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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.
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.
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.

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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.
Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.
We flew in rickety planes so overloaded that we wondered why they didn't crash.
He wondered if he might bag a tourist, but they looked frightened of him.
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.
The film was a critical success, though some critics wondered about the social impact of a character that they saw as sympathetic.
Cortes's men were in awe at the sight of the splendid city and many wondered if they were a dream.
Skelton wondered also whether the revisions in the far east were meant to represent Japan — they seem to show not only Honshu, but also Hokkaido and Sakhalin, omitted even from Oriental maps in the 15th century.
Graves wondered if the man was insane, he looked, saw that the stranger had been noting the forms of clouds as they passed and that he was no common artist.
Godfrey of Bouillon was rumoured to have extorted money from the Jews of Cologne and Mainz, and many of the Crusaders wondered why they should travel thousands of miles to fight non-believers when there were already non-believers closer to home.
There is a little curve just after passing over the river, and I wondered if the engine were going to take that curve or if it were going to take to the woods .” When the train came into Waycross, the crew figured they had come the 40 miles from Jesup in 28 minutes.
He wondered why the cage was unused ; when he and the attendants inspected it, however, they found the hunger artist near death.
In the unaired version, they were going at such a relatively slow speed that they wondered if they were on Mars.
Keating wondered, " How actually did they do it?
But by this place Christian went without much danger, whereat I somewhat wondered ; but I have learnt since, that Pagan has been dead many a day ; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger dayes, grown so crazy and stiff in his joynts, that he can now do little more than sit in his Caves mouth, grinning at Pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails, because he cannot come at them.
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.
But they also wondered, sometimes in awe, sometimes in confusion, at the scientific positivism evinced by earlier generations.

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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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