice has made a compact recharging outfit, and Garner has agreed to the plan. |
| 7568 |
I wanted very badly to get up close to them and see what they were. For the moment, I forgot I was sick. |
| 7569 |
Even as a child, I knew that Joseph would be the one to carry the family story into the next generation. |
| 7570 |
She was wearing a lace dress and the lace kept tickling my nose. I had to rest my head on my front paws. |
| 7571 |
Smith waited for his line to ring. He would need this day all the integrity and courage he could muster. |
| 7572 |
Monk had quit bringing the ducks home. Some he had buried. Tonight he decided to end this duck business. |
| 7573 |
The drawer burst open, the knife jumped from section to section like a fish and the drawer slammed back. |
| 7574 |
She considered each name carefully, as seemed to be her duty, then signed that they were strange to her. |
| 7575 |
When the sun set again, I knew I would meet with Rachel in dreams. She was as beautiful as I remembered. |
| 7576 |
I will try an earlier period in his life, the ship decided. Before the neurotic anxieties got laid down. |
| 7577 |
The city held some million inhabitants, and I sensed at once an immense vigor that had gone out of Rome. |
| 7578 |
At best his time of safety here was passing quickly. Cautiously he turned to leave the treasure chamber. |
| 7579 |
The dolphin whistled shrilly as its spider collapsed in convulsions. It wailed in a foxhole lamentation. |
| 7580 |
I knew where he was going with this and my silence told him to stay away from the subject of werewolves. |
| 7581 |
The guards came forward and with enormous effort slid the lid of the Pope's sarcophagus back into place. |
| 7582 |
Ham, who was hauling clothing out of a closet, emitted a grunt of pleasure. He had found his sword cane. |
| 7583 |
A bull whose head was a whip appeared. It snapped its head back and forth, and the whip cracked sharply. |
| 7584 |
Doc left them. In an instant, he was lost completely to their sight, so expertly did he conceal himself. |
| 7585 |
Eagerly the dwarf hurried over to the wall, proudly pointed out a bit of string running along the floor. |
| 7586 |
I swung the closet door open and leaped out. I saw them both standing in the front room. I ran in there. |
| 7587 |
Polo bowed again. The others followed his example once more. When Polo straightened, he grinned at them. |
| 7588 |
A heavy roll of thunder rumbled from the high, dark clouds that began to cut off the remaining sunlight. |
| 7589 |
The group eyed Bond in silence. There was no move to greet him and the ten pairs of eyes were incurious. |
| 7590 |
Fumbling with the staff, he climbed awkwardly up the ladder. He lifted the grate a fraction, peeped out. |
| 7591 |
He coughed and it was a mistake. At fifty thousand feet there wasn't enough air to take a decent breath. |
| 7592 |
The big caymans were still in the water, resting against the bank. But now they were weirdly motionless. |
| 7593 |
When we got above the clouds, we saw a giant vault of stars overhead and a swirling dim whiteness below. |
| 7594 |
Half an hour later, he found himself stripped and thrown into a miserable stinking cell in the Bastille. |
| 7595 |
And perhaps he did, she reflected. For Owen had spent much of last year in the company of another woman. |
| 7596 |
Remy smiled and moved toward the back of the limousine. The monk recoiled, struggling against his bonds. |
| 7597 |
He gestured as we came to the top of the stairs. We turned up the hallway and headed toward the library. |
| 7598 |
She could hear a woman howling. It sounded like a dog howling at the moon. She supposed it wasn't a dog. |
| 7599 |
At a glance from Helena I fell silent. She was to initiate the discussion, while I observed the parties. |
| 7600 |
The table vibrated, then a hatch slid back and the beer emerged. I reached for it but could not lift it. |
| 7601 |
Swathed in luxurious velvet, she sat on the sofa and searched the channels until she found an old movie. |
| 7602 |
A sunbeam touching the wings of a butterfly, Gordian thought. On the brightest and bluest day of summer. |
| 7603 |
She made a choking sound. He felt something warm on his arm, and knew that she was vomiting against him. |
| 7604 |
Kara rose with the dawn, wanting to get an early start, even though she wasn't sure where to look first. |
| 7605 |
Everyone immediately looked interested, and I could tell that we weren't going to have a normal meeting. |
| 7606 |
Then we came to a large hall. It was plain, but in its sheer size it possessed a severe, lofty grandeur. |
| 7607 |
Drake, in view of his investment, would have liked a lot of petroleum and a lot of sales to lamp owners. |
| 7608 |
Such logic gave me even more reason to plunge into the training she devised, which began almost at once. |
| 7609 |
Silence and the swishing of the sea were preferable to a dubious discussion. So I watched the water too. |
| 7610 |
I stood up and away from him. The incredible was more incredible still. I had killed one of the Masters. |
| 7611 |
The dog whimpered at him, long keening whines, but didn't raise its head from its paws. Zeb looked away. |
| 7612 |
His thoughts arrested as the big hatch rolled aside. Their first glimpse was not of daylight, but stars. |
| 7613 |
It vanished in the direction of the temple. What was it, the Mouser could not for the moment conjecture. |
| 7614 |
Florian made a face. Having ambassadors at court and having to entertain them was always a trial to him. |
| 7615 |
The town clock struck three in the morning far away. She listened to it, her face shadowed by the sound. |
| 7616 |
Ham fingered his sword cane absently, at the same time scratching the back of his pet monkey, Chemistry. |
| 7617 |
I had never before had conversation with so high a personage and I was nervous as I knocked on his door. |
| 7618 |
He was clever. He beat the sill to imitate sounds of a man going out. Then he crept back along the hall. |
| 7619 |
Silence hung heavy in the room as the Gnat slowly turned her head to look in the direction of the noise. |
| 7620 |
She peeled the gown up and over her head and stared at herself, naked in the mirror. She liked her body. |
| 7621 |
I wanted to cry out that I knew nothing. The small eyes, deep in the fat of the heavy face, regarded me. |
| 7622 |
Marissa described the meeting, emphasizing how pleasant it was and how many husbands were in attendance. |
| 7623 |
The elf raised a delicate eyebrow, glanced around at his armed crew, who outnumbered them twenty to one. |
| 7624 |
She gave a hideous shriek, clutched at the bars that had impaled her, as if she might wrench them loose. |
| 7625 |
Buster promptly sat, looking up at Fatty with pricked ears. Bingo took one look at him and did the same. |
| 7626 |
The stranger accelerated smoothly off. A sister craft emerged and moved out of the way. A third arrived. |
| 7627 |
Alfred stared vacantly at the white wooden table. Jonathan was assisting the reanimated corpse to stand. |
| 7628 |
Dash couldn't take his eyes off her. Her uniform made him want to laugh, but otherwise she looked great. |
| 7629 |
Scowling, Joe kicked his way through the fractured crockery to the refrigerator, and got himself a Coke. |
| 7630 |
He stopped, suddenly aware he was being carried away with his emotions. Composing himself, he continued. |
| 7631 |
Just like that, nothing left of the fire at all except dust settling fine as mist all over the clearing. |
| 7632 |
Waiters materialized magically, placed pitchers of water on the tables and a glass in front of each man. |
| 7633 |
He closed his mouth and his jaw line firmed. Then he tried to nod, winced, and his eyes blinked in pain. |
| 7634 |
Mindanao to Bombay, which your eye encompasses in a single glance, can break your heart with its beauty. |
| 7635 |
Devon and I crowded to the porthole, the elf being forced to nearly bend double to get down to my level. |
| 7636 |
But the patrolman only glanced at the engine, nodded, and made to turn away. Rollins exhaled gratefully. |
| 7637 |
Figures moved out of the trees. One of them stopped at the door of the first coach and tried the handle. |
| 7638 |
Sean slipped a cartridge into the breech, closed it and brought the rifle up in one continuous movement. |
| 7639 |
The tarpaulin cover slid off the load of the truck, which was nearly a dozen men, all armed with rifles. |
| 7640 |
They got out of the car and took a circular route toward the house, keeping well concealed behind trees. |
| 7641 |
The miners staggered back, before the blast of heat, covering their eyes and bowing their heads in fear. |
| 7642 |
Doodad sprang into action. He dashed over to where the boy had fallen, grabbed his left arm, and yanked. |
| 7643 |
One more step would bring the water above my head, but Deirdre had already dropped below the water line. |
| 7644 |
He dragged me along beside him, the chain looped about my body, cutting into my waist over the left hip. |
| 7645 |
Guards appeared at the end of the corridor, but cautiously, as befitted people who'd just met Butterfly. |
| 7646 |
Therefore, it caused quite a sensation when suddenly the shrill signal of the detector sounded out loud. |
| 7647 |
I got my face as clean as possible, and also my hands and feet. Then I climbed on the ladder behind her. |
| 7648 |
I suspected then he might not be with his own fleet, that it might be under the command of a lesser man. |
| 7649 |
Four shapes converged on the cavern. The voices of the guards, soft and hissing, slid through the night. |
| 7650 |
Zelda, stunned, almost toppled off the hill. She held tight to Bella's arm as tears brimmed in her eyes. |
| 7651 |
She took a step forward, right into the mess of broken glass and overturned bottles that lay between us. |
| 7652 |
A moment later, the bronze man began a mad wrenching at the lashings which held him to the mooring ring. |
| 7653 |
Brogan was surprised at the cold, mysterious look of pure anger that spread across the President's face. |
| 7654 |
She had just been told, by a total stranger, something she'd kept completely secret for seventeen years. |
| 7655 |
She sat at the far end of the chamber, staring at nothing. Her hands were in her lap, and they trembled. |
| 7656 |
Meistersinger the warlord thought for a long time. When he at last sang, it was in a mournful minor key. |
| 7657 |
All he could see of her face were her eyes. They suddenly watered over, and he decided to let her speak. |
| 7658 |
Johnny was not so sure. They had swept all of the possible space where a parachute might have descended. |
| 7659 |
I pointed out all the relevant landmarks, then watched her as she ran a manicured fingertip up the page. |
| 7660 |
Doc Savage pushed the blinded five into the middle of a small ring. He and his own men stood about them. |
| 7661 |
Raymond opened his mouth to protest but thought better of it. He knew Siegfried was technically correct. |
| 7662 |
There was no time for finesse. He shimmied up the root to a point within reach of the hole in the weeds. |
| 7663 |
There is a silence of at least fifteen seconds. The sultan looks stony. Then, suddenly, he brightens up. |
| 7664 |
Jack's redaction anticipated her shock and horror, neutralizing it so that she only felt a mild sadness. |
| 7665 |
And suddenly there was a great pressure and heat and a roaring in the ears and a moment of blazing pain. |
| 7666 |
Vigilance positioning itself where it could go head on with them or strike at their tail if they docked. |
| 7667 |
But of course he wouldn't. Leaving Christine after he had put so much into her was of course impossible. |
| 7668 |
Quick improvisation is not their normal habit, but now they labor furiously, redesigning. Reconfiguring. |
| 7669 |
Tom smiled and put a hand on her flank. He had already come to terms with his poor chances of returning. |
| 7670 |
Unaware of this, Ham turned on the radio in the laboratory. Within a minute, he had picked up Doc's car. |
| 7671 |
Green had no intention of being seized. Flight was an admission of guilt, but it made no difference now. |
| 7672 |
But then, Joseph didn't have a whole lot of cause to be judgmental. Harris ignored him and went forward. |
| 7673 |
Moira scowled and shook off his hand. She hurried after the little man, who was dancing with impatience. |
| 7674 |
It took twelve minutes before the tanks and infantry carriers were atop the hill. The exercise was over. |
| 7675 |
He stared in disbelief at his foot. He had bet the beam would stop short at the last instant. It hadn't. |
| 7676 |
The power of his personal mirth drew a scattering of wan cheers and ripostes from the despondent Giants. |
| 7677 |
Susan reached out gingerly and touched the nail. It had a sticky feel, a little like static electricity. |
| 7678 |
They ran ahead, came unexpectedly into a chamber which was illuminated a pale pink by a heating brazier. |
| 7679 |
Don't talk nonsense, said the parrot, when Mr. Roy was in the middle of explaining some fact of history. |
| 7680 |
Unexpectedly, he saw light ahead. It was the unmistakable glow of the hot tropical sun. Doc ran forward. |
| 7681 |
Oddly, he felt no fear. Show me the way, Father. Give me the words that I can make them see Your vision. |
| 7682 |
At the corner the man leaned close, said something in the girl's ear. She jerked away from him, giggled. |
| 7683 |
They started about four. Driving conditions were very, very bad. Snow hit them halfway across the flats. |
| 7684 |
I swung down and went in through the window as silently as a shadow. And heard the growl of a guard dog. |
| 7685 |
They shrank from her hot eyes. Antonina turned in her saddle and transferred the glare back to Menander. |
| 7686 |
He did not pause, that notwithstanding, but cast off his cloak as soon as he had gained the level place. |
| 7687 |
He paused. The conversation at the other end of the room was definitely taking a more conciliatory turn. |
| 7688 |
An hour passed and then another. They ate breakfast at their posts, bread in one hand, sword in another. |
| 7689 |
The calmness of the admission disconcerted Hornblower, who could only splutter for the next few moments. |
| 7690 |
They felt their way forward through the dust, and found the door little more than a heap of broken rock. |
| 7691 |
I looked at her mother. Mom smiled wider and nodded. I looked back at the daughter, and she nodded, too. |
| 7692 |
She was about to shut down her desk and try again to get back to sleep when a new piece of mail came in. |
| 7693 |
She nodded and did what she could to help, but she was shaking so badly her contribution was negligible. |
| 7694 |
Three hens were dead and two piglets failed to make it, but the sow seemed willing to suckle the others. |
| 7695 |
Soothing dressings about the outlaw's head covered all but one eye and his mouth, but he arose limberly. |
| 7696 |
Doc handed him a leisurely clip on the jaw. The watcher melted down as if he were lard on a hot griddle. |
| 7697 |
Such a boondoggle would have broken other men. Somehow, Ra Chen had survived the blow to his reputation. |
| 7698 |
Jan lifted his head free of the sleeping bag, then heard it clearly. A distant whine, far down the loch. |
| 7699 |
I decided to slow my headlong pursuit of various foods and took a sip of water, cold from the deep well. |
| 7700 |
William glanced at a large glass jar on the bench. A couple of ugly things were coiled up in the bottom. |
| 7701 |
Instead he moved so naturally that the shoulder bag seemed to have gone to the bed of its own free will. |
| 7702 |
Pitt looked at her thoughtfully and, in the long silence that followed, she grew restless and uncertain. |
| 7703 |
Tiffany turned her head. Miss Level stood in the door. She looked pale and she was walking with a stick. |
| 7704 |
I said nothing. Whatever and however it happened, I knew Roberta had planned it and I knew she liked it. |
| 7705 |
With a loud, smacking impact the bronze man was literally sucked hard against that wall of living flame. |
| 7706 |
Monk roared. He liked to roar when he was fighting. He plunged into the debris that the door had become. |
| 7707 |
I put the Buick in the garage, locked everything up nice and tight, and went into the house to have ham. |
| 7708 |
Clearly we are still in the area of delusions which can be cured simply by reading Heinlein while awake. |
| 7709 |
Neither noticed the intent presence that lingered in the doorway of the stable and had heard every word. |
| 7710 |
Grover rubbed a coat sleeve across the panel and stepped back to survey his shining. The smudge was off. |
| 7711 |
This made the eyes of his audience stand out until they could almost have been knocked off with a stick. |
| 7712 |
It touched her experimentally with a sensory arm. She glared at it, wanting desperately to be let alone. |
| 7713 |
The man remembered the murder. He was just a toddler then. He said he'd call his mother and prepare her. |
| 7714 |
Eileen wanted a shilling to get her watch mended, and it was granted at once, Nobody else said anything. |
| 7715 |
To Sagebrush's astonishment, he could not see any one near the box. And there was moonlight in the room. |
| 7716 |
I seized him to push but it was like grabbing a dummy that had suddenly lost its ability to gesticulate. |
| 7717 |
And Bond listened to the whisper and went on round the last mile of wall and back to the gardeners' hut. |
| 7718 |
Stoner doubted it. There were too many young men, too many weapons, too much poverty and fear and anger. |
| 7719 |
Sam sat on the cot by her and brushed a strand of hair away from her face. She was cold. He looked away. |
| 7720 |
But, when he got there, there was no blue light over the archway. There were just a few lights upstairs. |
| 7721 |
Rowe changed from one foot to the other. Obviously, he was convinced that was exactly what would happen. |
| 7722 |
Kinsman could see that McGrath looked faintly amused. He enjoys arguing. He's not fighting for his life. |
| 7723 |
He had time enough to see the figure of one of the buyers consumed by the cloud, then he turned and ran. |
| 7724 |
The View of the space before me, and the mighty engine in it, firmed. It grew clear and sharp once more. |
| 7725 |
I made myself watch the little drop of fire in my hand as though I could will it back to strength again. |
| 7726 |
Sara shook her head, not wanting to believe even though she could see the truth of it in Gabriel's eyes. |
| 7727 |
Then she forced herself to walk slowly through the house to her room. No one was up. She was unobserved. |
| 7728 |
Vampires don't really like others of their kind, though their need for immortal companions is desperate. |
| 7729 |
Koral stopped his strange actions the instant he heard the command. A queer expression crossed his face. |
| 7730 |
He was alive with triumph, perhaps too much so, for he did not hear the sound until too late to retreat. |
| 7731 |
He shifted the rifle slightly, as if to draw attention to it. It slipped in his grasp and began to fall. |
| 7732 |
Wiz closed his eyes and breathed a silent prayer. Moira dashed out into the corridor to the wounded men. |
| 7733 |
He had opened the screen door and was fumbling with the knob of the inside door when the phone silenced. |
| 7734 |
As they ran, they heard renewed firing at the palace, firing so fierce that it could only mean disaster. |
| 7735 |
The writhing stopped and he dropped back heavily as Coypu let him have it with his handy psycho blaster. |
| 7736 |
And she wasn't coming home often, herself. Could marry again, but had no enthusiasm for the institution. |
| 7737 |
The inability to remember, at the critical moment, which is the better side of a boat to be seasick off. |
| 7738 |
The expression of the face was marked by worry now. The soothing, smooth voice was rippled with concern. |
| 7739 |
Gradually, the color returned to her cheeks. Her eyelids fluttered open. She stared up at him in horror. |
| 7740 |
She rolled away from him and leaped to her feet, a movement so graceful nothing tame could have made it. |
| 7741 |
For how long we stood there, I am uncertain. Then she reached out, took hold of my hand and squeezed it. |
| 7742 |
Gregory was by his side, shading his eyes against the early morning sunrise, looking back to the valley. |
| 7743 |
In between the two wrecked fighting machines, from one of the disabled barges, a floating shape emerged. |
| 7744 |
The sailor had fallen to the floor. He had a stunned look. Rising, he reached again for the broken cord. |
| 7745 |
They had practiced twice against melons but everyone thought it was a joke. Nobody used swords nowadays. |
| 7746 |
And in the most natural manner in the world, he had turned his head slightly on his pillow and had died. |
| 7747 |
There are lights ashore. The captain stood up from the periscope and gestured Manfred to take his place. |
| 7748 |
A burst of laughter drifted across the courtyard from a window in the corridor flanking the dining hall. |
| 7749 |
Private George's whisper seemed to come from another world. It brought her back to the midget submarine. |
| 7750 |
It had taken him time to realize she made him laugh, made him cry, made him feel. She brought Me to him. |
| 7751 |
Mason opened a drawer in his desk, stiffened in amazed surprise, then pulled the drawer all the way out. |
| 7752 |
The humped body was shiny and dark, and the legs were very short, but its tail did not taper to the end. |
| 7753 |
Concerned over Monk's queer condition, and the later voice on the telephone, Ham decided to investigate. |
| 7754 |
She took the man's hand and pulled him into the room. A moment later, their bodies were locked together. |
| 7755 |
As the policemen started across the street I bounded up the four steps and pushed hard against the door. |
| 7756 |
Two marker posts with winking lights had appeared on the horizon, and the bus was steering between them. |
| 7757 |
The ship grounded softly on a sloping ramp. Lush jungle wrapped cyclopean stone structures on the shore. |
| 7758 |
Doc hit the door. He knew instantly that he might as well have saved his effort. The door was too solid. |
| 7759 |
The captain's expression changed. He stroked his goatee, then glanced at the approaching cigarette boat. |
| 7760 |
Now he is thinking of shaving his beard off. He might do his scalp and his upper body, while he's at it. |
| 7761 |
The man in the patrol car nodded. The car was painted the color of an army car, and the top was lowered. |
| 7762 |
The Doctor pointed ahead to where a tree stood by a corner. A bundle of twigs was leaning up against it. |
| 7763 |
No such luck. He was breathing. A bruise mark on his temple showed one reason for his unconscious state. |
| 7764 |
He had not wanted to leave his newly found first family so quickly. All of them. But especially Maureen. |
| 7765 |
Ashen stepped outside the infirmary tent again to replenish the supply of snow needed to cool the water. |
| 7766 |
The cardinals knelt and kissed the papal ring. The Pope smiled and motioned for them to seat themselves. |
| 7767 |
He broke off suddenly. They had almost reached the edge of the swamp, were nearly back to the dirigible. |
| 7768 |
As the steamer bumped against the jetty, Dr. Sanders read through the letter for the last time on board. |
| 7769 |
This time, the Fruit was as yellow as a sunflower and grew in a shape that was nearly a perfect pyramid. |
| 7770 |
The only token they had of their adventures to date was the carpet fragment, and it offered up no clues. |
| 7771 |
Carly Beth backed away from him. Then she uttered a startled cry as she backed into the display shelves. |
| 7772 |
He sighed wearily. He would wait for her outside, he decided, where he would put an end to her for good. |
| 7773 |
And also, she thought, she would be fulfilling her obligation to the Queen. That one was walking danger. |
| 7774 |
Sure enough, in a moment another dragon arrived. The drawbridge lowered to let it in, then lifted again. |
| 7775 |
In the light I saw the black blot which near covered the palm of the hand he had raised in answer to me. |
| 7776 |
Two more creatures appeared at the far end of the dining room, crawling out of the kitchen, coming fast. |
| 7777 |
Now the bronze man crept forward softly. Voices could be heard, one boisterous, the other dead and flat. |
| 7778 |
She hungered and thirsted, and now and then she absently picked at the ice of the wall and sucked at it. |
| 7779 |
Victor Vail choked. His sightless orbs filled with tears. For an instant, he seemed about to break down. |
| 7780 |
She paused, but no one else said anything. For a change, we were all giving her our undivided attention. |
| 7781 |
The snap of his breaking neck was softer and duller than either the priest or the beholder had expected. |
| 7782 |
She put them both under quickly, finding she had to choose her words carefully so they could follow her. |
| 7783 |
The face in the mirror got closer, as if the figure had moved a little nearer to its side of the mirror. |
| 7784 |
Now they were at the head of the steep slope down the Hard, and this horrible ordeal would soon be over. |
| 7785 |
Cal studied the look on Suzanna's face. Try as she might she could not entirely disguise her exhaustion. |
| 7786 |
First came her music, from the radio, that tune that he and she had danced to so many times in the past. |
| 7787 |
Francis could feel the tenseness slowly drain from Fawkes's muscles and the constable loosened his hold. |
| 7788 |
Artemis felt the uneasiness rolling in his gut. Funny how such an innocent image could be so foreboding. |
| 7789 |
There was a gag in his mouth. His hands were securely tied behind his back. His eyes remained uncovered. |
| 7790 |
He was German all right, Pat decided, because that was the language he went back to when he was excited. |
| 7791 |
Mary Anne teased me just a little that night when I tucked the postcard into the mirror over my dresser. |
| 7792 |
His voice was quiet and tense. There was a break in the film, some numbers, and the image came on again. |
| 7793 |
Colene tried to kiss the image, but her head passed right through without resistance. The image laughed. |
| 7794 |
The receptacle closed and his clothing was gone. The lighted sign blanked out. A new sign flashed ahead. |
| 7795 |
An argument started between the two guards. Soon they came to blows. They paid no attention to the girl. |
| 7796 |
He leaned on the pry bar. He snapped the bock. He walked in. He smelled blood. He slammed the door shut. |
| 7797 |
He did. He told me whatever happened in the future he would never drag my name down again. He never did. |
| 7798 |
When he arrived, Ariel was leaning in the doorway. She raised her eyebrows in surprise when she saw him. |
| 7799 |
As he left, I tried to recall what else I had intended to ask him, but whatever it was eluded my memory. |
| 7800 |
And then all the relaxed people around me began acting like children who have remembered their homework. |
| 7801 |
But as I gained skill as a painter, and I did indeed gain skill, other aspects of the work disturbed me. |
| 7802 |
Heller was onto them in a single dive. He reached down, grabbed collars and bashed their heads together. |
| 7803 |
He was laying the stones around the edge of the circle as he spoke, the arrangement seemingly arbitrary. |
| 7804 |
The land all about seemed to be poor. Larger trees had given way to scrubby brush. Open fields appeared. |
| 7805 |
Long Tom felt around in the darkness, recovered his flashlight from among the spikes and threw the beam. |
| 7806 |
Reg gave the Dean a push. The wizard tottered forward, and then staggered to a precarious, swaying halt. |
| 7807 |
I took some. He had plenty, they were crisp and salty, the sun shone right through them. They were good. |
| 7808 |
I couldn't figure what to say or do. He was working on my nerves. When he spoke his voice was very soft. |
| 7809 |
The nun rose up, blood pounding in her temples. She turned away from Felice and walked out of the cabin. |
| 7810 |
At last, we came home and wrapped our community wall around us and huddled in our illusions of security. |
| 7811 |
When at last he parted from her, she moved without pain. Her legs moved. She felt whole. She was healed. |
| 7812 |
The assistant was facing him suddenly, sitting up in bed and wearing an expression of sullen resentment. |
| 7813 |
Doc's disguised entrance to Washington was far less spectacular than that of his aids. He came by train. |
| 7814 |
I climbed. The coral cut my hands and feet and knees. From the cone I'd be able to see the whole island. |
| 7815 |
Parts and tools were all over the table. Florian collected what he needed. It was not particularly hard. |
| 7816 |
Light flared blindingly. I cowered away from it, clamping my eyes shut, covering them with soiled hands. |
| 7817 |
Different sentries stood by the gate. As Hunter approached, one turned toward him, leaning on his spear. |
| 7818 |
By then I had gone out to attend at many births, still I dreaded this venture out into the larger world. |
| 7819 |
The other soldiers came after him, Mary and the children forgotten. They stood around the table, amazed. |
| 7820 |
Beyond him, a side corridor branched off to the left. Vain took this turning. Covenant followed rapidly. |
| 7821 |
It was still black outside, and I was wide awake. The caller gave me a listing of all night restaurants. |
| 7822 |
It would take Rachel a while to get home on the bus. I traveled a little faster. So I had time to waste. |
| 7823 |
Ulric could not blame him and felt no anger. His family were born to lead and blood ran true among them. |
| 7824 |
Service and Support covers the support functions that might aid the men in the performance of their job. |
| 7825 |
In the darkness he sensed a bulky body up ahead. He chirped out, and concentrated on the complex echoes. |
| 7826 |
He reached Katya and caught hold of her hand. The glimpse of land had filled him with new determination. |
| 7827 |
She might have been picking up a fur stole that had been soaking in ice water for a week. Judith hissed. |
| 7828 |
Random turned. Whatever he was about to say to me died on his lips when he realized who stood beside me. |
| 7829 |
I shrugged. I looked at the Mistress. I thought that she herself might make some man an excellent slave. |
| 7830 |
That was enough to take their minds off the fact that their wrecked plane wasn't where they had left it. |
| 7831 |
Tung, dividing his attention between this confab and his headset, grimaced in exasperation at this news. |
| 7832 |
Unconsciously, Ashen twisted the iridescent stone bracelet she wore. It was very warm under her fingers. |
| 7833 |
He sat back to wait. It would take another nine days for the rocks to see that this thing was destroyed. |
| 7834 |
Frank started for Costello. Then he felt a sharp pain in his left side, and he collapsed onto the floor. |
| 7835 |
Strange question. Neither of us had ever spoken of our parents before, except in the most general terms. |
| 7836 |
Before Deborah could respond, both women saw car lights appear at the base of the driveway and start up. |
| 7837 |
Long decided to wait a moment before signaling. It might give them a chance to hit a more neutral topic. |
| 7838 |
The Serpent glided through the lava storm untouched, as ice and fire rained down upon the sea around it. |
| 7839 |
It was unnecessary for him to add that the last second of those five minutes would be the most critical. |
| 7840 |
Years later he realized that he no longer had any idea of his original motive in breaking his indenture. |
| 7841 |
Four of the guards stepped forward. Here was a leader to their liking. He was ruthless, vain and brutal. |
| 7842 |
More voices, the tapping of footsteps and an unidentifiable, intermittent squelching sound. Then a slam. |
| 7843 |
He sensed its amusement with him, the same way he had felt its hunger, but he felt no fear. Let it come. |
| 7844 |
The daylight, although fading, was still more than sufficient to give them a clear view of the tiny bay. |
| 7845 |
The floor stabilized. She pushed open the side again, and now there was a tunnel, curving into darkness. |
| 7846 |
Maia bet her sister was on punishment detail, probably for mouthing off when she should have kept quiet. |
| 7847 |
A builder's lorry stood near the barrier. A man was standing in it, throwing bricks down to another man. |
| 7848 |
It was so silent that Random had not noticed the descending spaceship until it was nearly on top of her. |
| 7849 |
Milo had to slash and slash again with his dagger, his hands shaking with a horror he could not control. |
| 7850 |
He spun away, falling swiftly, and the revolver never fired but Fergus began to scream a high thin wall. |
| 7851 |
After about two years in business, I was pleased with myself. I was having fun. Meanwhile I had met Lia. |
| 7852 |
Herb Dwight's eyes flickered uneasily toward the windows. His tall frame seemed bent and aged, suddenly. |
| 7853 |
They touched down just over half a mile from the edge of the police landing field and next to a roadway. |
| 7854 |
His escorts led him straight through the camp to the guarded striped tent and pushed him roughly inside. |
| 7855 |
A fifth vehicle descended the slope, and a sixth. And still those already on the river hovered, waiting. |
| 7856 |
I had no idea how long that trick would hold up before one of them figured out I wasn't in either place. |
| 7857 |
At the same time, Jack noticed uneasily that the rim of the black orifice was slowly rising around them. |
| 7858 |
Yet he was only on the seventh floor. The view he was seeing should be from a much higher vantage point. |
| 7859 |
A good cook is always the first one into the kitchen every morning and the last one to go home at night. |
| 7860 |
At the last second, the tall man dropped low and spun away to one side. Fast, so fast he seemed to blur. |
| 7861 |
I walked over to the removal van to have a word with the two attendants as they shut the tailgate doors. |
| 7862 |
These words prophesying the end of the universe had been written half an hour before I was reading them. |
| 7863 |
The sartorially perfect lawyer, trailing Monk into the room, scowled darkly and fingered his sword cane. |
| 7864 |
He was examining the bodies, when a peculiar rhythmic drone of a sound assailed his ears. Doc looked up. |
| 7865 |
Andy made a rough fireplace just outside the shack, with stones from the hearth of the ruined farmhouse. |
| 7866 |
And that business about his living tissues. As if there might be more to him than simply living tissues. |
| 7867 |
She was mystified and drawn by the notion. Timidly she lifted her hands and placed them on my shoulders. |
| 7868 |
There were only four of them, plus somebody who had been dead for years. It had seemed like a battalion. |
| 7869 |
I struck something hard with my knee, and my right shoulder collided with what seemed to me a hard wall. |
| 7870 |
On the mound, taking a ball out of the basket and pounding it into his catcher's mitt, Yogi just smiled. |
| 7871 |
Three times it circumnavigated this way. Lark had an impression it was looking him over from all angles. |
| 7872 |
So much water, so many canals and so many trees. The city's built on a series of canals, Tara explained. |
