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' could have no freedom in the thought of any other circumstances or business in life: All my desire was the conversion of the heathen, and all my hope was in God: God does not suffer me to please or comfort myself with hopes of seeing friends, returning to my dear acquaintance, and enjoying worldly comforts '.
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He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.
) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.
No man could have reached his spot nor held it without being ruthless, and Hague had made a virtue of ruthlessness all of his life.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
with more time I could have loosened a small burr or cotter pin --
She realized I'd have to notify the police, but fervently hoped I could avoid mentioning her name.
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.
If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
This was the worst thing I could have said.
and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.
What steps have been taken to guard against the one sort of mishap that could trigger the destruction of continents??
This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.
The conversation that ensued may have been engrossing but it could hardly be called world-shattering.
The part of the mind that preserves dates and events may remonstrate, `` It could have been like that for only a little while '' ; ;
I have no picture in my mind of the garden as a whole -- that I could not see -- but certain aspects of certain corners linger in the memory: wind-blown, frost-bitten, white chrysanthemums beneath a window, with their brittle brown leaves and their sharp scent of November ; ;
Such problems are of extreme interest as well as importance and are so much like fighting in a rain forest or guerrilla warfare at night in tall grass that we might have to re-examine primitive conflicts for what they could teach.
Any attempt to reconcile this statement of the central issue in the campaign of 1956 with the nature of the man who could not conceive it as the central issue will at least resolve our confusions about the chaotic and misleading results of the earnestness of both doctors and President in a situation which should never have arisen.
Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.
Given the conceptual context within which ancient thought thrived, how could anyone have questioned this principle??
He might have been the man in the moon for all you could have understood him.
If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.
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Two men, together like us, we could do somethin fine out there, maybe find a place where no one's ever been.
There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't stop to graze.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
Bushes and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detours for the struggling stranger, and without the direct light of the sun to act as compass, Pamela could no longer be positive of her direction.
And he could no longer think of face-saving, of honor, but only of escape.
He heard cries from behind him, but he could make out no words.
As far as he could see there was no hole to climb through it.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
They could no longer afford the luxury of the canvas sweat bag that cooled it by evaporation.
Ramey could hear the crowd coming up rapidly behind him and the questioning voices coming over his shoulder had no identity or importance to him.
However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.
Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.
The debate needed no additional controversy and soon I could ask each individually what he expected from life, what his hopes were and what his fears.
The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could.
Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.
The show was colorful, indeed, exuberant, but the press for all its assiduity could detect no note of a fateful rendezvous with destiny.
The White House had chewing gum until it could chew no more, and every Christmas, Mr. Wrigley sent the President a check for $100, to be divided among all the help.
To the Republicans no victory could have been more complete.
He held that no group of colonists could set up or maintain a government without royal sanction.
`` Because, Fred, it could do him no good.
He spoke no German but he could sing it and the words of the song were the only ones he knew in a foreign language.
He was Julius Kahn for whom the Chief of Staff thought no honor could be too great.
All areas of history were either favorably or adversely affected by the geographical environment, and no respectable historian could pursue the study of history without a thorough knowledge of geography.
it was also sacred, `` and no believer in an inspired church could tolerate having her canons examined as we should examine human laws ''.
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