How to use "one" in a sentence

Edward Abbey, one of my favourite writers, described it as 'the most beautiful place on Earth'

It's not very long - only a little over nineteen kilometres - but it's one of the most difficult bike trails in the US

Leona, one of the people I live and work with, is having a goodbye party on Monday night

This is one of the things my mother taught me

I turn on my CD player and listen to a soft, slow song by Phish, one of my favourite bands.

This is one of the dangers of hiking in canyon country

This one is about four metres down

As most of my weight pushes on one side of the boulder, it makes a strange sound

No one will miss me until Tuesday morning

I try plan one

I use the longest one, which is not so sharp

Then I tie carabiners to one end of the rope and make a kind of ball

The idea is to throw the rope over one of the boulders above my head

I've done quite well, but one thought still worries me: I haven't chipped much rock from the boulder

No one is going to save me

After telling them how much I love them, there is only one more thing to say

I now have only about one-eighth of a litre left.'

I'll try to stay alive as long as I can, but I can't imagine living longer than one more day

Do you know where he went? No one here has seen him since last Wednesday.'

Perhaps Aron had sent an email to one of his friends saying where he was going?

Steve called the Utah police for the area and spoke to one the main officers, Kyle Ekker

Why not find a hard rock and use it to break the boulder? There's one in a hole in the canyon wall above me

'I'll radio one of my men and ask them to check.'

For almost one hour the pain, screams, and cutting continue.

My body crashes from one side of the canyon wall to the other

With only one arm, this is not easy

I fill my bottle and drink one litre in a few seconds

I drink one more litre, slowly this time

I ask one of the men to get my climbing bag

'No, just one,' I whisper

chapter one

Bur there is one strange experience that stays in my mind like a nightmare.

I know is that one of us will die."

When my head was finally above the waves, I saw that the Abraham Lincoln was more than one hundred feet away.

No one could hear me

We knocked on the ship's sides, but they were too thick and no one heard us.

Ned screamed at the locked door, but no one answered his call.

He said something to one of his men, and the man went downstairs quickly

He came in with one of his men

It was the only one of its kind in the world

Who could be unhappy? Only one person - Ned Land.

Many people like to tell stories about giant squid, but no one knows if they are true

But I know one man who said he saw one."

We fought them with our axes, but the large one, the one with Captain Nemo's man in his tentacle, stood holding the man in the air

The same thing happened after the death of one of his men

No one who enters the Nautilus ever leaves

It was one of the Captain's men

Ned Land came into my room one night and woke me up

If anyone stops you, kill them." Ned Land put a fishing knife in my hand and left the room, I looked around one more time

It was a strange and wonderful adventure; one I will never forget.

Alice and her big sister sat under a tree one sunny day

'Perhaps it will open one of the doors,' she thought

He had his best clothes on, and in one hand he had a white hat.

'Perhaps I'm one of them,' she thought

There was one chocolate for each bird and animal.

She had to put one arm out of the window and one foot in the fireplace.

Then she ate some from one hand and some from the other

It was about one meter high.

The Cheshire Cat was up in one of the trees

Then she said, 'Cheshire Cat, one minute you vanish and the next minute you're there again

She sat down in a chair at one end of the table.

She looked round and saw a door in one of the trees

'Be careful, Five!' one of them said.

'We're making the flowers red,' one of the gardeners said.

The Knave did this very carefully, with one foot.

She thought, 'I won't speak to it before it has its ears - or perhaps one ear.'

The Queen had only one answer to problems

Alice and the Duchess followed everybody into a house with one very large room

He had a teacup in one hand, and some bread-and-butter in the other hand.

But one girl, Jenny Curran, didn't run away, and sometimes she walked home with me

'I want to take Jenny Curran to the cinema,' I told Mom one day.

But one day when he had to change a wheel on the car, I helped him.

'I've got another one.'

'It's easy,' said one of the men

'What am I going to cook it in?' I asked one of the men.

'You've got to find something,' one of the other men said.

The enemy started shooting at us before we got on the ground, and they blew up one of our helicopters

And who do you think one of them was? It was Bubba!

We were on one hill and the enemy was on the other

It started to rain one day, and it didn't stop for two months! But we still had to look for enemy soldiers - and one day we found them

After the first few weeks my leg was getting better, and one day I went down into the little town, to the fish market

I bought some shrimps, and one of the cooks at the hospital cooked them for me

Then one day I got back to the hospital and a Colonel Gooch said, 'Gump, we're going back to America together! You're going to see the President of the United States, and he's going to give you a medal because you were very brave.'

'They threw me out after they found a boy in my room one night

Then one day I came back to the flat and Jenny was sitting on the floor.

But one night I was sitting outside the Hodaddy Club, smoking a cigarette, when a girl smiled and came up to me

I went to live with Moses, one of the other men in the group, and soon after that Jenny went to Washington to talk and work against the war

'What's wrong with her?' I asked one of the two men.

Then one day a man called Mike came into the bar.

But I missed the bus that evening, and there wasn't another one until the next day

And one day I dressed in my best clothes and got the bus to Mobile, and I went to Jenny's Mom's house.

A lot of people say that they married an idiot, but they don't know what it's like to marry a real one

Then, one afternoon when I was playing to some people in the park, I noticed that a little boy was watching me carefully

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free

We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of ''interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."

With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that.

I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given, will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause - as cheerfully to one section as to another.

"No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due."

There is some difference of opinion whether this clause should be enforced by national or by State authority; but surely that difference is not a very material one

And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION."

But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is LESS perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity.

That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events, and are glad of any pretext to do it, I will neither affirm nor deny; but if there be such, I need address no word to them

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written Constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution - certainly would if such a right were a vital one

There is no other alternative; for continuing the government is acquiescence on one side or the other.

The foreign slave trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would be ultimately revived, without restriction, in one section, while fugitive slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all by the other.

My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and WELL upon this whole subject

YOU have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish

"Woe unto the world because of offences; for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that mam by whom the offence cometh!" If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time

What is more, I have done every one of these things in my life, and nobody has questioned the constitutional character of it.

But, in the event that the Congress shall fail to take one of these two courses, in the event that the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me

I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis - broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.

May He protect each and every one of us.

To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days

Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet

My office had one wall that was covered in glass

The story I want to tell is about a man who came into the company one day

He was talking to one of the clerks

'He wanted one of our insurance forms,' the clerk replied

'What kind of loss, sir - a financial one?'

It was there that one of them had died

The visit was a very private one.

No one knew anything about it at all.

'He's a very rich man, but a very sick one

He says it's obvious that you are very fond of one another.'

The name BECKWITH was painted on one door

You're the man who's already killed one innocent girl for her money

And now you're slowly killing another one.'

After that only one person saw her alive again - her killer.

Buck's Row was a quiet, narrow road with warehouses on one side and some small houses or cottages on the other

The street had only one gas lamp

Mrs Purkiss was awake most of the night, and Mr Purkiss slept badly and was awake between one and two o'clock, but they heard nothing

Then he sat on some stone steps and took off one of his boots, which was hurting his toe

Once she had children, but one died and another was disabled

Then one of them went off to bring a doctor

There was one red rose on her jacket.

She asked him the time and he said nearly one o'clock, which was about the time of Elizabeth Stride's murder.

The place was badly-lit, but one man, Joseph Lawende, gave a description of them

'I saw no one and heard no cry or noise,' he said later

This was one of the reasons why they quarrelled that autumn.

Why had the Ripper burnt them? When Abbeline discovered only one small piece of candle in the room, he thought that the killer had made a fire with the clothes because he needed more light to do his terrible work.

He wore dark clothes and a hat with one peak, or two like a deerstalker

The police believed there was one final murder by the Ripper in July 1889

There is one important point in favour of Hutchinson's story

By 11 o'clock that morning, one reporter wrote, it seemed that the whole of the East End was 'out of doors'

Chapter one

'What about that one over there?' she said, pointing across the square to a small house beside the bishop's palace.

After dinner, the bishop said goodnight to his sister, picked up one of the two candlesticks and, handing the other to his guest, said, 'I'll show you to your room, Monsieur.'

He turned back to the room, picked up his bag and took out a short iron bar, sharpened at one end

'I found it in one of the flowerbeds.'

'Silence,' said one of the policemen, 'This is the Bishop of Digne.'

She tried to find work as a servant, but no one would employ her

Javert looked up and saw Monsieur Madeleine, one of the most important people in the town.

Madeleine had arrived mysteriously in Montreuil one December evening in 1815

There was one man, however, who did not like M

You made one small mistake, that's all

She had a high fever, and was coughing badly, but she still had only one thing on her mind.

At first, no one believed him, but he managed to persuade the court by skilfully questioning each of the witnesses, revealing personal information that only the real Jean Valjean could have known

Everybody stood to one side to let him pass as he made his way towards the door

He turned again to Fantine and looked for one last time at her sad, pale face and empty, blue eyes

She was cold and hungry as she dragged the bucket behind her along the crowded street, but she could not resist stopping in front of one of the stalls

Cosette, checking that no one was watching, reached out and picked up the doll

She turned her back on the room and began to play with it, hoping that no one could see what she was doing

No one knew the man

He could see their faces clearly in the moonlight, and one of them belonged to Inspector Javert.

