Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "adventure" ¶ 332
from Brown Corpus
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

was and really
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
`` You owe it to Penny to give her a chance to explain that she was defending you, really '', he observed mildly.
It was really a May and December combination.
As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.
Of course it was water he really craved ; ;
and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.
And Pike never did find out if Robinson was really responsible for the `` Vale '' letter.
He felt as I felt about this best of all my books, that it was `` really tops ''.
It was a dinner party, Lewis had been drinking during the afternoon, and long before the party really got under way, he was quite drunk, with the result that the party broke up even before dinner was over.
`` Billie was really beautiful ''!!
He thought how this dainty, fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June, enjoying the flowers in the shops, the greetings from old friends, but never really drawing a deep, passionate breath, was so like himself.
He did not really want to kill, but as in the sexual act, there was a moment when the impulse took over and could not be downed, even while you watched yourself giving way to it.
The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.
That was really something, coming from Ching.
He was really amazed to discover the other guests so excited about these delicate little songs.
But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.
He didn't, but it was not really a question, and so he left the room, walked down the hall to the front of the apartment, hesitated, and then knocked lightly on the closed door of the study.
`` I don't think it was that, really ''.
He was not sure what effect it would have, but that was really beside the point when you got right down to it.
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.

was and quite
It was meant to insult him, and didn't quite succeed.
I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.
This young slave was therefore quite unprepared when Delphine Lalaurie signaled that she wanted him to draw near.
He must have fallen in with evil companions, for he was a simple youth and quite trusting and inexperienced.
Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
In the early days of a homogeneous population, the public school was quite satisfactory.
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.
The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.
What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.
To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.
On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.
But Sojourner was not easily excited or upset and said quite calmly: `` Let's go and see what it's like ''.
Wilkes was quite right about one thing.
It was rather a childish game, all in all, but everybody seemed to be getting into the spirit of the thing and he could not remember when he had enjoyed planning anything quite so much.
The wording of the question was quite general and may have been subject to different interpretations.
It is quite likely that an even greater area was covered, particularly downwind.
But the information on the dynamics of population was often quite misleading.
Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).

0.064 seconds.