It could be some kind of trick Budd had thought up.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

Their roar, like the swelling volume of a hundred tornadoes could be heard for miles.

Atonement, if atonement were possible, could only be made at that sacred, sacrificial basin.

Bushes and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detours for the struggling stranger, and without the direct light of the sun to act as compass, Pamela could no longer be positive of her direction.

There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.

And even with her limited knowledge of such things, she knew that the car could be repaired there ; ;

Not even an empty cartridge case could be found.

Inside the crown, stuffed behind the stained sweatband, could be seen thin, crumpled wads of currency.

How much of an accident could that be ''??

So far as he knew, only his father could be there.

A hell of an altitude for a barrel roll, but it could be done.

With the rapid rate of closure, the approach from below, the side, and ahead, there would be only a moment when damage could be done.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

The entire length of the street could be raked with rifle fire from this barn.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

It is hard to see how the situation could be otherwise.

Each could be the real thing.

Officers who participate in the continual practice drills assured me that the President's decision could be made and announced on the gold circuit within minutes after the first flash from Aj.

Seeking an obscure, dark, relatively quiet corner in the airy room otherwise suffused with afternoon sunshine, he asked if the soft background music could be turned off.

Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.

The conversation that ensued may have been engrossing but it could hardly be called world-shattering.

A state, the highest form of human organization in fact and theory, could be subjected to Law only by a manifestation of self-will, or consent.

However, due to the geographic proximity of the northern part of China to minority-dominated regions that were not subjected to such restrictions, beef could be easily purchased and transported to northern China.

Whereas Sergei Eisenstein viewed his montage of attractions as a propaganda tool through which the film-viewing masses could be subjected to “ emotional and psychological influence ” and therefore able to perceive “ the ideological aspect ” of the films they were being shown, Vertov believed the Kino-Eye would influence the actual evolution of man, “ from a bumbling citizen through the poetry of the machine to the perfect electric man .”

While some identical types are clearly used on other pages, other variations, subjected to detailed image analysis, suggested that they could not have been produced from the same matrix.

Among his favourite targets were socialist leaders such as Hermann Müller and Carl Severing, and the Jewish Berlin Police President, Bernhard Weiß ( 1880 – 1951 ), whom he subjected to a relentless campaign of Jew-baiting in the hope of provoking a crackdown he could then exploit.

The reasons why the Lombards disappear, as such, from Roman history from 166 – 489 could be that they dwelt so deep into Inner Germania that they were detectable only when they appeared on the Danubian banks again, or that the Lombards were also subjected into a bigger tribal union, most probably the Saxons.

Maimonides ruled that a woman who found her husband " repugnant " could compel a divorce, " because she is not like a captive, to be subjected to intercourse with one who is hateful to her.

And to Solomon ( We subjected ) the wind, its morning ( stride from sunrise till midnoon ) was a month's ( journey ), and its afternoon ( stride from the midday decline of the sun to sunset ) was a month's ( journey i. e. in one day he could travel two months ' journey ).

Paul Foot and some other campaigners continued to believe in Hanratty's innocence and argued that the DNA evidence could have been contaminated, noting that the small DNA samples from items of clothing, kept in a police laboratory for over 40 years " in conditions that do not satisfy modern evidential standards ", had had to be subjected to very new amplification techniques in order to yield any genetic profile.

The vehicle had to be subjected to an annual inspection for roadworthy standards, which had to be passed before registration could be renewed.

The cession provision which had already been carried out was no longer existent and, therefore, could no longer be subjected to nullification.

The accents of the tribes were distinctive enough even at the time of the confederacy so that when the Israelites of Gilead, under the leadership of Jephthah, fought the Tribe of Ephraim, their pronunciation of shibboleth as sibboleth was considered sufficient evidence to single out individuals from Ephraim, so that they could be subjected to immediate death by the Israelites of Gilead.

Mona Lisa "... was an open text into which one could read what one wanted ; probably because she was not a religious image ; and, probably, because the literary gazers were mainly men who subjected her to an endless stream of male fantasies.

The application of the new scanning Kelvin probe ( SKP ) fingerprinting technique, which makes no physical contact with the fingerprint and does not require the use of developers, has the potential to allow fingerprints to be recorded whilst still leaving intact material that could subsequently be subjected to DNA analysis.

" Eyewitness Jerry Schilling writes, " The way Elvis looked out at us at that moment, I thought I could see a mix of hurt over the attacks he ’ d been subjected to in the press, and a deep pride in who he was and what he was doing.

She claimed to have proof that " 69 of the injured were given no medical care " and that " 80 percent of the surviving hostages are potential future invalids, including future ( occurrence of ) cancers, ( and there is a possibility that ) women who were subjected to the gas attack ( could ) give birth to defective babies ".

At a meeting where Peter Lilley argued that Thatcher could not survive, Hamilton subjected him to a barrage of " sarcasm and heckling ". On 21 November 1990, Hamilton and like minded colleagues, met Thatcher at Downing Street.

Morton was a Creole from New Orleans, and though he identified strongly with the white “ French ” side of being Creole, he was generally viewed by society as black ( though he was fairly light-skinned and could sometimes " pass " as Latin-American and therefore was subjected to many of the same social pressures as other blacks of the day.

These privileges guaranteed that they could maintain communal autonomy, live according to their laws, and be subjected directly to the royal jurisdiction in matters concerning Jews and Christians.

If a Jew was found without wearing the star in public, they could be subjected to severe punishment.

In other tests, subjects were deprived of food and water to determine the length of time until death ; placed into high-pressure chambers until death ; experimented upon to determine the relationship between temperature, burns, and human survival ; placed into centrifuges and spun until death ; injected with animal blood ; exposed to lethal doses of x-rays ; subjected to various chemical weapons inside gas chambers ; injected with sea water to determine if it could be a substitute for saline ; and / or burned or buried alive.

Any arsenic present would appear as arsenic trioxide and then could be subjected to Metzger's test.

The conditions to which these children were subjected caused concern and societies were set up to promote mechanical means for sweeping chimneys and it is through their pamphlets that we have a better idea of what the job could entail.

Sister Nivedita wrote, “ I was horrified to find the way in which a great worker could be subjected to continuous annoyance and petty difficulties ...