By now Curt was seeing clearly again.

By now Harmony could see that most of the adults in the train were winded and resting, or else siphoned off from the games by the challenging lure of the great cliff towering above them.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

By now he was undergoing a fresh torrent of abuse from Tory papers and pamphlets, and action was being taken to effect his punishment by expulsion from Parliament.

By now he had become Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and had been honored by the award of the Order of Merit.

By 1783 her legions had managed to annex the Crimea amid scenes of wanton cruelty and now, in this second combat with the Crescent, were aiming at suzerainty over all of the Black Sea's northern shoreline.

`` By one fell swoop the Court now finds that Congress indulged in needless legislation in the acts of 1910, 1913, 1925, 1934 and 1937.

By these measures, Congress, so the Court ( in effect ) now decides, gave not only needless but inadequate relief, since it now appears that the federal courts have inherent power to sterilize the Act of 1875 against all proceedings challenging local regulation ''.

By July 1, six weeks from now, motel-keepers all over the nation will, by 6 p.m., be switching on that bleak -- to motorists -- sign, `` No Vacancy ''.

By now few Angolans retain African traditional religions following different ethnic faiths.

By 454, the Delian League could be fairly characterized as an Athenian Empire ; at the start of the Peloponnesian War, only Chios and Lesbos were left to contribute ships, and these states were by now far too weak to secede without support.

By now, the war is nearing its end and the German Army is retreating.

By 1722, his son Mahmud captured what is now Iran and declared himself as Shah of Persia.

It continues to the present day in much the same format, but is now entitled " Beachcomber ", not " By the Way ".

By now Blenheim was under assault from every side by three English generals: Cutts, Churchill, and Orkney.

By now, England were coached by Alf Ramsey who had managed to gain sole control of the recruitment and team selection procedure from the committee-based call-up system which had lasted up to the previous World Cup.

By now the rebel forces were said to have numbered 230, 000, however, this number should be treated with scepticism — Dio's account is known only from a late epitome, and ancient sources commonly exaggerate enemy numbers.

By the 18th century, the area from Sambas to Berau were tributaries to the Banjar Kingdom, but this eventually shrunk to the size of what is now South Kalimantan as a result of agreements with the Dutch.

By now she was pretty well used to these funny ways of his.

Boroughs proliferated in the suburban areas of the larger cities: By the 1980s there were 19 boroughs and three cities in the area that is now the City of Auckland.

By now, Deutsche Grammophon, Berliner's company and the publisher of the Strauss recording, had become a part of PolyGram.

By now Elsie and Frances were tired of the whole fairy business.

By this time large Chinese infantry-based armies of 100, 000 to 200, 000 troops were now buttressed with several hundred thousand mounted cavalry in support or as an effective striking force.

By the end of the story, there is little physical difference between the body of the hero, now called Andrew, and humans equipped with advanced prosthetics, save for the presence of Andrew's artificial positronic brain.

By what one reader called a `` series of dissolving views '', he merges one period into another and gives a sense of continuous growth.

By that time, Julius had become a voracious reader, particularly fond of Horatio Alger.

By setting the story in the ruined abbey, Radcliffe was able to use architecture to draw on the aesthetic theories of the time and set the tone of the story in the minds of the reader.

By the end of the story, rebels have established themselves at another stellar system — where their descendants, the reader is told, would eventually build a liberating fleet and set out back to Earth.

By extension, the reader should not believe that the pair dies ; the reader is expected to accept that they are literary figures that live on today.

By working through the propositions of the book the reader comes to realize that language is perfectly suited to all his needs, and that philosophy rests on a confused relation to the logic of our language.

By thus emphasizing the presence of the reader and leaving images and arguments half-formed, Paine encourages his readers to complete them independently.

By preparing the tape " off-line " and then sending the message with a tape reader, the line could operate continuously rather than depending on continuous " on-line " typing by a single operator.

By contrast, round characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader.

" By drawing upon salient examples from everyday life, Ritzer invites the reader to examine the nuances of these concepts in conjunction with the paradoxes within the process of the globalization of nothing.

By juxtaposing, usurping and manipulating images and ideas in surprising ways, a conceit invites the reader into a more sophisticated understanding of an object of comparison.

By placing the passages in two columns it is clear to the reader as it is to Baswell that the interpretations are congruent, although the notes in Peterhouse appear to be shortened and simpler versions of notes in the Silvestris commentary.

By showing examples of unjustified unbelief in verses 10-13, and stating that unbelievers will be condemned and that believers will be validated by signs, the author may have been attempting to convince the reader to rely on what the disciples preached about Jesus.

By 2001, with Metrodome's peculiarities revealed, and several newer purpose-built Major League Baseball stadiums constructed, an ESPN Page 2 reader poll ranked it as one of the worst Major League Baseball stadiums.

By extension, handwaving is used in speculative fiction criticism to refer to a plot device ( e. g., a scientific discovery, a political development, or rules governing the behavior of a fictional creature ) that is left unexplained or sloppily explained because it is convenient to the story, with the implication that the writer is aware of the logical weakness but hopes the reader will not notice or will suspend disbelief.

By choice there followed a succession of jobs ' of no special consequence and with no connection from one to the next ', which she held briefly, and which began with work as an assistant mistress at Silchester House, a girls ' boarding school in Taplow in the Thames valley, and included being a sceretary ; a reader for the elderly Dame Elizabeth Cadbury ; and the proprietor of an office in Victoria Street, London, for typing and secretarial work.

By placing the reader amongst a world of ideas that change the course of science, Stephenson explores the development of the scientific method.

By that time certain conventions and clichés had been established which limited any surprises on the part of the reader to the twists and turns within the plot and of course to the identity of the murderer.

By apparent chance to the characters, but clearly a deus ex machina-effect to the reader, Max is the one to give him a ride.

By using different selections of kanji characters with the same readings, these " shorin-ryu " styles have meanings such as " young forest style ," " small forest style ," and " pine forest style ," The alternate spellings also have alternate readings, such as " kobayashi-ryu ," " shobayashi-ryu ," and " matsubayashi ryu ", but the Japanese reader can tell at glance that they are all variants of Itosu's " shorin-ryu "

By the time the trilogy concludes whole years seem to fly by to the middle-aged Kamal, and a reader can only join him in shaking her head at the wonder and mystery of it all.

By emphasizing the vitality of the Baudelaire orphans, Daniel Handler seems to urge the reader to find courage in him or herself and in his or her friends and if not to challenge despondence then at least to take it with a grain of salt.

Throughout the agonized internal monologue, represented through letters to his old tutor, he repeatedly comments on all of the affective ties that he has formed in his domestic life —“ the chains heart forged for itself ” As he begins to recover from the shock, the reader is led to believe that these “ chains ” are not worth the price of possible pain —“ By renouncing my attachments to a single spot, I extended them to the whole earth, and, while I ceased to be a citizen, became truly a man .” While in La Nouvelle Héloïse, the ideal is domestic, rural happiness ( if not bliss ), in Emile and its sequel, the ideal is “ emotional self-sufficiency which was the natural state of primitive, pre-social man, but which for modern man can be attained only by the suppression of his natural inclinations .”