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.

It put you off.

To the manufacturer of the more convenient-type product -- the purchase of which can be switched, delayed, or put off entirely -- the implications are important.

A careful and orderly man, who values precision and a kind of tough intellectual responsibility, might easily be put off by such a book.

This softened the skin so that in the morning when the bandage was removed the corn could be scraped off and a bit of corn plaster put on.

Ulyate drew back with a start, and put finger to lips, almost afraid to move or whisper lest it set her off, `` The dogs have got her bayed.

I'm telling you, if these corpses ever knew the trouble they put us to, they'd think twice before letting themselves get knocked off ''.

She stood there, watching Holden come in, and she put the piece of toast in her mouth and bit off one corner with a huge chomp of her white teeth.

his foot slipped off the chair and he put it back again, frowning now.

Then there are a pair of old biddies played by Grace Carney and Sibly Bowan who may be right off the shelf of stock Irish characters, but they put such a combination of good will and malevolence into their parts that they're quite entertaining.

And so, you see, I put people off their guard.

We never learn anything about her husband, but we do know that she hates alcohol and public appearances, and has a great fondness for apples until she is put off them by the events of Hallowe ' en Party.

The newly elected abbot was to put off his shoes at the door of the church, and proceed barefoot to meet the members of the house advancing in a procession.

He knew little about the technical details of the space program, and was put off by the massive financial commitment required by a manned Moon landing.

Little could Abd al-Rahman have known that as he set off to settle matters in that northern city, his hopes of warring against Baghdad would be indefinitely put on hold.

:: Rule 10. 05 ( a )( 2 ) Comment: The official scorer shall credit a hit if the fielder attempting to handle the ball cannot make a play, even if such fielder deflects the ball from or cuts off another fielder who could have put out a runner.

The criteria for being charged with " caught stealing " were fine tuned in 1979, with a runner being charged with being caught if he is put out while trying to steal, oversliding a base ( otherwise successfully stolen ), or is picked off a base, and tries to advance to the next base.

A batter is not charged with a plate appearance if, while he was at bat, a preceding runner is put out on the basepaths for the third out in a way other than by the batter putting the ball into play ( i. e., picked off, caught stealing ).

Hence these words of David: In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land, that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.

Some models even have no turn-off button but they provide some way to put off, for example, leaving no operation for a moment, covering solar cell exposure, or closing their lid.

After having his left hand cut off and right eye put out, Corum escapes by moving into another plane of existence, becoming invisible to the Mabden.

As stated above, a person uses his or her right hand to strip off a piece of injera, roll it in the wat or kitfo, and then put the rolled injera into his or her mouth.

During a meal with friends, a person may strip off a piece of injera, roll it in the sauce, and then put the rolled injera into a friend's mouth.

Historians have speculated that Thomas Seymour had put her off sexual relationships, or that she knew herself to be infertile.