He's the sort who wants to choose his son's wife for him.
Beside Audrey's predicament and Chris's wretched endeavor to get away and yet prove himself a man, his own position seemed, if not comfortable, at least tenable.
The world is alarmed by the disappearance of ships in the North Atlantic and the Great Northern Transportation Company, which has lost two vessels, is determined to solve the mystery.
In command of the expedition which sets out to solve the mystery is Prof.
If they did, and realized the importance of that paper, they might be able to solve the secret of the interstellar drive.
He would try to solve theproblems of psionics by logical methods, and would waste the rest of his life trying to do the impossible.
We would have set him off on a wild goose chase, trying to solve the problems of psionics by the scientific, the logical, method.
He resolves to seek certainty--to solve the riddle of life by death.
Although we cannot tell for certain how Lessing meant to solve the problem, I think it is almost certain that Faust was to work out his own salvation amidst error and sin much as Goethe's Faust does.
According to a not very trustworthy legend he threw himself into the crater of Mount Etna--perhaps in order thus to solve the mystery of existence.
I mean it's a good thing, for it may help us to solve the mystery.
But it was one of their own choosing, in an endeavor to solve the mystery, though as Bud and his companions watched the waters creeping higher and higher up the surface of the rock on which they stood, their hearts were not altogether easy.
We'll let the Sheriff, or whoever can, solve the mystery of that automobile and Jim Rutlidge's disappearance.
They spoke, often, in playful mood, of the spirit that haunted the place; but they made no effort to solve the mystery of the carefully tended rose garden.
He did not attempt to solve the problem of how the girl came there, nor did he pause to wonder about her companion.
Philip II had endeavored to solve the problem by making an independent kingdom of that region, under his daughter and her husband as the rulers, with a proviso for a reversion to Spain in case of a failure of the line.
Before going he said to me: "Persevere in your endeavours to solve the problem, but take care of yourself.
I had for many months spared no effort in attempting to solve the mystery of the pearl necklace, and of the "German," but my efforts had been in vain.
All this was spoken with such earnestness and gravity that I gave up trying to solve the mystery.
As a result I was enabled to solve the problem in fifteen minutes.
As soon as the lad had learned to solve the puzzle, my son watched him solve it many times, and kept trying to do it as he saw it done.
My son learned to solve the puzzle in perhaps two hours by thus watching another and then trying it himself.
I solve theproblem by consciously recalling how I got one before.
So in 1860 Speke and Grant were back in Africa, determined to solve the mystery.
They had never studied the law of adaptation, and instead of helping to solve the problem of white occupancy they only contributed to its defeat.
Nothing that Livingstone and Stanley did, helped tosolve the mystery of an outlet, except their discovery of the Rusizi, at the north, which was an inlet.
Ginotti, apparently, dies twice, and Shelley's letters fail to solve the problem.
With his friend, a man named Jevons, he has been endeavouring to solve the problem.
And yet as he was working to solve the problem, just as I was, there seemed every reason why we should be aware of each other's discoveries.
If we could only bring them together again he would cease his constant striving tosolve the enigma.
This glass, into which a person looked when he wished to solve the future, or to ascertain whom he or she was to marry, was used by Welsh, as well as other magicians.
The writer of these interesting letters states positively that sounds were heard; whether his attempt to solve the cause of these noises is satisfactory, and conclusive, is open to doubt.
The schizophrenic method is to solve the problems as they appear, one step at a time.
The PSM has no solution too and so it will make a specific model to solve the problem.
So, when a new situation from the external reality is met, and there is no model to understand it, the PSM is automatically activated and tries to solve the problem, based on some reflex actions, or based on some instincts.
Faced with a new external reality, the PSM is activated and it tries to solve the problem, based on its short-range models (e.
There is a most remarkable mystery connected with that room into which she was shown, and, in order to solve the problem, we must be in possession of the whole truth.
In other words, the facts of science are important and worthy because they help us to solve the problems of life more satisfactorily.
So I decided to take a college course which would, in all probability, help me to solve the problem.
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