On one side of him was a tall building, all its doors and windows covered with metal bars

He tied one end of the wire around Cosette's waist, climbed the wall and, with great difficulty, pulled the girl up behind him

'Do you know who they are?' Marius asked him one day.

When he returned, one summer morning six months later, he saw the same couple sitting on the same bench, but something amazing had happened

Her rough black dress had been replaced by one of fine black silk

Then one day, as he was passing, thinking about nothing in particular, the girl looked up at him and their eyes met

in one corner.

Realizing that one of the girls must have dropped it, he picked it up and called after them, but it was too late

He now had five letters, all the work of one author: the man who lived with his family in the next room.

While she talked excitedly, she took out one of the letters

'If they had had another neighbour,' he thought, 'one who had noticed their suffering, perhaps they could have been rescued by now.'

Its only furniture was a chair, an old table, some cracked dishes and two dirty beds, one on each side of a fireplace

A large woman with greying hair, once red, was sitting by the fire, while a thin, pale-faced child sat on one of the beds.

You've forgotten, that child was ugly, and this one's not bad-looking.'

There was only one thing to do: he had to tell the police.

When you think it's getting dangerous, shoot one of these guns

'Now, you two must go and keep guard in the street, one by the gate, one at the street corner.'

'Yes, with two good horses,' one of them replied.

With surprising speed, he pushed the table and chair to one side and ran to the window

Then one morning, a few days later, Cosette noticed a large stone lying on the garden bench

Gillenormand hoped that Marius, whom he still loved, would return one day.

I know I'm not welcome here, but I have come to ask for only one thing

The old man paused for a moment before saying, 'So, you want to get married at the age of twenty-one

Twenty-one years old, no job, no money

He could think of only one thing: his meeting later that evening with Cosette

One of these children was Eponine, who had dressed like a boy so that no one would tell her to go home

He had only one thought in his mind: he wanted to die.

He looked about him but, seeing no one, he started to walk away, thinking that he was imagining things.

Then, with a great effort, she raised herself on one arm and, struggling for breath, looked into Marius's eyes.

Nothing had changed, and he decided that he had one last duty to perform: he must send Cosette a final message and tell her of his death

Oh, and one more thing before you go,'Valjean said when the boy had handed him the letter

'Then one of us must stay and fight,' one of the married men replied.

Finally, someone shouted to Marius, 'You decide which one must stay.'

The next cannonball exploded against the wall at one end of the barricade, killing two men and wounding three.

Valjean, his gun in one hand, pulled Javert behind him over the barricade and into a narrow alley, where the corner of a house hid them from view

One by one the remaining rebels escaped into the wine shop, until only Enjolras and Marius were left outside

On one side of him was the field of battle

He moved from one passage into another, slipping several times on the wet floor

At one point he had to walk waist-deep through water, and almost sank as the ground turned to sand beneath his feet

'I beg you to do me one favour

While one servant ran to find a doctor and another looked for clean sheets, Valjean felt Javert's hand on his arm

When they had got back into the carriage, however, Valjean said, 'Inspector, will you do one last thing for me before you arrest me?'

But the street was empty; there was no one there.

Every day, according to one of the servants, a white-haired, well-dressed gentleman came to ask for news of the sick man.

'There's something I have to say to you,' Marius told his grandfather one day.

Gillenormand said and, turning to Marius and Cosette, he added, 'My children, you are free to love one another.'

It was the happiest night of Cosette's life, spoilt only by one thing: the fact that her guardian - whom she still thought of as her father - went home before the feast had started, saying that he felt ill

Finally, in a state of shock and confusion, the young man said, 'Why have you told me all this? No one forced you to.'

You mustn't forget, my children, that, despite my money, I am one of the poor.'

Love one another always

"Yes," a voice replies, "and this is where it ends." And a tall man steps from behind one of the silent giants.

We are standing there in front of the glass doors, and no one is looking at us

I'm Robin, you're Little John..." one of the men says to the other

There is no stopping now, so I pull the small stereo from one of the black bags on my shoulder, and I press play.

The two women move, but slowly; one of them looks down at the counter, where I know there is a secret alarm

"What do you think?" Robin asks, and he tells him to sit at one of the tables.

"That's okay," Robin says, and he picks up one of the bags and puts it on the table, "we brought our own money: twenty thousand pounds in small notes

No one can trace it!"

And no one sees us walk slowly from the bank

And no one remembers us later.

There is no one near to him to hear

She's only going to be one minute!" he shouts, and the attendant stops and gives him a long, hard look with his cold, blue eyes.

Just one push, and then he can shout for the attendant and pretend to help but really just watch the monster go down into the loch

Just one look back at the jetty to be sure no one can see, he thinks, and he turns his head.

His shift finishes in five minutes, but there is no one around in Howarth's quiet police station, and so he leads the woman to the first interview room and tries to suppress the image of a pint of beer in the Black Bull pub.

Gerry smiles, sits down at one of the small, wooden tables and places his bag carefully next to his feet

No, this one stays with him.

He takes you to one of his old factories on the Thames, and then he shows you the boxes and the addresses of all the different locations in the world.

Then two tall, strangely dressed men walk into the shade of the terrace, one with three dead rabbits in one hand and a long rifle in the other.

"G'day!" says the other one.

"Nice one!" says the first before he disappears into the bar

And he thinks he sees one of the brothers look at his bag again

Maybe it is the brothers, he thinks, and he remembers the way one of them looked at the bag

And all of this mixes with the sweat of the thousands of people in one place.

No one really sees him; no one really looks

Most do not see anything, but one always sees something, and one is enough.

Jake looks at the bag one more time

Sure, there are one or two bigger than her, but none of them has her romance or her luxury," Mrs Carolina Heath says as they enter the dining room.

"Mrs Heath," one says, "how good to see you again

She's the rich one."

No one follows her

And as Eleanor and Edward move away to the dance floor, Peter and Michael see her adjust the scarf around her neck one last time

They have a terrible reputation in Bristol, and there is not one of them that does not scare Nick.

She stopped twice: once at the house of one of Mrs Dawson's friends and once at a local pub

Ladies and gentleman of the jury, you must decide only one thing

no, no one has an idea

No one is there

And so you wait, and you listen, and you look, and you tell yourself one more time..

No reason for you to think that there is more than one burglar

You take one more step to the door

He smokes his cigarettes continuously and enjoys the taste of each one

The one thing he needs if he wants to keep his freedom and get the suitcase that is buried in his brother's old garage

And so he waits, and the evening becomes darker, and he thinks that there are now only one or two people left in the small old church

He pulls the collar of his stolen coat up to cover his face, and he checks that no one can see the grey prison uniform that he is still wearing beneath it.

But not one of them is interested in him

You're the prisoner, the one that escaped from Mountjoy prison

No one can know."

When I was in the van, it stopped, and I hit one of the guards, took his keys and ran

And yes, it is stolen, but I promise, Father, no one needs it now

No one needs it now apart from me."

Something like one of the heavy pews

And before Barry Brennan begins to shout and scream to the empty church, he hears the soft voice one more time.

And there is no one in the church to hear those.

Maybe there is one waiting for him in Flagstaff

And this one, he hopes, will have a little more respect for him and won't laugh at him.

Just one

If things get serious, then maybe he can manage if there is just one.

"You said no one could get hurt!"

No one can get hurt."

There was no one on the snowy road

No one saw them, but they covered Greg's plates to be sure, and they wore masks

"My husband went for the money," says the woman, rifle in one hand, black hat in the other

Well, the problem is that we can't find one of our members of staff: Mr Fletcher."

"Okay, one look, and then we go

We can also check one or two of the local pubs on the way back to the city."

And they put him behind it, in a deep dark corner where no one could see him and the light disappeared as they put the last bricks in place

Owen looks back at the car and hopes that no one can see it from the main road

"And one day they can be yours if you want."

Well, maybe when he gets to shoot one.

No one gets hurt

We take one or two rabbits home and we have a little fun

Don't shoot unless I can clearly see that there is no one near the target

A real casino, one of the best in the city

Wait one moment," Hank says, and he puts his hand on Jimmy's head, and Jimmy tries to move away

You remember the Mexican: the one stealing from the bar?"

We're miles up above one of the loudest cities in the world

No one can hear you

No one but me and the boys

So Jimmy, one last chance

Sarah considers sitting on one of the seats by the wall of the tunnel, but she is so tired that she thinks that maybe she will fall asleep if she rests.

The man in the corner is probably just a normal guy and not some horrible character from one of her thrillers.

"Yeah, he killed another one, didn't he? Last Friday, they reckon," the tallest of the kids says.

"Is it? Man, you know, the sick thing is that no one knows who it is

She stands up and looks in the corner of the carriage one more time, but it looks like the man is asleep.

No one is there

No one gets off apart from her, she is sure.

