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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 enemy
`` I never saw men '', Lafayette declared in regard to the riflemen, `` so merry, so spirited, and so desirous to go on to the enemy, whatever force they might have, as that small party in this fight ''.
For all her domineering ways, I can't conceive of her having had a deadly enemy ''.
Some Allied officers who were acquainted with the superior numbers of the enemy, and aware of their strong defensive position, ventured to remonstrate with Marlborough about the hazards of attacking ; but the Duke was resolute – " I know the danger, yet a battle is absolutely necessary, and I rely on the bravery and discipline of the troops, which will make amends for our disadvantages ".
* 1917 – World War I: is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine.
During World War I the dachshunds ' popularity in the United States plummeted because of this association and there are even anecdotes such as a Dachshund being stoned to death on the high street of Berkhamsted, England at this time because of its association with the enemy.
At that time, and even into World War I, the only function of destroyers was to protect their own battle fleet from enemy torpedo attacks and to make such attacks on the battleships of the enemy.
Fighters were developed in World War I to deny enemy aircraft and dirigibles the ability to gather information by reconnaissance.
During World War I, most Jews supported the Germans because they were fighting the Russians who were regarded as the Jews ' main enemy.
( Julian would state in late November that he set off down this road " because, having been declared a public enemy, I meant to frighten him merely, and that our quarrel should result in intercourse on more friendly terms ...")
At the start of World War I, he was working in London and was classified as an enemy alien but was befriended by the Duke of Westminster and given exit papers.
Gregory VII died in 1085, and Matilda's forces, with those of Prince Jordan I of Capua ( her off and on again enemy ), took to the field in support of a new pope, Victor III.
* 1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: " I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing.
For example, Photius I of Constantinople, who became Patriarch in 858 and was deposed by Pope Nicholas I in 863, was an enemy of the Pope.
However, the death of the Caliph al-Walid I in 715 gave Anastasius an opportunity to turn the tables on the enemy.
In 1542, facing a common Habsburg enemy, Francis I sought to renew the Franco-Ottoman alliance.
The high altitude and freezing conditions also cause logistical and welfare difficulties ; in past similar conflicts ( such as the Italian Campaign of World War I ) more casualties have been caused by the harsh conditions than enemy action.
( I asked, " Who is his enemy?
The treaty marked Russia's final withdrawal from World War I as an enemy of her co-signatories, on unexpectedly humiliating terms.
Harding endorsed peace to be established between all former enemy nations from World War I ; and the funding and liquidation of war debts.
I do not know what they'll do to the enemy, but by God, they frighten me!
* 1075 – 1076: a civil war in the Western Chalukya Empire of India ; the Western Chalukya monarch Somesvara II plans to defeat his own ambitious brother Vikramaditya VI by allying with a traditional enemy, Kulothunga Chola I of the Chola Empire ; Somesvara's forces suffered heavy defeat, and was eventually captured and imprisoned by Vikramaditya, who proclaimed himself king.

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