`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

An out-of-town writer came up to Paul Richards today and asked the Oriole manager if he thought his ball club would be improved this year.

He looked at her out of himself, she thought, as he did only for an instant at a time, the look which always surprised her even now when his uncombable hair was yellowing a little and his breath came hard through his nicotine-choked lungs, the look of the gaunt youth she had suddenly found herself staring at in the Tate Gallery on a Thursday once.

Their father, when he came back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox.

The Christian education of children, too, was once hardly more than a sideshow, but the day came when a congregation that did not assume full oversight of a church school was thought of as failing in its duty.

A foolish thought came into his head.

Dear heaven, no, thought Mr. Skyros, turning away as another man came in.

She thought she was bigger than we are because she came from Torino ''.

This marriage, which took place soon after the death of the Frankish ruler Theudebald in 555, is thought to reflect Audoin's decision to distance himself from the Byzantines, traditional allies of the Lombards, who had been lukewarm when it came to supporting Audoin against the Gepids.

" Taking the Mick " or " taking the Mickey " is thought to be a rhyming slang form of " taking the piss ", where " Mick " came from " Mickey Bliss ".

In the 19th century, when studying the fermentation of sugar to alcohol by yeast, Louis Pasteur came to the conclusion that this fermentation was catalyzed by a vital force contained within the yeast cells called " ferments ", which were thought to function only within living organisms.

The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.

In exile in England he came to appreciate British thought and he popularized Isaac Newton in Europe.

but the filmmakers rejected him because they thought he came across as " too nice " and therefore would not be credible.

According to Strauss, historicism " rejects political philosophy " and is rooted in the belief that " all human thought, including scientific thought, rests on premises which cannot be validated by human reason and which came from historical epoch to historical epoch.

Although in later times Hecate's dog came to be thought of as a manifestation of restless souls or demons who accompanied her, its docile appearance and its accompaniment of a Hecate who looks completely friendly in many pieces of ancient art suggests that its original signification was positive and thus likelier to have arisen from the dog's connection with birth than the dog's demonic associations.

The Maxxas brand name came about because Hoshino Gakki thought that the guitar did not fit in with the Ibanez model range and was therefore named Maxxas by Rich Lasner from Hoshino USA.

" and I thought they would ask me to do a walk-on, the way it came: " Would you come be part of the show?

He believed that myths began as allegorical descriptions of nature, but gradually came to be interpreted literally: for example, a poetic description of the sea as " raging " was eventually taken literally, and the sea was then thought of as a raging god.

Ehrman concludes from this that Mary and the others could therefore be thought of as " apostles sent to the apostles ," a title that Mary Magdalene herself came to bear in the Middle Ages ( Latin: apostola apostolorum ).

In later Christian thought, the Ark came to be compared to the Church: salvation was to be found only within Christ and his Lordship, as in Noah's time it had been found only within the Ark.

It is thought that the Earth itself coalesced from material in orbit around the Sun roughly 4500 Ma ( 4. 5 Ga ) and may have been struck by a very large ( Mars-sized ) planetesimal shortly after it formed, splitting off material that came together to form the Moon ( see Giant impact hypothesis ).

As Bunyan's popularity came only after the stories appeared in print, some commentators have thought of him as an inauthentic " fakelore " character.

It went right on creaking under his own considerable weight, and all it needed, Harold thought, was for somebody to fling himself back in a fit of laughter and that would be the end of it.

My first thought was how had it happened so soon, but I counted back on my fingers and sure enough we'd been living together six weeks.

Then, getting back into bed, he thought unashamedly of Mrs. Flannagan, planning where they would next meet and what they would do.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

`` If I thought you were serious about going back to school, that you'd learned something from your experiences here and at Hanover -- well, I might consider such an offer.

They want to be fat cats, Pam thought, and lighted a cigarette and leaned back on a chaise and considered pulling her thoughts together.

Comorian waters are the habitat of the coelacanth, a rare fish with limblike fins and a cartilaginous skeleton, the fossil remains of which date as far back as 400 million years and which was once thought to have become extinct about 70 million years ago.

It affirmed his dislike of what had become known as the ignorabimus, still an active issue in his time in German thought, and traced back in that formulation to Emil du Bois-Reymond.

Dominic saw the need for a response that would attempt to sway members of the Albigensian movement back to mainstream Christian thought.

It was written, he tells us, in bitter anguish, " out of much affliction and pressure of heart ... and with streaming eyes " ( 2 Cor 2: 4 ); yet he restrained the expression of his feelings, and wrote with a dignity and holy calm which he thought most calculated to win back his erring children.

Idle, choking back tears, stated that Chapman had thought that Palin talked too much and had died rather than listen to him any more.

I thought my horse was about to die, and would have sprung from his back had a minute more elapsed ; but as that instant all the shrubs and trees began to move from their very roots, the ground rose and fell in successive furrows, like the ruffled water of a lake, and I became bewildered in my ideas, as I too plainly discovered, that all this awful commotion was the result of an earthquake.

He thought that it had " aged in as timeless a manner as many other first-party Nintendo games from the NES era ", and described Kid Icarus as " one of those games that made a lot more sense back in the ' 80s, accompanied by a tips and tricks strategy sheet ".

However, in the 11th century, the Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer, drawing on ancient legends of the fallen angel or angels, brought back to the mainstream of rabbinic thought the personification of evil and the corresponding myth.

The presence of people in Mesoamerica was once thought to date back 40, 000 years, an estimate based on what were believed to be ancient footprints discovered in the Valley of Mexico ; but after further investigation using radiocarbon dating, it appears this date may not be accurate.

Gianni Vattimo points at a back and forth movement in European thought, between Nietzsche and Heidegger.

Smith described the play by saying, " He hit a ball back up the middle that everybody thought was going into center field.

By turning back at what he thought was the limit of Germany, he not only missed the Balts, but did not discover that more Germans, the Goths, had moved into the Baltic area.

Women who's heads were generally larger in the back with lower foreheads were thought to have underdeveloped organs necessary for success in the arts and sciences while having larger mental organs relating to the care of children and religion.

The origin of the practice is uncertain, but it is quite likely that it was maintained because of widespread belief in the Joan legend, and it was thought genuinely to date back to that period.

Sprat regarded " fine speaking " as a disease, and thought that a proper style should " reject all amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style " and instead " return back to a primitive purity and shortness " ( History of the Royal Society, 1667 ).

For in these was reflected that which a personality must feel concerning the evolution and essential being of humanity when this personality is kept back from grasping the spiritual world by the restricted thought in the philosophy of nature characterizing the end of the 19th century .... What attracted me particularly was that one could read Nietzsche without coming upon anything which strove to make the reader a ' dependent ' of Nietzsche's.