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That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.
He studied the problem for a few seconds and thought of a means by which it might be solved.
He started to reach for his gun, but apparently thought better of it.
They thought it would be a chance for you to make a life out where nobody will be thought any better than the next except for just what's inside of them.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
A brief list of the great detective's little idiosyncrasies would provide Dr. Freud with ample food for thought.
Let us survey for a moment the development of modern thought -- turning our attention from the Reformation toward the revolutionary and romantic movements that follow and dwelling finally on more recent decades.
When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.
Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.
it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.
He was Julius Kahn for whom the Chief of Staff thought no honor could be too great.
It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.
He thought he saw -- it awakened and, for a moment, interested him -- that Elizabeth held a leash in her hand and that a round fuzzy puppy was on the end of the leash.
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.
He thought of Simms Purdew snoring on his bunk while Pullen James crouched by the hearth, skirmishing an undershirt for lice, and a wet log sizzled.
It went right on creaking under his own considerable weight, and all it needed, Harold thought, was for somebody to fling himself back in a fit of laughter and that would be the end of it.
When they got home Harold was grateful for the stillness in the apartment, and thought how, under different circumstances, they might have stayed on here, in these old-fashioned, high-ceilinged rooms that reminded him of the Irelands' apartment in the East Eighties.
When he had given the call a few moments thought, he went into the kitchen to ask Mrs. Yamata to prepare tea and sushi for the visitors, using the formal English china and the silver tea service which had been donated to the mission, then he went outside to inspect the grounds.
He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.
He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.

thought and moment
For a moment she thought of answering with the truth but she knew there were men who shied away from virginity, who demanded some degree of education in body as well as mind.
Too often it is thought of at the last moment of new product introduction.
After a moment of thought, her mind cleared and, in the interest of clarity, she typed into the record: `` Shot in the woods ''.
He thought a moment, then inquired, `` You mean petted ''??
For a moment he thought of going into Crosson's office to explain that he had to leave, but there was now such a pain in his chest, such a pounding in his head, that he decided to let it go.
The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).
It may be that the something that thinks is purely momentary, and not the same as the something which has a different thought the next moment.
During an unguarded moment when Major thought that the microphones had been switched off, Brunson asked why he did not sack the ministers who were conspiring against him.
Ptolemy's astrological outlook was quite practical: he thought that astrology was like medicine, that is conjectural, because of the many variable factors to be taken into account: the race, country, and upbringing of a person affects an individual's personality as much if not more than the positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets at the precise moment of their birth, so Ptolemy saw astrology as something to be used in life but in no way relied on entirely.
All this while he never left his post for a moment, and I thought I could discover a gravity in his deportment not discernible in those by which he was surrounded.
" If I've ever had a magic moment in my life, it was popping that tape in ," said Jesperson, " I didn't even get through the first song before I thought my head was going to explode ".
In the same book, Harry Potter saved himself from a Dementor attack, realizing at the last moment that his savior was not his father as he had initially thought, but was in fact, himself.
However, she didn't know that a single moment of perfect happiness would break the curse, and thought it was enough just to ensure that Angel still suffered.
After materializing, one of the away-team members commented that for a moment she thought she was trapped in a nearby wall, to which a colleague replied, " For a moment, you were.
The Protestant Reformation was a significant moment in the history of magical thought because Protestantism provided the impetus for a systematic understanding of the world.
In willed actions and thought, psychons act on dendrons and, for a moment, increase the probability of the firing of selected neurons through quantum tunneling effect in synaptic exocytosis, while in perception the reverse process takes place.
Socrates draws the distinction between having and possessing ; the former typically implies the latter, thought on the other hand, one can possess something, such as a bird, without actually having it ( with them at any moment )( 199a ).
Lean was ultimately forced to abandon the project after overseeing casting and the construction of the $ 4 million Bounty replica ; at the last possible moment, actor Mel Gibson brought in his friend Roger Donaldson to direct the film, as producer De Laurentiis did not want to lose the millions he had already put into the project over what he thought was as insignificant a person as the director dropping out.
Hitchcock thought for a moment then said he had always wanted to do a chase across Mount Rushmore.
In a rare moment of lucid thought, Butt-head correctly identifies Sterculius.

thought and heart
He thought: Only in my heart can I make the world hang together.
Having the deepest of maternal instincts, my heart fairly bled when I thought of the darling pink and white `` bundles from heaven '' I would have proudly given my husband.
It was at the Opry that she first met Johnny Cash, who encouraged her to go where her heart took her and not to care what others thought.
It was written, he tells us, in bitter anguish, " out of much affliction and pressure of heart ... and with streaming eyes " ( 2 Cor 2: 4 ); yet he restrained the expression of his feelings, and wrote with a dignity and holy calm which he thought most calculated to win back his erring children.
Do you think that I thought this up myself in my heart or that I am lying concerning the Savior?
* 1091 – London Tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8 / F4 strikes the heart of London.
Many measures are part of modern psychophysiology including measures of brain activity such as ERPs, brain waves ( electroencephalography, EEG ), fMRI ( functional magnetic resonance imaging ), measures of skin conductance ( skin conductance response, SCR ; galvanic skin response, GSR ), cardiovascular measures ( heart rate, HR ; beats per minute, BPM ; heart rate variability, HRV ; vasomotor activity ), muscle activity ( electromyography, EMG ), changes in pupil diameter with thought and emotion ( pupillometry ) and eye movements, recorded via the electro-oculogram ( EOG ) and direction-of-gaze methods.
To complicate matters, Benedict IX, unable to obtain the bride on whom he had set his heart, soon repented his resignation, claimed the papacy again, and in his turn is thought to have succeeded in acquiring dominion over a part of the city.
He said he found himself enveloped in a brilliant light, and looked up to see what seemed like the sun falling directly onto his body, and he thought that he was having a heart attack.
He was thought “ to understand the heart and soul of American audiences .” Once the documentary series was completed, it was said to contain the “ Capra touch .”
Archosaurs ( crocodilians and birds ) and mammals show complete separation of the heart into two pumps for a total of four heart chambers ; it is thought that the four-chambered heart of archosaurs evolved independently from that of mammals.
One approach, offered by the logical school of thought, suggests that the problem arises in a self-contradictory self-referencing statement at the heart of the judge's sentence.
The Tong thought they shot him through the heart.
This initial thought led Harvey's ambition and assiduousness to a detailed analysis of the overall structure of the heart ( studied with less hindrances in cold-blooded animals.
Until the 17th century, two separate systems were thought to be involved in blood circulation: the natural system, containing venous blood which had its origin in the liver, and the vital system, containing arterial blood and the ' spirits ' which flowed from the heart, distributing heat and life to all parts.
We could begin with Aristotle, who argued that sensory information went from the senses to the heart, which he thought was the seat of reason.
This included calling a friend in her apartment building and mentioned she thought it was a heart attack.
Early in the campaign it had been thought that Yeltsin, who was in uncertain health ( after recuperating from a series of heart attacks ) and whose behavior was sometimes erratic, had little chance for reelection.
Birds and mammals show complete separation of the heart into two pumps, for a total of four heart chambers ; it is thought that the four-chambered heart of birds evolved independently from that of mammals.

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