| 7873 |
Now the first soldier swung his leg over the ridge of the roof and was starting to come down toward her. |
| 7874 |
No, he was not mistaken. This woman creature had offered him the water ritual. It wished to grow closer. |
| 7875 |
An orange glare burst above the silhouette and a line of brilliant purple cut downward toward the glare. |
| 7876 |
A smile twitches the corner of her mouth. She comes forward, shifting the bag aside. Her lips brush his. |
| 7877 |
Her familiarity with Jerry, and her knowledge of his sickness, only added to the puzzle of her presence. |
| 7878 |
The boys covered their patient with blankets and rubbed his hands and feet to stimulate the circulation. |
| 7879 |
He wasn't going to see her again. It was a promise he made to himself upon waking the following evening. |
| 7880 |
And a second later, I was running after her. My heart pounded. My sandals squished over the soft ground. |
| 7881 |
At exactly one minute after eleven that night, I heard the funeral car pull up in front of my apartment. |
| 7882 |
The two bodies reached the surface together and lay, face downward, in the shallow troughs of the waves. |
| 7883 |
There was a blue flash, an agonizing burning sensation that spread in a wave to every nerve of his body. |
| 7884 |
At length they stood within a large room with adjacent compartments, rather like the Master's main tent. |
| 7885 |
House and House, as vile and bitter as it often has been, is as nothing compared to that coming upon us. |
| 7886 |
Kate sat on a fallen tree, touching her head gingerly, her wig askew. There was blood on her fingertips. |
| 7887 |
In the moonlight she saw him frowning. He flicked a finger at the jewel she wore, not quite touching it. |
| 7888 |
Men ran to signal ships among the reserves, that they might draw toward our engaged fleet, recalling it. |
| 7889 |
To prove his own worth to himself was one reason he'd abandoned his studies and ridden with the knights. |
| 7890 |
Across the camp, a double line of foot soldiers began the march that would take them to the battlefield. |
| 7891 |
Dirty. Impure. To hold such a rebellious thought made her start searching for a woodgrain line to trace. |
| 7892 |
The sun was steadily being blocked out by the mesh of clots, the light only breaking through in patches. |
| 7893 |
The Amazon girl laid one trembling hand on the arm of her chair and looked at me with eyes like daggers. |
| 7894 |
The elevator arrived. The doors slid aside. Inside the elevator waited four men and two women, silently. |
| 7895 |
Howard had been prepared to pretend that the night before had been another terribly realistic nightmare. |
| 7896 |
The body grew, finally reaching proportions suited for the head, about the size and look of a wolfhound. |
| 7897 |
I am tired but I would like to swim in the cove and then lie in the sand. It would be good for you, too. |
| 7898 |
The image of her father's quiet genius being used as a tool of destruction was like poison in her blood. |
| 7899 |
Men with whom he had lived and worked and shared a hundred hardships. It was not easy to leave them now. |
| 7900 |
There was a soft bump against the right side of the bow, shifting the course of the small boat slightly. |
| 7901 |
After he was gone, the man bestowed upon the girls that calm, hooded gaze which they remembered so well. |
| 7902 |
The fifth floor was empty. It was a spare room, perhaps available for expansion when there was a family. |
| 7903 |
Even her fear arose slowly, and she could not make the effort to avoid the thing. It clung to her flesh. |
| 7904 |
A startled cry from the goblins at the back end of the chamber told her that the panther was on its way. |
| 7905 |
Held by the hair, bend over, my heart sank. I was a slave girl who had been caught in a lie. I trembled. |
| 7906 |
Even if he got here, Heller would never suspect I had her. They hadn't even written her name in the log. |
| 7907 |
He picked up the suitcase his wife had packed. Deliberately, he left the front door of their house open. |
| 7908 |
More often, we died. Most of the ones of us still around for the party were the ones who had been lucky. |
| 7909 |
But Castro's nose piece. It meant Implementation was using gas. The corridor must be already full of it. |
| 7910 |
The egg blob sat in its own yellow slime. Its whole body throbbed. The tiny, round eyes stared up at me. |
| 7911 |
It was the middle of the night and Tyrone was asleep in the bathroom when there was a knock on the door. |
| 7912 |
She gathered herself and typed again, and again the answers zipped into being with no discernible pause. |
| 7913 |
The sound of her final expletive was drowned by a sizzling roar that made Ezra grab for the volume dial. |
| 7914 |
Nick pulled Craig's hands out from under him, then brought his wrists together at the small of his back. |
| 7915 |
He gripped the steering wheel so tightly the car wobbled. He was going to have to do something dramatic. |
| 7916 |
I tried to read something in that peaceful handsome face. Some doubt, fear, anything I could understand. |
| 7917 |
It was the closest thing to true invisibility that the Cabal's technology had been able to come up with. |
| 7918 |
A tower of flame began to rear itself above the Keep, halted and hovered a moment, heaved itself higher. |
| 7919 |
Then, finally, Harris felt he could slump back down behind the tailgate and get his heart under control. |
| 7920 |
Suddenly, the klaxon sounded a piercing triple blast. All activity ceased for the message that followed. |
| 7921 |
The blade gashed thin air. In a manner that seemed beyond human ability, the bronze man had moved aside. |
| 7922 |
She went out to her kitchen and rattled ice and came back with a couple of tall ones and sat down again. |
| 7923 |
Rex still didn't come out of his can, but I could see the pine shavings moving. I think he was laughing. |
| 7924 |
She struggled, her head turned to one side, her wrists locked behind her in the black iron of the north. |
| 7925 |
That sounded good. That sentence alone sounded worth the pay. If you had a Plan, you were halfway there. |
| 7926 |
The man snapped his fingers. A waiter hurrying past with a tray of drinks turned through ninety degrees. |
| 7927 |
And so ends the story of the greatest chess game for the highest stakes ever to be played in our valley. |
| 7928 |
That interested me. I had left her in the stocks primarily for her instruction, and not for her arousal. |
| 7929 |
But when he and Linden turned to retrace their way, they saw a figure coming darkly through the shimmer. |
| 7930 |
His wife had just recently died. I suppose he found the thought of dreamless, painless sleep comforting. |
| 7931 |
He wondered if it was worth the trouble. Men had been wondering that ever since television was invented. |
| 7932 |
The heat as they set out was intense but at least, perched on swings, they were above the insect swarms. |
| 7933 |
The flames were already curling around the first of the series, but Maxine could see him clearly enough. |
| 7934 |
They were also advised to ask for the chairman of the board of directors and to take a good look at him. |
| 7935 |
He held on until he was sure that the man was dead, until there was no trace of a pulse under his thumb. |
| 7936 |
The plants were too slow to get out in time, but their instincts made them release their floating seeds. |
| 7937 |
The idea that they should be recipients of an offer so strange was too much for their mental digestions. |
| 7938 |
I saw each room through his eyes, which were accustomed to the spacious beauties of palaces and temples. |
| 7939 |
Memories came tumbling back like a rowdy litter of kittens, all over one another, not making much sense. |
| 7940 |
All of our things carefully inspected, I'm sure. Search where you will. We carry no hint of our legions. |
| 7941 |
He walked into the nave. The God's image was gone, though the base remained. There was no writing on it. |
| 7942 |
It was midnight and she lifted him into her arms. She disconnected the alarm and opened the door softly. |
| 7943 |
That was Rodriguez that the first mate tried to save. The two of them plunged screaming to their deaths. |
| 7944 |
The door slammed wide open. I didn't pull the trigger, because nobody was there. Just the empty hallway. |
| 7945 |
The refugees tore the drenched clothing from their bodies and put on the blue uniforms of the fishermen. |
| 7946 |
I saw a defender forcing the head of the girl whose hair burned into the dirt, extinguishing the flames. |
| 7947 |
She rose up to stand in the center of the quiet room. The glass fell from her fingers, smashing to bits. |
| 7948 |
She stared at him silently, and he thought how that simple reaction spoke so deeply of her intelligence. |
| 7949 |
The cost would be outrageous and, more importantly, the Everglades restoration project would fall apart. |
| 7950 |
Something must have affected the many tropical birds in the cage. They started fluttering and squawking. |
| 7951 |
So much for the underlying tensions that drive the saga of Orion. Now for the particulars of this novel. |
| 7952 |
Must protect myself from the sun. She dragged herself upright and looked around her with more attention. |
| 7953 |
His first thought was that she would get over it. His second thought was to hell with her if she didn't. |
| 7954 |
Sunder hugged the raft, gasping as if the exertion of so much force had ruptured something in his chest. |
| 7955 |
Cohen looked up into the cracked and craggy features of an enormous troll, its club raised to smash him. |
| 7956 |
On a slip of paper the salesman scribbled a price and then briefly, almost furtively, showed it to Rick. |
| 7957 |
Galen Firth gave a snort and held up his hand dismissively. Fender took the cue, rose, and started away. |
| 7958 |
She didn't argue. She went under a tree, changed to girl form, and threw herself down as if unconscious. |
| 7959 |
He appeared out of the shadows, black against black, almost as if he were a part of the darkness itself. |
| 7960 |
Then I went back to my own cart, set up my old dome tent, and got my first full night's sleep in a week. |
| 7961 |
I sipped a fine green tea as the storm rolled nearer. Something splashed within the waters of our inlet. |
| 7962 |
But in my twentieth year, I met a most extraordinary nobleman and I think it fitting to write about him. |
| 7963 |
A success. The first phase of the mission had been a success. His assassins were on their way to Moscow. |
| 7964 |
But somehow she had crept under his skin and over the last two weeks his feelings had gradually changed. |
| 7965 |
It was a tiny knife, carved from some strange type of mottled stone, almost the same color as its owner. |
| 7966 |
He returned to the present. Another dastardly deed accomplished. This was turning out to be a great day. |
| 7967 |
As far as she could see, there was nothing to prevent her from climbing the stairs as fast as she could. |
| 7968 |
A car backfired outside, and she flinched. She rolled over on her side and found that her eyes were wet. |
| 7969 |
As he dozed off it occurred to him that he had not asked to see the authorizations given by his parents. |
| 7970 |
She stretched out one arm, very carefully. The students watched as she uncurled one finger, very slowly. |
| 7971 |
Within minutes the men had streamed back through the Keep gates, taking up positions on the battlements. |
| 7972 |
This was definitely amusing to Monk. He got started chuckling, but did manage to keep his face straight. |
| 7973 |
For a moment there was only the terrific bawl of the motors and the loud reports of waves smacking past. |
| 7974 |
They went to the next door, which was also shut. They listened and could hear someone breathing heavily. |
| 7975 |
He didn't either. He hauled Sal around in front of him, held on to her, Sal being warm and the room not. |
| 7976 |
He closed his arms around her. She wrapped her arms around his back and rested her head on his shoulder. |
| 7977 |
Nest stood transfixed in the heat and the dark, unable to turn away. They were talking about her father. |
| 7978 |
He swept the Scientists with his eyes. If he noticed the instrument on the floor, he gave no indication. |
| 7979 |
No tyrant in any world could have bettered the look he then turned on Wallie. Wallie recoiled before it. |
| 7980 |
From the top of a small shed the familiar lanky figure slid awkwardly to the ground. He grinned inanely. |
| 7981 |
The happy noise of children surrounded them, but the blessing of generation was not equally distributed. |
| 7982 |
She returned my greeting with vague regard, as if she had not a clue as to who I was or why I was there. |
| 7983 |
Several camels looked at us suspiciously, however, and some of my anxiety returned. Never trust a camel. |
| 7984 |
Gaby consulted her printout sheets, but obviously did not need them. The figures were clear in her mind. |
| 7985 |
Wallie drew his sword, and a loud rattle of shingle announced that the priests and healers were leaving. |
| 7986 |
The bronze man shucked off his coat and dived off the dock edge. The water was cold and intensely black. |
| 7987 |
He got down to the last thin layer, then removed the one from her left eye, then the right. She blinked. |
| 7988 |
Now she could get back into the wedding dress, which was standing on petticoat hoops in the living room. |
| 7989 |
Then the party rounded a turn in the corridor. The ominous silence of the men behind them was forgotten. |
| 7990 |
He nodded and went on with his work. He heard her leave and only then did he look up to drink the water. |
| 7991 |
He turns and squints into the midmorning sunlight. Another wagon rolls down the road from the last turn. |
| 7992 |
Not much chance in that tossing sea of seeing a floating man two miles away, not even from the masthead. |
| 7993 |
He pointed up the dune face and beyond it where they could see a rock tower undercut by sandblast winds. |
| 7994 |
It was the ugliest little boy she had ever seen. It was horribly ugly from misshapen head to bandy legs. |
| 7995 |
Black cloth obscured her vision, cleared as Tully pulled one off her, and she rattled that one's brains. |
| 7996 |
They would not hold firm against a mob, he knew. Mounting the wagon again he drove it to the main doors. |
| 7997 |
The dumbest audience member could not fail to see he was looking for his vanished partner in that cloth. |
| 7998 |
Abby peered up at the sorceress. She gave Abby a sympathetic smile and a nod to confirm the truth of it. |
| 7999 |
She was huge. Even though she was belly up and not yet infused with concrete, she was a thing of beauty. |
| 8000 |
The plump psychologist put down the phone and stared solemnly at himself in the mirror opposite his bed. |
| 8001 |
They held hands as they walked. Her nails were narrow and strong, and the fine hair on her palm tickled. |
| 8002 |
Monk looked at them regretfully. Now he had nothing but his fists left, and they were no match for guns. |
| 8003 |
They crested a hill and cork oaks thinned out, replaced ahead by fruit orchards surrounding a community. |
| 8004 |
For once he was taken flat aback. His blue eyes popped, his jaw dropped, and then he burst out laughing. |
| 8005 |
It wasn't a particularly unfriendly voice. It just wanted her to get on with it, sing her piece, and go. |
| 8006 |
He climbed up the rope again, his head appearing suddenly out of the hole. Dick gave him a helping hand. |
| 8007 |
They told Joan about what they had seen that morning on the island. She took a grave view of it at once. |
| 8008 |
The man began to look at the vest when he got it off. He then started removing gadgets from the pockets. |
| 8009 |
That notion made him freeze. He pointed it upward and used his pencil to touch the largest button again. |
| 8010 |
Another blast, and the gates pinwheeled away. Bits iron and timber crashed around the crouched soldiers. |
| 8011 |
She put her blade to his chest and cut out his heart. Then she let his body tumble back down the stairs. |
| 8012 |
To their astonishment, they saw that the other craft had straightened out and was climbing into the air. |
| 8013 |
It was an indication as conspicuous to him as a blinking stop sign that something was drastically wrong. |
| 8014 |
I turned to go, as the business at hand seemed to have been completed, but he raised a restraining hand. |
| 8015 |
The noise of his fall aroused the other men. They whirled. Then they yelled, and grabbed for their guns. |
| 8016 |
The place was like a gigantic rabbit warren, with passages leading this way and that in every direction. |
| 8017 |
I think he was hiding a smile. Nannie raised her eyebrows. Emily kept mashing a mushroom with her spoon. |
| 8018 |
She licked her lips. There was no film of moisture left on her mouth when her tongue had passed over it. |
| 8019 |
In contrast, her skin was pale, having no trace of color in the cheeks and only a faint tinting of lips. |
| 8020 |
Monk breathed deeply. This was a tough spot. He didn't need a diagram to tell him what it was all about. |
| 8021 |
There was a slight sound again, and another coin rolled into the gutter on the other side of the street. |
| 8022 |
Well, he could do nothing about it at the moment. He just had to hang on and hope it would be all right. |
| 8023 |
She stared at me coolly for a long moment and then dipped her hand into her open bag for a handkerchief. |
| 8024 |
The pit bulls stopped in their tracks and got onto their haunches, immediately heeding the firm command. |
| 8025 |
The man talked to someone on the radio for some time. Then he went on deck and made a speech to his men. |
| 8026 |
All five of Doc's men were staring through the cabin windows, seeking trace of the one who was shooting. |
| 8027 |
Black hair peaked on his forehead and she could not guess his age, though she thought he might be young. |
| 8028 |
The hour was near midnight. The moon sprayed a silver glow over fairways, sand traps and putting greens. |
| 8029 |
The weather had improved. The wind had shifted and died down. The clouds were gone and the sun was warm. |
| 8030 |
This was probably the only door that would open for me, and in this way I could have a different future. |
| 8031 |
A moment, the man facing him turned his head to look past at something behind Donal. Donal turned about. |
| 8032 |
Angela thought she would take the chance of getting Antoinette into trouble, so she exaggerated at once. |
| 8033 |
Eventually it returns to its original position and carries on as before, ignoring Waterhouse completely. |
| 8034 |
This is the way history sometimes works. Simple connections, simple decisions, with untold consequences. |
| 8035 |
The other two marines looked from the hard face of their squad leader to the harder face of the captain. |
| 8036 |
Murat barely had time to deliver a last command, in a fierce whisper, before the demon vanished utterly. |
| 8037 |
I sat with my empty glass in my hand and thought. She took it away from me and started to fill it again. |
| 8038 |
He stepped back, waited for as long as it might take a man to get up out of a chair, cross a small room. |
| 8039 |
Don tucked the orders and the note into his pocket. Every now and then he would reach in and touch them. |
| 8040 |
He paused on the top step, shouted, Stand back inside and fired three rifle bullets into the brass lock. |
| 8041 |
She nodded, released his chin. He rubbed it and as they moved on he ducked his head, not looking at her. |
| 8042 |
She bumped against me once and looked over her shoulder, an impish smile flashing briefly over her face. |
| 8043 |
Void. It followed our wake and is even now tied up at the gate, being small enough to navigate the moat. |
| 8044 |
The absolute stillness in the room brought his attention back to her. Her face had drained of all color. |
| 8045 |
His family disappeared across the plain, and he turned his back upon them and went to meet his pursuers. |
| 8046 |
Suddenly he dashed forward, mounted the two steps of her dais and pounded on her breasts with his fists. |
| 8047 |
She turned away from him and walked off down the corridor, leaving him thoughtful and just a bit uneasy. |
| 8048 |
Monk squealed happily. Before Doc could stop him, he raced in the lead, grabbed at the lock on the door. |
| 8049 |
Grenades were still exploding beneath the surface. But the blasts were so distant now as to be harmless. |
| 8050 |
Raoul held his golden purse over his head, endeavoring to keep his hair from getting mussed in the wind. |
| 8051 |
With a tremendous effort I tried to draw my gun and shoot him but I could not get it out of the holster. |
| 8052 |
He was in his shirtsleeves and the linen table napkin was tucked into the top of his dark suit trousers. |
| 8053 |
I took the bowl back into the shed. It was brimming with palm wine. I knelt down and passed it to Uncle. |
| 8054 |
His hard boots making not a sound, his ample jewelry quiet, the mercenary leader started from the alley. |
| 8055 |
Too late, the public relations consul sensed the feeling of some bulky object close to him, and whirled. |
| 8056 |
Their terror grew with every door they pressed open, every new abomination their fevered eyes fell upon. |
| 8057 |
He reached for Helen's hand and brought it to his lips. She kept herself from cringing, but just barely. |
| 8058 |
They found the spoor within an hour. The herd had wrecked a road through the thick bush along the river. |
| 8059 |
I pushed in between the guys, kicked out and knocked the spider and the fly out of the web with my foot. |
| 8060 |
He squeezed her hand, said nothing. He had known what she was going to say, but was now surprised by it. |
| 8061 |
It was just that she could see a future of bad tapestry and sitting looking wistfully out of the window. |
| 8062 |
I stood at the edge of the shell and hopped around and around to the center. Amanda handed me the chalk. |
| 8063 |
She stood there for so long that the sun came up, sending streams of golden sunshine through the window. |
| 8064 |
This was a slight exaggeration, considering Monk's reputation as one of the greatest of living chemists. |
| 8065 |
A moment later, two men climbed out of the window. One was the fat man, and behind him came another man. |
| 8066 |
Flaring was in full agreement. He took his leave and promised to get everything going that was required. |
| 8067 |
The room door gave before a shove by a great bronze arm. Doc had expected what he saw when he looked in. |
| 8068 |
Yet she stared straight ahead for many heartbeats, unseeing, willing herself to calm without forgetting. |
| 8069 |
There was no sense of movement in the tower, but the view from the south window was constantly changing. |
| 8070 |
She went over to the nearest griller and paused by the rock on which two cooked fragments had been laid. |
| 8071 |
The otter retreated. There was little room to maneuver in the alley, a fact he was acutely conscious of. |
| 8072 |
Monk's bulgy muscles swelled under his coat. Ham swung his sword cane swiftly. Doc opened the door wide. |
| 8073 |
Evan nodded, wonderingly, and crowded his chief a little as he craned his neck for a look at the screen. |
| 8074 |
Once the lunch was served, Deborah's curiosity got the best of her, and she asked Helen about the women. |
| 8075 |
Sara scrambled to her feet, her eyes searching the darkness for the source of that smooth, sultry voice. |
| 8076 |
Every inch the coquette, Amelia bit off the delicate chiffon of the iris. Chewed. Swallowed. And smiled. |
| 8077 |
He paused for breath long enough to notice that Callahan had a hand up, and fell silent, breathing hard. |
| 8078 |
Becky and Allie came creeping up the stairs and stood there staring at her, their faces a ghostly white. |
| 8079 |
The Earthmen were returned to their ship under heavy guard to prevent further attempts at assassination. |
| 8080 |
Grant looked at Peri hoping for some sort of explanation, but the only reply she could give was a shrug. |
| 8081 |
There were lots of hugs, lots of tears as we made our way up to the theater and then out into the woods. |
| 8082 |
He went back to collect his belongings. There was not much to pack, and he was in a consuming hurry now. |
| 8083 |
The nun moved her hands rapidly, expressively as she talked. Sweat beaded on her forehead and upper lip. |
| 8084 |
Slowly I turned back to the door. I wiped at my tears again, hating them, and put the handkerchief away. |
| 8085 |
But the path we followed did not enter there. Instead it turned left to run along the edge of the stand. |
| 8086 |
One of the darkly draped pieces of furniture lifted the material from itself and tossed it to the floor. |
| 8087 |
He paused again and watched as the text stopped scrolling. He turned the page on his printed text again. |
| 8088 |
Just before he reached them he stopped, lifted his hands in the air, and tilted his head to the heavens. |
| 8089 |
He followed the girl into the inner office, and sat down at his desk whilst she took a chair facing him. |
| 8090 |
He then struck me again, and tears burst from my eyes anew. I lay helpless before him, a punished slave. |
| 8091 |
Later, it became reasonably certain that this was the first time one of the public had seen a gold ogre. |
| 8092 |
The entire company was fully armed, with halberds in hand and daggers and bastard swords on their belts. |
| 8093 |
Molly gasped, her breath whistling between her lips. Then her eyes opened and she was staring up wildly. |
| 8094 |
I studied my mother's file. I studied the Long file. I picked up strange facts and a wrenching omission. |
| 8095 |
The material component for this spell is a bit of bone from a giant skeleton or a pinch of vampire dust. |
| 8096 |
Long, white feathers were scattered over the soft ground. The poor bird's chest had been torn wide open. |
| 8097 |
Krystal's voice seemed to echo and come through layers of blankets wrapped around me, but she was there. |
| 8098 |
He opened the passenger side door and motioned her to get in. She crossed her arms and stood her ground. |
| 8099 |
This is the young man full of pride, whose gadgets work the first time tried in a science fiction story. |
| 8100 |
When he raised his head, he endeavored to keep his features calm. But fear showed there. A silence fell. |
| 8101 |
His eyes drew her again. She looked away before she dropped like a stone down a well made of blue light. |
| 8102 |
The fellow who had organized the private detective collaboration swallowed twice. He looked incredulous. |
| 8103 |
The Suzerain's assistants shared its satisfaction. At this rate, the irregulars should soon all be dead. |
| 8104 |
Ham, still looking very indignant, squinted at the girl as if to make sure he was well out of her reach. |
| 8105 |
A heavy slave ring was set in the bottom of the couch to which I might have, had I pleased, chained her. |
| 8106 |
Two stones looped into the air and then, gracefully, began their descent toward one of the pirate ships. |
| 8107 |
I stood there speechless, with my mouth open, until Roxanna took my arm and dragged me after the others. |
| 8108 |
Nimrod was unrepentant. He stood in the hallway where he'd been set down and stared up at Cal defiantly. |
| 8109 |
There was a faint movement behind Bond. A hand came from behind and grasped his chin and pulled it back. |
| 8110 |
By noon, something of warmth had returned to the world and the trail was fresher. I was gaining on them. |
| 8111 |
A moment later the circlet was snatched from her hand, the Princess turning it about in her own fingers. |
| 8112 |
Stunned recognition accompanied waves of stinging misery, worse than any fleshy woe or galling numbness. |
| 8113 |
The private gripped the rope tighter and braced his boots on the broken bricks set in the dirt flooring. |
| 8114 |
At that moment I still felt overwhelmed. But I felt something new, too. It was a gnawing sense of dread. |
| 8115 |
It was Dragger speaking. I looked for her, instinctively, and did not see her. But I knew she was there. |
| 8116 |
I rode to the back and found the stable. Two men wheeled an empty carriage into the big door at one end. |
| 8117 |
Many corpses later they paused to rest. The walking was hard work, and finding corpses was discouraging. |
| 8118 |
Other cities might have done more to save the park, but what Miami did was to give up, and give it away. |
| 8119 |
The question startled him. The earnestness in Vittoria's voice was even more disarming than the inquiry. |
| 8120 |
He raised his hands and a small ball of fire leaped from the center of the hearth into his cupped palms. |
| 8121 |
For the first time, Johnny realized that the excitement in his life hadn't ended. It was just beginning. |
| 8122 |
The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. |
| 8123 |
Her life would have been almost perfect had it not been for the nightmares that continued to plague her. |
| 8124 |
Smith sneezed. The force of expelled breath against the sleeve of his jacket raised a powdering of dust. |
| 8125 |
There was dead silence in the room. The enormity of that thought, and its repercussions, enveloped them. |
| 8126 |
Suddenly he remembered what Kaplan had said. She was looking in the wrong direction when they fired her. |
| 8127 |
All was silent. For a few moments, none of the companions dared move. But the silence remained unbroken. |
| 8128 |
When he could think of words like that to say that he might manage to navigate, he was not in bad shape. |
| 8129 |
They hashed it out and voted, and decided by a clear if not overwhelming majority to extend the mission. |
| 8130 |
Alfred sat down beside the dog, stroked its soft fur with a soothing hand. The animal was extremely ill. |
| 8131 |
The Lord who had arranged for his victims to stop here had meant for them to starve to death eventually. |
| 8132 |
Which was about the nicest thing he ever said to me. I had to get out before we started getting maudlin. |
| 8133 |
Clattering down two steps at a time, he morosely continued his descent. Too late now to change his mind. |
| 8134 |
He started to move away, but instantly she grabbed him, catching his shirt. She would not let him leave. |
| 8135 |
I heard a whimpering such as that which had first guided me to him. And I tried to steer for its source. |
| 8136 |
He held out the piece of cheese and she accepted it demurely, if a creature such as she could be demure. |
| 8137 |
He turned swiftly round, crouched lower, lashed himself with his tail and shot away like a golden arrow. |
| 8138 |
I waited, but he seemed off in his own thoughts again. My nerves shot, I decided to take the initiative. |
| 8139 |
It struck him suddenly that he had been morally outmaneuvered by a being with more limbs than knowledge. |
| 8140 |
Petra staggered past him, went into the bathroom, and puked up nothing for about five agonizing minutes. |
| 8141 |
Hunter hobbled his horses and sat down by the side of the road to conserve his energy and wait for dawn. |
| 8142 |
He took Deirdre's registration and held it out to the cop, but the cop was still looking at his license. |
| 8143 |
I returned carefully to the bed, finding it with my foot, and sat down. I heard her breathing beside me. |
| 8144 |
But, since it was the only thing that made even remote sense, Brian ignored what he knew and plunged on. |
| 8145 |
There was a clattering of footsteps across the bridge and people were suddenly swarming over the rubble. |
| 8146 |
It was something to look forward to, anyway, in a day that had unquestionably gotten off to a bad start. |
| 8147 |
I looked beyond the fellow. I saw the first of my master's men make the sign, the signal of designation. |
| 8148 |
He tried to climb from the darkness, but his fingers and feet seemed immobile, unable to lift him clear. |
| 8149 |
From reflex action, Kai found himself reaching for the stun locker door and saw its open, empty shelves. |
| 8150 |
The cars, the entire procession of them, had a definite destination. They lost no time in making for it. |
| 8151 |
Then one night she crept out by herself, urged by a call she could not understand, to the Moon's shrine. |
| 8152 |
Afterward he sought out Ghost in the loneliness of his cell, and buried his face in his thick white fur. |
| 8153 |
The victim's left foot was two inches from the curb. Her weight had pressed down the ivy all around her. |
| 8154 |
Long Tom scowled and his ears got red, the first time incidentally that any one had ever seen him blush. |
| 8155 |
She rolled onto her stomach and stood up. As she dusted herself off the first of the grooms reached her. |
| 8156 |
He looked helplessly about as though trying to find some way of proving that he had a functioning brain. |
| 8157 |
Darius stepped into the little chamber. A panel closed him in. The chamber shook. Then the panel opened. |
| 8158 |
It was a long, long walk to her quarters. The corridor lights writhed like the spine of a glowing snake. |
| 8159 |
Pete was already searching inside the broken head. Then he examined the whole statue. He shook his head. |
| 8160 |
They had reached the door to the administration building, but Markov showed no inclination to go inside. |
| 8161 |
Her fingers closed involuntarily. Only the darkness in her gaze hinted that she knew what she was doing. |
| 8162 |
The trumpets sounded again, and the heavy drumming of hoots rumbled the ground, nearer than ever before. |
| 8163 |
I released the com buttons, and the screen not only went dark but also the wall moved to cover it again. |
| 8164 |
Then Latia put her hands to her head. She had powder and chalk, and was using these to make up her face. |
| 8165 |
Sunder gaped at her for a moment, then hastened to investigate. With his hands, he explored the surface. |
| 8166 |
The disaster seemed to occur in slowed motion because of its scale. Marika had ample time to grow angry. |
| 8167 |
Brand looked carefully into the pale man's unblinking stare. He shrugged, still elaborately unconcerned. |
| 8168 |
From behind him there came sudden laughter. The troop began chanting, flinging his name against the sky. |
| 8169 |
I put my hand up and it makes a shadow of cool between my face and the rack of rayon burning next to us. |
| 8170 |
Austin clapped his colleague on the shoulder, took a deep breath, and stepped out into the boat chamber. |
| 8171 |
Ginny laid down what she was holding. She stayed completely motionless by the crib while I changed back. |
| 8172 |
She rolled closer to the patient, who watched attentively as Ariana laid a single sheet on the coverlet. |
| 8173 |
Reaching a road a few hundred yards distant, the man mounted a motor cycle. He sped away into the night. |
| 8174 |
Jinny's face looked blander, plainer than he remembered it when she appeared on the tiny display screen. |
| 8175 |
Again the mirrored prongs moved more rapidly. They started pulling the lifeboat away from the submarine. |
| 8176 |
Alvin laughed and then cut open his hand with his own fingernail and flung the blood out over the water. |
| 8177 |
The hurt betrayal on her face made him feel lower than any of the insults the others had ever dealt him. |
| 8178 |
A gun went off. The bullet glanced off the car top. It had come from a tiny balcony along the rear wall. |
