Why did these yokels still wear boots, anyway, when most had scarcely sat a horse in years??

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

I did not feel it presumptuous to expect that the Creator would be at least as just as the most righteous of His creatures ; ;

Never once during the trying thirties did I come so close to succumbing to the private climate of opinion as to grant Russian communism even that most weasel-worded of encomiums `` an interesting experiment ''.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

While most of his beliefs were still unsettled, he knew that he did not believe in killing.

How titillating it was to go among people who did not know him as the composer, but who talked in the most glowing terms of the promise of the piece after having heard the first rehearsals.

Mr. Sharpe's arrival in the business did indeed provide what Mr. Brown had most coveted -- time for `` tinkering '', and the opportunity of carrying out in the back room those developments in precision graduation which most interested him at that time.

Somewhat to his surprise he found that one girl, whom he would never have considered for the job since she had appeared somewhat mousy and also had been in the office a relatively short time, did the most outstanding job of playing the role of receptionist, showing wit, sparkle, and aplomb.

During the latter days of November to the day of Brown's execution, it seems that most Rhode Islanders did not concur in `` E. B.'s '' suggestion.

Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.

Statements by other legislators that Dallas is paying for all its water program by local bonds, and that less populous places would benefit most by the pending bill, did not sway Cotten's attack.

( Pp. 228-229 ) in any event, it is obvious that the anti-trust laws did not prevent the formation of some of the greatest financial empires the world has ever known, held together by some of the most fantastic ideas, all based on the fundamental notion that a corporation is an individual who can trade and exchange goods without control by the government ''.

they had orders to that effect straight from President Kennedy, who thought at first, as did most others, that it was four followers of Cuba's Fidel Castro who had taken over the 707.

Roy smiled -- he did have a nice smile -- took off his hat most politely, told her to hop in, and he'd give her a lift to Quinzaine.

Linda accepted the reproach, which was something she did rarely in all her life and most rarely in that summer of 1936 when she was by all odds the prettiest and brightest young woman west of the Allegheny Mountains, and John was surely one of the handsomer and brighter young men around Pittsburgh.

It was an era of constitution writing — most states were busy at the task — and leaders felt the new nation must have a written constitution, even though other nations did not.

This did little to diminish the status of the Darnley urn as the most important icon in cricket, the symbol of this old and keenly fought contest.

It was widely admired, but most historians did not try to replicate it and instead focused on their specialized monographs.

Stylistic evidence suggests that the poem ( with most of Plato's other alleged epigrams ) was actually written some time after Plato had died: its form is that of the Hellenistic erotic epigram, which did not become popular until after 300 BC.

Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.

It extended citizenship to every person born in the United States ( except Indians on reservations ), penalized states that did not give the vote to freedmen, and most importantly, created new federal civil rights that could be protected by federal courts.

But many Criollos did not want to lose the class privileges, in any new republics, and the most among the coloured majorities ( Indians, blacks and mixed-bloods ) did not want to lose the backing that they had from the Crown and Catholic Church.

On the other hand significant facts may be concealed -- she may mean I or everybody, as it did with the tense and irritable woman mentioned before, may refer to a specific person.

Nor have we remembered that in the melting pot of America the hundreds of isolated and semi-isolated ethnic, regional and occupational groups did not fuse into a homogeneous national unit until long after education and industrialization had caused them to cast oral tradition aside as a means of carrying culturally significant material.

The adaptions are notable for changing the plots and characters of the original books ( e. g., incorporating lesbian affairs, changing killer identities, renaming or removing significant characters, and even using stories from other books in which Miss Marple did not originally feature ).

A second German edition was published in 1913, containing theologically significant revisions and expansions: but this revised edition did not appear in English until 2001.

The opera was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and did not have a significant production until the 1960s.

Though no significant damage was reported to most of the few Berkeley buildings of the time, the 1868 quake did destroy the vulnerable adobe home of Domingo Peralta in north Berkeley.

By 1935, the only significant independent nation that did not possess a central bank was Brazil, which subsequently developed a precursor thereto in 1945 and the present central bank twenty years later.

It did, however, bring about significant material gains for workers in the form of higher wages, reduced working hours, and improvements in working conditions, especially in regards to safety.

No known family of terrestrial squamates became extinct at the boundary, and fossil evidence indicates they did not suffer any significant decline in numbers.

* The faculty member overseeing the capstone submissions felt that students who did not enroll in the technical writing class were at a significant disadvantage when compared to their peers who did register for the course.

Conversely, states such as Virginia and Massachusetts in the United States of America did not have sovereign status, but had significant political and economic independence coupled with weak federal control, reducing the incentive to secede.

This almanac contained a significant amount of astronomy, celestial motions of the sun, planets, and stars, as did many almanacs of the time.

The American border with New Brunswick did not have any significant action during this conflict, although British forces did occupy a portion of coastal Maine at one point.

But Chernenko's short time in office did bring some significant policy changes.

It received considerable negative criticism upon its release — a release which RCA, anxious to maintain the established commercial momentum, did not welcome, and which Bowie's ex-manager, Tony Defries, who still maintained a significant financial interest in the singer's affairs, tried to prevent.

During the 1970s and ' 80s, Cassandra B. Whyte did significant educational research studying locus of control as related to the academic achievement of students pursuing higher education coursework.

In Germany, Oskar Messter had been involved in film-making from 1896, but did not make a significant number of films per year till 1910.

But the most important thing Griffith did was work out significant and expressive natural gestures in intensive rehearsal periods with his actors, before the film was shot, such as the enraged and jealous husband in The Voice of the Child ( 1911 ) walking around his office chomping on a cigar and puffing clouds of smoke out of it through clenched teeth.

This was a highly controversial idea, as many Boston area sports fans consider Fenway Park to be sacred ground, and demolishing the old park would have caused a significant outcry ( as did the closure and later demolition of Tiger Stadium that same year after decades of grassroots efforts to try to save it ).

For many of the assessments there were small but statistically significant differences of measured behaviors in children who consumed the food additives compared with those who did not.

The Irish, a significant group in three of the swing states, did appear inclined to support Blaine until one of his supporters, Samuel D. Burchard, gave a speech denouncing the Democrats as the party of " Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion ".

) The economic consequences of the French possession to the company were significant ; it did not pay any dividends for more than 20 years.

One very significant economic obstacle in Haiti's early independence was its necessary payment of 150 million francs to France beginning in 1825 ; this did much to drain the country of its capital stock.