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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.
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 smell
I have been so weary of the excessive rocking of the vessel, and the almost intolerable smell after the rain, that I have done little more than lounge on the bed for several days.
I was drunk with excitement and the smell of gunpowder that came floating down from the road, and the fact that I was not afraid now, but only waiting to know what to do next.
I was stumbling in my undershirt trying to find my way around her damn kitchenette when I smelt that sickish sweet hairtonic smell.
I didn't smell a drop of liquor, and we didn't have a bit of trouble ''.
He was able to smell a bargain -- and a masterpiece -- a continent away, and the Museum of Modern Art's Alfred Barr said of him: `` I have never mentioned a new artist that Thompson didn't know about ''.
The roast, from which I cut and ate a central slice, was tender, and in color, texture, smell as well as taste, strengthened my certainty that of all the meats we habitually know, veal is the one meat to which this meat is accurately comparable.
", and " The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
" I smell a rat [...] but I'll nip him in the bud " -- Irish politician Boyle Roche.
Sister Parish wrote of her design philosophy, " As a child, I discovered the happy feelings that familiar things can bring -- an old apple tree, a favorite garden, the smell of a fresh-clipped hedge, simply knowing that when you round the corner, nothing will be changed, nothing will be gone.
His line " I love the smell of napalm in the morning " from Apocalypse Now is now regarded as iconic in cinema history.
After a car crash that left him " unable to ' walk, see, speak, smell or taste '", he used the movement of his right thumb to write a book, I Ask the Right to Die ( Je vous demande le droit de mourir ) in which he voiced his desire to " die legally ".
:" But I was by this time so weary that I could have slept twelve hours at a stretch ; I had the taste of sleep in my throat ; my joints slept even when my mind was waking ; the hot smell of the heather, and the drone of the wild bees, were like possets to me ; and every now and again I would give a jump and find I had been dozing.
No matter how good I am as an artist, they always can smell where I come from.
* In the troll entry, a picture of a troll is drawn, next to it written, " My name is Gregory Goyle and I smell!
When she asks Frank if he likes her, Frank explains that the girl he wants will " wear satin ... and smell of cologne " (" The Girl That I Marry ").
His speech included his memorable statement " I can smell the uranium on it breath ...!

I and grease
Pressing a thug's head up against bubbling grease in a fry-o-lator basket: " OK ... Now I wanna know who's behind the pressure to get me out of town, hmmm.
These signs, bearing messages such as " Road does not end ," " Lubbock is a grease spot ," and " I have traveled a great deal in Amarillo ," may be found throughout the city of Amarillo.
* 70 Their heart is as fat as grease ; but I delight in thy law.
One day I said I was cookin ' with heavy grease.
Against my wont it is to be treading the camps, but its bread I ’ m hunting, regular bread with a mite of grease on it.

I and oil
Detail from an oil painting by Cosmo Alexander, 1770 ; in University Hall, Brown University, Providence, R. I.
In It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It, Adams recounts having been attacked for the alleged political content of his work, although in the case of one such strip ( where oil drilling kills a unicorn ) he excuses himself by saying " I just thought the image was funny.
The Bible refers to the denarius as a day's wage for a common laborer ( Matthew 20: 2 ; John 12: 5 ). The value of the denarius is referred to, though perhaps not literally, in the Bible at Revelation 6: 6: " And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, ' A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius Vulgate: bilibris tritici denario et tres bilibres hordei denario, δηναρίου in the original Greek ; and do not damage the oil and the wine.
* 1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, oil on panel, 1503 – 19, probably completed while the artist was at the court of Francis I of France | Francis I.
Common Group I base oil are 150SN ( solvent neutral ), 500SN, and 150BS ( brightstock )
The early vehicles, such as the Series I, were field-tested at Long Bennington and designed to be field-serviced ; advertisements for Rovers cite vehicles driven thousands of miles on banana oil.
* 222 – Pope Callixtus I is killed by a mob in Rome's Trastevere after a 5-year reign in which he had stabilized the Saturday fast three times per year, with no food, oil, or wine to be consumed on those days.
# Gas-prone sources containing Type I kerogen in Upper Triassic fluvial shales and Paleocene marine shales, the latter being correlative of oil and gas generating source rocks of the Deep Continental Shelf trend of the Bombay High Oil Province offshore west India ;
** A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600, 000 tons ( 176, 400, 000 gallons ) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date.
Boleslaw I being crowned, oil on canvas, by Jan Matejko
* " But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of the unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
* An edict issued by Valentinian I and Valens bans the importation of wine and olive oil from areas controlled by the barbarians.
* I will teach the world farming without oil
Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne, 1806, oil on canvas, 260 x 163 cm, Musée de l ' Armée, Paris
Economic growth was fueled by the general post – World War I recovery, as well as oil discoveries in Los Angeles and, most notably, the widespread introduction of the automobile.
" I think we at ECD we made a mistake of having a joint venture with an oil company, frankly speaking.
For the coronation of King Charles I in 1626 the holy oil was made of a concoction of orange, jasmine, distilled roses, distilled cinnamon, oil of ben, extract of bensoint, ambergris, musk and civet.

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