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.

In any case, she told Thompson that she saw no reason why he might not see Katie again, `` now that this frank explanation has been made & no one can misunderstand ''.

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

For no particular reason, other than that the writer felt it might -- just might -- encourage both mates to be in attendance.

but consider, if you can bear it, what might have happened if MacArthur, for some perverse, undaunted reason, had made the same remark to an Eskimo girl in Eskimo.

Ivinskaya writes that Pasternak " raced frantically all over town, telling everybody that he was not to blame and denying responsibility for Mandelstam's disappearance, which for some reason he thought might be laid at his door.

For this reason, it has been suggested that Lovecraft might as well be referred to as a member of a " Smith " circle as Smith as a member of a Lovecraft one.

Hence I can see no reason to doubt that natural selection might be most effective in giving the proper colour to each kind of grouse, and in keeping that colour, when once acquired, true and constant.

No symbol for Barack Obama has appeared in the strip ; the May 30, 2009 strip had Obama and an aide wondering what the reason for this might be ( off panel ).

This might have been the reason why Almagro did not immediately confront Pizarro for Cuzco, and promptly decided to embark on his new quest for the discovery of the riches of Chile.

Faith for good reason arises out of the mystery that underlies the very structure and nature of reality, a mystery that in its entirety will never be entirely demystified despite what those who have placed reason on their altar might like us to believe.

If the status code indicated a problem, the user agent might display the reason phrase to the user to provide further information about the nature of the problem.

The standard also allows the user agent to attempt to interpret the reason phrase, though this might be unwise since the standard explicitly specifies that status codes are machine-readable and reason phrases are human-readable.

One reason for the writ to be sought by a person other than the prisoner is that the detainee might be held incommunicado.

India prohibits any manner of expression which someone might consider insulting to his religion or which for whatever reason might disturb public tranquility.

However, one might say that she has an external reason not to drink the poison because, even though she wants to die, one ought not kill oneself no matter what — regardless of whether one wants to die.

Conversely, the reasons internalist answers the question in the negative (" No, Sasha does not have a reason not to steal from that poor person, though others might .").

In the editorial notes of his compendium Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Hilles theorizes that " as a corollary one might say that he was somewhat lacking in a capacity for love ", and cites Boswell's notary papers: " He said the reason he would never marry was that every woman whom he liked had grown indifferent to him, and he had been < u > glad </ u > he did not marry her.

One reason why it might not is a hypothetical preference for " the real thing ", although such an opinion could easily be mollified if virtual reality were to develop to a certain level of quality.

There is a tradition that Mary Magdalene led so chaste a life that the devil thought she might be the one who was to bear Christ into the world, and for that reason he sent the seven demons to trouble her.

The noumenal world for Kant is the way “ things in themselves ” might appear to a being of uncontingent reason ( i. e. “ God ”).

There are at least three ways in which a realist might try to answer James ' challenge of explaining the reason why universal conceptions are more lofty than those of particulars-there is the moral / political answer, the mathematical / scientific answer and the anti-paradoxical answer.