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Her eyes were glazed as if she didn't hear or even see him.
She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.
`` Everyone knew it, but he sort of acted like he didn't care who knew it -- even after them notes came, even after he'd heard about Lewis, even after he'd been shot at a couple o' times hisself ''!!
Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.
The other half he didn't like to recognize, even to himself.
About that time Miss Langford straightened up and looked out the window directly at him, he thought, although probably she didn't even see him.
Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.
The Lalauries were at the top rung of the social ladder, and even a jury didn't feel privileged to doubt the veracity of so illustrious a lady.
He recalls with a wry smile the wit who said, on returning from a homecoming reunion, that he would never go again because all his class had changed so much they didn't even recognize him.
She was wise enough to realize a man could be good company even if he did weigh too much and didn't own the mint.
I didn't even have the nerve to call her on the telephone.
We didn't even know them till about a month after we moved -- at that time, they had called on us, after I met Fran at a PTA meeting, and had taken us in hand socially.
He didn't even ask the cost of this collection.
He never could keep still, even when he didn't move his feet.
I know now why the students insisted that I go to Hiroshima even when I told them I didn't want to.
He didn't even know that she was there.
She didn't tell anyone, even her mother, what was wrong.
Let her call Crosson if she wanted to, let Crosson raise the roof or even can him, he didn't care.
he didn't even look up.
Killpath sailed the paper across the desk, but Matson didn't pick it up or even glance at it.
When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.

didn't and bother
The fear of punishment just didn't bother him.
It didn't bother him for everybody from the blacksmith to the preacher to say, `` Howdy, Miss Jenny '', adding a careless `` Roy '', but it did her.
Charles was now appointing the kings whom he supposedly served, rois fainéants who were mere puppets in his hands ; by the end of his reign they were so useless that he didn't even bother appointing one.
Alamanni didn't bother the Empire for the next 10 years.
I didn't even bother to go to the studios or the major distribution outlets.
Joan also says that when their mother died, Olivia didn't even bother to phone to find out where she could be reached ( Fontaine was on tour ).
Mercante didn't bother to count this time: He stopped the fight immediately and Gómez had retained his world title in a dramatic fight.
If no response came from a particular address, the computer marked it dead and didn't bother polling it later.
He ( De Ruyter ) was embalmed with great haste, and they didn't bother with his shot-off leg, they just dropped it in.
Zgrass's use of string-based macros made this difficult, so they didn't bother with tokenization.
Fermi told him to write an article, but Majorana didn't bother, and the credit was given to James Chadwick ( who was awarded the Nobel Prize for this discovery ).
By the time of the next election in December 1995, Sáez was so popular that she didn't bother to campaign, and only one independent candidate opposed her.
In one of these letters, he was described by Maria van Rysselberghe, as " a unique personality, a whirlwind with an indomitable character, who didn't bother himself about bourgeois rules and who provoked or overwhelmed everybody by his straightforward directness ".
Fontaine also says that when their mother died, de Havilland didn't even bother to phone to find out where she could be reached ( Fontaine was on tour ).
Though smaller than most of his competitors, Connors didn't let it bother him, making up for a lack of size with determination.
Not having my name on the cover didn't bother me in the least.
They didn't bother to read it.
") Ironing Pappy's trousers fell under her wifely duties as well, although she didn't bother with preliminaries — like waiting for Pappy to remove them first.
He found himself hosting a " beautiful music " show in the morning, so obviously bored with the music that he didn't even bother to make up a new name or on-air persona.
*" Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play.
Guinness was originally only offered four D ' Ascoyne parts, recollecting: " I read screenplay on a beach in France, collapsed with laughter on the first page, and didn't even bother to get to the end of the script.
However, formerly ‘ they had no permanent homes, so they didn't bother with cleaning .’ The dome-shaped dwelling or wickiup, the usual home type for all the Chiricahua bands, has already been described .... Said a Central Chiricahua informant.
He asked the residents of these neighborhoods not to vote for a congressman who didn't bother to visit them.
It didn't bother me.

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