But he didn't figure Ma for much.

He also approaches the New X-Men in an attempt to help them figure out a non-violent way to help against the Purifiers, but is quickly rebuked by Surge, who questions where he was when they were getting attacked the first time, and that they didn't need to learn from him.

Herodotus, writing about 30 to 40 years after the events he describes, did, according to Miller ( 2006 ) in fact base his version of the battle on eyewitness accounts, so it seems altogether likely that Pheidippides was an actual historical figure, although the same source claims the classical author didn't ever in fact mention a Marathon-Athens runner in any of his writings.

He's not a flamboyant figure and he didn't get out much to troops.

A " boyish figure " didn't actually become a mainstream fashion ideal until the 1920s.

It didn't take a Nobel Prize winner to figure out this guy's pretty good.

With Joe Jordan in the number nine shirt and scoring frequently, and the team ( despite Revie's departure in the summer to take over the England job ) reaching its first European Cup final, Jones was a dejected spectator who didn't figure in the team all season.

The revue contains snippets of Rogers ' famous homespun style of wisdom and common sense and tries to convey the personality of this quintessentially American figure whose most famous quote was " I never met a man I didn't like.

* 1963: Frank Miller, Des Moines Register, " for a cartoon which showed a world destroyed with one ragged figure calling to another: ' I said we sure settled that dispute, didn't we!

Since in the ENHANCE trial ezetimibe didn't reduce cardiovascular events, atherosclerosis or death, despite the reduction in LDL, doctors have been trying to figure out whether it has any use.

Carbo saw Yawkey as a father figure, because his father didn't really care about him.

He replied to the furor at a press conference, " I am going, but I didn't hold a gun to anyone's head ... Shakhtar signed me for a figure that was below the buy-out clause of my contract.

I mean they signed someone they didn't believe in and were just so busy trying to figure out what the next band that was going to last for two seconds was.

Regarding the film's budget and stylistic approaches, Potter has stated, " Originally I was trying to figure out how we could shoot this film without any lights, because there didn't seem to be enough money in the budget to have any.

Joe urban-camouflage ninja uniform, but still contained slight differences from the 1988 character outfit, since Hasbro decided to reuse most of the tooling of the first figure ; hence, he didn't have long sleeves, the placement of his arm tattoo had been moved, and he was missing the recurve bow and the calves garments.

[...] I didn't go to the library and figure it out ".

So I reckoned he'd be OK but I didn't figure Sting would see it that way ...

It didn't seem to tell her anything.

He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.

`` Golly '', Rod exclaimed to Harmony as he dutifully stood by her side among the ringed spectators, `` don't that fiddle make you wish the Bible didn't say us Baptists can't dance ''??

Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.

He didn't tell her the truth he now freely admitted to himself.

When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.

They lived in the same house and it didn't seem to be such a hard thing to do, but the sad realities of Lilly's life and the fact that Meltzer didn't love her never satisfied my wishful thinking.

To people who didn't know her she was a gawky, badly dressed kid whose arms were too long, whose legs were a little too bony.

I didn't want her back on that broken record.

I didn't even have the nerve to call her on the telephone.

The remarks she made about the sufferings of a lonely woman seemed so broad at first that he didn't know what to make of them, but after the sixth drink he put his arm around her and suggested that they go upstairs and look for her checkbook there.

He didn't doubt her truthfulness, although he had heard the words a hundred times.

but since she didn't know we'd given it to her, there was no easy way of getting it back.

Another woman, addressing Christmas cards, said to her husband: `` We sent them one last year but they didn't send us one, so they probably won't send us one this year because they'll think we won't send them one because they didn't last year, don't you think, or shall we ''??

She didn't like her stepmother, but nothing is known to have occurred shortly before the crime that could have caused such a murderous rage.

This officer had asked Lizzie if she suspected her Uncle Morse, and she replied she didn't think he did it because he left the house before the murders and returned after them.

He looked in her direction but he didn't answer.

I remember her because she didn't want her picture in the paper.

I didn't see her till several days later at the wedding, and her face looked like it had never had a blemish on it.

She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.

`` Everyone knew it, but he sort of acted like he didn't care who knew it -- even after them notes came, even after he'd heard about Lewis, even after he'd been shot at a couple o' times hisself ''!!

I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

About that time Miss Langford straightened up and looked out the window directly at him, he thought, although probably she didn't even see him.

The Lalauries were at the top rung of the social ladder, and even a jury didn't feel privileged to doubt the veracity of so illustrious a lady.

He swore so loudly at the top of his voice, that she didn't get any sleep all the next night.

A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.

`` She didn't really say '' -- She glanced away at the floor, then swooped gracefully and picked up one of Scotty's slippers.

But of course behind his boldness he didn't feel bold at all.

We didn't have time to speak before Eileen's voice was screeching at us from the bed.

I didn't want to touch him and I hoped Ma would do it but she kept looking at the kid's clothes piled on the floor and the pool of water by them and didn't make any move to.

And she was made to fall in love with him again there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the cold fog, mad as she was at his going away when he really didn't have to, mad at their both having got older in a life that seemed to have taken no more than a week to go by.

Seems like she's willing, but the male just flops around all day like the bashful boy who took Jeannie May behind the barn and then didn't know what to do, and the people at the zoo haven't got any vulture chicks to show for their trouble.

We didn't even know them till about a month after we moved -- at that time, they had called on us, after I met Fran at a PTA meeting, and had taken us in hand socially.

Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.