In the original story, the mathematically-minded Hornblower devises a plan by which he secures himself an " even chance " against a greater-skilled adversary.

Urban legends typically include one or more common elements: the legend is retold on behalf of the original witness or participant ; dire warnings are often given for those who might not heed the advice or lesson contained therein ( this is a typical element of many e-mail phishing scams ); and it is often touted as " something a friend told me ," while the friend is identified by first name only or not identified at all.

Those who failed to heed the warnings might have their barns burned or their stills destroyed.

She finally gave in, realizing the desperation and persistence of the sage and fearing that if she did not heed to his request, he might topple the boat midstream.

The first mention of an arcological structure might be in H. G. Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes, published in 1899.

* In February 2006 a fossil, the Gawis cranium, was found which might possibly be a species intermediate between H. erectus and H. sapiens or one of many evolutionary dead ends.

He said that he might write a book in the style of H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

The exponential operator on the right hand side of the Schrödinger equation is usually defined by the corresponding power series in H. One might notice that taking polynomials or power series of unbounded operators that are not defined everywhere may not make mathematical sense.

For example, one might assume the same security that HMAC provides could be achieved with MAC = H ( key ∥ message ).

Through the 18th and 19th centuries, individual theologians ( Bianchi in 1768, H. Klee in 1835, Caron in 1855, H. Schell in 1893 ) continued to formulate theories of how children who died unbaptised might still be saved.

: a.: For example, writing in his introduction to Sun Tzu's Art of War, B. H. Liddell Hart stated that " Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars of this century if the influence of Clausewitz's monumental tome On War, which molded European military thought in the era preceding the First World War, had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun Tzu's exposition on The Art of War.

Therefore primer sequence corresponding to the amino acid isoleucine might be " ATH ", where A stands for adenine, T for thymine, and H for adenine, thymine, or cytosine, according to the genetic code for each codon, using the IUPAC symbols for degenerate bases.

Cheung Chuk Ling, W. T. Pearce, and H. R. Wells revived the college so that the training of the sons of church members might be carried on.

" Others argue instead that methane might have been the gas emitted from the chasm, or CO < sub > 2 </ sub > and H < sub > 2 </ sub > S, arguing that the chasm itself might have been a seismic ground rupture, although this idea has been challenged by scholars such as Joseph Fontenrose and Lisa Maurizio, who argue that the ancient sources uniformly represent the Pythia speaking intelligibly, and giving prophecies in her own voice.

( 1969 ), H. Rap Brown writes that the children he grew up with employed the Dozens to kill time and stave off boredom, in the way that whites might play Scrabble.

" Tolkien wrote to W. H. Auden that The Marvellous Land of Snergs " was probably an unconscious source-book for the Hobbits " and he told an interviewer that the word hobbit " might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt " ( like hobbits, George Babbitt enjoys the comforts of his home ).

Researchers are examining how stress might promote H. pylori infection.

During World War II, when first elected to the Senate, Capehart supported efforts to compromise with the Japanese on terms of surrender in the Summer of 1945 when Senate Minority Leader Wallace H. White, Jr. stated that the war might end sooner if President Truman would state specifically in the upper chamber just what unconditional surrender meant for the Japanese.

The committee, headed by California attorney H. Rowan Gaither, recommended that the foundation become an international philanthropy dedicated to the advancement of human welfare and " urged the foundation to focus on solving humankind's most pressing problems, whatever they might be, rather than work in any particular field ...." The board embraced the recommendations in 1949.

An etymology of the word is proposed by H. Newell Wardle: adlet might come from ad, " below ," and thus denote " those below.

It has been proposed that cometary collisions with Earth might have supplied a large proportion of the water in the oceans, but the high D / H ratio measured in Hyakutake and other comets such as Hale – Bopp and Halley's Comet have caused problems for this theory.

They also read William H. Edwards on his Amazon expedition, and this started them thinking that a visit to the region would be exciting, and might launch their careers.

Thus, works by Balzac, Flaubert, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence were banned based on isolated passages and the effect they might have on children.

When the attack finally lessened, Lieutenant Frederic H. White ordered Miller to help move injured sailors through oil and water to the quarterdeck, thereby " unquestionably saving the lives of a number of people who might otherwise have been lost.

An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia notes that it " might, however, be said that HPL erred on the side of underexplicitness in the very nebulous horror to be seen through Zann's garret window.

They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.

He might say or do something foolish.

He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

There's bound to be someone on guard, but the hat might fool them long enough for me to get close ''.

You might need it.

We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.

It might hurt you, though.

Somebody might mistake you for a woman ''.

A red-tailed hawk flew in behind them and stayed there, watching for any snakes or rabbits that they might stir up from the side of the road.

Noticing my disappointment he attempted to salvage what scraps and shreds of authority he felt might still be clinging to his person.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.

That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

The earth smelled moist and pungent as it might in a cave deprived of the cleansing effect of the sun's rays.

Looks like we might be in for a speck of trouble ''.

For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

A detailed scouring of the entire area revealed nothing beyond a ledge of rocks that might have been the rifleman's hiding place.

He evidently couldn't foresee that it might be his downfall in the end.

He studied the problem for a few seconds and thought of a means by which it might be solved.

Pistol-whipping an unarmed man might come easy to someone like Jess, but Curt couldn't bring himself to do it.

Black would have little trouble getting out, but it might delay him a few minutes.