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and he could tell, simply by the feel of it, whether it was made of wood, iron, cloth, rubber, and so on.
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could and tell
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
but if it had been, it had been smothered until now by fear ): you could tell it by the way she watched the older, bigger boys, like Jack.
But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.
But you could ( as from yourself ) tell her that you had friends who, being with the army, don't know what to do with their money and would willingly let her have one or many thousand dollars ''.
No psychiatrist could tell me that the experience in a war can not have its effect in the ensuing years.
Human nature was not a piece of meat you could tell was bad by its smell.
He could think of nothing else to tell them: no assurances, no hopeful hints at great discoveries that day.
He could tell they were approaching the sea.
Nobody liked to hire him because you never could tell when he was going to be taken drunk.
they could tell exactly what it was.
I could tell you of plenty narrow escapes, but we take no notice of them now ''.
He could tell them his fears of being involved, he could explain what had happened in the old neighborhood and how Mae had misunderstood and how she had held it over him -- the scene was complete in his mind at the moment, even to his own jerkings and snivelings, and Ferguson's silent patience.
but for all his air of affluence, who could tell what his private financial picture was??
He could tell the Legislature they had provided the needed funds to carry on the battle.
Then he could tell them to go home, while the administration continued to wage the battle with the $28 million in extra revenues the sales tax measure would bring in over an eight months period.
We have to tell ourselves that when Parker spoke in this vein, he believed what he said, because he could continue, `` But the truth, which cost me bitter tears to say, I must speak, though it cost other tears hotter than fire ''.
Waiting for what and for whom, only he could tell and would not.
You could set up tables in the front room and serve salads and your baked beans and brown bread and Grandma could dress like a gypsy and tell fortunes ''.
I could tell them, but no one ever asked, why I had cried out so triumphantly at the sight of her body.
Moreover, nursing various Stubblefields -- her aunt, then her mother, then her father -- through their lengthy illnesses ( everybody could tell you the Stubblefields were always sick ), Theresa had had a chance to read quite a lot.
could and simply
Most of my stories were obtained by simply seeking out the person who could give me the facts, and not as a rule by playing clever tricks.
South of Laurel Grove Cemetery, and below the junction of the Neversink and the Delaware, was the Tri-State Rock, from which Stevie could spy New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as New York, simply by spinning around on his heel.
All this, though, is simply a prelude, a curtain-raiser, for what ensues, and I doubt whether any Occidental could accurately forecast it.
The reason for the value of this procedure was simply that the applicants were tested `` at work '' in different situations by the judgment of a number of experts who could see how the salesmen conducted themselves with different, but typical restaurant owners and managers.
The omission might look peculiar to outsiders, but Andy could not bring himself to go through the motions simply for the sake of appearances.
they simply could no longer be purchased for missionary purposes.
he had in fact said simply that he wished the thing hadn't happened, which was as honest as he could put it.
They simply desired a reunion with something that could hardly be named but which seemed to them to be the most desirable thing on Earth.
The plague that carries people off unexpectedly echoes the reality of the occupation, in which people could be snatched from their homes by the Gestapo and imprisoned or sent to work as slave labor in German-controlled territories or simply killed.
Trevor said once that he was probably cast as Poirot simply because he could do a French accent.
" " Dione " seems to be a feminine form of " Dios ", the genitive form case of Zeus, and could be taken to mean simply " the goddess " in a generic sense.
Death was simply a temporary interruption, rather than complete cessation, of life, and that eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through mummification, and the provision of statuary and other funerary equipment.
In this case, simply by demographic necessity, an individual could serve twice in a lifetime.
The first is my father is king, which could be considered simply as a generic title given to a crown prince.
Additionally, the adaptors were designed to be " self-terminating ", meaning that nodes at the end of the network could simply leave their last connector unconnected.
LANs could now support more than 255 nodes, and zones were no longer associated with physical networks, but were entirely virtual constructs used simply to organize nodes.
Phillip showed in other ways that he recognised that New South Wales could not be run simply as a prison camp.
AMD's older CPUs could simply be set to run at whatever clock speed the user chose on the motherboard, making it trivial to relabel a CPU and sell it as a faster grade than it was originally intended.
Antioxidant activity could be measured simply by placing the fat in a closed container with oxygen and measuring the rate of oxygen consumption.
On the other hand, Babylon is never mentioned in Lamentations, though this could simply be to make the point that the judgment comes from God, and is a consequence of Judah disobeying Him.
The context may be simply the amassing wealth for its own sake, or could be connected with the militarisation of the region for the expected Assyrian attack.
With von Neumann's design, the program, or software, that EDVAC ran could be changed simply by changing the contents of the memory.
The company simply could not keep paying out and the adjusters could not help lower the payments due to the high building code the Islands adhere to.
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