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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 see
There's someone there I have to see.
I could see them in my sights.
Far up the valley I could see the Rees circling and reorganizing.
I could see their faces glistening with sweat and bear grease, their mouths open, shouting their spine-chilling cries.
I could see the blood running down his chest.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.
Since they could see me but I not them, their presence in the hall disturbed me.
) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.
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.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
I kept circling the block hoping to see, from the street behind it, the rear of the hall.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.
Past it I could see part part of a desk, a flag in a corner, a rug on the floor.
Like Luis, I can't see something like this happening to me.
`` No, I never did see his face.
Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.
In the half darkness I approached cautiously, making sure he did not see me.
There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.
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.

I and us
When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
`` 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 ''.
When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.
Where I go, she goes -- and the kids with us.
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.
`` You have every right to be '', I replied gravely in the Manu dialect, but my attention was fixed on Brassnose, the biggest and strongest of us.
`` 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 ''.
`` 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 ''.
I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.
There has long existed a brotherly affection between us, thus I accepted him as my pupil.
`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.
The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.
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 ''.
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 ''.
Sturley on November 4 answered a letter from Quiney written on October 25 which imported, wrote Sturley, `` that our countriman Mr. Wm. Shak. would procure us monei: which I will like of as I shall heare when, wheare & howe: and I prai let not go that occasion if it mai sort to ani indifferent condicions.
The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.

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