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was and no
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.
There was no one but me.
there was no doubt he was dying.
`` Oh, no '', he said, and he was without humor now.
The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't stop to graze.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
There was no chance.
There was no moon.
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.
Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.
There was to be no gunplay.
The rustling problem was by no means solved.
There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.
Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.
Glowering looks met them in the bar, but there was no attempt to halt them.
As far as he could see there was no hole to climb through it.
There was, of course, no way for the other planes to get by them.
He had no idea which was up and which was down.
Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

was and longer
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.
But the time came when I was no longer innocent and therefore no longer helpless.
by now it was perhaps two days or longer after Papa had begun hemorrhaging.
Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.
The doctor, since Scotty was no longer allowed to make his regular trips into town to see him, came often and informally to the house.
He was no longer worried.
Dancing was no longer permitted in the streets.
Drunkenness was no longer tolerated.
He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.
Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.
But just when was an unknown, and of course the longer it did not happen, the stronger her wish and belief that it might not.
Particularly was this true when the norms previously applied were no longer satisfactory to many, when customs were rapidly changing as the forces of the new productivity were harnessed.
The old way of doing things, which depended on a relatively stable community with stable ideas dealing with familiar situations, was no longer adequate to the task.
The legislative mills have been grinding ever since, and when its cumbersome processes were no longer adequate to the task, a limited legislative authority was delegated in one form or another, to the executive.
Metaphysics is no longer a direct grappling with nature as it was in antiquity.
It was observed that EWC macromolecules are the same diameter ( 15 a. ) but much longer ( up to several microns ) than vertebrate tropocollagen.
By 1952 he was convinced he would no longer spray.
It was no longer fashionable to be seen with fabulous `` Lady Harrington ''.
His sudden unannounced appearance at the Borden home was strange in that he did not carry an iota of baggage with him, although he clearly intended to stay overnight, if not longer.
Radio, however, so increased the interest of women in the game that it was hardly necessary even to have `` Ladies' Days '' any longer to enable men to get to the ball park without interference at home.

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