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.

he simply did not believe that a Creator intervened or interfered in human affairs.

Some people believe she did.

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

As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??

It had sounded good to Andrei, but he did not believe it.

Only Palestine, and I will never live to see Palestine because I did not believe.

Let us suppose that the animal did not in fact fall into the trap and did not suffer at all, but that we mistakenly believe it did, and say as before that its suffering was an evil thing.

After he had been away from home about a year he wrote: `` ( dear Wife ) if I did not write and receive letters from you I believe that I would forgit that I was married.

But they did not believe in widespread secondary education, much less in college.

The true way to immortality lay through obedience, but man did not believe this.

Lucy did not believe him ; ;

And not for one moment did she believe that Myra had settled down.

Unlike the Confucians, the Agriculturalists did not believe in the division of labour, arguing instead that the economic policies of a country need to be based upon an egalitarian self sufficiency.

He did believe that stones had occult properties, as he related in his work De mineralibus.

Historians believe that the author of Acts did not have access to a collection of Paul's letters.

Arne confessed to her father that she was with child by the god Poseidon ; her father, however, did not believe her, and handed her over to a man named Metapontus, King of Icaria.

After being informed that the call was indeed from Virginia Thomas, Hill told the media that she did not believe the message was meant to be conciliatory and said, " I testified truthfully about my experience and I stand by that testimony.

However, he did believe that a non-scientific " guiding principle " governed the universe and human life.

The Russians, although very intrigued by their body art, thought their piercings and tattoos were “ hideous ” and made the younger women believe that body art did not make them attractive.

Bonds said that at the time he did not believe them to be steroids and thought they were flaxseed oil and other health supplements.

She did not believe in the theory of symbiosis proposed by Simon Schwendener, the German mycologist as previously thought, rather she proposed a more independent process of reproduction.

According to Ivinskaya, " He did not believe that we would ever publish the manuscript here and felt he had no right to withhold a masterpiece from the world -- this would be an even greater crime.

If she did, he could stand it better in the light.

I could not cling to my past nor did I wish to.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

Copernicus did not question it, Ptolemy could not.

It was a good report, he did all he could to make it a good report.

That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

But Papa's death had further complicated the financing of Tom's hoped-for third year, and for the weeks following it Tom did not know whether his return to Harvard could be arranged.

For centuries the North Atlantic nations dominated the world and as long as they did they could afford the luxury of fighting each other.

they did not fall into pseudo-glamorous jobs on pseudo-glamorous magazines, but they did whatever nasty thing they could get in order to eat ; ;

they found out who they were and what they could do, then within the limits of their talent they did it.

It also weakened our diplomatic stance, because Russia could easily guess we did not desire a nuclear war except in the ultimate extremity.

He did say she could get her beef and vegetables in cans this summer.

She was wise enough to realize a man could be good company even if he did weigh too much and didn't own the mint.

He did not really want to kill, but as in the sexual act, there was a moment when the impulse took over and could not be downed, even while you watched yourself giving way to it.

He could only watch with a sort of gentle dismay while his body did these quick, appalling, and efficient things.

The men did not object to his sketching them while they went about their work, but no one could be persuaded to come to his studio to pose.

That some men did not want it he could understand.

And the reason this could happen is clear: men of government, business men, lawyers and all who concerned themselves with the welfare of their fellow men did not let their concern to run their businesses at a profit restrict the development of freedom and opportunity.

More than once I was confronted by professional gamblers, `` bookies '', loan `` sharks '', gangsters, `` thugs '' and `` finger men '' -- people of a class I did not even know existed -- to repay my husband's staggering losses, `` or else '' I shuddered to think that someone so dear to me could even associate with such a sinister milieu.

Regardless of how much of a slob you knew yourself to be, you could be certain they would never find out -- and even if they did it would make no difference.

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.