Even strange names seemed to make them feel closer to some kind of civilization when stumbled across out here in this wilderness.

It had always seemed strange to Ramey that to disguise himself as a tourist, an ex-truck driver like Horsely would merely pick something outlandish and put it on his head.

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.

McGonagall claimed he was inspired to become a poet when he " seemed to feel a strange kind of feeling stealing over, and remained so for about five minutes.

Accordingly, it has been argued that social contract theory is more consistent with the contract law of the time of Hobbes and Locke than with the contract law of our time, and that features in the social contract which seem anomalous to us, such as the belief that we are bound by a contract formulated by our distant ancestors, would not have seemed as strange to Hobbes ' contemporaries as they do to us.

At first, these processes seemed so strange and unprecedented that they were taken as evidence of sheer incompetence .... Now it is recognized that Bruckner's unorthodox structural methods were inevitable .... Bruckner created a new and monumental type of symphonic organism, which abjured the tense, dynamic continuity of Beethoven, and the broad, fluid continuity of Wagner, in order to express something profoundly different from either composer, something elemental and metaphysical.

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.

The answer seemed strange to the Delians and they consulted Plato, who was able to interpret the oracle as the mathematical problem of doubling the volume of a given cube, thus explaining the oracle as the advice of Apollo for the citizens of Delos to occupy themselves with the study of geometry and mathematics in order to calm down their passions.

It seemed really strange ... I was experiencing such fear ... it was just ... terrible ... During these days I would take naps in the afternoon because I'd be so tired playing at night, staying up till 4 in the morning, getting up early and napping again in the afternoon.

Dodds described his impressions of New York as a place where people listened to jazz rather than danced to it: " When I first went to New York it seemed very strange to have people sitting around and listening rather than dancing.

This version, with extensive wordplay based on the fact that most of the fictional baseball team's players had " strange nicknames " that seemed to be questions, became known as " Who's on First?

Lacking military discipline, in what likely seemed to the participants a strange land ( Eastern Europe ), Peter's fledgling army quickly found itself in trouble despite the fact they were still in Christian territory.

This type of cancellation seemed strange in the early 1980s, but soon became a commonplace part of TV audience research.

The school arose mainly as a response to the mutazila school of thought and some of their views which to many Muslims seemed strange and against previously held opinions.

Following Pico, he seemed to find in the Cabbala a profound theosophy which might be of the greatest service for the defence of Christianity and the reconciliation of science with the mysteries of faith, a common notion in that strange time of ferment, whatever may have developed in fact.

She seemed so much a force of nature it's strange to recall that this was actually her tenth album ..."

This seemed strange to the public opinion in France, as Hue had been ( and was to remain ) a strict follower of the Party lines.

An Oliver Quayle poll in 1968 declared that Rockefeller seemed “ strange, alien, and foreign ” to many voters.

However, it got a huge amount of advance publicity, due to Steinman's status as a popular American songwriter and how strange the combination of Steinman and Lloyd Webber seemed based on Steinman's prior work.

The name change from Gewehr to Karabiner was due to the fact the rifle was actually only two centimetres longer than the standard Karabiner 98k and therefore the term Gewehr ( meaning: long rifle ) seemed somewhat strange.

* Shyft-Introduced in the Whirlwind expansion, these strange reptilian creatures seemed to have a strange psychic bond with the various Mage Spawn found in the Land.

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.

In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.

But to me Beckett's writing had seemed permeated with love for human beings and with a kind of humor that I could reconcile neither with despair nor with nihilism.

It seemed to me that the liberals had scrapped the balanced polarity and reposed both liberty and the fundamental law in the common man.

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

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

My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

It suddenly seemed very important to me that Mary Jane Brennan should know the truth about me -- that I was not the confused, sick, irresponsible person she believed me to be.

It seemed the most important thing in my life at this moment that she should know the real truth about me.

It seemed to me that my life was destined to be one brilliant failure after another.

It seemed to me that I was not only unlucky but quite stupid as well.

At the time the will was drawn Mr. Hohlbein mentioned to me how mentally alert she seemed for her age, knowing just what changes she wanted made and so forth ''.

At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

The crisis later on when debts seemed about to overwhelm me.

Now it seemed almost as if Jesus were looking down at me with sadness in His eyes, saying:

Shearing, himself, seemed to me to be playing better piano than in his recent Newport appearances.

The most unbelievable thing about the chance meeting was that he seemed interested in me, too.

But Kidd seemed unconcerned, later explaining to his surgeon that he had " good friends in England, that will bring me off for that.

In 1895 he wrote, " I worked for six years perfecting and testing the language, even though it had seemed to me in 1878 that it was already completely ready.