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He was told to ask for Rabbi Melzi at the synagogue on Saturday afternoon.
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There was more to this than Jones had told him.
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
It was a fair fight, the boy provoked it -- Big Charlie told me so.
Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.
I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.
By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.
`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??
I was waiting in front of it when she showed up and told me of my Uncle's indisposition.
I was aware of a humid look in her eyes that told me the time was opportune.
The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.
Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!
Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.
`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.
He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.
He commented -- thoughtfully, a reporter told us -- that it was `` not too important for the individual how he ends up ''.
He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.
What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.
You know Bang-Jensen was told the Committee was ' to convey its views, suggestions and recommendations to the Secretary General.
Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.
Mama had told her how Emmett's lungs had been affected when he was gassed in the war.
was and ask
it was visiting University of North Carolina alumni in New York to ask them for contributions to the Graham Memorial Building fund.
He did not explain where he was going, and they did not ask.
There was no reason for her to ask what they did.
All this was unknown to me, and yet I had dared to ask her out for the most important night of the year!!
She was going to keep on scheming, poking, prodding, suggesting, and dictating until the cops got up enough interest in him to go back to their old neighborhood and ask questions.
At that moment, Holden almost slammed on the brakes to go back to Cooper and ask if Ferguson was about.
There was also the one salient question to ask, and ask widely: Did you notice anything out of the way??
According to Stacy, she told him she was planning to remarry and she wanted him to ask Forbes for the lump sum.
Such efforts almost always find themselves compelled to ask whether Adam was created capable of growing old and then older and then still older, in short, whether Adam's life was intended to be part of the process of time.
To ask me to believe that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any of those recorded in the Bible.
I was delighted with Paula Prentiss' comedy performance, which was as fresh and unstilted as one's highest hopes might ask.
He was the captain, so he could ask questions like that.
Only the memory of previous hurt, bewilderment and perplexity made him sure that if he did not ask B'dikkat when he, Mercer, was happy, the answer would no longer be available when he needed it.
After the battle, according to a tradition reported by Paul the Deacon, to be granted the right to sit at his father's table, Alboin had to ask for the hospitality of a foreign king and have him donate his weapons, as was customary.
Again, it was not enough to merely ask or urge his audiences to put aside their blood loyalties and ethnic differences, and embrace the equality of all Muslims under the Sacred Law, it was necessary to make them do so.
He was next sent by the Pope to the Emperor Sigismund to ask his aid in the pope's efforts to end this Council, which for five years had been encroaching on papal prerogatives.
In 88 BC, there was a revolution under the philosopher Athenion, who persuaded the Assembly to agree to elect whoever he might ask to office.
His death causes Paul to ask himself, " What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician in school?
At one point, Charles was forced to flee to Arnulf and ask for his protection.
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The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.
He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.
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.
It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
He was naked except for a clout.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.
But it was not easy for him and he often slipped.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
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 was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.
It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.
I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.
Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.
He was readying a batch of sourdough biscuits for the Dutch oven.
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