He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

He had his chance the very next morning, for exactly the same thing happened again.

Even in the very area where the shooting had been done, cattle were still disappearing.

Once again, he shook his head, kept his face expressionless and his voice very calm, and had a strongly supported alibi ready.

Mary Jane had made very little effort.

`` No thank you very much '', Schaffner had answered in his accented English.

It had been a very long time that had no form and no end.

I told him no, that I had had a very happy childhood.

for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''.

Isn't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A & M colleges??

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

I had had difficulties from the very first day.

This was the very sort of legislation that Roosevelt himself had in mind.

In one of the very few letters in which he ever complained of Meynell, Thompson told Patmore of his distress at having had to leave London before this new friendship had developed further: ``

Fulton was a very close friend of Jackson, and had been his private secretary for a number of years in the old days.

By 1834 the art of oratory had reached a very high level in the United States as a literary form.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

One had to find a donor, and usually very quickly, whose blood corresponded with the patient's.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

Montero had set up a strong position, using every bale and box we had in addition to barricades of logs and brush.

I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.

The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.

The sneers at Hearst changed to concern when it was seen that he had strong support in many parts of the country.

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.

But a realization that each group has much of substance to learn from the other also developed, and a strong conviction grew that each had insights and dimensions to contribute to ethically acceptable solutions of urgent political issues.

I wrote her that I'd met up with Eileen and that old bonds had proved too strong and asked her to send my clothes down by express.

Winter itch was treated by applying strong apple cider in which pulverized bloodroot had been steeped.

The batteries on the bugging device I had put on the car were still fresh enough to send out good strong signals.

Then Charlie spooned out some quick impressions of the Nikita he had glimpsed: `` I was captivated by his humor, frankness and good nature and by his kind, strong and somewhat sly face ''.

The concept of the Middle Kingdom at peace, strong and united under a forceful ruler, which had been only a longed-for ideal in the time of the Warring States, was finally realized by the establishment of a Chinese Empire under the Ch'in dynasty ( 221-207 B.C. ).

The original impulses came to England late ( in the sixteenth century ) and continue strong long after everyone else had gone on to the baroque basso continuo, sonatas, operas and the like.

Her nose was higher of bridge, her complexion so pale as to be quite susceptible to sunburn, and the fish and vegetable diet of her forebears had given her teeth that were white and regular and strong.

Lincoln's managers had been adroitly focused on this delegation as well as the others, while following Lincoln's strong dictate to " Make no contracts that bind me ".

In addition, Lincoln had to contend with reinforcing strong Union sympathies in the border slave states and keeping the war from becoming an international conflict.

However, he had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job.

In classical Greece he was the god of light and of music, but in popular religion he had a strong function to keep away evil.

Though equipped with limbs and the ability to breathe air, most still had a long tapering body and strong tail.

England had a very strong batting side, with Wally Hammond contributing 905 runs at an average of 113. 12, and Hobbs, Sutcliffe and Patsy Hendren all scoring heavily ; the bowling was more than adequate, without being outstanding.

Lane believed Alcott had misled him into thinking enough people would join the enterprise and developed a strong dislike for the nuclear family.