He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

Carmer himself was nowhere to be seen.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

As early as the 6th century B.C. the earth was seen to be spherical.

Years were to pass before these plans came off the paper, and Wright was justified in thinking, as the projects failed, that much of what he had to show his country and the world would never be seen except by visitors to Taliesin.

Mama said she was one of the prettiest ladies she had ever seen.

The sneers at Hearst changed to concern when it was seen that he had strong support in many parts of the country.

Victor had been stirred by my account of him in Makers And Finders, for Stephens was one of the lost writers whom Melville had seen in his childhood and whom I was bent on resurrecting.

But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.

But it was something to have seen it floating down through the early morning sunshine, linking the blue of the sky with the blue of the asters by the lake.

Most of them had seen Our American Cousin before, and unless Miss Keene was on stage, there was not much to it.

It was what anyone who had ever seen her had always expected her to do.

It was only hours since I had last seen them, but they had changed and I had changed.

Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.

It was the most important-looking cradle he had ever seen.

Mrs. Hewlitt led the birthcontrol league, Mrs. Ryerson was arthritis, and way in the distance could be seen the slate roof of Ethel Littleton's house, a roof that signified gout.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

This was not an overriding drawback to enjoyment of the performances, however, except in the case of the opening work, Mozart's Sonata in A ( K. 526 ), which clattered along noisily in an unrelieved fashion.

One drawback of this cut-through switching method was that packets that had been corrupted would still be propagated through the network, so a jabbering station could continue to disrupt the entire network.

The main drawback of this type of aircraft was its lack of speed.

The main drawback was that the high drag of a pusher type's tail structure made it slower than a similar " tractor " aircraft.

Its main drawback, however, was that it was a non-standard power supply — running on 16. 2V — meant that if the AC adapter was lost or damaged, the system could be rendered useless, as replacement power supplies for that particular voltage requirement were not readily available.

A leading biographer says: " The most obvious drawback to the home schooling Roosevelt received was uneven coverage of the various areas of human knowledge.

The main drawback in his time, as mentioned, was the poor knowledge of materials characteristics and behaviors at high temperatures.

In the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami drawback was not reported on the African coast or any other east-facing coasts that it reached.

The drawback for users was that direct access to some features of their machines was not available, but this could be remedied with callable functions and subroutines specially written in assembly language.

NS16550AFN One drawback of the earlier 8250 UARTs and 16450 UARTs was that interrupts were generated for each byte received.

One drawback of the MAD doctrine was the possibility of a nuclear war occurring without either side intentionally striking first.

* a reasonable debugger ( its only significant drawback was that one could not examine the contents of fields in structures )

When lasers were first invented, the speckle effect was considered to be a severe drawback in using lasers to illuminate objects, particularly in holographic imaging because of the grainy image produced.

Being plugged into the wall is obviously a major drawback, but had one advantage: the timebase for the clock was driven off of a rectified version of 60 cycle AC current.

Frankel's studies in the history of Talmudic literature had convinced him that the neglect of the Jerusalem Talmud was a serious drawback in the critical investigation of the development of Talmudic law.

This lack of autonomy was simultaneously a vast asset and a glaring weakness — an asset in terms of obedience and control but a massive drawback in terms of effectiveness.

One drawback of Shelton's system was that there was no way to distinguish long and short vowels or diphthongs ; so the b-a-t sequence could mean " bat ", or " bait ", or " bate ", while b-o-t might mean " boot ", or " bought ", or " boat ".

A major drawback of the Computing Surface architecture was poor I / O bandwidth for general data shuffling.

The one great drawback, however, was that they had no money.