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No one wanted a larger family or no children, and none hoped for a castle or said that living in less settled circumstances would be satisfactory.
The man, Tom said, explained that it was not only too long and detailed but that as it stood it wasn't the sort of thing the public wanted.
Blackman said that he wanted to apologize for not having prevented Lewis from making that horrible spectacle of himself, that he should have seized him by the neck at once and forcibly hauled him into his bedroom.
Once in a while they said what a shame it was, with Granny dying, but they all agreed she wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
`` You must have loved that girl very much, but you couldn't have meant it when you said that you wanted to kill her ''.
`` All we have left in the world is one another, and we must stay together the way Mother wanted '', Kowalski said in telling his children of their mother's death yesterday afternoon.
`` The old man came from the front of the plane and said he wanted four volunteers to go to Cuba '', McCauley said, `` and like a nut I raised my hand.
Eugenia suspected her of deliberately overturning the heater because she was getting tired of dragging it back and forth and still wanted her own way, but Hope said if Grandma wouldn't have the heater nobody would have it, so Grandma had to give in.
Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.
The whole charge was sometimes said to have been an invention of Agamemnon, who wanted to have Cassandra for himself.
It was said that "... Carnegie never wanted to see or touch these bonds that represented the fruition of his business career.
When questioned on why she followed Thomas to the second job after he had already allegedly harassed her, she said she had wanted to work in the civil rights field, she had no alternative job, " and at that time, it appeared that the sexual overtures ... had ended.
In an early 1999 interview, Love said about the Venus: " I wanted a guitar that sounded really warm and pop, but which required just one box to go dirty (...) And something that could also be your first band guitar.
McBride said he made the deal simply because he'd " had his fling " with football and wanted to move on to other activities.
" In the same interview Frances said: " I never even thought of it as being a fraud – it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can't understand to this day why they were taken in – they wanted to be taken in.
" His sister, Carol, said that their mother " above all wanted to protect Carl ... She had an extraordinarily difficult time dealing with World War II and the Holocaust ".
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Mrs. Roebuck very kindly let me drive through Sante Fe to a road which would, she said, lead us to Taos and then Raton and `` eventshahleh '' out of New Mexico.
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.
Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.
Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.
While S.K. did not like Dylan Thomas, I liked his poems very much, but I made the mistake of telling Dylan Thomas so, whereupon he said to me, `` I suppose you think you know all about me ''.
His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.
The monk who opened the door immediately calmed his worries about his reception: `` I speak English '', the old man said, `` but I do not hear it very well ''.
It's your decision '', said Juanita, holding her face very still, trying to contain the bitterness of her voice as she enunciated her words too distinctly.
`` Unless the oyabun has been working on it '', he said, then checked himself and added: `` You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use ''.
`` I would like to enact a little tableau this afternoon '', Rector said, He explained about the visit and the effect he wished to create, the picture of a very busy mission.
`` Whereas, a Bridge over Merrimack River, from the Land of Hon'ble Jonathan Greenleaf, Esquire, in Newbery, to Deer Island, and from said Island to Salisbury, would be of very extensive utility, by affording a safe Conveyance to Carriages, Teams and Travellers at all seasons of the year, and at all Times of Tide.
I realized, now, that she had been showing me, in what impressed me as being a very accurate way, something her mother had once said to her ; ;
Seated in front of the desk, Hank said, `` I'm looking for some information with very little to go on, Sheriff ''.
`` This is a very modest proposal cut to meet absolutely essential needs '', he said, `` and with sufficient ' deductible ' requirements to discourage any malingering or unnecessary overcrowding of our hospitals.
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