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was and happy
When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.
Ann, pleased to see her friend happy, was intrigued by the new fruits a friend of Captain Heard had sent on board for their enjoyment.
That's to say, he was trigger happy.
He was delighted to see them so happy.
`` When that woman found me and told me that you needed me I was never so happy since before the war ''.
Pat took Eileen and me out to dinner at a swell steak house and told us with tears in his eyes how happy he was we had come together again.
He was happy enough to take the convertible and race up the hill to the Blevins', thinking that they might give him a drink.
but the letter went on: she had cried, she had implored, she had been miserable at his refusal, and finally he had relented -- and now how happy she was, how expectant!!
She was rollickingly happy.
For Blanche, Kitti's death was a source of guilty, but nonetheless soaring, happy hope.
Haney went to bed, happy that at least he was rid of that lousy landlord.
In a low voice, almost whispering, the man had asked Phil if he was happy with the way the landlord had been taken off his back.
A year after he was catapulted over nine officers senior to him and made commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup delivered a peppery annual report in the form of a `` happy, warless New Year '' greeting to his Pentagon staff.
At first I was happy to throw the support of our newspaper behind this man.
I am sure that Castro was happy, too, about that support.
Yet when the dear baby came, he had Tillie over here in a jiffy, and was as attentive and sweet and worried and happy when it was all over as any husband could have been.
But now he was happy she would let him straighten out her life and take care of her.
McKenzie was as happy as a clam.
He was enormously happy with her gift and smiled, then went to his room to read.
With most of his mind he was happy.
Only the memory of previous hurt, bewilderment and perplexity made him sure that if he did not ask B'dikkat when he, Mercer, was happy, the answer would no longer be available when he needed it.
The marriage of Julia and Tiberius was not a happy one.
Afonso IV was not happy to see his daughter abused, and started a war against Castile.

was and tell
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
Go, tell his aged mother that her son Fought with a thousand foes, and he was one ''.
Shakespeare does not tell us that Shylock was an aberrant individual.
Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
`` I've been in government and I can tell some pretty hairy stories about personnel difficulties, so I know what a problem he was ''.
It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.
Lewis looked at him and began to cry, and then, saying that he was going to make a promise, he asked Blackman to call the porter and to tell him to take out all the liquor that he did not want.
Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.
Human nature was not a piece of meat you could tell was bad by its smell.
He had preached a short sermon, trying to talk man-to-man to the audience, to tell them who he was, what he had done in Macon and Birmingham, and what he proposed to do here.
`` I stopped to say goodbye, Mrs. Lattimer, and to tell you how sorry I was to hear about your baby.
She was going to tell Bobby Joe about how mistaken she had been, but he brought one of the cousins home for supper, and all they did was talk about antelope.
For in almost less time than it takes to tell it, Henri's bodyweight was increasing rapidly.
A ballistic missile cannot, today, tell you if it was successful or unsuccessful.
Nobody liked to hire him because you never could tell when he was going to be taken drunk.
Now can you tell me who was drunk -- The man, his wife, or me ''??
`` This time '', Arlene said, and she even kept on wiggling a little bit while she was just talking, `` you're going to tell me what I am and what I'm doing.
they could tell exactly what it was.
In I wanted to tell him, but I was afraid to the final to is lightly stressed because it represents to tell him.

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