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He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.
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wondered and where
He wondered Probably because it was a place where she might get a feeling of certainty and security.
The inhabitants of this city are transformed once a month into birds, and Sinbad has one of the bird-people carry him to the uppermost reaches of the sky, where he hears the angels glorifying God, " whereat I wondered and exclaimed, ' Praised be God!
He was also seen in Nintendo's 3DS interview video, where he stated he was interested in making a Metal Gear Solid game for the 3DS and wondered what it would be like in 3D.
The vicar explains Jill's neighbours had wondered where she had vanished to, and even suspected she had committed suicide given the strange smell coming from her house.
For generations, fewer and fewer Minbari were being born and many wondered where the souls were being reincarnated.
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.
For a while we wondered where he went, but eventually discovered that he'd nip next door to the pub for a quick Pink Gin.
: I discovered its illusory character when many years ago a Japanese friend with whom I often discussed literature told me that to him and some of his English-speaking friends the most beautiful word in our language was “ cellardoor .” It was not beautiful to me and I wondered where its evocative power lay for the Japanese.
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.
Alpha Company soon noticed the sudden absence of air cover and their commander, Captain Joel Sugdinis wondered where the ARA choppers were.
Both horses then headed to the WS Cox Plate two weeks later where Lonhro started $ 4 equal favouite with Northerly, but fans wondered how much the titanic struggle at Caulfield may have taken out of him.
Duke Wen drank the soup and felt revitalized but he wondered where his friend managed to find meat to make the soup.
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.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, One Life to Live was written and produced by many Dark Shadows alumni, which led to an amusing scene where former Dark Shadows stars George, Nancy Barrett and Grayson Hall, as their Llanview counterparts, wondered where they had previously met.
An article in The Guardian ( 2005 ) wondered where Björgólfsson's money comes from and noted that in the 1990s the Icelanders " were not only ploughing money into the country but doing it in the city regarded as the Russian mafia capital.
wondered and superstition
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.
wondered and had
If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.
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.
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.
I wondered suddenly as I listened to the disconnected jabberings coming from the patient behind me, if I had not perhaps imagined it all.
Now he recalled it very clearly, and wondered what the truck driver had seen in those eyes to make him back off.
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.
Could it just be, Theresa wondered, that Anne had understood only too well, and that George all along was extraordinary only in the degree to which he was dull??
Jimmy Page reportedly found out about a new singer, Robert Plant, who had been jamming with Korner, who wondered why Plant had not yet been discovered.
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.
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 ):
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