It was March 15, and she had been going out with Cham for exactly one year

Everyone was given one hundred energy units a week, and they had to be careful not to use them too quickly

"It's one of your paintings!"

One year ago, on March 15, 2087, she'd been standing in Space 29 in one of her favorite illusions

It was one of the best illusions available in the simulator, because if you stood at the edge of the cliff, it really felt like you could fall.

With five of them sharing, an hour cost just one energy unit each, so they did this often

It was one thing to have a pod experience - but to stay inside the pod was something else

To get home quickly, they stepped onto one of the fast-moving walkways that stretched in all directions across the city.

They'd been standing under one of the shelters at the entrance to the walkway

For one awful moment, she thought Gran might even fall over.

"The one you tell stories about? The one who..."

"The one who gave you the fruit."

She got up and returned to her tomato plants, taking off the dead and dying leaves from the bottom of each one

"Maybe one day

There was one from Niki, but nothing from Cham, so she began a message to him

This one was very exciting, but Sala couldn't concentrate

"It was a special offer - if you bought one experience, you could get another for free." He suddenly started talking very fast

"I had enough money for one, and you just had to say you were interested in Pod Life

"Is this the Pod Life that Ding was talking about? The one where you live in a pod for two years?" Cham looked uncomfortable

The one who gave you the fruit."

"No one else is around."

It's for people our age: seventeen to twenty-one."

They only attended one day a week; on the other days, they studied virtually, on the ultranet

Another one! The news had spread about Pod Life, and other students had been discussing it all weekend

"Well, I guess you're not the only one who's afraid."

Sala rushed down, and they set out on one of the fastest walkways to the pod center, talking happily

Would it really feel like she was swimming with dolphins in one of those?

In one direction, a golden beach was just visible, with the tops of green trees beyond it

"And you're the one with doubts about it, so you should decide

"And remember, Sala, maybe there will be something better, one day

all to avoid the one big thing they needed to discuss.

She chose one that Cham had recommended, about the Oil Wars

As Sala reached for the last one, another hand reached for it at the same time

"Shhh!" In one quick, smooth movement, the woman pushed the note between Sala's fingers, nodded at her, and then set off rapidly toward the walkway

If you received one of the fruits, you know that this is true, and that it came from me

What more could she say? Cham's number one consideration right now was his family, and she couldn't stand in the way of that; but she wished that he would at least think about other possibilities.

"After one month, new passengers will be brought here."

You will also have one Ultranet Talk Hour per week to speak to friends and family

"After one month, as I've explained, you will be given tests

"Place your hand on the screen, one at a time," said Leti.

Or she would suddenly tell them all one of her memories: of growing up with Eston or their suffering during the Oil Wars.

When she came toward the biggest walkway of all - the one that stretched right across the city - Sala's heart started beating faster

In one corner, the woman was taking the yellow hag off her back

"The one who brought the rose fruit

This world, the city with its wrist chips and simulators, was the only one they knew, but Gran often talked about life before the Oil Wars - how they used to walk freely in the forests, grow flowers and fruit, sing songs around fires on the beach, and travel to wonderful places

"Well, Gran," said Sala, "maybe one day, when Cham comes out of the pod, and they've managed to break through the force field, we really will be able to go together

And then, one day, it did

The one who..

After looking around to check that no one was watching her, she slipped quietly down the passageway, and found the same door as before

She was about to knock, when she saw that this one wasn't closed either

And there was no one there

The old sofa had been pushed against one wall, but there was no metal table or chairs

Any kind of rebellion had to keep moving so that no one could discover it."

"What's strange about a letter? I'm talking about the one Mom found under her bed."

"He's having lots of fun," said one of his sisters

There was only one thing she could do

There was one last Ultranet Talk Hour with Cham before the end of the month, but Sala decided it wasn't even worth trying to talk to him about leaving

On the one hand, she could now see a future full of possibilities..

She just had to hope that no one was listening in on their conversation.

A real one."

One by one, the pod passengers appeared to greet their families and friends

For one last time, she thought of them

When you know what they're trying to do, you're one step ahead; you've won half the battle already

Chapter one

'There isn't one well-known person here,' she said in her loud voice

'There's no one I want to talk to.'

But I don't suppose you remember an old woman like me?' And Mrs Van Hopper gave de Winter one of her biggest smiles.

People say that Manderley's one of the most beautiful houses in England

'An empty house, even a very beautiful one, can be lonely,' de Winter said.

I ran down the stairs, holding my gloves in one hand

I was twenty-one and de Winter was the first man I had ever loved

'If only we could keep our memories like scent in a bottle,' I said one day

The thought of leaving Monte Carlo and Maxim de Winter was a terrible one

I looked round for a box of matches, but I could not find one

Inside one of the drawers was a flat leather book: 'Guests at Manderley'

We stared at one another for a moment without speaking.

'No one ever expects it.'

'Will your husband hold the Manderley Fancy Dress Ball this year? I remember the last one so well

'We came to a garden-party too, one summer,' the bishop's wife went on

But I had to ask Frank one more question.

First one fell and then the others followed

It was a beautiful little cupid and one of the loveliest things in the house

'Perhaps it was one of the maids,' said Maxim

No one except Robert has been in the room, apart from Madam, of course

No one would ever gossip about me.'

'No one

No one at all.'

I have broken one of their wedding presents.

No one's going to hurt you

'You're not like the other one,' he said

Much faster than the one Max has.'

'Perhaps I'll come back and see you one day

I came up to fasten one of the shutters.'

No one comes here but me.

We stood there by the door, staring at one another

It was easy for Mrs Danvers to watch me from one of their windows.

'No, we've had no one to stay

As we sat in the drawing-room eating cake and sandwiches, one of our visitors suddenly said to Maxim, 'Oh, Mr de Winter

'Perhaps you could copy one of the pictures in the gallery,' Mrs Danvers suggested

No one expected me to do anything

'The one in the gallery.'

As you stood on the stairs, I thought for one terrible moment...'

No one had any idea about..

No one could help me, but myself.

'He's taken one of the sailors to hospital,' Frank told me

'The big ship won't go down like the little one

'The other one.'

There was no one with Rebecca

The other woman - the one I said was Rebecca.'

Only one thing mattered

'Then, one night, I could stand our life here no longer

'I knew the boat would be found one day,' he said

At five to one, I heard the sound of a car in the drive

Frith and Robert were in the room and no one wanted to talk about the boat

There was a picture of Manderley and an awful one of Maxim

'Mr de Winter, I'm afraid I must ask you one other question

Chapter twenty one

'There's one more thing to be done

'She knew no one called Baker.'

'She was afraid of nothing and no one

Only one thing worried her

It was the one clear proof that Rebecca had not killed herself.

'No one called de Winter has ever come to me.'

No one looked at anyone else

No one said a word and the doctor went on, 'Mrs de Winter looked a healthy woman

No one said anything for a few minutes

'Look at them!' says one policeman

Then, The Cat jumps from one building to the next.

Unaware that she was staring at him, the boy put one hand to his mouth and bit gently on his bent thumb knuckle, which Danny had begun to do a year or so before he died

She half convinced herself that the dream was a premonition of Danny's eventual return to her, that somehow he had survived and would be coming back into her arms one day soon.

Torn and crushed in a bus accident with fourteen other little boys, just one victim of a larger tragedy

Peanut-butter toast had been one of Danny's favorite foods, even when he was a toddler and was especially picky about what he would eat

The sound she'd heard had come as she was waking, a real noise, not an imagined one.

Tomorrow was one of the most important days of her life: December 30

The Lido was one of those incredibly lavish productions that could be seen nowhere in the world but Vegas, for it was only in Las Vegas that a multimillion-dollar show could be staged year after year with little concern for profit; such vast sums were spent on the elaborate sets and costumes, and on the enormous cast and crew, that the hotel was usually happy if the production merely broke even from ticket and drink sales

Almost a year ago, shortly after Danny had died, Tina had been offered a directing and co-producing job on a huge ten-million-dollar extravaganza to be staged in the two-thousand-seat main showroom of the Golden Pyramid, one of the largest and plushest hotels on the Strip

If audience reaction was as strong and as positive as Tina hoped, her financial future was assured, for her contract gave her two and one-half percent of the gross receipts, minus liquor sales, after the first five million

Then at one o'clock, the entire cast and the crew would assemble for the final dress rehearsal.

What if they came, lights flashing and sirens screaming - and found no one? If she had summoned the police every time that she imagined hearing a prowler in the house during the past two weeks, they would have decided long ago that she was scramble-brained

For one thing, she hadn't known what she could say

No one.

No one was hiding there, either

His desk occupied one corner; tubes of glue, miniature bottles of enamel in every color, and a variety of model-crafting tools stood in soldierly ranks on one half of the desk, and the other half was bare, waiting for him to begin work

It was an easel on one side and a chalkboard on the other

In one of her terrible seizures of grief, in a moment of crazy dark despair, had she come into this room and unknowingly printed those words on Danny's chalkboard?

