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was and aware
Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.
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.
He was only vaguely aware of the sluicing rain.
It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.
I was aware that when our eyes met we both quickly averted them.
Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.
I was aware of a humid look in her eyes that told me the time was opportune.
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.
But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.
Rob Roy was well aware of the importance of this mission, and he would walk in front of the President, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
Students of anthropology and comparative religion had long been aware that there was, indeed, a direct connection.
He was aware of insistent inner beatings, as if prisoners within sought release from his rigid body.
Rousseau was aware that he must seem like a hypocrite, standing there and arguing that he could not possibly permit a public performance.
and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.
She did this now, comfortably aware of the mist running down the windows, of the silence outside, of the dark afternoon it was getting to be.
She stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.
At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;

was and her
He was well rid of her.
Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.
It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.
He treats her like she was dirt.
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
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.
He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.
That girl last night, what was her name??
It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.
So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

was and frightfully
I was influenced by Christian thinking, and he would say " That's frightfully pompous and it's not really the point.
Hyperbole was rife (' frightfully ', ' ghastly ', ' appalling '), but there were signs of an influence from the more demotic speech of the capital, at the other end of the King's Road.

was and good-looking
It seems clear he was a good-looking, engaging young man, whose easy humour and kindness towards the sisters made a considerable impression.
: was rather good-looking.
The good-looking Cleitus was made immortal by her.
He was a tall, good-looking, silver-haired, with the kindest brown eyes.
Simon Grynée wrote to Martin Bucer in September 1531 that Anne was " young, good-looking, of a rather dark complexion ".
Director Lasse Hallström admitted he was initially looking for a less good-looking actor but finally settled on DiCaprio as he had emerged as " the most observant " among all auditioners.
A good-looking woman, but ( rarely for the hyperbole of her age ) never described as beautiful, Margaret had fine features, and was, at almost 6 feet, very tall, a feature accentuated by her slimness, and her straight and upright bearing.
He was good-looking but arrogant and disrespectful towards numerous other youths who became enamoured of him and sought his attention.
In 1920, at the age of 17, he was thrown out of the dormitory after being accused of writing a love letter to a good-looking boy in a lower class, and had to commute to school by train.
It should also be noted that Touvier was unusually good-looking, almost pretty, with wavy blond hair, delicate features and deep-set, intense blue eyes.
As a boy, he was reported to be intelligent and good-looking.
Piso was tall, good-looking, affable, and an excellent orator and advocate in the courts.
American Vogues creative director Grace Coddington, then a model herself, said " It was the Sixties, it was a raving time, and Bailey was unbelievably good-looking.
" In early 1858, Alfred Pretor ( 1840-1908 ), a spirited, good-looking friend of Symonds, sent Symonds a letter, telling him that he was having an affair with Vaughan ; and showed him several love letters.
He was scholar, linguist, musician, and chemist, good-looking, and a perfect ladies ' man.
British historian Alison Weir concludes that the marriage was unhappy, principally because of George, although she concludes that the exact nature of his sexuality is difficult to ascertain: " talented young man ... he was very good-looking and very promiscuous.
) appeared in the film as herself ( according to Tony Wilson, she was the only one still good-looking enough to play herself ).
He was also a good-looking man with regular features, bushy hair, very black whiskers, and wore an excited expression while sounding forth on great authors about whom he invited his students to make a pastiche on general or philosophical themes.
Zhou Yu was an intelligent young man, who was considered handsome and good-looking by his contemporaries.

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