It became so monotonous as to seem a part of the quietness.

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

I never had the courage to look at them, when my projected volume became hopeless, fearing they were poor, until now when I was obliged to do so.

as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.

I became disgusted at being so preoccupied with the state of my own miserable soul.

Instead, he constantly became lost in parts and components of them, confused some of their details with those of neighboring objects, and so on, unless he allowed time to `` trace '' the object in question through minute movements of the head and hands and in this way to discover its contours.

Men, trees, automobiles, houses, and so on -- objects continually confronted in everyday life -- had each its characteristic blot-appearance and became easily recognizable, at the very beginning of tracing, by an inference as to what each was.

Barstow concluded that as Rhode Island's John Brown became a canonized hero, if not a saint, so would it be with John Brown of Harper's Ferry.

Another Yankee became so disgusted as to state: `` I wish to God one half of our officers were knocked in the head by slinging them against ( the other half ) ''.

This became a common byword durin' the boom days when Eastern and foreign capital were so eager to buy cattle interests.

On the other hand, some unwed mothers had had so much work and responsibility imposed on them at an early age, and had thus had so little freedom or opportunity to develop autonomy and initiative, that their work and responsibilities became dull and unrewarding burdens -- to be escaped and rebelled against through fun and experimentation with forbidden sexual behavior.

Her teeth chattered so that she made three attempts at speech before she became intelligible.

Just dropping the baby's bottle and breaking it became a catastrophe, and Stuart wore out his shoes so fast that he was termed a major disaster.

She became aware that two Italian workmen, carrying a large azalea pot, were standing before her and wanted her to move so that they could begin arranging a new row of the display.

The " space " character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20 < sub > hex </ sub >; for the same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits.

Semitic Arameans encroached over the borders of south central Anatolia in the century or so after the fall of the Hittite empire, and some of the Neo-Hittite states in this region became an amalgam of Hittites and Arameans.

Later on, when he became king in 1509, Henry VIII is supposed to have commissioned an English translation of a Life of Henry V so that he could emulate him, on the grounds that he thought that launching a campaign against France would help him to impose himself on the European stage.

There, Aaron gained a name for eloquent and persuasive speech, so that when the time came for the demand upon the Pharaoh to release Israel from captivity, Aaron became his brother ’ s nabi, or spokesman, to his own people ( Exodus 7: 1 ) and, after their unwillingness to hear, to the Pharaoh himself ( Exodus 7: 9 ).

Karpov improved so quickly under Botvinnik's tutelage that he became the youngest Soviet National Master in history at fifteen in 1966 ; this tied the record established by Boris Spassky in 1952.

" Amazing Grace " set to " New Britain " was included in two hymnals distributed to soldiers and with death so real and imminent, religious services in the military became commonplace.

These soon became so serious that a league was formed to crush him, and Maurice of Saxony led an army against his former comrade.

Taking the title " Margrave of Brandenburg ", he pressed the " crusade " against the Wends, extended the area of his mark, encouraged German migration, established bishoprics under his protection, and so became the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1157, which his heirs — the House of Ascania — held until the line died out in 1320.

Aachen became attractive as a spa by the middle of the 17th century, not so much because of the effects of the hot springs on the health of its visitors but because Aachen was then — and remained well into the 19th century — a place of high-level prostitution in Europe.

When the Greeks left without killing Ajax, despite their sacrifices Athena became so angry that she persuaded Zeus to send a storm that sank many of their ships.

The Luta Regional Baiana soon became popular, finally changing Capoeira's bad image.

The stench became so bad however that the funeral had to be brought forward to the evening of June 16.

The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity ( mauvaise foi, literally, " bad faith ") and an " authentic " way of " being " became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work L ' Être et le Néant ( Being and Nothingness ) ( 1943 ).

John would become a " connoisseur of jewels ", building up a large collection, and became famous for his opulent clothes and also, according to French chroniclers, for his fondness for bad wine.

Though the band's drug use included cocaine, heroin, LSD and many others, Cris ' use of heroin and crack cocaine became so bad he rarely left his house except to obtain more drugs.

This also meant Kurtzman suffered the bad creative and financial timing of departing before the magazine became a runaway success.

The Browns took the ball back and drove to the Denver 8-yard line, but the drive ended with a play that became known as The Fumble resulting more bad luck in Cleveland professional sports lore: Denver defensive back Jeremiah Castille stripped the football from Browns running back Ernest Byner and recovered the ensuing fumble as Byner was rushing in for the potential tying touchdown, securing the Broncos ' win.

Once a rarely occurring spontaneous phenomena ( research in 1944 showed only 76 cases ), became " an artifact of bad ( or naïve ) psychotherapy " as patients capable of dissociating were accidentally encouraged to express their symptoms by " overly fascinated " therapists.

As the telephone system grew, it became preferable to use cable rather than open wires to save space, and also to avoid poor performance during bad weather.

Very soon a " large colony of beachcombers, escaped convicts, and ship's deserters became established ashore ," identified as " chiefly bad characters ," according to the log of the Swedish frigate Eugenie.

He felt that this approach to martial arts became a " game of tag " which would lead to bad habits such as pulling punches and other attacks ; this would again lead to disastrous consequences in real world situations.

The currency problem eventually became so bad that a magazine was issued that included photos and descriptions of the various bank notes and information about whether the issuing bank was sound.

The Byzantines were defeated by the conditions rather than by the Turks, the weather was very bad, large numbers of the army's horses died and provisions became scarce.

As he had a bad temper, slaves Noah Buley, Nelson Ford, George Ford, and Joshua Hammond became afraid, and fled to the farm of William Parker, a mulatto who lived in Christiana, Pennsylvania.

From there on, his adventures became more outrageous and surreal, from accidentally murdering a drag queen ( while on a bad acid trip ) to purchasing his very own male slave in the 1950s.

Getting off to a bad start, many fans questioned the decision of general manager Theo Epstein, but after coming off of the DL and getting rocked in his first start back in Oakland — and changing his uniform number from 3 to 16-David Wells became the same dominating pitcher he was in the past.

Heine looked down on these writers on aesthetic grounds – they were bad poets in his opinion – but his verse of the 1840s became more political too.

While there he again became involved with bad company, and came under suspicion in the deaths of two men.

In 1506, after an episode of famine and bad harvests, an enormous pogrom happened in Lisbon, Portugal, in which more than 500 " New-Christian " ( forcibly converted Jews ) people were slaughtered and / or burnt by an angry Christian mob, in the first night of what became known as the " Lisbon Massacre " or " Lisbon's great massacre of 1506 ".

When Schmeling was slated to fight heavy-hitting contender Max Baer on June 8, 1933, he immediately became the ' bad guy ' in the eyes of fans.

Although Edward John Eyre described the Plain as " a hideous anomaly, a blot on the face of Nature, the sort of place one gets into in bad dreams ", he became the first European to successfully make the crossing in 1841.

Drainage became so bad that of the Archbishop of Canterbury's meadow at Southerham were converted into a permanent fishery ( the Brodewater ) in the mid-15th century, and by the 1530s the entire Lewes and Laughton Levels,, were reduced to marshland again.

This habit became so bad he would sometimes spend $ 500 a day on the drug.

B. Morrow contradicted Foraker's account, stating: " I was at the convention in 1888 and know Senator Foraker he later became brought great scandal to the Ohio people who were there and to the delegates with his secret work with Mr. Blaine's friends ... Mr. Hanna became thoroughly angered at what he thought was Senator Foraker's bad faith.