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He was able, now, to sit for hours in a chair in the living room and stare out at the bleak yard without moving.
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She was just not able to break the spell.
Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.
In his native Cologne, where his mother taught him to play the piano, he was able to read notes before he learned the alphabet.
He was not enthusiastic over the newly acquired Claude Lorrain, but reminisced with pleasure over a Poussin exhibit he had been able to see in Paris a year ago.
If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.
It was nice to be able to isolate it.
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.
He said that his information was so secret that he would not be able to confide in me the origin of his pipeline tip.
In his absence, the rifle regiment was under the command of Major Thomas Posey, another able Virginian.
It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.
Krim was able to get an advance for a novel, and time and opportunity to write at Yaddo, but it was no good.
The promoter who wanted to sign him up for the circus asked him how he was able to do it.
Since ordinary breakfast-table conversation was impossible, it was at least something that they were able to offer Eugene the sugar bowl with their sugar in it, and the plate of bread and butter, and that Eugene could return the pitcher of hot milk to them handle first.
He was able to discern the body lines of the Roman women under their robes.
No, Kayabashi was bringing his associates here for a specific purpose and Rector would not be able to fathom it until they arrived.
He was an ardent champion of the Brown & Sharpe Apprentice Program and personal counselor to countless able men who first developed their industrial talents with the company.
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There was a time when, if a man wanted to purchase a boat, it was necessary for him to be able to produce a sizeable amount of cash before he could touch the tiller or wheel.
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The grass in the meadows came fast, now that the warm weather was here.
He took the reins just below the bit and held them firmly, and it was his turn to smile now.
`` Oh, no '', he said, and he was without humor now.
Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.
This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.
So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
The slight flutter that had disturbed the motion of her heart when she entered the forest was gone now, and even the dim groves of trees through which she occasionally passed did not reawaken her fear.
Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.
He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.
Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.
It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.
By now Curt was seeing clearly again.
And she was deeply thankful that she could see her now, out there in the midst of a gay, youthful circle, skipping and singing, `` Farmer in the dell, Farmer in the dell, Heigh-ho the dairy-oh, the farmer in the dell ''.
While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.
He knew now what he was up against.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
There was no real sign of the river now, just a roiling, oily ribbon of liquid movement through muddy waters that reached everywhere.
It was spoiled now for seed, and it would sour and mold in three days if they failed to find a place and fuel to dry it.
Keith was snarling now.
The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.
Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;
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