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He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
There's bound to be someone on guard, but the hat might fool them long enough for me to get close ''.
We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.
Noticing my disappointment he attempted to salvage what scraps and shreds of authority he felt might still be clinging to his person.
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.
Looks like we might be in for a speck of trouble ''.
For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.
He evidently couldn't foresee that it might be his downfall in the end.
He studied the problem for a few seconds and thought of a means by which it might be solved.
And then he thought Todman might be right.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
A card to Walter would get him an introduction to this Meredith, and that might be good for something.
And he missed the point that the swarthy witches might be laughing at him for hoping to escape Nicolas Manas.
She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.
Mary Jane might not be the most intelligent woman, but she was one of the most determined.
`` I might have starved, but at least I wouldn't be fried to a crisp and soaked with dirt ''!!
Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.
Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.
Others mentioned that I might have had to ask friends or even strangers for help and that to be stranded in a foreign country without sufficient funds did not contribute to international understanding.
Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.
If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.
If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.
I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.

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His biographer Paolo Giovio says, " His nature was so rough and uncouth that his domestic habits were incredibly squalid, and deprived posterity of any pupils who might have followed him.
A passage of another eight years was required, as glasnost and perestroika began to thaw the Cold War-dominated Eastern Europe, for Żuławski to be able to return again to Poland and edit the still-unfinished remnants into a 166-minute rough approximation of what the finished film might have been.
Typical operation might be to establish rough composition, set the working aperture for metering, return to full aperture for a final check of focus and composition, and focusing, and finally, return to working aperture just before exposure.
As a very rough estimate, the Leidenfrost point for a drop of water on a frying pan might occur at.
It is a rough and sudden act, where one often feels " dirty ", and dirt, we might begin to realize, is also organic and fertile, and everything including the visitors can grow a little into such circumstances.
Grade 1: Very small rough areas, might require slight maneuvering.
Grade 2: Some rough water, maybe some rocks, might require some maneuvering.
* Class 2: Some rough water, maybe some rocks, small drops, might require maneuvering.
A copper-plated hollowpoint loaded in a. 44 Magnum, for example, with an original weight of 240 grains ( 15. 55 g ) and a diameter of 0. 43 inch ( 11 mm ) might mushroom on impact to form a rough circle with a diameter of 0. 70 inch ( 18 mm ) and a final weight of 239 grains ( 15. 48 g ).
This is a wild but beautiful spot, among rough boulders and soft pines, about which the most weird and fantastic tale might be woven.
Although it might be attributed to the rough style of arena football, the tackle, during a first quarter kickoff, was not very different from those in stadium-played American football.
Plutarch also states that Spartans treated the Helots " harshly and cruelly ": they compelled them to drink pure wine ( which was considered dangerous-wine usually being diluted with water ) "… and to lead them in that condition into their public halls, that the children might see what a sight a drunken man is ; they made them to dance low dances, and sing ridiculous songs …" during syssitia ( obligatory banquets ) However, he notes that this rough treatment was inflicted only relatively late, after the 465 BC earthquake.
Thus, a rough estimate for the total number of sensory nerve cells serving the vibrissal array on the face of a rat or mouse might be over 9000.
These hermits are sometimes also vegetarians for ascetic reasons, as suggested in a passage from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur: ' Then departed Gawain and Ector as heavy ( sad ) as they might for their misadventure ( mishap ), and so rode till that they came to the rough mountain, and there they tied their horses and went on foot to the hermitage.
The powers raced to push these rough boundaries to their furthest limits and eliminating any potential local minor powers which might prove troublesome to European competitive diplomacy.
All of the following numbers should be considered with caution: seemingly-minor changes to the rules of a game can change the numbers ( which are often rough estimates anyway ) by tremendous factors, which might easily be much greater than the numbers shown.
Given Soviet losses, there was rough numerical parity between the two armies ; and by the time of the battle of Warsaw Poles might have even had a slight advantage in numbers and logistics.
A rough English translation might be simply " The Heroes ".
The station wagon, added to the range in November 1960, lacked the American version's extended rear overhang due to concern that the back of the car might scrape on rough roads and spoon drains.
According to John Vaillant's book " The Golden Spruce ", what is believed might be Hadwin's broken kayak and effects were found on a remote island some time after he went missing in a rough sea.
A typical order of use in flattening, truing, and smoothing a rough sawn board might be:
He refrained from giving any details on what was on his mind, but also noted that he might release a rough start one day, which he later did on his website, titled " Denouement ".
The images labelled 1D, 2D, and 3D give a very rough impression of the degree of blur that might be seen by someone who has one, two, or three diopters of refractive error.
Li Gang, a research fellow with the Shaanxi Provincial Archaeological Research Institute, said that this board might have been made from a floor tile, and that it did not belong to the royal family since the carvings are too rough.

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