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brought and her
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.
In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.
It had been whispered privately that she had smiled in the congregation, and the Governor Prence sent to knoe her business, and command, after punishment as the bench see fit, her departure and also anyone who brought her to the place from which she came ' ''.
The commotion had brought her into the wings.
The week after Manassas the sound of horses in the yard brought Kate up in shock from an afternoon's rest when she saw the Federal soldiers from her upstairs window.
She grasped the chair arms and brought her thin body upright, like a bird alert for flight.
`` My nephews will be coming down '', she said that evening as Angelina brought her dinner into the dining room, the whole meal on a vast linen-covered tray.
`` Um '', said the old lady, and brought her eyes down to the tray.
Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.
He brought it in and put it down beside her.
So she brought the fish in whole, and she carried a lemon in her mouth.
She went downstairs and received another curious shock, for when Glendora flapped into the dining room in her homemade moccasins, Sarah asked her when she had brought coffee to her room and Glendora said she hadn't.
After the usual Honorable Sirs, it went on to say that there had been set off to the widow one full third part of the real estate of the deceased Salu Norberg, one lower room, on the Western side, privileges to the well and bake-oven and to one third of the cellar ( I can show you the cellar when we go up ), also one Cow Right, and lastly they set off to the widow her own land that she brought with her as dower, namely the Beech Pasture.
What followed the outburst brought almost breathless silence as Miss Sutherland revealed her mastery of a voice probably unique among sopranos today.
I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:
Those elegant `` At Home '' cards she sent out, now she could wear her pretty clothes again, and had the house all trimmed up, hadn't brought many callers in two whole months.
Miss Kizzie had been right snippy ever since they were married, though you'd have thought a namesake would have brought her round.

brought and shawls
Soldiers returning from the colonies brought home cashmere wool shawls from India, and the East India Company imported more.

brought and .
He brought his Winchester in from the front of the house, then faced the boy.
She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.
He nodded and, going into the bedroom, brought a needle, thread, and scissors.
He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.
`` You brought him back to this valley thinkin he would help you find your boy.
He had ordered the ponies brought inside the fortified circle and had assigned Pierre and a band of picked engages the job of trying to keep them steady under fire.
She brought the quirt down, slashing it across his cheek, and he tried to step back.
But a moment later he brought his horse forward into the light, and Wilson had a good look at him.
The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.
Barton was relieved to see that Carl Dill and Emmett Foster had brought extra mounts.
Foster had brought extra clothing also.
It brought men out of bed and sent them into hurried conferences.
They brought to it all the odors that clung to men like themselves, that of their own sweat, of campfire smoke, of horses and cattle.
But he brought back the sheriff and several deputies, and to the lawmen the entire affair seemed a repetition of the Lewis killing.
Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.
No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.
I suspected why he brought it along.
Opening these he brought out a schnapps bottle and small gold thimble-sized glasses hidden inside it.
In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.
The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.
The man brought one hand up slowly and the fingers fumbled across his face until he touched his mouth.
His remembering the self-dictate brought no peace -- only a faint chill of doubt.
Somebody brought a light.

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