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Usage examples of cushing.

But there was a page of notes—really a page and a half—that had not been used, a myth so outrageous that Wilson must finally have decided it should not be included, a myth of which Cushing had never heard and of which, he found upon cautious inquiry later, no one else had ever heard.

But ever since that rainy afternoon, the very Outrageousness of it had haunted Cushing and would not let him be.

Looking at it, Cushing shivered at its threat, although he was not one who should have felt its threat.

Through the treetops to the east Cushing saw the first flush of the rising moon.

Listening to it, Cushing shivered, and yet, chilling as it was, it held a certain fascination.

He tried to fight down the terror that he felt rising in him, like a bitter gall Cushing in his throat.

Watching them, Cushing felt a pang of worry about the university, but told himself it was unlikely it would be attacked.

In an ugly mood, Cushing told himself, remembering what the old man had said about how they’d be coming back.

A pitiful pile of loot, thought Cushing, bending over and sorting through it, looking at it.

Standing by, gritting his teeth, more times than he liked to think of, Cushing had suppressed an impulse to kick the old fool into motion or simply to walk away and leave him.

Watching the two of them together, walking together or sitting together, Cushing often tried to decide which of them it was who was with the other.

Watching her, Cushing had the startling thought that she paid them no attention because she had recognized them for what they were and dismissed them from her thoughts.

Out of the driftwood Cushing and Rollo constructed a raft, chopping the wood into proper lengths and lashing the pieces together as securely as possible with strips of green leather cut from the hides of deer.

The five wardens sat their horses at the top of a slight billowing rise, and when Cushing and the others approached them, one of them rode forward, his left hand lifted, open-palmed, in a sign of peace.

Out of the tail of his eye, Cushing saw Andy, head stretched forward, ears laid back, tail streaming out behind him, charging down at full gallop upon the embattled bear.