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The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.
Though merely clear glass, it was a distinctive trade mark for an aspiring actor who hoped to imprint himself upon the memories of producers.
As he pulled the fringed sides up and made himself into a cocoon, Mr. Podger saw that thin, attractive, freckled little face again, and hoped that the boy, too, was lying in a cool, fringed-wrapped quiet.
It was also hoped that responses to a mail questionnaire would suggest fruitful inquiries that might be made in subsequent studies of a more detailed nature.
It was hoped that the facts concerning the characteristics and practices of the respondents would offer clues to the reasons why they took the positions and made the recommendations which they did.
It was hoped that to this post would flow a large quantity of furs from the west, principally down the Arkansas River.
He hoped he wouldn't be forced to use it in taking care of the Beach detectives, but its weight was comforting at his hip.
A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.
Thus when Premier Khrushchev intimated even before inauguration that he hoped for an early meeting with the new President, Mr. Kennedy was confronted with a delicate problem.
They begged Grandma to let them put a bed in the kitchen for her, but Grandma said she was getting too old to sleep in strange beds and be seen with her teeth out, and that she hoped to die in privacy like a Christian and if the Lord willed it to be of pneumonia than it would have to be that way.
Her hesitation was only momentary and she hoped he didn't notice it, as she settled herself, asked quickly how Miss Jenny and the babies were getting on.
I touched it and the coolness, the ice-feeling, was gone, and even then it moved a little, perhaps a tiny spasm of the dead muscles, and I hoped that it was truly dead, so that I would not have to kill it.
At the end of the war, a substantial amount of Nazi plunder was found stored in Austria, where Hitler had hoped to retreat as the war drew to a close.
He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a vegan diet before the term was coined.
Because Albert was a member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, it had been hoped that his election as Grand Master would reverse the decline of the Teutonic Knights since 1410 ; Duke Frederick of Saxony of the House of Wettin had been elected for the same reason.
In addition to questions of his nephew's paternity, Agesilaus ' succession was largely due to the intervention of his Spartan general, Lysander, who hoped to find in him a willing tool for the furtherance of his political designs.
Germanicus was always favored by his great uncle and hoped that he would succeed Tiberius, who had been adopted by Augustus as his heir and successor.
Germanicus was a favorite of his great-uncle Augustus, who hoped that Germanicus would succeed his uncle Tiberius, who was Augustus's own adopted son and heir.
Afonso IV was displeased with his son's choice of lovers, and hoped that the relationship would be a futile one.
After the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan, the Ark remained in the Tabernacle at Gilgal for a season before being removed to Shiloh until the time of Eli, between 300 and 400 years ( Jeremiah 7: 12 ), when it was carried into the field of battle, so as to secure, as they had hoped, victory to the Hebrews.
Throughout his life, Hopwood worked on a novel that he hoped would " expose " the strictures the commercial theater machine imposed on playwrights, but the manuscript was never published.

hoped and free
He hoped the job would earn him enough money to support his parents, " to make their cares, and burdens less ... and get them free from debt ", though he soon spent most of his earnings on a new suit.
Steiner hoped to form a spiritual movement that would free the individual from any external authority: " The most important problem of all human thinking is this: to comprehend the human being as a personality grounded in him or herself.
The context of the fight over free trade was famine in Ireland, which Peel hoped might be remedied by importation of grain.
Despite the terror and unprecedented propaganda, the last free General Elections of 5 March 1933, while resulting in 43. 9 % failed to bring the majority for the NSDAP that Hitler had hoped for.
Its adherents advocated a " new democracy " that, they hoped, would sweep the country free of petty partisan interests and foreign encroachments.
Its basic, and equally grandiose idea, was that, as the French Revolution of 1789 had enlarged the concept of individual liberty, another revolution would now be needed for national liberty ; and his vision went further because he hoped that in the no doubt distant future free nations might combine to form a loosely federal Europe with some kind of federal assembly to regulate their common interests.
As realisation dawned, however, he hoped that ending the Corn Laws would free up more food for the Irish.
The ONdigital management team hoped to obtain the upper hand by a series of ' free set top box ' promotions ( initially at retailers such as Currys and Dixons ) when ONdigital receiving equipment was purchased at the same time as a television set or similarly priced piece of equipment.
Japan hoped to achieve what it called Man-Kan kōkan, the exchange of a free hand for Russia in Manchuria for a free hand for Japan in Korea, but Russia, feeling greatly superior to Japan and unwilling to give up its ability to use Korean ports for its navy, was in no mood to compromise ; its foreign minister, Vladimir Lamsdorf, " thought that time was on the side of his country because of the ( Trans-Siberian ) railway and there was no need to make concessions to the Japanese.
Early on, Rouse said that he hoped Tivoli would be a place “ where, under the benign influence of having fun and relaxing in familiar ways, people would have opportunities, especially attractively and conveniently presented, for discovering new ways to enjoy their free time — new foods, new visual and tactile aesthetic experiences, even new social relations .” Rouse wanted the town center in Columbia to provide the most comprehensive range of recreational activities and services that had ever been contemplated in a new town.
For the time being, moderates who hoped to find a way of compromise and to repress the underlying issue of slavery itself – its toleration or non-toleration by a great free Christian state – were overwhelmingly in the majority.
Wright hoped to build a self-sustaining multi-racial community composed of slaves, free blacks, and whites.
The organization hoped to resettle 100, 000 free people of color within 10 years.
The children of Elrond were also given free choice of kindred, and therefore Arwen could choose to be counted amongst the Edain even though her father hoped she would accompany him to Elvenhome in the West.
The OSI hoped that the usage of the label " open source ," a term suggested by Peterson of the Foresight Institute at the strategy session, would eliminate ambiguity, particularly for individuals who perceive " free software " as anti-commercial.
Sarpi hoped for the toleration of Protestant worship in Venice, and he had hoped for a separation from Rome and the establishment of a Venetian free church by which the decrees of the council of Trent would have been rejected.
She was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned at the Fresnes prison in Paris, because it was hoped for that her comrades would try to free her.
She was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned at the Fresnes prison in Paris, because it was hoped for that her comrades would try to free her.
These Christians hoped to free themselves from man-made creeds and unite on the principles of the New Testament.
The land subsequently became part of the New Netherland Colony, and in 1643 it was granted to Lady Deborah Moody, an English expatriate who hoped to establish a community where she and her followers could practice their Anabaptist beliefs free from persecution.
Nanterre was intended as an experiment in progressive education, and Ricœur hoped that here he could create a university in accordance with his vision, free of the stifling atmosphere of the tradition-bound Sorbonne and its overcrowded classes.
He was from a strong Presbyterian family in Norfolk, but had become a member of the Church of England, and originally intended to pursue a career in the Church, but after the disappointment of losing a lawsuit over an estate he had hoped to inherit, he moved to Bristol, where he became an excise officer and was later appointed teacher at the Fishponds free school.

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