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The positive results, wrote the researchers, were a surprise and ran counter to the intuition that learning could not take place when so little context and guidance was given.

"Patriots are pleasantly surprised and traitors are running scared," writes one Narendra Modi fan on Twitter.

In Iraq IS is losing some of the capacity to surprise, and has run to the limit of its ethnic base.

Brett might surprise us and run for 100 yards a game," Bonds said.

Published in 1890, "Poems" by Emily Dickinson proved to be a surprise success and ran through multiple printings.

It will travel to 12 United States cities in its seven-week season, starting Oct. 13 in Surprise and running through Nov. 30 in Anaheim, Calif.

One series – a naked woman "turning around in surprise and running away" became, argues Warrell, an inspiration for some of Rodin's late sculptures.

The happy ending of Maleficent took me by surprise and runs against the current trend towards fairytale darkness, shining a beam of security and love on the increasingly common – and fraught – relations of step-families today.

The man panted, clearly pleased with himself, and then, to the crowd's surprise, he turned and ran all the way back.

Surprised, they ran the test again and again and soon a new question emerged: Are vipers really the fastest snakes?

He doesn't want it as soft as it was on Saturday, and I was surprised he ran as well as he did on it.