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I and couldn't
But Johnson couldn't quickly unwire the truck door, and if I escaped, he might suffer.
It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.
`` I couldn't agree with you more ''.
veal cutlets: `` Oh, I couldn't possibly eat all this ''!!
`` I couldn't write with them in the same room with me, but I could with Harold.
No matter how large the fire, I couldn't seem to shake off the chill that day.
`` You see, once I relinquish the position I've already established here, I couldn't regain it without sacrificing the logic of it ''.
For a while there was such shrill girlish commotion I couldn't have made myself heard if I'd had the equivalent of the message to Garcia.
I couldn't make out what his racket was.
I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I couldn't watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.
I couldn't be sure he was still asleep.
`` Why, I couldn't even cook a piece of antelope steak ; ;
I couldn't invite Viola to our house, for Mother snobbishly refused to receive her.
I admired their easy way of doing things but I couldn't escape an uneasiness at their way of always doing the right things.
I couldn't feel at home among them.
She it was who had looked to see if I was wearing shoes upon learning that I couldn't drive.
I couldn't tell one from the other.

I and face
I heard the whir of an ax and a Canadian's face burst apart in a bloody spray.
I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian's face became shattered flesh and bone.
Now turn around so I can see your face ''.
Suddenly a treble auto horn tootley-toot-tootled, and, thumbing hopefully, I saw emergent in windshield flash: red lips, streaming silk of blonde hair and -- ah, trembling confusion of hope, apprehension, despair -- the leering face of old Herry.
`` No, I never did see his face.
He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.
In the bedroom before the husband and wife find their way to the bed, the lights go on: `` In dull domestic radiance I watch her staring face, still blind, Start wincing in obedience To dirty waters, counters, pots and pans, Waiting below stairs, in her mind ''.
His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!
Here Wright gave a slight sigh of weariness, and continued, `` It means more long years lived across the social grain of the life of our people, making shift to live in the face of popular disrespect and misunderstanding as I best can for myself and those dependent upon me ''.
Here I am face to face with the primeval stuff ''.
Now times have changed, and I must pretend that hair doesn't grow on my face.
Occasionally if I pushed him too far he'd give me a look out of narrowed eyes and the hard cruel bony skull would show through that smooth face of his.
The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head, fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed, but his face was turned to the wall -- there was the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster -- and I thought, Well you don't look much like a pig-drunk bully now.
The policeman got a confused, funny look on his face, and he had answered kind of politely, `` Now, look here, lady: I know you got to entertain these kids and all.
`` -- had enough brains to call ya up so as ya could do sompin about it when the parents -- I coulda let her go go '' -- His eyes were lowered, so he couldn't have seen the narrow, pointed face of his companion suddenly writhe with fury ; ;
I didn't see her till several days later at the wedding, and her face looked like it had never had a blemish on it.
Then Charlie spooned out some quick impressions of the Nikita he had glimpsed: `` I was captivated by his humor, frankness and good nature and by his kind, strong and somewhat sly face ''.
I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face ''!!
As I ministered to his needs, I noticed that his face was radiant in spite of his suffering and I learned that he was trusting not only in the skill of his doctor and nurse but also the Lord.

I and Thelma
I'd forgotten all about Thelma and the Kentucky Derby and how it was Thelma's fifty dollars I was spending.
I did have the decency to call up Thelma and tell her I'd met old friends and would be home late.
Afterwards I learned that Eileen had called Thelma on the telephone and made a big scene about Thelma trying to take her husband away.
Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.
Although called " John " by his first wife Thelma, Osbourne states that it has been a long time since he's recognised himself when called by his formal name .< ref name =" I Am Ozzy ">
" I had been involved with several women ", he said of his playboy period of his life, which included high-profile lovers such as the British debutante Margaret Whigham and Thelma, Viscountess Furness, an American who was simultaneously involved with the Prince of Wales.
As she told Time magazine, " I am incorporating the Thelma Morgan Pictures, Inc., with $ 100, 000 capital and will produce big, sane, and sound ' specials.
Although Barnes had other female lovers, in her later years she was known to claim, " I am not a lesbian ; I just loved Thelma.
As a member of the gospel quintet called The Sisters of Glory, which included Thelma Houston, Phoebe Snow, Lois Walden, Albertina Walker, and herself, Peniston would also record a spiritual album, Good News in Hard Times, that featured two solo traditionals (" How I Got Over " and " Precious Memories ") performed by the singer, four standards with her solo part (" Rough Side of the Mountain ", " He's Got the Whole World in His Hands ", " I Won't Be Back No More " and " Oh Happy Day "), as well as her chorus vocals on additional nine tracks.
Solomon performed " How Do I Live " and Thelma Houston's " Don't Leave Me This Way.
In her autobiography, Vicki called Thelma " the only role which I got to go to makeup to get ugly!
According to Mickey Jones ' book " That Would Be Me ", Thelma was fired from the group in late 1968 ( soon after the release of " But You Know I Love You " but before it would chart on the Hot 100 ) after missing too many gigs and rehearsals and replaced by her roommate, Mary Arnold, an Iowa born singer who beat out newcomer Karen Carpenter for the job.
She played Sarah in Kung Fu Kids, in movieas as Sharleen in I Do as Sharleen and as Hannah in Thelma.

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