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I and slid
The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head, fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed, but his face was turned to the wall -- there was the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster -- and I thought, Well you don't look much like a pig-drunk bully now.
the doors of the D train slid shut, and as I dropped into a seat and, exhaling, looked up across the aisle, the whole aviary in my head burst into song.
I lowered him so he would not fall and his body slid out onto the cool, newly-plowed earth, from between my pale hands.
She blew me a kiss and I slid away.
&# 91 ;...&# 93 ; After the project was in the shops I gained access to some real drum samples, and I slid those into my own custom version of the tune.
In a letter to Volker dated January 31, 1969, Osborn described how he developed his style of jumping: “ I more or less found my style of high jumping by accident, as I was trying to imitate Ed Beeson ’ s style, and what developed was natural to me, and as I became more proficient and with much practice, I utilized leg and arm lift and body ‛ kip ’ and then slid across the bar more or less on my back, and as I got to the far side of the bar then started to uncoil and dropped my take-off leg and arms for landing .”
Carrea said: " Without knowing it, I had slid into the important break of the day and at Lausanne, to my great surprise, I heard I had inherited a jersey destined for champions.
He started all right, but ' getting way ' on him, I could hold the rope no more, and away he went sliding headlong down the stairs, like an avalanche down Mont Blanc ... he smashed the door open ... and slid right into the kitchen ... till at last he brought himself to an anchor under the kitchen table.
I literally slid into the group, like a rugby player charging into a ruck.

I and beside
I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.
Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.
I looked for Jessica to materialize out of the clogging, curdling crowd and, as the time passed and I waited, a fiend came to life beside me and whispered in my ear: How was I planning to greet Jessica??
I took the pint bottle from my pocket and handed it over as I sat down beside him on the spread blanket.
I swallowed hard and looked down at my feet plodding along beside Rachel.
I huddled miserably beside him in the truck.
I let the engine idle then, and I got down and went around the wheel and stood beside it.
The body caressed through my hands like cool satin, and my hands, usually tanned and dark, were pale beside it, and I asked it where the fire colors could come from the coolness of that body.
He asked, as he often did, and I had as often let him be on the tractor beside me.
Then looking at him darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him :' Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympos. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles .… And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, sinceyou are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you. But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinouslong since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky.
For he said, " I am God and there is no other God beside me ," for he is ignorant of his strength, the place from which he had come.
I employ a cab — I am seated beside white people — I reach the hotel — I enter the same door — I am shown into the same parlour — I dine at the same table — and no one is offended ...
Libanius says in his epitaph of the deceased emperor ( 18. 304 ) that " I have mentioned representations ( of Julian ); many cities have set him beside the images of the gods and honour him as they do the gods.
Justin speaks of the divine Logos as " another God " beside the Father, qualified by the gloss: ‘ other, I mean, in number, not in will ’.
Emperor Otto I the Great was buried here beside his wife in 973.

I and him
I believed him.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
In my sights I watched him looming bigger and bigger.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
`` I know him.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
With distaste I saw him assume a pompous air.
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
`` I never saw him.
`` I can't leave him there.
Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.
But, by gosh, I want him and I'm going to have him!!
I meant him no harm.
I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.
I heard o' Texas cattlemen wrappin' a cow thief up in green hides and lettin' the sun shrink 'em and squeeze him to death.
`` I don't know nothin' about him ''.
`` So help me, Crouch, I'd like to kill you where you stand, but, before I do, I'm going to hear you admit killing him.
`` I ain't ragging him ''!!
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

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