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was and asked
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Was I sure
, he
asked, that I knew what I
was applying
for??
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The husband points
the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To
the blind brim with appetite
, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from
the table
in surprise To let
the dishes soak all night
, ''
( Mary Jane
asked herself if Meredith
was blushing at this line
, or
was it
the fire??
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She confessed she
was unhappy
, he
asked was it her husband??
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His gun
was half drawn when he
asked the question
, but
the weapon never left its holster
.
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Seven years later he
was asked to become
director of
the Pittsburgh Symphony
.
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I
was having lunch not long ago
( apologies
to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians
( one specializing
in the European Middle Ages
, one
in American history
, and one
in the Far East )
, and I
asked them if they could name instances where
the general mores
had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed
, majestic instancy ''
( Francis Thompson's words
for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit )
by judicial fiat
.
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Miriam
had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly
, but one can feel
the generalized anger
in Wright's remarks
to reporters when he
was asked, one morning on arrival
in Chicago
, what he thought of
the city as a whole
.
He was then
asked for a solution of
the difficulty
, and began
to talk trenchant sense
, though private anguish showed through
in the vehemence of his manner
.
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Just as I
was about
to enlarge
upon my discovery of
the underside of
the leaf of love
, memory
, displeased at being
asked to yield its unsavory secrets
, dashed ahead of me
, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it
.
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Hearst's luck
was even poorer when he
had a chat with Franklin K. Lane
, a prominent California journalist and reform politician
, whom he
asked for his support
.
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This
was not before
the House but before
the Judiciary Committee
, where he
asked for action on one of his pet bills
, that calling
for an investigation of
the coal-railroad monopoly
.
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Upon intelligence that
the formidable agitator
was to favor them with his presence
, the benighted inhabitants of Pawtuxet
, alas
, gave their allegiance
to Massachusetts and
asked that colony
to expel
the newcomers
.
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I
asked one day what he
was doing
.
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There
had been something sinister about him that warned me against him
, -- I
had never felt that way about any other boy
, -- but when he uttered his name on
the telephone I
had forgotten this and I
was glad
to do what he
asked of me
.
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It reminded me of my other professor
, Edward Kennard Rand
, of whom I
had been so fond when I
was at Harvard
, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who
had asked me
to call him `` Ken ''
, saying
, `` Age counts
for nothing among those who have learned
to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''
.
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Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe
the philosopher Whitehead said
the Earth's first visitors
to Mars should be persons likely
to make a good impression
, and when he
was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??
He telephoned L. M. Birkhead and
asked him and his wife
to come
to Europe as his guests
, but Birkhead declined on
the grounds that one of them must be
in the United States when Elmer Gantry
was published
.
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Lewis looked at him and began
to cry
, and then
, saying that he
was going
to make a promise
, he
asked Blackman
to call
the porter and
to tell him
to take out all
the liquor that he did not want
.
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It
was the oldest and toughest question young lovers have ever
asked: How can you be sure??
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Mr. Dwyer said that although it
was obvious that Mr. Rayburn
was not well he stopped
, gave
the youngster his autograph
, asked where he
was from and expressed
the hope that he would enjoy his visit
to Congress
.
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The promoter who wanted
to sign him up
for the circus
asked him how he
was able
to do it
.
was and by
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Her face
was very thin
, and burned
by the sun until much of
the skin
was dead and peeling
, the new skin under it red and angry
.
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Gavin's stallion
was in the barn and he tightened
the cinches over
the saddle blanket
, working
by touch
in the darkness
, comforting
the animal with easy words
.
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It
was pierced
by a wagon gate built of two wings
.
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In
the brief moment I
had to talk
to them before I took my post on
the ring of defenses
, I indicated I
was sickened
by the methods men employed
to live and trade on
the river
.
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His face
was split
by a vermilion streak
, his eyes were pools of white ; ;
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It
was pitiful
to see
the thin ranks of warriors
, old and young
, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side
to side only
to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles
by the relentless slam
, slam of
the cruelly efficient Hawkinses
.
He grabbed her
by the shoulders and went down on one knee
, taking her weight so that some of
the wind
was driven out of him
.
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There
was an artificial lake just out of sight
in the first stand of trees
, fed
by a half dozen springs that popped out of
the ground above
the hillside orchard
.
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only
the counter at one end
was lighted
by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it
.
He had looked over my forms and
was impressed
by what he
had seen there ; ;
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The office
was of logs
, four rooms
, each heated
by an iron stove
.
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The building
was dwarfed
by the scene outside
.
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It
was partially cemented
by ages and pressure
, yet it crumpled before
the onslaught of
the powerful streams
, the force of a thousand fire hoses
, and with
the gold it held washed down through
the long sluices
.
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Even Hague
was repelled
by the machinelike deadliness that
was Kodyke
.
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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
.
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She
was sure she would reach
the pool
by climbing
, and she clung
to that belief despite
the increasing number of obstacles
.
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It
was secured
by an oversized padlock
.
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The rustling problem
was by no means solved
.
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Jess's coarse features twisted
in a surprised grin
which was smashed out of shape
by Curt's fist
.
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Russ ran through
the bills and named
an amount it
was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come
by honestly
.
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The truth
was, the puncher
was both bewildered and dismayed
by his own mixed luck
.
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When it
was followed
by a second
, whining even closer
, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression
.
0.063 seconds.