I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

Bang-Jensen never explained what the documents or papers were that he had in his possession.

For his part, Thompson had explained in a previous letter that there would be nothing but an honorable friendship between Katie and himself.

There, to the Evening Post, she emphatically denied the divorce rumors and explained that she had stayed behind because of the schooling of their son, which henceforth would be strictly American.

He explained his errand, but without bothering much to make it plausible, for he felt something well up in him which was the reason why he had fled the army.

When Michelangelo explained why he had come, Rabbi Melzi replied gravely:

Alex explained that they had been out for a stroll before breakfast while the doctor edged around behind him, attempting to hide the protuberance at his left side behind Alex's arm and back.

At the outset, the Government's spokesman explained that counsel for the Government and for Du Pont had already held preliminary discussions with a view to arriving at a relief plan that both sides could recommend to the court.

and, although he later explained that he was talking French, it seems rather more likely that he had succumbed to the joys of the evening.

Roleplaying was offered as a solution -- and the procedure worked as follows: all candidates were invited to a hotel conference room, where the president explained the difficulty he had, and how unnecessary it seemed to him to hire people who just did not work out.

He explained the background of the case, ending with the tenuous clue which had brought him to Gulf Springs.

Bonner explained that, with the nightclub's cooperation, the police had occupied El Dorado like a battlefield.

I explained, however, that I had my share of hardship in making my daily pilgrimage to the feet of wisdom.

Finally, it did seem clear as day to these clergymen, as Gannett's son explained in the biography of his father, they had always contended for the propriety of their claim to the title of Christians.

Regretfully Sam explained that he had no experience with boxcars.

She had explained it -- something about summer people's eating out and not enough space in the units.

He denounced secession as anarchy, and explained that majority rule had to be balanced by constitutional restraints in the American system.

The link between the Mosaic Law and Alfred's code is the " Apostolic Letter ," which explained that Christ " had come not to shatter or annul the commandments but to fulfill them ; and he taught mercy and meekness " ( Intro, 49. 1 ).

In these sources, Benjamin swore an oath, on the memory of Joseph, that he was innocent of theft, and, when challenged about how believable the oath would be, explained that remembering Joseph was so important to him that he had named his sons in Joseph's honour ; these sources go on to state that Benjamin's oath touched Joseph so deeply that Joseph was no longer able to pretend to be a stranger.

In an " eager fumbling manner " Pasternak explained that himself and Mandelstam each had a completely different philosophy about poetry.

In a subsequent letter to the daughter of Marina Tsvetaeva, Pasternak explained that the attack was motivated by the fact that the supernatural elements of the play, which Novy Mir considered, " irrational ," had been translated as Goethe had written them.

The minutes revealed that in laying out the government's position Curzon had explained that: " Palestine was included in the areas as to which Great Britain pledged itself that they should be Arab and independent in the future ".

::... explained his aspirations as to the repatriation of the Jews to the sacred land they had made famous.

By simply denying that an efficient first cause is problematic, being easily explained as the creative action of an omnipotent God, medieval theologians re-purposed and enhanced Aristotle's argument, as if the intention had been to prove God's existence.

On October 30, 1936 Hashimi had the dubious distinction of being the first Iraqi prime minister deposed in a coup, led by General Bakr Sidqi and a coalition of ethnic minorities.

Hashimi records that in October 1947, shortly after the UN Special Committee on Palestine recommended partition as a solution and after Syria had failed to win either Saudi Arabia or Egypt over to the idea of an anti-Hashemite military alliance, Quwwatli explained:

* March 1980: Jamshid Hashimi, international arms dealer, is visited by William Casey at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, who asks that a meeting be arranged with " someone in Iran who had authority to deal on the hostages ".

The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

And he had a feeling -- thanks to the girl -- that things would get worse before they got better.

Twenty years before a group of Easterners had bought out the Haskell claims in the rocky hills south of Grass Valley.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

Where before had she felt or dreamt or imagined such a scene??

She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.

Joyce had seen him like this once before -- more than once, actually, but on one particularly memorable occasion.

The cook, Mateo Garcia, had arrived there long before the herd.

They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.

He had to make Jess talk, and he had to do it before Stacey Black got curious and came to investigate.

As luck had it, he had not gone twenty feet in the street before Pat appeared.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

He had not covered a hundred yards before a gun crashed from somewhere behind.

Greg climbed into the cockpit feeling as if he had never been in one before.

Greg had the stick forward and the throttle up before he heard the two `` Rogers ''.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.