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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 see
There's someone there I have to see.
It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.
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.
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.
`` Yeah, I can see that '', the friend was forced to agree.
Now turn around so I can see your face ''.
I can see Dan.
`` 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.
`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??
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 ancient
I had a one-room studio which overlooked an ancient courtyard filled with flowers and plants, blooming everlastingly in the southern sun.
Foster Lukuklu Frayne made a sign over his heart with his two linked thumbs: I recognized it as an ancient Manu gesture intended to propitiate the Devil.
My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;
During World War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Greek genocide ( especially in Pontus ), and the Assyrian Genocide almost entirely removed the ancient communities of Armenian and Assyrian populations in Anatolia, as well as a large part of its ethnic Greek population.
* Some ancient Egyptian statues of Anubis read ,"... I am death ... I eat ambrosia and drink blood ..." which hints that ambrosia is a food of some sort.
Pope Leo I requests Genseric not destroy the ancient city or murder its citizens.
It was founded in AD 330, at ancient Byzantium as the new capital of the Roman Empire by Constantine I, after whom it was named.
Yin, Yang, and the five elements are associated with themes in the I Ching, the oldest of Chinese classical texts which describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy.
The current club crest represents Cangrande I della Scala, an ancient seignor from Verona.
The name diamond is derived from the ancient Greek αδάμας ( adámas ), " proper ", " unalterable ", " unbreakable ", " untamed ", from ἀ-( a -), " un -" + δαμάω ( damáō ), " I overpower ", " I tame ".
The term dialect ( from the ancient Greek word Διάλεκτος diálektos, " discourse ", from διά diá, " through " + λέγω legō, " I speak ") is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists.
The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase (" whose name I do not wish to recall "): (" In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.
The most ancient doors were in timber, those made for King Solomon's temple being in olive wood ( I Kings vi.
From this doctrine arose the Epicurean epitaph: Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo ( I was not ; I was ; I am not ; I do not care ) – which is inscribed on the gravestones of his followers and seen on many ancient gravestones of the Roman Empire.
I have already almost finished emending him by collating a large number of ancient manuscripts, and this I am doing at enormous personal expense.

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