Often letters feature simple yet absurd statements (" I'm heading off to the pub in a few minutes and wondered if any of your readers fancied joining me for a pint " or " They say size doesn't matter-if that's true, why can't I get these shoes on?

They have been of special interest for the HTS materials because many researchers have wondered whether spin correlations might play a role in the mechanism of the HTS.

They were worried about her marrying a painter from a poor family and wondered how he would support her.

They asked her awkward questions and he wondered how they would react if he invited a famous person to his home.

They wondered what happened to the fabled splendor and riches of the second Inca capital.

They knew not what would result from their brew but they wondered about it a great deal.

They liked the script but wondered, " how could we manage to translate it to the screen without making a slasher movie?

They ought to be ashamed of such conduct, and the still fouler channel which flows from their practices ; and it is not to be wondered at that they should envy those who so much better understand the social relations.

" They all wondered, of course, if a boy of such great beauty had found his way into Mikal's bed.

They had to do with what he saw, now that he looked, was in the hearts of men-quite ordinary folks like himself ; he wondered that he had not seen it before.

`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.

They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.

They look as if they had been sculptured with an unsharpened chisel.

They have indicated the direction but they have not been explicit enough, I believe, in pointing out Faulkner's independence, his questioning if not indeed challenging the Southern tradition.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

They hope that if history vouchsafes the West another Budapest, we will receive the opportunity gladly.

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 can be effective, however, if their members set high standards for candidates and devote substantial time to the work.

They stick to their principles, insist upon their due, but grow and bloom with dependable regularity if given it.

They were asked to vote `` true '' if they thought they had seen him make the error, `` false '' if they thought he had not ; ;

They initiate campaigns, so to speak, even if this initiation is diffused among them, and their concerted action only psychologically organized.

They generally vote so as to serve their own constituency, and if the constituency should be solidly middle class or solidly lower class, they might be expected to vote and work for middle- or for lower-class interests in education.

They will kneel and plead for Boris' leadership in a strangely intense song, its phrases irregularly broken as if gasping for breath, but when the police with their cudgels move away, they mock and grumble and fight among themselves.

They looked as if they had been fed on vinegar and shavings.

`` They don't like it if I do anything away from home.

They would be particularly displeased with the State Department if it were the source of such reports.

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 can hardly restrain themselves from raising the question of whether Republicans, if they had been in power, would have made `` amateurish and monumental blunders '' in Cuba.

They indicated that stand-ins and picketing would be started if theater owners failed to cooperate.

They will have a greater appreciation for the Church and a deeper devotion to it if membership requires something of them.

They begged Grandma to let them put a bed in the kitchen for her, but Grandma said she was getting too old to sleep in strange beds and be seen with her teeth out, and that she hoped to die in privacy like a Christian and if the Lord willed it to be of pneumonia than it would have to be that way.

They were all shouting at her as if she were the embodiment of the evil she brought.

They all surrounded him, the family circle, Theresa and George as solemn as if they were watching the cat have kittens, and Cousin Emma running back and forth with a kettle of hot water which she poured steaming into a white enamelled pan.

They would not care if all of Europe were to sink into the ocean tomorrow.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.

They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.

They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.

They were going to town, and they were both excited.

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

They had never seen a tultul but they had heard about it from their fathers ''.

They think of it as a kind of spooky museum in which they may half see and half imagine the old splendor.

They fought hard, but they were forgiving to former foes, and sought to prevent vindictive legislatures from confiscating Tory property in violation of the Treaty of 1783.

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 differed in the balance they believed essential to the sovereignty of the citizen -- but the supreme sacrifice each made served to maintain a still more fundamental truth: That individual life, liberty and happiness depend on a right balance between the two -- and on the limitation of sovereignty, in all its aspects, which this involves.

They withdraw to the underground of the slums where they can defy the precepts of legalized propriety.

They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.

Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.

They explained that they desired only to stop in India until a ship traveling on to Burma could be found.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

They had lost twice with the radical Bryan, and were having no part of Hearst, whom they considered more radical than Bryan.

They are not true because scientists or prophets say they are true.