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`` I couldn't write with them in the same room with me, but I could with Harold.
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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 ''!!
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 face Thelma after that night.
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 write
I write about Northern liberals from considerable personal experience.
And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).
At a party an English intellectual -- so-called -- asked me why I write always about distress.
Even Harriet could boldly write, `` I know not how it is ; ;
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
I had advised friends to write me to `` No Man's Land, Pont Kehl, Between Strasbourg and Kehl, France-Germany ''.
& synce I did write unto him to dessier him to paie 10 for mee which standeth mee greatly uppon to have paide.
Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.
My `` touchstones, had, been strictly '' literature and, humanly enough, American literature ( because that was what I wanted to write ).
I feel compelled to write this because I am greatly concerned with the problem of community growth rate and the relation between types of growth in a town such as East Greenwich.
Krist, I wish they could write!!
`` This is the sort of stuff I write and then throw away ''!!
`` And in the future, since I write for a public of one, I can save the poor publishers from wasting their money ''.
I can see it from this window where I write.
`` And I am not sure that I have any cash -- any money, that is -- but if you will wait just a minute I will write you out a check if I can find my checkbook.
I and with
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.
I could see their faces glistening with sweat and bear grease, their mouths open, shouting their spine-chilling cries.
I have it with me, right here.
I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??
When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.
As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.
What sort of men I would come into contact with, at the hall??
I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.
Where I go, she goes -- and the kids with us.
I am with you, of course, Tomas ''.
At these words of sympathy and understanding, Harmony said generously, `` I don't mind setting here along with Gran while you go out and join in the games ''.
Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.
`` Moriarty '', my driver suddenly exclaimed with something so definite, so final in his tone I once more repeated the absurdity, mustering all my latent powers of hypocrisy to sound convinced.
Adios '', I said, exhausting my Spanish vocabulary on my host and exchanging one of a scarcely-tapped store of smiles with my host's daughters.
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