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I and ain't
I ain't a gunslinger ''.
`` I ain't going to fight you no more ''.
`` I know you ain't ''!!
Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.
`` I ain't ragging him ''!!
`` Yes, George, but I ain't got poor old Pat's body yet.
`` I ain't taking no goddamned chances for no Jew business ''.
`` I ain't hid nothing in the crib ''.
I can lead you to every one of the bodies, and there ain't four, nor five, nor six of 'em -- there's seven!!
`` I ain't kidding you, Vince.
I ain't no baby sitter ''.
And I ain't going back there on account of one lousy kid ''.
Lincoln commented, in response to Hugh McCullough's criticism of Johnson's behavior, that " I have known Andy Johnson for many years ; he made a bad slip the other day, but you need not be scared ; Andy ain't a drunkard.
" I can't act, I really can't act, I ain't no rapper, it's all game.
Sample lyrics: " Now ain't it strange that I feel like Philby / There's a stranger in my soul / I'm lost in transit in a lonesome city / I can't come in from the cold.
There ain't nothin ' funny about a drunk [...] I was really starting to believe that there was something amusing and wonderfully American about being a drunk.
An Ali biographer reports that, when interviewed by Robert Lipsyte in 1966, the boxer actually said, " I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong ".
" First of March I began to pray, ' Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way.
His CB handle was " Crazy Cooter " and he often started his CB transmissions with " Breaker one, Breaker one, I might be crazy but I ain't dumb, Craaaazy Cooter comin ' atcha, come on.
She said when accepting the award that her dad would probably quip, " Well, ain't I lucky.

I and against
`` I know you've got a grudge against me, and maybe I can't blame you.
`` I won't force Beth to come against her will.
I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.
Prior to 1954 I imagine that a majority of Southerners would have voted against the Confederacy.
`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.
This combined experience, on a foundation of very average, I assure you, intelligence and background, has helped me do things many well-informed people would bet heavily against.
`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!
Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.
Consequently, on October 31, 1896, Mrs. King wrote to Thompson, quite against her daughter's wishes, asking him not to `` recommence a correspondence which I believe has been dropped for some weeks ''.
yet the tide is too strong against us, and I fear ( if the framer of hearts help not ) it will force me to little Patience, a little isle next to your Prudence ''.
There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.
Without really changing the general subject, I take this opportunity to confess that I am troubled by doubts, not only about pacifism, but also when asked to join in the protest against a law that most of those who consider themselves humane and liberal seem to regard as obviously barbarous ; ;
I know a man who held resentment against a neighbor for more than three decades.
Once Peter asked, `` How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him??
But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.
Facing a prosecution which has demanded the death penalty, he said: ' I have participated in the war against Communism in Korea and at Dienbienphu, and I have helped in the evacuation of North Vietnamese to the free world.

I and you
`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.
You fell down in front of the house, and I carried you in.
I gave you a drink and then you went to sleep ''.
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
I saw you driftin away -- but I tried.
And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.
God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.
`` I made you what you are '', Gavin whispered.
`` I made you so you could stand up.
I made you a man ''.
The charge, I tell you ''!!
`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.
`` I thought I told you to stay home ''.
I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
`` I won't even try to thank you ''.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

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