| 8179 |
But I called him anyway. Without even hesitating. I just picked up the receiver and punched the buttons. |
| 8180 |
For some of the trip, the clear walls of the shuttle revealed nothing save an occasional flash of light. |
| 8181 |
And the unending seafoods. He had gotten so that he could no longer abide shrimp or any other shellfish. |
| 8182 |
In Sophocles' time the notion of incest was strictly frowned on. Oedipus even mentions this in the play. |
| 8183 |
And if anyone got between her and a cold glass of lemonade, she would be the one behind bars for murder. |
| 8184 |
Sue Cheddar was under a bright pink parasol and only her long, animated nails were visible as she spoke. |
| 8185 |
Joanna swallowed nervously. She took a breath and walked over beside Deborah and made herself look down. |
| 8186 |
Croaker took an hour but did tease the wizard out of life's twilight and got him to choke out his story. |
| 8187 |
Taylor was brave, and he was large and athletic. I could tell he was getting ready to pounce on the man. |
| 8188 |
He caught some sounds. He stood up. He caught his breath. He walked back. His feet scraped. He heard it. |
| 8189 |
I doubt he noted this change, or any hardening of my expression, for he went right on talking as before. |
| 8190 |
This was more than she could assimilate at once. She said nothing for so long that he broke the silence. |
| 8191 |
Lorn turns. Two younger men, barely old enough to hold blades, charge from behind the side of the porch. |
| 8192 |
My mother was five years dead. I rarely thought about her. Her murder had no place in my crime pantheon. |
| 8193 |
I was roused by a listless exchange between a boy who wore glasses and a girl who unfortunately did not. |
| 8194 |
I could never keep mine out of it, either, Raj thought. And she was a lot less of a romantic than yours. |
| 8195 |
Idaho pushed himself away from her and sat up on the bed. Anger warred with confusion in his expression. |
| 8196 |
The girl sat in a round chair on the opposite side of the desk from Waltz. He smiled at her very gently. |
| 8197 |
The doors to the Oracle's tent were always open, and from every direction the stranger was made welcome. |
| 8198 |
Lord Hong had lost his temper. And, as is always the case when a dam bursts, it engulfs whole countries. |
| 8199 |
The man went down on his haunches in front of Chant and suddenly snatched hold of a handful of his hair. |
| 8200 |
I think that all there would have volunteered for such a voyage but there were still duty to hold a man. |
| 8201 |
Joseph flinched as Rufe's paws battered his face. He held on grimly until there was nothing else for it. |
| 8202 |
The tall guard withdrew the bolt, only long enough for the server to depart, then slid it back in place. |
| 8203 |
The shadows were changing. Dragon was still slumped in his chair, but his outline seemed to be blurring. |
| 8204 |
Ivan snapped the pod from the end of its branch. The kitten emitted a squall, convulsed, and went still. |
| 8205 |
The patient looked careworn when she arrived. Her eyelids drooped and her voice was low and she mumbled. |
| 8206 |
He always joked that he could tell when rainstorms were coming because his knee ached from the humidity. |
| 8207 |
As the county road completed its turn to the west, it crossed a small stone bridge over a dry creek bed. |
| 8208 |
Tears stung Daemon's eyes as he stared at the boy. He swallowed hard to get his heart out of his throat. |
| 8209 |
But he crouched where he had, his hands on the guard of the sword, keeping himself upright with its aid. |
| 8210 |
He was stroking his daemon's fur as she sat alert in his lap. Lyra noticed that she had stopped purring. |
| 8211 |
A stunned silence fell over them all as they looked up at the great beast fleeing through the rainy sky. |
| 8212 |
I had had a feeling I wouldn't be able to slip this by unnoticed. With a sigh, I dropped the other shoe. |
| 8213 |
Maureen warmed to Mrs. Lacy. Here was someone she could talk to easily. She gave her silly little laugh. |
| 8214 |
Maybe that's why Arnie likes me to get out of this building to where the real people are, Jack realized. |
| 8215 |
I step through, into a flame uncertain space full of amber shadows. The door closes with barely a click. |
| 8216 |
The men looked at one another across the marble foyer, then solemnly followed her, hoping she was right. |
| 8217 |
She hated everything that predestined people, that fooled them, that made them slightly less than human. |
| 8218 |
As it turned out, she was right. The idea had more drawbacks than either of us could ever have imagined. |
| 8219 |
Naturally he hasn't got an ounce of extra flab on him, with a diet like that. It depressed me even more. |
| 8220 |
He bought tokens and the person behind the glass didn't even look at him. He put two tokens in the gate. |
| 8221 |
Murat, fully awake now and suddenly stricken, stumbled a step closer to the Princess on his wounded leg. |
| 8222 |
Petra felt once again the old sting, that she was the only one he had pushed harder than she could bear. |
| 8223 |
Then Grey released the magic. The gourd seemed to glow faintly. The two girls stepped into the peephole. |
| 8224 |
Except for Dirk, who had moved away from her and was watching carefully. He sat as if carved from stone. |
| 8225 |
Doc slammed the door. He hesitated. Then he opened the door again, stepped through and called his aides. |
| 8226 |
With an optimal watering and fertilizing schedule for surface grass, productivity was typically doubled. |
| 8227 |
Carson glanced at Singer. The director was smiling again and there was a gleam of good humor in his eye. |
| 8228 |
Dinah took no notice. She walked toward the cash register, arms out, fingers seeking possible obstacles. |
| 8229 |
In the distance, the lurker's sobbing mounted toward rage. At once, the air seemed to congeal like fear. |
| 8230 |
She slipped through the gap in the hedgerow, and Pick dropped onto her shoulder with an irritated grunt. |
| 8231 |
Laney is aware now of gifts without name. Of modes of perception that may never have previously existed. |
| 8232 |
Beside the cheese was a leather purse that he opened to find, God bless the girl, three guineas in gold. |
| 8233 |
Caldwell put a bulldozed line of brush between her and the command group as she trotted toward the ship. |
| 8234 |
He put his arms forward as though to embrace me. His eyes were clear and I could sense no malice at all. |
| 8235 |
The Mouser's lips began to twitch. He grimaced wryly, seeking to avoid the infection. Then he joined in. |
| 8236 |
They took turns rowing. Every time they squeaked past another bass boat, they got the same mocking look. |
| 8237 |
He woke the way an old man wakes, blinking and mumbling, with small inconclusive movements of his hands. |
| 8238 |
He imagined, for some reason, she had never seen a boy. She was curious. She thought he was very clever. |
| 8239 |
These people seemed to carry nepotism about as far as it could go. Well, it was their country, not mine. |
| 8240 |
No. I can take care of this myself. See to those others. He paused. My brother. We should have run away. |
| 8241 |
The fat woman's expression implied that she would go crazy on the spot if anybody did any more thinking. |
| 8242 |
Mom poured a new cup of coffee and held it out to Dad, but he brushed the cup aside without touching it. |
| 8243 |
After that, if he had asked them to follow him to the moon without space suits, they would have done it. |
| 8244 |
So we turned around and spent three standard hours getting back to where we'd been fifteen hours before. |
| 8245 |
The machine came up with the answer on a known sequence. The comp blinked red on an area of discrepancy. |
| 8246 |
The hoofs of the horses clicked on the hard and cold stones of the street that led to the main barracks. |
| 8247 |
Patrolman held to the other side of that anchor with the same grim determination. Water rose about them. |
| 8248 |
Seaworthy scowled at them. Seaworthy seemed to have a very low opinion of himself at the present moment. |
| 8249 |
The evening was black, damp, and unpleasant. He shivered as he walked back to his office with Fernandez. |
| 8250 |
That was all the redundancy we could afford, but it was quite a lot. On the whole, we were very pleased. |
| 8251 |
The silence that followed her statement was telling. None of them could say for certain that they could. |
| 8252 |
To go on into a bare wilderness was sheer folly, yet there was that invisible barrier on the back trail. |
| 8253 |
As an afterthought, he felt of the limp man's wrist. There was no pulse. The blow had crushed the skull. |
| 8254 |
The fingers slackened. I wrenched loose from them. Something that glinted hit me on the side of the jaw. |
| 8255 |
Chris was not impressed. In fact, he hardly noticed the television except as a constant, noisy nuisance. |
| 8256 |
She was about to shout for a soldier when a new thought flashed through her like a bolt of illumination. |
| 8257 |
One more light on the shore, and then they were in utter blackness again, their sense of direction lost. |
| 8258 |
Crows and blackbirds and jays flew over the woods in flocks, their startled outcries a plaintive bedlam. |
| 8259 |
If it came to that, he was only half certain that he existed, except for the times when he was on stage. |
| 8260 |
But Chris didn't find it. Not on the first soldier, and not on the second. Swearing, he got to his feet. |
| 8261 |
Maria finished the roll and butter. As usual, she seemed both annoyed and disappointed with her husband. |
| 8262 |
He gaped at me. This subject had not come up before. This was the beginning of a change in his attitude. |
| 8263 |
Percy gave him a stern stare for a moment and then turned his attention back to the image on the screen. |
| 8264 |
He held his hand out. I shook hands with him, but not as if I had been longing for the moment to arrive. |
| 8265 |
I threw back my head, sucking in air. My hands were swollen. The bloodied leather was cut from my hands. |
| 8266 |
Maria's suitcase of electronic gear was at her feet, opened, its tiny light gleaming red in the shadows. |
| 8267 |
There was a polite grunt from the urinal immediately to his right, although he had heard nobody come in. |
| 8268 |
I felt the warm air on my body. I smelled the perfume, so delicately feminine, which had been put on me. |
| 8269 |
Lizzy's pointing, the other things fly around as if they were being thrown, some of them breaking apart. |
| 8270 |
Coming out of the drive, the headlights of Derek's car pinpointed the guest house as if with spotlights. |
| 8271 |
Some one helped him to his feet. Both hands clamped tightly to his left shoulder, the man stumbled away. |
| 8272 |
Then there came the sound of men's voices up the garden, and the children looked at one another at once. |
| 8273 |
Eight hundred feet below, what was left of a gray sedan lay silent and crumpled in the morning sunshine. |
| 8274 |
Doc, saying nothing, took the strange belt of cap insignias from his pocket and studied it thoughtfully. |
| 8275 |
He explained to them very carefully what had to be done, and stressed that correct timing was essential. |
| 8276 |
With several false starts they both managed to get upright, mainly by pulling themselves up one another. |
| 8277 |
He has no fear, the prince thought, no more than me. It would be a good fight. They went for each other. |
| 8278 |
The starship was parked in orbit up there, waiting for us to finish our final preparations and board it. |
| 8279 |
Rob Anybody laid his sword down with care, then sat on the step of the shepherding hut to watch the sun. |
| 8280 |
But he had not gone a dozen steps before a chorus of voices assailed him from the surrounding shrubbery. |
| 8281 |
Overhead, a plane dropped a parachute flare, then another. The calcium glare whitened the entire island. |
| 8282 |
In as much panic as confusion, she tugged at the nylon and vinyl harness, peeling it down from her hips. |
| 8283 |
Helena shook her head. She wanted him to stop talking, the sound intruded, and she turned her head away. |
| 8284 |
Suddenly a shot rang out, cracking across the desert night. Several others followed in rapid succession. |
| 8285 |
With the back of my hand, I wiped the sudden tears from my eyes, but the burning had in fact diminished. |
| 8286 |
His three companions laughed heartily. One of them walked up to Rick and grabbed him roughly by the arm. |
| 8287 |
But there was another window below, with a window box holding flowering plants on the sill. Doc dropped. |
| 8288 |
I started to rush out. Madison was thrusting something at me. My sack of money and papers. I grabbed it. |
| 8289 |
On the morning when this story started to happen, I was sitting at the breakfast table with my son Owen. |
| 8290 |
Oddly enough, the bristled face turned up to the light was layered with what appeared to be white paint. |
| 8291 |
I hastily glanced around. Any clue was worth investigating. No one was in sight. I stepped to the table. |
| 8292 |
Terri couldn't believe it. Here she was talking to the government and they were talking nonsense at her. |
| 8293 |
Through twilight dimness she spied a forlorn skeleton of charred logs, trailing from sandbar to sandbar. |
| 8294 |
When I lifted it off, I found that it was a golden crown embedded with diamonds and rubies and emeralds. |
| 8295 |
Chris tugged at the reins. The enormous horse paid no attention, pulling hard, still trying to bite him. |
| 8296 |
The openness of her scrutiny only tightened his distress. He glared at her as if she were an apparition. |
| 8297 |
A relay slammed home, and almost instantaneously, everyone on the ship was slammed into unconsciousness. |
| 8298 |
Jerry sat. A man in a lab coat put a metal helmet on his head. A few needles pricked into Jerry's scalp. |
| 8299 |
As he loped, he glanced at the luminous dial of his wristwatch. Cutting it close, but still enough time. |
| 8300 |
He whimpered, the sound coming from deep inside, where the kitchen would be if he were really a trailer. |
| 8301 |
There was some excitement at the defendants' table, which increased as Prosecution drove the point home. |
| 8302 |
The Secretary tensed and sprang backward. With a sudden, wary suspicion, he faced the man from the past. |
| 8303 |
She wore gloves on both hands most of the time, since this attracted less attention than only using one. |
| 8304 |
Abruptly, at the trumpet triplet that rang out across the hill, the remainder of the riders turned away. |
| 8305 |
Behind them, rising higher and higher every minute, a thick black pillar of smoke billowed into the air. |
| 8306 |
Two crew members ran over to him and picked him up. One called for water, which was already forthcoming. |
| 8307 |
At that moment I walked into Watson's back. He had stopped, and had been gesturing to us to do the same. |
| 8308 |
Meanwhile, I'm steering clear of tourist shops, in case somebody gets the bright idea for manatee steak. |
| 8309 |
Doc now added further commands, speaking rapidly. He got them all out before the policemen came to life. |
| 8310 |
His lips peeled back in an unconscious snarl, and she knew the cause of the strain that had him so edgy. |
| 8311 |
She saw to it that the safety chain was on the door, then opened it to confront the intense, black eyes. |
| 8312 |
She wanted to get elaboration on that cryptic comment, but she sensed that she'd get no more out of him. |
| 8313 |
Nigel stopped putting his new shoe in the water and began to poke a large Labrador with his toy whistle. |
| 8314 |
He could hear them coming already, the scratching of their claws on the rock, the whine of their voices. |
| 8315 |
And then it came to him, a design so dark that it engulfed him as if he had been submerged in ice water. |
| 8316 |
The itching grew worse and worse. Yes, it must be true that I was coming apart with a nervous breakdown. |
| 8317 |
The American hesitated, and then took the hand as though he had been offered an electric eel to squeeze. |
| 8318 |
For, as with him who had cursed us, there was a barrier behind which he hid more than half his thoughts. |
| 8319 |
The priest drew back then, and she thought he had gone away angry because she wouldn't confess her sins. |
| 8320 |
Boil and skim. Boil and skim. Put the skimmed tallow into milk cartons with the tops opened all the way. |
| 8321 |
Lester looked unhappy, but he gave permission with a nod, returning to his vigil over the sensor stones. |
| 8322 |
A chill wind blew about them, and Coraline shivered and looked away. When she looked back she was alone. |
| 8323 |
I know I blushed then. I just know it. My face grew hot. It must have turned the color of a fire engine. |
| 8324 |
Monk looked as if he were about to be upset. He scratched his jaw as best he could with his bound hands. |
| 8325 |
Doc's reappearance was not as supernatural as it seemed. In fact, there was nothing miraculous about it. |
| 8326 |
There was little for me to do but watch, which I did happily. That day at the eastern gate was a marvel. |
| 8327 |
Both the other Traders looked from one of us to the other. It was plain they did not share what we felt. |
| 8328 |
Del was reporting the force field to Foxglove when he felt the first hint in his mind of another attack. |
| 8329 |
Score one for the prey, they both were forced to admit. On the other hand, the endgame was what counted. |
| 8330 |
The diver snapped a new flare to life, and suddenly the tunnel was illuminated by a harsh crimson glare. |
| 8331 |
Reeve listened to his great radio voice saying that any minute now, Janie would start sucking her thumb. |
| 8332 |
Mort and Death circled one another warily, their reflections flickering across the banks of hourglasses. |
| 8333 |
Finally Angela got up. She knew she was trembling. She bit her tongue and turned back toward her office. |
| 8334 |
The staff was back against the wall. She was not surprised to see that the fire hadn't marked it at all. |
| 8335 |
I stood in front of the movie house at this late hour of the day, glanced up at the marquee, and gasped. |
| 8336 |
Anya frowns. Her eyes flicker from the bed in the corner to the door, and she forces a slow deep breath. |
| 8337 |
Then something broke inside me. It was sweet and terrible and too immense for me. I took her in my arms. |
| 8338 |
At a distance of about three meters, the robots stopped. They said nothing and made no further movement. |
| 8339 |
The door behind Jensen's chair rattled. Jensen stood up, put the chair to one side, and opened the door. |
| 8340 |
Sniffing fastidiously at her armpits, she grimaced, and could not remember ever before being this dirty. |
| 8341 |
The beat began to grow fainter, and she felt a release of the strange uneasiness it had awakened in her. |
| 8342 |
Oliver, not to be excluded, got Richard to pause long enough in his parade to ask if he liked chocolate. |
| 8343 |
The mask grinned at her. Its orange eyes glowed brightly. The lips appeared to curl back over the fangs. |
| 8344 |
Old Nathan raised both hands. Thunder crashed in the clear sky, then rumbled away in diminishing chords. |
| 8345 |
Now she lifted her head, and stared into his face. When she replied she was half proud and half defiant. |
| 8346 |
Shadow walked away from the hospital room, down the winding corridor, deep into the bowels of the earth. |
| 8347 |
She turned her back and there was a brief twanging of elastic before she turned round again, all smiles. |
| 8348 |
My grandmother picked up her cigar and took another puff, inhaling the foul smoke deeply into her lungs. |
| 8349 |
Their clothes fell to the floor of the study in disarray, in their haste to fulfill their mutual desire. |
| 8350 |
I found I could not speak for a very long time. It was absurd and awful and idiotic and unutterably sad. |
| 8351 |
Leonie considered that, in an oddly detached state of mind. A little rest might not be such a bad thing. |
| 8352 |
Doc Savage turned on a lamp which floodlighted straight upward. Then he peered through a ceiling window. |
| 8353 |
The other side was filled with scores of tiny knives. The knives were set in the form of a coiled snake. |
| 8354 |
Now the impressions of the folk of this world came to her. Surprise. Incredulity. Denial. Horror. Grief. |
| 8355 |
Something appeared ahead. In the vague light, it looked like Chemistry. Ham let fly with his small club. |
| 8356 |
Shoulder to shoulder they went down from the hillock, the falcon swooping and soaring above their heads. |
| 8357 |
And the whiteness of death rose like I had never felt before, screaming, flaying me like burning knives. |
| 8358 |
The shriek of the incoming round was louder, closer. The shell throbbed with red light, again and again. |
| 8359 |
He walked away from the guard who scratched his head, looked at the tree, then scratched his head again. |
| 8360 |
The Solstice at last. Now was the time to gather the threads he'd spun. Now was the time of his triumph. |
| 8361 |
Her hand glowed, painlessly. The globe had disappeared. The serpent saw the glow, and fell as if struck. |
| 8362 |
No one told me to ask about a boat, Ruth said plaintively. But they did say they saw a man and a dragon. |
| 8363 |
Caldwell was silent for several moments. He seemed lost in thought. His smile had faded away completely. |
| 8364 |
Across the roadway from where he stands, a billboard hangs in tatters. He can just make out its wording. |
| 8365 |
With that, the two supervisor robots moved silently into the hallway, the door sliding shut behind them. |
| 8366 |
At that moment, the helicopter's dipping sonar was active again, and this time it was directly overhead. |
| 8367 |
A cavern where many eyes now blinked again, as a point of light winked into sudden life in the darkness. |
| 8368 |
The chugs weren't paying much notice to passersby, or the Road, or anything but their own steady motion. |
| 8369 |
He had reached a decision that showed how evil and cruel he was. He had no regard at all for human life. |
| 8370 |
That was a good one, the best one he'd come across in years. He roared it out as he went stumping along. |
| 8371 |
There was even a tiny crown within the blades and I regarded that without any wish to lay hands upon it. |
| 8372 |
If he was impressed by my threat he didn't show it. He dropped the trays onto the floor and stamped out. |
| 8373 |
Quietly, Valerie began to cry. She would have preferred screaming, but she did not like being voiceless. |
| 8374 |
Another pixie appeared through the smoke, carrying an earthenware bowl. White suds slopped over the top. |
| 8375 |
Freddy began to move and speak at the same time, but. Teddy kicked him hard in the shin and he subsided. |
| 8376 |
The hardest part was jettisoning the bodies. It wasn't so bad except for the ones whose suits had burst. |
| 8377 |
Doc found a telephone and gave the car license numbers to the police. Then he went back to the hospital. |
| 8378 |
A robot brought the drinks and we settled down as comfortably as we could, fortified behind our glasses. |
| 8379 |
Nine golden fliers perched at various levels of the adjoining cliffs, all heads turned in one direction. |
| 8380 |
Sturm was on his feet, his face pale, but the pain in his head was gone and the wound had quit bleeding. |
| 8381 |
The crowds on both sides were cheering and shouting, but they didn't seem important, and I ignored them. |
| 8382 |
Finally he rips the wool and slips his hand inside the rent cloth, feeling the harsh grip of the pistol. |
| 8383 |
In the river valley below, the Romans also heard the cheer. The mountains seemed to ring with the sound. |
| 8384 |
But Mr. Taylor acted quickly. He strode out onto the stage to stand beside the actress. He looked angry. |
| 8385 |
Spring stuck out his jaw, considering. Then he answered, and the words hit the court like a thunderclap. |
| 8386 |
The fat man sat down and wrapped both arms over his head and face. The way he did this was very strange. |
| 8387 |
There was no doubt in any of their minds as to which group was divinely ordained to occupy the pinnacle. |
| 8388 |
The tiger in me knew what to do. I sank my teeth into his neck and clamped my powerful jaws and held on. |
| 8389 |
Chris nodded, sitting on a chair in the front hall, wishing that she were somewhere else. Anywhere else. |
| 8390 |
He told them that the four came from a far place and that they brought gifts and that they were friends. |
| 8391 |
The Tor's head continued rolling back and forth, back and forth, as if he were rocking himself to sleep. |
| 8392 |
Fiesta was still shaking when she walked into her hotel in the Arizona metropolis where she was staying. |
| 8393 |
Making her decision, she rose and hurried back to stow the supplies she had taken out of her trail pack. |
| 8394 |
She was right. Of course he had to test all the talents each time. Which made the job even more tedious. |
| 8395 |
I sat there and tried to be honest with myself and found that it was difficult to be honest with myself. |
| 8396 |
A few mumbles of shock. The recording secretary. They were going to do a job on the recording secretary. |
| 8397 |
I looked up at him but saw instead the blinding radiance of the morning sun. I winced and bowed my head. |
| 8398 |
The first part of the call was friendly chitchat. Finally Marissa got around to the reason for her call. |
| 8399 |
For a meter in every direction from where she had slept, the grass had turned brown, dried out like hay. |
| 8400 |
Morey, Wade, and Fuller strapped themselves into the seats at the ray projectors at the sides and stern. |
| 8401 |
There was a heartbeat before recognition sank in, and then a buzz began to ripple through the formation. |
| 8402 |
But we persisted, and found converts there, also. We were becoming more skilled at our job by this time. |
| 8403 |
He landed heavily on the floor, clutching his left hand. The crossbow bolt was sticking out of the palm. |
| 8404 |
Local ganglia are therefore instructed to inform me of all human activities within their assigned areas. |
| 8405 |
Fargo yelled, too, as he desperately dropped with the Mentor and tried to snatch at his falling brother. |
| 8406 |
Stoner and Markov tramped down the other corridor until the guards opened a pair of doors, side by side. |
| 8407 |
They followed him to the end of the corridor, and found themselves face to face with a heavy metal door. |
| 8408 |
The lights went down further. The screen flickered. Numbers appeared and blinked briefly, counting down. |
| 8409 |
Midge's other paw came swinging over, clutching a stone he had picked up from where he had been sitting. |
| 8410 |
It had around it the same stink that lingered here. Maybe that was somehow the flesh behind the fantasy. |
| 8411 |
He brought the lamp to the far wall and held it so that I might see the round painting which hung there. |
| 8412 |
Heller was counting out his money, bill by bill. He seemed to think a few of the bills were counterfeit. |
| 8413 |
Hastily he wrapped the length around his body to get it out of his way and tucked the end into his belt. |
| 8414 |
He was on a routine call to question a witness to a liquor store holdup in the Village when it happened. |
| 8415 |
It was his greatest fear, of course. That there was no one else alive, that they were all that was left. |
| 8416 |
Tuppence choked audibly, and Tommy turned upon her with a swift change of manner. His tone was menacing. |
| 8417 |
Monk's eyes were open, but fixed on the ceiling. He did not show any signs of knowing they were present. |
| 8418 |
There was a vague bitterness in his voice as he spoke. The strength of his own feelings surprised Jacob. |
| 8419 |
The first batter slid to home base in an eruption of dust. The second was tagged running for third base. |
| 8420 |
Jeff looked up at the ceiling. He had been feeling lonely, now that she mentioned it. Maybe he was sick. |
| 8421 |
She made some frantic gestures to get it to rise again. It flopped about, tangled itself, and lay still. |
| 8422 |
A click, and the door swung back into the gloomy study. With no less trepidation than before, I entered. |
| 8423 |
He nodded out the open door toward the Swift. Workmen were beginning to dismantle the external supports. |
| 8424 |
One squirmed through now, dissolving the flights of majesty through which his slumber had projected him. |
| 8425 |
It was very dark. A gasoline lantern was blazing on deck. This light disclosed a considerable gathering. |
| 8426 |
The more Hugh thought about it the more it seemed that he would have to wait at least until next summer. |
| 8427 |
The lake itself stretched along the second cliff edge, lapping the outcroppings of the irregular ground. |
| 8428 |
He had lost all reckoning of day and night since he had been in the wall ways. It was now early evening. |
| 8429 |
Long Tom was right. One had not escaped. His body lay beside the door to the plane. One hand was burned. |
| 8430 |
And then I thought that maybe I was looking for another reason, and the guilt burned like bitter coffee. |
| 8431 |
I gagged. Sweat formed in my pits and trickled down my rib cage. I thought I was gonna puke right there. |
| 8432 |
She stood there and wept, her tears squeezing down between her face and his hide. It was a great relief. |
| 8433 |
Monk, chin down in his collar as if cold, said three loud words in an absolutely unintelligible dialect. |
| 8434 |
The shooting promptly stopped. The men who had been dong the firing began to run away from the vicinity. |
| 8435 |
Jack squeezed through the window, briefly snagging his coat on a shard of glass, and went onto the roof. |
| 8436 |
Then, as suddenly as I had come into this thick and stifling dark, so did light break upon and about me. |
| 8437 |
Brand muttered under his breath as he untied his purse and began to count out six silver Wessex pennies. |
| 8438 |
The three men climbed into their own waiting black Mercedes, instructing the driver to follow the sedan. |
| 8439 |
The strange man saw that Will, Cassie, and I were afraid of him. So he decided to have some fun with us. |
| 8440 |
The reddish thing came forward a few steps further to the edge of the glen. There it stopped and waited. |
| 8441 |
She wedged the door open with a stone and then, without once looking back, strode off through the woods. |
| 8442 |
And when she was sure she was alone, she slipped out of her black silk gown and threw it against a wall. |
| 8443 |
Realizing the man was not about to supply his name, she switched quickly to another conversational ploy. |
| 8444 |
I nodded. Someone in the crowd of centaurs was holding up a pole with a dirty piece of cloth tied to it. |
| 8445 |
That took more effort than she had anticipated. Lesser ghosts were scarce where the great black prowled. |
| 8446 |
Garrick looked at the men around him, They lay in a long row down the veranda, each on his own mattress. |
| 8447 |
The two men leaped to their feet. Lights flashed from the castle. Concealment or secrecy was impossible. |
| 8448 |
Of course, she was married now. To a guy that blew up planets sometimes. A good friend of mine, besides. |
| 8449 |
The lifeboat, air tanks riddled, went down amid a boiling of phosphorescence. Bubbles came up profusely. |
| 8450 |
As she stumbled through the mass of arms and legs, she removed the spent video cassette from her camera. |
| 8451 |
I did not really understand what had happened, but I knew that my dear friend had suffered an injustice. |
| 8452 |
He gave a few more ordinarily lusty blows with the hammer. The cold chisel made sounds of hitting metal. |
| 8453 |
The vet came in, then. He was a nice guy and he asked me if I wanted to go away and just let it be done. |
| 8454 |
Nat Piper's cars were apparently armored. They sent the machines roaring to the side of the old steamer. |
| 8455 |
Then the first of the tarns returned to the flagship, having cast down its flaming bombs of burning oil. |
| 8456 |
The trouble was he had hold of the activator, and for what must have been nearly a second he pressed it. |
| 8457 |
The pair made snarly mouths. Their shoulders hunched truculently. But their eyes roved in an uneasy way. |
| 8458 |
And these people were going to be his bait. After all, the children had asked for exactly what they got. |
| 8459 |
When once she had composed herself properly she turned her attention to Kate and looked her up and down. |
| 8460 |
When the slave left me I had yielded to him, as though he might have been a free man. I was much shamed. |
| 8461 |
She raised an arm between their bodies to keep him away from her, without it being an obvious rejection. |
| 8462 |
I'd been about to ask him for some advice, but I decided not to. Not if he was in this dumb poetic mood. |
| 8463 |
I always was a social liberal, but I subordinated those views to get ahead in the conservative movement. |
| 8464 |
He opened the cablegram and read it. Then he upset a chair charging across his hotel suite sitting room. |
| 8465 |
Her arms went around me, and mine around her. At that point we didn't need words. We needed to be close. |
| 8466 |
Again I was sure she would protest. But in face of the firmness underlying that suggestion, she did not. |
| 8467 |
The glinting thing swayed through the air again. It smacked my jaw, the thing that had once been my jaw. |
| 8468 |
The wrenching leap peeled every nerve in Harry's body, forcing air from his lungs in an agonized scream. |
| 8469 |
Somehow she was holding him, propping him up, walking him toward the bed. An infinite distance. Endless. |
| 8470 |
Scott shrugged, and she backed off. She knew better than to press him. It would only make him obstinate. |
| 8471 |
The first thing he did was take Laurie by the shoulders, look her in the eye, and ask what had happened. |
| 8472 |
I glanced at Mrs. P., still sitting in her chair, but she was engrossed in a baby book she'd been given. |
| 8473 |
In handsome middle age, the woman regarded Maia for a long moment, then spoke with a voice of authority. |
| 8474 |
Francis looked down and shrugged. They both suspected that the answer to that question would be forever. |
| 8475 |
There was a terrible tightness in Destiny's chest. She was choking, suffocating, hardly able to breathe. |
| 8476 |
Rolf grunted. He was an indifferent archer, but almost certainly he would do better than she with sword. |
| 8477 |
Thinking he caught a slight sound, he cocked an ear. Then he stepped in the room, wrenching out his gun. |
| 8478 |
Smith moved into the crowd of students who parted to make way for him, then closed in to swallow him up. |
| 8479 |
The blacks shuffled past, bare splay feet scuffing up the dust, and their voices dwindled down the road. |
| 8480 |
He knelt down and waited. Something seemed to move in the darkness but he was unable to see what it was. |
| 8481 |
He closed his eyes, purging his mind of stress and strain which gradually faded away to a calm serenity. |
| 8482 |
You are working too hard. Enjoy yourself. Take her to the theater. Go on a picnic. Don't be so wound up. |
| 8483 |
The master must be brought to trust, rather than hate, his most recently enlisted and cleverest adviser. |
| 8484 |
