All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

Pain shot up Curt's arm clear to the shoulder, but Jess seemed hardly aware that he had been hit.

Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

No man ever had a better opinion of himself and indeed, with one so favored, flattery could hardly seem overdone.

Along the main thoroughfares hardly a house had not been peppered.

A vague feeling that Anthony Payne had had it coming was hardly a thought and was, in any event, reprehensible.

They can hardly restrain themselves from raising the question of whether Republicans, if they had been in power, would have made `` amateurish and monumental blunders '' in Cuba.

Foods, which long had been considered `` recession resistant '' but hardly dynamic stocks, have been acting like growth stocks, going to higher price-earnings ratios.

Negro lawyers dug into the records of 300 white students, found that many were hardly interviewed at all -- and few had academic records as good as Hamilton Holmes.

Thirty-one minutes later, when it took off for El Paso, hardly anyone of the crew of six or the 65 other passengers paid any attention to the man and teen-age boy who had come aboard.

But we had hardly started to adjust our thinking to this new uranium weapon when we were faced with the hydrogen bomb.

But when Miss Jen went over right away to return the call, Miss Kiz couldn't have been very cordial, for she'd come back before she hardly had time to get there.

They all had the hard look of gamblers who had stopped dreaming, who automatically turned the cards, hardly caring what showed up.

Tallard wrote a report to this effect to King Louis that morning, but hardly had he sent the messenger when the Allied army began to appear opposite his camp.

Those who regard this homage as cynical should note that, cynical or not, such a move would hardly have benefited those involved, had Claudius been " hated ", as some commentators, both modern and historic, characterize him.

Brotherly affection was likely at a minimum, but this was hardly surprising, considering that Domitian had barely seen Titus after the age of seven.

At the point the German ships opened fire with accurately determined ranges for their guns, Beatty's ships were still maneuvering, some could not see the enemy because of their own smoke, and hardly any had the opportunity of a period of steady course as they approached to properly determine target range.

It took several months after its publication for the poem to make Thayer famous, since he was hardly the boastful type and had signed the June 24 poem with the nickname " Phin " which he had used since his time on the Lampoon.

If such an extraordinary event had actually taken place ... could the king have withstood the attitude of the native nobles, who would hardly have looked upon such an occurrence without offering armed resistance to their feeble and capricious sovereign?

Swiss German dialects are hardly languages with low prestige in Switzerland ( see Chambers, Sociolinguistic Theory ).

When still hardly fifteen he was already the author of numerous metrical translations from Ovid, Horace and Virgil, as well as of original lyrics, dramas, and an epic of four thousand lines on the origin of the Swiss confederations, writings which he is said on one occasion to have rescued from a fire at the risk of his life, only, however, to burn them a little later ( 1729 ) with his own hand.

It was as if they could hardly wait to get into their costumes, cover their faces with masks and go adventuring.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

It is hardly accidental, therefore, that many of his most vivid figures do suggestive or eccentric things with their hands.

) Amateur linguists note here that Pursewarden, in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, stammered when he spoke of his wife, which is hardly surprising in view of their disastrous relationship.

Tsunami are so shallow in comparison with their length that in the open ocean they are hardly detectable.

What is noteworthy about this large group of teen-agers is that, although their attitudes hardly differentiate them from their gentile counterparts, they actually lead their lives in a vast self-enclosed Jewish cosmos with relatively little contact with the non-Jewish world.

As Hans Mayer says, " the Muslim inhabitants of the Latin Kingdom hardly ever appear in the Latin chronicles ", so information on their role in society is difficult to find.

" While this extraordinary scene was transacting, the members, hardly believing their own ears and eyes, sat in mute amazement, horror, and pity of the maniac traitor who was storming and raving before them.

Mozi probably advocated this idea in response to the fact that during the Warring States period, Zhou King and the landlords spent countless time in the development of delicate music while ordinary peasants could hardly meet their subsistence needs.

" However, Bob Longigo of the Atlanta Journal Constitution was less enthusiastic about Cruz and Damon's performance, saying that their " resulting onscreen chemistry would hardly warm a can of beans.

Brooks Atkinson for the New York Times wrote, " Although Miss Leigh and Mr. Olivier are handsome young people they hardly act their parts at all.

For some were taken & clapt up in prison, others had their houses besett & watcht night and day, & hardly escaped their hands ; and ye most were faine to flie & leave their howses & habitations, and the means of their livelehood.

But as Jones ( 2009 ) points out, Esterházy was hardly alone in doing this ; during this same period, " the steady decline in the number of orchestras supported by aristocratic families represented a ... change that affected all composers and their works.

Those in favor of the Prime Directive have said that no one has the right to impose their own standards on others and it is hardly moral cowardice to keep to a difficult, but ultimately beneficial principle in the face of temptation.

There was a small amount of activity there in the 7th century, but the city was now hardly more than a village.

While hardly anyone in Zalma is buried there anymore, the cemetery maintains historical significance to the village and Bollinger County.

All the landscape of the nearer foreground was familiar — its sights, its sounds, its smells ; hardly a field that did not call up some half-forgotten bit of association ; the red-roofed village and nearby hamlets, gathered as it were for company round the old greystone church, where men and women like ourselves, now long dead and gone, had once knelt in worship and prayer.

Benny Morris considers that the capture of the village, insignificant on the military point of view, can hardly be considered as a " battle ".

On the turn of 17th century the town which had been previously thriving was hardly larger than a mere village and the population of it was not larger than 200 people.

Samuel Harrison wrote: “ The populous village of Malin Bridge experienced the full fury of the flood, and suffered to an extent which is truly appalling … A bombardment with the newest and most powerful artillery could hardly have proved so destructive, and could not possibly have been nearly so fatal to human life .”

Everyone silent, but many with tears running from their eyes ... The King was very pallid, Amélia animated, Maria Pia was overwhelmed ... The boats had hardly come alongside the yacht, when in the village there appeared, coming from Sintra, a automobile with civil revolutionaries, armed with carbines and bearing bombs, which they later indicated they were prepared to throw at the beach, if they had reached it at the time of the departure ...".

Its economy was nourished by the rich farmland in its vicinity ; indeed, approaching the village today from Mullinahone, Moyglass, Cashel, Clonmel or Kilsheelan, one travels along roads that twist around fields which have been ploughed and grazed many times but which have hardly changed shape since the Middle Ages.

This arrangement could hardly continue, but the topography of the village was challenging.

Ram Dulari Sinha was born in a small village Manikpur in this district, she made her parents and village proud when she did her masters in the pre-independence era when hardly any girl child used to go to school and even did masters in another subject and became the first woman in Bihar to have done double M. A, but the irony is such that Smt.

Pakenham found at the foot of the mountain a village that " hardly deserved the name ".