Beyond the stockade rifles began to explode as some of the guerrillas fired at shadows that they imagined were Apaches.

Students develop occupational images -- not always accurate or detailed -- and they try to fit their values to the presumed characteristics of the imagined occupation.

The enemy directly in their path ... realised to their horror that Athenians, far from providing the easy pickings for their bowmen, as they had first imagined, were not going to be halted ...

They discovered a greater amount of cultural diversity than they had ever imagined, and the question arose of how this vast amount of human cultural diversity could be compatible with the biblical account of Noah's descendants.

Himmler and Heydrich wanted to extend the power of the SS ; thus, they urged Hitler to form a national police force overseen by the SS, to guard Nazi Germany against its many enemies at the time — real and imagined.

When pneumatic tubes first came into use in the 19th century, they symbolized technological progress and it was imagined that they would be common in the future.

Ancient sky watchers imagined that prominent arrangements of stars formed patterns, and they associated these with particular aspects of nature or their myths.

As part of the role, they dealt with correspondence from the general public on the subject of civil liberties, much of which involved paranoid rants about imagined conspiracies.

In philosophy, reality is the state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined.

In The Inner World of Farm Animals, Goodall writes that farm animals are " far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right.

" The Vita Pardulfi, written in the middle of the eighth century, reports that after the battle ‘ Abd-al-Raḥmân's forces burned and looted their way through the Limousin on their way back to Al-Andalus, which implies that they were not destroyed to the extent imagined in the Continuations of Fredegar.

Sometimes they wept, sometimes they mourned in words ; then sat silent, hand in hand ; he sick in bed, and she the carefullest nurse to him that can be imagined.

James George Frazer asserted that magical observations are the result of an internal dysfunction: " Men mistook the order of their ideas for the order of nature, and hence imagined that the control which they have, or seem to have, over their thoughts, permitted them to exercise a corresponding control over things.

Rule 4: In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, not withstanding any contrary hypothesis that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur, by which they may either be made more accurate, or liable to exceptions.

Finding the task more difficult than they imagined, they left with only a few ivory tusks.

They were changeful in speech, for they had great love of words, and sought ever to find names more fit for all things they knew or imagined.

Also, he often undertakes tasks with gusto, only to later realize they were not as easy as he had originally imagined.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

Whatever the unhappy inmates of such camps are like today, Dostoevsky's companions were about as grim a lot as can be imagined.

In his moments of worst agony, Martin imagined what his friends were saying.

Déjà entendu, ( literally " already heard ") is the experience of feeling sure that one has already heard something, even though the exact details are uncertain and / or were perhaps imagined.

He imagined An Exhibition by the Artist, Adolf Hitler, in which horrific images of war with ironic titles were offered as ' artworks ' by the Nazi leader.

Many people who lived during the Renaissance did not view it as the " golden age " imagined by certain 19th-century authors, but were concerned by these social maladies.

At the time, it was imagined by early science fiction authors, that someday that light could be transmitted over copper wires, as sounds were.

The conductor of the 1951 production, Hans Knappertsbusch, on being asked how he could conduct such a disgraceful travesty, declared that right up until the dress rehearsal he imagined that the stage decorations were still to come.

The Elvish languages were the first thing he imagined for his secondary world.

This did not take place when the horse's legs were extended to the front and back, as imagined by contemporary illustrators, but when its legs were collected beneath its body as it switched from " pulling " with the front legs to " pushing " with the back legs.

The author imagined that because of the " quick satiety with good " of Men, " the people of Gondor in times of peace, justice and prosperity, would become discontented and restless ... even so early there was an outcrop of revolutionary plots, about a centre of secret Satanistic religion ; while Gondorian boys were playing at being Orcs and going round doing damage ".

If the kings of Alba imagined, as John of Fordun did, that they were rulers of Strathclyde, the death of Cuilén mac Iduilb and his brother Eochaid at the hands of Amdarch of Strathclyde in 971, said to be in revenge for the rape or abduction of his daughter, shows otherwise.

Richard North says that " though it is not clear what the poet takes these women to be, their female sex, riding in flight and throwing spears suggest that they were imagined in England as a female being analogous to the later Norse valkyrjur.

Theseus is skeptical about the veracity of their tale but Hippolyta questions whether they would all have the same story if the night's adventures were indeed imagined.

The Lincoln Highway was not yet the imagined " rock highway " from coast to coast when the LHA ceased operating, as there were many segments that had still not been paved.

As used by some journalists, particularly sportswriters, " gaffe " becomes an imagined synonym for any kind of mistake, e. g., a dropped ball by a player in a baseball game.

I could never have imagined it being that kind of a film.

The movie also hints at some kind of responsibility, real or imagined, that Nixon felt towards the John F. Kennedy assassination through references to " the Bay of Pigs ", the implication being that the mechanisms set into place for the invasion by Nixon during his term as Dwight Eisenhower's vice-president spiraled out of control to culminate in the assassination and, eventually, Watergate.

As a result, netsuke display every aspect of Japanese culture, including its rich folklore and religion, crafts, trades, and professions, all types of people and creatures, both real and imagined, and every kind of object.

But then having thought on a tender way of polishing, proper for metal, whereby, as I imagined, the figure also would be corrected to the last ; I began to try, what might be effected in this kind, and by degrees so far perfected an instrument ( in the essential parts of it like that I sent to London ), by which I could discern Jupiter's 4 Concomitants, and showed them diverse times to two others of my acquaintance.

Many are dialogues, perhaps imagined conversations with Tanguy ( with whom she spoke the same kind of street-language French she used in the poems ) or perhaps discussions between different parts of herself.

There was a conspiracy, but not one of the kind Antonina imagined.

Miller was unimpressed and later wrote that " My estimate of Grosbard all but collapsed as, observing Dustin Hoffman ’ s awkwardness and his big nose that never seemed to get unstuffy, I wondered how the poor fellow imagined himself a candidate for any kind of acting career.

Miller was unimpressed and later wrote that " My estimate of Grosbard all but collapsed as, observing Dustin Hoffman ’ s awkwardness and his big nose that never seemed to get unstuffy, I wondered how the poor fellow imagined himself a candidate for any kind of acting career.

Anderson treated the nation as ' an imagined political community ... nation-ness, as well as nationalism, are cultural artifacts of a particular kind '.

Trey Walker at GameSpot said that " Monopoly Tycoon is the kind of game you might have imagined as a kid while you played the real board game.

He considered the horizontal strata of this hyperboloid as always in motion, while the remainder of the water was in a state of rest, and imagined that there was a kind of cataract in the middle of the fluid.