Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

He was tall and dark-skinned, a half-breed, Wilson thought.

It was obvious that he wished himself different from the sort of person he thought he was.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

Perhaps it was insane, Pamela thought.

It was not, thought Pamela, such an evil place after all.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

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.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

By age fifteen, he had mastered Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto in G minor and finished a piano reduction of a string quartet by Glazunov, who reportedly considered Stravinsky to be unmusical and thought little of his skills.

Only four horses competed against Secretariat for the June 9, 1973, running of the Belmont Stakes, including Sham, who had finished second in both the Derby and Preakness, along with three other horses thought to have little chance by the bettors: Twice A Prince, My Gallant, and Private Smiles.

Shaw describes the text as " a meditation of our Lord as Messiah in Christian thought and belief ", and despite his reservations on Jennens's character, concedes that the finished wordbook " amounts to little short of a work of genius ".

The brewery thought to be the first to successfully use significant quantities of American hops in the style of APA and use the name Pale Ale, was the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, who brewed the first experimental batch of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in November 1980, distributing the finished version in March 1981.

As van Gulik thought the story would have more interest to Japanese and Chinese readers, he had it translated into Japanese by a friend ( finished in 1951 ), and it was sold in Japan under the title Meiro-no-satsujin.

After the crazed purging of " The Electric End ," the sidelong piece that ended Lost Cause, many thought Jandek was finished.

The burr puzzle gets its name from the most traditional shape for the finished puzzle, a symmetrical arrangement of intersecting cuboids thought to resemble a seed burr, but similar puzzles can have other forms: a ball, a human figure, a ship, a bird or a star-like shape.

His mechanic thought Räikkönen had retired, but he eventually caught up with the other competitors and finished third.

Howard's zero tolerance concerning non-Marxist, especially conservative, thinking makes him persecute one of the male participants of his seminar who, apart from wearing a university blazer and a tie which make him look like a student out of the 1950s, insists on being allowed to present his paper in the traditional, formal way, without being interrupted and without having to answer questions before he has finished his train of thought.

We thought it might be good sometime to do a longer version with these other things in, because a lot of the characters that are missing in the finished movie had been filmed.

However his most famous work is Historia brevis regum Dacie, entitled Compendiosa regum Daniæ historia in one manuscript, thought to have been finished in 1186 or 1187 ( the last event is described in 1185 ), a work covering Danish history beginning with the legendary King Skjold from around 300 to 1185.

According to America's Girl, " Handley thought the Australian crawl, in which swimmers did three kicks and then turned on their side to take a breath and do a scissors kick, could be improved ... The finished product-and its eight-beat variation, which Ederle would use-became the American crawl, and Handley was its proud father.

Corti actually thought he had done the first Italian ascent of the face until it was pointed out that he had finished the climb tied to the back of another climber.

Noted American historian Hubert Howe Bancroft quotes Collis Huntington as saying, " I never thought anything finished until Hopkins looked at it ".

* The representation of Latin / kt / as / ht / ( as in / nohte / " night " < ), thought to have been an intermediate stage in the transition / kt / > / jt /, but represented nowhere else ( Portuguese finished the transition, as shown by noite " night ").

I had just finished reading the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire the second time, and I thought I might as well adapt it on a much larger scale to the Galactic Empire and get a story out of it.

However, Mandy Kane and the label both thought that the finished work had lost something in the re-recording process.

In addition to several other paintings that he created which express a highly individualistic mythology, he is thought to have completed this painting in 1897, although there is some evidence that the painting might not have been finished until 1898.

* April 21, 2004 – After commenting on a UEFA Champions League match on ITV1, Ron Atkinson thought that the broadcast had finished.

William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist, saw half an hour of the film, " I was at Technicolor and a guy said ‘ We just finished a print of Exorcist II, do you wanna have a look at it ?’ And I looked at half an hour of it and I thought it was as bad as seeing a traffic accident in the street.

According to a report in the The Sun, viewers telephoned a premium-rate number to vote for the People's Choice Award at the 2005 Awards during what was claimed to be a live broadcast ; yet, at 22: 30, the show went to a news broadcast, so that when the show returned, and viewers thought it was still live and thus still phoned the number, the last half-hour was in fact a recording as the vote had already finished, rendering the call-in votes given during the recording pointless and a misuse of the callers ' money.

By April 1928 the Marines thought Sandino was finished and was only trying to evade capture.

The finished designs, which were thought to resemble human figures, clouds, or flying birds, were then transferred to the surface of a sheet of paper.

While the series was declared finished with the publication of the seventh volume in 2004, in an interview in March 2009, King stated, describing an idea for a new short story he recently had: " And then I thought, ' Well, why don't I find three more like this and do a book that would be almost like modern fairy tales?