At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

They grounded him ( over his protests -- not including his true reason for wanting to fly ) and put him in the Command offices.

she would talk to him in a soothing voice about things his mother would have said were not nice and put her hands on him and kiss him passionately.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

but anyone who would put much trust in any phase of Prolusion 6, except its illusive allusiveness deserves whatever fate may be meted out to him by virtue of the egregiously stilted banter.

Lawrence could not put his finger on it precisely, and this worried him.

When Kate hurried in alarm to tell him to put it out, she saw other dots of flames among the western Virginia hills from the few scattered fires of the faithful.

`` You going to put more towels on him ''??

I put my arm carefully around him.

The suicide attempt looked to him like an opportunity to put his theory to the test.

Perhaps he had better have someone help him put up the pegboard and build the workbench -- someone who knew what he was about.

Noticing Russell's horse in front of the long log building, he assumed his friend had slipped inside and would be able to put up a good fight, so he began working his way down the ditch to join him.

Jaggers' iron control over her ( `` she would remove her hands from any dish she put before him, hesitatingly, as if she dreaded his calling her back ) '' ) rests on his having once got her acquitted of a murder charge by cleverly contriving her sleeves at the trial to conceal her strength and by passing off the lacerations on the backs of her hands as the scratches of brambles rather than of human fingernails.

So Captain Jenks returned to his harbor post to watch the scouting plane put in five more appearances, and to feel the certainty of this dread rising within him.

During the second week of operations, Fogg received a telegram from the Post Office Department, asking him to `` put on two airplanes and make two flights daily, plus one Sunday trip ''.

Or the frequent need to check and discipline himself to the wisest pace of the consummation can put him off stride and make it impossible for him to be continuously ready for penetration over a long period.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

He does not know whether to look up or look aside, to put his hands in his pockets or to clench them at his side, to cross the street, or to continue on the same side.

Those who are sexually liberated can become creatively alive and free, their instincts put at the service of the imagination.

We fashioned beards, put them on, and reported to the Hetman at the city desk.

The convicts were put in chains, paraded before the congregation at the Reverend Cotton's lecture as an example, and sent to prisons in various towns, where they languished all winter, chains included.

Lewis, at the head of the table, would leap up and move around behind the chairs of his guests making remarks that, when not highly offensive, were at least highly inappropriate, and then presently he collapsed and was put to bed.

In Newark, for example, this gain was put at 26 per cent above the year-earlier level.

Harold, with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their father, Harry M. Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball program, introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved the way for creation of a catering empire.

He should put the police back to patrolling and walking the streets at night.

Undismayed by this contretemps, a small band of the faithful gathered at Lauchli's home at 6:30 A.M. the next day, put on their uniforms, and headed for a farm several miles away.

She put the slipper neatly by its mate at the foot of the bed.

The remarks she made about the sufferings of a lonely woman seemed so broad at first that he didn't know what to make of them, but after the sixth drink he put his arm around her and suggested that they go upstairs and look for her checkbook there.

he rose at half-past six every morning, made himself some French coffee, had his corn flakes and more coffee, smoked four cigarettes while reading last Sunday's Herald Tribune and yesterday's Pittsburgh Gazette, then put on his high-topped farmer's shoes and walked under a vine bower to his workshop.

That is, to put it realistically, they had to run their businesses at a profit, or they had to get the votes to get elected.

This colt arrived at the Raceway early last November, and immediately was put into harness and line-driven for a few days, and then put to cart and broken in very nicely, knowing nothing but trot.

Check to see if some of your benefits -- such as on-the-job disability pay -- can be put on a direct payment rather than an insured basis at a savings to you.

And they can at least collect the money they put in, plus interest, when they leave the company.

Laurence M. Klauber put length at maturity at two thirds the ultimate length for some rattlesnakes, and Charles C. Carpenter's data on Michigan garter and ribbon snakes ( Thamnophis ) show that the smallest gravid females are more than half as long as the biggest adults.

Religion at its best is out in front, ever beckoning and leading on, and, as Lippman put it, `` mobilizing all man's scattered energies in one triumphant sense of his own infinite importance ''.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

In our own practice, to have the last `` intonaco '' plaster coat thick enough to match, and at the same time to avoid fine cracks in drying, we found that it had to be put on in two layers, letting the first set awhile before applying the second.

Johnson's vintage independent streak put him very much at odds with professional military commanders, including Gen. Don Carlos Buell who left Nashville defenseless when he had to reinforce Grant at the Battle of Shiloh.

Stephen kept a few castles standing however, which put him at odds with his heir.

The series depicted very little of the past described by Edison, though he did meet a female televangelist ( whom he once dated when his reporting put him at odds with the Vu Age Church that she now headed ) and a former colleague / rival who later died ( and whose death sent Edison off on close to a rampage to avenge that death ).

Consideration of this has become increasingly contentious as topics such as civil rights and human sexuality have increasingly put churches at odds with each other and with the government.

The elder Nast's socialist political convictions put him at odds with the Bavarian government, and in 1846 he left Landau, enlisting first on a French man-of-war and subsequently on an American ship.

He became an ardent supporter of Governor " Fire Alarm Joe " Foraker ; however, his political stance put him at odds with those who controlled local politics in Marion.

This put them at odds with many Greens worldwide but demonstrated also that they were capable of difficult political tradeoffs.

These include Falun Gong's popularity, China ’ s history of quasi-religious movements which turned into violent insurrections, its independence from the state and refusal to toe the Party line, internal power politics within the Communist Party, and Falun Gong's moral and spiritual content, which put it at odds with the atheist aspects of the official Marxist ideology.

When making a bet where you must put more at stake than you stand to win, you are laying the odds or laying the bet.

This later put them at odds with some in the Quebec nationalist movement, which argued for French as the official language of Quebec.

His position put him at odds with the American and British governments, but also won him respect elsewhere.

These positions put Clark at odds with the right-wing members of his caucus, several members of which were not afraid to confront him.

These radical concepts — including ultimate devotion to the Emperor, regardless of rank or clan — put him at odds with the reigning shogunate.

However, from the very beginning in Iran, Ibrahim Ahmad's Leftist politics, " intellectualism ", and support for Qazi Muhammad put him at odds with the faction of the KDP loyal to Mulla Mustafa Barzani and his traditionalist-conservative tribal support base.

We start, that is, with the odd numbers in increasing order, then 2 times the odds, 4 times the odds, 8 times the odds, etc., and at the end we put the powers of two in decreasing order.

The race put Breckinridge at odds with his uncle, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, who had supported Lincoln.

In the 19th century, the town and surrounding settlements were largely industrialized, which put it at odds with the popular portrayal in Wuthering Heights, which only bore resemblance to the upper moorland that Emily Brontë was accustomed to.

The incident had the effect of further alienating the public, as many local residents " admired the way Roberts put up a gutsy fight against overwhelming odds.

His views put him at odds with the Church, for whom there necessarily had to be a difference between the Creator and the created.

This put him at odds with Cosgrave, whose government had strengthened the act.

Her lack of experience with people causes her to make straightforward, often tactless remarks, which soon put her at odds with other Scooby Gang members, especially Willow, who has little trust for the ex-demon.

This put him at odds with most of the socialist leaders of Europe.

At the apex of his political life, Ōhira came to represent what were known as " mainstream factions " within the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) which put him at odds with Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, who led what were known as an " anti-mainstream " faction.