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 ''.

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

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.

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.

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.

And then he thought Todman might be right.

I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.

A card to Walter would get him an introduction to this Meredith, and that might be good for something.

And he missed the point that the swarthy witches might be laughing at him for hoping to escape Nicolas Manas.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

Mary Jane might not be the most intelligent woman, but she was one of the most determined.

`` I might have starved, but at least I wouldn't be fried to a crisp and soaked with dirt ''!!

Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.

Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.

Others mentioned that I might have had to ask friends or even strangers for help and that to be stranded in a foreign country without sufficient funds did not contribute to international understanding.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.

He might say or do something foolish.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

Something indirect, mixed, reconciling, tensional might well be the stratagem, the devious technique by which a poet indulged in all kinds of talk about love and anger and even in something like `` expressions '' of these emotions, without aiming at their incitement or even uttering anything that essentially involves their incitement ''.

he felt he was noting it, as if it were something he might think about when he grew stronger.

`` 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.

Also, it's just possible she might know something about Mrs. Gilborn ''.

he was straight, something angry in his attitude, as if he might be waiting to report something.

( Detective Pearson, Eighteenth Precinct, thought for a time he might be on to something.

His shout had been involuntary, something anybody might have done without thinking, on the spur of the moment.

It also brought home proof of something a casual observer might have missed: that more than half of the U.S. Negroes live outside the southeastern states.

He might have been hoping, to all appearances, that this relatively sunny symphony, in conjunction with the Choral Fantasy at the end of the program, could amount to something like the Ninth ; ;

And it might be, considering the uncomfortable custom the Angels had of thinking of everything in terms of absolutes, that the proposal of anything less might well amount instead to something like a declaration of war.

A concrete example of a situation where an individual's sensory input might be caused by something other than what he thinks is causing it is the brain in a vat scenario.

Benchmark testing on the two computers running their respective programs might look something like the following:

Thus something as simple as a newspaper might be specified to six levels, as in Douglas Hofstadter's illustration of that ambiguity, with a progression from abstract to concrete in Gödel, Escher, Bach ( 1979 ):

But perhaps a detective or philosopher / scientist / engineer might seek to learn about something, at progressively deeper levels of detail, to solve a crime or a puzzle.

The phrase is often used in a less serious manner in relation to someone or something that is out of control and causing trouble ( e. g., a dog tearing up the living room furniture might be said to be running amok ).

Whatever difference which might part us, something hovers over them, it is the great images of national unity, which we all desire, for which we would all stand, willing to die if necessary.

Thus, one might pursue an increase in material equality or political liberty instead of something like the more ephemeral " pleasure ".

According to 2000 publishings by scholar Manuel Pedro Ferreira the models for the Cantigas might actually be something different than a traditional French rondeau.

:" His only idea at the time was that it might be possible, in terms of effective calculability as an undefined notion, to state a set of axioms which would embody the generally accepted properties of this notion, and to do something on that basis ".