There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.

A thing he did not like doing, generally.

Waddell was not an eminently moral person, but he did not like what he had just heard.

You did this you like to hurt to beat people I want to go home ''.

but many historians maintain that except for Northern meddling it would have ended in states like Virginia years before it did.

Not only did constellations like Draco, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia spin circles around the pole, but stars which were not circumpolar rose and set at the same place on the horizon each night.

Still, he did like music making and even sang in the chapel choir of the Woodberry Forest School, near Orange, Virginia, where he sounded fine but did not matriculate too well.

While S.K. did not like Dylan Thomas, I liked his poems very much, but I made the mistake of telling Dylan Thomas so, whereupon he said to me, `` I suppose you think you know all about me ''.

`` I went to the city And there I did Weep, Men a-crowing like asses, And living like sheep.

White's suggestion flattered, but he did not like the identity.

He did not like Boxell.

Only afterwards did an act like that become meaningless, so that he would puzzle over it for days, whereas at the time it had seemed quite real.

Well, one did not expect much of people like Herold.

He knew the house like a blind man, through his fingers, and he did not like to think of all the time and rags and polishes he had spent on keeping it up.

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

Why did Prokofieff expand in stature and fecundity, while Stravinsky ( who leaped into fame like a young giant ) dwindled in stature and fruitfulness??

Their two boys were `` well adjusted '' and, like their parents, always did the right thing at the right time and damn the consequences.

A workbench had a heavy top and sturdy legs, but how did you attach sturdy legs to a heavy top so that the whole thing didn't wobble like a newborn calf and ultimately collapse when you leaned on it??

Boy 34, like girl 2, did not have `` same schedule '' ; ;

But I wold say I recond he did not mind it for he had a plenty more left and then they would lean to me like a sore eyd kitten to a basin of milk ''.

It suddenly occurred to me that I did not particularly like acting, that I was at some sort of crossroads and would have to decide soon what I was going to do with my life.

However, in disregard of international conventions, Parkes refused to back down in order to save face and protested that the Chinese did not know it was not a British ship at the time they accosted it.

( Colonel Gibbes ' grandson, Frederick Jamison Gibbes, entered the NSW Parliament in the 1880s ; and although he often disagreed with Parkes on matters of economic policy, he did by and large support Parkes ' push for the federation of the rival Australian colonies into an homogenous nation.

His motion was carried by four votes and Parkes was quite unrepentant, but the ministry did not dare go any farther.

After his first game in charge, a 1 – 1 Boxing Day draw against Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough, Parkes revealed that the Blackpool board is willing to give him the job full-time, with Thompson continuing as his assistant, if the team continue to perform as they did under Grayson.

Parkes did not qualify for the race, setting the 27th fastest time, and the car was not entered for another World Championship Grand Prix.

The coming-in of the Farnell ministry in 1877 gave the main contestants time to take breath and consider the position, and in December 1878 a coalition was made between Parkes and Robertson which led to a ministry which lasted for over four years and did some really useful work.

As his fame grew, so did the tales regarding his life, often personally involving the teller.

As a result, reports of the battle did not reach Britain until Capel arrived in Mutine on 2 October, entering the Admiralty at 11: 15 and personally delivering the news to Lord Spencer, who collapsed unconscious when he heard the report.

Although initially excluded and even though they did not directly participate in the engagement, Troubridge and his men were given equal shares in the awards after Nelson personally interceded for the crew of the stranded Culloden.

Later in 498 BC, Duke Ding personally went with an army to lay siege to Cheng in an attempt to raze its walls to the ground, but he did not succeed.

" This was probably a circular letter to be read in more than one place .... Most likely, the author did not know the readers personally ( see 1: 15, 3: 2-4, and 6: 23-24 ).

Henry did not stop her ; on the contrary, he and his army personally escorted her there, before attacking a castle belonging to the rebellious Lusignan family.

Neale and Rowse also idealised the Queen personally: she always did everything right ; her more unpleasant traits were ignored or explained as signs of stress.

Whether it was Sidney next challenged Oxford to a duel or the other way around, Oxford did not take it further, and the Queen personally took Sidney to task for not recognizing the difference between his status and Oxford's.

" After listing the disasters of those 28 years, Bury concludes that Honorius " himself did nothing of note against the enemies who infested his realm, but personally he was extraordinarily fortunate in occupying the throne till he died a natural death and witnessing the destruction of the multitude of tyrants who rose up against him.

His reign also saw the launch of the First Crusade to regain the Holy Land, which heavily involved his family although he personally did not support the expedition.

He did not personally cut down the orchards ; he was aided by other Native American tribes with long-standing enmity toward the Navajos.

As a Republican and avid supporter of Women's Suffrage, it is thought that Baum personally did not support the political ideals of either the Populist movement of 1890-92 or the Bryanite-silver crusade of 1896-1900.

Stalin personally never thought much of it, and neither commented publicly on his performance nor awarded him recognition ( i. e. Order of Victory ) as he did for most other Soviet Marshals.

" He did, however, stipulate in a letter to the Viceroy's private secretary that he " personally will not kill or injure anybody, friend or foe.

Currie later remarked that Lenihan was his personal friend, and that he felt personally sick at being asked to endorse somebody he did not like, for the sake of beating Lenihan.

Mahfouz believed in freedom of expression and although he did not personally agree with Rushdie's work, he did not believe that there should be a fatwa condemning him to death for it.

Though he did not attend personally, he sent delegates to the First Council of Ephesus of 431, in which the Nestorians were condemned.

The line only operated for a few months, closing after Beach was unsuccessful in getting permission to extend it – Boss Tweed, an immensely powerful local politician, did not want it to go ahead as he was intending to personally invest into competing schemes for an elevated rail line.

However, the singers did not get along well with Spector personally and their contract was sold on to Verve / MGM Records in 1965.

However, given his youth and physical disabilities, which seemed to require the use of a cane in order to walk ( he died c. age 19 ), historians speculate that he did not personally take part in these battles.

Pesky again described Williams ' acumen in the advance training for which Pesky personally did not qualify: " I heard Ted literally tore the sleeve target to shreds with his angle dives.

Only when Caesar personally led the last reserves into battle did he finally manage to prevail.

He did personally drive off Korean air raids on multiple occasions as their MiGs would often flee at the first sign of superior American aircraft.

When General Sumner refused to allow the Army's Gatling Gun Detachment-which had priority-to disembark from the transport Cherokee on the grounds that the lieutenant commanding the Detachment did not have the rank to enforce his priority, Shafter had to personally intervene, returning to the ship in a steam launch to enforce his demand that the guns come off immediately.