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I and expected
As I had expected, he insisted that my visits to the hall would do nothing to further the process of my application.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
The debate needed no additional controversy and soon I could ask each individually what he expected from life, what his hopes were and what his fears.
The funeral for my husband was just what I wanted and I paid a fair price, far less than I had expected to pay.
Kahler continued: `` I fixed his dog the other day and I guess he's sore, so I expected him to come barging in ''.
I thought she'd gone upstairs and expected to hear she had.
Even though I have always had a genius for `` throwing myself '' into every role and `` playing it for all it's worth '', no actress can be expected to do her best work when her fortune, her reputation, her livelihood, her home and her nation itself are all imperilled.
Instead of the expected `` annoyances '' due to the nature of his mission, he received many calling cards and invitations from `` gentlemen of mark, on whom I had no sort of claim, & have had many more invitations than I could accept ''.
There is much more freedom in the schools here than I expected -- some think too much.
I don't know that it was always as rewarding as I had expected it to be.
< li > On June 15, 2012, a working Apple I was sold at auction by Sotheby's for a record $ 374, 500, more than double the expected price .</ li >
In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.
how much sooner than I expected, though later than he seemed to desire, hath Minucius destroyed himself!
Laplace wrote of the ways men calculated their probability of having sons: " I have seen men, ardently desirous of having a son, who could learn only with anxiety of the births of boys in the month when they expected to become fathers.
During World War I, Zionist volunteers fought in the Jewish Legion of the British Army against the Ottomans because they expected the British would be less opposed to the Zionist project than the Ottoman authorities.

I and Brassnose
Brassnose, Max and I leaped into the sea and swam to the boat.
`` I think I know what you mean, Brassnose '', I said.
`` You have every right to be '', I replied gravely in the Manu dialect, but my attention was fixed on Brassnose, the biggest and strongest of us.

I and man
I made you a man ''.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.
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.
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 ''!!
Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.
The rest of the time I devoted to painting or to those other activities a young and healthy man just out of college finds interesting.
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.
The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.
I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.
`` I am an honest man '', the German said with fervor.
`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
A man must be able to say, `` Father, I have sinned '', or there is no hope for him.
`` I scanned the world through printed symbol swart, And through the beggar's rags I strove to see The inner man.
But I have been at some pains to review it as the drama of the common man, to point up what happened to him under Eisenhower's leadership.
Said: `` There are things I must tell you about this man you are marrying which he does not know himself ''.
Carl thought the question over slowly and answered: `` I know a starving man who is fed never remembers all the pangs of his starvation, I know that ''.
I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

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.
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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