There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.

This one was actually more of a `` near miss ''.

Land was near, and on June 12, one hundred and fourteen days after leaving America, they actually saw, twenty miles away, the coast of Orissa.

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.

whose chord is one hundred and sixty feet, and whose vortex is forty feet ( it was actually 37 feet ) above the high-water mark.

As I was playing Mother Cabrini, the picture was actually `` all mine '', with nearly every scene built around me.

Instead of being depressed by this news, Mr. Crombie was actually relieved.

But the greater part of semester time was actually centered around the attitudes: `` So we are married -- now how do we make the best of it ''??

He was oblivious of the form of the object actually being viewed, precisely because he could not assign it to a visual shape, already learned and held in visual memory, as persons of normal vision do.

A British officer had come aboard and told him that in case of enemy air attack he was not to open fire until bombs were actually dropped.

On one of his 1921 ventures he was actually come upon by a Detective Sergeant John J. Ryan down on his knees with a tool embedded in a labour office safe in the Postal Telegraph Building ; ;

Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

But aside from everything else, it would scarcely be pleasant to have dealings with one who was nominally an underling and actually held -- you could say -- the whip hand.

Only those actually with Payne when he was shot, or who had left the party within not more than five minutes ( make five arbitrary ) positively had none.

Caucusing, the liberals decided to go after Colmer, which actually was the more drastic course, since seniority in the House is next to godliness.

Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders.

But actually these accounts reveal the supernatural powers that the masters were in fact supposed to possess, as well as the extreme degree of popular credulity: `` Hwang Pah ( O Baku ), one day going up Mount Tien Tai which was believed to have been inhabited by Arhats with supernatural powers, met with a monk whose eyes emitted strange light.

He was actually walking down the stairs.

John did find the missing checks and money afterward, and the drive was actually oversubscribed, which was a real bit of luck for the missionaries.

In the state she was in, she could actually kill him!!

Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

When it was over, eight of his company were still alive and all eight were wounded.

Laura was sitting in an easy chair about eight feet away.

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

When paper electrophoresis was to be used for preparation, eight strips of a whole serum sample or a chromatographic fraction concentrated by negative pressure dialysis were run/chamber under the conditions described above.

Mrs. B. compared her feelings of weakness to her feelings of weakness and helplessness at the time of her mother's death when she was eight, as well as her subsequent anger at her father for remarrying.

She was hired and was found to be entirely satisfactory when she played the role eight hours a day.

Shot six or eight times the body was draped with Russell's pistol, belt, and cartridges.

When she reached port, she was found to have on board only eight men, all near starvation.

He was standing at the end of the bar enjoying a slug of cognac when Rourke came in six or eight minutes later.

Actually it was no more than eight or ten minutes, and the sum of his reasoning came to this:

Casey kept his smile fixed, but some small inner disturbance was working on him as he thought again about Needham, who was eight or ten years older than the girl.

The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.

Nischwitz was working on a 3-hitter when the Indians bunched three of their eight hits for two runs in the sixth.

Attorneys for the eight other defendants said only that there was no proof of their clients' guilt.

The NLRB said that of 11 potentially eligible voters eight voted against the union, two voted for it, and one vote was challenged.

One of the eight defendants was freed on a directed verdict of acquittal.