Each narrow gallery consisted of a three-foot-wide aisle with a low railing on one side and a curving row of raised, plushly padded booths on the other side

Tina sat in one of the third-tier booths, nervously sipping ice water as she watched her show.

With seven massive production numbers, five major variety acts, forty-two girl dancers, forty-two boy dancers, fifteen showgirls, two boy singers, two girl singers (one temperamental), forty-seven crewmen and technicians, a twenty-piece orchestra, one elephant, one lion, two black panthers, six golden retrievers, and twelve white doves, the logistics were mind-numbingly complicated, but a year of arduous labor was evident in the slick and faultless unfolding of the program.

At the end, the cast and crew gathered onstage and applauded themselves, hugged and kissed one another

Anybody else tried to handle all this, they'd just end up with one goddamn big mishkadenze on their hands

Six rings bedecked each of his hands, some with diamonds, some with emeralds, one with a large ruby, one with an even larger opal

Jaborski, the scoutmaster, had taken other groups of scouts on winter survival hikes every year for sixteen years, and no one had been even slightly injured

The choice was filet mignon with Bernaise sauce or lobster in butter sauce, because Las Vegas was the one place in the United States where people at least temporarily set aside concerns about cholesterol

To Tina, Stryker said, "But if it's flattery you need - and I'm sure you already get a lot of it, lovely as you are - no one in Vegas can flatter with more charm and style than Helen."

"In one sentence he managed to flatter you, flatter me, and impress all of us with his modesty

Overhead, palm fronds scraped softly against one another.

As Vivienne reached the back of the house, the crescent moon slid out from behind one of the few thin clouds, like a scimitar being drawn from a scabbard, and the pale shadows of palms and melaleucas shivered on the lunar-silvered concrete patio.

That was the term by which casino employees still referred to local, elderly women whose social lives revolved around an obsessive interest in one-armed bandits, even though the nickel machines were pretty much ancient history

Even these days, when most machines could be played with electronically validated value cards, the nickel duchesses wore black gloves to keep their hands from becoming filthy after hours of handling coins and pulling levers; they always sat on stools while they played, and they remembered to alternate hands when operating the machines in order not to strain the muscles of one arm, and they carried bottles of liniment just in case.

They cheered one another on those rare occasions when one of them hit a really large jackpot; and when one of them died, the others went to the funeral en masse

After several visits there, she had decided that it must be one of the dullest cities in the world

Besides, for the past twenty-one years, ever since her Harry died, she had always taken care of herself

No one was there.

No one was near them, yet suddenly two photos began to rattle violently against the wall, and then both flew off their mountings and clattered to the floor behind the beige, brushed-corduroy sofa.

In this one, he was ten or eleven years old, a sweet brown-haired boy with dark eyes and a lovely smile.

Puzzled, frowning thoughtfully, Vivienne put down the knife, pulled one end of the sofa away from the wall, and collected the framed eight-by-tens that were on the floor behind it

There were five photographs in addition to the one that had dropped onto the sofa; two were responsible for the noises that had drawn her into the living room, and the other three were those that she had seen popping off the picture hooks

He was interested primarily in learning more about the mind that could create a work like Magyck! He had seen less than one-fourth of the program, yet he knew it was a hit - and far superior to others of its kind

The CD player and an accompanying AM-FM tuner and amplifier were stacked on one of the nightstands.

Neither window was open, and even if one had been raised, the night wasn't frigid enough to account for the chill.

The radio's digital display began to change, the orange numbers escalating across the frequency band, sweeping through one station after another

Vivienne had no logical explanation for what had happened, but she knew one thing for sure: She wasn't going to tell anyone what she had seen here tonight

Regardless of how convincingly and earnestly she described these bizarre events, no one would believe her

Just one or two Masses a month

The person who paid a fair price for something was likely to place far more value on it than the one who got the same item for nothing

She hugged him hard, and Joel proclaimed the show to be a "gargantua if I ever saw one."

As she listed her blessings, Tina was astonished at how much difference one year could make in a life

No one was in the house to hear it.

She wiped one hand across her face, sloughing off a film of perspiration

She ate a light breakfast of grapefruit juice and one English muffin, then went to Danny's room to pack his belongings

A poster of one of the movie monsters had been ripped apart; it hung from the wall in several pieces

"Your ad in the Yellow Pages says you can have a man here to change my locks in one hour."

Bally's, formerly the MGM Grand, was getting to be one of the older establishments on the continuously rejuvenating Las Vegas Strip, but it was still one of the most popular hotels in town, and on this last day of the year it was packed

Hundreds of gamblers - pretty young women, sweet-faced grandmothers, men in jeans and decoratively stitched Western shirts, retirement-age men in expensive but tacky leisure outfits, a few guys in three-piece suits, salesmen, doctors, mechanics, secretaries, Americans from all of the Western states, junketeers from the East Coast, Japanese tourists, a few Arab men - sat at the semielliptical blackjack tables, pushing money and chips forward, sometimes taking back their winnings, eagerly grabbing the cards that were dealt from the five-deck shoes, each reacting in one of several predictable ways: Some players squealed with delight; some grumbled; others smiled ruefully and shook their heads; some teased the dealers, pleading half seriously for better cards; and still others were silent, polite, attentive, and businesslike, as though they thought they were engaged in some reasonable form of investment planning

He was dealing blackjack at one of the first tables

If it's really a bad one, he finds out his pipes have blocked up

"For one thing, nothing was taken."

"Michael-" she began, intending to tell him that she was going to stage another show within the next year, that she didn't want to be represented by only one production at a time, and that she even had distant designs on New York and Broadway, where the return of Busby Berkeley - style musicals might be greeted with cheers.

But we can take care of two easily enough, and maybe we'll get lucky and have one boy and one girl

You don't understand me one bit better now than you did when we divorced."

No one gets a show like Magyck! Off the ground by dabbling

I have the intelligence and the talent to be more than just one thing

"You were the one who started fucking anything that breathed, and then you flaunted each cheap little affair to hurt me

But then, who had done it? No one else had a key

Not one other relative or acquaintance had ever suggested that she was even indirectly responsible

As far as she could tell, no one was tailing her.

"There's at least one out there with my name on it."

Tina waited until at least a hundred names had been listed before she decided that the system had been programmed to print the lines about Danny only one time, only on her office's first data request of the afternoon, and on no later call-up.

She spun around in her chair, but no one had come into the room.

She hurried around the desk, banging her hip against one corner, heading for the wall socket as the printer hummed with the production of more hateful words.

She took hold of the two lines - one heavy cable and one ordinary insulated wire - and they seemed to come alive in her hands, like a pair of snakes, resisting her

She took a step toward him, but then she realized that he might have come here straight from a computer in one of the other third-floor offices

"Were you playing around with one of the other computers?"

I'm the only one here."

And if he were lying, he wouldn't have told her the story about Charlie and coffee, for that could be substantiated or disproved with only a minimum of effort; he would have come up with a better alibi if he really needed one

Tina kept a well-stocked bar in one corner of her office for those infrequent occasions when a business associate needed a drink after a long work session

At her request, Elliot poured RS 233; my Martin into two snifters and gave one glass to her

"He was one of the Jaborski group

"And the boys competed hard all year for the chance to be one of those selected to go on the trip

Bill Jaborski was supposed to be one of the ten top winter-survival experts in the country

No one in his right mind would take boys as young as twelve into the deepest parts of the Sierras, no matter how well prepared, supplied, and trained they were, no matter how strong, no matter how many big brothers were there to look out for them."

This time she was able to hold the glass in one hand.

"You'll probably need professional help to catch him in one of his tricks."

"Send that one by me again."

Do you really think you're so far gone that you could do something like that and not remember it? Do you think you've got multiple personalities and one doesn't know what the others are up to?"

Crowds streamed along the sidewalks, on their way from this casino to that casino, from one lounge to another, from one show to the next.

He's one sort of sickie or another

Apparently, when a child dies, one of the worst things a parent can do is refuse to look at the body while it's lying in a casket

Tina went to the bar and sat on one of the three stools, across the counter from Elliot

Finally I took a few mementos, a dozen pieces by which I'll always remember her, and I moved out, sold the house, bought this one, and started decorating all over again."

"I'm one of the founding partners of Stryker, West, Dwyer, Coffey, and Nichols

We're one of the largest law firms in town

We represented some people no one else would touch, entrepreneurs who had a lot of good ideas but not much money for start-up legal fees

He'd had other women in this bed during the past two years, and a few had stayed the night, but not one of those other lovers had made him feel content merely by the fact of her presence, as Tina did

At one o'clock Elliot drove his silver Mercedes S600 sports coupe to the New Year's Day party on Sunrise Mountain

This was perfect weather for flying, one of those crystalline days when being above the earth would make him feel clean and free.

A three-sided, fan-shaped tent had been erected on the back lawn, to one side of the sixty-foot pool, with the open side facing the house

"As long as there aren't any religious objections, the law requires the permission of only one parent in a case like this," Elliot said.

"You're the one, all right."

