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I and don't
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.
I don't know yet, it's crazy ; ;
I don't want to leave it ''.
Now dammit, I don't want to go into any more explanations.
It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.
`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.
I don't know what goes on around here, and I don't care.
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.
We've been starving and I don't like to starve ''.
I'm well aware that you've got a pedigree as long as my leg, and that I don't amount to anything.
`` I don't know, Tom.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
`` I don't know, Mr. Brenner '', he said haltingly, beginning to get an inkling of Brenner's plans.
If I don't come back in the house, Breed's going to '' --
I don't know what you're up to, but when Brenner '' --

I and suppose
I suppose you don't know anything about a piece of two-by-four, either ; ;
`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.
I suppose a Lascar sailor had sneaked a cigarette in the hold and touched off the blaze.
I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.
`` I suppose because it saves them some loss of body water.
In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;
One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.
I suppose we might classify Billy Graham as an old liberal.
There is no necessity, I suppose, to assert that Mr. Faulkner is Southern.
I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.
To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.
In The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, it may be noted, Swift himself contemptuously dismissed Steele's reference to his friend at court: `` I suppose by the Style of old Friend, and the like, it must be some Body there of his own Level ; ;
I suppose the same emotion holds, if to a lesser degree, with any famous monument.
I suppose the day will inevitably come when the area will be encrusted with developments, but at present it is deserted and seductive.

I and wife
My wife died in childbirth after I was sent away.
When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
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 ''.
But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
I am the wife of the owner of a small, independent meat market.
Never in my life have I felt so remorseful about anything I've done as I did about spending that night with my own wife.
A verse familiar to all grammarians is the quatrain: `` I saw a man once beat his wife When on a drunken spree.
In it was a stone Tibetan Buddha I had picked up in Bombay, and occasionally, to make merit, my wife and I garlanded it with flowers or laid a few pennies in its lap.
A Georgia soldier gave his wife the following description of the cause and consequence of diarrhoea: `` I have bin a little sick with diorah two or three days.
On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.
In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.
I noticed that he was in Unit 12 and that he had registered under the name of Oscar L. Palmer and wife, giving a San Francisco address.
I told Moore, `` Where does Tim's wife live ''??
A disturbing picture of bad blood, to be further heightened with illicit if buccolic colors, for on a subsequent day I saw Handley escorting Anta, Red's wife, up on Dogtown Common.
As Hartweger accepted his silver bowl, he said, `` I want to thank coach's wife for talking him into letting me play ''.
I feel a certain loss of status when I am driven up in front of work in a car driven by my wife, who is only a woman.
The logic of that is impeccable, of course, except that I feel like a fool being driven up to work in a little car, by my wife, when everybody knows I have a big car and am capable of driving myself.

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