Mike tested the leg and found that he was able to hobble around on it.

Visibility continued to be limited, and Greg was never able to get above a thousand feet.

She was just not able to break the spell.

Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.

In his native Cologne, where his mother taught him to play the piano, he was able to read notes before he learned the alphabet.

He was not enthusiastic over the newly acquired Claude Lorrain, but reminisced with pleasure over a Poussin exhibit he had been able to see in Paris a year ago.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

It was nice to be able to isolate it.

The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.

Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.

He said that his information was so secret that he would not be able to confide in me the origin of his pipeline tip.

In his absence, the rifle regiment was under the command of Major Thomas Posey, another able Virginian.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

Krim was able to get an advance for a novel, and time and opportunity to write at Yaddo, but it was no good.

The promoter who wanted to sign him up for the circus asked him how he was able to do it.

He was able, now, to sit for hours in a chair in the living room and stare out at the bleak yard without moving.

Since ordinary breakfast-table conversation was impossible, it was at least something that they were able to offer Eugene the sugar bowl with their sugar in it, and the plate of bread and butter, and that Eugene could return the pitcher of hot milk to them handle first.

He was able to discern the body lines of the Roman women under their robes.

No, Kayabashi was bringing his associates here for a specific purpose and Rector would not be able to fathom it until they arrived.

He was an ardent champion of the Brown & Sharpe Apprentice Program and personal counselor to countless able men who first developed their industrial talents with the company.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

There was a time when, if a man wanted to purchase a boat, it was necessary for him to be able to produce a sizeable amount of cash before he could touch the tiller or wheel.

Horse smell was very strong, and he could hear the crunch of grain being ground between strong jaws.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

One's impulse is to say that the smell was a stink and unpleasant.

Human nature was not a piece of meat you could tell was bad by its smell.

I was drunk with excitement and the smell of gunpowder that came floating down from the road, and the fact that I was not afraid now, but only waiting to know what to do next.

I was stumbling in my undershirt trying to find my way around her damn kitchenette when I smelt that sickish sweet hairtonic smell.

There was the smell of the coast, like a primeval memory, composed of equal parts salt water, clams, seaweed and northern air.

And when he came to examine the scene, there was a certain staginess to it, it had the smell of planning, and a swift suspicion darted into his mind.

The discarded papers inside were sodden, there was a glint of liquid at the bottom, and the smell of whisky was strong and distinct.

or the smell of thick tomato paste -- the ripe smell that was both sweet and sour -- rising up from aluminum trays wrapped in fly-dotted cheesecloth.

there was much to grok, loose ends to puzzle over and fit into his growing -- all that he had seen and heard and been at the Archangel Foster Tabernacle ( not just cusp when he and Digby had come face to face alone ) why Bishop Senator Boone made him warily uneasy, how Miss Dawn Ardent tasted like a water brother when she was not, the smell of goodness he had incompletely grokked in the jumping up and down and wailing --

This was because the fragrance covered the smell of the air which was believed to be the cause of plague.

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".

The roast, from which I cut and ate a central slice, was tender, and in color, texture, smell as well as taste, strengthened my certainty that of all the meats we habitually know, veal is the one meat to which this meat is accurately comparable.

At the same time, the communist Daily Worker was running an attack on The Road to Wigan Pier, misquoting Orwell as saying " the working classes smell "; a letter to Gollancz from Orwell threatening libel action brought a stop to this.

The smell was the body of Tony Hughes, Dahmer's previous victim, decomposing in the bedroom.

Wielding a large butcher knife, Dahmer forced Edwards into the bedroom, where Edwards saw pictures of mangled bodies on the wall and noticed the terrible smell coming from a large blue barrel ; the barrel was filled with potent acid which dissolved human bodies to sludge for disposal via the apartment toilet.

He was impressed by the Great Wall of China near Beijing, but concluded of the Chinese: " They smell of all the baths they didn't take.

Poor John was the kind of stock that keeps a bargain without whimpering and maybe bends over backward to keep a bad one.

Alford was sentenced to thirty years in prison, after the trial judge in the case accepted the plea bargain and ruled that the defendant had been adequately apprised by his lawyer.

If the transaction was a " good bargain " contract generally gives a better result for the claimant.

Loki used a loophole to get out of the wager for his head ( the wager was for Loki's head only, but he argued that, to remove his head, they would have to injure his neck, which was not in the bargain ) and Brokkr punished him by sealing his lips shut with wire.

Between 1713 and 1728, there were seven occasions when British ministers was prepared to bargain Gibraltar away as part of his foreign policy.

He was attacked by the followers of Jackson, who accused him of being a partner to a " corrupt bargain " to obtain Clay's support in the election and then appoint him Secretary of State.

As another result of Lindh's plea bargain, a Son of Sam law was invoked.

Immediately after entering the plea, however, Olson told reporters that she was innocent and that she had decided to take a plea bargain due to the climate after the September 11 attacks, in which she felt an accused bomber could not receive a fair trial from a jury.

She was sentenced on February 14, 2003 for the maximum term allowed under her plea bargain, which was a six-year term concurrent to the 14-year sentence she was already serving.

After a plea bargain, he pled guilty to six securities and reporting violations but was never convicted of racketeering or insider trading.

Plea bargain as a formal legal provision was introduced in Pakistan by the National Accountability Ordinance 1999, an anti-corruption law.

At the Computer History Museum TX-0 alumni reunion in 1984, Gordon Bell said DEC's products developed directly from the TX-2, the successor to the TX-0 which had been developed at what Bell thought was a bargain price at the time, about.

The passage of the Statute was initially much welcomed, ushering in " stability to an insecure book trade " while providing for a " pragmatic bargain " between the rights of the author, publisher and public intended to boost public learning and the availability of knowledge.

The Polaris, a much better weapon system for the UK, was a major " scoop " and has been referred to as “ almost the bargain of the century ” The RAF kept a tactical nuclear capability with the WE. 177 which armed V bombers and later the Panavia Tornado force.

Henry Clay, who was accused of making a " corrupt bargain " during the 1824 election

Despite his complaints that the house was too big (" big enough for two emperors, one pope, and the grand lama in the bargain "), Jefferson considered how the White House might be added to.

This was quite a transformation from his poverty stricken life in Greenwich, of which time he once said he would have educated the bastards of a nobleman and married his cast-off mistress into the bargain.

The plea bargain was later mocked by former Maryland Attorney General Stephen H. Sachs as " the greatest deal since the Lord spared Isaac on the mountaintop ".

According to this account, Wallace, facing the political forces then ruling New Mexico, was unable to come through on his end of the bargain.

When Clay was appointed Secretary of State, his maneuver was called a " corrupt bargain " by many of Jackson's supporters and tarnished Clay's reputation.