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would and tell
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
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.
It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.
He composed songs and set them to music and sang them in a soft, melodious voice, and when his audience had had enough of music he would discourse on politics or tell stories of his western adventures guaranteed to excite the emotions of men and women alike.
But you could ( as from yourself ) tell her that you had friends who, being with the army, don't know what to do with their money and would willingly let her have one or many thousand dollars ''.
Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.
If he had had a son, he would tell him, `` Gather ye rosebuds while ye may This same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying ''.
He would hear the Call and would run to tell Papa.
But the thought occurred that God would want this opportunity used to tell them about Him.
I did have the decency to call up Thelma and tell her I'd met old friends and would be home late.
If and when Hino decided to tell him about his experiences, he would do so unasked.
To tell John something he would find out for himself.
`` What possessed you to tell me a clotheshorse would be a good idea ''??
He would tell the Poles, he said, that they had been `` given a fine place to live in, more than three hundred miles each way ''.
When the date would try to bid her good-night at the door, she would tell him, `` If you go home now, I'll scream ''.
I would tell them I got a letter from home stating that five of my Negroes had runaway and ten of Pappy's.
But, as he snarled unhappily when the inning was over, `` not a sonofabitch in the place would tell me '', so little Tommy ran all the way home.
But one day, she expected, he would somehow discover, without her having to tell him, that there was such a woman in the world ; ;
Then he could tell them to go home, while the administration continued to wage the battle with the $28 million in extra revenues the sales tax measure would bring in over an eight months period.
Waiting for what and for whom, only he could tell and would not.
Just the same, the old woman said, she would write to her nephew in his boxcar and tell him she had met a nice man from his adopted country.

would and her
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.
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 did not pause to consider what she would do if her plan should fail ; ;
Indian ghosts would not impinge upon his nights, nor would his days be haunted by the dimly-outlined, ill-conceived figure of her benighted ancestor.
His presence would have interfered with her duty.
At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??
She had to move in some direction -- any direction that would take her away from this evil place.
She began it deliberately, so that none of her words would be lost on him.
He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.
But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.
It bothered her that she probably would never know.
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.
How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

would and pry
If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.
This forces Reed Richards to seize control of the country, attempting to pry the populace out from under the thumb of Doom, while at the same time disarming all of Doom's weaponry and technology, so if he ever returned, he would come back to absolutely nothing.
In order to get the meeting going, they would always have to pry the guys away from the bar.
This would have required significant force to pry the urethra open to this extent.
The use of the pry bar would not constitute an entry even if a portion of the prybar " entered " the residence.
Thus, if the perpetrator uses the prybar to pry open the window and then used his hands to lift the partially opened window, an " entry " would have taken place when he grasped the bottom of the window with his hands.
) The idea is to pry open Black's kingside by h4 – h5 followed by hxg6 (... gxh5 would greatly weaken the cover to Black's king ) with an ensuing kingside assault.
Then all would take a step toward their rail and pull up and forward on their pry bars to lever the track — rails, crossties and all — over and through the ballast.
Users were urged to actually run up to the tank and place it by hand, rather than throw it, thus the adhesive could very easily stick to their uniform in the process ; the user would then be placed in the unenviable situation of attempting to pry the grenade loose whilst still holding onto the lever.

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