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said and was
`` I'm a mess '', she said, and suddenly she was alarmed.
You see, he lied to us when he said he was leavin alone ''.
`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.
The War Department wrote Mr. Manuel a letter and said he was a hero.
`` But that was war '', I said.
What else he said was lost in the rattle of gunfire on all sides.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
`` Oh, no '', he said, and he was without humor now.
Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??
She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.
That was all she said.
This was the worst thing I could have said.
The girl took a couple of steps toward the man in shorts when Benson, in that barefoot courtliness Ramey could never decide was real, said, `` You don't want to go around there, Ma'am ''.
There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.
But they never said anything, so he figured it was all right.
He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.
While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.
That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.
`` I only said I was hungry.
`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.
`` I'd wind up full of bullet holes '', he said, and there was no question that he was talking about bullets fired by his coworkers.

said and lonely
`` Some can be lonely in a crowd '', Nogol said elaborately.
She generally is said to haunt lonely paths or roads.
" People always look back at it now and assume it was lonely ," she once said about her childhood.
Kaikeyi was said to have died a lonely and broken-hearted woman, estranged from her son, his wife ( the cousin of Rama's wife, Sita ) and their two sons, her only grandchildren.
It is said that on a lonely island, assuming nobody else would hear him, he gave the knowledge of hatha yoga to Goddess Parvati, but a fish heard the entire discourse, remaining still throughout.
It is said that he should now disengage himself from all family ties, except that his wife may accompany him, if she chooses-although maintaining total celibacy, and retire to a lonely forest, taking with him only his sacred fires and the implements required for the daily and periodical worship.
Beckinsale's character, Stan, was apt to wind up in bed with lonely housewives, and equally apt to spend time with said housewives musing on philosophy and the pointlessness of life.
An indigenous Bunun hunter once said, " If there were no bears in the mountains, the forest would look empty and I would feel lonely.
It is said that visitors bring a new white handkerchief and ask the hermit to swap it with the one held by the sorrowful Virgin whose handkerchief is then presented to someone sick, lonely or elderly in the audience.
The Gytrash (), a legendary black dog known in northern England, was said to haunt lonely roads awaiting travellers.
Stanhope said, " Rather than sit back and impotently bemoan Bristol's tragic, lonely circumstance, it is time for usthe silent majorityto unite behind this poor, imprisoned woman and save her from both a tyrannical household as well as the horrible nightmare of a forced childbirth.
She was said to have lived lonely and converted to Christianity after she returned from USA and also ate Pork because she found not eating Pork as Racist.
Radiohead singer Thom Yorke said " Fake Plastic Trees " was " the product of a joke that wasn't really a joke, a very lonely, drunken evening and, well, a breakdown of sorts ".
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, " The filmmakers work close to the bone, finding emotional truth in hard, lonely lives ... What eventually happens, while not entirely unpredictable, benefits from close observation, understated emotions, unspoken feelings, and the movie's tact ...
" When Caesar said he did remember: " Then you certainly remember that when you were lying to rest under a tree that was casting just a tiny shadow, in a very tough terrain with just that one lonely tree sticking out, one of your men laid out his cloak for you?
Shelby County Mayor A. C. Wharton said in a CNBC interview that he was " Feeling a bit lonely, because it seems that from a national perspective it never happened.
In this same region, the Siguanaba is said to appear on moonlit nights to horseriders on lonely roads, asking to ride pillion.
As a child, Jones said she had an imaginary friend named Arlene to help through her lonely episodes.
The Gytrash (), a legendary black dog known in northern England, was said to haunt lonely roads awaiting travellers.
" People articulate that only children are spoiled, they're aggressive, they're bossy, they're lonely, they're maladjusted ," she said.
Kelly said, " It was rather a lonely job going out to Zandvoort to make the drawings for the painting and sometimes I doubted my sanity in doing it at all.
Writing about the Group's production of Awake and Sing, the New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson said, "... Morris Carnovsky as the lonely old sage struggling with ideas he cannot resolve or use, gives a performance worth a mayor's reception on the steps of City Hall.
Parker cited as an example a chorus concert in which the single Jewish student was asked to sing her own Hanukkah song while everybody else sang Christmas songs ; although the idea was to make the student feel special, Parker said it only made her feel more lonely and isolated.
Matthau is also said to be an excellent judge of character, who by his own nature is a very solitary and lonely man keeping most of his contact with Blaine.

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