Although I could have done so in an official manner, it would have caused needless panic and resentment. |
| 8485 |
He had not spoken, had not looked at her, but she knew he had heard. There was nothing vacant about him. |
| 8486 |
Behind him, the barbed gate ground closer, nudging him toward the burning cauldron. But he would not go. |
| 8487 |
Maybe. He didn't want to think of that, though it forced itself to the front of his brain more and more. |
| 8488 |
Doc leaned down the stairs, and from his lips came a remarkably perfect imitation of his victim's voice. |
| 8489 |
Rick had spoken in a low firm voice. The others all looked at him and could tell he was very determined. |
| 8490 |
Sam drove, resisting an urge to tromp the gas pedal all the way to the floor. He was worried about Dave. |
| 8491 |
He did think that and there was, in response, a sparkling red diamond at the very edge of the whirlpool. |
| 8492 |
Then Doc saw the cloud. He came to a clearing, was plunging across it, and saw the cloud. It was yellow. |
| 8493 |
I was immobilized by the chills that went through me, humiliating me and kindling the passion inside me. |
| 8494 |
No Lord would pass up the chance to get his hands on the skeleton key to the gates of all the universes. |
| 8495 |
I gathered that, because my ears were pierced, they would feel free to do anything they pleased with me. |
| 8496 |
Miss Quick standing with the thermometer in her mouth, like an unlit smoke. She whipped it out, eyed it. |
| 8497 |
The last syllable faltered on his lips, as he glimpsed a fretful motion in the corner beside the window. |
| 8498 |
Doc's fist levered like a bronze sledge. The door opened inward under the blow, leaving the lock behind. |
| 8499 |
Her foot slithered almost frictionlessly back and forth. The material felt exactly like ice. It was ice. |
| 8500 |
But even were I to be silent, the fact proclaims itself, and its outcome reveals the truth regarding it. |
| 8501 |
Sometime in the night, he dreamed that a monster sank teeth into his leg. He woke holding back a scream. |
| 8502 |
I have not been able to learn who is the brains back of this. His name is never mentioned in my hearing. |
| 8503 |
The homely little carnivore's curiosity soon waned, and it swam out of the light back into the darkness. |
| 8504 |
At this, Habeas and Chemistry vanished into the jungle. Two bullets could hardly have gone more swiftly. |
| 8505 |
The keys of the computer fired like crazy. I saw nonsense marching across the screen. I drew near to it. |
| 8506 |
But Nicholas stayed where he was, watching the fleeing black ship as it grew slowly smaller and smaller. |
| 8507 |
Charis turned, expecting to see the post on its narrow tongue of water, but behind her was a cliff wall. |
| 8508 |
Maybe some future explorer will find our bones, she contemplated, grimly. And wonder what our story was. |
| 8509 |
Jack stared at the incredible wealth of magic that lay at his feet, then reached for one of the scrolls. |
| 8510 |
Midnight collapsed into a sitting position. She held her hands over her wound, which had begun to bleed. |
| 8511 |
Quite a large number of people seemed to have found him this morning. Many of them were holding guitars. |
| 8512 |
Jack looked up. Pete waved the glass. Jack shook his head. Ward twirled the gun. Ward cocked the hammer. |
| 8513 |
Something cut her short. Maybe it was a look from her mother. Or maybe it was the expression on my face. |
| 8514 |
The man stared down at the lake now, and John wondered what could be going on behind those dark glasses. |
| 8515 |
In a moment I had climbed up, over the stern of the barge. I put my hand down to her, and helped her up. |
| 8516 |
For the first time since she had awakened here she felt a faint warmth in the jewel and snatched it out. |
| 8517 |
Mark opened his eyes, mumbled something so the shaking would stop, then rolled over to go back to sleep. |
| 8518 |
The next ahead had tacked by now, and the Renown was advancing into the white water she had left behind. |
| 8519 |
Life was suddenly even more complicated, and I'd no way of knowing whether they were openers or closers. |
| 8520 |
Hut a sound croaked from an unmistakably human throat as the figure collapsed on the ground at her feet. |
| 8521 |
A heavy silence held the little group of adventurers for a time. They couldn't think of anything to say. |
| 8522 |
Comprehension was not the same as comfort. Gathering up the baby, tucking her breast away, she stood up. |
| 8523 |
He met young Sam coming the other way as he headed for the cells. The boy's face was white in the gloom. |
| 8524 |
He walked down the hall. He turned right. He hit a bisecting hall. He made the turn. He saw a side door. |
| 8525 |
The entire structure had been built a long time, obviously, yet did not seem to have been much tenanted. |
| 8526 |
And he wished he had the power to control Nina's mind as easily as he manipulated the mind of the whore. |
| 8527 |
The others had gotten back safely by then, and were complaining about the cold food when we joined them. |
| 8528 |
At his back there came the sudden flat spitting sound of the Uzi and the shrieking sound ended abruptly. |
| 8529 |
But he had no choice. His political masters wanted it, and he was only the executor of political policy. |
| 8530 |
The men withdrew gladly, sweating profusely from the labor and the intense heat of the exposed ruby eye. |
| 8531 |
The patrol strode forward, and the sergeant clapped his hand to his half pike in salute as he passed on. |
| 8532 |
Maybe at this moment the virtually countless components of his scramble suit had served up S. A. Powers. |
| 8533 |
I was not at all convinced that so unprecedented an effort could bring about the results they predicted. |
| 8534 |
He didn't raise his head for a long time. When he finally looked up, the light had gone out of his gaze. |
| 8535 |
They came within sight of the corner where the bronze man had loitered. They stopped, seeming surprised. |
| 8536 |
But it wasn't, of course, and she knew in the darkest corners of her heart that it might never be again. |
| 8537 |
B. Enemy soldiers had trooped into our yard, aimed their guns through the front window, and opened fire. |
| 8538 |
Aunt Queen's voice was ageless, if not actually youthful, and she spoke with a clear commanding diction. |
| 8539 |
For the first time in a long while, I actually felt optimistic about being able to arrive at a decision. |
| 8540 |
Water ran down his nose into his lips. Another drop hit his eye, blurring it, Another splashed his chin. |
| 8541 |
The very eagerness of the attackers was in the bronze man's favor. They jumped just an instant too soon. |
| 8542 |
David gave another scream and got to his feet. He mounted a donkey and rode at top speed up to the tent. |
| 8543 |
Meanwhile they hoped she would accept their apologies and their tears, and not devour them in her anger. |
| 8544 |
It was a dream straight out of the fantasies of my dead husband. It was a world he could have made home. |
| 8545 |
But I kept pulling myself along, talking to Wolf all the while, ignoring the throbbing ache of my ankle. |
| 8546 |
He reached his hand behind him, over the back of the seat, and Pen licked it with his floppy wet tongue. |
| 8547 |
It was still burning hot inside Hecate and I felt as weak and limp as an overcooked strand of spaghetti. |
| 8548 |
The room exploded with thuds as the kids jumped and landed. It seemed to me that even the windows shook. |
| 8549 |
A part of his mind wished that he'd come up with something better for what were probably his last words. |
| 8550 |
She offered him her hand, felt the strength of his fingers close over hers as he helped her to her feet. |
| 8551 |
Ari propped himself up on an elbow, watched her. Again he felt a desire for her but he held his silence. |
| 8552 |
The four patients were so held as to be unable to move any of their muscles. Only their eyes were alive. |
| 8553 |
Everyone looked at Tiffany, who wished she hadn't spoken. But now there was nothing for it but to go on. |
| 8554 |
Hatred is as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for either one is the capacity for its opposite. |
| 8555 |
Marika had less experience of the far countryside than did her elders. It took her longer to understand. |
| 8556 |
It was less than a year ago, but it seems like a very long time. I have killed so many times since then. |
| 8557 |
They were now so far from Naiad that it would calf for a sharp eye and a good glass to read her signals. |
| 8558 |
If her days were long, and her dancing less than perfect, her nights could only be described as hellish. |
| 8559 |
My mind swooped like a bird struck by an unexpected rush of wind. I found myself struggling to fight it. |
| 8560 |
He locked the doors, front and back, as he left. There was no need for Iggy to have access to the cabin. |
| 8561 |
I looked around and told him that it wasn't necessary, the surgeons had already taken care of everybody. |
| 8562 |
There was gentle applause for the girl, and murmurs of appreciation. The footwear had been well removed. |
| 8563 |
His voice trailed off as he traced the leak. Finally he narrowed the computer search down, pipe by pipe. |
| 8564 |
Sam cannot reply. He has never been so afraid. He can only look up at the man with wide, streaming eyes. |
| 8565 |
A young witch was now flailing desperately at her burning hat, watched by several interested spectators. |
| 8566 |
There was a distant sound of music. Then an approaching beat. It sounded as if a horse were approaching. |
| 8567 |
Root should have started to worry about his own health then, but he was too busy worrying about Holly's. |
| 8568 |
The prisoner rolled his eyes. His lips shook back from his teeth in a snarl that had difficulty jelling. |
| 8569 |
He was expecting to hear information with a direct bearing on the case, not a lecture on Mayan theology. |
| 8570 |
The sleuth rubbed his nose, pulled at an ear, the gestures indicating an upset mind and much puzzlement. |
| 8571 |
You seemed spellbound, said Lewis worriedly. I didn't think he was all that good a storyteller, frankly. |
| 8572 |
Wayne pulled his piece. Wayne raised it. Wayne cocked it. Wayne heard echoes. Wayne heard hammers click. |
| 8573 |
Abruptly, the sun faded and went out. Gray gloom thickened toward midnight at every step of the descent. |
| 8574 |
Doc took a table and rushed with it. He rammed the men from behind and mashed them into their barricade. |
| 8575 |
His words sounded fine. Noble and grand. At the time, Tom almost convinced Gillian. Only things changed. |
| 8576 |
He took my fingers and pressed them to the wall. I felt marks, rather vertical, with angular extensions. |
| 8577 |
The others laughed in spite of the fact that they were upset and puzzled by this strange turn of events. |
| 8578 |
By the time human assistance arrived, even the sound of the vandals' retreat was lost to listening ears. |
| 8579 |
The fellow had succeeded in freeing his gun from a pocket, and it bounced across the floor. Monk got it. |
| 8580 |
Death said nothing. From where he sat, Desiderata reflected, losing was something that everyone learned. |
| 8581 |
The process had generated a kind of momentum of its own in the minds of both the experts and the public. |
| 8582 |
Cohen walked over to the nearest wall, which had a gorgeous pattern of peacocks, and took out his knife. |
| 8583 |
And that was quite enough heroism, he decided. It didn't pay to let other people actually slow you down. |
| 8584 |
He put them back in their small cases and back into the grip. He threw in the two obsolete ones as well. |
| 8585 |
It was at about this time that Lewis began to feel a creeping sensation of knowing too much for comfort. |
| 8586 |
And Sharpe, his heart beating as fearfully as if he again walked into battle, went to meet an old enemy. |
| 8587 |
Kitty pulled herself together quickly as they approached the outskirts and slowed in the narrow streets. |
| 8588 |
They were the sailors who handled the sub. Some held deadly guns. Others were armed with heavy wrenches. |
| 8589 |
She was unpleasantly cognizant of the extra ten pounds she'd put on through the course of her treatment. |
| 8590 |
Emma looked at the woman as if she were staring at roadkill that had suddenly found the power of speech. |
| 8591 |
The huge news butcher gave the order, then settled back on the cushions and contemplated his companions. |
| 8592 |
Damn it, it was humiliating to need her like this, to have to ask her for that which no one should take. |
| 8593 |
With a gesture he deftly conjured another round of spontaneous applause. With another gesture he cut it. |
| 8594 |
Mark started to draw from his own breast the only Sword he had, meaning to meet the last attack full on. |
| 8595 |
The ensign was conducted away. He shot back one glance of gratitude to me. He had gambled on me and won. |
| 8596 |
And at the same time the truth was becoming unknowable. It was beyond anything that the mind could hold. |
| 8597 |
He had many other details in the routine. They occupied the entire two hours with no time out for rest. |
| 8598 |
Just our luck, somebody did. It was passed rapidly to the officer, who began ceremoniously tying nooses. |
| 8599 |
Again the shadows moved, and this time he saw it. The creature was big and black and moved on four legs. |
| 8600 |
There was something in that voice that touched a chord deep within me. It approved of me. It forgave me. |
| 8601 |
He walked to the cargo robot, took out the shears, and vaulted the fence. Eve stayed by the middle gate. |
| 8602 |
There was a gulping, breathing sound at the other end as if the senator were on the verge of strangling. |
| 8603 |
It'll be so darn simple that maybe, just maybe, the state attorney might be able to indict some of them. |
| 8604 |
Suddenly something was rising within her. She fell heavily to her knees and vomited into the dark grass. |
| 8605 |
More men crowded into the room. These were all orientals. None of them had a face pleasant to look upon. |
| 8606 |
He climbed into the saddle and, still without turning to face her, spurred Binky out and over the gorge. |
| 8607 |
Jessica watched as he studied that apocalyptic landscape, his eyes probing into sand rivers and canyons. |
| 8608 |
Jenny lurched after him, but only banged into a wall. It scraped the side of her face and hurt horribly. |
| 8609 |
What it was staring at intently was a patch of empty air. There wasn't much else you could say about it. |
| 8610 |
She pulled back a slender hand. On one finger was an emblem ring that might have been a family heirloom. |
| 8611 |
Beyond the fountain was another of the artfully constructed houses blended with care into the landscape. |
| 8612 |
With wild haste, he emptied a revolver. The reports were so loud in the room that they left ears aching. |
| 8613 |
The pungent smoke from his still cremating flesh choked him and he coughed weakly, but kept doggedly on. |
| 8614 |
I was aiming west so my passport booked me east. After seven years in the army that came as no surprise. |
| 8615 |
The word sharks circled, tore off chunks of the island, tried to slice away the bridge beneath his feet. |
| 8616 |
There were swordsmen everywhere, screams and swords and yells and knives and cheers and smoke and blood. |
| 8617 |
The road wound over the mountains like a dropped ribbon. Up here there was always the sound of the wind. |
| 8618 |
Granny sighed. There was only one way to be sure, and she was getting rather old for this sort of thing. |
| 8619 |
Now they were both Julia's creatures, looking after her welfare, fretting for her if she had bad dreams. |
| 8620 |
The Grad opened two yellow lines with his fingertips. He turned to greet the tall, bloody jungle giants. |
| 8621 |
Scraps of conversation floated out of the walls as Agnes wound her secret way down the forgotten stairs. |
| 8622 |
Olympic gods, going back to the high stern, embellished with biblical figures. Every detail was perfect. |
| 8623 |
The monster was quite unpredictable of late. He seemed calm one time and ruffled and impatient the next. |
| 8624 |
I walked on toward the department store. It was the same street I had walked along to go to high school. |
| 8625 |
The other villains stirred uneasily. They didn't fancy weapons such as this. A gun was more their style. |
| 8626 |
Ham gave the handle of his cane a slight twist, an act which prepared the hidden sword for a quick draw. |
| 8627 |
For a wild moment he thought of going after it. Only for a moment. The storm could intensify any minute. |
| 8628 |
No one knew where the fad of painting yourself and getting high on drugs and fire had come from, either. |
| 8629 |
He said nothing, seemed to wrap silence around himself and settle into it. She knew he would not answer. |
| 8630 |
The words were not a request, simply a direct preference, but Krystal no longer had to ask for anything. |
| 8631 |
He stood up and stared at the door, imagining it opening before it opened, imagining her in the doorway. |
| 8632 |
Colene turned away, and the car moved on. Colene knew it would return the moment they were ready for it. |
| 8633 |
I could not answer, for his big assistant was squeezing my neck so tightly that I could not move my jaw. |
| 8634 |
A man stepped out, into the center of the lane. I stopped, frightened. But his attention was on another. |
| 8635 |
At first there was no response, but the third try brought forth a familiar voice from the inset speaker. |
| 8636 |
We spent the better part of an hour strolling, sorting through collected smells, watching the passersby. |
| 8637 |
He made as if to retreat. She threw her arms about his neck and kissed him. After a second, he answered. |
| 8638 |
In this manner they continued until the light of day showed ahead, and the Magician reached the surface. |
| 8639 |
Tracers stitched the main screen and across the sky overhead, momentary flickers through the open hatch. |
| 8640 |
He hesitated, waiting. Saw her slowly tense, felt the thrum of magic beginning to pulse through the air. |
| 8641 |
We chatted for a while longer, just kicking things back and forth, and then I told him why I had called. |
| 8642 |
Linden swallowed. Her posture was taut, keyed beyond speech by dread. But she answered with a stiff nod. |
| 8643 |
Her smile raised a responding smile from him. He lifted a hand to lay against the softness of her cheek. |
| 8644 |
Paul's mental vision identified her at once. It was Anne. The sound of her weeping was almost inaudible. |
| 8645 |
For that matter, practically every officer had relatives who hoped to get jobs through Doc's great work. |
| 8646 |
The taller runner directed his companion to drink while he kept watch. The skin drum continued to throb. |
| 8647 |
A moment later the two big cars were racing down the highway endeavoring to keep the dirigible in sight. |
| 8648 |
If her plan failed, she and half the audience in the concert hall might end up lying in their own blood. |
| 8649 |
Knives and metal bars flashed in the air. A shotgun thumped five times rapidly into a chorus of screams. |
| 8650 |
The switch flicked but did nothing more than release a little condensed water that ran out into my palm. |
| 8651 |
Most of all, she thought, I have to understand this situation. He is already inside me. It has happened. |
| 8652 |
I did not move. I felt, or thought I felt, a breath of fresh air. I lay in the darkness. I did not move. |
| 8653 |
Laughing so that they wouldn't weep, they welcomed each other back as if they had been apart for months. |
| 8654 |
He shook his head suddenly. There was another sharp odor, a cloying stink that seemed to be quite local. |
| 8655 |
The lieutenant's thumb came down on the firing key. Twelve antisubmarine rockets arched through the air. |
| 8656 |
Although he was not a man ever to grumble extensively, Pitt found few consolations in their way of life. |
| 8657 |
If they were planning to use it, they would be putting some of their own people in it, that was certain. |
| 8658 |
He turned his mount and pressed on up the slope, leaving the party behind to negotiate the frigid water. |
| 8659 |
It swooped up into the tower. A yell, cut off quickly, indicated that a vampire hadn't been fast enough. |
| 8660 |
And then the wind rose, ripping away even shouted words as they left the mouth, and talk was impossible. |
| 8661 |
The second door we tried led into the rooms we wanted to see. But just as we got in, the lights came on. |
| 8662 |
Aaron paused. When he spoke all of the incredible blowtorch intensity of his will was focused onto Zack. |
| 8663 |
He finished cleaning his utensils, ascertained once more the position of the sun, and set himself again. |
| 8664 |
The two stood gazing at each other, holding the tray of mugs, oblivious to everything and everyone else. |
| 8665 |
Marius's face had gone dark, as though the mere mention of this disaster was evocative of terrible pain. |
| 8666 |
He shook Arthur warmly by the hand and walked off into the crowd. Arthur shook his head in astonishment. |
| 8667 |
I remembered the sting of the switch across the back of my thighs as Melina had driven me to the kennel. |
| 8668 |
He watched the airship soar high into the sky and turn to the north. Seconds later, it was out of sight. |
| 8669 |
China drove. She had told the truth about her driving being all right if you didn't mind taking chances. |
| 8670 |
Yet the beating had been merciful and brief. I doubt that she was struck more than ten or fifteen times. |
| 8671 |
The shorter man was lagging a few steps behind his partner, panting. He never heard anything suspicious. |
| 8672 |
I was suddenly swept up in a gargantuan hug and kiss as my apprentice expressed her delight at the news. |
| 8673 |
He was still sitting there, his arm resting on the back of Louis's chair, and he was simply watching me. |
| 8674 |
Then Strand leaped back, slammed the door and locked it. Sound of his feet went away from the door fast. |
| 8675 |
He had no doubts but that, for the moment at least, he could dictate terms to the general or to anybody. |
| 8676 |
I shouted aloud, brimming over with frustration and anger. And fear. It must be Coypu. It had to be him. |
| 8677 |
Sharpe shifted responsibility from himself by claiming that Marriott had left to talk with the corporal. |
| 8678 |
The only material component for the spell is a sanctified bone holy symbol of the primary god of murder. |
| 8679 |
Kelsey jerked his head out of the way, and the candlestick landed with a dull thud against his shoulder. |
| 8680 |
Next were a pair of daggers. This fight was bloody, but at least the victor looked like a potential man. |
| 8681 |
A guard had been posted outside, but had disappeared shortly after the storm had begun and not returned. |
| 8682 |
Sarah wiped her lips and held on to the thin bony hand with the blue veins swelling under the thin skin. |
| 8683 |
I flung the table up and to one side, throwing her to the floor. The table was half way across the cell. |
| 8684 |
The children began rubbing against the metal skin, flashing pulses of contentment as they felt the heat. |
| 8685 |
It would help, of course, if we could find out where the magnetic poles of Earth are actually located. |
| 8686 |
I wrenched free the blade of the ax, as it slumped down, breaking it free from its jawbone and shoulder. |
| 8687 |
A flash brighter than noonday sun, sharper than the closest of lightnings, flares across the stone mass. |
| 8688 |
I made room for a physician who tried to give an injection to the injured man. He gave up in bafflement. |
| 8689 |
Because the iron cuff around Ryan's ankle was covered with reeking muck, the sec chief failed to see it. |
| 8690 |
About the only attraction the marshlands held was waterfowl shooting, and it was out of season for that. |
| 8691 |
My mother covered her with her arms and body. I tried to pull my mother away. She tore at me like a cat. |
| 8692 |
Then I strove to carefully select words from the trade lingo as I had picked it up during my journeying. |
| 8693 |
Linden watched until he disappeared in dust toward the highway. Then she turned back to the living room. |
| 8694 |
She stood up. He stayed where he was, at her feet, still not quite believing they'd come so far so fast. |
| 8695 |
He shot downstairs with Buster, and went to join the others in his big shed at the bottom of the garden. |
| 8696 |
The eyes watched her intently, and she felt moist tendrils reaching up to investigate her face and hair. |
| 8697 |
She stood up slowly. The stoat curled himself around her neck, and his dark eyes never left Will's face. |
| 8698 |
He and I both knew he was making assumptions, pushing hard because he wasn't about to let go of his job. |
| 8699 |
The cop yelled and commandeered the nearest car. But he couldn't keep up with the taxi. He soon lost it. |
| 8700 |
Sean searched in the grass and found a rock the size of an orange. It fitted neatly into his right hand. |
| 8701 |
Grant tried to grin back at her, but he wasn't sure he made much more than a nervous twitch of his lips. |
| 8702 |
The howling took on a triumphant note, and suddenly something dashed from the woods and straight at him. |
| 8703 |
Granny's head slumped forward against the iron again. Around her fingers red sparks danced on the metal. |
| 8704 |
She was no longer the sheltered girl who had fled her uncle's plots as she would flee the pains of Hell. |
| 8705 |
He proclaimed the words in the old way, a deep baritone chant, his voice carrying far across the fields. |
| 8706 |
I came drifting down to join the others, but my entrance was generally ignored in the other proceedings. |
| 8707 |
Capture, not death, for this quarry. This was the reason he had brought his sticks instead of his sword. |
| 8708 |
The voice might have been coming from a phonograph which was incapable of registering tonal differences. |
| 8709 |
The man leaned across her, grasped the window and raised it. The window was large enough to jump out of. |
| 8710 |
They were in a zone of continuous daylight now. The sun shone the full clock around. It was never night. |
| 8711 |
And also a certain directional component. Jason was quite clear that the silence was being aimed at him. |
| 8712 |
But one thing that would hasten the day of its arrival would be for this book to make a bundle of money. |
| 8713 |
Startled, she looked up to see the other graduate student who was working the graveyard shift this week. |
| 8714 |
It's a good thing neither of us is human, she thought. Or this guy would really be getting on my nerves. |
| 8715 |
Julian Bannock led the way into the relative coolness of the barn, redolent with the clean smell of hay. |
| 8716 |
Remember that forests aren't just pretty trees taking up land that might better be used by human beings. |
| 8717 |
He was a figure of pure fire. The radiance of his bones was beyond mortality. But she pierced the blaze. |
| 8718 |
One huge fellow was faster than the rest. He showed no caution as he rushed in, swinging a heavy wrench. |
| 8719 |
The bottom of the mummy case and a considerable portion of the sides were hollow, but contained nothing. |
| 8720 |
Windows and doors were shut. The shafts rested crookedly on the ground. The whole place seemed deserted. |
| 8721 |
They strode along a carpeted corridor and through a door that led directly out to the side of the hotel. |
| 8722 |
He could not finish the thought. Only one thing mattered, there was now and had always been only Willow. |
| 8723 |
Also from a distance he heard the sighing hum piercing the air above him and ending with a sharp thwack. |
| 8724 |
Two men suddenly leaped out of the high shrubbery that bordered the walk. Both held cold blue revolvers. |
| 8725 |
But he had gotten them all. He clung to that as he worked, lying down now and covering his bloody chest. |
| 8726 |
Moisture dribbled across his lips. He licked at it quickly, desperate to ease the burning in his throat. |
| 8727 |
There's something in the weight of a sack of gold that makes the man who holds it stand eight feet tall. |
| 8728 |
He chewed as quietly as possible. He didn't want to disturb Kermit. As he chewed, he stared at the bowl. |
| 8729 |
Now that I had started, my words poured out in a rush, popping out without conscious thought on my part. |
| 8730 |
I went. I spoke with the messenger. For a minute I was furious with Blade. Then I saw the silver lining. |
| 8731 |
The children laughed again when the chimpanzee covered his face with his paws, pretending to be ashamed. |
| 8732 |
A bullet climbed, whining, off a stone near by. A moment later the crash of the rifle firing it arrived. |
| 8733 |
Bernice looked round the group of villagers. They all looked puzzled and some looked distinctly hostile. |
| 8734 |
Of course, I nearly died, since that particular page contained a rather unflattering description of her. |
| 8735 |
Wallie took a moment to gather his thoughts. He had to get this right, or he was going to die. Or worse. |
| 8736 |
The bronze man flashed to the door. Monk and Ham were close on his heels. Policemen flocked behind them. |
| 8737 |
If the stain was blood, it seemed incredible that any human murderer could have operated from the cable. |
| 8738 |
A third man reached the cabin and, after shouting in, was told to enter. He swung in through the window. |
| 8739 |
To be doing something, to fill up that silence, he made out a meticulous grocery list and went shopping. |
| 8740 |
An icy calm seemed to settle over them for a few moments. Then Pitt finally echoed the other's thoughts. |
| 8741 |
Adah was the only mother any of the sisters had known, and they put ashes in their hair and honored her. |
| 8742 |
Then, as naturally as if it had been designed for it, the station reared up and began climbing the wall. |
| 8743 |
The bottle trembled in Evan's hand. He turned it upside down. It puddled in his enormous, feathery palm. |
| 8744 |
Looking at her now, her features contorted with hate, he wondered how he had ever thought her beautiful. |
| 8745 |
At intervals he felt a spray of moistness that kept his skin wet. It seemed to come from all directions. |
| 8746 |
Having nothing more to learn in that place, I took advantage of the melee to reach the statue of Gramme. |
| 8747 |
Falconer. They were squatting, the archer busy with a stick, drawing on a patch of ground brushed clear. |
| 8748 |
The girls watched as the metal ball rattled around the wheel one more time, then landed on number seven. |
| 8749 |
They gained but one more for their party and she came to them in battle dress, a hard scowl on her face. |
| 8750 |
From behind the shell of a ruined building a figure came, walking slowly toward him, walking hesitantly. |
| 8751 |
He leaned over the map again, his earlier reluctance now lost in the eagerness of a prospective triumph. |
| 8752 |
Percival displayed an oak leaf pendant, the holy symbol of Silvanus, dangling from a fine leather thong. |
| 8753 |
George paused, realizing that this would require tact. Rupert was very proud of his peculiar collection. |
| 8754 |
She was beautiful and young. Her sleek black hair framed her cheeks, and her daemon was a golden monkey. |
| 8755 |
She stared at him, almost defying him not to respond. When he failed to, she seemed curiously satisfied. |
| 8756 |
Their conversation became general after that, and they both grew slightly drunk before they went to bed. |
| 8757 |
She was the cause of his anguish. The knowledge that he was hurting because of her cut her to the quick. |
| 8758 |
The Fisher put his hand to the height of his knee, rolled his head stupidly and burst into speech again. |
| 8759 |
As the party plunged into a grove of mangroves, Doc and the scholarly Johnny conversed in lowered tones. |
| 8760 |
Jemmy bobbed his chin. His arms and shoulders were hurting now. He held his breathing deep, and reached. |
| 8761 |
The soldiers stood around looking haplessly at their commanders wondering what it was they had fired at. |
| 8762 |
But also there was a sudden crackling, a flash of heat, as if no natural fire had been laid and waiting. |
| 8763 |
With the speeding cars side by side, Doc and his men could get a look at their adversaries in the coupe. |
| 8764 |
Alex was no longer there. He was dead, I remembered. I sat there on the floor and blubbered like a baby. |
| 8765 |
Jill rushed into a stall and locked the door. She pretended to throw up, making a bunch of gross sounds. |
| 8766 |
He would be unconscious some time, judging from the nature of the wound, but was in no immediate danger. |
| 8767 |
Awareness returned nearly as swiftly. He had no idea how much later it was, only that he had been moved. |
| 8768 |
They took a vow to be true to the magic, faithful to each other, and they left the pantheon of the gods. |
| 8769 |
Three heavy, chipped crockery platters drop on the table, a bent and battered tin spoon resting in each. |
| 8770 |
He watched her walk down the street to her house. After a few seconds a lamp went on in an upper window. |
| 8771 |
To this, Antwan took great umbrage and brought a flat smacking black hand across the woman's white face. |
| 8772 |
I did not stand precisely where he asked but several feet away, but I did remain outside the tiled ring. |
| 8773 |
Then, as she was paying for the candy, she noticed the headlines of the newspapers piled on the counter. |
| 8774 |
He grasped Ethan by the scruff of his neck and the seat of his pants, and boosted him up to the railing. |
| 8775 |
Doc Savage said nothing, and dabbed at the cut made by the piece of carved rock in the assailant's hand. |
| 8776 |
The screaming wind on the plane's tail projected it over the sea of the wide channel outside the cliffs. |
| 8777 |
It was not a good voice for a memory to have. It was all hisses, and it slid into the mind like a knife. |
| 8778 |
Again she waited. I stood motionless, feeling the mechanized breath of the ceiling vent against my face. |
| 8779 |
The killers above gaped. Directly beneath them, racing frantically across the floor, was the bronze man. |
| 8780 |
They set off. Che kept an eye on the zombie colt, but he did indeed keep up, running as fast as a dream. |
| 8781 |
She fought the tears back and carefully wiped the two that did escape onto her finger and licked it dry. |
| 8782 |
The puppy pranced over to him and stood with her front feet on my brother's knees. David Michael smiled. |
| 8783 |
Then Darius kissed her. She kissed him back, so glad for his presence and his love. Then she passed out. |
| 8784 |
I rubbed my eyes. I got to my feet. I located my comb and ran it through my hair. I regarded the sphinx. |
| 8785 |
It seemed for a few moments as if the whole face of the huge granite wall had become a flat, cold flame. |
| 8786 |
Then they all went swimming. The water was cool and lovely. Even Mr. Alden was floating beside the boat. |
| 8787 |
But he would obey. Wondering, perhaps, if the orders stemmed from sagacity or malice. But he would obey. |
| 8788 |
The mossy sward was tempting, but to cross it would take her into the open in full sight of any hunters. |
| 8789 |
The necessity of a better life is intoxication but more and greater things than strong drink intoxicate. |
| 8790 |
