This explanation served to satisfy people who wondered anxiously about their role in the universe.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

Whenever he saw someone lying in the dirt, Ramey wondered what the person had been thinking and he would try out thoughts in his own mind.

He left the house and almost certain death without even increasing his pace and wondered by what remarkable stroke of Providence he had been allowed to come out alive.

He wondered what expression, as he made that gesture, was on his face.

The place was evidently a familiar haunt and Claire wondered what other illicit loves had been celebrated in the comfortable rooms to which they were shown.

'' I thought, and wondered what kind of homesteads such odd pioneers would establish in this suburban frontier ; ;

Now he recalled it very clearly, and wondered what the truck driver had seen in those eyes to make him back off.

He spoke through the public address box built into the cabin, and his gigantic voice roared out over the empty plain, so that the pink herd of talking people stirred gently in their happiness and wondered what their friend B'dikkat might be wanting to tell them.

" In his book Graham Crackers, Chapman said that this took place just before Cleese left the show, and he wondered what the woman thought about his disappearance after getting Idle's response.

:" The King of England was struck with great astonishment, and wondered what alliance could mean, and, taking precautions for the future, frequently sent messengers into France for the purpose of recalling his son Richard ; who, pretending that he was peaceably inclined and ready to come to his father, made his way to Chinon, and, in spite of the person who had the custody thereof, carried off the greater part of his father's treasures, and fortified his castles in Poitou with the same, refusing to go to his father.

Hypnotists reported what they thought were second personalities emerging during hypnosis and wondered how two minds could coexist.

:" I was 17 and I wondered what I was going to do.

A number of critics noted that the play improved on Shakespeare's original, and several wondered what Harold Bloom would have made of it.

Ever since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake showed what the San Andreas fault can do, the public and the scientists alike have wondered: when is The Next One.

King says he wondered what it would have been like to have been raised by such a mother, and based the story itself on a reversal of the Cinderella fairy tale.

Gaiman mentioned wanting to do a Renfaire issue with Hob in it because he thought it would be funny for several reasons: Gaiman himself mentioned in " The Sandman Companion " that he never liked Renfaires, particularly in America and wondered what it would be like if someone from the time popped in.

" I wondered what this thing could be ," she said.

Numerous veterans and historians have wondered what might have happened if the assault had gone forward into the night.

After Finn's children, Liam and Elroy, left the family home to pursue their own musical careers, the two wondered what to do to fill the time left open by their children's absence.

The character " Foster Hunnicutt " wondered what it was like to be Jim Bridger or Jedediah Smith.

Though it only ran for a few months prior to Big L's closure, The Perfumed Garden got more fan mail than the rest of the pop DJ's on Radio London put together, so much that staff wondered what to do with it all.

Brown said, " I got no real instruction and wondered what I was going to do after four years of this sort of education.

He wondered how they could go on in poverty, superstition, ignorance, with a complete lack of desire to make either their land or their lives flourish.

How could it have been thirty years already, she wondered??

I could see the ancient cynicism reinforce itself in her eyes, and I wondered how many men she had picked up with this same gambit.

He wondered how anyone could have the good luck to visit a planet as nice as this.

After considering that his artificial line simulators used lumped components rather than the distributed quantities found in a real line, he wondered if he could not insert the inductance with lumped components instead of using Stone's distributed line.

Not satisfied with his knowledge of philosophy, he wondered if God and religion could be made a part of one's growing experiences and deeply internalised.

In return, Frederick wondered how so much poison could fit in such a small head as Napoleon's.

Many had wondered if Fianna Fáil could survive without de Valera as leader.

He also wondered why there was so much evil in the world, especially when one could let reason lead the way.

It may be wondered how the current Members of Lloyd's could be liable to pay these historical losses.

The money was driven up to Aylesbury and taken into custody by Detective Superintendent Fewtrell, who wondered how his London colleagues could know how much money there was.

Stunned by the degree to which the democracy slogan had swayed the public both at home and abroad, he wondered whether this propaganda model could be employed during peace time.

But by the end of the 1920s, films like The Jazz Singer could be presented with synchronized sound, and critics wondered if the cinema would replace live theatre altogether.

Schleiermacher wondered whether there could be a hermeneutics that was not a collection of pieces of ad hoc advice for the solution of specific problems with text interpretation but rather a " general hermeneutics ," which dealt with the " art of understanding " as such, which pertained to the structure and function of understanding wherever it occurs.

Peng later reflected that he was confused that Mao could have interpreted his private letter as a political attack, and wondered why, after thirty years of working together, Mao could not have discussed the matter privately with him, if Peng had indeed made the mistakes Mao claimed he did.

The railroad men themselves wondered at it and of course the uninitiated could not do less.

Faria Jr., from then on, often wondered how a mere phrase from his father could alter his state of mind so radically as to wipe off his stage fright in a second.

This conjecture was confirmed when he observed his skin to be hotter, his colour to be heightened, and his pulse quickened, whenever Stratonice came near him, while none of these symptoms occurred on any other occasion ; and accordingly he told Seleucus that his son's disease was incurable, for that he was in love, and that it was impossible that his passion could be gratified ; The king wondered what the difficulty could be, and asked who the lady was.