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I and could
`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.
`` I made you so you could stand up.
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.
I could smell woodsmoke, grease, and oil.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
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.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.
I could not cling to my past nor did I wish to.
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 could consult this personage on any weekday morning, though not before ten o'clock.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

I and evoke
I was far from convinced of the truth of my statement, but could not think of anything that might evoke responses more quickly.
That which I found most profound and most disturbing appeared to evoke a curiously muted reaction.
Elizabeth I of England was portrayed holding a sieve to evoke Tuccia, the Vestal who proved her virtue by carrying water in a sieve.
Some phraseologies, especially in religious contexts, retain archaic elements that are not used in ordinary speech in any other context: " With this ring I thee wed ." Archaisms are also used in the dialogue of historical novels in order to evoke the flavour of the period.
The chords stress the flat VII ( C-natural in the key of D major ) and frequently involve a major / minor I chord ( D / Dm ), which evoke either Mixolydian or Dorian modes.
The opening " Better Than Broken ", the brooding " Happy Anniversary ", and the acoustic wistful " Where I Come From " all evoke the aftermath of romantic upheaval .... " Middle Man " could be the band's signature tune defining a sensibility that is Middle American in more than geography.
The film's name, Sallah Shabati is a play on words ; ostensibly a Yemenite Jewish name, it is also intended to evoke the phrase סליחה שבאתי, " sorry that I came ".
Robert Alan Aurthur, who was present during the filming and interviewing of Truman later said, "... an image I can easily evoke ... in that brief time when we knew and worked with Harry Truman, is any moment when Merle Miller walked into a room or office where Harry Truman was waiting ... if Truman did not ignore the rest of us completely ... for Merle, always a smile, always an inside greeting that had to do with a couple of fellas from Missouri and Iowa ... both were from the Midwest ; both had strong mothers, weak eyes ... a boyhood and lifelong devotion to books and music, total dedication to the truth, and a sense of history which encompasses an uncanny ability to relate past events, great and small, not with 20-20 hindsight or fashionable revisionism, but purely in their own terms as they happened.
Prefaced by the literary quotation "... and this prayer I make, / Knowing that Nature never did betray / The heart that loved her ,...( lines 121-123 from Wordworth's " Tintern Abbey "), this movement is obviously from its title intended to evoke the world of Thomas Hardy.

I and no
And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
`` I got no place to go ''.
Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.
I meant him no harm.
Maybe I should withdraw my advice -- no ''??
`` I ain't going to fight you no more ''.
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 seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.
He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.
Certainly not, I mean, no that isn't what I said ''!!
Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.
`` 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 ''.
The debate needed no additional controversy and soon I could ask each individually what he expected from life, what his hopes were and what his fears.
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 ''.
When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )
When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.
`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.

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