He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

Mike tested the leg and found that he was able to hobble around on it.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.

He was finally found in the Bates Hole region of Natrona County, two counties away.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

This was the message found tacked to the cabin door.

He had found Curt's weakness, or what to Jess was a weakness, and was smart enough to take advantage of it.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

She was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same position where the snake had found her.

As he reached for the door there was a knock on it and when he opened he found Artie, who came in and sat down on a bunk.

Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.

William Gilmore Simms, sturdy realist that he was, pleaded for a natural robustness such as he found in his favorites the great Elizabethans, to vivify the pale writings being produced around him.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

`` The case was that Bang-Jensen came up to Shann claiming he had found further errors in the report.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

A rope was found and, like children in school, the missionaries skipped for hours at a time.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

He was seldom an unmethodical critic, and his reviews generally followed a systematic pattern: a description of what the work contained, a treatment of the things that had especially interested him in it, and, wherever possible, a balancing of whatever artistic merits and faults he might have found.

She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

The head was wrapped in a turban and on top of the turban rode a great hamper across which a piece of poncho had been flung.

he had aged thirty years, and his face, the color of tallow, was crisscrossed with wrinkles, as though it had been wrapped in chicken wire.

this mixture was then spread on a cloth and wrapped around the affected part.

or the smell of thick tomato paste -- the ripe smell that was both sweet and sour -- rising up from aluminum trays wrapped in fly-dotted cheesecloth.

He had hobbled downstairs into the parlor, in his agony, and was sitting, wrapped in his bathrobe, on a footstool.

Maia wrapped the infant in blankets but Hermes escaped while she was asleep.

One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he interrupted the lesson suddenly in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase.

He was buried just outside Greeneville – with his body wrapped in an American flag and a copy of the U. S. Constitution placed under his head, according to his wishes.

When carried, the Ark was always wrapped in a veil, in skins and a blue cloth, and was carefully concealed, even from the eyes of the priests who carried it.

2, with the character of Bill noting that Superman was not born into his alter ego ( Spider-Man was " Peter Parker " first, Batman was born " Bruce Wayne "), using the blanket he was wrapped in as his costume, and Clark Kent is a collage of mankind's less impressive traits meant to blend in with other humans ( as well as a device to pursue Lois Lane's affections ).

An early form of hoof protection was seen in ancient Asia, where horses ' hooves were wrapped in rawhide, leather or other materials for both therapeutic purposes and protection from wear.

By the time production wrapped, Welles had been dropped from RKO, and, as part of the settlement, was required to edit the film to suitable length.

The trophy was found just seven days later wrapped in newspaper at the bottom of a suburban garden hedge in Upper Norwood, South London, by a dog named Pickles .< ref >

The principal feature of the capsule magazine was that instead of being a straight box protruding below the stock of the rifle, it wrapped around the bolt action.

Plus there was $ 5, 000 wrapped in a little package, fifty and hundred dollar bills.

In 1915, a 135-pound iron meteorite was found in a Sinagua ( c. 1100 – 1200 AD ) burial cyst near Camp Verde, Arizona, respectfully wrapped in a feather cloth.

In this device, sound waves traveling through the air vibrated a parchment diaphragm which was linked to a bristle, and the bristle traced a line through a thin coating of soot on a sheet of paper wrapped around a rotating cylinder.

The tinfoil sheet was wrapped around a grooved cylinder, and the sound was recorded as indentations into the foil.