All three were in turn studying their five visitors with obvious interest, though different expressions. |
| 8791 |
The champagne was having its effect on Tatiana. Probably worse was to come, but now let it come quickly. |
| 8792 |
The truck screeched to a halt less than a hundred yards from the advancing fire, and everyone piled out. |
| 8793 |
With a whoop he broke surface, immediately treading water and looking around to try to get his bearings. |
| 8794 |
Jacob dissembled briefly. For a moment he considered hiding it and then pretending to discover it later. |
| 8795 |
She'd never let Zach give her money. It was too dangerous for him, and she liked taking care of herself. |
| 8796 |
The little lieutenant commander shifted uneasily on his feet and glanced at McDermott, who said nothing. |
| 8797 |
His ringers bore into her shoulders so that she winced although she would not permit herself to cry out. |
| 8798 |
They shared a light supper and took the expressway home, alive and alight with the greatness of the day. |
| 8799 |
Frank made a lunge toward the door in a vain attempt to escape. But the detective was too quick for him. |
| 8800 |
It appeared directly in front of me, its mouth wide open and one set of claws only a foot from my chest. |
| 8801 |
At the beginning of the chorus there was a disturbance in the water. It broadened into a wide whirlpool. |
| 8802 |
Locating the spot, he went down. The clouds took him in, and it was very dark. He watched the altimeter. |
| 8803 |
McGrath laid a hand on his side. It hurt terribly, as of legions battering for release on a locked door. |
| 8804 |
I nodded stiffly, hoping the abruptness of my motion would be interpreted as annoyance rather than fear. |
| 8805 |
And then the singing started. It was a very pleasant tenor voice, given added timbre by the bath itself. |
| 8806 |
A mile or more above me, the ripple passed through the air. An emptiness, a hole where no hole could be. |
| 8807 |
He swept the wand across the air with a grand gesture, and a cloud of shiny dust sparkled to the ground. |
| 8808 |
Sarah's athleticism stood her in good stead. She slipped through the rear window, and hung onto the car. |
| 8809 |
The wall inside the gate was pocked where bullets had hit. There were a few smashed bullets on the walk. |
| 8810 |
And during that time I did not risk attending to the chapel. Rather I painted all the rooms of my house. |
| 8811 |
The radioman adjusted his headphones and signaled the post. A few moments later, he turned and shrugged. |
| 8812 |
Five of them were released alive near the house to improve the grass, and the last became a party snack. |
| 8813 |
Then they were gone, soaring into the growing light over the clearing and streaming away over the trees. |
| 8814 |
He saw the knowledge in her eyes, saw the realization that came as she recalled incidents from the past. |
| 8815 |
She increased the intensity of her light again, as much for reassurance as for the increased visibility. |
| 8816 |
The stranger stepped back from him, his blade bloody. He stood regarding the other man, the bearded man. |
| 8817 |
So many things, he thought as he set out again, that it would be hard to decide which one was the worst. |
| 8818 |
It was killing him. Admitting he was wrong. Admitting he might have made a mistake about me. I loved it. |
| 8819 |
It was unimaginable that any vision could penetrate the white film which covered his eyes like curtains. |
| 8820 |
Izzy got his chart back from the congratulatory crowd. Several even helped him carry it as he went away. |
| 8821 |
I stopped and gazed up. It looks more like a haunted house than a music school, I thought with a shiver. |
| 8822 |
He lets the fresher air from outside circulate through the room before he goes to the door and opens it. |
| 8823 |
I indicated a place beside me on my furs. She crawled to the furs, head down, and lay timidly beside me. |
| 8824 |
The payrolls were made up in the morning, and it was not unusual for a large sum of money to be on hand. |
| 8825 |
He passed the glasses and then lowered his rotund figure into a leather easy chair. He raised his glass. |
| 8826 |
The thump of heavy diesel engines slowly amplified outside and a ship's bell gave off three muted rings. |
| 8827 |
Achilles smiled placidly and silently looked around at the soldiers who had just carried out his rescue. |
| 8828 |
The young man continued to stare at her. For the moment he said nothing, only shaking his head slightly. |
| 8829 |
His glance to me was thoughtful, cool. His hand on my collar was neither cruel nor rough, merely simple. |
| 8830 |
She suppressed an irrational disappointment that their dinner was not a prelude to another loving night. |
| 8831 |
I took a look at my list. I didn't have to look at it very long to see the decision I was going to make. |
| 8832 |
Silence. Irene's eyes were fixed on the wall. It was a blank wall, with not so much as a tapestry on it. |
| 8833 |
Doc Savage glanced upward. The clouds had cleared away, except for the west, where they lay thick still. |
| 8834 |
The store owner didn't reply. He turned toward the back of the store and motioned for her to follow him. |
| 8835 |
He was about to climb into the saddle of a strange blue dragon when there came an angry call from above. |
| 8836 |
Safety demanded that Monk retreat a bit. He did so. From his new position, he caught sight of the house. |
| 8837 |
Indeed, I dreaded telling him so much that every day for a week I kept putting it off. I procrastinated. |
| 8838 |
They waited in silence, listening to the sounds of Flattery's progress through the open command vocoder. |
| 8839 |
But her discomfiture was that of a child. She lost the strange, disturbing maturity that had masked her. |
| 8840 |
I parked, stared down a child with a water gun until he dodged behind a tree, then knocked on the door. |
| 8841 |
The air was crisp, but not bitterly cold, and the Muzak inside the depot came faintly through the doors. |
| 8842 |
He wore the red, white and blue stars and stripes on his chest and there was an air of menace about him. |
| 8843 |
The policeman had now turned his gaze on me and was studying me with what I felt was unhealthy interest. |
| 8844 |
He didn't see a dismounted man near him turn, cock his arm and aim a spear at him, but someone else did. |
| 8845 |
I wished someone else would say something to change the subject, but the room echoed with deathly quiet. |
| 8846 |
Once or twice he even ordered her back into her bottle. She obeyed with a malicious and secretive smile. |
| 8847 |
There were two, and he brought them both in after washing them in a bucket of water drawn from the well. |
| 8848 |
I'll marry her, he said and the words startled him. He stood naked, with an awed expression on his face. |
| 8849 |
She would wake up screaming then, her body trembling violently, the bedclothes soaked with perspiration. |
| 8850 |
As they skirted the cliff, they saw other turmoil in the lake and witnessed the fishing of other fliers. |
| 8851 |
He sat down in one of the hard plastic chairs, aware that the nurse glanced repeatedly in his direction. |
| 8852 |
I trust that small Storm continues to increase in weight and beauty. I look forward to seeing her again. |
| 8853 |
Lorna Zane bit her lower lip so furiously that it seemed certain her small white teeth would go through. |
| 8854 |
He ran his hand gently down her side, and checked the flesh on her buttocks. She actually smiled at him. |
| 8855 |
The men's room door opened. Mr. Bowers walked out. He stretched. He zipped his fly. He settled his nuts. |
| 8856 |
Then she jerked up her head and looked about quickly as if to assure herself that she had not been seen. |
| 8857 |
There was music playing somewhere between the trees, he now noticed. One moment lilting, the next manic. |
| 8858 |
With little more than a ghost of a breeze, the dust began to settle immediately once the horses stopped. |
| 8859 |
The priest stepped back from the grave, raised his hands to the dark heavens and started to chant again. |
| 8860 |
He took the matches from her hand and tore another one loose. He struck it across the strip on the back. |
| 8861 |
She went scarlet to the neck of her silken robe, and he chuckled. The girl blushed easily, and prettily. |
| 8862 |
When the conversation had been steered to the latter subject, Chan told his old friend about the murder. |
| 8863 |
One of the men advanced down the road, keeping in the darker shadows beside the ditch. He returned soon. |
| 8864 |
Roulette stared at my face with her blazing hate. Then her eyes traveled down my torso, and she smirked. |
| 8865 |
I was going to get out of this place if I had to chew my way out. And then hunt him down and neuter him. |
| 8866 |
Cautiously, he slid the panel back a crack. There was no noise now, but he froze at what he saw outside. |
| 8867 |
He raised a hand, and the golden radiance around us darkened and sparked with jagged bolts of lightning. |
| 8868 |
I held his eye long enough to share the joke, then replied without commitment that I believed there was. |
| 8869 |
A flash of light streaked out from the water toward the white house on the hill. Another flash. Another. |
| 8870 |
More weeks went by, and Stoner patiently worked by himself while the wrangling went on in the next room. |
| 8871 |
The two young men working near the back of the shop paid little attention to the newly arrived visitors. |
| 8872 |
He went out onto the balcony of the coach, and smiling thinly, locked the sliding door behind him again. |
| 8873 |
I heard the trap door close above and behind us. The tunnel was immediately plunged into total darkness. |
| 8874 |
He watched the stars, sparkling in bright strokes that followed the meeting of two Galactic spiral arms. |
| 8875 |
There were several shots in quick succession. The flash was no more than fifty feet from the bronze man. |
| 8876 |
It has to go through a double rotation relative to ordinary objects, to come back to its starting state. |
| 8877 |
Antonina, from long experience, waited until John had stumped about for a minute or so before she spoke. |
| 8878 |
An occasional curious touch brushed her and departed satisfied. Her presence was accepted. She was home. |
| 8879 |
Even at five years old, little Peggy knew that if she kept that vow, she'd be better off saying nothing. |
| 8880 |
The man shook his head. He said to someone on the other end of the line to go ahead, he was in no hurry. |
| 8881 |
And the President entered his office, shut the door behind himself, and personally turned on the lights. |
| 8882 |
She accepts your apology. She accepts your apology. Life, hope, and all good things opened up before him. |
| 8883 |
There, there it was again. Open wood fires and honeysuckle. Really different, not bitter or sharp at all. |
| 8884 |
Kraal made a sighing, grunting sound, his way of showing that he was thinking hard. Anya remained silent. |
| 8885 |
I listened. The hold was dark. I seemed to hear nothing. It had been nothing. Surely it had been nothing. |
| 8886 |
They all carried their glasses and their voices were raised in mounting spirits and cheerful camaraderie. |
| 8887 |
Excited tribesmen shouted. Bow strings twanged. A shower of arrows slapped about the mouth of the cavern. |
| 8888 |
The phone rang again. I made a sound in my throat and put it to my ear again, not saying anything at all. |
| 8889 |
What came in answer was code, a series of numbers and allusions intelligible only to those who set it up. |
| 8890 |
The roadster pulled into a narrow lane through the brush. They soon parked the machine and went on afoot. |
| 8891 |
The desk announced my name and I went over and picked up a small white package. I unwrapped it carefully. |
| 8892 |
A louder voice now shouted angrily that they would have to leave, that the uproar would bring the police. |
| 8893 |
They went out to stand guard. Down in the street, the caterwauling of a police siren was becoming louder. |
| 8894 |
The pilot's hands had been on die cylinder. Evidently, she had been using the levers to guide her flight. |
| 8895 |
Mysteriously, the hose stopped swaying. The stoppage was abrupt, as if an invisible hand had arrested it. |
| 8896 |
He threw his head back and laughed at his stupid joke. Lucky for me, it gave me a chance to bite his arm. |
| 8897 |
Dolph could not think of anything that could spoil his satisfaction. This had become a wholly good event. |
| 8898 |
Pip could and did. Soon he was handing down the little creature to Daisy, and she cuddled it against her. |
| 8899 |
He got up and walked to the wall. He could not walk through it, so he went around the inside of the room. |
| 8900 |
The warmth of the sun was more than welcome when he rode out of the trees and back up to the narrow path. |
| 8901 |
We waved until the car pulled away from the curb, then went inside. Janine closed the door and locked it. |
| 8902 |
The two went over backward, across Kathleen, all the way down the wide stairs to the polished wood below. |
| 8903 |
I opened my eyes in the darkness of Joshua's tent. He was collapsed in my arms, trembling uncontrollably. |
| 8904 |
Voices murmured beyond the trees. A little later, the pencil ray of a flashlight flicked over the ground. |
| 8905 |
He had laid to one side part of his rough weaving and now he moved his foot into the faint glow of light. |
| 8906 |
When we got back to the populated areas, we found that the communication channels were all again working. |
| 8907 |
Inside, lightnings crackled among the falling sands. Outside, a giant turtle was engraved upon the glass. |
| 8908 |
Ham still snored blissfully on the floor. Some one had taken his bright necktie before Doc made his raid. |
| 8909 |
She looked around, wondering where he kept his coffin. And suddenly it all seemed too possible, too real. |
| 8910 |
A grayish powder covered the hands, the faces of the dead men. The stuff might have been an unclean dust. |
| 8911 |
Song finished her report and handed the mike to Lang. Before she could start, Weinstein came on the line. |
| 8912 |
As if in response to my afterthought, the door opened and Bunny came in, a big tray of food in her hands. |
| 8913 |
He felt an uneasy certainty. Something lived in that furnace. Something terribly old, and terribly aloof. |
| 8914 |
The man on the throne was surprised and delighted to observe the effectiveness of his latest acquisition. |
| 8915 |
Monk's shushing was not necessary. He wanted to listen for the torpedo to strike. All held their breaths. |
| 8916 |
He laughed softly, bitterly, at his rationalization. The hunter had become that which he had once hunted. |
| 8917 |
By that time, Amos was already busy figuring out another scheme to get himself and his family off Vulcan. |
| 8918 |
They sit, one on each side of Rebekah. Sitting on the remaining chair, the tall wizard clears his throat. |
| 8919 |
Then before they could stop her, she buried her face in the crook of her arm and stumbled into the woods. |
| 8920 |
I reached down and picked up the breakfast which I had put to the side before commencing her chain check. |
| 8921 |
Most strange and wondrous, I thought, that the power of the mind was greater than the power of the hands. |
| 8922 |
We come in through the garage. All we're supposed to see is the garage, the kitchen, and the dining room. |
| 8923 |
From somewhere nearby came the mournful howling of wolves. Buck's fur stood on end and he began to growl. |
| 8924 |
Loose horses scattered along the valley, reins trailing and empty stirrups bounding against their flanks. |
| 8925 |
The head floated back to the surface. The mouth was closed. The yellow eyes seemed still to look at Bond. |
| 8926 |
A galley like some monstrous sea caterpillar was sweeping silently toward them from the western darkness. |
| 8927 |
The porter threw the bag on the floor in back and stood there with his hand out. I knew I was in America. |
| 8928 |
Peters dissented violently from this proposition, and appeared angry with Green for making the assertion. |
| 8929 |
Evie started to voice a protest, but Pitt was already walking in the tracks of the sled back to the ship. |
| 8930 |
Now all she could do was wait, and try to figure out what she could possibly do to find Meriel's husband. |
| 8931 |
We hurried toward the bumper cars. As we pushed through the crowd I could hear myself starting to wheeze. |
| 8932 |
The news reel man looked stunned by the verbal flow, but hastily got his camera and voice recorder going. |
| 8933 |
He's killing our speed against the sand, Jessica thought, and permitted herself to admire his competence. |
| 8934 |
Monk got his startled thoughts back on solid ground. He snorted loudly to show that he was not buffaloed. |
| 8935 |
The twins see the beast at dawn and wake Ralph. The boys go looking for it on the far side of the island. |
| 8936 |
Clove and pepper, he thought. Each word was snapped off sharply in the air like a string of firecrackers. |
| 8937 |
Both women giggled and covered their mouths with their hands. They looked at each other conspiratorially. |
| 8938 |
A light hand fell across his arm, making him jump. He grabbed for his rope and whirled to face the enemy. |
| 8939 |
I was pleased at the silence. I had not realized until then that I was valued in the council of captains. |
| 8940 |
Then the white turned red, streaked with black, and the terrible noise clapped its hands across his ears. |
| 8941 |
Wayne dropped his hands. His wedding band slid. He missed meals. He dropped weight. He fretted up Dallas. |
| 8942 |
He could see that it was going to be difficult to get them to think seriously on the subject of mermaids. |
| 8943 |
The girl grabbed his head, pinched it between his knees and began draping strips of tape across his lips. |
| 8944 |
Then all was as quiet as a grave, the deathly stillness broken only by the gentle gurgle of escaping air. |
| 8945 |
Vaguely he saw the dim figures on the other side of the wall. Motioning. He tried to follow the gestures. |
| 8946 |
There was a sound in the background. I swung around and saw the door click shut. I was alone in the room. |
| 8947 |
We consider the various worlds as gene pools, sources of teachings and teachers, sources of the possible. |
| 8948 |
Claude pulled away from her. Trying to ignore other cries and whispers, he made his way to Richard's bed. |
| 8949 |
I had left the car hooked up for recharge, and that would run without tending until it reached repletion. |
| 8950 |
I make no reply, and he just sighs and shakes his head over me. He goes out to replenish the wood supply. |
| 8951 |
The one she'd shot would never walk on two legs again. Or four. Lily was putting off thinking about that. |
| 8952 |
Kevin was right. But he was surprised that he hadn't recognized the anger for what it was until just now. |
| 8953 |
Heller pulled out a small instant recording camera, stepped back and shot the diagrams on the blackboard. |
| 8954 |
A dozen men poured on Doc when he reached the door of the cave, tied him securely. He made no resistance. |
| 8955 |
But then there was no more time to think anything, because the sledge connected squarely with the camera. |
| 8956 |
He knew it was there, but the actual sight of it as they came face to face turned a man's belly to water. |
| 8957 |
Death took the saddle down from its hook and glanced at Albert, who was suffering a crisis of conscience. |
| 8958 |
He lifted up his hand and touched the softness of one cheek, gently wiping away the tear with his caress. |
| 8959 |
Daniels squinted his eyes in thought for a moment, then shook his head and took another sip of his drink. |
| 8960 |
Root strode through the shuttle double doors. His trademark purple complexion was even rosier than usual. |
| 8961 |
Coraline didn't think there really was a mouse circus. She thought the old man was probably making it up. |
| 8962 |
The scribes then retired to the nearest bar, which happened to be on the corner, and swapped information. |
| 8963 |
The piano music swirled around me. I looked up to see the rows of hands pounding away on their keyboards. |
| 8964 |
The campaign had begun. And when the news came out the entire world would know what was really happening. |
| 8965 |
He watched her sip the stuff cautiously, cough over the first mouthful, and then get the rest of it down. |
| 8966 |
Well, he had the right attitude. But she felt better now that it seemed unlikely that the foal was there. |
| 8967 |
Faith started to walk away, then stopped. She took a step up to Brooks and gave him a warm, friendly hug. |
| 8968 |
His eyes fell, but he did not attempt to conceal his misery. It seemed that he could not, not before her. |
| 8969 |
Mina turned to the priestess, who had been holding the lance all this time. Mina took the lance from her. |
| 8970 |
She sat down on the bed Denny and she had slept in together for eight years, and tried to think straight. |
| 8971 |
He looked down at her, and he wondered what they had been to each other before coming into the Labyrinth. |
| 8972 |
When she reappeared, her eyes were filled with pain and she panted as if she couldn't draw a full breath. |
| 8973 |
Then Fuzzy must have thought of something. He made a series of hissing noises in his wild haste to speak. |
| 8974 |
Twilight blurred the landscape. From windows high at the side of the hall came the yellow light of lamps. |
| 8975 |
Either everything he remembered had really just happened, or this was one intense motherfucker of a trip. |
| 8976 |
The nurse was staring. In all her decades of experience, it seemed she had never before seen this happen. |
| 8977 |
When I was sure no one would see, I fluttered down and into the cave, scraping the bushes on either side. |
| 8978 |
A soldier dropped to his knee, leveling his gun. More soldiers arrived, bringing their rifles and aiming. |
| 8979 |
On stage, Lorelei gimped stoically out of the spotlight. She yelled something about her leg turning blue. |
| 8980 |
They had slept through another night. But as they were having breakfast Ron suddenly looked at his watch. |
| 8981 |
Opened his mouth on that one. If you made a promise like that to these men, you'd better plan to keep it. |
| 8982 |
Looking back, Doc saw that he was leaving wet tracks on the white cobbles, so profusely had he perspired. |
| 8983 |
In any division of foodstuffs equally between several people, to give yourself the extra slice left over. |
| 8984 |
She was speechless when she reached us. She put a hand on her chest while she caught up on her breathing. |
| 8985 |
The windows were boarded shut. The old folks did it as an added precaution. They forgot to tell the cops. |
| 8986 |
The remaining member of the party had eased back into the darkness, where he wasn't likely to be noticed. |
| 8987 |
The tops of the palings, where that weird light gleamed, were well above her head as she got to her feet. |
| 8988 |
It still sounds weird though. Kind of like a toddler making disgusting fart imitations for the fun of it. |
| 8989 |
He stooped momentarily, to pull something from between the halves of his left hoof, and suddenly started. |
| 8990 |
Cars drew up to the curbing. The uniformed fake guards piled into the machines, and the cars roared away. |
| 8991 |
He bowed considerably more deeply to her, and she watched with pitiless, unflinching eyes as he withdrew. |
| 8992 |
Despite the desperateness of the situation and the haunting time pressures, I found myself gaping at him. |
| 8993 |
They had lied to protect the worlds each had built, but now a greater lie had come to feed on their fear. |
| 8994 |
The shadow figure from the truck stood still, perhaps confused now that it was no longer guided by noise. |
| 8995 |
Ryan tested the ropes. Not ropes. Steel handcuffs, biting into his wrists. Chains were around his ankles. |
| 8996 |
The stranger nodded, then drained another tankard and hurled it against the wall. Again, no one objected. |
| 8997 |
Doc was over at the piano with Benny. I looked over and caught his eye, and he raised his hand in salute. |
| 8998 |
They said they had the impression he was pretty much from everywhere, but they didn't know exactly where. |
| 8999 |
The young woman stretched forth a slim bronzed hand to grasp his own in warm greeting and nodded happily. |
| 9000 |
He had no intention of ever drawing this particular damned Blade again. That being the case, he relented. |
| 9001 |
Mourners filed in. A breeze dumped the poster. A woman picked it up. She saw Jack's picture. She cringed. |
| 9002 |
She wanted to knock that leering, precious smile off his face. Instead she smiled her most winning smile. |
| 9003 |
On the near edge of the village, a mere few hundred yards away, a dotted line of lights crossed the road. |
| 9004 |
The other means used was a blackjack. It hit the bony Johnny on the head. Johnny shuddered and sank down. |
| 9005 |
He sat back in his chair and idly fingered the rifle sight while we toyed nervously with our pear halves. |
| 9006 |
The scene blacked out and the blue dot was back. Jacob closed his eyes and pulled back from the eyepiece. |
| 9007 |
Like a good administrator, Perry waited to see if one of the scientists would pick up on it. They didn't. |
| 9008 |
He stared in blank awe at the size of the globular thing so huge, I thought it was part of the landscape. |
| 9009 |
Ham gritted his teeth, gripped his sword cane. The young woman's crack about his being a gigolo had hurt. |
| 9010 |
Now he lay looking up at the stars, which seemed very bright in their hard glitter tonight, and wondered. |
| 9011 |
She fed him her power. And then she fell into darkness again without learning whether death came with it. |
| 9012 |
Faith tensed up when someone tapped her shoulder. She considered ignoring him, until she heard his voice. |
| 9013 |
Though she was several inches shorter than he, she followed the direction of his stare as best she could. |
| 9014 |
I glanced down at Ina. Yes, I thought, that would be considerably more than she would bring on the block. |
| 9015 |
All contraband was classed. Class A was code for dangerous human technology. Power sources, for instance. |
| 9016 |
Stoner pulled his attention away from the computer screen and looked at the cosmonaut sitting beside him. |
| 9017 |
Reaching the ground floor, he pushed through the doors to the street. Kelly was standing next to the car. |
| 9018 |
Serpentine will slither forth to make his nest among the ants that crawl upon the surface of this sphere. |
| 9019 |
No smell. No taste. No sense of touch. No kinesthetic awareness of a body. Not even a sense of paralysis. |
| 9020 |
Then everything disappeared in a flash of light, and they closed their eyes tight against its brilliance. |
| 9021 |
She wasn't the only one to want to get clean. There were quite a few white bodies splashing in the water. |
| 9022 |
Solace, to make them ready, to do what he could to protect them against whatever horrors they might face. |
| 9023 |
The exclamation was needless. Doc was already pointing the nose of the dirigible toward the desert floor. |
| 9024 |
She hung up and when the phone rang, she left it alone. With Robert, it was best not to argue or explain. |
| 9025 |
Gordon's face was indecisive. Then his resolution tightened. The machine gun was held steady in his hand. |
| 9026 |
Groaning at the exquisiteness of his touch, she ran her hands through his silken hair and held him close. |
| 9027 |
And my scaly skin began to come off my face in sheets. Skin peeled away like it does after a bad sunburn. |
| 9028 |
He thrust his hands out, caught frantically at the railing. His body stopped falling. He held. He cursed. |
| 9029 |
His neck frill was in constant agitation and the colors, while not bright, ran through a variety of hues. |
| 9030 |
He climbed out of his bunk. Joseph, still sitting, looked at him. There was no censure in his expression. |
| 9031 |
And as I watched, half a dozen of the armed men surrounded a small patch of bright yellow. It was a tent. |
| 9032 |
Marina added the applications to the pile on the table while Sam slipped out of her jeans and sweatshirt. |
| 9033 |
The three of them turned swiftly. Tiny, spinning around to face the threat, growled deeply in his throat. |
| 9034 |
She ran to my table and fell to her knees before me. I saw not she was the one who had served me earlier. |
| 9035 |
That wasn't the torture, Mark realized. That was only the pretesting. My torture is still being designed. |
| 9036 |
The words were the same, but they were shouted with fierce meaning, with no touch of formality this time. |
| 9037 |
Wolff ran after her. The girl cast a look over her shoulder, gave a cry of despair, and continued to run. |
| 9038 |
The bell rang and the chopper lifted into the air, the ground disappearing under him in a billow of dust. |
| 9039 |
Then she saw the army truck and bus appear, and watched them reappear as blue church vehicles, and leave. |
| 9040 |
The growling noises of conversation cut off, leaving nothing but the sounds of the cameras and recorders. |
| 9041 |
Unwillingness to commit herself and the bus to the dubious mercies of the weather kept her from starting. |
| 9042 |
Like hell. Justice kept silent, watching as Raj cleansed the wound, then wrapped it again in the bandage. |
| 9043 |
But there was always the chance this broken sewer would be blocked. Doc swam rapidly away from the basin. |
| 9044 |
The cocks had been released, and could no longer be unreleased. The theoretical damage had become actual. |
| 9045 |
An hour passed. It was true night before they could stop speaking of themselves and turn to the universe. |
| 9046 |
Then Justin cried. Leaned against the wall outside after the door had shut and cried until his gut ached. |
| 9047 |
The felt boots made little noise on the stone floors, and this probably accounted for what happened next. |
| 9048 |
Slowly he laid cards face down on the table one after the other, glancing at Shane expectantly each time. |
| 9049 |
Its weight shifted from time to time, and it rested its beak on its chest while standing deep in thought. |
| 9050 |
Joseph ran forward and snatched it up. He blew out the flame and handed the smoldering mess to Stevenson. |
| 9051 |
There was the duchess still in her cloak and hood, standing right aft as much out of the way as possible. |
| 9052 |
And he did, steering that overladen boat through rapids and eddies. I was dreading my turn at those oars. |
| 9053 |
The driver turned his head slightly, even as he wheeled the car through heavy traffic at a reckless rate. |
| 9054 |
She began to suspect where he might be leading and wondered if there might be another way to destroy him. |
| 9055 |
Then they saw the bandy legs of the other man going by too. But just as he was passing, the legs stopped. |
| 9056 |
She ignored him completely, and instead began to lead Calvin closer to the large concentration of charms. |
| 9057 |
He gathered his willpower in his bare hands and walked next door to corner Janie in front of her parents. |
| 9058 |
Pruitt had handcuffs dangling from his left hand, his hook swinging free, and his face was badly bruised. |
| 9059 |
Maybe this would be a good place to stay, so that when a mare came, he could ask her to take his message. |
| 9060 |
Juliet took a small gripper from her belt. She clipped it on to the lift cable and hopped into the shaft. |
| 9061 |
He opened his hand. A tiny spot of light hovered over his palm. He blew on it, gently, and it faded away. |
| 9062 |
At which her breath ceased and the fire burned to ashes as the clock ticked and ticked in the quiet room. |
| 9063 |
Doc was issuing commands, having just finished writing a number of names and addresses on slips of paper. |
| 9064 |
In any event there was probably nothing to be lost by being caught spying but the rest of his reputation. |
| 9065 |
Just after I had turned round to acknowledge her presence a single sheet of paper fluttered to the floor. |
| 9066 |
He turned the phonograph record round and round in his hands, trying to read the words under the grooves. |
| 9067 |
The white man did not speak. He was holding his head, and scarlet from a cut crawled through his fingers. |
| 9068 |
He was at the hills. He could not push himself up to look. The rocks rose beneath his head and shoulders. |
| 9069 |
I swallowed hard. My mouth felt so dry. My legs were trembling. I grabbed the tile wall to steady myself. |
| 9070 |
Doc Savage had seen the finger prints of his five men countless times. He could recognize them instantly. |
| 9071 |
But at dusk, when he returned to the bungalow, Mama Dolores greeted him at the door with a troubled face. |
| 9072 |
Hamid smiled inside. Then he took a break and made sure the motorcycle he intended to take was fueled up. |
| 9073 |
But no. And no. And no. A man couldn't run against his nature. It was unnatural. He needed time to think. |
| 9074 |
Very close at hand all illusion vanished, and there were many winding ways at the roots of those pillars. |
| 9075 |
Until then, the plant can stay in its shop three doors from our tent, and my money can stay in my pocket. |
| 9076 |
Infected by their riders' excitement, the horses started moving out of the stable yard at a nervous trot. |
| 9077 |
He had been building a bomb here, as carefully as a terrorist in a basement. And hadn't even realized it. |
| 9078 |
By way of a reminder, each reporter carried his small gold brick, worth approximately a thousand dollars. |
| 9079 |
He turned his eyes back on his commanders. All of them were staring at him. Respectfully, but stubbornly. |
| 9080 |
They were soon out in the courtyard, and as they crossed it, Jenny stopped and looked hard at the ground. |
| 9081 |
Near the docks, higher cliff peaks rose in the air, looking far larger than they did during normal tides. |
| 9082 |
He felt his cheek again. The flesh felt noticeably firmer, a bit less flaccid and jowly than he recalled. |
| 9083 |
The black scavenger bird settled swiftly into the vegetation. Apparently, it grasped some tidbit of food. |
| 9084 |
Eventually, he squirmed into a sitting position, propped up against a sack of what smelled like potatoes. |
| 9085 |
Freddy suddenly heard a burst of odd noises from the bushes, sounding like the shouting of a small child. |
| 9086 |
With one hand on the freezer door, I take a big breath and try to center my enlightened spiritual entity. |
| 9087 |
The ladder creaked as he climbed, but he made the platform without missing a step. Wendell was impressed. |
| 9088 |
Things seemed so very different now that she was a female and in a gown and in her father's drawing room. |
| 9089 |
Sesame would have smiled if her face had that expression in its repertoire. It would be nice to meet her. |
| 9090 |
They made a quick search of the apartment and it was painfully evident that the place did not harbor Ham. |
| 9091 |
I rushed to the nearest capsule. I saw a trooper struggling to a sitting position, eyes wide with fright. |
| 9092 |
He was soaked. His shoes squished. His feet were somewhere else. He saw wisps. He knew they weren't real. |
| 9093 |
I. You speak of the Rod as being the heart of our nation. Well, to it are wedded our own customs in turn. |
