Jake caught him unawares and shot him while he prayed, occupied with his salvation.

What should have been an earth-shaking revelation about the senator's affair with a Chinese spy was overshadowed by the final episode of "The Bachelor."

Pierre's sense of smell and taste had become so refined by his years as a wine taster that he could no longer abide riding the metro for the waves of odors that continually made him swoon.

He thought he saw her there, standing in the pale moonlight, but it was just a trick of light and shadow.

Gen. Jacob "Blood and Guts" Johnston was a pen pusher whose only combat wound had been a paper cut. 

I saw the egg crack and my boy, so long a coward, became a man and struck me down.

Nick's failed robbery won him a ticket to a brutal world of steel, claustrophobia and blood for the next nine years.