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.

He was never financially secure until his daughter became a best-selling novelist.

" A prisoner interviewed by Moyers explained his literal interpretation of the second verse: "' Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved " by saying that the fear became immediately real to him when he realized he may never get his life in order, compounded by the loneliness and restriction in prison.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

Although Grothendieck himself never published his work in this area, the proposal became the inspiration for work by other mathematicians and the source of the theory of dessins d ' enfants.

Peter Lombard ( died 1160 ) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did not become the usual name in the West till towards the end of the twelfth century, and never became current in the East.

Though she never became a nun, she spent the rest of her days there in prayer.

Nimzowitsch never developed a knack for match play, though ; his best match success was a draw with Alekhine, but the match consisted of only two games and took place in 1914, thirteen years before Alekhine became world champion.

Clinton was also a member of the Order of DeMolay, a youth group affiliated with Freemasonry, but he never became a Freemason.

A number of companies wanted to license the COCONET GUI but Coconut Computing chose not to, and as a result, a competing approach called Remote Imaging Protocol ( RIP ) emerged and was promoted by Telegrafix in the early to mid 1990s but it never became widespread.

A similar technology called NAPLPS was also considered, and although it became the underlying graphics technology behind the Prodigy service, it never gained popularity in the BBS market.

The Spanish Empire claimed the islands by discovery in the early 16th century, but never settled them, and subsequent years saw the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish all jostling for control of the region, which became a notorious haunt for pirates.

These became known as the Negro Leagues, though these leagues never had any formal overall structure comparable to the Major Leagues.

After the disaster of The Representative, John Gibson Lockhart became a bitter enemy and the two never reconciled.

He first produced a soluble phenol-formaldehyde shellac called " Novolak " that never became a market success, then turned to developing a binder for asbestos which, at that time, was molded with rubber.

Bartók never became fully at home in the US.

( 2009, p. 189 ) Bliss complaints about his symbols “ being abused ” by the OCCC became so intense that the director of the OCCC told Bliss, on his 1974 visit, never to come back.

The territory subsequently became de facto part of the republic of Nigeria, although the border was never permanently delineated.

Conflict of interest between savers and borrowers was never fully reconciled in the building societies but upon deregulation that reconciliation became something of a lost cause.

Deng Xiaoping was the Paramount Leader of China from 1978 to 1992, although he never became the head of the party or state, and his influence within the Party led the country to significant economic reforms.

80 mm discs (" Mini CDs ") were originally designed for CD singles and can hold up to 24 minutes of music or 210 MB of data but never became popular.

Unfortunately, Charboneau was out of baseball by 1983 after falling victim to back injuries and Barker, who was also hampered by injuries, never became a consistently dominant starting pitcher.

Prior to 337, Constans became engaged to Olympias, the daughter of the Praetorian Prefect Ablabius, although the marriage never came to pass.

The intermediate-range committee was formed but never became operational.

According to biographer Ray Spangenburg, these early years as Sagan tried to understand the mysteries of the planets, became a " driving force in his life, a continual spark to his intellect, and a quest that would never be forgotten.

Nineteenth-century virtues, however, seem somehow to have gone out of fashion and the Bright book has never been particularly popular.

This atmosphere of understanding has been particularly noticeable where relations are concerned between the `` colonialist '' powers and those who have never, or not for a long time, had such problems.

You feel where he is and what he sees, and at night you feel when he is asleep or with the other woman, the one that never could love him the way you do, the one who got him because she didn't particularly give a damn whether she got him or didn't.

He had never felt particularly close to her.

Critic William Kuhn argued that much of his fiction can be read as " the memoirs he never wrote ", revealing the inner life of a politician for whom the norms of Victorian public life appeared to represent a social straitjacket – particularly with regard to his allegedly " ambiguous sexuality.

Disraeli and Chelmsford had never got along particularly well, and Cairns, in Disraeli's view, was a far stronger minister.

Étienne, who never remarried, decided that he alone would educate his children, for they all showed extraordinary intellectual ability, particularly his son Blaise.

Although an amphibious invasion was never in question, blockading by Union naval forces was common, particularly at Halifax, where Confederate navy ships sought refuge and reprovisioning.

It was somewhat expensive to implement ( though not as much as MCA ), so it never became particularly popular in desktop PCs.

Prince Charles took Mountbatten's death particularly hard, remarking to friends that things were never the same after losing his mentor.

A. Spranger found the political subtext of Heracleidae, never far to seek, so particularly apt in Athens towards the end of the peace of Nicias, in 419 BCE, that he suggested the date as its first performance.

These books, however, never did sell particularly well, and quickly disappeared from the bookshelves.

" Ford walked away, and they had no more problems, even though Cagney never particularly liked Ford.

What he said was neither new, remarkable, nor particularly interesting ... He talked for more than an hour in a voice which never varied in tone, resting one hand in palm of the other and periodically glancing at his fingernails ... He insisted on my remaining for lunch.

Although they never gave up their core identity as Western Europeans or Franks, their clothing, diet, and commercialism integrated much Oriental, particularly Byzantine, influence.

The shogunate was never partial to kabuki and all the mischief it brought, particularly the variety of the social classes which mixed at kabuki performances.

Yet Thucydides never calls in question the intrinsic superiority of nobility to baseness, a superiority that shines forth particularly when the noble is destroyed by the base.

His university colleagues included Tony Crosland, Denis Healey, and Edward Heath, and he became friends with all three, although he was never particularly close to Healey.

If the male is an Abdi Dalem royal servant, courtier or particularly " peko-peko " ( taken directly from Japanese to mean obsequious ) or even a highly formal individual, he will retreat face and head downcast, never show his side or back to his superior, and retreat backwards in the following posture: left-arm crossed against the chest, right-arm hanging and walking stooped.

Like many great players, Williams became impatient with ordinary athletes ' abilities and attitudes, particularly those of pitchers, whom he admitted he never respected.

Describing life in Vienna ( dated at either 1776 or 1786 ), Don Curzio wrote, " The people were dancing mad [...] The ladies of Vienna are particularly celebrated for their grace and movements of waltzing of which they never tire.

Wobblies also played a role in the sit-down strikes and other organizing efforts by the United Auto Workers in the 1930s, particularly in Detroit, though they never established a strong union presence there.

Either approach can never offer complete coverage over the vehicle, leaving tracks or wheels particularly vulnerable to attack.

Though his ultra-conservative views were unpopular, particularly from 1823 onwards, his dynasty never faced serious danger, as the Swedes and the Norwegians alike were proud of a monarch with a good European reputation.

Once again, there was a desire to ensure it could never happen again, particularly with the war giving the world nuclear weapons.