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let and him
And you stand by like a fool and let him do it ''
It made him a little sick, and he let go of her.
It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
Jess stared at him without answering and let his hands fall to his sides.
I'm going to let him tell it to somebody else ''.
Pat let him go, following more leisurely.
`` Well, let's let him make up his own mind, OK ''??
The marines let him advance.
We'll let him go ''.
He thought she gave him that look with the hidden something in it as he let her hand go.
In the following sketch we shall present a brief outline of his life and let him as much as possible speak for himself.
`` He has not acted in any way, and won't let anyone take it away from him.
As a proud man, his prestige would suffer if he let Pike dictate to him through the governor's office, but to lower his prices would be tantamount to an admission that they had been too high in the first place.
`` But we aren't going to let you give him any ''.
Instead, he went down to New York and submitted Welcome To Our City to the Theatre Guild, which had asked him to let them have a look at it after Professor Baker had recommended it highly.
I could never forget the gaiety with which, when he was both blind and deaf, he let me lead him around his rooms to look at some of the pictures ; ;
Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.

let and be
He'd be an idiot to let them stay he thought, but he couldn't send them on, either.
If we let them go, they won't stay away, they'll find men to ride with them and they'll be back.
As John T. Westbrook says in his article, `` Twilight Of Southern Regionalism '' ( Southwest Review, Winter 1957 ): `` The miasmal mausoleum where an Old South, already too minutely autopsied in prose and poetry, should be left to rest in peace, forever dead and ( let us fervently hope ) forever done with ''.
let them learn to `` swing '' freely, to let go, to become authentically themselves, and then perhaps civilization will be saved.
If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;
It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.
An idea, let us say, may be roughly defined as a theme or topic with which our reflection may be concerned.
or to let the ethical be superseded by the purposive.
As to our action, let us align ourselves with the purpose expressed by Jesus in the Lord's Prayer: `` Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ''.
if he wanted to leave me something let it be a trinket, nothing else.
Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.
That is how the real routine of resistance goes on, and its strength is directly proportionate to the number of insignificant people who can let themselves be taken to pieces, piece by piece, without quitting.
But because of the peculiar nature of the military situation in Laos, the Soviet leader must be tempted to let things ride -- a course that would appear to cost him little on the spot, but would bog Washington in a tactical mess.
Jesus replied, ' let it be so for the present ; ;
The Macmillan government might be willing to let him go, but he has been dead seventy-eight years and even the Soviet morticians could not make him look presentable.
To avoid suspicion of bigotry, let the hand of vengeance be stayed until the meat-wagon has picked up the twenty-five thousandth corpse ; ;
but let the twenty-five thousand and first butchery be the signal for the arrest of the 50 state highway commissioners.
Then let the whole lot be hanged in a public mass execution on July 4, 1963.
Before memory, too, clouds over, let us make a note or two of what could be seen.
and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.
To be on the safe side I never let Eileen get out of my sight day or night.

let and ready
Hotels, for example, are ready to let down the bars.
If the receiver is not ready when the service is delivered, a let shall be called ; yet, if the receiver attempts to return the shuttlecock, he shall be judged to have been ready.
After all parties had been financially drained, Frederick II let his ally, King Sigismund II Augustus of Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, know that he was ready for peace.
Mussolini's foreign minister claimed that Pius XII was " ready to let himself be deported to a concentration camp, rather than do anything against his conscience.
The Anglo-Saxon alewife would put a green bush up on a pole to let people know her brew was ready.
By 1993 the 32-bit 3DO platform was released with much developer interest and Sega and Sony let it be known that the Sega Saturn and PlayStation would be ready for the Japanese marketplace in late 1994, and Bandai was also readying the release of their Playdia system.
He had demanded that only he should slay his unfaithful wife ; but, when he was ready to do so, she dropped her robe from her shoulders, and the sight of her beauty caused him to let the sword drop from his hand.
William withdrew behind the Dutch Water Line, a deliberate flooding to protect the core province of Holland, but the inundations were not ready yet, only having been ordered by the States of Holland on 8 June and hampered by villages unwilling to let the water damage their property.
This process let the architects perform " design-ahead " so that when silicon technlogies were available, Motorola had designs ready to implement and go to market.
Mary cried in pain and held onto the palm, at which point a voice came from " beneath her ", understood by some to refer to Jesus, who was yet in her womb, which said " Be not grieved ; God has provided a rivulet under thee ; and shake the trunk of the palm and it shall let ripe dates fall upon thee, ready gathered.
Many shops and commercial premises remained empty, ready for sale or let.
At an internal meeting in 2000, McVaney said he had decided to " wait however long it took to have OneWorld 100 % reliable " and had thus delayed the release of a new version of OneWorld because he " wasn't going to let it go out on the street until it was " ready for prime time.
Maharaji asks practitioners to promise " not to reveal these techniques to anyone ", but says to " let other people go through their own journey ... they, too, can have the techniques when they are ready.
" That organization — the N-A-A-C-P or whatever it was — had him going around here making speeches ," Gaines told Clayton, " but when he got ready to go to Kansas City, I had to let him have $ 10 so he could get himself a white shirt.
HOST: Are we ready to let 72, 000 more people die in our country, if 18, 000 died or whatever the number is, the figure that anyone comes up with, per year because of a lack of health insurance or health care, when this bill doesn't basically take effect until 2014?
However, the government was only interested in getting capital from private enterprises ; the government was still not ready to let them take an active role in economic development.
Usually, when the female is ready to mate, she may let the male simply " catch " her and he will thus grasp a fold of her skin above her neck area, or she will bow her head before him and simply " let " him take his grasp.
for ready, or else at some short time ; for I am satisfied there is no dealing in books without interesting the booksellers ; and I am contented to let them go halves with me, rather than have your excellent work smothered by their combinations.
They have been joined by a variety of small-scale train owners ready to let old railway stock on short-term leases, including FM Rail, Harry Needle Railroad Company and West Coast Railway Company.
When It's the Valet ( 1932 – 33 ) was ready to tour, local alumni groups were either unwilling to sponsor a show or unable to guarantee an adequate sum to cover expenses, let alone show a profit.
At the time, the Heroic Warriors seem ready and willing to let Grayskull fall, and would likely have done so, if not for the urgings of Man-At-Arms, who had been swallowed whole by the monster.
" Brendan Reid of Pitchfork Media also notes that " It's often easy to forget that DLJ were considered emo in their day ; Froberg's howls of ' Ready, ready to let you in!

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