"You're the one

Stryker," the tall one said.

Elliot's mind raced through a list of cases that his law firm was currently handling, searching for some connection with these two intruders, but he couldn't think of one.

Determined not to let them see that he was frightened, aware that any sign of fear would be taken as proof of weakness, Elliot said, "Well, you've got one hell of a weird approach for someone who's just taking a public opinion survey."

They looked and acted like organization men, even though the big one was rough enough at the edges to pass for a common thug

"I guess that's just one more question you're not going to get an answer for," Elliot said.

Yes, it's one you've never heard of and probably never will

Several times, she was on the verge of tears as the sight of one object or another released a flood of memories

She tried to lift one of them, but it was too heavy

The cluster of maggots squirming on his cheek, at the corner of one eye

In one smooth lightning-fast movement, Elliot seized the measuring cup into which he had poured four ounces of vinegar a few minutes ago, and he threw the contents in Vince's face

He swung one arm around, slamming his bent elbow into Vince's throat

Elliot checked his pulse and pulled back one of his eyelids

The one from which the cover painting had been drawn was sixteen pages long

And if, by some million-to-one chance, the boy had been alive when he'd been buried, why would it take an entire year for her to receive a vision from the spirit world?

As far as she could see, only one rational explanation presented itself

From the date on its cover, she knew that the issue containing The Boy Who Was Not Dead couldn't be one of the first pieces in Danny's collection

Three or four minutes later, the doorbell rang - one, two, three, four times, insistently.

Tina passed a leafy green plant, a four-foot-high schefflera that she had owned since it was only one-fourth as tall as it was now, and she had the insane urge to stop and risk getting caught in the coming explosion just long enough to pick up the plant and take it with her

The flagstone walk that led across her front lawn seemed to be one of those treadmill pathways in a dream, stretching out farther in front of her the harder that she ran, but at last, she reached the end of it and dashed into the street

But even as Tina looked from Elliot to the fire, before all of the shingles had fallen back to earth, a second explosion slammed through the house, and a billowing cloud of flame roared from one end of the structure to the other, bursting those few windows that had miraculously survived the first blast.

"There's probably more than one of them, and they'll be armed."

He had meaty arms; the circumference of one of them almost equaled the circumference of Elliot's thigh

"The one with the Evinrude motor."

Tom scratched his head, then pulled on one ear

As he drove from one residential street to another, steadily heading away from the smoke, working toward a major thoroughfare, Elliot expected to encounter the black van at every intersection.

Besides, we're dealing with a government agency, and government agencies tend to cooperate with one another."

And in a small local election like the one Kennebeck won, stacking the deck would be easy if you had enough money and government muscle behind you."

"I'm still trying to figure that one

No one was following them, but he kept checking.

"Like the newspapers, for one," Elliot said, accelerating across the intersection, glancing in the rearview mirror

"There's also one big difference

"But no one's really there."

Danny was the only one who was too badly..

He sipped his beer and used one finger to wipe a trace of foam from his upper lip

Chilled, Tina said, "But how much could the kids have seen? You're the one who said security was easy to maintain when one of these installations is located in the wilderness

While she thought about what Elliot had said, she dipped one finger in the water and drew a grim mouth, a nose, and a pair of eyes in the circle; she added two horns, transforming the blot of moisture into a little demonic face

"He's the one who had to designate it an accidental death

She was filled with a new dread, a fear greater than the one that had burned within her during the past few hours

Neither one of us has a coat, and it's damn cold in Reno at this time of year."

This is one of their busiest times of the year

She wanted to be one of these fortunate people

No one had entered.

And one thing on which you can bet

The song proceeded smoothly again - but only for one more line of verse

No one here had rigged the machine

"I'll take care of it, folks." He called to one of the waitresses: "Jenny, check the thermostat

Although no one was touching the jukebox, the volume increased, and the two words boomed through the diner, thundered, vibrated in the windows, and rattled silverware on the tables.

She wanted to see what would happen next if no one interfered with the presence that had taken control of the jukebox

It wasn't one of them

Danny was the one who wrote those words on the chalkboard

And the people who're holding him don't know he's doing it! They're blaming the leak on one of their own, on someone from Project Pandora."

"As far as I can see, you haven't shot one hole in it yet

"If he has one ability, why not the other?"

And this is one of them."

"And if you come up with one," Tina said, "I'll give it very serious consideration."

Bruckster was waiting for one of those dealers: Michael Evans.

He reached into a pocket of his leisure suit and took out a tiny aerosol can that was only slightly larger than one of those spray-style breath fresheners, small enough to be concealed in Bruckster's hand.

No one in the jolly group seemed to realize that he was obstructing the main aisle

No one could have seen the murder

Willis Bruckster quickly knelt at Michael Evans's side and took his pulse as if he expected to find one

Kennebeck stood before one of the display cases, studying the minutely detailed rigging of a late-eighteenth-century French frigate

On the one hand, she behaved as if she did not know the truth

That was something one tended to forget when he spent his life in the intelligence game

Then the guilt-stricken mother could have been permitted one last, late, ghastly look at the remains of her son.

His eyes were green, clear, alert, and - if one took the time to study them - menacing

"I know human nature," Alexander said, though he was one of the least observant and least analytical men that Kennebeck had ever known.

While he waited for Alexander to finish with the night manager at the Flagstaff airport, Kennebeck moved from one model ship to another

So if they can't open the grave and see for themselves what we've done to Danny Evans, what are they going to do instead? They're going to do the next best thing - talk to the person who was supposedly the last one to see the boy's corpse before it was sealed in the coffin

And the woman's evidently not one to hide or run away from a problem either

"But if I wait, I'm just giving him a chance to keep one step ahead." Worried, he continued to hesitate, anxiously chewing his lip.

Maybe he's already arranged for one to be waiting."

In Reno, which billed itself as "The Biggest Little City in the World," the temperature hovered at twenty-one degrees above zero as midnight approached

Then as he had signed for the rental car and picked up the keys from the night clerk, he had kept one hand in a pocket of his coat, gripping the handgun he'd taken off Vince in Las Vegas - but there was no trouble.

As far as he could tell, no one followed them.

Suffering one of his occasional bouts of claustrophobia, Dr

In the middle of the west wall - one of the two shorter walls - opposite the entrance to the room, was a six-foot-long, three-foot-high window that provided a view of another space, which was only half as large as this outer chamber

The window was constructed like a sandwich: Two one-inch-thick panes of shatterproof glass surrounded an inch-wide space filled with an inert gas

Four airtight rubber seals - one around the both faces of each pane

Carlton Dombey, a curly-haired man with a bushy mustache, stood at the window, blotting his damp hands on his medical whites and peering anxiously through one of the few frost-free patches of glass

Aaron Zachariah, younger than Dombey, clean-shaven, with straight brown hair, leaned over one of the computers, reading the data that flowed across the screen

"There isn't one available," Dombey said

"All the others are full of test animals in the middle of one experiment or another."

I know," Dombey said wearily, pushing one hand through his bush of curly hair

Stuffing the silencer-equipped pistol into one of his deep coat pockets, he got out of the Chevy

He kept one hand on her back as she leaned toward the window, and he felt her go rigid when she glimpsed the dead man

At least one killer would be in the house with Bellicosti's corpse

Probably more than one.

At least one man had been waiting out here in the snow.

Crouching beside one of those bushes, huddling in the shadows just beyond the circle of frosty light from a nearby street lamp, he pulled the pistol out of his coat pocket while Tina drove away.

"We're still one step ahead of them," Elliot said shakily.

"Instead of sneaking around to some out-of-the-way motel, we'll march right into one of the best hotels in town."

A young sailor apparently had a run going at one of the craps tables, and a crowd of excited gamblers urged him to roll an eight and make his point.

When Elliot was informed that a room was available, after all, for two nights, he signed the registration card as "Hank Thomas," a slight twist on the name of one of his favorite movie stars; he entered a phony Seattle address too

Self-preservation is one of the most powerful drives God gave us

He considered the requisitioning of this executive jet to be one of his most important accomplishments in the three years that he had been chief of the Nevada bureau of the Network

Lesser amounts, ranging from only one hundred million to as much as half a billion, were secretly extracted from the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, and other government bodies on an annual basis.

After three years the President had declared himself delighted with the accomplishments in South America, and he had asked George to take charge of one of the Network's domestic bureaus - Nevada - which had been terribly mismanaged

This slot was one of the half-dozen most powerful in the Network's executive hierarchy

With that title, he would be one of the most powerful men in the United States, more of a force to be reckoned with than any mere Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense could hope to be.

The hole in the wall was not wide enough for him to step through, into her passageway; he could only thrust one arm at her, and his long, bony fingers were an inch or two short of her

A dozen times, she passed chinks in the wall, and Death glared out at her from every one of those apertures, screamed and cursed and raged at her, but none of the holes was large enough to allow him through

"That bastard's killed one of us now

Elliot and Tina found what they needed in one of the gun shops: a set of twelve wilderness maps of the Sierras, designed with backpackers and hunters in mind

Back in the hotel room, they opened one of the maps on the bed, and Elliot said, "Now what?"