| 9094 |
Many of the crowd took prayer rugs from under their garments and spread them out before kneeling on them. |
| 9095 |
He inched slowly into the darkness, keeping one hand on the wall. The stone felt sharp on his fingertips. |
| 9096 |
Both sides stopped as the creatures sleeted past. It was even possible to hear the rustle of their wings. |
| 9097 |
Good. The white overseer lifted the sack off the rack and dropped it onto the floor in front of Hendrick. |
| 9098 |
I turned and went to the window. I unfastened the wooden shutter, and stood looking down into the street. |
| 9099 |
That startled him again. Apparently, now that he had evoked the ring, it answered any questions it heard. |
| 9100 |
Someone had told her that a witch's cottage was her second face. Come to think of it, it had been Granny. |
| 9101 |
The boy slammed down the hatch, and bolted it. The noise startled the two men, and they stopped fighting. |
| 9102 |
Fuzzy did the talking. But first he glared at the prisoners, Monk and Ham, as if he intended eating them. |
| 9103 |
With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels. |
| 9104 |
There was only one small question which remained unanswered, and I tried not to give it too much thought. |
| 9105 |
My bodyguard carefully opened his hand and stepped back, holding his palm flat in front of my pet's face. |
| 9106 |
He lay in the soft weeds and dead leaves for only a moment, then reared up. The monster was charging him. |
| 9107 |
The President was sweating and the sweat ran all the way down the back of his neck and inside his collar. |
| 9108 |
There was no why to it. He just was. If she were of his species, she would have trouble being his friend. |
| 9109 |
Lilith sat back. The ice around the river hadn't been that good as a mirror, but it had been good enough. |
| 9110 |
Brad and Daryl looked over, too, Sarah still captivated by the toy store on the other side of the street. |
| 9111 |
Monk and Ham did not fight for long. Almost immediately, they were overwhelmed by sheer force of numbers. |
| 9112 |
The man with the coat apparently realized he had a prize. He was still on his feet. He ran with the coat. |
| 9113 |
The radio receiver brought in ordered sounds, in the same wide range as earlier tunes but plainly speech. |
| 9114 |
That pain accompanied her into the dark, nibbled at her will, weakened her struggle to pull away from it. |
| 9115 |
I reached out and squeezed her hand. Then I took up a position beside the table and focused my attention. |
| 9116 |
He turns quickly. The corridor is clear. He straightens and moves for the stairwell and the monitor room. |
| 9117 |
He settled in the seat and gripped the wheel, his prominent chin thrust forward, and took up the pursuit. |
| 9118 |
It lurched under his hands, and his head banged hard into the controls. He was being hurled into the sky. |
| 9119 |
He was wrong in thinking that the atmosphere of the Earth had closed finally and for ever above his head. |
| 9120 |
Without further explanation, he got out of the car and removed two of the cardboard boxes from the trunk. |
| 9121 |
So Doc had schooled himself never to sway the least bit to the seductions of the fairest of the fair sex. |
| 9122 |
I left him to muse on my brilliance and joined Rex in the quiet corner, where the brat was holding court. |
| 9123 |
Above them, they heard the scrape of the case on the roof of the coach as the highwayman dragged it down. |
| 9124 |
The submarine filled with the sound of rushing air and water, and the sleek black hull began her descent. |
| 9125 |
I reached across the counter and took hold of the arm. It was thin, brittle. I held it and smiled at him. |
| 9126 |
The walkway did not look or feel safe, wobbling alarmingly as we stepped onto it. Had to risk it, though. |
| 9127 |
Inside the office, a man sat with his feet on his desk, trying not to scratch the right side of his face. |
| 9128 |
He had to ignore all of the pressure of the events of his world, and take the time to reorganize himself. |
| 9129 |
He stood in silence, hand to mouth, for what seemed a lifetime. See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil. |
| 9130 |
And if they have managed to get to the old gentleman, he realized, they certainly are going to get to me. |
| 9131 |
So enthralled and terrified were they by the scene within the disk, they forgot whence it had originated. |
| 9132 |
He scuttled into the woods as if terribly afraid of being seen, or being overtaken by some dire calamity. |
| 9133 |
The scene flickered as if a heat haze had passed over it. When it cleared, the movement below had ceased. |
| 9134 |
I woke up as I hit the floor in a shattering crash. It was daylight. Somebody had pulled me off the desk. |
| 9135 |
You must also reconnect with the woman Winger. An encounter with her principal could be most instructive. |
| 9136 |
Grant fell silent for a moment. The two of them glared at each other across the director's gleaming desk. |
| 9137 |
Though she had not realized it, Alon had been a second half of her for longer than their actual marriage. |
| 9138 |
I was unsure of just what, but I accepted her challenge and swatted her across the obvious protuberances. |
| 9139 |
I sat down behind the desk, laying the weapon on it. There were three drawers, all as empty as the files. |
| 9140 |
William froze. He looked at his hands lying on either leg, innocently. Susan's heart was beating swiftly. |
| 9141 |
A rattling clang sounded through the gatehouse, and the prince recognized the sound with a numbing shock. |
| 9142 |
Ray thought just knowing the winner in the seventh race while the sixth was being run would he something. |
| 9143 |
I have some new arrivals in the city who I think will interest you if you can spare the time for a visit. |
| 9144 |
Miles arranged his mouth in what he hoped would be taken for a smile of urbane mystery, and said nothing. |
| 9145 |
There was a great cheer in the amphitheater and men stood upon the tiers, waving their caps and shouting. |
| 9146 |
She offered no protest when he swung her into his arms and carried her swiftly up the stairs to his room. |
| 9147 |
He took her to a small but elegant restaurant, sipped a glass of red wine while she ate an enormous meal. |
| 9148 |
I gazed from one to the other of them, too tired and too shaken to speak, then turned upstairs by myself. |
| 9149 |
One was bearded, and his hand rested on a walking stick, its head in the shape of an owl. He was smiling. |
| 9150 |
They both sat down. Blake took a deep, shuddering breath. He rubbed his smooth forehead, again and again. |
| 9151 |
None of the three men seemed to have an answer to this question and Mrs. Hubbard sailed out triumphantly. |
| 9152 |
Doc knew that it was only a matter of moments until he would himself be captured. The odds were hopeless. |
| 9153 |
The sight of it halted Covenant. Possibilities reeled through his head. He grappled to take hold of them. |
| 9154 |
Heller was riding the hook. It came down like a bomb. He jumped off and it hit the pavement with a crash. |
| 9155 |
He flicked two switches and the round eye of an oscilloscope lit up with a hum at the top of the console. |
| 9156 |
I would never see Anya again. Never look into her gray solemn eyes. Never feel her touch, hear her voice. |
| 9157 |
For many minutes we sat facing each other, Anya with the little dinosaur sighing rhythmically in her lap. |
| 9158 |
His friend sat up on the sofa, scattering folders onto the floor and blinking his eyes in disorientation. |
| 9159 |
Ghost came fluttering down and beside him another figure, its darkness in contrast to the white of Ghost. |
| 9160 |
The top edges of several small, tightly rolled parchments were barely visible, peeping out over the edge. |
| 9161 |
A couple of deer blundered into the clearing, ignored the humans in their blind panic, and rocketed away. |
| 9162 |
Only when he'd arranged a program in his mind did he allow himself to fall into a troubled, uneasy sleep. |
| 9163 |
A cold wind buffeted her as she tossed the bags onto the seat, then slid behind the wheel of the Porsche. |
| 9164 |
The acolytes exchanged glances. They hadn't expected this. Finally, their leader found a drop of courage. |
| 9165 |
Ender felt dread come over him from throat to groin. A tingle of fear that made him shudder. Rose saw it. |
| 9166 |
He tried again. Again he got colored light lances that steamed and blackened the slime but did not clean. |
| 9167 |
Roger shuddered slightly. He supposed that it could be superstition, but the description was too precise. |
| 9168 |
Kaunas ran to the window, fumbling for the polarizer, and then the breath came out of him in a huge gasp. |
| 9169 |
I looked back again. Quietly, implacably, he was following. I had little doubt he would await his chance. |
| 9170 |
There were cracks in the asphalt surface of the bridge. Sometimes the cracks exposed the girders beneath. |
| 9171 |
They ran back to the Fiver and were safely within it when the creatures could be seen on the main screen. |
| 9172 |
It is impossible to import things into an infinite area, there being no outside to import things in from. |
| 9173 |
I slowed my kicking. Shot my arms out and pulled them back slowly. Took long breaths. Long, slow breaths. |
| 9174 |
With her other hand she patted the nearest stone in her improvised wall to assure herself of its reality. |
| 9175 |
Her amber eyes were cold and hard. He could still see himself frozen inside them, a tiny figure, trapped. |
| 9176 |
There was laughter from the entryway, and a grunt of pleasure from him in whose arms I lay slave captive. |
| 9177 |
Monk went on. He could hear fighting, a few shots, well in the rear of the house. He headed for the spot. |
| 9178 |
A bright orange light glared below him, just at the Road. Left and above, a mere orange spark glowed too. |
| 9179 |
She aroused, dully aware at first and then with the thrill of pure fear, as she felt hands pawing at her. |
| 9180 |
She started slightly. I was certain she considered asking me where I was going, but thought better of it. |
| 9181 |
The scent of her blood was as painful as all else that I suffered. I thought for a moment I cannot go on. |
| 9182 |
Ahead, the chasm came to an abrupt end in a high bank where several of the mounds butted into each other. |
| 9183 |
He realized he was babbling like a simpleton, but it helped him to talk about the distressing experience. |
| 9184 |
Shoot a seal with a rifle and it slips back into the water. A tethered harpoon might be more appropriate. |
| 9185 |
Now that I'm getting to know your magic, I like it, Colene thought. Though it does make me want to retch. |
| 9186 |
Chemical fumes from the water scented the air, but not heavy enough to cover the other sickish effluvium. |
| 9187 |
When Carlo turned sixteen, he was obliged by Italian law to serve two years of reserve military training. |
| 9188 |
He silently prayed that Harry and the others were getting through their end of the plan without problems. |
| 9189 |
Johnny squirmed around and peered at a number of individuals whom he had not seen before due to the murk. |
| 9190 |
But Meg had set up what she evidently thought was a rescue, and he gave himself up and went off with her. |
| 9191 |
The bronze man heard Ham's voice as the dapper lawyer wiggled out of the passageway and went into action. |
| 9192 |
All the early subsystems were based on elementary technologies described in the first part of the primer. |
| 9193 |
He shivered. He had been conditioned by too many movies with horrible and evil monsters from outer space. |
| 9194 |
No, not far now, he thought. If he could make the road in just a few minutes he would be reasonably safe. |
| 9195 |
Then she had begged to sit by the dusty windows and her mother had said to put her sunscreen on, even so. |
| 9196 |
They were talking, but Pop didn't bother listening to what they were saying. His mind was a fuming forge. |
| 9197 |
She pulled Jon upright, then put her shoulder under his good arm, wrapping her other arm around his back. |
| 9198 |
The small mat on the bar designed to be more absorbent than the bar, but not as absorbent as your elbows. |
| 9199 |
Evan took a deep breath and tried to hold it. But the laughter burst out of him so hard, his chest ached. |
| 9200 |
So Melody turned visible and approached the two young men. They spied her and came close to freaking out. |
| 9201 |
Carefully Charis traced the design which had unlocked so many strange places since she had first used it. |
| 9202 |
She came out of one session ready to feed them all to the recycling bins, and found Arly waiting for her. |
| 9203 |
There was a blue flash, an agonizing burning sensation that spread in a flash to every nerve of his body. |
| 9204 |
And in his mind a thousand images whirled. More and more of them pictured his former employer and friend. |
| 9205 |
Jolie agreed. It reminded her of her own death, centuries before. The horror of it never entirely abated. |
| 9206 |
More men ran in and out of the smoke. They shouted, swore. There was some kind of dilemma inside the inn. |
| 9207 |
He jerked his thoughts around to the business at hand, an intent study of the land through which he rode. |
| 9208 |
She could feel her swollen pussy throbbing, needing release. She felt as though she was being driven mad. |
| 9209 |
The telephone rang, its sharp jangle seeming visibly to jolt the quiet waves of air in the darkened room. |
| 9210 |
A heavy branch thundered through the canopy above him, dropping almost at his feet and blocking the path. |
| 9211 |
Ryan nodded. Gregory was even smart enough to know that someone else might be smarter. This was some kid. |
| 9212 |
Her face a dawning mask of horror, she looked down at the fingers which were still curled into his lapel. |
| 9213 |
This appealed to him all right and I could see that I had his undivided attention as I explained my plan. |
| 9214 |
Amy's been woolgathering through most of the conversation, but at this she turns and grins at her father. |
| 9215 |
As the shadows grew long, she went out to stand on the veranda, watching the sun make its downward climb. |
| 9216 |
Anyhow, he was no tracker. He was a sportsman. Sportsmen hired trackers. They didn't try to imitate them. |
| 9217 |
Their search uncovered no tools which could blast into the control chamber. They hadn't thought it would. |
| 9218 |
Brim needed no encouragement. Tugging on his trousers, he followed her into the suddenly crowded hallway. |
| 9219 |
Smiling, he sat down with a pad and a pen and began to draw a flow chart of a computer program for theft. |
| 9220 |
They both look up. A road guard stands by the tent, followed by two other prisoners carrying a stretcher. |
| 9221 |
But even with the door to the dining room firmly shut, still the pudgy woman's strident tones penetrated. |
| 9222 |
Steel reached his hand beneath his armor, took hold of a jewel he wore around his neck. He drew it forth. |
| 9223 |
Timmy was thrilled. He kept licking first one of the four, then another. He loved going out in the night. |
| 9224 |
It was obvious from her attitude that she intended to have nothing more to say. Doc Savage began talking. |
| 9225 |
The smoke billowed out amid the thunder of the discharge, and the Lydia heaved to the recoil of the guns. |
| 9226 |
Doc got his fastenings free first, but he did not shove the block immediately. He bent over, examined it. |
| 9227 |
Helen found that picture. Helen urged me to study it. She was my mother's advocate and agent provocateur. |
| 9228 |
I leaned forward to take a better look but her hand curved over it instantly, shielding it from my sight. |
| 9229 |
The phone on the commander's belt lay against the floor, vibrating over and over against the cold marble. |
| 9230 |
A woman of about forty was sleeping on one of the plastic couches. She was using a raincoat as a blanket. |
| 9231 |
The mist swirled, too thick to see the person guiding her through it as easily as if it were clear water. |
| 9232 |
When she had finished searching Ham, the young lady calmly gave the dapper lawyer's shins a vicious kick. |
| 9233 |
We sped along the lighted corridor, and it was only a short distance until we ventured out on that ledge. |
| 9234 |
His head lowered toward hers, until all she could see were his eyes burning like blue fires into her own. |
| 9235 |
He heard footsteps approaching. Quickly he covered himself, pulled the bedclothes over and feigned sleep. |
| 9236 |
He could catch, even through the continued tinkling of the fountain a faint scraping sound, even a click. |
| 9237 |
He dismissed this last thought as sheer paranoia. Only time would show whether or not it was coincidence. |
| 9238 |
He logged off the power company system and shut his computer down. They'd raised enough hell for tonight. |
| 9239 |
There came a weighted sense of drifting, a profound silence which they felt extended throughout the ship. |
| 9240 |
Tallahassee thought, with a stab of fear, that her strength was being sapped past the point of no return. |
| 9241 |
Martin sighed. She had probably learned early in her life not to reveal too much enthusiasm for anything. |
| 9242 |
They continued down the river. Only the bind blocked them from the ocean. They arrived at it near midday. |
| 9243 |
He handed one to me and lit his. He gave me the lighter. He kept glancing over at me, knowing how I felt. |
| 9244 |
Rain began to fall on his back, increasing his shivering. Voices were calling him to come down and drink. |
| 9245 |
And they had to be satisfied with that, because he said nothing more as he walked back into the building. |
| 9246 |
Things began to grow dark. I fought to retain consciousness. It was difficult to move. I could not speak. |
| 9247 |
Reginald Bell had remained quiet throughout the conversation. He preferred not to reveal his own opinion. |
| 9248 |
George did not bear malice once anyone had owned themselves to be in the wrong. She smiled at her father. |
| 9249 |
She gave a little huff of impatience and pushed the nearest door, which slowly creaked open at her touch. |
| 9250 |
They each put new barrels on their pistols, barrels whose ballistics markings were known only to corpses. |
| 9251 |
The jeep raced for the silo rim. When it was on the verge of going in, and only then, Robin Green jumped. |
| 9252 |
I saw that that was all I could get. I still was afraid of him. My hand still gripped the butt of my gun. |
| 9253 |
Malva's voice had come from a grille inset above his head. But there were no buttons or switches near it. |
| 9254 |
Kat and Gil came tumbling up the steps, front limbs forward to prevent slipping back down in their haste. |
| 9255 |
And who should I run slap into but Solomon, coming late from his office. He stopped short at sight of me. |
| 9256 |
It was well known that Doc's magical skill at surgery had once saved the life of the police commissioner. |
| 9257 |
Doc Savage, with no stops for gasoline, averaged a little under two hundred miles an hour over the route. |
| 9258 |
It was a large head and a veil of blood streamed down over the face from a wound in the great bald skull. |
| 9259 |
A man tried to drag out a flashlight. Doc went to him, clipped him alongside the temple. The fellow fell. |
| 9260 |
When she had bitten through twenty strings, she stopped going up altogether. She stayed still in the air. |
| 9261 |
The other guild members were on their feet. Knives slid out of boots and swords rattled in their sheaths. |
| 9262 |
Agnes didn't have to be encouraged. She hopped off down the stairs, waving her arm to make her bell ring. |
| 9263 |
Morris heard the rockets launch. The radar showed their chaff as an opaque cloud that enveloped the ship. |
| 9264 |
I have a job to do, she reminded herself. Jessica would bide her time and wait for just the right moment. |
| 9265 |
Now the shadow horse stood still, and those golden eyes which were the most alive part of him studied me. |
| 9266 |
The fingers of her right hand were inserted into five evenly spaced receptacles in a low box on her desk. |
| 9267 |
The little man's head turned. He saw, just in time. He gave a frightened scream, snatched the bread away. |
| 9268 |
As they made their way back through the hall, they heard the unmistakable sound of the back door opening. |
| 9269 |
She looked back over her shoulder. Her eyes watched his fingers working her underpants into a tight ball. |
| 9270 |
The four Supervisors looked into his cavernous gray eyes, aghast. After a moment of silence, Trend spoke. |
| 9271 |
She ached for Reeve. It was physical, that ache, located inside her arms. She needed to curve around him. |
| 9272 |
The trouble is, she didn't want to give him that information without knowing what it would mean for Bean. |
| 9273 |
She had class, that one. And she was good people, the way she'd lugged that poor scared kid all day long. |
| 9274 |
And now that the presence had him, she was not prepared to let him go, which annoyed the computer no end. |
| 9275 |
Chuckling to himself, he bundled the exam papers up and marked them To be microfilmed for student's file. |
| 9276 |
He stretched out on the bed, feeling his eyes close almost immediately. Darkness, it had been a long day. |
| 9277 |
He saw the flying pony, and knew that the nature of the ground would bring him within thirty feet of him. |
| 9278 |
He picked up one of the sheets, holding it by his fingertips as if it were extremely fragile or precious. |
| 9279 |
Three large black dots were in the sky, flying in formation. They were at the same altitude as his plane. |
| 9280 |
Whatever might have been, surely it would have been sufficient. God was subtle, but He was not malicious. |
| 9281 |
He had asked the question innocently, but her face was immediately twisted with pain and grief and anger. |
| 9282 |
And, as Caryl said, same weather magic has been done. I did not think the weather would clear so quickly. |
| 9283 |
Lead shrieked through the space he had vacated. A pistol, firing from the jungle, made stuttering clamor. |
| 9284 |
She folded on her shoes, the only thing she took off before going to bed, and went out into the corridor. |
| 9285 |
Even as he yelled, there was another burst of smoke and fire in the room. A second eerie figure appeared. |
| 9286 |
I heard others moan, and then the moans give way to the sounds of beasts, utterances of incontinent rage. |
| 9287 |
Major Roberts explained that they weren't really under arrest. The corporal had gotten a bit too excited. |
| 9288 |
Then the steel grip of a lean dark hand came down on his extended sword arm and yanked him into the open. |
| 9289 |
Meanwhile the day came when Bright finally approached the question I knew he must ask me sooner or later. |
| 9290 |
It was to have an awareness drug in it and tell what could happen through dependence on such a substance. |
| 9291 |
Phyllis then, darting a look about her, suddenly turned and fled down one of the dark ramps at the races. |
| 9292 |
The foot rippled, driving Meyer into the back of the grenade crater as it propelled the creature forward. |
| 9293 |
The footsteps reached the foot of the staircase and started up, the stairway runner muffling their sound. |
| 9294 |
There was a silence. Nobody knew who the enemy were. They seemed mysterious and powerful and frightening. |
| 9295 |
But now the confusion in the enemy force was abating. A new leader emerged. Suddenly Hermine was in pain. |
| 9296 |
She went out of the room and shut the door unnecessarily loudly. The first formers looked at one another. |
| 9297 |
Some vines stretched across the path. Nat and I had to jump and twist, leaping over the vines in our way. |
| 9298 |
I was just so cold and wet, and I didn't think it would do any harm to drive the water out of my clothes. |
| 9299 |
Miles could not quite keep the malicious smile off his lips, though he tried valiantly. Fairly valiantly. |
| 9300 |
And they need to make more friends. Cooperating actively with the Everglades cleanup would win them many. |
| 9301 |
My throat refused to accept the food concentrates of which I had a plentiful supply but I felt no hunger. |
| 9302 |
She left him moaning in a tumbled sobbing heap on the floor by the sofa and dashed out into the corridor. |
| 9303 |
The bartender and the man who had shaken him awake were talking as he picked up his money from the table. |
| 9304 |
He signaled, and they both stuck their heads up. At that moment, a gun cracked in the street before them. |
| 9305 |
The man considered. Then he grinned fiercely, as though pleased with the idea his weak brain had evolved. |
| 9306 |
She turned and raced back to her rucksack, abandoned on the pavement, and rummaged through it feverishly. |
| 9307 |
Pushing her straggling hair back from her face, she drew her sword and strode out of the council chamber. |
| 9308 |
What with all the thoughts running through my head, I must have laid there an hour before I got to sleep. |
| 9309 |
Steel did not struggle, or make any protest. Every word his lord had spoken rang true, like a true blade. |
| 9310 |
There were a few more laughs this time. When the tension is drawing out, it doesn't take much to snap it. |
| 9311 |
Maia stood atop a narrow flight of stairs leading up to the small cabin she shared with nine other women. |
| 9312 |
Fuchs turned off the remote and sat heavily in his desk chair. The two bugs clung to the overhead, inert. |
| 9313 |
The dark shapes around it turned and squinted into the gloom, trying to fathom the nature of the visitor. |
| 9314 |
She turned her head away again and looked, unseeing, at the head of the great tarn as he plowed the wind. |
| 9315 |
Had risked his life, and feared he yet might lose it, on the chance that words might help him stay alive. |
| 9316 |
Whether this effort would benefit me or not I had no idea but it was all which I might summon in support. |
| 9317 |
The latter statement was made in loud tones. It was obvious the words were intended for unseen listeners. |
| 9318 |
Secretly she tried a spell or two, a conjuring here and there, and found she could almost make them work. |
| 9319 |
If only I had something to eat. I was feeling a little hungry. Should have asked Jake to grab me a snack. |
| 9320 |
It had started to rain again, a fine mist that swirled around in the glow of the infrequent street lamps. |
| 9321 |
He knows this to be a real memory. Unforgettable. Too exquisitely horrible to let go, this side of death. |
| 9322 |
Shirley quickly recovered, gave them both a weak grin and extracted her long frame from the copilot seat. |
| 9323 |
He lapsed into thoughtful silence, but at least now his thoughts were diverted toward a constructive end. |
| 9324 |
There were no soldiers in sight now. The last patrol he had seen had ridden off in a different direction. |
| 9325 |
She said nothing for a minute, studying herself in the mirror, letting the man sweat out her displeasure. |
| 9326 |
It was scarcely necessary to whisper under the conditions of the vast and continuing noise in the square. |
| 9327 |
But the stair down was not blocked, and no door was locked. It could not have been any simple entrapment. |
| 9328 |
The move was executed so quickly they were sheltered before the first rifle volley spattered out noisily. |
| 9329 |
She made an impatient sound and took a sip, trying not to gag on the bitter taste, then held out the cup. |
| 9330 |
Having given its warning, though, the machine was ready to oblige with the rest filed under that heading. |
| 9331 |
I knelt near tile back entrance of the inn, near the garbage bins. I pulled weakly against the bracelets. |
| 9332 |
Steel hastily intervened before a fight broke out, for the blue he rode had no intention of backing down. |
| 9333 |
Pray for me, Jill. And know that I will think about you, and I will miss you every day until I come home. |
| 9334 |
All sellers were promised that they could buy the property back any time they wished, for the same price. |
| 9335 |
I drew in my breath. A flood of assurances came from that part of me which could reach him without words. |
| 9336 |
When Ion returned, unable to check with all the people he wanted to speak to, she showed him her message. |
| 9337 |
When the light of the candles returned, the book was gone, only a stain of ash to show where it had been. |
| 9338 |
Forgotten, here among other young men pushing and shoving for ratings, what it was like just to be loved. |
| 9339 |
The girl took a step toward them, but under her feet the marshy surface swayed, and she stopped in panic. |
| 9340 |
Beneath their feet, the mountain itself trembled. Off to the side, Sunset pawed at the stone and snorted. |
| 9341 |
He stopped twenty feet from me. He saw his colonel writhing and dying on the floor in a spatter of blood. |
| 9342 |
Before the asteroid could coincide with the fourth citizen's icon, the orphan jumped back to its friends. |
| 9343 |
I don't know how I expected her to react. She tried to look sympathetic, but I could see it bothered her. |
| 9344 |
They had mounted bareback, as Joe could see in the now breaking dawn, and were pushing their ponies hard. |
| 9345 |
I ignored the strangeness of the gadget. My task now was to lift its edge up and get at that taped paper. |
| 9346 |
Nothing like this had ever happened before. The prospects of surviving the storm unscathed seemed remote. |
| 9347 |
This was a key to unlock the door of desperation. As she held it so, once more shadows moved in her mind. |
| 9348 |
They experimented with anything and everything to find new crops and increased the yield of the old ones. |
| 9349 |
Butler dropped nimbly through the overhead hatch, where he'd been keeping an eye on the goblin hit squad. |
| 9350 |
From out of the sunset, where they had been engaged in their eternal squabbling, the gods were returning. |
| 9351 |
Our visitor was plainly a man of high standing among his fellows, for he did not lead a single packhorse. |
| 9352 |
There was one of those silences you get after one clear bright note has been struck and the world pauses. |
| 9353 |
Louis stretched. His joints creaked, and tendons were protesting even this afternoon's moderate exercise. |
| 9354 |
He took a deep breath and let it out in a sigh. There was still a desk full of paperwork waiting for him. |
| 9355 |
The Earthling woman had looked tired, yet unbowed, as if she felt certain that her trials would soon end. |
| 9356 |
And she always did, Ruby Bee thought as she pushed the pretzel basket down the smooth expanse of the bar. |
| 9357 |
The bondsman strode directly to the conference table, placing his briefcase on it with a resounding thud. |
| 9358 |
She had no choice. While it was calm, before more fruit rained from above, she had to silence that noise. |
| 9359 |
Then the sexton was standing next to him, warming himself at the fire. The detective mumbled, moved away. |
| 9360 |
Found out everything I needed to know in a very short time and went back to join her sitting and chewing. |
| 9361 |
A bronze streak, Doc was out of the cab and in the skyscraper lobby. He confronted the elevator operator. |
| 9362 |
He slipped through into the bedroom, dressed in his stale and dirty clothes, and headed back to the Pool. |
| 9363 |
Richard and Door followed the angel through the caverns. The candles extinguished themselves behind them. |
| 9364 |
The herder pulled a small iron hammer from his pouch and touched each coin with it. They remained silver. |
| 9365 |
Probably no more hearty reunion ever occurred than took place there in the cold shadow of the north pole. |
| 9366 |
But alas for their hopes, a lantern stood some way down the tunnel there, and they did not dare to go on. |
| 9367 |
Somebody laughed and choked it off. The news had filtered through the ship, as news like that always did. |
| 9368 |
Doc went outside. He carried powerful binoculars. But once more, a search through them disclosed nothing. |
| 9369 |
There had been part of an old orchard there, and a big old lilac bush. Last spring it had been so pretty. |
| 9370 |
With the suddenness of a serpent's strike the situation had changed. We were the hunted, not the hunters. |
| 9371 |
There. He'd got the name out. Now to see if the man could resist the temptation to show off what he knew. |
| 9372 |
Forty minutes went by. Then Nye saw the shadow that was now always at his side begin to stir impatiently. |
| 9373 |
A tall figure appeared silhouetted in the hatchway. It walked down the ramp and stood in front of Arthur. |
| 9374 |
By the time the pack stopped to sleep in the early morning, the fledgling had learned several more words. |
| 9375 |
He breathed a sigh of relief when the lift swallowed him and he could turn and face the impersonal doors. |
| 9376 |
But Tim knew quite well that it wasn't all right. Something was very wrong. He went on growling fiercely. |
| 9377 |
Mama appeared very struck by this. She eyed Mark in new speculation. He essayed a hopeful, helpful smile. |
| 9378 |
Carlos yelled. Carlos fumed. Carlos made vicious threats. Wayne tracked newspapers. Wayne logged updates. |
| 9379 |
Alvin bowed over her hand, and gravely shook the hand of the boy as well, though Roy was sullen about it. |
| 9380 |
During those five years, Craig ran the corporate fast truck like a greyhound chasing a mechanical rabbit. |
| 9381 |
He was nice now, relaxed and taking his time, as if they were going out for a hamburger or just cruising. |
| 9382 |
Little by little Lyra recovered her breath, her balance, and her heartbeat. She sat up and looked around. |
| 9383 |
Bond took off his coat and slipped off the chamois leather holster and harness. He put his coat on again. |
| 9384 |
Pike went back to staring out the window. Getting him to talk is like pulling your own teeth with pliers. |
| 9385 |
The breath caught in the Horseman's throat for a startled moment. Then he began to scream uncontrollably. |
| 9386 |
A radio blared into action on the street below. It was a radio on a police car, and had been turned high. |
| 9387 |
Any habit needs all its parts in order to function. If some parts are missing, the habit is disassembled. |
| 9388 |
Zimmerman whirled on Doug, his loose jacket and vest flapping like sails with the wind taken out of them. |
| 9389 |
And it was for that reason alone that one of the strictest rules of the hospital was temporarily relaxed. |
| 9390 |
After a last momentary pause, she placed her song into the welcoming silence like a rough and rare jewel. |
| 9391 |
Then, add another five hours on a jet to London and the nearest decompression chamber. No way, my friend. |
| 9392 |
Doc Savage said nothing. Guarded by half a dozen fishermen, Monk was bringing in the portable laboratory. |
| 9393 |
Austin sipped his drink. He knew from past experience that demons lurked in the potent Russian firewater. |
| 9394 |
Master Randolph smiled as he tossed the last of his instruments in a medical satchel and closed its flap. |
| 9395 |
As to number six, I looked at my watch and carefully noted the hour, minute and second and put them down. |
| 9396 |
He looked over his shoulder at Conundrum, bent almost double over his work and still mumbling to himself. |
| 9397 |
