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was and guy
This guy was strictly from Outsville.
He had suspected this guy was trouble, and now he was sure of it.
`` Funny thing '', Mr. Kahler said, when they were seated, `` when I heard you ringing, I figured it was that guy down the block, Hausman ''.
My eyes were so bleary I could barely see him but there he was, a little smooth olivefaced guy in a new spring overcoat and a taffycolored fedora.
And anyway Burton was not the kind of guy who would be likely to get in trouble even when he was drunk.
I asked an old guy running a fishing station if the boat was Moore's.
Suppose -- just suppose this guy was really what he said he was!!
And you know you will always wonder all of your life whether it was because you wanted him so bad that you didn't get him, and you can feel nearly sorry enough to cry when you think of that other guy, the chump who begged you to marry him, the one with the plastered hair and the car he couldn't afford and the too-shiny shoes.
that he must have since he was there like the radio for you to turn on or snap off when you got tired of him, that other guy.
It dawns on you that instead of a lump to fill the seat across the bridge table from you, he was a man, and that because Gratt Shafer was making you miserable, you were passing it down to him, to Gratt Shafer's substitute, that other guy.
I know a guy named Jack Hamrick, a very bright young engineer who was with Chrysler, and I took him with me to Allstates.
* In episode 13, season 2 of 30 Rock entitled Succession Tracey Jordan says that he is Mozart and Frank is the guy who was always jealous of Mozart.
He was a brilliant guy — but a little screwed up ," Frazetta has said ( from The Comic Art of Frank Frazetta, 2008 ).
The wardens looked around the hills, stated Kulesh's evidence, that last time Kulesh had seen his workmate near the fireplace, Kulesh went out to work and Centurashvili left to warm himself more ; but when Kulesh returned to the fireplace, Centurashvili had vanished ; who knows, maybe he got frozen somewhere in snow, he was a weak guy (...) The wardens searched for two more days, and then assumed that it was an escape case, though they wondered why, since his imprisonment period was almost over (...) The crime was there.
All I did was swing a bat at that guy and get swung at in return.
As his first wife, actress and dancer Betsy Blair explained: " A sailor suit or his white socks and loafers, or the T-shirts on his muscular torso, gave everyone the feeling that he was a regular guy, and perhaps they too could express love and joy by dancing in the street or stomping through puddles ... he democratized the dance in movies.
Palin said, " This was Graham's manor and Graham was a lovely guy.

was and what
He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
He stood watching the girl, wondering what was coming next.
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??
The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??
Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.
He had found Curt's weakness, or what to Jess was a weakness, and was smart enough to take advantage of it.
He knew now what he was up against.
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.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
Anyway, it was evident what he had in mind ''.
As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.
I myself was fond of him but what a young woman half his age saw in him was a mystery to me.
Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.

was and always
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
The expression was his trade-mark, his open sesame to good luck, and his prayer that pilot and plane would always return.
Meredith's voice was always deep, with rough bass notes in it ; ;
With Ramey it was a dusty work shoe that was half-off the Indian's foot that he would always remember.
Sometimes he did this three or four times a day, for this Woman was almost always with him.
`` There was always and at all times a contemporary music and it expresses the era in which it was created.
Much as he abhorred slavery, Lincoln was always willing to concede to each `` slave state '' the right to decide independently whether to continue or end it.
The problem is to remove the accretions and thereby uncover the order that was always there.
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.
She could not face coffee or tea without milk, and was always craving types of food that were not available aboard a sailing ship.
He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.
As always, the ranks worked out new and better tactics, but there was brilliance in the way the field commands adopted these methods and in the way the army commanders incorporated them into their military thinking.
He was always concerned with life, and he tried to picture it whole ; ;
Mr. Banks was always called Banks the Butcher until he left town and the shop passed over to Meltzer the Scholar who then became automatically Meltzer the Butcher.
The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.
it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.
This is not to assume that his work was without merit, but the validity of his assumptions concerning the meaning of history must always be considered against this background of an unprofessional approach.
I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.
When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.
The Manchester Guardian wondered how anyone in a railway carriage would have an opportunity to talk to Mr. Lewis, since it was well known that Mr. Lewis always did all of the talking.
and this first section was somehow preserved ( there are always these annoying little mysteries about the actual facts of Malraux's life ) when the Gestapo destroyed the rest.
The evening was not always spent in the same way.

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