He scrubbed absent-mindedly at the pans and reflected on how things had turned out.

He turned and looked around at the lobby as though seeing things he hadn't before noticed.

His thoughts turned to other things.

It turned out to be a life of Martin Luther, of all things!!

This can be seen in a popular Latin anagram against the Jesuits: " Societas Jesu " turned into " Vitiosa seces ", or " cut off the wicked things ".

The distinguished governor and major of the capital, who already has both hands full of things to do, has turned to our lofty piety in order to reorganize the entry and exit of all ships through the Dardanelles ... ...

However this did not make Reynolds happy, as he wrote to Boswell: " If I had known what a shabby miserable place it is, I would not have asked for it ; besides as things have turned out I think a certain person is not worth speaking to, nor speaking of ", presumably meaning the King.

Aged and anxious, Abdullah bin Jassim turned to the British, promised to abdicate, and agreed, among other things, to an official British presence in Qatar in exchange for recognition and support for Ali bin Abdullah as ruler in 1949.

Within the code size limit of only a few kilobytes, contestants have managed to do impressively complicated things — a 2004 winner turned out an operating system.

" Despite Whedon's intentions of not making Buffy about overcoming issues, he said Willow's exploration of her sexuality " turned out to be one of the most important things we've done on the show ".

After several initial reverses, he became accommodating but as the Catholics turned things around and began to enjoy a long string of successes at arms he set forth the Edict of Restitution in 1629 vastly complicating the politics of settlement negotiations and prolonging the rest of the war ; encouraged by the mid-war successes, he became even more forceful leading to infamies by his armies such as the Sack of Magdeburg.

And although they put up a front of having a good time, one senses that things haven't turned out well for them — either in terms of meaningful relationships or in terms of personal fulfillment.

And these things are done, they believe, because of Derketo and Semiramis, the first because Derketo has the shape of a fish, and the other because ultimately Semiramis turned into a dove.

" What a brilliant excuse that's turned out to be, for so many things.

" It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did ... for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

" The mystery of love, the push and the shove / Of friendship betrayed, of plans I mislaid ,/ The oceans I crossed, the things that I lost / And the world in my hand as dreams turned to sand ", including his 1978 plane accident and his subsequent brain damage: "

If we had been able to accept that I would go out and earn the money and he would concentrate on running the home, things might have turned out better .... For three years I was besotted with this loveable reprobate, but then the icing on the cake began to chip off and the love started to wear thin.

A stream of Dre-dissing records followed, but things turned tragic in September 1996, when Shakur was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.

It turned out, one of the first things removed from the canal was a large plug that had been installed to allow the canal to drain in an emergency.

As things turned out, however, the horse was injured, and only ran one race.

A percentage of consumers have begun to question the viability of industrial agriculture practices and have turned to organic groceries that sell products produced on family farms including not only meat and produce but also such things as wheat germ breads and natural lye soaps ( as opposed to bleached white breads and petroleum based detergent bars ).

Peter Reid was brought in as manager, and quickly turned things around.

But by a very strange fate, he turned out to be, of all unlikely things, the right man.

After the tour in support of 10, things turned sour over a dispute about royalty-sharing.

She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.

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 ; ;

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

I cannot think things out too well.

A fire had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been set out for drinks, and, like any stray, his response to these comforts was instantaneous.

Soon we were deep in a conversation that was interrupted many times by little things like Jennie's holding her breath and pretending to black out, Miranda's dumping the contents of the sugar bowl on the table, and various screeches, thuds, and giggles.

But then, when you stuck things into the holes, why didn't they come right out again??

He said he was the lonely type and working in a cellar you saw funny things coming out of the cracks in the wall if they wasn't nobody with you.

We now know that things rarely ever work out in such cut-and-dried fashion, and that car loadings, while perhaps interesting enough, are nevertheless not the magic formula that will always turn before stock prices turn.

`` There are things about me that I can't tell you now, Mary Jane '', I said, `` but if you'll go out to dinner with me when I get out of Hanover, I'd like to tell you the whole story.

When things got a little out of hand, they very rapidly got a lot out of hand -- it seemed to be a general rule.

While they were away Blanche came into the office every morning, running things as she had always run them for Stanley, going through the week in a dazed stupor, getting things done automatically, out of habit.

Starting with the room completely blacked out, as it was when we came in, he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of glare.

Sort things out, damn it.

It was a big room, empty except for a few things of Pops's at the far end -- a wooden crate on which stood the candle, a spread out blanket, and an unrolled bindle.

We met at Maxine's and decided we were set to stay as long as it took, into or even through the evening, to talk things out.