But he knew well enough that those guns would still be trained on his back as he walked towards the wagon.

and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.

What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.

Lucy glancing at the miniature case, knew there would not be enough in it for the shortest of stays ; ;

The preface mentions that Ceolwulf received an earlier draft of the book ; presumably Ceolwulf knew enough Latin to understand it, and he may even have been able to read it.

Although he considered himself close to, but not a member of, al-Qa ' ida, he knew enough about the senior members, organization and operations to claim to be a member.

In Moon's biography, Full Moon, longtime friend and personal assistant Dougal Butler, observed: " He ( Moon ) would do anything if he knew that there were enough people around who didn't want him to do it.

By the middle of the 19th century, the Leyden jar had become common enough for writers to assume their readers knew of and understood its basic operation.

He was antisocial because he knew society was crap ; he was a hero to youth because he was strong enough not to take the crap ... Brando represented a contemporary version of the free American ... Brando is still the most exciting American actor on the screen.

The compilers of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy find pseudo-Dionysius to be most probably " a pupil of Proclus, perhaps of Syrian origin, who knew enough of Platonism and the Christian tradition to transform them both.

Peuerbach's Greek was not good enough to do a translation but he knew the Almagest intimately so instead he started work on a modernised, improved abridgement of the work.

The monk had to stand because the tower is not large enough for him to sit-sitting could lull him to sleep-and they knew what could happen when no-one was watching.

Bar management usually knew about raids beforehand due to police tip-offs, and raids occurred early enough in the evening that business could commence after the police had finished.

According to Hardman, " We knew that we could not raise enough money to shoot a film on a par with the classic horror films with which we had all grown up.

Part of the mystique of The Replacements was the fact that the audience never knew until the start of a concert if the band would be sober enough to play.

He also knew that the Racers could not hope to be included among those teams, and hoped to keep the Racers alive long enough to collect compensation from the surviving teams when the WHA dissolved, as well as any funds earned from selling the young star.

This piece of apparently routine work proved very fruitful — it led to the discovery that all the stars of very faint absolute magnitude were of spectral class M. In conversation on this subject ( as I recall it ), I asked Pickering about certain other faint stars, not on my list, mentioning in particular 40 Eridani B. Characteristically, he sent a note to the Observatory office and before long the answer came ( I think from Mrs Fleming ) that the spectrum of this star was A. I knew enough about it, even in these paleozoic days, to realize at once that there was an extreme inconsistency between what we would then have called " possible " values of the surface brightness and density.

From the Historia it is clear that he also knew French and possibly Italian, but there is not enough evidence to determine whether he learned Greek, Persian, and Arabic, as is sometimes claimed.

Some Scottish men, who well knew this manner of attack, bade Wallace sound, saying there were now enough.

Since the protocols were proprietary, very few people beyond the developers and hackers knew enough to determine how secure a SCADA installation was.

Contradicting Nestlé's claim that Wakefield put chunks of chocolate into cookie dough hoping they would melt, the daughter stated that the owner, already an accomplished chef and author of a cookbook, knew enough about the properties of chocolate to realize it would not melt and mix into the batter while baking.

ESPN has been criticized for not reporting a taped recording of Bernie Fine's wife apparently acknowledging that she knew her husband may have molested children, particularly because ESPN ran a number of articles criticizing Joe Paterno for not taking enough affirmative action to report Jerry Sandusky's child abuse.

With a correct idea of their importance, Simplicius made the most diligent use of the commentaries of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Porphyry ; and although he often enough combats the views of the former, he knew how to value, as it deserved, his ( in the main ) sound critical sense.

: We were happy enough working on the land, but we knew more and more certainly that the ways of the old settlements were not for us.

No one knew if the C ++ compiler could generate fast enough code.

Though this came as somewhat of a shock to the American public, those who knew him privately were not surprised, as Gage had previously studied spiritualism, astrology, and prophesized the death of his own brother through a " psychic flash ".< ref >

Many were the arts and sciences he knew -- holy tradition and secular law ; the Sânkhya, Yoga, Nyâya, and Vaisheshika systems of philosophy ; arithmetic ; music ; medicine ; the four Vedas, the Purânas, and the Itihâsas ; astronomy, magic, causation, and magic spells ; the art of war ; poetry ; conveyancing in a word, the whole nineteen.

who made so ill an use of his wonderful speaking powers to try and burke, by a display of authority, a free discussion on what was, or was not, a matter of truth, and reminded him that on questions of physical science ' authority ' had always been bowled out by investigation, as witness astronomy and geology. He then caught hold of the Bp's assertions and showed how contrary they were to facts, and how he knew nothing about what he had been discoursing on.

He knew the Qur ' ān by heart, could quote extensively from the texts of most Muslim sects, and apart from philosophy, he was well versed in mathematics, astronomy, alchemy, medicine, architecture, and the major science fields of his time.

Oort who knew that significant advances could be made in astronomy if there were emission lines in the radio part of the spectrum.

Therefore, there is no consensus on whether Joseph Smith knew Kolob to be a planet or a star as those terms are used in modern astronomy.

