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had and thought
It could be some kind of trick Budd had thought up.
Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.
She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;
First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.
Then he thought of a time when Clayton's horse had fallen lame in the Gap.
At first I thought he had missed.
That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.
He'd been in an angry mood: Conchita had thought his face almost ugly with the anger in him.
Once Todman thought he had spotted a tank and went down to investigate while Greg covered him.
Finally, as time began to run out, he headed into Ormoc and glide-bombed a group of houses that Intelligence had thought might contain Japanese supplies.
Somehow the thought of a simple man bewildered by things no one had ever really helped him understand moved the driver.
He had never seen her before, but now he thought of the manner in which he and Benson went in and out of the cities, at each end of their run.
He thought for a moment his heart had stopped beating.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.
They thought of themselves, to use Jefferson's words, as `` the Argonauts '' who had lived in `` the Heroic Age ''.
I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.
Then suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of another fight, an irrational, an indecent, an undeclared and immoral war with our strongest ( and some had thought noblest ) ally.
Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.
He thought about it and he told the man he just couldn't do it over in accordance with the suggestions he had made.
Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.
I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.
Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.
`` I thought I knew more than my education had taught me, '' notes the narrator, `` because I had encountered the militant mobs of a political or religious faith ''.

had and suggestion
The suggestion that in saying something evil had occurred we were after all making no mistake, because we had never meant anyhow to say anything about the past suffering, seems to me merely frivolous.
At the suggestion of his friend Benjamin Ruff, Carnegie's partner Henry Clay Frick had formed the exclusive South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club high above Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Mozart's Davide penitente ( 1785 ), his Piano Concerto in E flat major ( 1785 ), the Clarinet Quintet ( 1789 ) and the great Symphony in G minor ( 1788 ) had been premiered on the suggestion of Salieri, who supposedly conducted a performance of it in 1791.
Bonaparte had ordered the fleet to anchor in Aboukir Bay, a shallow and exposed anchorage, but had supplemented the orders with the suggestion that if Aboukir Bay was too dangerous Brueys could sail north to Corfu, leaving only the transports and a handful of lighter warships at Alexandria.
:" Meanwhile it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.
In the 1740s, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis made the first known suggestion in a series of essays that all organisms may have had a common ancestor, and that they had diverged through random variation and natural selection.
His suggestion that the continents had been pulled apart by the centrifugal pseudoforce ( Polflucht ) of the Earth's rotation or by a small component of astronomical precession was rejected as calculations showed that the force was not sufficient.
Eventually, he would suggest his ( primitive ) recursion, modified by Herbrand's suggestion, that Gödel had detailed in his 1934 lectures in Princeton NJ ( Kleene and another student J.
In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.
Quite strong remarks: no doubt Darwin resented Lyell's repeated suggestion that he owed a lot to Lamarck, whom he ( Darwin ) had always specifically rejected.
The official scapegoat for the disaster was Geoffrey de Rancon, who had made the decision to continue, and it was suggested that he be hanged ( a suggestion which the King ignored ).
Coppola credited his inspiration for making the film to a suggestion from middle school students who had read the novel.
* 1656-In a letter to Councillor General Montagu ( afterwards Earl of Sandwich ), General-at-sea and one of the Protector's personal friends, Cromwell mentioned the necessity of securing a permanent base at the entry of the Mediterranean, preferably Gibraltar ( the first suggestion for the occupation of Gibraltar as a naval base had been made at an English Council of War held at sea on 20 October 1625 ).
The word " halogen " had actually first been proposed in 1811 by Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger as a name for the newly discovered element chlorine, but Davy's proposed term for this element eventually won out, and Schweigger's term was kept at Berzelius ' suggestion as the term for the element group that contains chlorine.
This programme covered much of the same ground as Martin's documentary, but rejected Martin's suggestion that Holt had committed suicide, stating that he was a vocal ' life affirmer '.
His reaction to the suggestion was one of horror in which he wrote, " Rather would I submit to death a hundred times than to that cross on which I had to perish daily a thousand times over.
He also had a great interest in ferryboats, at his fiancee's suggestion, their marriage was performed on the Roaring Bull boat, part of the Millersburg Ferry, in the middle of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.
Though the idea for a bill of rights had been suggested at the end of the constitutional convention, the delegates wanted to go home and thought the suggestion unnecessary.
There was even some baseless suggestion that Jahangir had converted to Christianity.
To help with his move to London, and with the design of the new German Embassy Ribbentrop had built ( the existing Embassy was insufficiently grand for Ribbentrop ), Ribbentrop, at his wife's suggestion, hired a Berlin interior decorator named Martin Luther.

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