To my great surprise and delight, when they saw the two trees they went rushing off, returning shortly with decorations from their own trees.

To Voltaire's surprise, however, their host gives them fresh clothes to put on, opens his purse to lend them money and sits them down before a good dinner.

Autosuggestibility, the reaction of the subject in such a way as to conform to his own expectations of the outcome ( i.e., that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction, because of his knowledge that `` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction '' ) also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons: ( 1 ) the subjects' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose, and ( 2 ) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening ( e.g., of becoming dizzy and maybe falling, an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects ).

Neither Alfred's reformed fyrd nor his burhs alone would have afforded a sufficient defence against the Vikings ; together, however, they robbed the Vikings of their major strategic advantages: surprise and mobility.

Its stated goal was “ to destroy the Russian forces deployed in the West and to prevent their escape into the wide-open spaces of Russia .” A key factor was the surprise attack which included the near annihilation of the total Soviet airforce by simultaneous attacks on airfields.

All this was evidently much to the surprise of the Persians ; "... in their minds they charged the Athenians with madness which must be fatal, seeing that they were few and yet were pressing forwards at a run, having neither cavalry nor archers ".

It was a matter of great surprise for Arabs that same protocol had been awarded to a concubine ( slave women ) as giving such prestigious protocol to a concubine was against their norms and traditions.

A series of skirmishes then followed as the British and Indians recovered from their initial surprise.

The audience is taken by surprise, by the parody or satire of an unexpected effect or an opposite expectations of their cultural beliefs.

Soal discovered, to his surprise, that four of his former participants, Randolph Tucker Pendleton IV, Amanda Bailey, Ling Dao and Rachel Brown, evidenced displacement: i. e., their responses significantly corresponded to targets for trials one removed from which they were assigned.

Monica and Chandler go public with their relationship, to the surprise and happiness of their friends.

Hagi scored three times in the tournament, including a memorable goal in their 3 – 2 surprise defeat of South American powerhouse and previous runners-up Argentina.

Much to their surprise, the audience liked them better as comedians than as singers.

The Nationals took the lead in the first innings by 3 to 2 ; but in the next two innings they added but five runs to their score, while the Forest Citys added thirteen to theirs, thereby taking the lead by a score of fifteen to eight, to the great surprise of the crowd and the delight of the Rockfords.

They made occasional public appearances together between their breakup and 1961 but were not seen together until a surprise appearance by Martin on Lewis's Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Telethon in 1976 arranged by Frank Sinatra.

What did surprise some observers was the forcible conversion of three sons of Jahangir's brother, Prince Daniyal, to Christianity, followed by a parade to celebrate their conversions.

According to Mark Kurlansky, " Smoked foods almost always carry with them legends about their having been created by accident — usually the peasant hung the food too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …".

In 1935, director Ralph Staub staged a revival of the Sennett gang for his Warner Brothers short subject Keystone Hotel, featuring a re-creation of the Kops clutching at their hats, leaping in the air in surprise, running energetically in any direction, and taking extreme pratfalls.

In their first appearance, for example, Ximénez has trouble with listing their weapons (" Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms — oh damn!

* Safety Quarters ( 11 ) were built near the major fortifications in order to make it possible for fortress (" ouvrage ") crews to reach their battle stations within the shortest possible time in the event of a surprise or sneak attack during peacetime.

The longship was the enabler of the Viking style of warfare that was fast and mobile, relying heavily on the element of surprise, and they tended to capture horses for mobility rather than carry them on their ships.

The Montoneros however, soon met with fierce resistance from a group of conscripts and NCOs who recovered from their initial surprise.

The two children, both boys, wandered around the Australian and me for a few moments and then returned to their work.

I leave out of account the question of the best interests of the children, the question of what their best interests really are.

One is that they were established, or gained eminence, under pressure provided by these same immigrants, from whom the old families wished to segregate their children.

With childlike innocence she wrote of the Indians as `` walking with fruit and umbrellas in their hands, with the tawny children around them.

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

And there must be many Soviet citizens who know what is going on and who realize that before they can hope to enjoy the full life promised for 1980 they and their children must first survive.

His strong opposition to the transfer of Negro children to schools outside their own neighborhood, in the interest of integration, will be attacked by Negro leaders who have fought for, and achieved, this open or permissive enrollment.

`` You don't believe that autistic children become autistic because of something that happens to them or because of the way their mother treats them.

The other children in the class use this same coloring book and do a fairly good job with things their proper color.

Will our bombs be cleaner or will their fallout be less harmful to future generations of children??

Anti-recession programs -- aid for the unemployed, their children and for depressed areas -- account for only 900 million of the 6.9 billion dollar deficit.

Customers often bring their children ; ;

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

The children can have their daytime naps and hot meals, and be put to bed on schedule in shade-darkened rooms.

No matter if your children are at the movies, in school, visiting their grandmother, or on a field trip in some distant city, they will be upon you magically within seconds after you pick up the phone.

It was all set up so there would be no dust anywhere and so that their children would color in the coloring room, paint in the painting room, play with blocks in the block house, and do all the other things in the proper rooms at exactly the right time.

And at three different times during our turbulent marriage strange girls, with the commonest of accents, telephoned to announce to me that Letch had sired their unborn children!!

The children looked at each other and sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably than ever.

The children rushed off to get rid of their sweaters ; ;

There was an air of revolt about the children -- even irreverence for their own principles.

This nettled the children into the revelation of exact truth, a sacrifice of their secret superiority over grown people, but a victory in the wide fields of perpetration and illegitimate accomplishment.

Individual differences in maturation and the development of readiness for learning to read indicate that not until the third grade have most children had ample opportunity to demonstrate their capacity for school achievement.

During early childhood, children are more interested in the approval of their parents and teachers than they are in the approval of other children ; ;

On the other hand, there is a counterbalancing purpose in education which is to pass on the advantages of the parents to their children.