action

A confederate who foresees your conclusions and course of action is always dangerous, but one to whom each development comes as a perpetual surprise, and to whom the future is always a closed book, is, indeed, an ideal helpmate.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association.

Then he was hit with a bullet from an elephant gun in the action near Diamond Hill outside Pretoria.

But my action angered the Wicked Witch of the East, for she had promised the old woman I should not marry the pretty Munchkin girl.