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But they had come in on the space drive, and had gotten fairly close before the gravitational field had drained the power from the main coil, and it was not until the space field had broken that they had started to accelerate toward the star.

It occurred to me in passing that if Acer had gotten Val killed because her miner was too much ship for him, I would have to torture him to death.

The nukes back aft must have gotten the reactor restarted, he decided.

Mya liked to say that her father had been a goat and her mother an owl, but Alayne had gotten the true story from Maddy.

Lady Kalira, when informed of the expedition, had insisted on bringing the two soldiers she most trusted, Alder and Dogal, and had gotten royal backing for this demand.

Darla had gotten Cobb to ferry her back up to the Moon -- so the allas were all over the Moon as well, though news from the Moon was sporty.

The age gap between them would have been less of an issue as Ana hit her twenties, and she was sure that Bee would have calmed down a bit, maybe gotten a proper job, maybe married, maybe even had a child or two.

Sela had gotten to her feet and into her outstretched hands Ashake thankfully surrendered her trust.

They had gotten a bluntly worded order to move from their usual grounds near the Asur Islands and make their way to the deep water near Bamude.

The very innovative Sir Pete was now working to formulate a decent shampoo, but had not yet gotten it to the production stage, he had averred when last he and Bass had talked.

Damn it, Bingo thought, conversation had gotten right back to where it had started, on Bolivar Hill.

So had the tampering with the bomb line before the mission to Bologna and the seven-day delay in destroying the bridge at Ferrara, even though destroying the bridge at Ferrara finally, he remembered with glee, had been a real feather in his cap, although losing a plane there the second time around, he recalled in dejection, had been another black eye, even though he had won another real feather in his cap by getting a medal approved for the bombardier who had gotten him the real black eye in the first place by going around over the target twice.

Parker Yocum turned the money over to some bondswoman who had gone his bond on some kind of criminal case and had gotten out of the country.

At the first unhappy yowl, Bozo pricked up his ears and saw the trouble his bothersome pup had gotten into.

In a snug corner might be seen a party of sober, quiet-looking gentlemen, taking their lobster and bucellas, whose first appearance would impress you with the belief of their respectability, but whom, upon inquiry, you would discover to be Greek banditti, retired hither to divide their ill gotten spoils.