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was and sure
She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.
This, he was sure, was the way they would act ; ;
But I'm sure the other one was Lou ''.
Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.
No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.
`` I was expecting it, sure.
He had suspected this guy was trouble, and now he was sure of it.
Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.
By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.
Lincoln was sure that he would not be re-elected.
It was the oldest and toughest question young lovers have ever asked: How can you be sure??
The three would never meet again, but for some reason or other Mr. Podger was sure he would always remember the incident.
I am sure that they did when Eisenhower was President.
He was not sure what kind of a man he had in hand.

was and if
He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.
Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.
He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.
The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.
It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.
Dill was silent as if he hated to answer, and Barton had a cold, sick feeling of apprehension.
But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.
When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.
But it also made him conspicuous to the enemy, if it was the enemy, and he hadn't been spotted already.
It was as if they could hardly wait to get into their costumes, cover their faces with masks and go adventuring.
I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.
So if all these beers was to get me in bed, man, you just spent a lot of money ''.
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??
It was spoiled now for seed, and it would sour and mold in three days if they failed to find a place and fuel to dry it.
He looked as if he was going to keel over.
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.
While his comrades cocked the trap, that one behaved as if it was some dull maneuver.

was and wanted
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
What Joyce wanted me to do was go to Thor's house and `` do whatever detectives do '', and get her clothes -- and handbag containing her identification.
His long nose wiggled at the smells of frizzling bacon and heating java, but the fire was low, and he wanted to waste no time.
The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.
This young slave was therefore quite unprepared when Delphine Lalaurie signaled that she wanted him to draw near.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.
A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.
There can be little doubt that there was a conspiracy in Washington, overt or implied, to block anything Hearst wanted, even if it was something good.
All we wanted to do was to stand very quietly and look and look and look.
Woodruff wanted this political windfall very badly, and everyone assumed that he would get it because he was a close friend of the governor and his stanchest supporter.
He was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;
The man, Tom said, explained that it was not only too long and detailed but that as it stood it wasn't the sort of thing the public wanted.
It was fantastic writing, beautiful writing, the man declared, but the public, he insisted, wanted realism.
One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.
My `` touchstones, had, been strictly '' literature and, humanly enough, American literature ( because that was what I wanted to write ).
All that the English lady wanted to do was to walk up to the monument and lay a wreath at its base.
The promoter who wanted to sign him up for the circus asked him how he was able to do it.
The funeral for my husband was just what I wanted and I paid a fair price, far less than I had expected to pay.
All I ever wanted was to be a free man in my own country.
It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.

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