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She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.
She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.
She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.
She realized I'd have to notify the police, but fervently hoped I could avoid mentioning her name.
She wrote in her journal, `` I have not heard the least profane language since I have been on board the vessel.
She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.
She entreated me to see a doctor, and when I refused, brought one out to see me.
She asked if I had other advice and, heady with success, I rushed it in, I hope not too late.
She said, `` I notice the girl from across the street hasn't bothered to phone or visit ''.
She got so drunk I had to take her home.
She was still laughing when I grabbed her and started rolling her on the bed.
She gave the nastiest laugh I ever heard.
She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.
She it was who had looked to see if I was wearing shoes upon learning that I couldn't drive.
She said to the saleslady, `` I want a dress to put on around the house ''.
She also taught them to sing `` I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate ''.
She looked confused at this, and I felt sure it had been a wrong response for me to make.
She says later, but still within the opening five minutes, `` I keep thinking of a divorce but that's another emotional death ''.
I and broke
I ducked just as the first strand broke somewhere down the line and came whipping over the sideboards.
I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.
But at long last came a time when I broke away from Mother and her society `` chi-chi '' in order to spend a cosy evening with Viola and her chaperon at her home.
And if you're as flat broke as I am, I think we'll have to take the added risk of knocking over a filling station or something before we split for one of us to set up an alibi while the other does his dirty work ''.
It is absurd of course to say that that one exclamation estranged me from the family I considered my very own, but there it hangs, a cooling void that broke our close connection with each other.
During the English Reformation the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church, at first temporarily under Henry VIII and Edward VI and later permanently during the reign of Elizabeth I.
The country seemed to be on the brink of civil war when World War I broke out in August 1914.
He thus broke allegiance with Philip and assembled a broad coalition including Emperor Otto IV, King John I of England, Duke Henry I of Brabant, Count William I of Holland, Duke Theobald I of Lorraine, and Duke Henry III of Limburg.
After the death of Jayavarman I in 681, turmoil came upon the kingdom and at the start of the 8th century, the kingdom broke up into many principalities.
In his memoirs, speaking of the United States, he wrote: " I know of no other country in the world " in which " a sixteen-year-old kid, broke and unable to speak the language " could achieve the successes he had.
War broke out less than fifty years after the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, " This is my body which is for you.
The First English Civil War broke out in 1642, largely as a result of an ongoing series of conflicts between James ' son, Charles I, and Parliament.
John Barrymore's long-running 1922 performance in New York, directed by Thomas Hopkins, " broke new ground in its Freudian approach to character ", in keeping with the post-World War I rebellion against everything Victorian.
When World War I broke out in 1914, despite Greece's treaty of alliance with Serbia, both leaders preferred to maintain a neutral stance.
When World War I broke out in Western Europe, Moseley left his research work at the University of Oxford behind to volunteer for the Royal Engineers of the British Army.
However, World War I broke out in August 1914, and Moseley turned down this job offer to enlist in the Royal Engineers of the British Army instead.
I. M. Pei and Associates officially broke from Webb and Knapp in 1960, which benefited Pei creatively but pained him personally.
World War I broke out in 1914.
I and off
He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.
And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.
I had signed it off on the forms.
Couldn't I just '' -- His voice trailed off into silence.
I guided her to the divan, turned off the TV, faced her.
I was loaded with suds when I ran away, and I haven't had a chance to wash it off.
I suppose a Lascar sailor had sneaked a cigarette in the hold and touched off the blaze.
He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.
In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;
I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.
I thought it expedient to take off my derby, my glasses, and the beard ; ;
As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.
After scouring around a bit in the open area, I came across what proved to be tar-soaked logs which crackled and burned brightly, giving off vast rolls of smoke into the ashen sky.
No matter how large the fire, I couldn't seem to shake off the chill that day.
`` I leave this church with a feeling that a great weight has been lifted off my heart, I have left my grudge at the altar and forgiven my neighbor ''.
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.
I went off with Cousin Simmons, who maintained that if he didn't see to me, he didn't know who would.
There I was a retired wobbly and structural iron worker who'd never gouged a cent off a fellow worker in my thirty years in the movement.
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