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`` I ain't drawin' against you '', Jess said thickly.
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 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.

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Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.
In taking account of seventeen years of law practice, Adams concluded that `` no lawyer in America ever did so much business as I did '' and `` for so little profit ''.
I realize, in taking this stand, just what it means to me and mine ''.
I replied in the affirmative, taking out my recently acquired titre d'identite et de voyage, on which was stamped a permission to leave France.
As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.
Whole platoons were taking up new positions on the steps, arriving and departing, while I stayed glued, like a signpost, to one spot.
I asked, taking a final gulp of my drink, and handing him the empty glass.
There had been some coconut in it, for I remember my mother's taking a quick glance at a stringy bit of this nut on the cheek of one of them and then putting down her radish with a shiver.
The father, accurately perceiving the child's needs, not only respected them as worthy of his attention, but immediately satisfied them by taking him on his lap along with the twins, saying, `` I have a big lap ; ;
Or am I taking something that could really apply to almost anybody, and forgetting that many other people probably have had a similar experience ''??
`` I considered that your views would be best carried out '', he explained, `` by taking women whose progeny will of course be free & more fully extend the philantrophy of Emancipation.
`` I think you aren't taking me seriously, Phil.
He keeps riding me because I like to listen to the radio and sing while I'm taking a bath.
`` I am taking the position that the contract was clearly violated '', Berger said.
`` It would make me feel a lot better, but the Woman's Exchange isn't taking baked goods any more and I can't leave the baby with Grandma because she isn't strong enough and the baby's too young to be put in a nursery ''.
I've always admired him, and when I heard he was taking a few pupils, I went to him and joined his class ''.
And when she returned from taking her guests back to New York she had said, `` All they talked about was Harvie Harvie this, Harvie that When they know the truth will they drop away from me, will I become a nothing ''??
`` I guess so '', she said taking a Kleenex from her purse.
* 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
But I wasn't taking any chances.
As if she were weighed down with old age and worn out by grief, she walked slowly and when she approached the actual entrance to the sanctuary made two genuflections ; on the third she sank to the floor and taking firm hold of the sacred doors, cried in a loud voice: " Unless my hands are cuff off, I will not leave this holy place except on one condition: that I receive the emperor's cross as guarantee of safety ".

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