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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.
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.
He wondered if it wore the old anxiety, or the old, taut stoicism.
And now Andrei sat on a train on the way to Lublin and wondered if he was not being punished for his lack of belief.
I wondered suddenly as I listened to the disconnected jabberings coming from the patient behind me, if I had not perhaps imagined it all.
He wondered if the audience would let him finish.
Nick wondered if Elaine had bought them, but he said nothing.
Now he wondered if it was worth it, having a screwball for company.
`` I think I'll sleep in this morning '', she said drowsily, and as she snuggled against him, he wondered if she ever went to church.
I wondered if I ought to go use the new one myself.
The cynicism was back in her eyes, a bitter wisdom, and I wondered if forty were not so far wrong after all.
He wondered if he had played it wrong.
It has been wondered by many readers if Garfield can actually be understood by the non animal characters around him.
" Many wondered if there would be an attack.
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 ):
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.
Cortes's men were in awe at the sight of the splendid city and many wondered if they were a dream.
Often letters feature simple yet absurd statements (" I'm heading off to the pub in a few minutes and wondered if any of your readers fancied joining me for a pint " or " They say size doesn't matter-if that's true, why can't I get these shoes on?
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.
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.
The opera encountered some criticism from audiences at its opening on 22 January 1887, and one critic wondered if the libretto showed " signs of the failing powers of the author ".

wondered and might
Benson said, and Ramey wondered how close their thoughts might have been.
He wondered Probably because it was a place where she might get a feeling of certainty and security.
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.
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.
From this, it might be wondered why any rational government would engage in actions that cause or continue hyperinflation.
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.
Numerous veterans and historians have wondered what might have happened if the assault had gone forward into the night.
He then killed the Japanese soldier inside at which point he wondered whether his enemy might be an economics professor from the University of Tokyo.
His son John wondered whether the news might be the announcement of a pony of his own, and was disappointed at first to learn that it was merely the news that Charles Darwin would soon be living at Down House.
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.
As he began to regain his memory, he looked down at his own Peugeot jersey and wondered whether he might be a cyclist.
When a journalist at the radio station France Inter wondered aloud if Thévenet's repeated poor performances might be due to doping, Thévenet and his team-mates refused to talk to the station.
Intrigued by the " star map ", Fish wondered if it might be " deciphered " to determine which star system the UFO came from.
While this deal was never consummated ( Nashville eventually received an expansion team, the Nashville Predators ), Adams wondered what sort of offer he might receive for a venue for his NFL team.
Bush wondered whether he should excuse himself and retreat to the holding room, where he might be able to find out what the hell was going on.
A case study in 2000 noticed a " marked and severe inflammatory reaction characterized by eosinophilia and glomerulonephritis " and wondered whether this " might have been triggered by the leukotriene receptor antagonist, montelukast.
It is broadcast at 22: 30, although one edition which was broadcast at 21: 30 drew comment from Declan Lynch in the Irish Independent who wondered if it was " a gesture to the poor ould fellas who might have some chance of staying awake past the first question ".
His parents and friends wondered if he might instead be more effective in youth ministry in the United States, but considering the home church " well-fed ", he felt that international missions should take precedence.
However, he wondered if the book, with its transcendence of the personality and detachment from the worldly concerns, might not be more Buddhist than Christian.
The king denied O ' Healy's authority to enter discussion on the Irish matter and queried the pope's opposition to the increase of Spanish authority ; he was willing to guarantee 6 months pay for 200 men and their shipping expenses to go to England in the pope's name, and wondered if a personal attempt might be made against Elizabeth.
While occasional media reports have wondered whether the show should return, notably when the independent TV3 was launched and was seeking to capture the audience, something it might have done had it had The Riordans in its schedule, there is in reality little chance of its return, given the death of some of its leading actors, including John Cowley ( Tom Riordan ), Chris O ' Neill ( Michael Riordan ), Anne Dalton ( Minnie Brennan ), Tony Doyle ( Fr.
He wondered whether arsenic concentrations in people living nearby might reflect the arsenic concentrations in soil.
George Harrison received a copy of Lamps of Fire from Juan Mascaró who wondered if he " might not be interesting to put into your music a few words of Tao ".
Although the mission did not pay for the company, Holmes seems to have made a profit from it, since subsequently Samuel Pepys, of all people, complained about Holmes's magnificent lifestyle ( Diary, 22 December 1661 ), and wondered whether the large ape Holmes had brought back might be the offspring of a man and a she-baboon and susceptible to instruction ( Diary, 24 August 1661 ).

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