And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach

`` And the boy will be too much under his influence by then.

And then he thought Todman might be right.

And then I became aware that she, too, glanced at me surreptitiously.

And then we shall see.

And then came the water -- not rain, but solid sheets that sluiced down like water slopping from a bucket.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

And then perhaps one day we get to Athens.

And then it took considerably longer to make preparations for giving transfusions.

And with the publication of E. T. Leeds' Archaeology Of The Anglo-Saxon Settlements the student was presented with an organized synthesis of the archaeological data then known.

And she withdrew then to Cromwell Hall, in Cromwell, Connecticut.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

) And then there were ecclesiastical matters, the matter of Garibaldi's anti-clericalism.

And then there were other things.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

And if you bore each other then, heaven help you.

And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek: `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland.

And if the foreigners fighting in the Katanga Army are mercenaries then Lafayette and Von Steuben were mercenaries too, as were also the members of the Lafayette Escadrille in the early part of World War 1, and of Chennault's Flying Tigers in the early days of World War 2.

And then: `` There are lots of kids around here ''.

And then the questions came, eager, interested questions, and many compliments on his having overcome his infirmity.

And then the Amen corner took hold, re-enacting a form of group participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West Indies, and then here in Alabama.

And put water on to boil and then searched through the icebox.

And, if we follow the Rayburn pattern, as consciously or by an instinctual political sense I like to think I have followed it, then the very nature of our loyalty to our own immediate areas must necessarily be reflected in the devotion of our services to our country.

And then again perhaps the reason why he couldn't find time to do any of the things he had planned to do after retirement: reading, roaming, gardening, lying on his back and watching the clouds go by, was because he didn't want to do them.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

And make my life different and better from this time on.

And, he added: `` During the many months in prison camp, all abstract images vanished from my mind ''.

And this is my own home ''.

And even hearing it in a concert hall surrounded by hundreds of people the words and the melody would make me a little colder and I would reach out for my husband's hand.

Victor had been stirred by my account of him in Makers And Finders, for Stephens was one of the lost writers whom Melville had seen in his childhood and whom I was bent on resurrecting.

And another one comes to me and he says, ' Look here, there's a mill in my state employs five thousand people making uniforms for the Navy.

`` And I am not sure that I have any cash -- any money, that is -- but if you will wait just a minute I will write you out a check if I can find my checkbook.

And, like many of you here present, I hold as the highlight of all, the occasion of my first meeting with the honorable Speaker of the House.

And did he appreciate my efforts on his behalf??

And my point in this sad story is the spirit of the matter.

And His glory is flooding my soul ''.

And so the psalmist gives us one more picture of God: `` The Lord is the strength of my life ''.

And I can go back to my contests and be thinking while I'm doing the washing ''.

And I went back to my own cottage to live my own little patch of life.

And after I brought them sandwiches and coffee I had to go back to my place in the kitchen and wait.

And I was plastered and I blew my stack '' --

And so I was really upset the first time I discovered that my boy friend Johnnie was seeing Mrs. Warren.

`` And '', I was ticking off the items on my fingers, `` swears too much and goes out with the boys, whoever they are, too much, and who ever goes to church and won't even listen when I try to persuade him to come back to the fold ''.

`` And never show my face or my truck around here again ''.

And the major part of my mission to your nest is to make a treaty between your race and mine.