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.

She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

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.

He left the house and almost certain death without even increasing his pace and wondered by what remarkable stroke of Providence he had been allowed to come out alive.

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.

'' I thought, and wondered what kind of homesteads such odd pioneers would establish in this suburban frontier ; ;

Now he recalled it very clearly, and wondered what the truck driver had seen in those eyes to make him back off.

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.

" In his book Graham Crackers, Chapman said that this took place just before Cleese left the show, and he wondered what the woman thought about his disappearance after getting Idle's response.

:" 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.

Hypnotists reported what they thought were second personalities emerging during hypnosis and wondered how two minds could coexist.

:" I was 17 and I wondered what I was going to do.

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.

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.

Gaiman mentioned wanting to do a Renfaire issue with Hob in it because he thought it would be funny for several reasons: Gaiman himself mentioned in " The Sandman Companion " that he never liked Renfaires, particularly in America and wondered what it would be like if someone from the time popped in.

" I wondered what this thing could be ," she said.

Numerous veterans and historians have wondered what might have happened if the assault had gone forward into the night.

After Finn's children, Liam and Elroy, left the family home to pursue their own musical careers, the two wondered what to do to fill the time left open by their children's absence.

The character " Foster Hunnicutt " wondered what it was like to be Jim Bridger or Jedediah Smith.

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.

His starting point was that Norway had a " democratic-monarchy " form of government, where the Parliament was an expression of popular will but Stang wondered why the Constitution had been a subject to a restrictive and constraining power of the King as the main leader of the nation.

Belting wondered if the tree-man's face is a self-portrait, citing the figure's " expression of irony and the slightly sideways gaze would then constitute the signature of an artist who claimed a bizarre pictorial world for his own personal imagination ".

Brooks said she " wondered at the magic subtlety of tones " but thought his ' symphonies ' lacked corresponding subtlety of expression.

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.

A bento too often reflected a student's wealth, and many wondered if this had an unfavorable influence on children both physically, from lack of adequate diet, and psychologically, from a clumsily made bento or the richness of food.

" Miller's response was, " I always wondered why God made Bierce.

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.

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.

Skeptics raised questions about the launch of Butterscotch and wondered if the launch made sense in terms of Tucows stated goal to divest non-core assets and focus on its core strengths in its four business lines.

Some zoologists and scientists wondered what made humans different than animals in the primate family.

Under the Gauntlet's influence, Warlock is not in his right mind, and even he wondered if he had made the right choices later on.

The department was never meant to generate any revenue as far as Jobs was concerned, but after the release of two shorts, Luxo Jr. ( 1986 ) and Red's Dream ( 1987 ), some of the engineers working on the company's products wondered whether it made sense to keep the animation group going at all.

He wondered if something like this could be made to record the cash transactions made at his saloon.

Sholes and Soule showed their machine to Carlos Glidden, a lawyer and amateur inventor at the machine shop working on a mechanical plow, who wondered if the machine could not be made to produce letters and words as well.

A similar comment was made by Ever Cheung from Animefringe who wondered about the future regarding Kira and Lacus as he noticed the two about to embrace in the anime's opening theme.

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.

It is also revealed that Armand thinks he saw Bianca in Paris in the 18th century, and has wondered ever since if Marius made her a vampire.

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.

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.

That player made the major leagues and Don has since wondered if he should have taken steroids to help improve his game.

She wondered whether the swirls represented lost energy, and, if so, whether paddles could be made to be more efficient.

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 ).

When Tony purchased the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1945, Mary wondered if he had made a wise purchase, but as a supportive wife, she concurred with Tony's decision and chose to play an active role each year at the race.