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 they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.

And he had a feeling -- thanks to the girl -- that things would get worse before they got better.

And she really tried to go a step further and say she hoped they'd be just as right as they now were for her and for Rod.

And what eyes they were.

And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.

And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.

And both in their objectives of non-discrimination and of social progress they have had ranged against them the Southerners who are called Bourbons.

And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

And although these insights into the nature of art may be in themselves insufficient for a thoroughgoing philosophy of art, their peculiar authenticity in this day and age requires that they be taken seriously and gives promise that from their very substance, new and valid chapters in the philosophy of art may be written.

And I would further note that they all -- with one exception again -- sang in one key or another the same song.

And as they go through college, the students tend to bring their political position in line with that prevalent in the social groups to which they belong.

And although they were, as I have indicated, under increasing strain at the time of Racine, they are still alive in his theatre.

And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.

And they traveled out of New York.

And there must be many Soviet citizens who know what is going on and who realize that before they can hope to enjoy the full life promised for 1980 they and their children must first survive.

And they wouldn't leave off arguing and pleading until he had promised.

And in any case, answers may clarify but they do not change anything.

And so they went, he choosing of all places an inn near Medmenham Abbey, scene a generation ago of the obscene orgies of the Hellfire Club.

And as the Pilgrims bowed their heads in humble gratitude, they shared another feeling -- the anticipation of what the future held for them and their posterity.

And, besides, there are a large number of scholars, artists, composers of music, novelists, poets, essayists, choreographers, lawyers, servants of government, and men of affairs -- hundreds, indeed -- who serve the Foundation well with the advice they give us freely and gratis out of their experience.