Yes, there was plenty of water, too much, and that was probably the trouble.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

The Indian was again raising his bottle, but to my astonished relief -- probably only a fraction of Johnson's -- the bottle this time went to the Indian's lips.

The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.

He had no doubt the marine was the lead scout of a column, and while his shot had probably bred indecision, they would soon come hunting.

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

Dr. Isaacs was so pleased with the quality of her biographical study of Sara Sullam that he considered submitting it to the Century Magazine or Harper's but he decided that its Jewish subject probably would not interest them and published it in The Messenger, `` so our readers will be benefited instead ''.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

It was probably at this period that Littlepage got his first good look at the ordinary Russian soldier.

In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

The current stereotype of straight news reporting was probably invaluable in protecting the press and its readers from pollution by that combination of doctored fact, fancy, and personal opinion called yellow journalism which flourished in this country more than a generation ago.

She was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.

For the oyabun to make such a trip was either a sign of great weakness or an indication of equally great confidence, and from all the available information it was probably the latter.

Richard S. Allen is the authority for the statement that the northern section was probably roofed by 1810.

In 1803 Oersted returned to Copenhagen and applied for the university's chair in physics but was rejected because he was probably considered more a philosopher than a physicist.

Hippocrates was probably trained at the asklepieion of Kos, and took lessons from the Thracian physician Herodicus of Selymbria.

The historical element underlying these traditions is probably that the original Thracian people were gradually brought into communication with the Greeks as navigation began to unite the scattered islands of the Aegean ; the Thracian inhabitants were technologically primitive in comparison with the Greek mariners.

Lighter peltasts, mercenaries and Thracian infantry guarded the two flanks of the phalanx, while the Macedonian cavalry was also most probably arrayed on both flanks.

Phaedrus ( c. 15 BC – c. 50 AD ), Roman fabulist, was probably a Thracian slave, born in Pydna of Macedonia ( Roman province ) and lived in the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius.

Gebeleizis ( or Gebeleixis, Nebeleizis ) was a god worshiped by the Getae, probably related to the Thracian god of storm and lightning, Zibelthiurdos.

Other ancient Greek lexical items were not specifically identified as Thracian by the ancient Greeks but are hypothesized by paleolinguists as being or probably being of Thracian origin.

They adopted the cult of Dionysus, known amongst them as Dyalus or Dryalus, and Herodotus mentions that the Thracian and Paeonian women offered sacrifice to Queen Artemis ( probably Bendis ).

Afterwards the town was probably destroyed by a local Thracian raid.

31 ) the region was governed between 480 BC 438 BCE by a line of kings called the Archaeanactidae, probably a ruling family, usurped by a tyrant called Spartocus ( 438 BCE – 431 BC ), who was a Thracian.

The Slavic word is probably borrowed from late Thracian * ban meaning " master ( of a house )" ( cf.

For example, based on the toponyms and other lexical items, Thracian and Dacian were probably different but related languages.

Those people, who settled down in Transylvania and in the Banat, may be identified with the Agathyrsi ( probably an ancient Thracian tribe whose presence on the territory was recorded by Herodotus ); while those who lived in what is now the Great Hungarian Plain may be identified with the Sigynnae.

Diodorus ' story of Dromichaetes ' banquet for his royal prisoner is probably a literary device, contrasting Macedonian opulence with Thracian frugality.

Around AD 45 legio VIII Augusta, which took part in the quench of the Thracian uprising, founded its castra, probably at the place where the Danube has its southernmost bend.

The name is probably derived from Perperuna, which in its turn is a Slavic ( south slavic ) goddess, or as Sorin Paliga suggests, is a divinity from the local Thracian substratum.

Derzelas ( Darzalas ) was a Dacian or Thracian chthonic god of abundance and the underworld, health and human spirit's vitality, probably related with gods such as Hades, Zalmoxis, Gebeleizis.

The small colony was threatened by Thracian tribes and probably had a conflict with the metropolis.

It was probably at the end of autumn 90 that Nicomedes regained control of the Thracian Bosporos and in the new sailing season ( from mid March 89 BC ) he prevented egress from the Euxine to Pontic ships.

His name ( a Thracian anthroponym ) probably derives from PIE * reg -, ' to rule ', showing a satem-sound change.

" Philip II introduced the formation, probably in emulation of Thracian and Scythian cavalry, though the example of the rhomboid formation adopted by Macedon's southern neighbours, the Thessalians, must also have had some effect.

Diopeithes ( in Greek Διoπείθης ; lived during the 4th century BC ) was an Athenian general, probably father of the poet Menander, who was sent out to the Thracian Chersonese about 343 BC, at the head of a body of Athenian settlers or κληρoυχoι.

31 ), the region was governed from 480 BC to 438 BC by a line called the Archaeanactidae, probably a ruling family, which gave way to the tyrant Spartocus ( 438 BC-431 BC ), apparently a Thracian.