I wondered if Starling had stayed, but did not ask it. I did not even want to know why it mattered to me. |
| 9398 |
Once in a while it came when Doc was a bit pleased with himself. That was the reason for it sounding now. |
| 9399 |
The warder jumped into a defensive stance. For an instant, all three of its heads turned toward Covenant. |
| 9400 |
From the stairway came another uproar, a grunting and squealing punctuated by irregular thumps and yells. |
| 9401 |
He got to his feet and headed for the rear of the store, glancing at me as if I should follow him. I did. |
| 9402 |
Bernice looked on in horror as Reece's fingers, severed by the blades, dribbled to the ground one by one. |
| 9403 |
Wielding the blade, and keeping as low in the water as he could, he slashed through the weeds in retreat. |
| 9404 |
To put it mildly, he is a shameless old goat whose seed is scattered all through this part of our Galaxy. |
| 9405 |
Climbing down the stairs into the hidden rooms in the basement, I made my way to the secret forgery unit. |
| 9406 |
Death shrugged, a particularly expressive gesture for someone whose visible shape was that of a skeleton. |
| 9407 |
Chemistry was balanced strangely, nape erect, little eyes fixed on the shrubbery ahead. The men advanced. |
| 9408 |
We stood in the middle of the empty room where I could see the dent marks where the couch had once stood. |
| 9409 |
Doc Savage was quietly dressed. The bronze of his hair was but little darker than the bronze of his skin. |
| 9410 |
Monk, watching his secretary, distinctly saw her shove something into hiding behind an apparatus cabinet. |
| 9411 |
The thunder whooped suddenly. A brilliant glare of lightning split the black canopy above the old quarry. |
| 9412 |
A fourth man, crying out that they were in the hands of devils, had hurled his cigarettes into the river. |
| 9413 |
The door to the study trembled open and the butler, old enough to be the duke's father, stumbled through. |
| 9414 |
They crossed clearings. They spread out. They flanked. Wayne switched positions. Wayne took Fido's leash. |
| 9415 |
By the hair the auctioneer pulled her head up and back so that her features might be observed by the men. |
| 9416 |
Smith put the gun against the wall and went outside onto the porch, which wrapped around the small cabin. |
| 9417 |
The white man's body cleaned the rope of the two men like two exposed peas being nicked from an open pod. |
| 9418 |
It made no real difference. Something like a soul flickered in the air where the missing pieces had been. |
| 9419 |
The twins were flushed and sweating beneath their grins, though they kept the strain out of their voices. |
| 9420 |
It was a reasonable request, and in a few moments, they were confronting the worried master of the liner. |
| 9421 |
She eased her way along, holding on to the wall. Someone was definitely going to get told off about this. |
| 9422 |
She could not control her dismay, and her shoulders sagged briefly before she pulled herself erect again. |
| 9423 |
Doc flung to the porthole. It was open. He thrust his head through. The man was legging it down the deck. |
| 9424 |
It was a male vampire, all decked out in a fine set of evening clothes which he wore with enviable grace. |
| 9425 |
Reservoir Hill gazed at the interior of the big building as lights came on, and his eyes popped a little. |
| 9426 |
The cutter pointed out a skinny young man checking wrestling suits on the rack nearest the opposite wall. |
| 9427 |
Velvet gave this crank a twirl. He placed his lips close, to the mouthpiece when he asked for his number. |
| 9428 |
They would take their pay on the docks, and then drink and brawl through the city until it was all spent. |
| 9429 |
I turned from the telephone to find Henry drinking deeply from a bottle he had taken from his hip pocket. |
| 9430 |
Burgess was on his knees, the two familiars flat on the floor to either side of him, faces to the ground. |
| 9431 |
And they watched helplessly as the great bird swooped steadily lower, into the range of the deadly bolts. |
| 9432 |
The tank farm seemed to be situated in a valley, with rolling hills on either side, hills of some height. |
| 9433 |
Leaving the hospital, Alex drew in a deep breath. A glance at the sky told him dawn was fast approaching. |
| 9434 |
The Doctor was already tracing the line of faint light farther down the tunnel. Jo followed him, hastily. |
| 9435 |
These were questions for Admirals, and it was not healthy for junior officers to become involved in them. |
| 9436 |
Nest put her face in her hands and closed her eyes. She was jousting with shadows. She was just guessing. |
| 9437 |
These painstaking efforts of course proved fruitless, for in the end, not a trace of virus was uncovered. |
| 9438 |
And they ran together, following they didn't know what on out and away to who could possibly guess where. |
| 9439 |
Trembling, she reached out her hands, placed her palms flat against the gathered thunder of his forehead. |
| 9440 |
She was adorable, Kitty thought. Her heart was so filled with goodness she wanted only to give to others. |
| 9441 |
There was no fresh news for him there, the inspector found. His disappointment increased his disapproval. |
| 9442 |
I drove on home wishing I could have stayed. I wondered what Selene would have to say about the incident. |
| 9443 |
Montana climbed into the van, trying to watch the prisoners and get a handle on Rollins at the same time. |
| 9444 |
Elizabeth stood disconsolately between them. Her eyes were downcast and tears streaked her freckled face. |
| 9445 |
After he drank, I offered him some of the white cheese from my saddlebags in return for the water bottle. |
| 9446 |
Behind the low white house stood a white shed and a white barn, and they were also surrounded with brush. |
| 9447 |
Sounds indicated the boxes were being opened. Then documents crackled. There were grunts of satisfaction. |
| 9448 |
There was no reason for the odd sadness that she felt. Perhaps it was the loss of Stu. That had to be it. |
| 9449 |
Colene fetched her bucket and started bailing. Nona looked around for another bucket, but there was none. |
| 9450 |
Her fingers felt sticky with sweat as they swept the strings. Her voice was once again drying her throat. |
| 9451 |
And anyway, it wasn't as if she was anticipating taking up a sword and plunging into the thick of combat. |
| 9452 |
Doggedly he stayed with the trail until nightfall, doing his best to overtake the thing that had made it. |
| 9453 |
Carson lighted the end of one of the bundles, and together they moved back into the recesses of the cave. |
| 9454 |
The lounge was too depressing, so Charlie and I used the remaining hours of mobility to explore the ship. |
| 9455 |
She lifted a goblet and handed it to Alex and took the other for herself, lowering the tray to the floor. |
| 9456 |
He got close. He conjured shit up and held back. Janice buckled. Janice spasmed. Janice clamped her legs. |
| 9457 |
Doc Savage came back. He carried a small leather case. This held, on a plush bed, two hypodermic needles. |
| 9458 |
Evidently the thief is a heavy eater. Despite the large supply already missing, chocolate has been taken. |
| 9459 |
It should have come roaring, not flying gently to the accompaniment of the zip and zing of merry bunting. |
| 9460 |
She waited for him to make fun of the idea of dreaming true dreams. But he didn't. He just looked at her. |
| 9461 |
Kevin climbed into the car and slowly backed up. He could see the two men had already detached the chain. |
| 9462 |
He looked back, halfway across the turf, and waved at the Librarian. The ape gave him an encouraging nod. |
| 9463 |
Then she thought she heard them arguing from the Beyond. The voices came through the buzzing in her ears. |
| 9464 |
Monk and Ham were terrific chasers. He suspected they frequently saved him from making a lout of himself. |
| 9465 |
May his presence among us lead to the vision of limitless truth and reveal to us the beauty of your love. |
| 9466 |
Her friends looked away and into the sky with that faint smile which served Ska in the place of laughter. |
| 9467 |
One squad was setting up the antimissile lasers, the only heavy weaponry that had been sent down with us. |
| 9468 |
Finally he took out a sharp knife and gently slit the lining at the bottom of the bag. He turned it back. |
| 9469 |
When Faith didn't answer right away she went back to her yogurt and a letter she was writing on her desk. |
| 9470 |
Turning on his heel, Hugh stalked off toward the steerage way, shoving past Alfred without saying a word. |
| 9471 |
She wrapped herself around him, held him close. For a moment, he floated around in the suburbs of heaven. |
| 9472 |
I signaled Morley. I thought I knew what he had in mind. I didn't like it but I could see no alternative. |
| 9473 |
Jamie did not answer. He towered above her, his body tense, his blue eyes inflamed. And he was all alone. |
| 9474 |
Well, it was good to know. He would keep an eye out for her welfare. At least she wasn't one of the nits. |
| 9475 |
The girl dashed out and the dog retreated to the far side of the pool, where he sat down in a flower bed. |
| 9476 |
She opened her eyes. She could see her eyes, her glowing orange eyes, reflected in the dark window glass. |
| 9477 |
At midnight she awoke with a jump. Someone was knocking softly and impatiently on her door. It was Sooty. |
| 9478 |
The touch had been gently, but it had been purposeful. Apparently it had told him what he wanted to know. |
| 9479 |
The eight came rushing in, sliding to a halt. Once they halted, they stood rocking gently back and forth. |
| 9480 |
Biting my lip, I nodded. That awful crying feeling was coming back. I couldn't let it get the best of me. |
| 9481 |
Before she turned their world upside down, the wizards had lived a life of relative luxury and indolence. |
| 9482 |
He waited till the shadow left the window, and then he pounced. His victim went down at once with a yell. |
| 9483 |
He did not understand how the Despiser's army could be so big. It surpassed his most terrible nightmares. |
| 9484 |
The congressman, wearing only cowboy boots and boxer shorts, downcast and bleary on the bow of the yacht. |
| 9485 |
Resistance was too hard. A doom hung over her head, a ghost lurked in her stomach. What will be, will be. |
| 9486 |
She looked up at him, recognized him, and smiled. The blood from her head wound ran slowly down her face. |
| 9487 |
He pointed to the graph paper that fed very slowly past the seismograph's pens. The recording looked odd. |
| 9488 |
At a meeting over which I was presiding a couple of weeks ago, a member rose to introduce his two guests. |
| 9489 |
Despite their fears, Jordan and Kern were not remotely prepared for an even worse disaster in the making. |
| 9490 |
Other men came into the tavern after the sun had set, and the place grew noisier as it grew dark outside. |
| 9491 |
Alfred, listening to two voices speaking simultaneously, opened and shut his mouth in hopeless confusion. |
| 9492 |
Gray hesitated, and looked round over his shoulder at Hornblower, stiff and unbending on the quarterdeck. |
| 9493 |
The healers of the temple, he thought. Perhaps their potions would be powerful enough to remove the scar. |
| 9494 |
But you don't look it, Tiffany thought. And I was wrong. Two people means twice as much nervousness each. |
| 9495 |
One day as he sat watching the disks, a chime issued from a large bulging mirror hanging on the end wall. |
| 9496 |
Mirabel found the note on her table in the study that evening. She picked it up in curiosity and read it. |
| 9497 |
One dog panted loudly, its tongue hanging out. The other dog flashed its teeth at me. Ugly, yellow teeth. |
| 9498 |
Inner oars withdrew again. Hulls grated together. Hurled at the ends of cables, grappling irons bit fast. |
| 9499 |
Nanny waved a sausage on a stick. She always believed in stocking up on any free food that was available. |
| 9500 |
The young warrior lay unmoving, his pale, lifeless face not showing the slightest sign that he had heard. |
| 9501 |
They'd made great strides in the treatment of gunshot wounds, in the past twenty years. Lots of practice. |
| 9502 |
Gabriel took a deep breath, his hands clenched at his sides as he fought down his anger, his frustration. |
| 9503 |
They gained the ridge, the stalker hauled itself stiffly over the lip, and the mountain was in full view. |
| 9504 |
The fog was clearing. Franco had been selling methamphetamine. Kay saw the scene forming out of the haze. |
| 9505 |
Obviously, there was no comparison. The big male gorilla chuffed, satisfied. It actually seemed to laugh. |
| 9506 |
The whole thing was a bummer, all the problems with her father and now all the mess of the past few days. |
| 9507 |
My heart was filled with pity, but I continued the chant. The body slumped down to the ground at my feet. |
| 9508 |
And then the agent was left alone with a coach and horses and an expanding circle of hurrying passengers. |
| 9509 |
Finally the orders came. Dana grabbed up her winged helmet with its long alloy vane like a Grecian crest. |
| 9510 |
Only then did the full significance of what had happened hit him and he felt cold and slightly nauseated. |
| 9511 |
I pointed to one of the truncated pylons rising out of the river. It had been splashed with yellow paint. |
| 9512 |
Large shining eyes in an oval of innocent purity framed with shiny dark curls. Sean's heart flipped over. |
| 9513 |
On reaching the bridge, Morris dialed up engineering. The noise on the phone answered his first question. |
| 9514 |
The old man's attention was wandering. From some attic storage in his memory Tim pulled something random. |
| 9515 |
The chief accountant, usually so glib with figures, hesitated for an appreciable instant before replying. |
| 9516 |
Five men gave him blank looks followed by swift comprehension. Protective shields snapped up around them. |
| 9517 |
So as soon as we were airborne, I had the little table down and I was sorting out little stacks of paper. |
| 9518 |
A moment passed. Colon's eyes flickered more rapidly. And then one of them opened and fastened on Martin. |
| 9519 |
The Negroes beyond the arch were quiet, staring. The barman stooped and put his hands down under the bar. |
| 9520 |
They roared past the army lorry without touching it, all four of them instinctively watching and yelling. |
| 9521 |
The two other robots also turned to face the wall, held their right hands out, and wiggled their fingers. |
| 9522 |
Wade explained things as they had progressed to date, to Savage. And cleared up a lot of minor mysteries. |
| 9523 |
At first I thought she was going to go for my throat. Then she took a deep breath and blew it out slowly. |
| 9524 |
One platoon began cutting rectangular slabs of stone, polishing them smooth, and carving names and dates. |
| 9525 |
Until something else caused them to look up. They stiffened, their eyes widening, their nostrils flaring. |
| 9526 |
Meanwhile, more than a dozen white security cars had pulled up to a screaming halt beside the launch pad. |
| 9527 |
Kincaid reached over and clasped his hand tightly about hers, broadcasting reassurance, shaking his head. |
| 9528 |
Hamish stirred in his wheelchair, under a pile of large fish fillets inexpertly wrapped in saffron robes. |
| 9529 |
Charlie nodded, placed a pair of opera glasses beside the contract and took a pen from his inside pocket. |
| 9530 |
He clenched his hands, waiting for the compassion in her eyes to turn to revulsion. But it didn't happen. |
| 9531 |
Carefully bracing himself so that he wouldn't hurt her, he leaned over and brushed his lips against hers. |
| 9532 |
As things came clearer I saw that Fiona was standing beside him, standing very close as a matter of fact. |
| 9533 |
Before I knew it he'd wheeled his pony and was off up the darkening slope, the hooves hollow on the turf. |
| 9534 |
He kept looking at me. I cast about in my mind for something vaguely complimentary to say about the room. |
| 9535 |
It is one thing to face a rival with your blade in hand and make a bloody end to all rivalry between you. |
| 9536 |
He did so, and stared with disbelief at what appeared in the tank of the screen before his control chair. |
| 9537 |
He took his hands from his pockets and held her soft hands in his, stroking the knuckles with his thumbs. |
| 9538 |
She headed back down her walk, her feet loud on her Doric porch, her cat darting out from behind a hedge. |
| 9539 |
He did not bother with the reading of the caption that ran between the houses. He knew what it would say. |
| 9540 |
He laughed and pressed a switch that unlocked the side door. He stepped onto the balcony and stared down. |
| 9541 |
Jon kicked his mare, spinning her in a circle. The boys were all around him now, closing from every side. |
| 9542 |
She picked up the broomstick, carefully balanced her sculpted head on top of it, and started to the door. |
| 9543 |
They shook hands around. At the end, Alan kept hold of Arielle's hand and looked quizzically at her face. |
| 9544 |
Unable to endure her steady, sensible gaze, I shoved my pen into a cup of lead shot and stood up to pace. |
| 9545 |
All defiance spent, her head drooped forward. She remained silent. When she looked up again, he was gone. |
| 9546 |
And strike he did, only to once more fail. Now he snarled, showing his teeth like one of the sire hounds. |
| 9547 |
And back Hannah went, address unknown, needing whatever strange and sad things the cult had to offer her. |
| 9548 |
A completely indescribable welter of emotions took me all at once. My ears roared, and my vision blurred. |
| 9549 |
When it came to the description of the two men, Mathis tore the telephone off its hook beside Bond's bed. |
| 9550 |
Outside golden furred flying creatures roused with the advent of another gloomy, sultry Mesozoic morning. |
| 9551 |
There was a rustle from the other bed. Twyla's brother had turned over and was listening surreptitiously. |
| 9552 |
Forbes gave the detective directions to the isolated temple, and Chan went out into the night to his car. |
| 9553 |
The voice stopped and there was silence for a second. Then the blare of static came again from the radio. |
| 9554 |
The bronze man looked straight ahead. Tiny flakes in his eyes looked like whirlwinds. His mouth was grim. |
| 9555 |
He toweled his face, and pulled the towel away in time to see six vampires running at him across the mud. |
| 9556 |
The homely chemist pointed an arm excitedly. What he was seeing seemed to have rendered him inarticulate. |
| 9557 |
Over the stew, Joe Marley was full of speculation about the prospect of a reaction to the homing capsule. |
| 9558 |
A volley of musket fire cut holes in their ranks, and the unexpected resistance stunned them momentarily. |
| 9559 |
The two piano movers were there when I got home from school. They weren't very big, but they were strong. |
| 9560 |
Their new owner was still fully clothed. She began to stroke his chest, her fingers working at the laces. |
| 9561 |
It was much hotter in front of the gaping mouth. The familiar bite of melange filled the air around them. |
| 9562 |
He ran to a rack on the wall, pulled from it a huge but ancient pistol. He whirled, started for the door. |
| 9563 |
Grunt threw both of the girls to their knees near the sitting men. He then jerked their tunics from them. |
| 9564 |
The Pit strategist, however, learned from experience. The third team consisted of a staffer and a netter. |
| 9565 |
The voice did not answer, but the amulet about his neck began to throb in time with the distant thudding. |
| 9566 |
I looked up again. I saw the sunlight shine through the hawk's red tail. She flew toward the setting sun. |
| 9567 |
Sir's voice was still quite strong, though he seemed unable to move much. He struggled to raise his hand. |
| 9568 |
There was a general rustling and relaxing among the squad as it dawned on them that they were free to go. |
| 9569 |
It was no good answering that the Jesuits always know everything. We needed a more seductive explanation. |
| 9570 |
The gangster reeled back. There was a jangle of breaking glass as his heavy bulk crashed into a porthole. |
| 9571 |
She came around the desk and stood behind me, massaging the knots out of my shoulders. It felt wonderful. |
| 9572 |
In the beginning there's nothing but dust. A fine white talcum powder hangs in the car, mixed with smoke. |
| 9573 |
He drew another deep breath, slipped the chip into his desk top reader, and called up the message header. |
| 9574 |
He sat down at the edge of the mattress and found it yielded very slightly to the pressure of his weight. |
| 9575 |
The sense of having made a decision was somehow satisfying, and so he went to bed and slept very soundly. |
| 9576 |
The whole ceremony took less than twelve minutes, but it was done every day of a warrior's life. Forever. |
| 9577 |
He pressed a button and the propeller turned. Puffs of smoke shot from the nose. The cough began, a hack. |
| 9578 |
Getting down on my hands and knees, I eased the door open and crawled through, pushing it shut behind me. |
| 9579 |
Death's face was a mask of terror. Well, it was always a mask of terror, but this time he meant it to be. |
| 9580 |
Four men were entering via the secret way. They carried a crude litter made of two poles and their coats. |
| 9581 |
His voice was low, and I was glad he was behind me, that he did not see my confusion when he made answer. |
| 9582 |
Streaks of high cirrus fluoresced above us from the stars they framed, and a gust of wind stirred my fur. |
| 9583 |
I noticed he was free of the chain. He had been waiting for me, and he was waiting for me to speak again. |
| 9584 |
I looked at the dead cop on the floor. I didn't want to touch the corpse, disease contaminated as it was. |
| 9585 |
Relays of helicopters were soon shuttling back and forth, discharging a steady stream of men and cargoes. |
| 9586 |
You must take off your coat and your shirt, she said, and he could not reply. He had not thought of that. |
| 9587 |
The news left Hornblower unmoved, for it was what he was expecting to hear, but he had to make an answer. |
| 9588 |
He spends several clips without getting any results. Then he begins walking forward along the path again. |
| 9589 |
They didn't. It sounded like the entire room was about to cave in. I was not going to get any more sleep. |
| 9590 |
There were three operators, two men and a woman, seated at the monitor bank. Moody regarded each in turn. |
| 9591 |
Lauren gave the information, then watched the tapestry hangers while the insurance woman put her on hold. |
| 9592 |
They brought him around the cliff, half carrying, half supporting the body that refused to obey his will. |
| 9593 |
She had chosen those points, but she had not even been sure that one might not have canceled out another. |
| 9594 |
It was all going to be different from now on. Chicago was going to be a city of peace and brotherly love. |
| 9595 |
The haze had thickened, until the liner was completely lost from view. No sound came from that direction. |
| 9596 |
Kelly's quiet neighborhood. Jeffrey had been so apprehensive, he entertained the idea of calling in sick. |
| 9597 |
The Franciscan stared at me fixedly for a moment, as if something had disturbed him violently and deeply. |
| 9598 |
Even the narrow trail did not go far. It ended in a thin line that not even a mountain goat could follow. |
| 9599 |
As the canoe whirled over in midair, the nearly naked warriors spilled grotesquely into the murky Hudson. |
| 9600 |
He's pacing like a caged animal, I thought. Pacing and growling, as if something is really troubling him. |
| 9601 |
It would have been nice if, now that all the struggle was near fruition, God had let something be simple. |
| 9602 |
The men got out, strolled close to the guards, asking a few idle questions. The guards answered politely. |
| 9603 |
Justen had stopped brushing and was watching the light play on the gray and brown and white of the hills. |
| 9604 |
Giles had taken the opportunity to slip back into the cabin. He took the wet coat from Hornblower's hand. |
| 9605 |
The berserker won another game. Another draw. Another win for the enemy. Then three drawn games in a row. |
| 9606 |
The other soldier heard some crackling sounds as his comrade advanced. Then, abruptly, there was silence. |
| 9607 |
Crouched behind the hedge, Carly Beth could feel her anger grow. Anger at herself. Anger at the two boys. |
| 9608 |
When they got there, and had gone upstairs, Pete headed at once for the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. |
| 9609 |
For him to run was useless. They also serve who only stand and wait. However, this wasn't a tennis match. |
| 9610 |
The whole junk was suddenly floodlit. Everyone was momentarily blinded. The searchlight was to starboard. |
| 9611 |
Bernini had been required to personally complete all of his commissions, he would still be working today. |
| 9612 |
She didn't know what made her read his pseudonym backward, but when she did, a shiver ran down her spine. |
| 9613 |
They raced toward the plane. Eyes were alert. But no one appeared to head them off. No alarm was shouted. |
| 9614 |
The bald guy was going around to the front door. She ran over Steve's back and looked down over the edge. |
| 9615 |
Obediently she did not truly awaken, just brushed her hair out of her eyes and snuggled more comfortably. |
| 9616 |
They were awakened by something scuttling round them, making a very loud noise indeed. Then Timmy barked. |
| 9617 |
She suddenly was angry. Her face turned white and her blue eyes seemed to narrow to gleaming jets of ice. |
| 9618 |
I regarded it as a portent, an omen of good fortune. To me it looked like things were really on the mend. |
| 9619 |
She tried to look around and could not. She had strained something in her neck. Shooter never even tried. |
| 9620 |
Doc leaped to the left. He did it so quickly that guns roared anyway, although he was no longer a target. |
| 9621 |
Ham's thoughts broke off. They were being pulled on down into the valley, the vast, almost hidden canyon. |
| 9622 |
Instantly he pulled Mr. Davenport to safety while the others leaped from the path of the rocky avalanche. |
| 9623 |
Castle Cloud, and took a last walk through the mist forests, and booked passage on the next ship through. |
| 9624 |
The voice that responded was naturally high. But if the tone was slightly effeminate, the words were not. |
| 9625 |
Gates were again rolling open. The light rising out of the earth turned from orange to crimson once more. |
| 9626 |
She stood in front and slightly to one side of the giant reptile. She was as lovely as I'd ever seen her. |
| 9627 |
But the screen erupted into flickering colors. The only sound from the speaker was a scratchy angry hiss. |
| 9628 |
Mann made a noise like a man blowing a shred of tobacco from his lips. It was a sign of his disagreement. |
| 9629 |
Once on the floor, he closed the opening with a wave and let his staff light the hall that they stood in. |
| 9630 |
Riveted to the spot, she watched the play of muscles in his back as he slipped on his shirt and trousers. |
| 9631 |
My rescue fantasies were richly detailed. My intercessions were swift and brutal. Sex was my only reward. |
| 9632 |
He winced as the stretcher lurched and the pain in his side increased. For the second time he passed out. |
| 9633 |
She waited, her eyes following him until he stepped off the plane. Then she rapidly got down to business. |
| 9634 |
There had to be a way out. There usually was, anyway, and he had a couple of days to figure that one out. |
| 9635 |
Bond found his voice saying those words that he had never said in his life before, never expected to say. |
| 9636 |
Var froze for a moment, terrified. Then his instincts took over. He backed and turned and started to run. |
| 9637 |
The executive officer handed a cup of black coffee to Forte as he headed out the door to muster his crew. |
| 9638 |
The crashing breakup of the huge metallic body was accompanied by the terrified shouts of several people. |
| 9639 |
She was in a bag. They'd stuffed her into a duffel bag and were carrying her around like so much laundry. |
| 9640 |
I gathered from the way in which she had cried out that my master's name was not unknown upon this world. |
| 9641 |
Where tides curl tightly, warding off the night. Hurry, youngsters. Take this chance. Flee while you can. |
| 9642 |
Monk pulled the ears. Tears came to the man's eyes. He cursed, and his voice was a shrill whine of agony. |
| 9643 |
Cassy looked up. The wobbling had increased. She shuddered to think of what would happen if the boy fell. |
| 9644 |
It was no time to confront Nichols and his familiars, but thereafter I kept an even closer watch on them. |
| 9645 |
Two security guards in gray before the door. They were holding rifles or riot guns. They were very alert. |
| 9646 |
Sara Jayne. If she had ever regretted her decision to spend her life with him, she had never admitted it. |
| 9647 |
I looked around as well as I could, it didn't look like the office. The spider gave a kick in my stomach. |
| 9648 |
Then the Nona creature touched a contact point again. Go she sent, and made a crude map showing the dirt. |
| 9649 |
I dabbed away at the gray area under the egg. It's hard to figure out what shape shadow an egg will cast. |
| 9650 |
He certainly had the attention of every glittering luminary in that hall. The Crown nodded encouragingly. |
| 9651 |
The point and catch of the metal had rammed through her body and locked out the back of her pilot's seat. |
| 9652 |
Over the cleared earth of the circle came flitting a newcomer, a third human to stand with the other two. |
| 9653 |
It was a hard decision to make, but it was the decision of one who must speak truth and fairness for all. |
| 9654 |
Gliding up to them, Doc weaved away from their ungainly blows, simultaneously landing punches of his own. |
| 9655 |
The ship swayed again, this time from the torque of her central propeller as she started ahead dead slow. |
| 9656 |
The man froze. Glass spritzed him. He covered his eyes. He ran blind. He bumped chairs. He coughed glass. |
| 9657 |
The Franciscan priest sat beside him. He looked up at us, fearlessly and calmly, as we came into the Inn. |
| 9658 |
It had taken him long enough to make up his mind, but he realized that he was beginning to like Franklin. |
| 9659 |
This made him very obviously thoughtful and distant and then he said strange words to me I didn't expect. |
| 9660 |
They were his own. He must have made them, or else the world made even less sense than he thought it did. |
| 9661 |
Fifteen floors over the city, this stuff comes flaming and bashing and shattering down on everyone's car. |
| 9662 |
Pat slammed down her book and flounced out of the room. Isabel followed her. All the other girls laughed. |
| 9663 |
Even a novice would have recognized the signs. The lock had been picked recently with a sharp instrument. |
| 9664 |
The Doctor coughed slightly. Immediately, the paper was lowered and the man in the chair glowered at him. |
| 9665 |
Under the customs, I got the dead Hunter's weapons and his coin purse. The rest went to his clan or wife. |
| 9666 |
By the time that they touched down, the screams from within the shelter were almost as loud as the rotor. |
| 9667 |
The key had been turned in the lock. He was positive of that. He turned the key back and opened the door. |
| 9668 |
Completing his own examination, Doc Savage permitted each of the spectators to scrutinize the extraction. |
| 9669 |
The barbarians had not the slightest interest in negotiations. And so, the remaining Arabs died to a man. |
| 9670 |
Just like some people talked to their dog's Bruce thought, at least the little bugger had stopped crying. |
| 9671 |
The men did not move till the fire died. The rain became a blessing then. It quenched the flames quickly. |
| 9672 |
Sam paced down to the water's edge, watched it for a moment, then turned and spoke back up the sand spit. |
| 9673 |
Jerry did not answer, only tried to blink back the tears that these days came unbidden every few minutes. |
| 9674 |
Panicked, she saw a dim light flickering up ahead. She ran toward it as fast as her legs would carry her. |
| 9675 |
He paused and nodded to one of his colleagues. The man put his fingers in his mouth and whistled shrilly. |
| 9676 |
The voice sounded as if the speaker were beyond the open door, and it had an imperative rap of authority. |
| 9677 |
Everything packed and sent to the airplane. I'm checked out, all bills paid, but so much time still left. |
| 9678 |
The last shocking statement no more than left his lips before a torrent of bullets blew cold on his face. |
| 9679 |
A frightened radio operator grabbed for his key. He had time only to rap out the beginning of an S. O. S. |
| 9680 |
There was a subdued sigh of relief at the news, and a few minutes later Vasili made another announcement. |
| 9681 |
He saw one of his sailors. The man was holding a stowaway, who had just been hauled out of a deck locker. |
| 9682 |
The ominous words. The familiar, remembered places. The struggle to imagine all of those places in ruins. |
| 9683 |
Half a dozen armed guards were standing around me, one of them poking the butt of his spear into my ribs. |
| 9684 |
Nimrod stepped on to the battlefield and dragged one of these sudden lunatics from the throat of another. |
| 9685 |
It was the most natural thing in the world to do. He stood up, intending to follow her, to call her back. |
| 9686 |
The skin of his face was stretched like that of a drum over the slow pain that throbbed within his skull. |
| 9687 |
Mel flailed around a bit, then managed to slap the side of her head with her thumb. Everything went dark. |
| 9688 |
Police had entered the building, searched it, but the monster must have departed already by the back way. |
| 9689 |
Somehow he became separated from the deck, was floating in the air, and saw the planks rushing up at him. |
| 9690 |
The way she spoke, as much accusation as question, he knew concealment had ended. It was almost a relief. |
| 9691 |
Granny staggered, but raised a hand. A heavy chair by the wall was picked up and tumbled across the room. |
| 9692 |
But his wild instincts warned him. The tape might not hold until he was back. He might be trapped inside. |
| 9693 |
One man stepped to the switchboard and turned a button. When he stepped back, Wheeze spoke in a low tone. |
| 9694 |
They made their way back through the woods, and had almost reached the ruined farmhouse when it happened. |
| 9695 |
She broke off, giving me a startled, guilty look as if she had been about to say something she shouldn't. |
| 9696 |
It vibrated off the walls, shook the glass in the windows, and filled Maurice with a quiet sense of doom. |
| 9697 |
Bree heard pride. Looking up, she also saw longing. Touched, she set the picture down and lifted a third. |
| 9698 |
She stared at him, puzzled, and he realized there would never be a better time to say what he had to say. |
| 9699 |
It will make it to the transfer point, with time enough to jump into the next higher level of hyperspace. |
