It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

it was perhaps 80 feet high and had been artfully constructed of logs.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Yet implicit in each movement was the death of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, perhaps you and me -- and the experts.

Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

Historical records indicate that Copernicus was unaware of the fundamental aspects of his so-called ' revolution ', unaware perhaps of its historical importance, he rested content with having produced a simpler scheme for prediction.

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

Yours, but not mine, was an age in which innocence was fostered and carefully -- if not perhaps altogether innocently -- preserved.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

by now it was perhaps two days or longer after Papa had begun hemorrhaging.

Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.

What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.

I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.

The troops must have more than the common quantity of liquor, and perhaps there will be some little drunkenness among them ''.

As might be expected, girls in this situation bleed very little and perhaps not at all in the process of losing their virginity.

He was not a superstitious man, but he felt perhaps there was a little something in that, indeed.

But he rejects, perhaps a little too sweepingly, the theory that disloyal and pro-Communist influences may have contributed to the policy of appeasing Stalin which persisted until after the end of the war and reached its high point at the Yalta Conference in February, 1945.

The snake was hideous, and I remembered, even then, the cool, bright fire of it only a little while before, and I thought perhaps the boy had always seen it dead and hideous like that, and had not even stopped to see the beauty of it in its life.

I touched it and the coolness, the ice-feeling, was gone, and even then it moved a little, perhaps a tiny spasm of the dead muscles, and I hoped that it was truly dead, so that I would not have to kill it.

:" I should, perhaps, Madame, tell you a little more about myself.

As editor, Mackenzie was perhaps a little too vocal, leading the paper to a suit of law for libel against the local conservative candidate.

traditions sometimes speak of a " magical Aeon " that may last for far less time, perhaps as little as 2, 000 years.

Of all her influence on culture, Eleanor's time in Poitiers ( 1168 – 1173 ) was perhaps the most critical and yet very little is known about it.

The term means " little war " in Spanish, and the word, guerrilla, has been used to describe the concept since the 18th century, and perhaps earlier.

I think perhaps a little bit more of our Joe, and then some more of Kenneth.

In the winter, their digestive systems slow nearly to a halt, and they eat very little, perhaps no more than nibbles of algae from the bottom.

Morphine is generally 8 to 14 percent of the dry weight of opium, although specially bred cultivars reach 26 percent or produce little morphine at all, under 1 percent, perhaps down to 0. 04 percent.

Historically, common law courts relied little on legal scholarship ; thus, at the turn of the twentieth century, it was very rare to see an academic writer quoted in a legal decision ( except perhaps for the academic writings of prominent judges such as Coke and Blackstone ).

A pawnshop might have too little inventory if, for example, it mostly buys jewels and gold that it resells or smelts — or perhaps the pawnshop owner quickly sells most items through specialty shops ( e. g., musical instruments to music stores, stereos to used hi-fi audio stores, etc .).

Formerly little more than a gap in the customs wall, it was replaced by a much grander affair consisting of two matching Doric-style stone gate-houses, like little temples ( a nod to Friedrich Gilly perhaps ), facing each other across Leipziger Straße.

His speech met general applause, but little commitment to the Olympic ideal he was advocating for, perhaps because sporting associations and their members tended to focus on their own area of expertise and had little identity as sportspeople in a general sense.

The EPR paper generated significant interest among physicists and inspired much discussion about the foundations of quantum mechanics ( perhaps most famously Bohm's interpretation of quantum mechanics ), but relatively little other published work.

Alluding perhaps to Tylor's " deeper motive ", Geertz remarked that " we have very little idea of how, in empirical terms, this particular miracle is accomplished.

More's work, however, little mentions King Henry VII, the first Tudor king, perhaps for having persecuted his father, Sir John More.

The permanent recognition of his name in the Tasmanian system is perhaps appropriate despite little being left of his original proposals.

But even for them it remains a museum, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say a tomb, a tomb in which Persia lies well preserved but indeed dead.

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

only slightly more, perhaps, than a newspaper account of such an incident would give.

There is another side of love, more nearly symbolized by the croak of the mating capercailzie, or better still perhaps by the mute antics of the slug.

A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

Mayor Wagner's shortcomings have perhaps been more mercilessly exposed than those of Mr. Levitt who left an impression of quiet competence in his more protected state post.

An alternate roof, perhaps more within do-it-yourself reach, could be constructed of heavy wooden roof beams, overlaid with boards and waterproofing.

A dreadful fear entered my consciousness that perhaps he had entertained aspirations toward Viola's favors -- or, even more serious perhaps, that he had attained a share of them and had then been superseded by some luckier chap.

The philosophy has been that if they could find the time to attend class why not encourage them to get the credit and perhaps provide an incentive to do the work more effectively.

There is perhaps no value statement on which people would more universally agree than the statement that intense pain is bad.

His personality appears more striking by contrast with Marina, who is -- perhaps purposely -- rather superficially characterized.

Future commencements were more decorous perhaps, but the number of graduates increased from the original four at a relatively slow pace.

In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.

Dr. Melvin W. Barnes, superintendent, said he thought the schools were waiting for some leadership, perhaps on the national level, to make sure that whatever steps of planning they took would `` be more fruitful '', and that he had found that other school districts were not as far along in their planning as this district.

The Heritage collection, to be shown by Sanger-Harris and Anderson's Studio, has perhaps more different types of woods and decorations than any one manufacturer ever assembled together at one time.

`` I'm hopeful that from more traditional exchanges we can perhaps find greater common ground ''.

But instead of delivering the ration -- either in actual commodities or in cash -- at intervals of perhaps two weeks or a month, the Belgians felt obliged to dole it out more often.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.