[permalink] [id link]
It had been one of Bohn's ambitions to found a great publishing house, but, finding that his sons had no taste for the trade, he sold the Libraries in 1864 to Messrs. Bell and Daldy, afterwards G. Bell & Sons.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
had and been
If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.
They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.
They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.
With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.
He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.
But the luck that had been running their way left him.
His shout had been taken up and repeated.
A sizable supply of powder had been touched off.
The worst part had been the waiting ; ;
The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.
And one had been too many.
That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.
The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.
He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.
He had been the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.
Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.
had and one
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
He had known women like that, one woman in particular.
There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.
The one thing they had in common was their hatred.
Kodyke had appeared at the mine one day bearing a letter from Kruger.
Joyce had seen him like this once before -- more than once, actually, but on one particularly memorable occasion.
But they deliberately avoided the one subject that had them all curious: the failure of the boss's wife and son to join the outfit.
No one had much to say.
Greg climbed into the cockpit feeling as if he had never been in one before.
An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??
I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.
He already had that slow pace that comes over the elderly, while she herself had all the signs of one who appreciates the joys of living.
had and ambitions
And Hamilton, who felt it `` a religious duty '' to oppose Aaron Burr's political ambitions, would have been a better actuarial risk had he shown more literary restraint.
Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.
Sam Rayburn has never had to look back at any of his most devastating fights and ever feel ashamed of his conduct as a combatant under fire or his political manners in the heat of conflicting ambitions.
Youngish man on the make, Madden labeled him, and was ready to guess that in a correct, not too pushing fashion, the junior partner of the firm had political ambitions ; ;
Generous bequests to important churches and abbeys in Castile had the effect of making the noble churchmen there beneficiaries who would be encouraged by the will to act as a brake on Alfonso VII's ambitions to break it — and yet among the magnates witnessing the will in 1131 there is not a single cleric.
In Florence he met Sigismund, who had just been crowned King of Germany and who had ambitions to become emperor.
The eastern parts of Berlin have many Plattenbauten, reminders of Eastern Bloc ambitions to create complete residential areas that had fixed ratios of shops, kindergartens and schools to the number of inhabitants.
He also had ambitions to work in film, like Elvis Presley and Eddie Cochran, and registered for acting classes with Lee Strasburg's Actors ' Studio, where the likes of Marlon Brando and James Dean had trained.
But it was unaware of the Bulgarian plans over Thrace and Constantinople, territories on which it had long-held ambitions, and on which it had just secured a secret agreement of expansion from its allies France and Britain, as a reward for participating in the upcoming Great War against the Central Powers.
She had her own intellectual ambitions as a young woman, but they were blocked by social restrictions, because of her poverty, her being a woman and wife, and her Jewish ethnicity.
His father had a first-class honours degree in English from University College, Aberystwyth and ambitions to rise above his position teaching English literature at the local grammar school.
Eugene's mother, Olympia Mancini, was one of Cardinal Mazarin's nieces whom he had brought to Paris from Rome in 1647 to further his, and to a lesser extent, their ambitions.
While fascism opposes Bolshevism, both Bolshevism and fascism have been noted to hold significant ideological similarities: both advocate a revolutionary ideology, both believe in the necessity of a vanguard elite, both have disdain for bourgeois values, and both had totalitarian ambitions.
However both Bolshevism and fascism hold ideological similarities: both advocate a revolutionary ideology, both believe in the necessity of a vanguard elite, both have disdain for bourgeois values, and both had totalitarian ambitions.
Most of the group's members also had professional ambitions within science fiction and related fields, and collectively were very effective at achieving this goal, as the roster of members below suggests.
Barrios had ambitions of reuniting Central America and took the country to war in an unsuccessful attempt to attain this, losing his life on the battlefield in 1885 against forces in El Salvador.
Returning to Busseto, he became the town music master and, with the support of Antonio Barezzi, a local merchant and music lover who had long supported Verdi's musical ambitions in Milan, Verdi gave his first public performance at Barezzi ’ s home in 1830.
Once again, Fox was released after demonstrating that he had no military ambitions.
Meanwhile the German Navy under Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz had ambitions to rival the great British Navy, and dramatically expanded its fleet in the early 20th century to protect the colonies and exert power worldwide.
However, the war increased tension with Austria-Hungary, which also had ambitions in the region.
Alexander the Great realized that the cynic Diogenes was happier than himself while living in his pottery home, since Alexander ’ s anxieties and dangers matched his ambitions, while Diogenes was content with what he had and could easily replace.
0.458 seconds.