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I and did
`` I think Montero did right '', Amy said firmly.
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.
I could not cling to my past nor did I wish to.
My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??
I wished to prepare myself but did not even know what sort of clothes I ought to be wearing.
I did not despair, however ; ;
For weeks I wandered about this neighborhood of warehouses and garages, truck terminals and taxi repair shops, gasoline pumps and longshoremen's lunch counters, yet never did I cease to feel myself a stranger there.
I did it for the valley.
If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!
`` No, I never did see his face.
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.
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

I and notice
`` One thing I notice which I have seldom heard mentioned.
She said, `` I notice the girl from across the street hasn't bothered to phone or visit ''.
Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.
Became `` Yes, the first half hour is tough, but by then I'm so numb I don't notice it ''!!
I could tell you of plenty narrow escapes, but we take no notice of them now ''.
`` I didn't notice it.
( When you see him, you'll notice his habit of fingering, I might almost say, stroking a large mole with black hairs on it, by his right temple.
`` Maybe I could '', he said, surprised that she could turn from herself and notice anything about him.
" I thought, oh well, maybe nobody will notice it, but not at all.
The majority of experimental studies assess consciousness by asking human subjects for a verbal report of their experiences ( e. g., " tell me if you notice anything when I do this ").
There was a time when I became so enraged by what I began to feel was his determination to hoodwink me that I found it necessary to place on my desk a notice saying: REMEMBER, IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING, HE WAS A GREAT MAN.
This act of contrition, partly in emulation of Theodosius I, had the effect of greatly reducing his prestige as a Frankish ruler, for he also recited a list of minor offences about which no secular ruler of the time would have taken any notice.
I think that S, M, L, XL has one beautiful ambiguity: it used the past to build a future and is very adamant about giving notice that this is not the end.
:" To prevent the excessive duration of operas, without however prejudicing the fame often sought by opera singers from the repetition of vocal pieces, I deem the enclosed notice to the public ( that no piece for more than a single voice is to be repeated ) to be the most reasonable expedient.
Under these circumstances, destitute at home though willing to work, he intends embarking by the October mail for Bombay, and I beg most earnestly to bring him under your notice and bespeak for him as early employment as though you and other kind friends can possibly be procured.
McCartney responded by saying, " I don ’ t take any notice of her.
" I cannot close this notice of our losses by death without advertising to that of one, who though not placed among even the easier classes of society, but one who had to earn her daily bread by her labour, yet contributed by her talents and untiring researches in no small degree to our knowledge of the great Enalio-Saurians, and other forms of organic life entombed in the vicinity of Lyme Regis ..."
: And try not to notice I ’ ve fallen in love.

I and twinkle
`` By observing the conductor '', he says with a twinkle in his eyes, `` I learned how not to conduct ''.
: When I saw her, I detected behind the well-mannered ' young wife ' front a desperate twinkle in her eyes ...
" Call me General ," Hagood said, with a twinkle in his eye, " I fought for that and begged for the other.
" I am a master craftsman as far as making sweets are concerned, and I am an expert on the traditions and norms of sweet-making ," he says with a twinkle in his eye, and no hint of modesty.
In the Entertainment Weekly review of the album, critic David Browne wrote: " Songs like ' In My Place ' and ' Warning Sign ' marry lyrics imbued with deep regret and mistakes (< nowiki ></ nowiki >... You were an island / And I passed you by < nowiki ></ nowiki > in the touching latter song ) with lyrical melodies and guitar hooks that twinkle and sparkle.
" The story ended with a twinkle in his eye when he remembered Gandhiji's reply, " Wali, you seem to have done more research on violence than I have on non-violence.

I and light
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.
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.
The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.
I have requested the Secretary of Defense to reexamine the roles and missions of the reserve components in relation to those of the active forces and in the light of the changing requirements of modern warfare.
But Schnabel was a great teacher in addition to being a great performer, and the fact that four of the ten versions I listened to are by Schnabel pupils ( Clifford Curzon, Frank Glazer, Adrian Aeschbacher, and Victor Babin ) also sheds light on the master's pedagogical skills.
First I make preliminary watercolor sketches in quarter scale ( approximately Af inches ) in which I pay particular attention to the design principles of three simple values -- the lightest light, the middle tone, and the darkest dark -- by reducing the forms of my subject to these large patterns.
They were always leaping to light cigarettes, open car doors, fill plates or glasses, and I mistrusted the whole lot of them to the same degree that I mistrusted bake shops that called themselves `` Sanitary Bake Shops ''.
But in order to keep Letch in the public eye and out of trouble, I wrote in a part especially for him -- that of a dashing ruffian who `` sees the light '' and is saved by the inspiring example of Mother Cabrini.
Thus to has light stress both in that was the conclusion that I came to and in that was the conclusion I came to.
So as the years passed, I saw them each time in the light of an accelerated personal conflagration.
Although still aware of a great light and glow of warmth in the Book, I stood outside shivering in the cold.
In fact, He came into this world Himself, in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, who stood here amid the darkness of human sin and said: `` I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life ''.
For if I knew the secret of letting this power in my body change directly into electricity, I could rent myself out to the electric companies and with just the power in my body I could light all the lights and run all the factories in the entire United States for some days.
`` You see '', she said, looking past him into the room, where the highball glasses sparkled dully in the bright light, `` you and I can't understand the many hardships they have to undergo ''.
I even ferreted out the materials from which shields were made -- linden wood covered with leather -- so I'd get the light reflections accurate.
I made a lemon sponge, a light dessert, roasted a chicken, parboiled some frozen vegetables, so there would be something nice in the icebox for the weekend.

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