Intrigued by what he had read about English public schools, in 1883, at the age of twenty, Fredy went to Rugby and to other English schools to see for himself.

Intrigued by the ideas of gradual formation of landscapes set out in Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, he wrote to Lyell on 20 February 1836 praising the book as a work which would bring " a complete revolution in subject, by altering entirely the point of view in which it must thenceforward be contemplated.

Intrigued rather than offended by Count Alfred's dossier, Queen Louise invites him to dinner.

“ Intrigued by this man, the boys enter a pact to help him escape capture.

Intrigued by the case, O ' Neill continued to study the 1993 bombing Yousef had masterminded and other information about Islamic militants.

Intrigued by the often-heard phrase " life as we know it ", Anderson wanted to set the aliens of his new series apart from the conventional extraterrestrials of 1960s television and cinema.

Intrigued by the work of Frederick Winsor, who had been championing the introduction of gas lighting in London, Accum too, became fascinated by this innovation.

Intrigued by the invitation, Prokofiev completed Peter and the Wolf in just four days.

Intrigued by Wingate's theories, Wavell gave Wingate a brigade of troops, the ( Indian 77th Infantry Brigade ), from which he created a jungle long-range penetration unit.

Intrigued by the selection of worlds and presence of Heartless inside the datascape, Pete summons Maleficent, unaware that the datascape is actually an artificial realm created from the digitized contents of Jiminy Cricket's journal.

Intrigued by Republic's design, the US Air Force placed an initial order for 199 F-105s in September 1952, but with the Korean War winding down reduced it to 46 six months later.

Intrigued by the creatures, and with additional knowledge supplied by Spike, Wheeljack and Ratchet created three " Dinobots "-Grimlock, Slag and Sludge.

Intrigued by the " star map ", Fish wondered if it might be " deciphered " to determine which star system the UFO came from.

Intrigued by ancient descriptions of the emotional and moral effect of ancient Greek tragedy and comedy, which they presumed to be sung as a single line to a simple instrumental accompaniment, the Camerata proposed creating a new kind of music.

Intrigued by the existence of super-heroes, they crossed the dimensional void and attacked the JLA and JSA.

Intrigued by the disappearance, and probably to quell any suspicions he might have something to do with it, Griscom later spent thousands of dollars searching for Arnold — without results.

Intrigued by their looks, she began working to breed cats like them, using seal point Siamese with bicolor American Shorthairs.

Intrigued, Meacham is picked up the next day at the airport by an unmanned, computer-controlled Douglas DC-3 aircraft with no windows.

Intrigued by the possible advent of an eruption, Johnston contacted Stephen Malone, a professor of geology at the university.

Intrigued by Benveniste's claims that biological interactions could be digitized, the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) asked Dr. Wayne Jonas, homeopath and then director of the US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, to organize an attempt at independently replicating the claimed results.

" Intrigued by this concept, Meg repeats the phrase and clinks her coffee cup at the end of the segment to produce a ringing noise, and she looks pensively out into the distance before a cut to black.

Intrigued, Picard discovers a new type of transwarp gate called a Transwarp Portal, capable of sending fleets of starships from one quadrant to another almost instantly, thus giving reason as to how the Borg managed to get so deep into the Alpha Quadrant undetected.

Intrigued by his siblings ' piano lessons, he began his own at age seven, and developed a habit of composing a new work each week.

Intrigued, she gets a job working as a maid for the family in hopes of finding out about her past.

Intrigued, he revisited the same area on a number of other occasions, coming across a lone tree stump that had been unearthed on the beach, which he felt was unusual in that appeared to be upside down.

Intrigued, he follows her as she walks down the street.

Intrigued by the sudden interest of two government agencies, Lang attempts to track down the man who approached him in Amsterdam, unexpectedly finding him in London, and even more unexpectedly discovering that the man is Alexander Woolf himself.

Intrigued, the natives agree to trade it for the first team ’ s surviving reels of film during a cannibalistic ceremony, in which Monroe has to take part.

Intrigued by the artist ’ s subject matter, and impressed by his draftsmanship, they bought their first painting a year later.

* Belgian — Ensor, James: Pierrot and Skeletons ( 1905 ), Pierrot and Skeletons ( 1907 ), Intrigued Masks ( 1930 ); Henrion, Armand: Series of self-portraits as Pierrot ( 1920s ).

Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

He looked at the looming hoods of the supply wagons, struck by a new inspiration.

In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.

This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

Helion also hoped that America's mastery of technology and industrial efficiency would be accompanied by the production of new and beautiful art works.

Even the most rational of men, under great stress, may be transported by a new faith and behave like mystics.

The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.

The new spirit, so well illustrated by Mr. Lyford's work, is wholly free of this anxiety.

Ann, pleased to see her friend happy, was intrigued by the new fruits a friend of Captain Heard had sent on board for their enjoyment.

In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth-century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover, how to behave, how to think about this new experience, how to exercise restraint.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

As our radius of penetration, R, increases, the area of new knowledge increases by Af, and the total of human knowledge becomes measured in terms of Af.

Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.

Rousseau's primitivism, the anti-Newtonian mythology of Blake, Coleridge's organic metaphysics, Victor Hugo's image of the poets as the Magi, and Shelley's `` unacknowledged legislators '' are related elements in the rear-guard action fought by the romantics against the new scientific rationalism.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

This new vision of man that the narrator acquires is also accompanied by a re-vision of his previous view.

And, after becoming the right-hand man of Enver Pasha, he is sent by the latter to pave the way for a new Turkish Empire embracing `` the union of all Turks throughout Central Asia from Adrianople to the Chinese oases on the Silk Trade Route ''.

The recent experiments in the new poetry-and-jazz movement seen by some as part of the `` San Francisco Renaissance '' have been as popular as they are notorious.

It was a sort of poetic justice that at the time of his own demise a new plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government, reportedly involving the use of Dominican arms by former Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez, has been uncovered and quashed.