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Usage examples of reynolds.

While a soldier with a rifle covered Reynolds from the left-hand side, Szendro stooped inside the other door, opened the glove compartment in front of Reynolds, fetched out two lengths of thin chain and left the glove box open.

There was a minute's delay while the colonel told them to release the truck driver and search the inside of the truck for any personal luggage Buhl might have been forced to abandon there -- they found his overnight bag almost immediately and stuffed his gun into it -- then Szendro opened the front right-hand door of the car and gestured Reynolds to his seat.

That left only the road: first an illegal crossing of the frontier -- no great feat if one had expert help and Reynolds had had the best there was -- and then a stolen ride on some eastward bound truck.

A road-block, the same Viennese informant had warned him, would almost certainly be in operation on the outskirts of Budapest, and Reynolds had been prepared for this: what he hadn't been prepared for, and what none of his informants had known of, was the block east of Komarom, some forty miles outside the capital.

For you, Reynolds, consequences do not exist and must never be allowed to exist, and for two reasons: thinking about them upsets your balance and impairs your judgement -- and every second you give up to thinking along these negative lines is always a second that should and must be used to working out how you're going to achieve the job on hand.

In 'spite of himself, Reynolds grimaced as he lay there waiting for his breathing to return to normal.

But if he, Reynolds, failed in this, then he had failed and that was all there was to it.

A nonentity, Reynolds judged, possibly even, in given circumstances -- such as the present -- a dangerous little nonentity, but ready for all that to collapse like a pricked balloon at the first contact with real authority.

Negligently, Reynolds reached out a leg, hooked a chair towards him, sat and lit a cigarette -- cigarette, case, lighter all made in Austria: the easy self-confidence could not be other than genuine.

He clasped his hands on the desk before him, stared at them, then looked up at Reynolds, his forehead creased.

Quickly Reynolds decided that his best hope lay in audacity: the hostility was gone from his manner, and his voice was friendly as he went on.

He was leaning back comfortably in his chair now, fingers steepled across his chest, and Reynolds felt his uneasiness deepen.

Through the momentarily opened door, Reynolds could see that, even in the short time that had elapsed since his capture, clouds had moved across the stars and slow, heavy snowflakes were beginning to swirl across the silhouetted oblong of darkening sky.

Even though he had been becoming surer of the identity of the man with the passing of every moment, confirmation of his suspicions still came to Reynolds with a sense of shock and he could feel his face tightening in spite of himself under the speculative gaze of the tall stranger.

Anything solid enough to throw at Szendro's head, shock him for a length of time necessary to lose control and crash the car: Reynolds was aware that he himself might be hurt as seriously as the colonel, even though he had the advantage of preparation: but a fifty-fifty chance was better than the one in a million he had without it.