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They knew that their perceptual experience differed from objective reality since they had seen the desk and ball prior to putting on the aniseikonic lenses.
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`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.
They caused my love for Jessica to become warmer and at the same time more hopeless, as if my adolescent self knew that only torment would ever bring me the courage to ask to see her again.
They knew that I was still grieving over the tragic event, and they felt that if I could see the recovery and the spirit of the people, who hold no grudge, but who also regret Pearl Harbor, I would be happier and would understand better a new Japan.
They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.
They were awestruck to hear it was Son House, whom they knew as " the man who taught Robert Johnson ".
They knew that they wanted different genres of music from different times but, as Joel remembers, " T-Bone even came up with some far-out Henry Mancini and Yma Sumac ".
They thought of themselves as a tightly rehearsed rock and rhythm and blues group and knew Dylan mostly from his early acoustic folk and protest music.
They insisted that they knew a relative of Tubman's, and she took them into her home, where they stayed for several days.
They were most impressed with their visit to Constantinople, saying, " We knew not whether we were in Heaven or on Earth … We only know that God dwells there among the people, and their service is fairer than the ceremonies of other nations.
They knew that the region, a part of the Ottoman Empire, was under martial law, and that the Christians ( mainly the Serbs ) were in a state of insurrection against the Bosnian Muslim beys placed over them.
They were eager to discuss a range of problems they knew about from first-hand experience that caused them deep concern.
They certainly knew how to produce alum from alunite, as this process is archaeologically attested on the island Lesbos.
They were changeful in speech, for they had great love of words, and sought ever to find names more fit for all things they knew or imagined.
They were packed into filthy, disease-ridden tenements, 10 or 15 to a room, and the well-off knew nothing about them and cared less.
They knew the divine pair of water-deities Vidassus ( as Roman Sylvanus ) and Thana ( as Roman Diana ), whose rocky reliefs persist today at some springs in their area.
They and their
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
They squatted on their heels in the deep mud and Dill found a cigar in his breast pocket, passing it over silently.
They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.
They returned to the street, mounted their horses, rode through the rain to the big house on Houston Street.
They brought to it all the odors that clung to men like themselves, that of their own sweat, of campfire smoke, of horses and cattle.
`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.
They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.
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