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He had yet to be discovered, however, for Curaçao was still well off the beaten path for major league scouts — even though countryman Hensley Meulens had done well in the New York Yankee farm system.
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Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.
Incapable of self-delusion, the Founding Fathers found the crisis of their time to be equally grave, and yet they had confidence that America would surmount it and that a republic of free peoples would prosper and serve as an example to a world aching for liberty.
for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''.
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.
Born a Congregationalist, he had been baptized as a tiny baby in the usual manner by having a few drops of water sprinkled on his head, yet nowhere in the whole of the New Testament could he find a description of anybody being baptized by sprinkling.
By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.
He had yet to meet Harold Arlen, for although they had `` collaborated '' on `` Satan's Li'l Lamb '', Mercer and Harburg had worked from a lead sheet the composer had furnished them.
Sherman insisted that cavalry could not successfully break up hostile railways, yet Garrard's Covington raid and Rousseau's Opelika raid cut two-thirds of the rail lines he had to break and Sherman lived in mortal fear of what Forrest might do to his communications.
There had not yet supervened between understanding and expression the new languages of mathematics and scientific formulas.
He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.
I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.
The reporters had not yet discovered that this was his hideaway.
Stevie had heard these words many times, yet on each occasion they caused him to tremble.
I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.
The street cleaner had not yet been around.
yet he knew that he had nothing to grumble about, for Argiento made few demands on him.
The altercation in the coffee house had done little to dampen his spirits, but he was still a little wary around Rector for they had not yet discussed the incident.
had and be
It could be some kind of trick Budd had thought up.
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.
And, for the sake of Julia and Susan, it had to be tried.
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.
He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.
She had the feeling that, under the mouldering leaves, there would be the bodies of dead animals, quietly decaying and giving their soil back to the mountain.
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.
A wildcatter had to be prepared for almost any emergency.
He, McBride, would be cited as in the wrong, and he, Lord, would go scot-free, an officer who had only done his duty, though perhaps too energetically.
Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.
For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.
Curt's visit to the livery stable had been merely a precaution in case anyone should be watching.
Her impact in the zing commercials had led to her being considered for an excellent part in an upcoming TV series, Underwater Western Eye, a documentary-type show to be sponsored by Oatnut Grits.
I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
`` But knowing you, I know that you're glad to be alive, and grateful -- and sorry because I killed the snake, even though I had to.
In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.
That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.
Unfortunately, it was Muzak, which automatically is piped into the public rooms, and which nolens volens had to be endured.
Others mentioned that I might have had to ask friends or even strangers for help and that to be stranded in a foreign country without sufficient funds did not contribute to international understanding.
had and discovered
And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.
Under the influence of marijuana the beatnik comes alive within and experiences a wonderfully enhanced sense of self as if he had discovered the open sesame to the universe of being.
Although after much trouble he did manage to get it back, he discovered there was no trade to be had.
When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.
`` The place had no sink or washbasin, only a bathtub '', his mother discovered when she visited him.
He had unearthed Stephens's letters in a New Jersey farmhouse and he discovered Stephens's unmarked grave in an old cemetery on the east side of New York, where the great traveller had been hastily buried during a cholera epidemic.
I had to confess that I had missed these frescoes, recently discovered, that he had studied in his eighties.
He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.
When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.
We had merely been discovered by the pool sharks.
I discovered that the girls had shrewdly vacated the kitchen, and were playing quietly in the living room.
One morning, we discovered not only that the pennies were missing from the idol but that a cigarette had been stubbed out in its lap.
Let us put to ourselves the hypothesis that we had not come on the scene and that the rabbit never was discovered.
Cook had discovered a beef in his possession a few days earlier and, when he could not show the hide, arrested him.
A week later the Daily Journal had discovered the initial plans of some Providence citizens to hold a meeting honoring John Brown on the day of his execution.
Early in her life she had discovered that where there were men, there was money, and with the two came luxury and liquor.
Mr. A., her fellow townsman, also experienced a nervous breakdown just as soon as he discovered that he had been bilked of his life savings by the limited practitioner who had been treating his wife -- a woman suffering from an incurable disease, multiple sclerosis -- and himself.
They discovered that, although 42 per cent of a sample of Catholic students and 15 per cent of the Protestants believed it important to live in accordance with the teachings of their religion, only 8 per cent of the Jewish students had this conviction.
She tried to think of his unpredictable actions in the eleven years she had known him and discovered they weren't so many after all.
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