Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

I remember him pointing out of the window and saying that he wished he could live to see another spring but that he wouldn't.

All I could remember was Billie Dove pasted over the ceiling of my big brother's room.

It was rather a childish game, all in all, but everybody seemed to be getting into the spirit of the thing and he could not remember when he had enjoyed planning anything quite so much.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

In my person they would always remember that last long time of me alone with her, so if they told themselves that I could have prevented it, I can understand that by now and love them still, because everyone must justify, have a scapegoat for what is not to be borne.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

" Folk singer Judy Collins, who knew the song before she could remember learning it, witnessed Fannie Lou Hamer leading marchers in Mississippi in 1964, singing " Amazing Grace ".

But as the war changed his attitude and personality, poems and other aspects of his past life become something Paul could not remember having any link to, and he learns to disconnect himself from his feelings.

According to Gow, Housman could never remember his students ' names, maintaining that " had he burdened his memory by the distinction between Miss Jones and Miss Robinson, he might have forgotten that between the second and fourth declension.

As a crude example, each finger might control one key which corresponds to one bit in a byte, so that using seven keys and seven fingers, one could enter any character in the ASCII set — if the user could remember the binary codes.

In the non-stressful situation, participants could easily remember the words learned from phase 1.

Jordan claims that Wollheim's first, ' laudatory ' letter convinced him that he could write, and so he chose to remember the first letter and forget about the second.

At the accession of Charles I in 1625, England and Scotland had both experienced relative peace, both internally and in their relations with each other, for as long as anyone could remember.

In a 1995 appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman ( which is filmed in Ed Sullivan Theater ), Ross stated, " he could never remember our names.

McCartney tried to remind Sullivan that he was one of The Beatles but Sullivan obviously could not remember and, nodding and smiling, simply shook McCartney's hand and left.

Some people, including Aubrey, consider these two contiguous, possibly coincidental events as related and causative of his death: " The Snow so chilled him that he immediately fell so extremely ill, that he could not return to his Lodging ... but went to the Earle of Arundel's house at Highgate, where they put him into ... a damp bed that had not been layn-in ... which gave him such a cold that in 2 or 3 days as I remember Mr Hobbes told me, he died of Suffocation.

It is important to remember Southern Rhodesia was a self-governing Dominion and the government could effectively command that the people be removed, similar to " compulsory purchase " in Britain, whereas Northern Rhodesia was a colony, and governed by consent after consultation with the tribal chiefs.

No living person could remember the lake being free of ice during the winter up until then.

In recordings, small errors in a performance could be " fixed ", but many older conductors and composers could remember a time when simply " getting through " the music as best as possible was the standard.

Although Paraguay had held the Chaco for as long as anyone could remember, the country did little to develop the area.

he could feel more than hear the staccato beat of hoofs that fanned out across the prairie to the north.

If I could make myself feel the same way

Something was happening all right, slowly it is true, but you could feel it.

Here in the cool darkness Mr. Podger could still feel the warmth of midday, could still see the yellow butterflies dancing over the road, could still see the friendly grin on the young, sun-browned face as the driver looked back over his shoulder for a moment before the car streaked out of sight.

Stevie could feel himself toppling.

He could feel his own feet, iron-shod, striking repeatedly until the body was limp.

Honest I could feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck like a dog's that is going to get into a fight.

Kayabashi must feel fairly certain of his victory in order to make a visit like this, a trip which could be so easily misinterpreted by the people in the village.

and he could tell, simply by the feel of it, whether it was made of wood, iron, cloth, rubber, and so on.

Shout at Eichmann though he might, the Prosecutor could not establish that the defendant was falsifying the way he felt about Jews or that what he did feel fell into the generally recognized category of anti-Semitism.

Perhaps under the guidance of this Nazi principle one could, as Eichmann declared, feel personally friendly toward the Jews and still be their murderer.

He could feel it on his face and in his hair.

He could feel himself falling in with it and being unable to get out.

She'd say she didn't feel good on Sunday, couldn't go to church -- there'd be a little argument, but she could be stubborn -- and when the old woman had gone, quick pack the things she'd need to take, all but the dress she'd wear Monday, and take the bag down to that place in the station where you could put things in a locker overnight, for a dime.

He could feel eyes on his back.

Or you could wish your daddy would really do it -- kill Gratt Shafer like he said when you all the time, all along, could feel the nerve draining out of him like air out of a punctured tire when you are on a muddy road alone and it is raining and at night.

You feel where he is and what he sees, and at night you feel when he is asleep or with the other woman, the one that never could love him the way you do, the one who got him because she didn't particularly give a damn whether she got him or didn't.

It was foggy that evening, but the path to my house was so well grooved that I could feel my way, accustomed as I was to the dense mists that rise from the sun-warmed palisades of the river and sometimes last for days.

It seemed to him that if the Ferraros felt sure of them, could place them, it would help him to feel more sure of himself with Carla.

He could feel a pulse pounding against the bandages.