Charles Darwin, originally a natural theologian himself, embarked on his trip aboard the HMS Beagle well prepared to study natural history, having read (or would soon read) the important ideas in related fields of science.
If you haven't read it yet, you will have soon.
The boy was soon reading at grade level, and Mrs. Rawson had found her niche.
Always vowing to give up soon, I have read about ten Brunetti novels and have got well past the stage of remembering what happens in which book, even though the author is pretty good at not letting background detail overwhelm foreground action.
He recently landed on the Nets' bench in New Jersey, where he opened a playbook and soon realized he had already read it.
I had recently read Denis Johnson's soon-to-be-published Train Dreams, a poetic work in a long career of wonderful novels.
As soon as the words had been read out, grown men sank to their knees, crying, or waving cudgels in the air vowing revenge.
"The brief notice which appeared in the telegraphic news at that time aroused a passive interest which had existed from my childhood," wrote Wilbur, "and led me to take down from the shelves of our home library a book on animal locomotion by Prof Marey which I had already read several times... we soon passed from the reading to the thinking stage, and finally to the working stage".
Burwell's accidental death, in San Diego, coming so soon after I had read Levy's book, combined with the memory of almost swallowing a bee that had landed in my iced tea this past summer because I was looking at baseball scores on my phone, convinced me that this exercise might be worth my time.
As soon as the clerk had read the verdicts aloud and the Judge had left the bench and the courtroom, which he did without thanking the jury, the courtroom became, in a flash, something else.
