If someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.

Pistol-whipping an unarmed man might come easy to someone like Jess, but Curt couldn't bring himself to do it.

They may even dismiss it from their minds as something that concerns only the `` ecclesiastical Rover Boys '', as someone has dubbed them, who like to go to national and international assemblies, and have expense accounts that permit them to do so.

There was no reason for her to marry someone like Stanley Gilborn, there was no need for her to marry Stanley.

Speaking of `` pride '', he deplored the noncommissioned officer `` whose uniform looks like it belonged to someone who retired in 1940 ; ;

He also speaks of Franklin D. Roosevelt's `` puerile '' assumption that `` if only he ( Stalin ) could be exposed to the persuasive charm of someone like F.D.R. himself, ideological preconceptions would melt and Russia's co-operation with the West could be easily arranged ''.

Cultural practices, like the roda de capoeira, were conducted in far or hidden places and often practitioners would leave someone as sentry, to warn if the police were approaching the area.

Writing in 2010 Neil Finn said, " When we lost Paul it was like someone pulled the rug out from underneath everything, a terrible jolt out of the dark blue.

In post-Crisis continuity, Lois Lane, feeling that someone like Clark could not be Superman, never suspected the dual identity beyond one isolated incident before Clark finally revealed it to her.

Being with a woman is like exploring your own body, but through someone else.

" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

When police speculated about the assailant, the juvenile probation officer assisting at the scene of the murders speculated that Echols was " capable " of committing the murders, stating " it looks like Damien Echols finally killed someone.

This brash act ( which ultimately benefited his primary competitors as well as Tolkien ) was really the Big Bang that founded the modern fantasy field, and only someone like my father could have done that.

We are dealing with this: Would a stable mind depart from the opinion handed down by so many men famous for holiness and miracles, depart from the decisions of the Church, and commit our souls to the faith of someone like you who has sprung up just now with a few followers, although the leading men of your flock do not agree either with you or among themselves – indeed though you do not even agree with yourself, since in this same Assertion you say one thing in the beginning and something else later on, recanting what you said before.

Their main purpose in the novel is to show the reader the contrast between the firemen who do as they're told without question and someone like Montag, who formerly took pride in his job, but now realizes how damaging it is to society.

Despite this, Hitler never quite trusted the Foreign Office and was always on the lookout for someone like Ribbentrop to carry out his foreign-policy goals.

Therefore, someone like Schopenhauer who proposes that women are naturally subservient to men, has been criticised by some scholars as a misogynist.

In an interview Shoji Nishio reported: " At that time, a former Karate sensei of the Butokukai named Toyosaku Sodeyama who was running Konishi Sensei ’ s dojo and also teaching there came up to me and said: “ I met someone who is like a ‘ phantom ’.

relation to her Witch-Cult theory, She behaved in fact rather like someone who was a fully convinced member of some unusual religious sect, or perhaps, of the Freemasons, but never on any account got into arguments about it in public.

Left-wing journalists outed Adolf Hitler's closest ally Ernst Röhm in the early 1930s, causing Brand to write, " when someone — as teacher, priest, representative, or statesman — would like to set in the most damaging way the intimate love contacts of others under degrading control — in that moment his own love-life also ceases to be a private matter and forfeits every claim to remain protected hence-forward from public scrutiny and suspicious oversight.

" From its earliest beginnings, Christianity spread much more quickly in major urban areas ( like Antioch, Alexandria, Carthage, Corinth, Rome ) than in the countryside ( in fact, the early church was almost entirely urban ), and soon the word for " country dweller " became synonymous with someone who was " not a Christian ," giving rise to the modern meaning of " pagan.

In " Famine, Affluence, and Morality ", he begins by saying that he would like to see how far a seemingly innocuous and widely endorsed principle can take us ; the principle is that one is morally required to forgo a small pleasure to relieve someone else's immense pain.

On the early phonograph's reproductive capabilities he writes " It sounded to my ear like someone singing about half a mile away, or talking at the other end of a big hall ; but the effect was rather pleasant, save for a peculiar nasal quality wholly due to the mechanism, though there was little of the scratching which later was a prominent feature of the flat disc.

This was so common that a saying was coined: you sound like a broken record, referring to someone who is being annoyingly repetitious.

In tort law, if a defendant commits a series of illegal acts against another person, or, in criminal law, if someone commits a continuing crime ( like molesting a child over a long period of time, which can be charged as a single offense ), the period of limitation may begin to run from the last act in the series.

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.

But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so.

He or someone using the name Jack Barrymore is given credit for four short films made in 1912 and 1913, but this has not been proven to be John Barrymore.

While Europe had gained one of Ireland's most capable and respected politicians, Jack Lynch had lost one of his allies, and someone who may have been in line to take over the leadership following Lynch's retirement.

In this adventure, Jack finds some men taking a prisoner to the empty old house. The seven decide to look into the mystery and make inquiries. They find out that someone is being held prisoner in the house. But who could it be and why is that someone making such weird noises?

A Jack of all trades is a colloquial term for someone who holds some degree of skill / qualification in more than one trade, but has not made a continuous career of any one.

At one point, someone told the Modoc leader Captain Jack that the governor of Oregon intended to hang nine Modoc, apparently without trial, as soon as they surrendered.

As the son of jazz musician Don Menza, Nick began playing drums at the age of two, at which age he performed at his first public concert when during the intermission someone sat him down on Jack DeJohnette's drums and he proceeded to play.

She said that " someone else slipped a bottle of Jack Daniel's in under Hank's coat.

After reaching a dead end in his search for the Fountain of Youth, Jack Sparrow makes his way to London, where he hears of someone going by his name to gather a crew.

' The Scotsman saves Jack when Jack loses his memory to the Sirens, as the Scotsman's preference for the bagpipes makes him the only one immune to them ; he compares their singing to " someone stepping on a lot o ' cats ".

" On the matter of the shared staff between Aish HaTorah and the Clarion Fund, Rabbi Jack Moline was quoted as saying " It is distressing to me that they HaTorah would continue to have someone who has promulgated such awful, awful stuff sitting on their board or staff .”

Jack helpfully suggests he sack her and hire someone else Goodwin tells Jack he can't because he'd have to give her a redundancy package.

At first, he is stopped by Jack when he says he knows what he's going through, the fact he lost Teri to someone he knew and trusted.

Jack and Carl hired someone to translate the book and sold over 1, 000 copies.

In 1904, someone aboard the SS Penguin tried to shoot Pelorus Jack with a rifle.

* Costuming designs which transform the wearer into someone / something completely different, such as Jack Haley's silver face makeup as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz.

In March 2006, Sulzer called for Ney to step down if explicitly named by Jack Abramoff as someone guilty of corruption.

With the veteran Jack Charlton at the point of retirement, Leeds manager Don Revie needed to find someone to step readily into his defence for when Charlton quit.

Her birthdate is usually attributed as 1933, the year she gave when auditioning for her role in I'm All Right Jack, as the Boulting Brothers wanted someone younger for the part.