And now she could see him, looking uncommon handsome, standing there beside Sally Jackson and her folks in front of their trail-worn wagon.

And she was deeply thankful that she could see her now, out there in the midst of a gay, youthful circle, skipping and singing, `` Farmer in the dell, Farmer in the dell, Heigh-ho the dairy-oh, the farmer in the dell ''.

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.

They could come on him now without difficulty.

but if it had been, it had been smothered until now by fear ): you could tell it by the way she watched the older, bigger boys, like Jack.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.

Only a native New Yorker could believe that New York is now or ever was a literary center.

If an atom bomb in 1945 could destroy an entire city surely the atomic arsenal we now have is more than adequate to fulfill any military objective required of it.

It could take place tomorrow night, or it might occur months from now.

His eyes now fixed on White's solid figure, Warren could hear behind him the tread of another.

But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.

It could halt a flood of Communist arms and strategic supplies now reaching Castro.

With the whole camp exposed to view we could see the variety of canvas shelters in which Americans are camping now.

What had been an unmanageably powerful introject was now, despite its continuing charge of energy disconcerting to me, sufficiently within control of her ego that she could use it to show me what this introjected mother was like.

The pace could now be accelerated, for the inhabitants of the Aegean stood on firm ground.

It was the collage that made the terms of this dilemma clear: the representational could be restored and preserved only on the flat and literal surface now that illusion and representation had become, for the first time, mutually exclusive alternatives.

I could tell you of plenty narrow escapes, but we take no notice of them now ''.

Jones came toward them fast, now, along the southern toe of the Reef, and the dogs could be heard plainly, Old John with his Grand Canyon voice outstanding above the others.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

The Admassy place could not be far now.

For example, muscle weakness and decreased endurance could lead to increasing fatigue and poorer movement patterns.

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

Evaluating Collins ' approach, he considers " the wide geographical spread from which the material comes and the implicit assumption that linguistic developments would have occurred uniformly throughout this area " a weakness and concludes, " The character of the Hebrew and Aramaic could support a date in the fifth or fourth century for the extant written form of the book, but does not demand a second-century date.

A vulnerability is a weakness that could be used to endanger or cause harm to an informational asset.

Even the most conservative elements within the Qing court could no longer ignore China's military weakness in contrast to the foreign " barbarians " literally beating down its gates.

In addition, the army was equipped with a precursor to the machine-gun: the mitrailleuse, which could unleash significant, concentrated firepower, with a weakness of having short range and relative immobility and thus prone to being easily overrun.

Autonous, striken by panic, could not help his son, and neither could Anthus ' servant, while Hippodamia was trying to drive the horses off but failed due to her physical weakness.

The central position had a weakness in that the full power of the pursuit of the enemy could not be achieved because the second army needed attention.

But he lost to someone, Scipio Africanus, who showed the weakness of " excessive mercy " and who could therefore only have had power in a republic.

The judgment said that as president, Chen must have understood the weakness of the information and could have ordered the national security system to conduct further verification, but decided not to bother.

He often portrayed a samurai or ronin, who was usually coarse and gruff ( Kurosawa once explained that the only weakness he could find with Mifune and his acting ability was his " rough " voice ), inverting the popular stereotype of the genteel, clean-cut samurai.

) The opera was completed in nine months and was initially met with success, but Wolf's musical setting could not compensate for the weakness of the text, and it was doomed to failure ; it has not yet been successfully revived.

Initial orders provided that Davout should send his four infantry divisions in a frontal assault northwards, but early that morning Napoleon changed his mind, after reconnoitering the position in person and noticing that he could take advantage from the weakness on the left of the Austrian position.

During the Ming Dynasty ( AD 1368 – 1644 ), physician Wu Juei wrote that the mushroom could be used not only as a food but as a medicinal mushroom, taken as a remedy for upper respiratory diseases, poor blood circulation, liver trouble, exhaustion and weakness, and to boost qi, or life energy.

According Martin, Henry's weakness as king was the main reason that many nineteenth century critics judged 2 Henry VI to lack emotion: Henry was so inept that audiences could not empathise with him, and hence, his tragedy was diminished.

The weakness of our reason, and the avocations arising from the infirmity and necessities of our nature, are so great that very few men could ever have formed those long deductions of reasons that show some actions to be in the whole advantageous to the agent, and their contraries pernicious.

A weakness of this system was that because it relied on the voluntary accusations of witnesses, and because the penalties for making a false accusation were severe, would-be witnesses could be hesitant to actually make their accusations to the court, for fear of implicating themselves.

In a series of decisions, given mainly by Lord Deas, a doctrine grew that various types of mental weakness could have the effect of reducing what would otherwise be a conviction for murder ( which attracted capital punishment ) to one for culpable homicide ( where the courts had greater discretion in sentencing ).

This fundamental political weakness is historically considered the reason why the outcome of the Council of Trent was so conservative-the papacy could not afford to surrender power, and that power was in part sustained by the very abuses of the Church that the Council sought to redress.

He also contended that, as knowledge of God is required for morality by divine command theory, atheists and agnostics could not be moral ; he saw this as a weakness of the theory.

Being a well-knit and highly disciplined organisation, the PCE could in spite of its numerical weakness play an important part in the war.

His greatest weakness was a fragile nervous system and erratic temperament, but when he maintained his concentration during a match, he could conjure up the most devastating tennis, being regarded as a tennis magician or an artist creating with great originality and panache.

The king lost the support of many magnates while on campaign and the weakness of the monarchic institutions by that time are evident in his inability to effectively make war without the support of the magnates ; in fact, he could not even provide his own bodyguard without the loyal aid of Grimoald and Adalgisel.