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said and Kunta
Haley said that he had identified the slave ship that transported Kunta Kinte from Africa to North America in 1767.
He said Fofana was a griot in Juffure, who, during Haley's visit there, confirmed the tale of the disappearance of Kunta Kinte.

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 sold
The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.
`` When they became members of the city police narcotics unit '', Sokol said, `` they were told they would have to get to know certain areas of Chicago in which narcotics were sold and they would have to get to know people in the narcotics racket.
In August 2002, the Armenian government sold an 80 percent stake in the Armenian Electricity Network ( AEN ) to Midland Resources, a British offshore-registered firm which is said to have close Russian connections.
Having sold most of his father's tract, in 1957 the old house burned-the Smiths believed by arson, others said by accident.
One mine located in Karkar, Bağlan, Afghanistan sold by the Afghan Government to the Afghan Investment Company despite family ties between Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, and Afghan Investment Company's CEO, Mahmood Karzai was said to be in terrible condition as of November, 2010.
On June 3, 2008, one day prior to GM's annual shareholder meeting, Rick Wagoner, GM's CEO at that time, said the brand was being reviewed, and had the possibility of either being sold, having the production line completely redesigned, or being discontinued.
Richard claimed that England was " cold and always raining ," and when he was raising funds for his crusade, he was said to declare, " I would have sold London if I could find a buyer.
Earlier references such as a reference to an actual seal from his vineyard are said not to prove he sold wine just fermented his grapes for his own use.
" The politician behind the bill, Kolbrún Halldórsdóttir, said: " It is not acceptable that women or people in general are a product to be sold.
Books concerning the said religion called Reformed may not be printed and publicly sold, except in cities and places where the public exercise of the said religion is permitted.
Jack Sussman, CBS's senior vice president in charge of specials, said the Tony show sold almost all its advertising slots shortly after CBS announced it would present the three hours.
However he sold Macdonald to Arsenal at the end of the season, a decision of which Macdonald later said " I loved Newcastle, until Gordon Lee took over ".
According to legend, Tsuburaya's work on The War at Sea ... was so impressive that General MacArthur's film unit is said to have sold footage of the film to Frank Capra for use in Movietone newsreels as actual footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Hailey said he detached himself from his plots and characters once a book had been sold to Hollywood.
It is also said that about AD 550, Christian monks smuggled silkworms, in a hollow stick, out of China and sold the secret to the Byzantine Empire.
Adandozan is portrayed as an incompetent warrior and general, and as a betrayer of the royal family: he is said to have sold his brother's, Gakpe ( also known as Ghezo ), mother into slavery.
Vegetarian sausages are frequently sold in supermarkets, although it should be said that many vegetarian sausages sold in supermarkets may be vegetarian but are not vegan, for they may contain ingredients such as eggs.
Herodotus ( Histories 2: 54 – 57 ) was told by priests at Egyptian Thebes in the 5th century BCE " that two priestesses had been carried away from Thebes by Phoenicians ; one, they said they had heard was taken away and sold in Libya, the other in Hellas ; these women, they said, were the first founders of places of divination in the aforesaid countries.
Some have written that Heracles stole the mares himself, while others have said Autolycus stole the mares and sold them to Heracles.
Marxists said he had sold out his political principles in his depictions of left-intellectual manipulations in Mother Küsters ' Trip to Heaven and of a late-blooming terrorist in The Third Generation.
Pendarvis said that he had a canceled check to prove his purchase of the land in question, but no deed was ever produced, and the original landowners denied having sold land to Pendarvis or his associates.
Even in 1999, intelligence sources said North Korea had sold missile components to Iran.

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