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I and am
`` I am.
Now, are you going to take me or am I supposed to walk ''??
I am with you, of course, Tomas ''.
And Hank Maguire added, `` So am I, Tom ''.
You must forgive me if I seem to dwell too much on her physical aspects but I am an artist, accustomed to studying the physical body.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.
I don't suppose a wife should be grateful to her husband for saving her life, but I am.
`` I am an honest man '', the German said with fervor.
I am naive, they say, to make use of such words.
I am concerned here, however, with the Northern liberal's attitude toward the South.
I should like, by the way, to make it clear that I am not using the word `` Persians '' carelessly.
`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.
I am certainly not adequately trained to describe or enlarge on human fears, but there are certain features of the fears dispelled by scientific explanations that stand out quite clearly.
I am usually filled with an uneasiness that through some unwitting slip all hell may break loose.
I am not a philosopher.
`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.
Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.

I and good
`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.
I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.
When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.
`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.
`` Dear Miss Steichen: It is a very good letter you send me -- softens the intensity of this guerilla warfare I am carrying on up here.
In any case I do not intend to let the present occasion pass without dealing more directly with the problem of implementing good intentions.
`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.
The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.
Sir Ed. Gre. is gonne to Brestowe and from thence to Lond. as I heare, who verie well knoweth our estates and wil be willinge to do us ani good ''.
Wherefore I thynke yow maye doo good yff yow can have money ''.
But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.
`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.
Without the good magazines, without their book reviews, their hospitality to European writers, without above all their awareness of literary standards, we might very well have had a generation of Krim's heroes -- Wolfes, Farrells, Dreisers, and I might add, Sandburgs and Frosts and MacLeishes in verse -- and then where would we be??
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 feel that few burglars would be prone to break and enter into someone's apartment if they were met with a good hardy growl that a dog would provide.
The matter may seem a small thing to some people, I know, but it's a very good start on the road to Totalitarianism The Commission has posted signs in Washington Square saying:
Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

I and sergeant
During World War I, Roncalli was drafted into the Royal Italian Army as a sergeant, serving in the medical corps as a stretcher-bearer and as a chaplain.
When his family learns that he has no plans to join the army in World War I, they spurn him, prompting him to enlist as a drill sergeant.
* World War I: An unpopular sergeant was killed when one of his men came up behind him and dropped an unpinned hand grenade down his trousers.
The Royal Marines continued to use a single rank of sergeant major, equating to warrant officer class I, until after the Second World War, when they adopted the Army system.
During World War I he was Adolf Hitler's sergeant.
He was assigned to Troop I, 3rd Squadron, 9th Cavalry at Ft. Duchesne, Utah, first as the troop ’ s clerk and later as squadron sergeant major.
After leaving the military with the rank of master sergeant, he moved to New York City and pursued an acting career on the G. I.
By World War I it had given way to company sergeant major and company quartermaster sergeant, but it was later reintroduced.
The triangle is named after Charles Heisser, a World War I sergeant with the 106th Infantry, that was killed in action in France on September 27, 1918.
He was a sergeant in the Artillery Corps during World War I, serving from 1917-1918.
Further, it constitutes the last third of the track Medley on the 1988 album If I Should Fall from Grace with God by The Pogues ( the two first parts being Recruiting sergeant and an instrumental version of Rocky Road to Dublin ).
Gourley was 24 years old, and a sergeant in the ' D ' Battery of the 276th ( West Lancashire ) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, British Army during World War I when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On release after the 1993 Oslo Accords, he joined the Palestinian Authority's Palestinian Security Forces He became a sergeant, but left, disillusioned, after a year, complaining: " There were colleagues whom I had taught to read who were promoted to senior positions because of nepotism and corruption.
Lister was 30 years old, and a sergeant in the 1st Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army during World War I when he received the Victoria Cross for his actions at the battle of Passchendaele, Belgium on 9 October 1917.
Drake had risen from private to sergeant in World War I, been commissioned and eventually commanded the 168th Infantry, 34th Infantry Division in the North African campaign, where he and his regiment were captured by the Germans at the Battle of Kasserine Pass.
He began a first sergeant in the first camouflage section of the U. S. Army Engineers during World War I and was awarded the active service medal.
Constables quarters while Brennan went to tackle the barracks sergeant, Sergeant Porter: “ I sent my three or four companions to capture the guard and two men in bed and I went along to the sergeants quarters myself.
His career was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, as he was drafted into the army as a sergeant.
The sergeant then said that he would run the bayonet into me if I did not tell.
Many of the volunteering Australians had come late to action in World War I but Pearse was a battle-hardened veteran and was soon promoted to sergeant.
He was 28 years old, and a sergeant in ' L ' Battery, Royal Artillery ( RHA ), British Army during the World War I when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

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