But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

Then he noticed that the dry wood of the wheels had swollen.

An Italian poet had noticed plainclothes policemen lounging around the area of Quirinal Palace, the first time since the war.

He had noticed how formal and irritably exact Rachel had grown.

Since the writer had not noticed this characteristic in married students scattered throughout the various sections previous to this experiment, nor, as a matter of fact, in those who were continuing in `` single sections '', he can only conclude that there must have been something `` contagious '' within the specific group which caused this to occur.

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

I noticed that he was in Unit 12 and that he had registered under the name of Oscar L. Palmer and wife, giving a San Francisco address.

I had noticed a drive-in down the road a quarter of a mile.

Then he said, `` Never noticed it before I mean, when she was dressed but for a woman her age, Julia had a real fine figure ''.

Without so much as a grimace or a gesture to show that he had noticed ( although he later admitted that he had ) Palmer proceeded to sink his 25-footer, and his gallery sent its explosive vocalization rolling back along the intervening fairways in reply.

Formerly he had noticed them -- now he felt them.

Moyers was inspired to focus on the song's power after watching a performance at Lincoln Center, where the audience consisted of Christians and non-Christians, and he noticed that it had an equal impact on everybody in attendance, unifying them.

He had noticed, says Polybius, a “ place between the two camps, flat indeed and treeless, but well adapted for an ambuscade, as it was traversed by a water-course with steep banks, densely overgrown with brambles and other thorny plants, and here he proposed to lay a stratagem to surprise the enemy ”.

On returning, Fleming noticed that one culture was contaminated with a fungus, and that the colonies of staphylococci that had immediately surrounded it had been destroyed, whereas other colonies farther away were normal.

Almroth Wright had predicted antibiotic resistance even before it was noticed during experiments.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Bíró had noticed that inks used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper dry and smudge free.

Captain Thomas Foley had noticed as he approached that there was an unexpected gap between Guerrier and the shallow water of the shoal.

After one early skirmish in the campaign, Hinde " noticed that the bodies of both the killed and wounded had vanished.

The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

And he had a feeling -- thanks to the girl -- that things would get worse before they got better.

Twenty years before a group of Easterners had bought out the Haskell claims in the rocky hills south of Grass Valley.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

Where before had she felt or dreamt or imagined such a scene??

She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.

Joyce had seen him like this once before -- more than once, actually, but on one particularly memorable occasion.

The cook, Mateo Garcia, had arrived there long before the herd.

They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.

He had to make Jess talk, and he had to do it before Stacey Black got curious and came to investigate.

As luck had it, he had not gone twenty feet in the street before Pat appeared.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

He had not covered a hundred yards before a gun crashed from somewhere behind.

Greg climbed into the cockpit feeling as if he had never been in one before.

Greg had the stick forward and the throttle up before he heard the two `` Rogers ''.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.

The difficulties of trade had ruined many voyageurs, and numbers of them had gone to live with the natives and rear half-blood families.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

Capp's parents were both natives of Latvia whose families had migrated to New Haven in the 1880s.

I could never learn from any of the natives that they had seen either the head or tail.

Colonists tried to enslave Brazilian natives in the beginning, but this quickly proved too difficult for many reasons, including the familiarity natives had with the land.

The report of the British Consul Roger Casement led to the arrest and punishment of white officials who had been responsible for cold-blooded killings during a rubber-collecting expedition in 1903, including one Belgian national for causing the shooting of at least 122 Congolese natives.

According to the natives of Peru, who by this time had observed the Spanish lust for gold, the territories of Chile had abundances of gold which would justify any effort.

Almagro, who was not yet satisfied to go forward, had ordered Juan de Saavedra to advance with one hundred men that, at a distance of thirty leagues, would establish a small town that would wait for the rest with food and natives that would be captured to serve them.

By luck, these men found the Valley of Copiapó, where a Spaniard called Gonzalo Calvo Barrientos, a Spaniard whom Pizarro had expelled from Peru for stealing objects the Inca had offered for his ransom, had already established a friendship with the local natives.

Felipillo had secretly urged the local natives to attack the Spanish but they surprisingly desisted and did not believe the dangers they posed.

The town is first mentioned in 742 under the name of " Erphesfurt ": in that year, Saint Boniface writes Pope Zachary to tell him that he had established three dioceses in Thuringia, one of which " in a place called Erphesfurt, which for a long time has been inhabited by pagan natives.

The weakened sailors had trouble fending off the tall and robust natives until a few shots from the Trinidad's big guns frightened them off the ship and they retreated into the surrounding jungle.

According to the decree 900 this land had to be taken and redistributed for the agricultural purposes, mainly to the peasant communities and the natives.

This American empire was at first a disappointment, as the natives had little to trade, though settlement did encourage trade.

A commonly accepted hypothesis attributes the high mortality of this colony in part to Old World diseases to which the natives had no immunity.

The latter was the new governor of Britannia, and had seemingly won the natives over after their earlier rebellions ; he also controlled three legions, making him a potentially significant claimant.

The natives had no immunity to European diseases, including smallpox, and entire tribes were destroyed.

It is the belief of the natives of the Malinowski's Trobriand Islands that their ancestors had come from a subterranean land through a cavern hole called " Obukula ".