Elliot withdrew another one from the leatherette case and handed it to her

But will you tell me one day when you aren't in such a damn rush?"

All Sandstone did was move one hand slowly back and forth in front of Tina's face, simultaneously speaking to her in a quiet, rhythmic voice, frequently using her name.

I also feel he's going to help us get into the place, and I don't see any reason why I should strike out on that one."

The drapes drew open, slid shut, drew open, slid shut, even though no one was near the draw cords.

But magic - that's my one great love

It's a little one I carry with me

Then I'll mail the tape to one of my law partners." He shrugged

At one-thirty Kurt Hensen came into George Alexander's office in downtown Reno

It was little more than one lane wide, and the trees formed a tunnel around it, so that after fifty or sixty feet, it disappeared into premature night

Carlton Dombey, who had come on duty twenty minutes ago, sat at one of the tables against the north wall

Still poring through the test results, stroking his mustache with one hand, Dombey said, "Listen to this..

"Well, you're the one who raised the question."

The second gate was one and a half miles past the first, on a short length of straightaway, just over the brow of a hill

When he discovered the nature of the maps, when he realized that one of them was missing, and when he discovered that the missing map was the one Stryker would need in order to find the Project Pandora labs, Alexander felt his face flush with anger and chagrin

Hensen picked up one of the maps and turned it over in his hands

"If Morgan wants to take it easy," Alexander said, "then he should be flying one of the aerial rides at Disneyland."

Two hundred yards away, at the far side of the concrete field, stood a one-story windowless building, approximately a hundred feet long, with a steeply pitched slate roof.

No one yet had come out of the building to challenge them, which most likely meant that Danny had jinxed the video security system.

Just one mistake

The only feature in the hundred-foot-long, one-story, windowless concrete facade was a wide steel door

Through sudden tears of pain, Elliot saw the young guard rushing him, and he squeezed off one whisper-quiet shot.

No one got out.

The cab controls would not operate unless one first inserted an acceptable ID card into a slot above them

They stepped into a hallway exactly like the one they had left upstairs.

If they were discovered and confronted by a squad of angry security men, Elliot's one pistol might not be enough to discourage an assault

This level was the same size as the one on which they entered the complex: more than four hundred feet on one side, and more than one hundred feet on the other

The tube to the left of the first one also flickered

To the right of the window was another airtight door like the one through which they'd just entered

A curly-haired man with a bushy mustache sat at one of the tables

"I'm the one who has the gun," Elliot said sharply

"What about me?" the younger one said sullenly.

If either one of them makes a wrong move, blow him away."

The boy blinked, and with what appeared to be great effort, at the cost of more than a little pain, he withdrew one arm from under the covers and reached out toward her

Danny became excited when he saw her drawing near, and in spite of his terrible condition, he shakily thrust himself into a sitting position, clutching at the bed rails with one frail, trembling hand, eagerly extending his other hand toward her.

Putting one hand on the boy's back to press him against her, she discovered how shockingly spindly he was each rib and vertebra so prominent that she seemed to be holding a skeleton

One by one, she removed the eighteen electrodes that were fixed to his head and body

At any one time, we have thirty to forty projects underway."

Elliot said, "But if racing to keep up with the Chinese - or the Russians or the Iraqis - can create situations like the one we've got here, where an innocent child gets ground up in the machine, then aren't we just becoming monsters too? Aren't we letting our fears of the enemy turn us into them? And isn't that just another way of losing the war?"

For one thing, you can become an infectious carrier only four hours after coming into contact with the virus

Once infected, no one lives more than twenty-four hours

Wuhan-400's kill-rate is one hundred percent

No one is supposed to survive

"As far as we know, he's the only one who ever has."

"I've heard that one before."

Almost thirteen months ago, when Danny and the other boys in his troop were on their winter survival outing, one of our scientists, a quirky son of a bitch named Larry Bollinger, accidentally contaminated himself while he was working alone one morning in this lab."

That's one reason our pay scale is so high

He just went right off the rails," Dombey said, obviously embarrassed that one of his colleagues would lose control of himself under those circumstances

He wasn't scheduled for R and R, and on the spur of the moment he couldn't think of an excuse to sign out one of the Range Rovers, so he tried to escape on foot

He tucked the snowshoes under his arm and took off down the mountain road, the same one I presume you came in on

Then he tried to tear open one of the security men's decontamination suits

For as long as he could remember, he had been fascinated with death, with the mechanics and the meaning of it, and he had longed to know what it was like on the other side - without, of course, wishing to commit himself to a one-way journey there

Each time that he personally killed someone, he felt as if he were establishing another link to the world beyond this one; and he hoped, once he had made enough of those linkages, that he would be rewarded with a vision from the other side

One day maybe he would be standing in a graveyard, before the tombstone of one of his victims, and the person he had killed would reach out to him from beyond and let him see, in some vivid clairvoyant fashion, exactly what death was like

She's going to tell me who helped her get into the labs even if I have to break her fingers one at a time to make her open up."

There is one thing..."

"What? What one thing?"

Dombey pushed one hand through his thick, curly hair

I'm going to make them believe he was the one who cooperated with you

"And if I don't stay here, if I walk away and get a job at a civilian research center, that'll be just one less rational voice in this place

If I can make them think that Zachariah was the one who spilled the secrets to you, if I can protect my position here, maybe I'll be promoted and have more influence." He smiled

But just tell me one thing

Was it one of the security people, or was it someone on the medical staff? I'd like to think it was a doctor, one of my own, who finally did the right thing."

In the room near the elevators, people were still talking and laughing, but no one stepped into the corridor.

The one you sent me pictures of in my dream

The producer, the studio, and the network never could agree on a title, and no one liked my idea - Kickass Koontz Cinema - and probably even realized I was not serious in proposing it.

This was one of my early attempts to write a cross-genre novel mixing action, suspense, romance, and a touch of the paranormal

They chose it as one of four of my novels to be developed as two-hour TV movies that would launch Popcorn, Sugar Babies, Dum Dums, and Dean or whatever the series would have been titled

I was to be an executive producer of the show and the writer of one of the first four teleplays, which would be based on my novel Darkfall

Then yet another one

In each subsequent meeting, one or the other would show up to take story notes on their latest draft, while the missing partner would always have been waylaid by an emergency of one kind or another: a broken washing machine and a flooded laundry room, the sudden-onset illness of a cat with symptoms suggesting (to me) demonic possession, the death of a beloved aunt, the death of a beloved uncle, the death of a beloved neighbor (I began to worry that merely by associating with these women, decades would be shorn from my life span), migraine headaches, and an unfortunate encounter with an angry Big Foot in a long line at the DMV

No one threatened my life; neither of these women had an unkempt beard (or a kempt one for that matter); neither of them presented us with a body-odor problem; and neither of them indulged in furious political rants that sprayed spittle on those of us who just wanted to make a TV movie.

I have room for just one example

By this time, we had passed the one-year mark in the development process, and I knew we were not going to wind up with a usable script, so I didn't insist on discussing whether the rubber tires would melt off the vehicle within two hundred yards or three, or ponder at what point the gasoline tank might explode

After reviewing the chaos that he had inherited, the new head of network decided that even though Darkfall was an exciting script, he didn't want to make a movie "about little creatures living in the walls." He decided that we would film the other script I had done; for which I received primary credit but not sole credit because of Writers Guild rules virtually guaranteeing the first writer some kind of credit as long as that writer's drafts had been composed in one of the languages spoken on Earth.

I would not be surprised to learn that one of the network-approved writers is in prison for crimes of a particularly perverse nature committed against small woodland animals - and I know that at least a couple of them are no longer in the business

Chapter one

But there was one small room at the top of the house which was always locked

Then one night he drank very heavily and ran wildly out of the house, and in the morning we found him dead in a river

'But one morning my father opened a letter to find five orange pips inside it

'More than one man, I think

Two left the country, but one didn't, so the K.K.K

Only one ship, the Star, was in the three ports at the right times, and this morning the Star left London to sail back to Georgia

He wanted to be away from Paris but near skilled workmen who could build things for his experimental so I offered him one of the old workshops of the factory

A policeman stepped out of the doorway and led us to one of the workshops where all the lights were on

'Would you like us to get one of your men to do it?'

'Isn't my poor sister-in-law's extreme interest in flies just one sign of her madness?'

She had been very willing to speak about her life with my brother - which seemed a happy and ordinary one - up to the time he died

I only know one thing, and that is that you are not insane

It would mean the end of all ways of moving things from one place to another - not only things but also people

'For one ten-millionth of a second, that ashtray has been completely disintegrated

For one little moment it did not exist! It was only atoms travelling through space at the speed of light! A moment later, the atoms were once more gathered together in the shape of an ashtray!'

Dandelo was a small white cat who had come into our garden one day and remained with us

Then one evening he came home smiling, and I knew that his troubles were over.

