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Benson said, and Ramey wondered how close their thoughts might have been.
The Manchester Guardian wondered how anyone in a railway carriage would have an opportunity to talk to Mr. Lewis, since it was well known that Mr. Lewis always did all of the talking.
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.
Rudyard Kipling's scorn for the `` jargon '' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered `` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film ''??
Clerks and postmasters shoveled muck out of their offices -- those who still had offices -- and wondered how to move the mail.
He wondered how long it would be before they had a signed confession from Lionel Black.
He wondered how he got tied up with this stranger.
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.
Mercer wondered how long the super-condamine had lasted him.
On the demotion of Pluto to the status of dwarf planet, Philip Zarka of the Paris Observatory in Meudon, France wondered how astrologers should respond:
Heidegger, in his quest to re-pose the original pre-Socratic question of Being, wondered at how to meaningfully ask the question of the meaning of being, since it is both the greatest, as it includes everything that is, and the least, since no particular thing can be said of it.
Specifically, " every man heard them speak in his own language " and wondered " how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
: Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.
He and his elder brother Henry were invited to play for the South Wales Club which had arranged a series of matches in London and Sussex, though Grace wondered humorously how they were qualified to represent South Wales.
Hypnotists reported what they thought were second personalities emerging during hypnosis and wondered how two minds could coexist.
They were worried about her marrying a painter from a poor family and wondered how he would support her.
Saxo's skill as a Latinist has been praised by Erasmus, who wondered at how " a Dane of that age got so great power of eloquence.
Wilder wondered how they spent their time now that " the parade had passed them by ," and began imagining the story of a star who had lost her celebrity and box-office appeal.
In return, Frederick wondered how so much poison could fit in such a small head as Napoleon's.
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who visited Spearfish Canyon ( located between Spearfish and Deadwood ) in 1935, later called the area " unique and unparalleled elsewhere in our country ," and wondered " how is it that I've heard so little of this miracle and we, toward the Atlantic, have heard so much of the Grand Canyon when this is even more miraculous ".
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.
Then, as I recovered and became aware of my lack of abilities, I wondered how I was going to earn a living.

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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.
How could it have been thirty years already, she wondered??
:" 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.
He wondered anxiously what this vision could mean, and his soul was uneasy as it searched for understanding.
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.
" I wondered what this thing could be ," she said.
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.
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.

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So many times I have wondered why veterinarians do not wipe the table clean before each new canine patient is placed on it for examination.
( Several times recently I have wondered whether shows were being staged for the sake of the script or just to entertain the audience with the spectacle of scenery being shifted right in front of their eyes.
Must have really smelled up her sweater, he thought, and wondered idly just why she kept the sweater fast-frozen.
As editor of the Journal für praktische Chemie ( Journal of practical chemistry, from 1870 to 1884 ), Kolbe was sometimes so severely critical of the work of others, especially after about 1874, that some wondered whether he might have been suffering a mental illness.
Modern historians have wondered at Duilius ’ decision not to immediately follow up with another naval attack, but Hamilcar ’ s remaining 80 ships was probably still too strong for Rome to conquer.
In fact one modern scholar has wondered if Herodotus left his home in Asiatic Greece, migrating westwards to Athens and beyond, because his own countrymen had ridiculed his work, a circumstance possibly hinted at in an epitaph said to have been dedicated to Herodotus at Thuria ( one of his three supposed resting places ):
Certain lawyers and abuse advocates have openly wondered why a similar suit was not filed against archbishop Bernard Law, who escaped prosecution by going into exile in Vatican City.
* " So that, though overcome by three of the greatest things, honour, fear and profit, we have both accepted the dominion delivered us and refuse again to surrender it, we have therein done nothing to be wondered at nor beside the manner of men.
She also said in an interview: " I have wondered about lesbianism ... At various times in my life I wanted to be open to the possibility of having a woman as a lover.
They have been of special interest for the HTS materials because many researchers have wondered whether spin correlations might play a role in the mechanism of the HTS.
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.
Jean told the Houston Chronicle in 2001 that after the first episode was broadcast and " the next seven didn't have the dog, people wondered why.
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.
Isabella was married to the Danish consul Jens Wolff, but she separated from him in 1810, and Sir Michael Levey suggests that people may have wondered if Lawrence was the father of her son Herman.
Numerous veterans and historians have wondered what might have happened if the assault had gone forward into the night.

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