No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

With the metal shutters closed, the dining room was so dark that it seemed still night in there.

He was smooth and civil spoken but it seemed to me there was something tough under his selfeffacing manner.

The remarks she made about the sufferings of a lonely woman seemed so broad at first that he didn't know what to make of them, but after the sixth drink he put his arm around her and suggested that they go upstairs and look for her checkbook there.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

And she was made to fall in love with him again there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the cold fog, mad as she was at his going away when he really didn't have to, mad at their both having got older in a life that seemed to have taken no more than a week to go by.

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

As long as audiences came to see the movement, there seemed little reason to adventure further.

With capital largely squandered, there seemed to them no other course to pursue.

Well, it hadn't been what it seemed, he'd had no idea the girl was in there.

Phil decided to stay a little longer, and as time passed it seemed as if the strange little man had never been there, but for the other glass on the table.

But there seemed to be some difference of opinion as to how far the board should go, and whose advice it should follow.

Dr. Barnes said that there seemed to be feeling that evacuation plans, even for a high school where there were lots of cars `` might not be realistic and would not work ''.

The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.

Alexandre Livshitz repeated a fantastic technical bit from the closing number, `` Taras Bulba '', but even then there was a substantial number of diehards who seemed determined not to go home at all.

There seemed to be a contemptuous purpose in the way he sat there with his eyes glued to Drexel Street and his back in opposition to the church behind him.

It had always seemed to rain there, and even the grass was gray.

It just seemed as if there was nothing else to do.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

: For there seemed but little chance of Casey's getting to the bat.

Although killing oneself is forbidden under normal Jewish law as being a denial of God's goodness in the world, under extreme circumstances when there has seemed no choice but to either be killed or forced to betray their religion, Jews have committed suicide or mass suicide ( see Masada, First French persecution of the Jews, and York Castle for examples ).

However, by 1913, and more explicitly by 1920, Kraepelin admitted that although there seemed to be a residual cognitive defect in most cases, the prognosis was not as uniformly dire as he had stated in the 1890s.

Van Johnson who also appeared in Pal Joey recalled: " I watched him rehearsing, and it seemed to me that there was no possible room for improvement.

Suddenly it seemed to him insane that they might hope to locate Gyp Carmer so casually, even were he to prove the thief.

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.

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.

The prevailing official attitude then seemed to be that fallout, if not exactly good for you, might not be much worse than a bad cold.

So, not only had he been here before, but it seemed he might well come again.

She ascribed her delight with both experiences to the effect they seemed to have of temporarily removing from her the controls which she felt so compulsively necessary to maintain even when it might seem appropriate to relax these controls.

After the spate of female vocalists we have been having, all of whom took Sarah as a point of departure and then tried to see what they could do that might make her seem old hat, it seemed that all that has happened is to make the real thing seem better than ever.

In truth the power which Alfred wielded over the English peoples at this time seemed to stem largely from the military might of the West Saxons, Alfred ’ s political connections from having the ruler of Mercia as his son-in-law, and Alfred ’ s keen administrative talents.

To the U. S., ABMs now seemed far too risky — it was better to have no defense than one that might trigger a war.

Yet it had been the capital of the state for over a thousand years, and it might have seemed unthinkable to suggest that the capital be moved to a different location.

For a time, it seemed as if revolutionary contagion might spread to Honduras as well.

The strength of the Islamist movement was manifest in an event which might have seemed sure to turn Muslim public opinion against fundamentalism, but did just the opposite.

Oliver Cromwell forcibly disbanded the Rump in 1653 when it seemed they might institute a purely representative form of Government and undermine his plan to install himself as dictator.

It might have seemed easiest to bring back the Kapitän first, since its engine was already in production for the truck.

Instead of ending the war with a swift victory that might have boosted their political prospects, the Liberals signed a truce that seemed to allow the Bolivians to regroup.

Even such a question as to whether Khayyam was pro-or anti-alcohol gives rise to more discussion than might at first glance have seemed plausible.

Any chance the Raiders might have had to make a comeback seemed to completely vanish in the second half.

When his wife died, friends such as John Adams noted that Jefferson seemed so depressed that he might be suicidal.

He wrote, " I might say, that I had as much talent for Leavis-style dismantling of texts as anyone else, I even had a special bent for it, nearly a sadistic streak there, but it seemed to me not only a foolish game, but deeply destructive of myself.

At one point it even seemed the Army might refuse orders dealing with Northern Ireland.

Interestingly the commentary in the translation of Abdullah Y. Ali-which is the most widespread English translation of the Qur ' an-indicate that this group in fact were the Arabs and not Jews: " The Qibla of Jerusalem might itself have seemed strange to the Arabs, and the change from it to the Ka ' ba might have seemed strange after they had become used to the other.