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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.
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.
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.

wondered and got
The wardens looked around the hills, stated Kulesh's evidence, that last time Kulesh had seen his workmate near the fireplace, Kulesh went out to work and Centurashvili left to warm himself more ; but when Kulesh returned to the fireplace, Centurashvili had vanished ; who knows, maybe he got frozen somewhere in snow, he was a weak guy (...) The wardens searched for two more days, and then assumed that it was an escape case, though they wondered why, since his imprisonment period was almost over (...) The crime was there.
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.
I wondered when I would see it again and what it would be like by the time we got there.
Capp always wondered how he ever got her suggestive name past the censors.
The war children wondered why they were treated unjustly and got to know their real descent very late or only by chance:
" His father Tony went back the following day and said: " I wondered how anybody had got out alive, but I also began to feel guilty that I had got out when so many hadn't.
The company traces its roots to a runny nose because Montgomery got a particularly bad cold — a virus — and in his misery he wondered why so few antivirals existed when so many antibiotics were in use.

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Must have really smelled up her sweater, he thought, and wondered idly just why she kept the sweater fast-frozen.
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.
Lt. Flap wondered why Lugg was sent to the camp ; Halftrack commented that she showed up after he called the Pentagon to request an overseas assignment —" I asked them to send me abroad.
The bewildered lawyers wondered what he had been writing down, since he had obviously made up his mind before closing arguments ; once Sifton had left the courtroom, they found their answer in the form of page after page covered with the judge's signature.
The idea of a tilting train became popular in the 1960s and 1970s when various rail operators, impressed by the high-speed rail services being introduced in France and Japan, wondered how they could similarly speed up travel without building a dedicated parallel rail network ( as those two countries were doing ).
At the same time, however, he then wondered if the anti-poison properties associated with a unicorn's horn still held true, and undertook experiments in poisoning pets and then serving them ground up narwhal horn ( his poisoning must have been relatively mild because he reported that they did recover ).
" Dacre Fox perhaps further summed up the frustrations of the WSPU with the Church leaders in her statement recorded in the Suffragette after an interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury in January 1914 that, " The only feeling ( she ) experienced …… while she was interviewing the Archbishop of Canterbury ... was “ utter contempt ”... Mrs Dacre Fox said that the Archbishop's Chaplain was “ a pitiable object, trembling and with chattering teeth ”, and later was also reported to have said that, " I can only say that as I sat looking at that old man, the feeling which was uppermost in my mind was that of contempt …. I wondered if Calvary had almost been in vain.
The next day, Brazel heard reports about " flying discs " and wondered if that was what he had picked up.
Modern historians have wondered at Duilius ’ decision not to immediately follow up with another naval attack, but Hannibal ’ s remaining 80 ships was probably still too strong for Rome to conquer.
Paddy wondered why ITV have not snapped up Kay.
Second, she was a woman and in those days people wondered if a woman and her delicate cameras could stand up to the intense heat, hazard, and generally dirty and gritty conditions inside a steel mill.
Fans wondered if Tony was going to kill Paulie in that episode because both Pussy and Ralph ended up being murdered by Tony.
Growing up Karl Kani wondered " Can I do it?
In June 2001 she stated :" A lot of people have wondered what I've been up to.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the discoverer of Antioch wondered about the sanctuary that Strabo mentions in his Geography, and Ramsay's team found a sacred prosessional road with votive steles on either side leading up to the sanctuary.
It was here that Margaret heard the ministry of George Fox and she was so stirred by the beginning of his speech, she stood up in her pew and wondered at his doctrine.
Carolla brought up the fact that on-air personnel on radio shows, even long-running hit shows, earn extremely low salaries compared to the show's host and wondered what kind of money Melendez made considering he was way down in the show's pecking order, behind Howard, Robin, Fred, Jackie, and Gary.
Commentators wondered if the Jets ' huge margin of victory was a way of retaliating against the Bucs for such poor sportsmanship, but the Jets and their coaches denied that there had been any conscious effort to run the score up.
Odie wasn't at the edge of the table, and while Garfield wondered where Odie was, he showed up and up ( wearing a Garfield mask ) and kicked the tabby off the table.
While fans were in the main supportive of Cunningham's views, the club reacted furiously, and chairman David Gold wondered " if Kenny would have said the same things if we'd stayed up, Portsmouth had gone down and he'd been given a lucrative new contract ".
Some observers at the time wondered if a chain of mountains would spring up, linking Sicily to Tunisia and thus upsetting the geopolitics of the region.

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