And then one day Andre put Miquette, our dog, into his 'transmitter'

There were papers everywhere, chairs lay on their sides, and one of the window curtains was half-torn and hanging down

I already knew that the fly Andre wanted was the one which Henri had caught and which I made him release.

Could it be the one you're looking for?'

Take one of my sleeping pills and go to bed

He moved away quickly and fell over one of the chairs

You can see that there is only one solution

"He's wearing a green and yellow hat!" one policeman says.

I had one more interruption

There were very few people that evening at the Wednesday church service, but afterwards, as I left, I saw a woman standing and looking up at one of our coloured-glass windows

As I closed it, I suddenly decided to go down to our shed, which Lawrence Redding was using as a studio, to look at Griselda's picture while no one was there

'Of course, if this were a book, the old man would die - and no one would be sorry.'

'There's one rather strange thing,' I said

And then Dennis came in full of excitement because of a footprint he had found in one of the flower beds

'You've never done one.' Before Griselda could reply, a shadow fell across the table, and a very gentle voice said, 'Please forgive me

But I haven't one bit of proof

'Have you seen my hat here - a little yellow one?' said Lettice

At first Redding didn't seem to know what he was talking about, and then said he didn't use one

'I have never seen one.'

'Not in one of the drawers beside his bed?'

'But you did hear one?'

'Yes, but did you hear any other shot - one down in the woods, perhaps?'

'Just one

'How could I have thought for one minute that Anne did it? I met her in the studio that afternoon...' He paused.

No one locks their house up round here.'

I hoped no one would see me, but of course, Miss Marple was in her garden! She stopped me and I explained I was going to meet my husband

'You promise to tell no one outside this room?'

But murder! For murder - one would need a very strong reason.'

'The one you heard, Miss Marple

'I only heard one,' said Miss Marple.

That's two strange telephone calls in one day, and I bet they were made by the same person.'

She knew we'd connect it with the first one, so she paid some village boy to make the call for her

Old Hall goes to me, but Lettice can choose enough furniture for a small house, and she will have enough money to buy one.'

I said goodbye to Anne, but there was one more thing I needed to do

It was lying with the other one in your stepmother's bedroom.'

He had brought several keys with him and in one minute, the suitcase was open

For a moment no one spoke

But no one has reported these things missing.'

Then, when it was safe, he planned to return and collect it one night

When he had gone, I said, 'Well, that's one mystery solved

The only difference I could see was that one was much dirtier than the others.

'They came by hand after lunch,' she said 'All except one

The first one said:

So one lot of silver must be a copy

And I looked through them as well, but there was no one in the house.'

'I promised that I would tell no one their name

Mrs Price Ridley said very slowly, 'She heard a sneeze on the day of the murder at a time when there was no one in your house

The second possibility is, of course, that he was sitting at the desk writing a note, but it must have been a different note from the one that was found

I have one idea that fits nearly everything

That is, except for one coincidence

And I think one coincidence is all right

More than one, of course, is not.'

'I've got one bit of news for you, Clement

I passed him one of the letters and he read it aloud.

'So it's the one man we never even thought about!' He went over to the sleeping man and shook him, at first gently, then harder

But why didn't the stupid fellow destroy this one? It just proves he's guilty! Listen, that sounds like a car.' He went to the window

That's why I am so glad Mr Hawes is safe in hospital where no one can reach him

But in real life it is usually the most obvious one

'I did not think it was right to speak until now, because I still needed one more fact in order to explain what had happened

But when he left the letter, he found the one written by Colonel Protheroe

'So that no one could discover what had happened?'

'Yes, but a different one

'The one from Mr Redding's cottage to Mrs Price Ridley?'

'Your explanation is a very good one, Miss Marple,' Melchett said

So I have bought two books: one on House Management and one on Mother Love.'

In the last years of the nineteenth century, no one believed that this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than our own

No one gave a thought to possible threats from other planets.

Because it is hardly one seventh of the size of Earth, it cooled more quickly to the temperature at which life could begin

Mars is getting colder, as one day our planet must too

Towards midnight on 12 August, one astronomer noticed a great cloud of hot gas on the surface of the planet

However, the next day there was no report in the newspapers except one small note in the Daily Telegraph, and the world knew nothing of one of the greatest dangers that ever threatened Earth.

That night, too, there was another sudden cloud of gas from the distant planet as a second missile started on its way to Earth from Mars, just under twenty-four hours after the first one

He watched until one, and then we lit the lamp and walked over to his house.

No one on Earth has attempted to explain why the shots ended after this

But no one suspected the truth, that the Martians had fired missiles, which were now rushing towards us at a speed of many kilometres a second across the great emptiness of space.

Denning, our greatest astronomer, said that the height of its first appearance was about one hundred and fifty kilometres

He remained standing on one side of the pit that the Thing had made for itself, staring at its strange appearance and thinking that there might be some intelligent design in its shape

He was deaf in one ear.

The head of the thing was rounded and had, one could say, a face

Suddenly, there was a flash of light and bright greenish smoke came out of the pit in three separate clouds, which moved up, one after the other, into the still air.

Two men and a woman were talking at the gate of one of the houses

'Eh?' said one of the men, turning.

'There is one good thing,' I said, to calm her fears

If, on that Friday night, you had drawn a circle at a distance of five kilometres from Horsell Common, I doubt if there would have been one human being outside it, unless it was a relation of Stent, whose emotions or habits were affected by the new arrivals

Several officers had been on the common earlier in the day and one was reported to be missing

Another one arrived and was busy questioning the crowd at midnight

They told me that no one was allowed over the bridge

Then one of our chimneys cracked and broken bricks fell down onto the flower-bed by my study window.

The horse did not move (his neck was broken, poor animal!) and by the lightning flashes I saw the turned-over cart and one wheel still spinning slowly

As it passed it gave a deafening howl that was louder than the thunder - 'Aloo! Aloo!' - and a minute later it was with another one, half a kilometer away, bending over something in a field

The view opened out until, on one side, it reached to the houses around Woking Station, and on the other, to the burnt woods of Byfleet

'Have a drink,' I said, pouring one for him.

They were turning their gun to fire on one of the tripods when it suddenly exploded

He hid behind a broken wall as one of the Martian tripods returned

He saw this one go after a man, catch him in one of its steel arms and knock his head against a tree

In one night the valley had become a place of death

I saw one old man with a big box and a number of flower-pots, angrily arguing with a soldier who wanted him to leave them behind.

Quickly, one after the other, one, two, three, four of the Martian machines appeared, far away over the low trees towards Chertsey

Then, from a different direction, a fifth one came towards us

They had passed me and two were bending over the fallen one.

Then I saw the four of them carrying the remains of the fallen one between them, now clear and then later faint through a curtain of smoke, moving away from me across a great space of river and fields

The morning papers on Saturday contained, in addition to a great deal of information about the planet Mars, one very short report.

No one in London knew what the Martians looked like, and there was still a fixed idea that they must be slow: 'crawling', 'moving painfully' - words like these were in all the earlier reports

Five of the machines had been seen moving towards the Thames and one, by a lucky chance, had been destroyed

There was a man with his wife and two boys and some pieces of furniture in a cart, and close behind him came another one with five or six well-dressed people and some boxes and cases

My brother spoke to several of the refugees but none could give him any news of Woking, except one man who said that it had been totally destroyed the previous night.

There were one or two carts with refugees going along Oxford Street, but the news was spreading so slowly that Regent Street and Portland Place were full of people taking their usual Sunday night walk

The guns fired one ineffective shell each, then the soldiers ran away

They aimed their guns well and fired at a distance of about one kilometer.

The fallen Martian used its voice, and immediately a second one answered it, appearing over the trees to the south

It seemed that one of its three legs had been broken

The shells blew up, the trees all around the guns caught fire and only one or two of the men escaped.

The other one did the same

I expected at least to see smoke or fire, but there was only the deep-blue sky above and one single star

Some fired only one of these, some two or more

The government, already falling apart, made one last effort

He got his hands on one

The other, younger one was hitting the man who held her arm with a whip.

The less brave of the two attackers ran away, and the other one followed cursing him

It one had flown over London that morning, every road to the north or east would have seemed black with moving refugees, everyone a frightened and exhausted human being.

And over the blue hills to the south of the river, the Martians moved backwards and forwards, calmly spreading their poison clouds over one piece of country and then over another

At about one o'clock in the afternoon, the thin remains of a cloud of Black Smoke was seen coming through London's Blackfriars Bridge

The sixth one fell in Wimbledon

This was the Thunder Child, the only one in sight, but far away to the right a column of smoke marked the position of other warships

If the ship had fired one shell, they would have sent it straight to the bottom with the Heat-Ray.

They saw the three thin figures separating and rising out of the water as they moved back towards the shore, and one of them raised the box that fired his Heat-Ray

The guns of the Thunder Child were heard going off one after another, and one shot hit the water close by the steamboat.

No one worried about that very much

As soon as the curate caught up with me, we saw either the fighting-machine we had seen before or another one, far away across the fields

It did not use its Heat-Ray, but picked them up one by one and threw them into a large metal box which stuck out behind it.