Israeli studied natural history, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and other scientific topics ; he was reputed to be one who knew all the " seven sciences ".

He also used He Chengtian's interpolation method for approximating irrational number with fraction in his astronomy and mathematical works, he obtained as a good fraction approximate for pi ; Yoshio Mikami commented that neither the Greeks, nor the Hindus nor Arabs knew about this fraction approximation to pi, not until the Dutch mathematician Adrian Anthoniszoom rediscovered it in 1585, " the Chinese had therefore been possessed of this the most extraordinary of all fractional values over a whole millennium earlier than Europe " Along with his son, Zu Geng, Zu Chongzhi used the Cavalieri Method to find an accurate solution for calculating the volume of the sphere.

From the scattered references in the Talmud it is impossible to determine exactly Mar Samuel's proficiency in astronomy ; but he knew how to solve many mathematics problems and how to explain many phenomena.

Loner spy personalities may have been a stereotype of convenience for authors who already knew how to write loner private investigator characters that sold well from the 1920s to the present.

" Pitter had a sympathetic interest in Blair's writing, pointed out weaknesses in his poetry, and advised him to write about what he knew.

Thus, Sterne lost his chances for clerical advancement but discovered his real talents ; until the completion of this first work, " he hardly knew that he could write at all, much less with humour so as to make his reader laugh ".

He was able to read and write, and knew both Greek and Latin.

But I knew I wanted to write for the theatre, so I wanted someone who did not disdain theatre music.

Carte knew that Gilbert had worked with Sullivan to create Thespis in 1871, and he now suggested that Sullivan could write the music for Trial by Jury.

Clearly, Tolkien knew when firearms were invented, but he deliberately set out to write a lighthearted fantasy tale disregarding any consideration of historical accuracy.

Lauper knew she could write songs, but the record company had a lot of material they wanted her to record.

After the publication of his first book about the American Civil War, Lord's literary agent suggested that he write about the Titanic since he knew Lord had researched the subject for his amusement.

Once, when he sought out Miss Grundy's help as he dabbled in creative writing, she suggested that he write about what he knew.

As Penman explains: '“ After I ’ d finished Here Be Dragons, I knew I wanted to continue the story .... At first I ’ d planned to write one book in which Simon de Montfort would share top billing with Llewelyn Fawr ’ s grandson, Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, who later wed Simon ’ s daughter.

Historians such as John Paget and C. T. Atkinson conclude that he probably did write the letter, but did so only when he knew that it would be received too late for its information to be of any practical use ( the plan of the attack on Brest was widely known, and the French had already begun to strengthen their defences in April ).

The author constantly hints that she knew more than she was prepared to write, yet it was written before most of the facts emerged.

Nimoy's hiring of Meyer was not only beneficial because Meyer knew the material and could write fast ( having produced The Wrath of Khans screenplay in twelve days ), but if Meyer was to direct it would offset any acrimony from Shatner, whose ire would have been aroused if Nimoy returned to direct his third Star Trek feature after The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home.

Lymon stepped up and told Goldner that he knew the part because he helped write the song.

According to Hugh Chisholm, editor of the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica: " Lord Acton has left too little completed original work to rank among the great historians ; his very learning seems to have stood in his way ; he knew too much and his literary conscience was too acute for him to write easily, and his copiousness of information overloads his literary style.

In the final chapter of Sheppard's narrative ( a sort of epilogue ), Sheppard admits his guilt, noting certain literary techniques he used to write the narrative truthfully without revealing his role in the crime or doing anything to suggest that he knew the truth, and reveals that he had hoped to be the one to write the account of Poirot's great failure: not solving the murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Biographer Earl Conrad said, " Nobody clearly knew what he wrote or didn't write .... Publishers tend to credit him with writing the songs known to bear his name as a lyricist ....

Hemingway would credit the old fisherman with teaching him everything he knew about catching marlin, and credited Gutierrez with telling him the Cuban tales he used as grist to write " On The Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter ".

They were valuable because they knew how to read and write, a task beyond the reach of most warriors.

A 2008 statewide Patient Poll conducted by the Pennsylvania Medical Society's Institute for Good Medicine found that: 20 % of respondents ages 21 – 30 had used energy drinks in high school or college to stay awake longer to study or write a paper ; 70 % of respondents knew someone who had used an energy drink to stay awake longer to study or work.

" A later member of the Four Preps, David Somerville, and a session singer he knew, Gail Jensen, later collaborated with Larson to write and compose " The Unknown Stuntman ," the theme from The Fall Guy ; series lead Lee Majors performed this song over the opening titles.

Legend has it that Gonzalez did not wish to write lyrics for the competition, but Pili knew of his special talents and wanted him to enter.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author of the popular and critically acclaimed novels Purple Hibiscus ( 2003 ) and Half of a Yellow Sun ( 2006 ), commented in a 2006 interview, " Chinua Achebe will always be important to me because his work influenced not so much my style as my writing philosophy: reading him emboldened me, gave me permission to write about the things I knew well.