Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.

As we expected, on the following day my Uncle was completely recovered and opened the store as usual at 10 in the morning.

At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.

To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.

Mr. McKinley, for all his sprawling and his easy familiarity, was completely alert to his son, eyes always on the still face, jumping to anticipate Scotty's desires.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

Being placed in the hopples she was completely baffled.

It's extremely accurate for an auto, and the test rifle I tried was completely trouble-free in functioning.

On the morning following the Pratt Hall meeting the editor of the Providence Daily Journal wrote that although the meeting was milder and less extreme than those held in other areas for similar purposes, it could have been avoided completely.

Luckily, she was not completely aflame and would go down before the gasoline could erupt.

One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream, detailed the ensuing occurrences in advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified.

During the year that followed, Dick co-operated whole-heartedly with the dentist and was delighted with the final result achieved -- an upper row of strong straight teeth that completely changed his facial appearance.

But still Mel Chandler was not completely convinced that men would really die for a four-syllable word, `` Garryowen ''.

`` Oh, she was just the maid there '', he replied, waving a hand to indicate how completely unimportant she was.

There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.

Such optimism was completely unjustified.

Starting with the room completely blacked out, as it was when we came in, he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of glare.

Winsett is a quiet street with no taverns and was completely deserted at that hour.

The production, designed by Simon Virsaladze, was completely traditional but traditional in the right way.

Anne said it wasn't surprising because Charles was antisocial, a lone wolf, and completely one-sided.

But the most notable thing about the incantation of these ex-liberals was that the one-time shibboleth of socialism was conspicuously absent.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

Or it might have been the absent nephews she addressed, consciously playing with the notion that this was one of the summers of their early years.

In these circumstances, since what was expressed by the remark when first made is, on the theory before us, simply absent, the remark now expresses nothing.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

The usual congratulatory crowd was conspicuously absent ; ;

All Dallas members voted with Roberts, except Rep. Bill Jones, who was absent.

He was an affectionate, though often absent, husband and father of four children.

In one such theory, put forward by Sir E. B. Tylor, early humans initially, through mere observation, recognized what might be called a soul, life-force, spirit, breath or animus within themselves ; that which was present in the body in life and absent in death.

Achilles was absent during these encounters because of his feud with Agamemnon.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

This was because parliament wanted to know who was deciding policies, as sometimes councillors ' signatures normally attached to resolutions were absent.

Of the capabilities present in the BBC Micro but absent from the Electron, the teletext-style mode 7 was particularly conspicuous because of the very low memory usage in that mode ( just less than 1 kB ) and the high number of BBC programs that used it.

While Agamemnon, the son of Atreus, was absent on his expedition against Troy, Aegisthus seduced Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, and was so wicked as to offer up thanks to the gods for the success with which his criminal exertions were crowned.

During this time, Gregory of Cappadocia was installed as the Patriarch of Alexandria, usurping the absent Athanasius.

From 1972 to 2006, there was a dramatic reduction in the number of feral honey bees in the US, which are now almost absent.

Blood libels typically allege that Jews require human blood for the baking of matzos for Passover, although this element was absent in the earliest cases that claimed ( the contemporary ) Jews reenacted the crucifixion.

At the next performance at Lackland Air Force Base following the announcement the No. 4 or slot pilot, was absent from the formation.

Shallow seas flanked the margins of several continents created during the breakup of the supercontinent Pannotia. The seas were relatively warm, and polar ice was absent for much of the period.

Attlee was his regular deputy in these committees, and answered for the government in parliament when Churchill was absent.