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It was only a fifteen-minute flight, but before it was through Greg felt himself developing a case of claustrophobia.
Very much the political man, Helion felt himself deeply affected by the increasingly pessimistic atmosphere of France and all Europe, whose foundations seemed to him more and more shaky.
Katherine was staying at a convent, and her mother felt that, as Thompson himself seems to have suggested, she might eventually stay there.
He felt very cunning, very proud of himself as he played on the other man's soft spot.
It seemed to him that if the Ferraros felt sure of them, could place them, it would help him to feel more sure of himself with Carla.
Then, as their grokking made them ever closer and Mike felt himself almost ready to discorporate her voice called him back: `` Oh!!
Both characters feel themselves in trouble, and there was speculation that Alan Ayckbourn himself may have felt himself to be in trouble.
At the hospital in a state of despair Wilson experienced a bright flash of light which he felt to be God revealing himself.
The emir Yusuf al-Fihri, had proven himself unable to keep the powerful al-Sumayl in check and several Yemenite chieftains felt their future prospects were poor, whether in a Fihrid or Syrian-dominated Spain, that they had a better chance of advancement if they hitched themselves to the glitter of the Umayyad name.
It was clear, however, that Leonidovich himself felt he had not come as well as he should out of his unexpected conversation with the Leader.
According to physicist Phil Anderson, the term was coined by himself and Volker Heine when they changed the name of their group at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge from " Solid state theory " to " Theory of Condensed Matter ", as they felt it did not exclude their interests in the study of liquids, nuclear matter and so on.
Claudius, as the author of a treatise on Augustus ' religious reforms, felt himself in a good position to institute some of his own.
After the events of May 1968, Marker felt a moral obligation to abandon his own personal film career and devote himself to SLON and its activities.
Ralph was a hard teacher for Earnhardt, and after Ralph died of a heart attack at his home in 1973, it took many years before Earnhardt felt as though he had finally " proven " himself to his father.
Any person who felt himself wronged might lay an information before the Council of Areopagus, on declaring what law was broken by the wrong done to him.
If a governor of senatorial rank himself felt these pressures, one can imagine the difficulties faced by a mere praeses.
Given his poor health history, during 1918 Munch felt himself lucky to have survived a bout of the Spanish Flu, the worldwide pandemic of that year.
In 671 Temmu felt himself to be in danger and volunteered to resign the office of crown prince to become a monk.
In 1969, Coppola took it upon himself to subvert the studio system which he felt had stifled his visions, intending to produce mainstream pictures to finance off-beat projects and give first-time directors their chance to direct.
The young Archduke was isolated, the reasoning being that this would make him more self-sufficient as it was felt by Joseph that Francis " fail to lead himself, to do his own thinking ".
At this point, he felt his position as Holy Roman Emperor to be untenable, so on 6 August 1806, he abdicated the throne and declared himself to be Francis I, Emperor of Austria.
" Whale's biographer Curtis rejects the notion that Whale would have identified with the Monster from a homosexual perspective, stating that if the highly class-conscious Whale felt himself to be an antisocial figure, it would have been based not in his sexuality but in his origin in the lower classes.

felt and now
His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.
Undoubtedly even the old Southern stalwart Richmond has felt the new wind: William Styron mentions in his latest novel an avenue named for Bankhead McGruder, a Civil War general, now renamed, in typical California fashion, `` Buena Vista Terrace ''.
The sharp wind slapped at him and his feet felt like ice as the snow penetrated the holes of his shoes, his only ones, now patched with folded parchment.
I now felt it wiser to keep Baby-dear in school and -- during the summers -- at a camp run by the Society of Friends all year around.
but all the same he thought now, uneasily, of the way in which Angelo earned his living -- and paid for his own stuff -- and eyed the soft smile, and the spaniel-like dark eyes, and he felt a little ill.
Haney felt a twinge of annoyance when he heard the now familiar line again.
The other women had come close now, their voices murmuring together until they stood buzzing in an angry knot, their threats mingling, rising, nagging at each other, each trying to make her indignation and anger felt.
now he felt light and gay and clear-headed, ready for the many actions he saw spreading out before him.
Formerly he had noticed them -- now he felt them.
Salieri also had never truly mastered the German language, and he now felt no longer competent to continue as assistant opera director.
When the CCITT ( now ITU-T ) was standardizing ATM, parties from the United States wanted a 64-byte payload because this was felt to be a good compromise in larger payloads optimized for data transmission and shorter payloads optimized for real-time applications like voice ; parties from Europe wanted 32-byte payloads because the small size ( and therefore short transmission times ) simplify voice applications with respect to echo cancellation.
In 1847, Prince Albert wrote: " I must now seek in the children an echo of what Ernest brother and I were in the old time, of what we felt and thought ; and their delight in the Christmas-trees is not less than ours used to be ".
No one was permitted to whip a horse or a slave, but she felt that a lick every now and then did her boys no harm.
He felt that the SA — now numbering some three million men — should become the sole arms-bearing corps of the state, and that the army should be absorbed into the SA under his leadership.
Furthermore, I felt then, as I do now, that fiction and autobiography are very different modes.
After the party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona instead, Robinson left the party's convention commenting that he now had " a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany ".
The strike did secure some concessions, but Mao and other student leaders felt that they were now under threat from the furious Zhang, and were sent as representatives to China's provincial centers ; thus, Mao once again traveled to Peking.
Although Queen Alexandra never treated her sister badly and they spent time together at Marlborough House in London and at Sandringham House in Norfolk in Great Britain, Maria felt that she was now " number two ".
He felt then what is now called a nitrogen narcosis.
The north of England was now controlled by David and Prince Henry, Stephen had abandoned Wales, the fighting in Normandy had considerably destabilised the duchy, and an increasing number of barons felt that Stephen had given them neither the lands nor the titles they felt they deserved or were owed.
People who had felt oppressed now felt empowered.
And the language that was spoken in them, Swahili ( now Tanzania's national language ), is a member of the Bantu language family that spread from the northern Kenya coast well before significant Arab presence was felt in the region.

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