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you and can
`` Think you can walk to the table ''??
The rest of us can fort up in the house and hang on until you get back.
I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
`` The road's washed badly '', said Dill, `` but there's a trail you can get over with a horse.
So I can hear you while I'm checkin' the car.
Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.
`` You might as well wait here while I'm gone, so you can use my shower if you'd like ''.
It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.
`` Oh, you can count on that ''.
It is nothing you can put your fingers on but the air suddenly fills with a high charge of electricity.
And when you get off this job tonight, well, you can gimme something to eat ''.
`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??
`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.
It is Eromonga -- look hard, you can see with your naked eye the wooden scaffolding on the cliff ''.
`` Can you hear, can you talk to me ''??
It can kill you.
`` All right, if you can't do your arithmetic during school hours you can do it after school is out '', Miss Langford said firmly, not smiling.
Curly hair, high cheekbones, wide gnomelike mouth, a pair of drummer's blocky hands, and a body that said well, maybe I can wrestle you for ten minutes -- but then I'm finished.
`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.
It is not a mess you can make sense of ''.
You've already sent your daughter to Miss X's select academy for girls and your son to Mr. Y's select academy for boys, and you can be as liberal as you please with strict impunity.

you and count
If you move them toward the beam, you count their value.
If you move away, you don't count their value.
:" Okay, now on the count of three, I want you all to yell nigger.
" " In France ", continued the count, " you can try to please the public, but here in Italy it is the actors and actresses whom you must consult, as well as the composer of the music and the stage decorators.
The auditor tells the preclear to feel alert and return to full awareness of his surroundings: " When I count from five to one and snap my fingers you will feel alert.
: At ev ' ry comma, stop while one you count ;
You have to count on the reader's being a good performer, and you may write music which he absolutely can't perform – in which case it's a bust.
#* " The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Assign z to z < sup > 2 </ sup > minus the conjugate of z, plus the original value of the pixel for each pixel, then count how many cycles it took when the absolute value of z exceeds two ; inversion ( borders are inner set ), so that you can see that it threatens to fail that third condition, even if it meets condition two.
Noticing Coward's eyes flicker momentarily across the soldiers, she murmured to him: " I wouldn't if I were you, Noël ; they count them before they put them out.
In a duel, you don't count or measure the blows, you strike as you can.
Adémar de Chabannes records, probably apocryphally, that during an argument with the Count of Auvergne, Hugh demanded of him: " Who made you count?
" The count riposted: " Who made you king?
James met the 27-year-old Andersen in Rome in 1899, when James was 56, and wrote letters to Andersen that are intensely emotional: " I hold you, dearest boy, in my innermost love, & count on your feeling me — in every throb of your soul ".
( 27 if you count the old ships bell.
It often involves a planning failure such as " don't count your chickens before they hatch " or " don't burn bridges behind you.
To rectify the sphere for use, first slacken the screw r in the upright stem R, and taking hold of the arm Q, move it up or down until the given degree of latitude for any place be at the side of the stem R ; and then the axis of the sphere will be properly elevated, so as to stand parallel to the axis of the world, if the machine be set north and south by a small compass: this done, count the latitude from the north pole, upon the celestial meridian L, down towards the north notch of the horizon, and set the horizon to that latitude ; then, turn the nut b until the sun Y comes to the given day of the year in the ecliptic, and the sun will be at its proper place for that day: find the place of the moon's ascending node, and also the place of the moon, by an Ephemeris, and set them right accordingly: lastly, turn the winch W, until either the sun comes to the meridian L, or until the meridian comes to the sun ( according as you want the sphere or earth to move ) and set the hour-index to the XII, marked noon, and the whole machine will be rectified.
Conversely, being loved by your children would not count towards your happiness if you did not know that they loved you ( and perhaps thought that they did not ), but it would count towards your eudaimonia.

you and on
He said: `` If it's all right with you, Mr. Morgan, I'll sleep out here on the couch.
And here all the time you knew the Sioux would be using our rifles on them!!
Let Old Knife come up and kill you and your people, or would you steer him on someone else ''??
`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.
`` Soon as we send them on their way and make camp, let's you and me go for a walk down by the Snake -- all by ourselves ''.
`` From now on, Sally and me and her folks aim to give you our turn when it comes up and fall in behind you and Rod's outfit ''.
Todman, you take the one on the left.
Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.
In fact, I was watching you on that little seventeen-inch screen when you rang my bell.
Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.
My people await you on the shore.
`` If you want to see something, he's back on the other side by the trunk of the car ''.
You don't see me stretched out on the deck, do you ''??
When you pass a church on an Irish bus, all the hands flurry in the sign of the cross.
that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.
This combined experience, on a foundation of very average, I assure you, intelligence and background, has helped me do things many well-informed people would bet heavily against.
You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

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