Mike tested the leg and found that he was able to hobble around on it.

Visibility continued to be limited, and Greg was never able to get above a thousand feet.

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.

He was able, now, to sit for hours in a chair in the living room and stare out at the bleak yard without moving.

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.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

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.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

He never let me know that my visit was about to terminate until the actual morning I was to leave for Lymington.

His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.

Papa was still elated over his afternoon visit downtown.

But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.

Mr. Dwyer said that although it was obvious that Mr. Rayburn was not well he stopped, gave the youngster his autograph, asked where he was from and expressed the hope that he would enjoy his visit to Congress.

His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

Upon a visit to a local junior college last week, I was shocked to see the young ladies wearing short shorts and the young men wearing Bermuda shorts.

The Secretary was uneasy about the visit.

`` Did he ever visit here when he was a kid ''??

'' and others concerning camp friends who resided in her suburban neighborhood,, and news of her commencing again her piano lessons, her private school, a visit to Boston to see her grandparents and an uncle who was a surgeon returned on furlough, wounded, from the war in Europe.

A big mechanical ditcher was running the trenches, and the town building inspector was paying a friendly, if curious, visit.

It was getting on toward 7 o'clock and the German Me-210 plane had been and gone on its eighth straight visit.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

Here again it was vacation time and there were many things I could not see, but I was able to visit with a professor who is famous in Japanese circles and be guided through the grounds by his assistant.

Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December.

She promised that she would soon take a few day's leave and visit the uncle she had never seen, on the island of Oyajima -- which was not very far from Yokosuka.

That was one more reason she didn't look forward to Cathy's visit, short or long ; ;

All of the elements of the experience were impossible and yet the reality of them was heavy upon him and he resolved never again to visit the temple at Fudomae.

His first visit to the area was in 1923 and he maintained a strong tie there until the end of his life.