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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 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 blood
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.
If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??
I expected Brassnose -- as a man with a strain of Melanesian in his blood -- to speak to them.
`` I truly smelled blood, death, heaps of corpses everywhere ''.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
`` But why in the name of God can't I give my father blood ''??
A disturbing picture of bad blood, to be further heightened with illicit if buccolic colors, for on a subsequent day I saw Handley escorting Anta, Red's wife, up on Dogtown Common.
* 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.
However, this was not successful, for according to Gregory of Tours, Amalaric pressured her to forsake her Roman Catholic faith and convert to Arian Christianity, at one point beating her until she bled ; she sent to her brother Childebert I, king of Paris a towel stained with her own blood.
For example, at the gene locus for the ABO blood type carbohydrate antigens in humans, classical genetics recognizes three alleles, I < sup > A </ sup >, I < sup > B </ sup >, and I < sup > O </ sup >, that determine compatibility of blood transfusions.
Preaching directly against the Christian dogma, Abbahu says: " A king of flesh and blood may have a father, a brother, or a son to share in or dispute his sovereignty, but the Lord saith, ' I am the Lord thy God!
Ivinskaya later recalled, " But I became so ill through loss of blood that she and Luisa had to get me to the hospital, and I not longer remember exactly what passed between me and this heavily built, strong-minded woman, who kept repeating how she didn't give a damn for our love and that, although she no longer loved Leonidovich herself, she would not allow her family to be broken up.
New members swore " I (...), by entering into the society, do hereby swear by the Sun which shineth upon me, by the Earth which feedeth me, by God, by the blood of my forefathers, by my honour and by my life, that from this moment onward and until my death, I shall faithfully serve the task of this organisation and that I shall at all times be prepared to bear for it any sacrifice.

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