It was meant to insult him, and didn't quite succeed.

It was really quite simple.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

This young slave was therefore quite unprepared when Delphine Lalaurie signaled that she wanted him to draw near.

He must have fallen in with evil companions, for he was a simple youth and quite trusting and inexperienced.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

In the early days of a homogeneous population, the public school was quite satisfactory.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.

On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.

It was a dinner party, Lewis had been drinking during the afternoon, and long before the party really got under way, he was quite drunk, with the result that the party broke up even before dinner was over.

But Sojourner was not easily excited or upset and said quite calmly: `` Let's go and see what it's like ''.

Wilkes was quite right about one thing.

It was rather a childish game, all in all, but everybody seemed to be getting into the spirit of the thing and he could not remember when he had enjoyed planning anything quite so much.

The wording of the question was quite general and may have been subject to different interpretations.

It is quite likely that an even greater area was covered, particularly downwind.

But the information on the dynamics of population was often quite misleading.

Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).

According to Aristotle, the Spartan military culture was actually short-sighted and ineffective.

However, the omission of the geopolitical reality in ignoring the free hand Japan had been granted by the Treaty ( of Shimonoseki ) with respect to Korea and Japan was short-sighted of Russia with respect to its strategic goals ; to get to and maintain a strong point in Port Arthur Russia would have to dominate and control many additional hundreds of miles of Eastern Manchuria ( the Fengtian province of Imperial China, modern Jilin and Heilongjiang ) up to Harbin.

This was due to Hallmark's previously un-stated ( but long suspected ) short-sighted policy of only distributing Filmation shows outside of the United States.

The old focus on using automation simply to increase productivity and reduce costs was seen to be short-sighted, because it is also necessary to provide a skilled workforce who can make repairs and manage the machinery.

" Over the years, much has been written about the weakness of computers in the endgame — of how they were so short-sighted with respect to the creation of passed pawns, or unwilling to centralize their king when it was the only logical thing to do.

The impetuous and short-sighted opposing general, the consul Tiberius Sempronius Longus, allowed himself to be provoked into a frontal assault under physically difficult circumstances and failed to see that he was being led into a trap.

Some characterized the treaty as short-sighted and argued that much of what Poland had gained during the Polish-Soviet war was lost during the peace negotiations.

Piłsudski felt the agreement was a shameless and short-sighted political calculation.

He claimed Bunter was derived from three persons: a corpulent editor, a short-sighted relative, and another relative who was perpetually trying to raise a loan on the strength of the anticipated arrival of a cheque.

His main physical characteristics are obesity ( he weighs about 14 stone, or 200 pounds, which, at a time when many people did not get enough to eat, was huge ), brought about by over-eating, and short-sightedness ( hence his nickname ' the fat owl of the Remove ', because his round glasses and short-sighted squint give him the appearance of an Owl blinking in the daylight ).

He also thought that industrial development was suffering from short-sighted executives, self-interested unions, high taxes, and poor education of Americans.

I was short-sighted in my thinking, and I was wrong.

Soon after the initiative was announced, a dissenting faction of seven ACE members declared that the decision to support only little-endian architectures was short-sighted.

Being short-sighted he was unfit for military service, and stayed to teach at Cambridge during the Second World War.

He also differed with the capitalists as he thought that unbridled consumerism was immoral, and that the appalling exploitation of the world's resources was short-sighted and unrealistic.

He was an eloquent speaker, and master of many subjects ; and his proved royalism made it impossible for the Ultra-Royalists to discredit him, much as they resented his consistent opposition to their short-sighted violence.

The short-sighted impresario Tetti-Tatti believes this and sets out to destroy Willy, the newspapers announcing that he was going to see.

Much of what Poland had won during the 1920 war was lost in the peace negotiations that were characterized by many as short-sighted and petty.

Entercom granted WBEN-FM the permission to use the call sign, a move that proved to be short-sighted: when FM station WLKK changed to a simulcast of WBEN-AM, it was unable to use the WBEN-FM call sign.

In the fall of 2008, with the economy faltering, the Legislature very belatedly passed what Los Angeles Times political columnist George Skelton called " another atrocious, short-sighted, gimmicky budget that set a record for procrastination " and " wreaked havoc all across California among small business vendors, healthcare centers and nursing homes that couldn't be paid by the state until a budget was enacted.