It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

it was perhaps 80 feet high and had been artfully constructed of logs.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Yet implicit in each movement was the death of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, perhaps you and me -- and the experts.

Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

Historical records indicate that Copernicus was unaware of the fundamental aspects of his so-called ' revolution ', unaware perhaps of its historical importance, he rested content with having produced a simpler scheme for prediction.

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

Yours, but not mine, was an age in which innocence was fostered and carefully -- if not perhaps altogether innocently -- preserved.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

by now it was perhaps two days or longer after Papa had begun hemorrhaging.

perhaps he was a little more sympathetic to the sides of beef that hung silently from his hooks.

Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.

What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.

I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

Jackson was doing most of the talking.

Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.

Now, he was just in the late poems of Holderlin and therefore had most of the nineteenth century before him -- plus next semester's class preparation.

Mary Jane might not be the most intelligent woman, but she was one of the most determined.

And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.

He was most eager to make the dive ; ;

Col. Henri Garvier was one of New Orleans' most important and enlightened slave owners.

He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.

She was a top horsewoman and one of the city's most gracious hostesses.

Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

What they wished for most was security ; ;

what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

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

Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

Mercer did not know what an `` Earth-week '' was, since he had not been a well-read man before his conviction, but he got nothing more from the half-man at that time.

He was well-read, knew poetry, and he could quote Shakespeare.

Desmond was quite well-read and retained a unique wit.

She was well-read in the works of René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza.

The marriage proved to be a happy one and Severus cherished his wife and her political opinions, since she was very well-read and keen on philosophy.

He was well-read and had an extensive library.

Although provincial in his physical travels, he was extraordinarily well-read and vicariously a world traveler.

He was well-read and later accumulated a library of over 1, 000 volumes.

Cultured and sophisticated, he was well-read, and many of his paintings show figures reading.

He was also well-read, and knowledgeable on a variety of subjects, including Irish history and theology.

It is not stated in the series whether the characters ( who are usually well-read ) are merely paraphrasing the bard for their own amusement, or if Shakespeare himself was telling stories that are reflections of Amber's history and future.

Harry was well-read in his history, but after starting on the project he realized that ' well-read ’ wasn ’ t enough.

Fludd was well-read in the tradition coming through Francesco Giorgi.

In later years it was as the helpful friend and adviser of others, or as the well-read critic of wide sympathies, that Tieck distinguished himself.

* The Canadian physician William Osler ( 1849 – 1919 ), the " founding father of modern medicine ", was a well-read admirer of Browne.

Sallust declares him well-read and intelligent, and he was fluent in Greek, which was a sign of education in Rome.

However, certain persons, though very few in number, were born into other varnas but dedicated themselves to such an austere life that they were also recognized as Brahmins in ancient India ( e. g., sage Vishwamitra, a non-brahmin who attained brahmavidya and composed the Gayatri mantra was venerated as " Brahmarishi ", not by caste but by title / pre-fix accorded to him by the well-read in general in those days ).

The arrival of erudite, well-read, multilingual university lecturer with English fluency was seen as a great triumph for the SLP organization.

She died in 1922, and ten years later, on 29 August 1932, he married Elizabeth ( Bessie ) Marren, a strong-willed, intelligent and well-read Irishwoman who was social editor of the Catholic weekly newspaper, the Tribune.

The second ruler of the Macedonian dynasty ( although his parentage is unclear ), he was very well-read, leading to his surname.

He wrote that he had " sincere respect " for the group and that its journal, The Harbinger, was " conducted by an assemblage of well-read persons who mean no harm — and who, perhaps, can do no less ".

Reis's mother died while he was an infant, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother, a well-read, intelligent woman.