| 9700 |
The general considered the flames for a moment. He glanced off toward the men bedding down for the night. |
| 9701 |
It was over in seconds and the three stepped back, one of them draping a blanket over their dead comrade. |
| 9702 |
Under the wood smoke and the cooking odors, he thought that he could smell Gay's clean, grassy fragrance. |
| 9703 |
It was decided that it was much too late. They pushed their plates aside and planned what to do that day. |
| 9704 |
He took up the violin and drew the bow idly across the strings, causing Tuppence to give a wail of agony. |
| 9705 |
In his suite, he extinguished the torches, covered the graveling pots. Then he went out onto his balcony. |
| 9706 |
Burial proved no better. The dead clawed their way out of the graves. Cremation was the only sure answer. |
| 9707 |
We both turned to stare at her. She feigned not to notice as she tried on the mitten and admired its fit. |
| 9708 |
What prodigies of human inventiveness, Ellie reflected, were being directed to reading each other's mail. |
| 9709 |
Slick Cooley held his side with one hand, and a limb with the other. He finally stifled his unholy mirth. |
| 9710 |
He walks down the hall to the bedchamber, remembering to slide the iron bolt in place as he steps inside. |
| 9711 |
So it was with mounting worry that he searched his tiny stateroom, rummaging through drawers and luggage. |
| 9712 |
He ignored her. The tractor's speed increased to a fast walk. Reeds and thin mud splashed to either side. |
| 9713 |
Fear Cay was still miles away. But it seemed to rush toward them, so terrific was the speed of the plane. |
| 9714 |
I stood up, rubbing my sore ribs, still clutching the disk as I pulled my swollen finger out of the hole. |
| 9715 |
There was something intense about the orchards that year, fruit larger and heavier, bees almost frenetic. |
| 9716 |
Conn blinked at the sudden darkness of the crude lantern and firelight after the brilliance dazzling him. |
| 9717 |
As Doris had expected to be bottom anyhow this did not disturb her a great deal. She sat down thankfully. |
| 9718 |
She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house. |
| 9719 |
The ground shook. I turned and saw furry blue beasts in the distance. They were moving quickly toward us. |
| 9720 |
Ham went over to the desk, opened the drawers and boldly riffled papers inside. He examined some closely. |
| 9721 |
It had known better than to meddle with him, and fled with a great rustling of straw and a clap of wings. |
| 9722 |
A few seconds later, the car pulled back onto the highway. We bounced along behind it in the big trailer. |
| 9723 |
And for the sake of all that is holy, help me. This is the nineteenth letter I have tried to smuggle out. |
| 9724 |
By a process of logic, she had reached the conclusion that man and woman must work on similar principles. |
| 9725 |
Often now, though he stayed with her and told her she could always rely upon him, she felt she was alone. |
| 9726 |
Her manner suggested someone bent on a mission that might not be exactly pleasant. She had an olive skin. |
| 9727 |
That moment the cajoling whistle was repeated. It too seemed to be coming from the red and golden spider. |
| 9728 |
This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part by mimeograph or any other means, without permission. |
| 9729 |
To handle the troops required rest. I carefully noted the time as required in number six and went to bed. |
| 9730 |
Startled, he glanced down at Sara to find her staring up at him, her wide blue eyes filled with jealousy. |
| 9731 |
The awesome whistling of the missiles had ceased. In the old brownstone house, a dead silence had fallen. |
| 9732 |
The group walked back through the village to the car. They didn't talk until Kevin had started the motor. |
| 9733 |
The courier stalked over to the barracks door and shouldered his way through without so much as knocking. |
| 9734 |
The Librarian maintained his gentle but firm grip on the boy's hand and led him along the maze of aisles. |
| 9735 |
Well, that would do as an explanation until I found a more precise definition. If that was ever possible. |
| 9736 |
Clutching the stoneware flask as if it were the only solid thing in the room, he went toward the balcony. |
| 9737 |
He turned and stepped out of the pilot room. Right now he needed time for himself. Time to think, mostly. |
| 9738 |
I must have looked terrifying to them. Imagine bumping into a person with thick green scales on his face. |
| 9739 |
She glanced back with a look that told him she was down to her last hope, and that her last hope was him. |
| 9740 |
There was no sign of life through the slit intended to give a guard inside a look at whoever was calling. |
| 9741 |
The air was queasy with the bolts' ionized tracks and the sullen, petrochemical stink of the empty cases. |
| 9742 |
The Masai warriors hopped up and down along the shore. Their red ostrich feathers quivered in the breeze. |
| 9743 |
What follows here is retold from this text with some interspersed comments, indicated by square brackets. |
| 9744 |
Fantastic thing. An incredible thing. Had it been night, the thing might have been a bit more believable. |
| 9745 |
Imagine that there is a new scientific theory that warns of an impending crisis, and points to a way out. |
| 9746 |
The machine descended steadily, flying above the dead landscape at a height of less than a thousand feet. |
| 9747 |
His mind tiptoed in circles, and had not broken out of uselessly repetitive thought when the guards came. |
| 9748 |
They clustered around the motionless wizard, looked at him helplessly. He appeared to be deep in thought. |
| 9749 |
The tears ran down his face in two graceful rivulets. He gripped Lewis' hand in his, so tightly it ached. |
| 9750 |
He turned toward the common room. He might not be able to sleep before a jump, but eating was no problem. |
| 9751 |
She nodded at a second group of Auditors that were watching them very carefully from the end of the hall. |
| 9752 |
But he let the matter rest, went back to the table, got carefully into his chair and picked up his spoon. |
| 9753 |
Dial refused the second drink, nodded, went away softly along the matting between the tall green lockers. |
| 9754 |
Silk and the others had separated, and they were approaching the dragon from the sides and from the rear. |
| 9755 |
I put my finger on the dummy's chin and moved the mouth up and down. Then I checked out his wooden hands. |
| 9756 |
I forced myself to remember that no one out here knew any more about what was going on inside than I did. |
| 9757 |
Things suddenly fit into place. I knew where Lena's fortune had come from, maybe who killed her, and why. |
| 9758 |
Linden surged to her feet, caught him before he fell. Wrapping her arms around him, she held him upright. |
| 9759 |
A coppery head bobbed and vanished like a doll in the window. A blue eye glinted and winked at a keyhole. |
| 9760 |
All he wanted was to enjoy what little time they had, and with that thought, he forced himself to get up. |
| 9761 |
But he would go no further without support. He turned back to the doors and called to the waiting Riders. |
| 9762 |
A tiny voice, calling from far off, roused him from his thoughts. He looked around but could see nothing. |
| 9763 |
Jeff concentrated. His eyebrows shot up, and he said something that clearly made no sense to the manager. |
| 9764 |
He took sight carefully and then used the scythe to chop the end off the anvil. Uncanny. Total sharpness. |
| 9765 |
Grabbing a shirt off the dresser, he dashed out the door trailing shaving cream and tiny specks of blood. |
| 9766 |
The bronze man's voice was as unusual as his appearance. It was deep, cultured, full of controlled power. |
| 9767 |
The assembled psychiatrists were taking notes anxiously. A medical photographer was shooting flash shots. |
| 9768 |
Then they broke through the clouds. The cursor climbed above the top of the cloud deck, into clear space. |
| 9769 |
He gave the quarter a last tap, and paying no attention to it, he left. In about ten minutes he was back. |
| 9770 |
He walked up the gray carpeted flight of steps to the second floor and knocked on the white painted door. |
| 9771 |
The cemetery spade came free with a soft whispering. Pellets of ancient mound fell with similar whispers. |
| 9772 |
A small humanoid gnome squatted ten feet from where she lay, and she knew that she must be hallucinating. |
| 9773 |
The heart was on the level of the fifth rib, as Hornblower knew, and the expression had an ominous sound. |
| 9774 |
Sean was smiling and streamers of cigar smoke swirled back from his head as he strode along the sidewalk. |
| 9775 |
Soon they were all laughing, though frozen in stasis. Hermine relayed the cacophony as well as she could. |
| 9776 |
Derry nodded, remembering his own reaction to the stallion and appreciating Morgan's confirming judgment. |
| 9777 |
She did a fairly good job of concealing her anxiety. But the Prince could tell that it was still growing. |
| 9778 |
The waiter came with the first course and broke the spell. They began talking lightly of everyday things. |
| 9779 |
He looked at her. Her face had been hit a long time ago. The bruises had never gone from around her eyes. |
| 9780 |
Make every bullet count, he thought, once more conscious of how short some of his men were on ammunition. |
| 9781 |
The lantern the sergeant carried was not really necessary to reveal them. The sergeant came to attention. |
| 9782 |
He glanced up. His Father was watching over us, and we were too dose together, at this table on the deck. |
| 9783 |
I nodded. There was no way to stop now. The chain reaction had started. There was no way to shut it down. |
| 9784 |
For the first time since he had met them, Miles saw one of them shake his head. It was the shorter alien. |
| 9785 |
He was used to the way things jerked about. He flicked west on Wilshire, waiting for something to happen. |
| 9786 |
I turned to see the damsel almost upon me. She grabbed me by the shoulders and wrenched me to the ground. |
| 9787 |
His victim began to scream. Monk desisted long enough to gather a fistful of moss and employ it as a gag. |
| 9788 |
He had on a tie, but it was loosened at the collar and had a line of gravy stains across the lower third. |
| 9789 |
Certainly such innovative public servants wouldn't mind taking a turn being poor, in the name of science. |
| 9790 |
The guards waited, looked at each other, then screamed themselves as the two men came clearly into sight. |
| 9791 |
Revolted with himself, he wanted to retreat, but a perverse obligation to this tragedy kept him watching. |
| 9792 |
When the doors opened, the companions fanned out from the entrance, searching the broad room for targets. |
| 9793 |
If he didn't hurry for his appointment with the woman, he would be late. Four days late instead of three. |
| 9794 |
After only a little distance, on an easy slope, he came to a larger pool than any he had encountered yet. |
| 9795 |
All went silent. For a few moments, none of the companions dared move. But the silence remained unbroken. |
| 9796 |
Mentally, Grosvenor let the tensions seep out of him. There was nothing for him to do but relax and wait. |
| 9797 |
The fight was over, for the soldiers were methodically moving on foot, their horses tethered or picketed. |
| 9798 |
I complied. He was the master. I felt my wrists taken behind my back, crossed and tied together, tightly. |
| 9799 |
Water sloshed through his open mouth, still throbbing with their passion. The secret pool had her flavor. |
| 9800 |
He didn't want her to think four paltry glasses of whiskey could put him under the table, so he stood up. |
| 9801 |
Green could make a fight against the theocracy, but he didn't feel it was worth while to become a martyr. |
| 9802 |
Mr. Goon swallowed two or three times. He could find nothing at all to say. Mr. Henri laughed in delight. |
| 9803 |
She could still feel the power tingling through her hands where they had rested on the Queen's shoulders. |
| 9804 |
There would be tedious speeches, but Miles laid firm plans for reconnecting with her right after dessert. |
| 9805 |
She gazed at me, her gray eyes gleaming in the reflection of the morning sun against the pure white snow. |
| 9806 |
I turned back. He was gripping the sill as if it were very important to him and I had sought its removal. |
| 9807 |
Argus team. Many harebrained interpretations were also widely available, especially in weekly newspapers. |
| 9808 |
Ray held his breath for a second, trying to decide whether this constituted suspicion or merely chitchat. |
| 9809 |
The long window was behind Jemmy. If he turned his back on the rest of the family, Dad would snap at him. |
| 9810 |
He turned on his heel and marched out with his detail following. They didn't even bother to bar the gate. |
| 9811 |
All alone, in the middle of the night, Coraline began to cry. There was no other sound in the empty flat. |
| 9812 |
She spurred as close as she dared to the real Paladin and reined in once more. The meadow had gone quiet. |
| 9813 |
Moira paused and frowned. Very prettily, Karl thought. For the hundredth time he regretted she was taken. |
| 9814 |
Downey took the point, although he didn't like it. Three million dollars could buy a lot of no questions. |
| 9815 |
With an oath, he turned away. He stared into the fire, and the flames exploded upward with a mighty roar. |
| 9816 |
The last thought was accompanied by a plaintive roar that sent a blast of fishy breath into Bunny's face. |
| 9817 |
He was already back to thinking of the contaminant theory when he walked through the door. Then he froze. |
| 9818 |
Doc's flake gold eyes were flashing. He watched another ammeter needle slowly drop toward the zero marks. |
| 9819 |
It was, of course, all Marika's fault. So the word ran among those who refused to see their own failures. |
| 9820 |
Men appeared ahead. They were workmen from the dam, excited, a bit frightened. Some nursed bruised heads. |
| 9821 |
He pulled a watch out of his pocket by the end of the chain and started swinging it around unconsciously. |
| 9822 |
Perhaps so. Perhaps not. The inspector paused, then said carelessly. She's back in London now, of course. |
| 9823 |
John the analyst managed to stifle the reply that the statement so richly deserved. Someone else did not. |
| 9824 |
He did not release me. He continued to look down into my eyes. He seemed to me terribly strong and large. |
| 9825 |
Henry made an attempt to digest this remark, but I could see that it lay somewhat heavily on his stomach. |
| 9826 |
The emperor turned, and she turned with him as though connected and accompanied him toward the royal car. |
| 9827 |
If it did nothing else, he might have added, it would at least give them something to occupy their minds. |
| 9828 |
He grinned back. But they both sobered as the beautiful script and painted pictures were eaten by flames. |
| 9829 |
The amphibian crawled in, attachments and all, and the other robot tossed his ammunition boxes after him. |
| 9830 |
Foot by foot the tunnel approached the castle walls. The defenders displayed a rather sinister lassitude. |
| 9831 |
You won't tell anybody anything after you hit the bottom down there, I thought. I tensed to make my move. |
| 9832 |
Somebody started to lower the ramp. Water spewed in as soon as the seal broke, soaking the nearest bunks. |
| 9833 |
He didn't call her name as he entered this time. He simply made his way through the rooms of fake relics. |
| 9834 |
Visit saluted. It was probably the only way to get out of there alive. One of Colon's eyes was twitching. |
| 9835 |
Johnny seized upon the fallen sword and set out after the runners. But the plump newcomer got in his way. |
| 9836 |
And when the gangsters burst in, they would find Jill sitting on the floor looking like a police officer. |
| 9837 |
The quilt coverlet was a light silvered green with a darker green star pattern, and I didn't remember it. |
| 9838 |
The big blue policeman, a scarlet pillar box, and on the right of the road the outlines of a white house. |
| 9839 |
After a few seconds the old woman went on into the office. A moment later Eileen came out along the pier. |
| 9840 |
John Marshall came back. In spite of everything his disfigured features expressed nothing but bitterness. |
| 9841 |
He stared fixedly at the glass, obviously not seeing it at all, and then again his eyes looked into mine. |
| 9842 |
Chris reached for the fat candle, rolled it moodily around on its base, watching wax drip down the sides. |
| 9843 |
For a moment Jordan seemed to brighten. A combination of feelings, none of them holy, came into his eyes. |
| 9844 |
The girl looked at Doc. She had been doing that a lot. She punished her lower lip with small white teeth. |
| 9845 |
Derision from the crowd. Eight ounces was a good price for a man in full vigor, twelve for a pretty girl. |
| 9846 |
They liked him. He had an open, engaging quality and seemed able to mock himself before anybody else did. |
| 9847 |
The storm had done them one favor. It had certainly delayed the chase after them and cloaked their trail. |
| 9848 |
Because you love me. And because I could love no other. Sister dear, damn and praise her soul, was right. |
| 9849 |
I just nodded, not certain exactly what to say, as mixed greenery was placed on the plate in front of me. |
| 9850 |
She put her arms around his body and heaved, and he lurched to his feet. They staggered toward her house. |
| 9851 |
Garrick stood up from his desk and limped across to Sean and together they went out into the school yard. |
| 9852 |
Then he did something very odd. He took two blank pieces of paper and laid them on the seat of the Buick. |
| 9853 |
Soon I was riding in a rough, mountainous area, and shortly thereafter I came to the cave that I desired. |
| 9854 |
Sergeant Colon cupped his hands around his mouth and issued the traditional policeman's cry of challenge. |
| 9855 |
He spoke no words. His fantastic trilling spoke for itself. The man of bronze had seen something amazing. |
| 9856 |
I was chastened by her firmness. I kissed her hand again. I told her I was sorry. I held her to my heart. |
| 9857 |
His assailants began beating him, but the pain felt distant as though the agony belonged to someone else. |
| 9858 |
One night when we were in a graveyard recently an old watchdog came by, though, and we talked for a time. |
| 9859 |
The words blurted out of my mouth before Set could stop them, before I even knew I was going to say them. |
| 9860 |
Susan hurried over, scythe at the ready. There was a blue line connecting the warrior to his former body. |
| 9861 |
Sam reached automatically into his pocket. Dave reached out and touched his wrist, almost apologetically. |
| 9862 |
Bernard C. Daniels could not be bothered with boorish taxi drivers, not amid the squalor surrounding him. |
| 9863 |
The crouching shape backed away, terror in its blinking eyes, and yet at the same time insatiable desire. |
| 9864 |
Darren turned slowly around to look at Lime, who was now shaking so much he could hardly hold the weapon. |
| 9865 |
She stood up. She held the tray. The gleaming collar, snug and locked, was very beautiful on her throat. |
| 9866 |
A wizened old man stepped across the sand floor from his hideaway behind a table piled with clay tablets. |
| 9867 |
The hunter was grinning now. As always, in darkness and gloom, those gleaming teeth seemed like a beacon. |
| 9868 |
Red flame lashed out of the aperture. A lightning bolt seemed to crack in the room, so loud was the shot. |
| 9869 |
Promise me, Ned, his sister had whispered from her bed of blood. She had loved the scent of winter roses. |
| 9870 |
Holding the letter in front of her like a flag of truce, she went to the cottage and knocked on the door. |
| 9871 |
They were in the long room filled with tanks of stagnant water. The air had the odor of dying vegetation. |
| 9872 |
Before she could move, a practiced arm slid beneath her head, raising her up until a goblet met her lips. |
| 9873 |
Paul lifted himself onto his toes, settled back to his heels. He studied the crowd, feeling their temper. |
| 9874 |
Nonplussed, I accepted it, staring as if I might see through the wrappings and string to what lay within. |
| 9875 |
The builder poured himself a full glass of the green liqueur. He drank it down and licked his lips clean. |
| 9876 |
That night Jack told the others his plan, and they were at first doubtful, and then thrilled and excited. |
| 9877 |
That was my cue. I let drop the sheet of invisibility and simultaneously ignited the bag of flash powder. |
| 9878 |
Alon hunched over the table, hands planted on either side of the glass hemisphere, its curved surface up. |
| 9879 |
Doc stood on the running board, as was his fashion. His five friends loaded inside. The car rolled ahead. |
| 9880 |
Rodriguez leaned across the narrow passageway separating us and grabbed my knee in a rough, friendly way. |
| 9881 |
There was a sound as of a bundle of old clothes being dropped, and they knew the man below had collapsed. |
| 9882 |
I must try to awaken, I told myself. I must awaken. I laughed bitterly. I must be dreaming I told myself. |
| 9883 |
I made my way back to the near window of that room, which was opened slightly. Moments later, he emerged. |
| 9884 |
Suddenly what he was saying sounded ridiculous. She rose, smoothed her skirt, and said she must be going. |
| 9885 |
With only a casual glance at the skull and the broken skeleton, the Mouser made his way toward the stair. |
| 9886 |
Then she threw herself to shelter behind the grounded, armored capsule and wept, face buried in her arms. |
| 9887 |
The battle is over, he realized numbly. It has ended. And we have won. Victory. Hollow, wretched victory. |
| 9888 |
He noticed as he slipped the champagne bottle into the door that it had an identical twin to sit next to. |
| 9889 |
Fools, he thought tensely, one and all. But they would have to understand. He would make them understand. |
| 9890 |
My vagabond killer was near paralysis, his mind a riot of moments so personal they defied interpretation. |
| 9891 |
They finally walked over, holding hands, looking at each other like a couple of kids sharing some secret. |
| 9892 |
Alfred ceased talking, stared out into the night sky that was deep blue, streaked by lighter blue clouds. |
| 9893 |
I could see myself in the mirror. The strange mark, drawn in lipstick, was still on the mirror's surface. |
| 9894 |
He listened to the piped in music play Christmas carols for a few minutes and then started drawing again. |
| 9895 |
Faith was staring at that list, thinking about her two best friends, when she felt a tap on her shoulder. |
| 9896 |
I broke out of line and moved forward. In another minute or so we would pass directly beneath the figure. |
| 9897 |
She tried to push aside his grim reply but the logic of it was too sound. They were mice, allowed to run. |
| 9898 |
A big one. Perhaps a thousand kilos, he thought, looking away from the hole while his brain went to work. |
| 9899 |
Maintaining his silence, the guard reentered the elevator and left Pitt standing alone in the empty room. |
| 9900 |
The crowd mumbled that they didn't. Abby doubted there was one among them bold enough to claim otherwise. |
| 9901 |
In the few second of stunned silence which followed, the chill of outer space seemed to pervade the room. |
| 9902 |
They paused a moment, listening. Birds trilled in the bush as if nothing had been there to disturb them. |
| 9903 |
All of which sounded as if it might mean yet another battle, and Roger wasn't sure he was ready for that. |
| 9904 |
One way to find out. He concentrated on the Hourglass, turning the sand white again. Normal time resumed. |
| 9905 |
Keller nodded again. He headed for his own workstation. There was much to be done yet. Best he get to it. |
| 9906 |
Yells of surprise greeted his appearance. Alice Cash pressed her hands to her cheeks and looked startled. |
| 9907 |
The living hold us in bondage. We are slaves to the living. When the living are no more, we will be free. |
| 9908 |
Yet without penetrating the organization, he might never find the killer group that had been in Virginia. |
| 9909 |
With care he arose from his crouch, trying to make sure that weight did not shift at any movement of his. |
| 9910 |
It was his job to make sure there was room for them all, enough firm, safe ground that they could gather. |
| 9911 |
Once he crouched, leaning heavily on one arm as he held out his other hand beseechingly in her direction. |
| 9912 |
But he could perhaps have changed the man's mulish, pigheaded mind about something else, had he insisted. |
| 9913 |
Pleased, he returned the nod. If he had had doubt about whether she was civilized, it was being resolved. |
| 9914 |
He thrust her head under the water, under the foams of beauty. After a time he pulled her up, sputtering. |
| 9915 |
He listened. His augmented hearing would have picked up the flutter of Raoul's false eyelashes. No sound. |
| 9916 |
As the ground fell away beneath them, Shadow clung on, his heart pounding in his chest like a wild thing. |
| 9917 |
There was nothing to do about it now, though. The damage had been done. As always, pragmatism came first. |
| 9918 |
But this was all rationalization after the fact. In truth, I had murdered a man because he frightened me. |
| 9919 |
Therefore he didn't try. He changed into a giant poisonous spider and stood over her, mandibles dripping. |
| 9920 |
He swung the ship's one weapon, a stun gun, over his shoulder. It gave him a rakish air. He put on a hat. |
| 9921 |
Smoke from the burning oak swirls from the hearth, mixing with cold air rushing in from the open doorway. |
| 9922 |
Pitt bent over and lifted her in his arms and carried her tenderly a few feet and laid her beside Lillie. |
| 9923 |
That stopped her, as I thought it would, and she bit her lip and stared into the distance as I continued. |
| 9924 |
Herald came forward. He had the reaching voice of his office and it carried over the throng massed below. |
| 9925 |
As the sweat beaded on his forehead, he could sense the heat on the iron and see the faint, reddish glow. |
| 9926 |
He had his shirt undone all the way now, the dark fabric darker with sweat, and his face was turning red. |
| 9927 |
Sometimes I would shake and fall down. There was no reason. Heart of the Pack would try to hold me still. |
| 9928 |
I pushed him away from me. He stumbled off, then hesitated as I yanked open the door to the reactor room. |
| 9929 |
A few minutes later he stood shivering on the steps, watching the coach disappear into the crisp morning. |
| 9930 |
Frank doubted this, saying that even a practical joker might not go to the trouble of climbing the fence. |
| 9931 |
Jack again knocked on the glass. Another woman slid open the glass partition. She was equally as cordial. |
| 9932 |
She stopped dictating, and there was a long moment in which Jim began to wonder if she would begin again. |
| 9933 |
Fifteen minutes later, Dr. Pembroke came out with a chart on a clipboard. He was scribbling as he talked. |
| 9934 |
The sister came in and hooked up another drip that put him out, and when he woke he felt abruptly better. |
| 9935 |
Sharpe raised two fingers into the Prince's face, added the appropriate words, and turned his horse away. |
| 9936 |
A gun was pointing directly at Monk. The gun went off when the hairy chemist jumped at the man behind it. |
| 9937 |
The issue troubled me. I respected her privacy and was setting out to destroy it. I saw only one way out. |
| 9938 |
Monk did so, grumbling. Two or three rifle bullets came toward the group. The smoke seemed to be lifting. |
| 9939 |
A spattering ball of pitch struck the top of the palisade, soaking one of the defenders in blazing flame. |
| 9940 |
When cold metal touched his neck, his reaction was that Doc's frosty ghost had seized him. So he fainted. |
| 9941 |
Whatever their views were, the knights of the royal court chose at that point to keep them to themselves. |
| 9942 |
The corpse remained still, wings spread to its side like some monstrous bat awakening with the nightfall. |
| 9943 |
She seized the flannel and rubbed Lyra's knees so hard she left the skin bright pink and sore, but clean. |
| 9944 |
It was almost as though he wanted to keep me fresh, almost as though he intended to deliver me somewhere. |
| 9945 |
She shrugged and finished tying up the other boxes. She picked up a pad and pen and was about to pack it. |
| 9946 |
Obediently he lay back, his skin chilled with sweat, and forced himself to think about what she had said. |
| 9947 |
Fiery whiteness blossomed. The air was scorched. Cascades of golden sparks opened like murderous flowers. |
| 9948 |
Unconsciously, they all had spoken in a low voice. The power of the moment was having its effect on them. |
| 9949 |
Healthiest to think in those terms, that there would be the need of red silk trousers and all the finery. |
| 9950 |
He didn't hear me. He just walked into the bedroom. I went into the kitchen and came back with more beer. |
| 9951 |
No campaign experience. No money. No statewide visibility. And almost no time left to get things rolling. |
| 9952 |
We had seen that the canal was guarded by heavy metal gates, of strong bars, half submerged in the water. |
| 9953 |
There were bushes immediately below the veranda rail. The sentry sighed and drew deeply on his cigarette. |
| 9954 |
He separated a layer out and pulled. Threads of a less robust material separated, and the layer detached. |
| 9955 |
A loud scream suddenly interrupted both of us. It was Jasmine, and I heard another scream right after it. |
| 9956 |
The two dragged the sandbox to the rear deck and tipped it over. The sand poured smoothly into the river. |
| 9957 |
Pete lowered him quickly and set down the jug. He began to draw away, but a bony hand snatched his wrist. |
| 9958 |
All it knew was that, what the hey, here was something to eat. On a wooden board with some wire round it. |
| 9959 |
For a long moment we stood almost touching noses while Marguerite and the silent crew members watched us. |
| 9960 |
Ten bows oriented, and ten strings drew back as ten terrible arrows were aimed at the condemned creature. |
| 9961 |
Barb pressed him. Barb tripped him up. Barb nailed his lies. He said fuck it. He cut loose. He disclosed. |
| 9962 |
I gasped from the shock of the cold against my hot skin. My arms churned hard as I pulled myself forward. |
| 9963 |
Doc Savage retreated. The electroscope leaves came together slightly. He advanced. The leaves flew apart. |
| 9964 |
He walked without his knees or elbows bending very much, a sure sign of a forthright man in a bad temper. |
| 9965 |
Knowing that, I faced my entrance to the city far more confidently. Luckily it was beginning to be dusky. |
| 9966 |
Monk was chemist enough to know what it meant. And he knew now why Doc had disappeared for a few moments. |
| 9967 |
Walt finished dressing, came over and grabbed Ray's feet. They lifted him into the back on the stretcher. |
| 9968 |
They trudged along in silence until they came to the spot where the tracks had ended at the macadam road. |
| 9969 |
The bronze man, not feeling particularly in need of sleep, intended to conduct a nocturnal investigation. |
| 9970 |
The innkeeper pulled at his beard, went to the door, and looked up and down the road. Slowly he returned. |
| 9971 |
Nothing happened for a moment. Then some bushes stirred and a man came out of them. Tiny started forward. |
| 9972 |
A shadow which may or may not have been intentional passed across his face at the mention of the Exotics. |
| 9973 |
The cascade of silver energy grew brighter and brighter until it reached a sparkling, sizzling crescendo. |
| 9974 |
He nodded, then directed his attention toward our purple companion, who was just then rattling his chain. |
| 9975 |
The prisoner considered the question, then cleared his throat and spat. The spittle landed at Doc's feet. |
| 9976 |
Albert crested a dune. From here the dotted line was just visible, winding treacherously across the sand. |
| 9977 |
My hopes rose. We only had an allocation of three million total. Six was way, way out of our price range. |
| 9978 |
Quarter and the foreign section of the free city, was bright with the flares of torches and oil lanterns. |
| 9979 |
He stood on the ledge and peered down at the dragon. The dragon peered up at him. Then the dragon winked. |
| 9980 |
The delay mechanism I had installed was working fine. It would unlock in one minute. Sixty short seconds. |
| 9981 |
She thought about it for a moment. Of course the baby was hers. It was impossible for it to be otherwise. |
| 9982 |
The griffin fell in beside them as they walked and squawked repeatedly. Becka made a running translation. |
| 9983 |
It trailed across the pillow and onto the wall. There were sketches, too, scored deeply into the plaster. |
| 9984 |
The electrical wizard complied with the suggestion, and the ship suddenly stood on its streamlined snout. |
| 9985 |
Mort got back into his car and drove away. Lost in his own thoughts, he never heard Sonny call after him. |
| 9986 |
She had thought of this as retreat, a place and time to think about what was happening to her Sisterhood. |
| 9987 |
Then he fell fast asleep and the team of nurses and orderlies left, with satisfied smiles on their faces. |
| 9988 |
Her hand slammed the nearest bulkhead. Streams of dust trickled from crevices in prehistoric metal walls. |
| 9989 |
And so I looked up, and if he was afraid of what he'd find, then I was also for how he might react to it. |
| 9990 |
Obeying the order, four men departed. They came back almost at once bearing two bound and gagged figures. |
| 9991 |
At the top of the steps, the door was equipped with two deadbolt locks, and it was braced by an iron bar. |
| 9992 |
No murder, I told myself. No killing. I have heard the song of the earth, and that is stronger than hate. |
| 9993 |
The old man sighed. He opened the attache case on his lap, withdrew a manila envelope, handed it to Jack. |
| 9994 |
The decision ignited a flame in her skull, and the first phantoms of the past appeared in her mind's eye. |
| 9995 |
Long Tom was bending in front of the leaden safe. His nervous, long fingers were rubbing across the door. |
| 9996 |
Although it was not yet noon, Alia felt something in the shocked silence around her that spoke of sunset. |
| 9997 |
When she didn't move, Billy grabbed the beach towel from her grasp and threw it on the ground beside her. |
| 9998 |
After I swept, I returned to the kitchen to empty the dustpan. Janine passed by me as if I weren't there. |
| 9999 |
And one of the men, positioned at a far corner of the building under construction, towered over the rest. |
| 10000 |
No one noticed them, except for the major in charge of the trophies who raised a hand in friendly salute. |
Комментарии
A wrong comma.
There should be small "s" in "Stand"
comma
...although, seems like olimo will never come again here.
This comma's misspelled
THREE quarters
The comma instead of the dot.
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