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No girl would go this far to fool a man so she could kill him.
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, McBride, would be cited as in the wrong, and he, Lord, would go scot-free, an officer who had only done his duty, though perhaps too energetically.
If someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.
But if Joyce got involved in murder or salacious scandal, the role would probably go to the sponsor's wife, Mrs. Oatnut Grits.
He and Penny would go out on tame elephants, raised from babyhood in the keddah.
`` There ain't nothin' faster, or lonelier, or more direct than a cannonball freight when you wanna go someplace '', Feathertop would say.
`` E '' stands for `` execution '' -- the moment a `` go order '' would unleash an American nuclear strike.
If communications work, his decision would be instantly known in all command posts that would originate the actual go order.
I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.
These proposals would go far toward creating the economic atmosphere favoring growth of the individual, who, in turn, would help us to cope with runaway technology.
After I would finish playing the songs, he'd just go away without a comment.
All the dogs would dash to get on the elevator with the President and go to the dining room.
She would often go up on the roof to see the attendant take down the flag in the evening.
`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.
Sturley on November 4 answered a letter from Quiney written on October 25 which imported, wrote Sturley, `` that our countriman Mr. Wm. Shak. would procure us monei: which I will like of as I shall heare when, wheare & howe: and I prai let not go that occasion if it mai sort to ani indifferent condicions.
They would go to New York together, where parties would be piled on weariness and on misery.

would and there
The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.
No doubt there would be men guarding the horses.
The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.
She remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.
She had the feeling that, under the mouldering leaves, there would be the bodies of dead animals, quietly decaying and giving their soil back to the mountain.
With the rapid rate of closure, the approach from below, the side, and ahead, there would be only a moment when damage could be done.
I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.
He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.
If life and death did not both present themselves to us, there would be no inscrutability.
If there were only darkness, all would be clear.
If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;
It would be interesting to know how much `` integration '' there is in the famous, fashionable colleges and prep schools of New England.
Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.
Thus the cocktail party would appear to be the ideal system, but there is one weakness.
This organizational network would be of no avail if there were no regulations pertaining to the types of message sent.
Paula says that even though Carl's letters usually began, `` Dear Miss Steichen '', there was an understanding from the beginning that they would become husband and wife.
If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.
The butlers were amused because when the Stearns were there, the President would say grace at breakfast.
If the Stearns were not there, grace would be omitted.
But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.
Mama would enjoy the sight of the famous guests as much as anyone, and would note a gown here and there to tell me about that night.

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