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He was disappointed to find a nervous, scrawny woman with a big hat standing at the door.
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was and disappointed
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
Ann was plainly disappointed in his appearance.
Tom said he almost burst into tears, he was so disappointed and put out.
But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.
Papa was disappointed that none of the brothers had heard the Call.
Claire was bitterly disappointed but determined not to let the rebuff daunt her purpose.
William Tecumseh Sherman talked to Lincoln during inauguration week and was " sadly disappointed " at his failure to realize that " the country was sleeping on a volcano " and that the South was preparing for war.
The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.
" Alfred was disappointed with what he read and concerned with how he would be remembered.
After the death of his brother-in-law, Henry II, margrave of a small area on the Elbe called the Saxon Northern March, in 1128, Albert, disappointed at not receiving this fief himself, attacked Udo, the heir, and was consequently deprived of Lusatia by Lothar.
Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which " fell stillborn from the press ," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.
" Aegeus did not understand the prophecy and was disappointed.
Although initially disappointed that the main French fleet was not at Alexandria, Nelson knew from the presence of the transports that they must be nearby.
He had read extensively in Leibniz, Joseph Louis Lagrange, Thomas Simpson, and Lacroix and was seriously disappointed in the mathematical instruction available at Cambridge.
Confucius was deeply disappointed and resolved to leave Lu and seek better opportunities, yet to leave at once would expose the misbehavior of the Duke and therefore bring public humiliation to the ruler Confucius was serving.
Mare was supposed to bring a stronger leg to the team, but has disappointed with the fourth worst average field goal percentage of his 15-year career.
At the same time, Hall frequently talked with family and friends about philosophy and how she was disappointed with the state of welfare.
According to some authors, it was during this time that the burlesque Spanish term " roto " ( torn ), used by Peruvians to refer to Chileans, was first mentioned given how Almagro's disappointed troops returned to Cuzco with their " torn clothes " due to the extensive and laborious passage on foot by the Atacama desert.
was and find
The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.
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.
The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.
The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.
When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.
And Pike never did find out if Robinson was really responsible for the `` Vale '' letter.
The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.
When these chores were finished, only then, was she allowed whatever freedom she could find.
When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.
Next year is the 80th anniversary of the signing of the treaty between Korea and the United States and experts in Seoul are trying to find the correspondence between Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was Secretary of State in 1883 and 1884, and Gen. Lucius Foote, who was the first minister to Korea.
I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.
I was stumbling in my undershirt trying to find my way around her damn kitchenette when I smelt that sickish sweet hairtonic smell.
I never could find out what his business was.
In any event Rector sent him to the local hospital to have it checked, telling him to keep his ears open while he was in the village to see if he could find out what Kayabashi was planning.
He was surprised to find Kayabashi's secretary on the other end of the line.
Pa was sure to find out.
Its purpose was to find ways of offsetting the United States' declining balance of trade for 1958 and 1959.
The word marina was coined by NAEBM originally to describe a waterfront facility where recreational boats could find protection and basic needs to lay over in relative comfort.
And then again perhaps the reason why he couldn't find time to do any of the things he had planned to do after retirement: reading, roaming, gardening, lying on his back and watching the clouds go by, was because he didn't want to do them.
The terms are fairly safe to use on this side of the ocean, but before you start spouting them to your date, it might be best to find out if he was a member of Major Pockmanster's Delhi Regiment, since resentment toward the natives was reportedly very high in that outfit.
'49 ) found these shunts in the human being but was unable to find them in rats.
To find a place for them in their theory of knowledge would require them to revise the theory radically, and yet that theory was what they regarded as their most important discovery.
was and nervous
But this time she was nervous: she was open.
( He explained that he could diagnose these ailments from squeezing her foot because all of the nervous system was connected to it.
There was a slight nervous twitch in the region of her left eye.
He took her to a doctor, for she was run down, nervous, did not care where she was.
She asked him and, laughing, she added, `` I was nervous about buying a book with a title like that, but I knew you'd like it ''.
* The sea slug Aplysia was chosen by Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist Eric Kandel as a model for studying the cellular basis of learning and memory, because of the simplicity and accessibility of its nervous system, and it has been examined in hundreds of experiments.
The 9 February 1958 edition of the Los Angeles Times reported on the front page that Bardot was recovering in Italy from a reported nervous breakdown.
The team was back in the airport terminal barely ten minutes when the call to reconvene on the plane came, and a number of passengers began to feel nervous.
Chaplin was reported to be in the state of a nervous breakdown, as the story became headline news and pirated copies of the document were read by the public.
William's anxiety over them was probably what caused his first nervous breakdown.
In 1924, Auguste Lumiere recognized the merits of Marinescu's science films: " I've seen your scientific reports about the usage of the cinematograph in studies of nervous illnesses, when I was still receiving " La Semaine Médicale ," but back then I had other concerns, which left me no spare time to begin biological studies.
Of a high-strung and nervous temperament, Brewster was somewhat irritable in matters of controversy ; but he was repeatedly subjected to serious provocation.
There was no power and the audience had become understandably restless and nervous.
Munch wrote, " My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious — to the point of psychoneurosis.
The military, bureaucracy and the United States was nervous with good reasons where the support for the Soviet Union began to rise in both East and West.
The production of the film was plagued by numerous problems, including typhoons, nervous breakdowns, the firing of Harvey Keitel, Martin Sheen's heart attack, extras from the Philippine military leaving in the middle of scenes to go fight rebels, and an unprepared Brando with a bloated appearance ( which Coppola attempted to hide by shooting him in the shadows ).
Although his many anatomical experiments on animal models led him to a more complete understanding of the circulatory system, nervous system, respiratory system and other structures, his work was not without scientific inaccuracies.
It was discovered in 1897 by Italian physician Camillo Golgi during an investigation of the nervous system.
Avicenna's contributions include the distinction of mediastinitis from pleurisy and careful descriptions of skin troubles, sexually transmitted diseases, and nervous ailments, as well the use of ice to treat fevers, and the separation of medicine from pharmacology, which was important to the development of the pharmaceutical sciences.
In 1949, while working on the new version of Land of Black Gold ( the first version had been left unfinished by the outbreak of World War II ), Hergé suffered a nervous breakdown and was forced to take an abrupt four month-long break.
The earliest definition of hypnosis was given by Braid, who coined the term " hypnotism " as an abbreviation for " neuro-hypnotism ", or nervous sleep, which he opposed to normal sleep, and defined as: " a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature.
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