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What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.
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What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.
What obsessions had she picked up during these long nights of talk??
What had happened to the common man??
What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.
What evidence is available would seem to indicate that Brooks, unlike his older brother Henry, had most of the methodological vices usually found in the amateur.
What we need to realize is that the increasingly great contamination of the atmosphere by the Soviet tests had radically increased our own moral obligations.
What had that man, that other young Jew, felt as he stood in the twilight and heard other men, far away, singing together??
What a fool he had been to think of his brother!!
What words had any meaning??
What had he thought of, to go to John, grovel and beg understanding??
What made him think John had a right to witness his brother's humiliation??
What right had John to any special consideration??
What bad grace, what incredible selfishness he and Mark had shown.
What had been an unmanageably powerful introject was now, despite its continuing charge of energy disconcerting to me, sufficiently within control of her ego that she could use it to show me what this introjected mother was like.
( 1 ) What allows us to think that the patient had no third-dimensional representations when his eyes were closed??
What had been the ambassador's suite was now jagged walls of blackened brick.
What awful thing had she to face in the next few hours??
`` What with all those pretty girls around, they had a hard time ''.
What otherwise could `` the lawyer, doctor, minister, the men of science and letters '' do when told that they had `` become the cherubim and seraphim and the three archangels who stood before the golden throne of the merchant, and continually cried, ' Holy, holy, holy is the Almighty Dollar ' ``??
What she felt was a bone-deep loss with a sense of waste to it, not so much sorrow for handsome, ambitious Bobbie, but for the lost years that had been brought into high relief by his death.
What had changed for him??
What is less clear is how much influence events in Ayckbourn's life have had on his writing.
What and once
The attendant recognized me once more and said, `` What did you do about that office ''??
What was once a " Hollywood " effect is now available for under $ 400.
In the mural it is written ; " What once was ours, will be ours once again ", and " Hold fast roto s ( Chileans ), for here come the Colorados of Bolivia ".
What was once a smithy is now a garage still in the hands of the Maclean family.
As David Hume once wrote, " What interest can a fond mother have in view, who loses her health by assiduous attendance on her sick child, and afterwards languishes and dies of grief, when freed, by its death child's, from the slavery of that attendance ?".
What had once been a busy intersection had become totally desolate.
What is known today as Pittsburgh's North Side was once known as Allegheny City and operated as a city independently of Pittsburgh.
" What are we to make, then, of trader Henry Francis Fynn's statement that once the Zulu army reached hard and stony ground in 1826, Shaka ordered sandals of ox-hide to be made for himself?
* What is now the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina was once two separate towns called Winston and Salem that were combined into one.
What was once a flourishing community suddenly ceased to exist.
What remains of it is a marsh that was once its harbor, known as the Silver Spring Brook Marshes.
Praising his portrayal of society while attacking his prose style, Flaubert once wrote: " What a man he would have been had he known how to write!
What little evidence survives that bears on Sussex's kings indicates that several kings ruled at once, and it may never have formed a single kingdom.
What was once the preserve of big multi-national companies and at a more local level, property developers, has morphed into an industry that would employ more than 10, 000 people and represent every facet of human endeavour.
What was once a collection of songs, dances and comic turns held together by a tenuous plot became an integrated masterpiece.
What had once been a primarily low-tech farmer / fisherman economy was transformed into a high-tech engineering and computer economy.
What is certain is that once Orosius had left the Iberian Peninsula he was certain that his destination was Hippo ( now Annaba in Algeria ), and a meeting with Saint Augustine, who was the greatest thinker of his time.
He would often fondly tell the story of how once, when the team was 2-0 down at half time, the Luton fans chanted, " What do you think of it so far?
What once was called embryology played a modest role in the evolutionary synthesis, mostly about evolution by changes in developmental timing ( allometry and heterochrony ).
What is now Route 19 was once planned as the Paterson spur of the Garden State Parkway, which was to run through Paterson and Haledon to County Route 504 in Wayne.
Oscar Wilde's novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, mentions " What to imperial Neronian Rome the author of the Satyricon once had been.
What was once a handsome passenger terminal in the city's downtown became Selma's police station.
What is now U. S. Route 40 was once known as the " National Road " and before that the " Cumberland Road ".
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