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did and mind
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
when he went home at night, he took her with him in his mind, and she did the things the anonymous Woman used to do, and he did the thing afterwards each time as he used to do.
Scotty did not mind the doctor's unsmiling teasing as he used to.
Yet a moment did come that night when the adventurous letter writer and fantasist seemed to stride off my flashy pages, out of my mind, and plant himself in reality.
He did not mind the Line itself, which Churchill declared in the House of Commons, on February 27, 1945, he had always believed to be `` just and right '', but he did not want it called by a hated name.
Albert B. Lord suggests that the Homeric poems were dictated to a scribe by a minstrel who held in his mind the poems fully matured but did not himself possess the knowledge of writing since it would be useless to his guild, and Magoun argues that the Beowulf poet and Cynewulf may have dictated their verse in the same fashion.
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 ''.
Because his mind had been otherwise occupied for the past couple of hours, he did not think to look and see if Jerry Burton's car was still there.
Then Via called to say they had decided to cremate her -- as they had Ellen, the thought leaped to my mind -- and did I want to meet her at the funeral home the next morning.
But he did not just speak straight out of these books but took a distinctive personal line in his consideration, and brought the mind of Ammonius ' to bear on the investigation in hand.
This may be because Wilfrid's opulent lifestyle was uncongenial to Bede's monastic mind ; it may also be that the events of Wilfrid's life, divisive and controversial as they were, simply did not fit with Bede's theme of the progression to a unified and harmonious church.
Mill did not believe that concepts exist in the mind before the act of abstraction.
She would later advise her confessor and biographer, the Blessed Raymond of Capua, O. P., ( who went on to become Master General of the Order ) to do during times of trouble what she did now as a teenager: " Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.
Prof. Spiegelberg writes, " While outward religious practice never entered his life any more than it did that of most academic scholars of the time, his mind remained open for the religious phenomenon as for any other genuine experience.
This account of the voice she had heard relieved Adeline ’ s spirits ; she was even surprised she did not know it, till remembering the perturbation of her mind for some time preceding, this surprise disappeared .”
When James Braid first described hypnotism, he did not use the term " suggestion " but referred instead to the act of focusing the conscious mind of the subject upon a single dominant idea.
The original Victorian pioneers of hypnotism, including Braid and Bernheim, did not employ these concepts but considered hypnotic suggestions to be addressed to the subject's conscious mind.
But the real importance, to my mind, lay in the effect they had on our own people, and especially the village masses .... Non-cooperation dragged them out of the mire and gave them self-respect and self-reliance .... They acted courageously and did not submit so easily to unjust oppression ; their outlook widened and they began to think a little in terms of India as a whole .... It was a remarkable transformation and the Congress, under Gandhi's leadership, must have the credit for it.
She was effortlessly more sexual and charming and eagerly undressed for Paris, and she did not mind displaying her breasts and vulva for him to see.
Although it did not sever ties with the People's Republic of China, expressing the intention to continue relations, Beijing suspended ties on 29 November after failed attempts to lobby President Anote Tong to change his mind.
Spacey's father was unconvinced that Spacey could make a career for himself as an actor, and did not change his mind until Spacey became well-known.
Impressed as his mind was with his interesting dream, and habituated as he is ... to the momentary production of verse, will he venture to assert that he did not compose, and that he did remember, the lines before us?

did and useless
The riveted mail armour worn by the opposing Sudanese Madhists did not have the same problem but also proved to be relatively useless against the firearms of British forces at the battle of Omdurman.
However, this rule did not allow such suits to bind similarly situated absent parties, which rendered the rule almost entirely useless and was a direct reflection of Story's inability to understand the old English Chancery precedents.
Soviet physicists later noted that they could see as well as the Americans eventually did that the early designs by Fuchs and Edward Teller were useless.
The V1 had been successfully intercepted during World War II, but this did not make the cruise missile concept entirely useless.
When Jeremiah did so, the belt was completely ruined and useless.
The first season included a 22 minute countdown kept digitally in the lower left-hand corner of the screen which many critics panned, claiming it was useless and " did nothing for the show.
This is not to say that Merton believed that these religions did not have valuable rituals or practices for him and other Christians, but that, doctrinally, Merton was so committed to Christianity and he felt that practitioners of other faiths were so committed to their own doctrines that any discussion of doctrine would be useless for all involved.
But he did it at the wrong time, at 3 pm, when everything was useless and in the ranks of the enemy knew the result of his attack in Tudela, the conquest of the city.
" I was always useless at flirting, and simply did not know what needed to be done in order to snare my target ...
Like Mammy Yokum and the other " wimmenfolk " in Dogpatch, Daisy Mae did all the work, domestic and otherwise — while the useless menfolk generally did nothing whatsoever.
* The Chinese tables of eclipses are useless for dating, as they contain too many eclipses that did not take place astronomically.
The very first invention was made in 1945 when the snowmobile was created for transportation uses, as they did not have any form of transportation besides snow shoes which were not good for long distances and horse and carriage which were useless in the winters.
His German handler, Herbert Rittlinger, later described him as a " useless " agent ( eine Null ), but kept him on largely, it seems, because of an affection for " this strange, by then penniless man, whose history he did not know, who pretended enthusiasm for the Nazi cause and admiration for the SS but who in reality seemed little interested in either, much preferring to talk about Tibetans ".
The common law pleadings ( it was said ) did not state the facts on which the pleader relied, but only the legal aspect of the facts or the inferences from them, while the chancery pleadings were lengthy, tedious and to a large extent irrelevant and useless.
While the reserve clause was not explicitly struck down, the court did effectively block any further injunctions based on the reserve clause, rendering it useless.
In " The Major Adams Story " Wooster was a private in the Union Army who, by chance, was assigned to Major Adams's company and promptly proved himself useless for combat but claimed some experience as a cook and, when assigned to that position, did quite well.
Nevertheless, he did not cease his efforts until his water bottle was shot through and became useless.
In September 2007, former Clinton Administration senior health policy advisor Paul Starr published an article named " The Hillarycare Mythology ", where he asserted that Bill Clinton, not Hillary Clinton, was the driving force behind the plan at all stages of its origination and development ; that the task force headed by Hillary Clinton quickly became useless and was not the primary force behind formulating the proposed policy ; and that " Not only did the fiction of Hillary's personal responsibility for the health plan fail to protect the president at the time, it has also now come back to haunt her in her own quest for the presidency.
Emperor ’ s decree abolished St Catherine ’ s monastery as “ useless ”, together with 738 monasteries in the empire, which did not take care of the poor or educate the youth.
" Barrington did complain that some of the spell alterations felt unnecessary, as some of the spells which were really useful under ordinary circumstances became almost useless given the alterations.
If the affirmative did run defensive arguments such as non-unique and an impact turn, then the negative could concede that it is non-unique so the impact turn would be rendered useless thus the negative could kick out of the disadvantage.
Petrarch, who says that he saw him once in his childhood, did not preserve a pleasant recollection of him, and it would be useless to deny that he was jealous of his renown.

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