Among the dwarves in The Hobbit, Balin was the second-eldest dwarf ( after Thorin ), and so he spoke for the party when they were captured by the Elvenking, as Thorin wasn't present.

She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.

Brenner's voice was oily, but Summers wasn't fooled.

`` The snake was beautiful, wasn't it ''??

The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.

The man, Tom said, explained that it was not only too long and detailed but that as it stood it wasn't the sort of thing the public wanted.

And one cannot but wonder whether Marshal Malinovsky, who was blowing hot and cold, exalting peace but also almost openly considering the possibility of preventive war against the West, wasn't trying to keep the Chinese quiet.

He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.

When he was a kid I wasn't around ''.

It was muscular but it wasn't symmetrical.

It wasn't long before I sensed that there was something deeper than overvaulting ambition back of his desire for Viola's destruction.

He said he was the lonely type and working in a cellar you saw funny things coming out of the cracks in the wall if they wasn't nobody with you.

The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.

She wasn't quite sure that I felt enough remorse about my drinking, or that I would not return to it once I was out and on my own again.

I could get up close to him where there was traffic but had to drop far behind when there wasn't traffic.

She was complying with the law in regard to registrations but she certainly wasn't checking license numbers or bothering the tenants.

The place wasn't particularly busy at that time of night, and the girl who was waiting on me, who was clothed in the tightest-fitting pair of slacks I had ever seen on a woman and a sweater that showed everything there was -- and there was lots of it -- wanted to be sociable.

She didn't mind working hard, not as if she figured to do anything wrong to live easy and soft -- all she wanted was a chance, where she wasn't marked as what she was.

Nellie Harris wasn't old, she was ancient -- a tiny shriveled woman with a face like a tan prune.

Once or twice my father asked me if I wasn't overdoing a bit in my churchgoing.

`` There wasn't a bit of trouble ''.

`` He wasn't the least bit disturbed by my watching him '', said Charlotte.

Pohl then says that " on reflection ' Cosmos ' seemed to take in a bit more territory than was justified, so we changed it to the International Scientific Association ( it wasn't International either, but then it also wasn't scientific )".

The fish bit well, and it wasn't long before Gunnhild had a week's supply of fish for her pot.

He later told NME, "' Worse for wear ' wasn't the half of it: I was extremely ill. By the time the tour actually finished it was all getting a little bit ... dangerous.

* Joe Millionaire, which did likewise, with the twist that the bachelor was reputed to be a millionaire, but wasn't, although the cash prize offered by surprise at the end eventually made the deceptive scenario a bit less abusive.

She has said she wasn't so much funny as a " bit odd " as a child.

After the match went on a bit, Angle and Sting were out of the ring and when Angle pushed Sting onto Nash, Sting turned around and knocks Nash in the face with a right hand shot, leading to Nash interfering on Angle's behalf, even though earlier he said he wasn't going to help Angle.

I'm just a little bit dyslexic and I wasn't very academic.

' When you grow up being ' outside ' – because I wasn't white, and I was fat, and always a bit of a free thinker – it was strange.

Cameron stated, " The guys made me feel real welcome and it wasn't a struggle to get it musically, but my style was a little bit different, I think, than what they were used to.

Needing a bit more elbow room, it wasn't long before the construction of a conservatory studio within the courtyard area was completed and was used for cooking items and interviews.

She raised more than a few eyebrows when she claimed that while inducing her first child naturally, the process " wasn't painful, not even a little bit.

At first, Ross wasn't too enthused with the idea of his father and mother being at home all the time running the day care center, because he loved his independence and girl-chasing, and was more than a bit put out with all the bonding his dad wanted to do now.

:" With today's crocs, you basically have a period of fast growth, then a little bit of growth — this guy wasn't slowing down.

Bassist and founder member Steve Harris comments, " We did get a bit of flak for the Edward the Great album but it wasn't aimed at the hardcore fan, it was aimed at the peripheral people who've heard the name or seen the name on a T-shirt and wouldn't know which record to pick up.

For Roberts the album was about making a risky record, where there wasn't a guaranteed commercial success, explaining to The Guardian: " It's taken every last bit of confidence just to release this record, or maybe I've just brainwashed myself into feeling more confident.

In 2002, his explanation for the defection was: The first Thatcher government did get a bit bogged down and it wasn't really the radical government that subsequently emerged ,... And the fact that you had a completely new opportunity to wipe the slate clean, with no baggage, was a very attractive thing.

" While the label haven't commented on these allegations, much press reaction has suggested that the situation was not so clear cut, with Alexis Petridis of The Guardian stating that " She was a bit hasty, wasn't she?

Maybe I felt that Debut had been such a polite, shy album-there was a side of me that was so shy and such a beginner, I was very flattered when everyone loved Debut but also a bit confused because it wasn't really me.

Since his knowledge of English wasn't very extensive, he asked for the only Mad artist he knew of that spoke Spanish, Cuban-born artist Antonio Prohías, creator of the comic Spy vs. Spy.

Once Hicks gained some underground success in night clubs and universities, he quit drinking, realizing that it wasn't alcohol that made a great comic, but his ability to express a truth, even if it was an unpopular one.

* In the Italian comic book Martin Mystère Moriarty wasn't killed at Reichenbach Falls.

It's a very unusual performance in that he's very funny, he's physically comic, but he's also strangely graceful, a pleasure to watch ... It looked very expensive even though it wasn't and that's a feat ... The earlier script I saw was disappointing ( but ) they took it back and worked on it and it's hugely improved.

While surviving works of these periods such as Francis Barlow's A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish Plot ( c. 1682 ) as well as The Punishments of Lemuel Gulliver and A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth ( 1726 ), can be seen to establish a narrative over a number of images, it wasn't until the 19th century that the elements of such works began to crystallise into the comic strip.

Gross responded to " nearly everyone " asking if Molly was going to return by explaining that when he was asked to take over, John Ney Rieber had specifically asked for her not to stay in the comic and although this request was later withdrawn Gross thought it fitted the story he had plotted and made Tim more central to his own comic if she wasn't used.

It wasn't just that he had superb comic timing: one could see absolutely why the family trusted their fates to him.

Les wasn't seen again for nearly a year after that strip until the comic started to run reprints of John Sherwood strips from the 1990s, which are still running.

" Milholland stated that he scrapped the idea after discovering K. Sandra Fuhr's comic, Boy Meets Boy, and worrying that he " couldn't do anything in the new comic that Sandra wasn't already doing better in her strip.

Although she wasn't selected as a hostess, she was offered a steady job as a comic actress in the show and Mayra quickly became a household name.

He was similar to his comic book counterpart, though he wasn't an official X-Man and his legs were covered with a black swirl rather than orange and yellow smoke when he used his powers.

The series featured the first interracial kiss in American color comic books that wasn't played for laughs.

After the success of the first X-Men film, it was decided if the character's origin wasn't told in the comic, it would be told on the film.

The book also included a chapter that attacked contemporary comic books as harmful to children ; because his critique drew about his view that it was a consequence of the aforementioned cultural permissive views toward violence he wasn't a leading voice during the subsequent debate about the impact of comics that instead was dominated by Fredric Wertham.

He has said that during his teen years, he was not a " full-on nerd was reading comic books ... wasn't good in sports " and " got picked on a lot ".