She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??

And even with her limited knowledge of such things, she knew that the car could be repaired there ; ;

Not even an empty cartridge case could be found.

They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

She even devised a system of colors, whereby the boy could easily distinguish the different note values.

It ignores the sordid financial aspects ( quite conveniently, too, for his audience, who could indulge in moral indignation without visible, or even conscious, discomfort, their money from the transaction having been put away long ago in a good antiseptic brokerage ).

and bright though they all were, they could not possibly compete for her interest with Papa, whose mind -- although he never tried to dazzle or patronize lesser lights with it -- naturally eclipsed theirs and made them seem to her even younger than they were.

I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.

`` Does any sane Democrat believe that Mr. Hearst, a person unknown even to his constituency and his colleagues, without a word or act in the public life of his country, past or present, that can be shown to be his to commend him, could by any possibility be elected President of the United States??

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Just as I know I would make a bad soldier even though I cannot sincerely call myself a pacifist, so too I would not be either a hangman by profession or, if I could avoid it, even a member of a hanging jury.

The Macmillan government might be willing to let him go, but he has been dead seventy-eight years and even the Soviet morticians could not make him look presentable.

She was wise enough to realize a man could be good company even if he did weigh too much and didn't own the mint.

He did not really want to kill, but as in the sexual act, there was a moment when the impulse took over and could not be downed, even while you watched yourself giving way to it.

therefore, nothing but good could happen to him, even in God's wrathful storms.

How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

In a total blockade, action could also be taken against ships bringing in chemicals, oils, textiles, and even foodstuffs.

It would be even more valuable because that same aircraft could immediately destroy any targets it discovered -- no need to wait for a missile to come all the way from the United States with the chance that the target, if it were mobile, would be gone.

For indeed it seemed incredible that anyone could go on committing murder for ten years and not get caught at it, even in Hollywood.

But what quarter could a poor defenseless woman expect from a dictator who would even make so bold as to close all of the banks in our great nation??

Let us look in on one of these nerve centers -- SAC at Omaha -- and see what must still happen before a wing of B-52 bombers could drop their Aj.

This could never happen in my native Chicago.

It could never happen as long as God was alert and the Drew steeple stood guard with its peaked lance.

And the reason this could happen is clear: men of government, business men, lawyers and all who concerned themselves with the welfare of their fellow men did not let their concern to run their businesses at a profit restrict the development of freedom and opportunity.

never seemed as if it could happen to you ; ;

But, it could happen, and it may happen to you.

There are a number of ways this could happen, the churchmen pointed out, and here is an example:

Just like the balloon would go up and you could sit all day and wish it would spring a leak or blow to hell up and burn and nothing like that would happen.

`` Of course, there was nothing you could do, but you still ought to be ashamed of yourself for letting it happen '', Mousie Chandler said to Linda Stuart.

But before anything could happen Frankie Ricco was between them and Eddie Lee had come into the dressing room.

The citizens are slow to realize the magnitude of the danger because they do not believe in pestilence or that it could happen to them, just as the French were complacent at the beginning of the war.

However, he was unwilling to accept that this could happen.

Because of the world's absurdity, at any point in time, anything can happen to anyone, and a tragic event could plummet someone into direct confrontation with the Absurd.

" or " What's the worst thing that could happen in this situation?

* Women were allowed to succeed ( but there existed no known children of theirs whose father did not also happen to be an agnate of the imperial house, thus there is neither a precedent that a child of an imperial woman with a non-imperial man could inherit, nor a precedent forbidding it for children of empresses ).

These plays often explored the altered states, like insanity, hypnosis, panic, under which uncontrolled horror could happen.

There was also a sense that this was the time of year when the physical and supernatural worlds were closest and magical things could happen.

People do not often press the button for the floor they are already on, and in any case, the lift might have enough spare memory that this could happen hundreds or thousands of times.

A besieging force could starve while waiting for the same to happen to the besieged, which meant the siege had to be lifted.

( Pulse 87 did gain a foothold in the New York City market, and was poised to expand into other major markets, but the format's parent company went bankrupt before that could happen, and the format is now only available via Internet and mobile streaming.

Nostradamus claimed to base his published predictions on judicial astrology — the astrological ' judgement ', or assessment, of the ' quality ' ( and thus potential ) of events such as births, weddings, coronations etc .— but was heavily criticized by professional astrologers of the day such as Laurens Videl for incompetence and for assuming that " comparative horoscopy " ( the comparison of future planetary configurations with those accompanying known past events ) could actually predict what would happen in the future.

However, the preemptive destruction of the French fleet by the British by an attack on Mers-el-Kébir and the scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon two years later ensured that this could not happen.

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