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was and aware
Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.
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.
He was only vaguely aware of the sluicing rain.
It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.
I was aware that when our eyes met we both quickly averted them.
Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.
I was aware of a humid look in her eyes that told me the time was opportune.
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.
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.
But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.
Rob Roy was well aware of the importance of this mission, and he would walk in front of the President, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
Students of anthropology and comparative religion had long been aware that there was, indeed, a direct connection.
Rousseau was aware that he must seem like a hypocrite, standing there and arguing that he could not possibly permit a public performance.
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.
She did this now, comfortably aware of the mist running down the windows, of the silence outside, of the dark afternoon it was getting to be.
She stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.
At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;

was and insistent
John was quietly insistent.
It happened because the German aircraft industry lacked the experience to build a long-range bomber fleet quickly, and because Hitler was insistent on the very rapid creation of a numerically large force.
Like Euripides, both Aeschylus and Sophocles created comic effects contrasting the heroic with the mundane but they employed minor supporting characters for that purpose whereas the younger poet was more insistent, using major characters too.
) Scullin was equally insistent that the monarch must act on the relevant Prime Minister's direct advice ( the practice until 1926 was that Dominion prime ministers advised the monarch indirectly, through the British government, which effectively had a veto over any proposal it did not agree with ).
Dalí was so insistent on this fact that eventually an X-ray was done of the canvas, confirming his suspicions: the painting contains a painted-over geometric shape strikingly similar to a coffin.
Pope Innocent was, according to historian Ralph Turner, an " ambitious and aggressive " religious leader, insistent on his rights and responsibilities within the church.
Crowley was highly insistent upon the importance of this practice.
The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when " urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat " was becoming more popular.
The South African Customs Union came into existence in 1906, but various problems existed with the arrangements particularly because the Transvaal was insistent on dominating the Union.
But Bergkamp was insistent on playing in Italy.
Edmund may have expected a pardon, possibly from Edward III, but Isabella was insistent on his execution.
This insistent quarrel ( or dispute ) was well configured by Umberto Eco when, exposing the example of divergences about the concept of " Denotation " in Stuart Mill and Hjelmslev, concluded that:
Lichtenstein began experimenting with sculpture around 1964, demonstrating a knack for the form that was at odds with the insistent flatness of his paintings.
This was because an influential producer for the show was insistent despite objections from nearly all the show's personnel and host Dick Clark, who referring to Lydon said, " What can I expect from this asshole?
Philip Morris, however, was insistent that the show air weekly, thus diminishing the possibility of Lucy continuing her film career alongside a television show.
When Marshall was insistent on John, who was an adult, the author of the Life has Walter say in reply " ' So be it then ,' said the archbishop, ' but mark my words, Marshal, you will never regret anything in your life as much as this.
For example, echoing John's famous, " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God ", is Lena's insistent faith in the " word " of Lucas, who is, after all, the father.
Napoleon was insistent on the immediate capture of this position and ordered forward two heavy cavalry divisions under St. Sulpice and Nansouty.

was and inner
In addition, the inner surface of the carbon shield was covered with aluminum foil to reduce radiation.
Another poultice was made from the inner bark of the elm tree, steeped in water until it formed a sticky, gummy solution.
Casey kept his smile fixed, but some small inner disturbance was working on him as he thought again about Needham, who was eight or ten years older than the girl.
There were intense discussions in the inner councils of the White House about the advisability of an early meeting, not because the international climate was improving, but precisely because it was deteriorating alarmingly.
The feeling was that he would sense an inner core of toughness and determination in the President and that plain talk by Mr. Kennedy would give him pause.
The day was brilliant around her -- flower-scented, crisp with breeze -- yet her inner turmoil darkened it.
In this manner, for example, it was theorized that mercury could penetrate into metals and modify their inner structure.
Since the mid-1890s Schweitzer had formed the inner resolve that it was needful for him as a Christian to repay to the world something for the happiness which it had given to him, and he determined that he would pursue his younger interests until the age of thirty and then give himself to serving humanity, with Jesus serving as his example.
The inner bark of the alder, as well as red osier dogwood, or chokecherry, was also used by Native Americans in their smoking mixtures, known as kinnikinnick, to improve the taste of the bearberry leaf.
The outer shell of the calorimeter was packed with snow, which melted to maintain a constant temperature of around an inner shell filled with ice.
His primary interest was in applying the methodology of science to realms of inner experience and the spiritual worlds ( Steiner's appreciation that the essence of science is its method of inquiry is unusual among esotericists ), and Steiner called anthroposophy Geisteswissenschaft ( lit.
It was the gateway from inner Edo to northern and northwestern Japan and Kan ’ ei-ji temple in Ueno.
The notation was introduced in 1939 by Paul Dirac and is also known as Dirac notation, though the notation has precursors in Grassmann's use of the notation for his inner products nearly 100 years previously.
A second inner line of four frigates was positioned approximately west of the main line, roughly halfway between the line and the shoal.
He developed a method of measuring the horizontal intensity of the magnetic field which was in use well into the second half of the 20th century, and worked out the mathematical theory for separating the inner and outer ( magnetospheric ) sources of Earth's magnetic field.
His brow was low and broad, his eyes a volcanic blue that smoldered as if with some inner fire.
According to biographer Keay Davidson, Sagan's " inner war " was a result of his close relations with both his parents, who were in many ways " opposites ".
Flirty Fishing was practiced by members of Berg's inner circle starting in 1973, and was later introduced to the general membership.
The summer term was formerly marked by Tubestock, an unofficial tradition in which the students used wooden rafts and inner tubes to float on the Connecticut River.
Knowing what he did was best for his country, but the tense posture of his feet and toes reveals his inner turmoil.
Instead of adopting a form of eliminativism or mental fictionalism, positions that deny that inner mental phenomena exist, a behaviorist was able to adopt epiphenomenalism in order to allow for the existence of mind.

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