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I drank little or nothing ; my delight was in dancing.
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For example, in Finnish, join vettä, " I drank ( some ) water ", the word vesi, " water ", is in the partitive case.
The related sentence join veden, " I drank ( the ) water ", using the accusative case instead, assumes that there was a specific countable portion of water that was completely drunk.
Larsson portrays him as a loveless man lacking self-control ; he drank, ranted and raved, and incurred lifelong anger of his son through his outburst, " I curse the day you were born ".
McKuen later wrote, " When news of Jacques ' death came, I stayed locked in my bedroom and drank for a week.
When she makes them leave before receiving the drink, Darrin says " if you didn't want the zombie I would have drank it " so she conjures one for him.
" Let's just say that I closed the circle ," he confesses, " the day I drank the water of a dying comrade.
There is a joke describing these confusions: Yorogawa no miru nonre hara rarakurari ya for Yodogawa no mizu nonde hara dadakudari ya " I drank water of Yodo River and have the trots ".
Before his invasion of Greece, Xerxes I spent three years amassing supplies from all over Asia ; Herodotus wrote that the Persian army was so large it " drank the rivers dry ".
Tarrant, who drank champagne with the Ingrams in their dressing room, said he was convinced that Ingram was genuine when he signed the £ 1 million cheque, saying that " If I thought there was anything wrong, I certainly would not have signed it.
I and little
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
I got a coin between my thumb and forefinger, leaned my elbows in a very natural and casual manner on top of the truck cab and flipped my little missile.
The keys were still in it, and I was miles away before I remembered that my clothes and purse and everything were still in the little cabana where I'd changed ''.
In taking account of seventeen years of law practice, Adams concluded that `` no lawyer in America ever did so much business as I did '' and `` for so little profit ''.
The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.
But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.
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.
There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.
yet the tide is too strong against us, and I fear ( if the framer of hearts help not ) it will force me to little Patience, a little isle next to your Prudence ''.
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