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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 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.
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 long
" The Duke of Norfolk threatened that Dudley " would not die in his bed ", while the Imperial envoy wondered why he had " not been slain long ere this " and hoped he would soon " meet with the reward he so richly merits.
" Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself?
He had long wondered what God's will might have been in allowing the war to come, and why it had assumed the terrible dimensions it had taken.
This same period saw Melkite Makuria absorb the Coptic Nobatia, and historians have long wondered why the conquering state adopted the religion of its rival.
This is in fact what has happened in regard to rhetorical speeches and to practically all the other arts: for those who discovered the beginnings of them advanced them in all only a little way, whereas the celebrities of to-day are the heirs ( so to speak ) of a long succession of men who have advanced them bit by bit, and so have developed them to their present form, Tisias coming next after the first founders, then Thrasymachus after Tisias, and Theodorus next to him, while several people have made their several contributions to it: and therefore it is not to be wondered at that the art has attained considerable dimensions.

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If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.
He possessed the fighter pilot's horror of bad weather and instrument flying, and he wondered, if the ceiling did drop, whether he and the other flights would be able to find their way back in this unfamiliar territory.
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.
At such times Thomas wondered when and where a counterattack would strike him.
The New York Times editorialist wondered just who would stop Mr. Lewis and make him write a book.
'' I thought, and wondered what kind of homesteads such odd pioneers would establish in this suburban frontier ; ;
Richardson wondered when it would be unloaded.
She wondered whether Stanley would call.
He wondered if the audience would let him finish.
Thus Jerome acknowledged the principle by which the canon was settled — the judgment of the Church, rather than his own judgment or the judgment of Jews, though he wondered why one would sanction the version of a heretic and judaizer.
" Many wondered if there would be an attack.
From this, it might be wondered why any rational government would engage in actions that cause or continue hyperinflation.
In the 1949 federal election that followed his ascension to the Liberal leadership many wondered, including Liberal party insiders, if St-Laurent would appeal to the post-war populace of Canada.
" Following Bruning's resignation in May 1932 Pacelli, like the new Catholic chancellor Franz von Papen, wondered if the Centre Party should look to the Right for a coalition, " that would correspond to their principles '.
After the Broncos won Super Bowl XXXII during the previous season, many wondered if 15-year veteran quarterback John Elway would retire now that he finally won a Super Bowl.
Owner Elwood Richard Quesada once wondered why he needed to pay players who didn't belong in the majors and later agreed to a 10-year lease at D. C. Stadium — a move that would come back to haunt the Senators.
He wondered why Victor would choose to remain mute when he had already proved that he was not, in fact, deaf.
The King now wondered why he never saw Paley at Court ( Paley persistently refused to attend, despite his former pupil Henry Majendie repeatedly asking him to meet the King ), and " would not be without " a copy of the Evidences, of which he kept copies in all of his residences.
This helped earn the city the nickname " Beirut on the Lake ", and many people wondered if Chicago would ever recover or face the more permanent declines of other cities in the U. S. Midwest.
A number of critics noted that the play improved on Shakespeare's original, and several wondered what Harold Bloom would have made of it.

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