When we got to Sheen, the curate said that he felt unwell and we decided to try one of the houses.

The one we chose was in a walled garden, and in the kitchen we found some food

The cylinder was already open in the centre of the pit, and on the furthest side one of the great fighting-machines, empty now, stood tall and unmoving against the evening sky

The hole was only big enough for one of us to look through, so I had to stop watching them for a time while he had his chance.

The whole scene was one of moving lights and shadows, difficult for the eyes

Then, through a sort of glass plate, I saw the large, dark eyes of a Martian, and one of its tentacles appeared, moving in through the hole.

I searched every room for food until, when I was ready to give up, I found some bread and two tins of fruit in one of the bedrooms

Later, in the bar, I found some sandwiches that no one had noticed

There is only food for one

'They've lost one - just one

The death of that one at Weybridge was an accident

As soon as they've destroyed all our guns and ships and railways, they'll begin to catch us one by one, picking the best and keeping us in cages and things

'Oh, one can't always work,' he said, and in a flash I understood the man clearly.

A jeweller's window had been broken open in one place, but the thief had clearly been chased away, because a number of gold chains and a watch were lying on the pavement

Great piles of earth had formed around a pit at the top of the hill - the final and largest one the Martians had made - and from behind these piles thin smoke rose against the sky

I was a sad one too, and they were patient with me

I learned nothing new except that already in one week the examination of the Martians' machines had produced amazing results

No one had closed it since then

'No one has been here for ten days

No one escaped except you.'

In one area I shall certainly be criticized

Seven months ago, when these planets were close together, faint, dark marks appeared on photographs which suggested that a cylinder had been fired from one to the other.

It has taken away our confidence in the future, which was making us soft; it has given great help to science, and it has made us think of human beings as one family.

Part one

Sherlock Holmes did not like aimless physical exercise, but one spring day I persuaded him to go for a walk with me in the park

'You see,' Holmes said to me, 'I needed a case, and now I have lost this one because we went for a walk in the park.'

So, this man must like his pipe very much if he prefers to mend it instead of buying a new one with the same money.'

They had one child, but there was a yellow fever epidemic there, and both her husband and child died of it

'There is one more thing I should tell you

'The next day I had to go to the City, but I was so worried about my wife that I returned early to Norbury at about one o'clock

'After that everything went well, but one day I returned home early

I walked into the house and found no one, but upstairs I found a comfortable room, and on the mantelpiece stood a full-length photograph of my wife

In one corner there was a desk, and at that desk there was a desk, and at that desk there appeared to be a little girl.

Mr Grant Munro did not say anything for two minutes, and his answer was one of which I love to think

I began reading the book from the letter 'a' to the letter 'z' I had the symptoms of all the diseases in the book, except for one!

After all, normal patients have only one or two diseases each.

The only one who didn't like the idea was Montmorency, my fox-terrier

We were three to one

In one year, he had one hundred and fourteen street fights with other dogs

He sent one of the girls to buy the nails

Then he sent one of the boys to tell her the size of the nails

So each one of us climbed up on the chair to look for the place

Each one thought it was a different place

Packing is one of those things that I do best.

At one in the morning, the packing was finished

When he saw that no one was in the water, he returned to his work.

No one knew what happened to Aunt Mary.

The third one runs around and laughs all the time.

Then one of them decides to stop, because she needs her hat

I Now one of them needs a comb for her hair

George took one part of the cover

No one wanted to be first

It had half a tail, half a nose and only one ear

We decided to return to one of the Shiplake islands to spend the night.

We can put everything into one big pan.'

Harris said, 'On this boat, I'm the only one who works.'

I'm the only one who works

We didn't say one word

We looked at one another

If she had one of those university boys for a boyfriend, wouldn't he come and take her home every evening? Certainly, Joe would love to do exactly that - with his taxi

Would it really be so dangerous? Doesn't one government car look like another - the hugeness of it, the dark glass, the driver in uniform? She can already see herself stepping out of the car to greet the other girls, who look at her with eyes like knives

'Little sister, you and I can be truthful with one another

Lots of taxi drivers own their taxis in the end, sometimes more than one.'

'Which one?'

'I see,' she said, and for the first time in the one month since she agreed to be this man's lover, the tears which suddenly rose into her eyes came there naturally.

After all, she was sure to hear it one day.'

I have got you one of the government houses.'

He hates tears, because, like many men, he knows they are one of the strongest weapons that women have.

There is one thing he must make her understand, though.

She had wanted this thing for a long time, and yet one side of her said that accepting it was wrong

Are those shoes the old pair which were new a couple of months ago? Or are they the newest pair? And here she is herself, the pretty one

'Which one?'

'Wasn't there a picture in The Crystal over the weekend of his daughter's wedding? And another one of him with his wife and children and grandchildren?' said James.

'Because I hope that there's one you don't know - one who lives in Hampshire.'

'I'm Marian Halcombe, one of your new students

'I like a quiet life, and recently I had such an adventure that I don't want another one for years.' As we ate breakfast side by side like two old friends, I told Miss Halcombe about the woman in white

'All of it? Is there no one else you wish to include in your will?'

The man was too lazy to look after the interests of his own niece! I went to Limmeridge the next day and told him that no one should sign a marriage settlement like this - it gave the husband a large financial interest in the death of his wife! But Mr Fairlie did not want to listen

When we speak of your husband's secret, we must be in a safe place, where no one can hear us.

However, since Madame Fosco was forty-three and Laura was twenty-one, that was unlikely

The journey from here to Cumberland is too long to do in one day.'

I certify that Lady Glyde, aged twenty-one, died on 25 July 1850 at 5 Forest Road, London

When they saw me, one lifted up her veil

Imagine my feelings, Walter, when I saw my dear sister there in the asylum, and that everyone believed she was Anne Catherick! I gave the nurse one hundred pounds to help Laura escape

I took one, using a false name, and Marian and Laura lived in the other under the same name; I said they were my sisters

My one hope now was to prove Laura's identity, but Mr Kyrle, having heard the whole story, said that it would be impossible

Fear nothing! No one will follow you or your lovely companion if you leave us in peace

'We must bring them to justice! We must give Laura back her true identity! Mr Kyrle says we can't prove that she is Lady Glyde, so we must force one of them to confess it

'Not the one before me - his name was Catherick - but the one before him

Here's the register for 1804 and the one for 1803, sir.'

No one in Hampshire knew anything about her marriage, so when Sir F said that he had married her, no one suspected anything

No one suspected that he wasn't the legitimate heir

How I hated him! He forced me to stay here in this village, where they all talked about me but no one spoke to me! Finally, now, after all these years, I have earned their respect

Mrs Fairlie was a foolish ugly woman who had somehow managed to marry one of the most handsome men in England.

The one weak point in that man's iron character is the admiration he feels for me

I thought of those famous words from the Bible: 'The sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children.' The fatal similarity between two daughters of one father had caused all this suffering.

Each member of the Brotherhood has a scar like this one on his arm.' Pesca rolled up his sleeve and showed me a small red scar

As Malala has said, "One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

The fight for the vote was one of the greatest fights that women have had

The most famous one was called "Freedom or Death"

On 2nd July 1928, women were given equal voting rights with men they could vote at the age of twenty-one

In 1999, Time magazine called Emmeline Pankhurst one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century

Hatoon al-Fassi was one of the first Saudi Arabian women to vote

When we use the word "feminism", we are talking about a number of political and social movements and ideas that have one goal

In 1929, when she was twenty-one years old, she met Jean-Paul Sartre, the philosopher

They were together for fifty-one years, until he died in 1980

She was one of the most famous scientists the world has ever known.

American Emily Levesque is one of them

Nancy wanted women of twenty-one years old to vote

In 1928, women got the vote at twenty-one.

Jacinda Ardern has said, "I hope that one day this will not be interesting anymore." She wants it to be normal for women to be in politics and to be mothers.

Mary Wallace "Wally" Funk was one of them

Thirteen women pilots were asked to join it, and Wally Funk was one of them.

In one test, the women were placed in special rooms with water where they could not hear anything or see anything

Other people said she had to look after her husband and her children! But Fanny started the 1948 Games by winning two races - one of them was the 100 metres

Fanny Blankers-Koen was one of the first women to show that women could also be great athletes

Still, she told her mother that she was going to be number one in the world

She was number one in the world in women's tennis

She was number one for five years in total (1967- 1968, 1971-1972 and 1974).

Today, tennis is one of the few sports that pays its men and women the same in big tournaments

He won the Wimbledon men's tournament in 1939, and he was the world number one tennis player in 1941, 1946 and 1947

She was one of the greatest tennis players ever

Chapter one

Where is Zorro on this stormy night?" asks one soldier.

Who is he? Where is he from? He wears a black mask and no one can see his face

"No one can stop him

The Governor of California offers a big reward for the capture of Zorro," says one soldier.

He has a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.

"Look, it is Zorro!" says one of the young men.

"We want to help the poor, the natives and the friars too," says one young man.

He has a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.