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was and told
There was more to this than Jones had told him.
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
It was a fair fight, the boy provoked it -- Big Charlie told me so.
Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.
I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.
By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.
`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??
I was waiting in front of it when she showed up and told me of my Uncle's indisposition.
I was aware of a humid look in her eyes that told me the time was opportune.
The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.
Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!
Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.
`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.
He commented -- thoughtfully, a reporter told us -- that it was `` not too important for the individual how he ends up ''.
He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.
What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.
You know Bang-Jensen was told the Committee was ' to convey its views, suggestions and recommendations to the Secretary General.
Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.
Mama had told her how Emmett's lungs had been affected when he was gassed in the war.

was and himself
It was obvious that he wished himself different from the sort of person he thought he was.
Clyde Miller was crying softly to himself, shedding his striped suit and fumbling into the nondescript butternut pants, the worn brown shirt.
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.
How could he comprehend her need when he himself was innocent??
He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.
He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.
He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.
Against all expectation, Carmer was inside, clearly enjoying himself to the hilt and already so tipsy that it seemed unlikely he was bothering to note anything or anyone about him.
Carmer himself was nowhere to be seen.
It was only a fifteen-minute flight, but before it was through Greg felt himself developing a case of claustrophobia.
Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.
It was embarrassing to see strapping, blonde Brassnose comport himself like a child who talks about bogeymen.
Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.
But `` after the war '' was a luxury of a phrase he did not permit himself.
He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.
He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.
It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.
Ernie was screaming inside himself: No, damn you, you ain't gonna take my meal ticket away from me!!

was and vernacular
The vernacular name daisy, widely applied to members of this family, is derived from its Old English meaning, dægesege, from dæges eage meaning " day's eye ," and this was because the petals ( of Bellis perennis ) open at dawn and close at dusk.
Bede was a teacher as well as a writer ; he enjoyed music, and was said to be accomplished as a singer and as a reciter of poetry in the vernacular.
Present-day written Bulgarian language was standardized on the basis of the 19th-century Bulgarian vernacular.
It was almost certainly written within three or four years of Columba's death and is the earliest vernacular poem in European history.
In addition there are large numbers of cultural artifacts such as vernacular novels, how-to books, and children's books, which are in the process of being analyzed for clues as to how the average Chinese ( if there was such as thing ) lived.
To call the dance " collegiate shag " was not as common during the swing era as it is today, but when it was used ( as it was with other vernacular dances of the time ) it was meant to indicate the style of the dance that was popular amongst the college crowd.
Corsican was long the vernacular language alongside Italian, official language in Corsica until 1859, then it was replaced by French owing to the conquest of the island by France in 1768.
It is sometimes argued that the greatest contribution that this work made to English literature was in popularizing the literary use of the vernacular, English, rather than French or Latin.
However, in many traditions ( given the inherent tendency of Christian liturgical texts to ossification ), it was not unusual for subsequent Christian generations to seek to provide paraphrased Gospel versions in language closer to the vernacular of their own day.
Dominic's new order was to be a preaching order, trained to preach in the vernacular languages.
His published poetry dates from this period and, along with Edward Dyer he was one of the first courtiers to introduce vernacular verse to the court.
" Their critique of him was based principally on his not being strong enough in his criticism of Luther, not seeing the dangers of a vernacular Bible and dabbling in dangerous scriptural criticism that weakened the Church's arguments against Arianism and other doctrines.
There was great interest in graceful poetry and vernacular literature.
The tradition of diglossia, the simultaneous existence of vernacular and archaizing written forms of Greek, was renewed in the modern era in the form of a polarization between two competing varieties: Dimotiki, the vernacular form of Modern Greek proper, and Katharevousa, meaning ' purified ', an imitation of classical Greek, which was developed in the early 19th century and used for literary, juridic, administrative and scientific purposes in the newly formed modern Greek state.
In missals, the Glagolitic script was eventually replaced with the Latin alphabet, but the use of the Slavic language in the Mass continued, until replaced by the modern vernacular languages.

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