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" I can complain that by the way we could scarce see a dog, crow, kite, raven or any other bird, or anything to anatomize, only some few miserable people, the relics of the war and the plague where famine had made anatomies before I came.
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I and can
`` I can take care of this.
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.
So I can hear you while I'm checkin' the car.
Print it in real big letters, an' I can cipher it out later ''.
`` Yeah, I can see that '', the friend was forced to agree.
Now turn around so I can see your face ''.
`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.
I can see Dan.
Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.
`` I've got her as neat as I can '', Donovan said, as he dropped the straps of the Seton harness over Greg's shoulders.
I could show what I can do ''.
It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.
Even as I said it I realized that an education can be invaluable.
`` I know what we can do '', I said.
I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.
and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.
To this meek conjugation Nicolas had replied, `` O.K. I can use this blanket.
I can never pronounce it ''.
`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??
`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.
I and complain
He says the neighbors complain, but I don't believe it.
Actually, I shouldn't complain, I told myself in the shaving mirror.
`` I sure can't complain about the service in this place '', she said.
" That's just what I complain of ," said Humpty Dumpty.
Harkins reported that Minh “ has done nothing but complain to me about the government and the way it is handled since I have been here ”.
And she reportedly said ," Why should I complain about making $ 700 a week playing a maid?
The letter reads: " Dear Sir, I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the song which you have just broadcast about the lumberjack who wears women's clothes.
The scene would become one of the most notable moments of Divine's acting career, and he would later complain of people thinking that " I run around doing it all the time.
Yet Smyslov was to write in his autobiographical games collection Smyslov's Best Games, " I have no reason to complain of my fate.
Addressing the kadi and the kaid, I said ” ‘ Know that I am an Italian protected subject .’ Whereupon the kadi said to his guard: ‘ Remove the kerchief covering his head and strike him strongly ; he can then go and complain wherever he wants .’ The guards hastily obeyed and struck me once again more violently.
So I'm sitting here in tears, joing the rest of those kids who complain about their parents on blogs-and I can't help it.
He reveals that Hildebrand has been torturing him by treating him in luxury and giving him nothing to complain about ( Whene ' er I spoke sarcastic joke ).
Grey had no respect for the political stance that Heke assumed " I cannot discover that the rebels have a single grievance to complain of which would in any degree extenuate their present conduct and.
He commented, " I was favored in being surrounded with a group of exceptionally able and loyal assistants, whose abilities I myself admired, whose judgment I valued, and whose attitude toward myself was at all times ... enthusiastically cooperative .... Who was I to complain?
He wrote in his autobiography, " I suspect history will judge me harshly as a batsman because of my modest record in 23 Tests and I can't complain about that ".
: I says, " Earl, I'm not the type to complain
Upon her death, Maximilian Schell released a statement, saying in part: " Towards the end of her life, she suffered silently and I never heard her complain.
I and by
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
I stopped by the counter.
But, by gosh, I want him and I'm going to have him!!
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
I sat by her on the divan.
I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.
Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.
In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.
`` I got Margaret Rider in one of them old box cars down there by the quarry ''.
When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;
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