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I and felt
`` I never felt better in my life '', Fiske blustered.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
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.
I felt certain it was self-appointed.
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 had felt the draft they were making while mounting the stairs.
I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.
Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.
I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.
`` I guess we both felt 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.
I felt a queasiness in my own stomach but it wouldn't do to show these girls that we were afraid.
Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.
`` I saw the boy Dandy at the Congo Square festivities and felt sorry for him.
Since he introduces so much modern music, I could not resist asking how he felt about it.
Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; ;
If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.
`` I felt that I must devote myself to the ' outside ' world ''.
Never until in this work of S-D organization have I realized and felt the attitude and experience of a Teacher.

I and more
We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.
Now dammit, I don't want to go into any more explanations.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
`` I ain't going to fight you no more ''.
`` 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.
I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.
with more time I could have loosened a small burr or cotter pin --
`` I couldn't agree with you more ''.
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.
`` I don't believe I'll play any more neither ''.
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 suspect that there are far more unreconstructed ones than the North likes to believe.
I was far from convinced of the truth of my statement, but could not think of anything that might evoke responses more quickly.
I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.
I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.
I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.
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 ; ;
But I think that something more than this is involved.
I want to say more about Gabriel's so-called fundamental law.
Father Murray goes back to the Declaration of Independence, too, though I may add, with considerably more historical perception.
`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.

I and cheerful
Despite the disappointment, Hume later wrote, " Being naturally of a cheerful and sanguine temper, I soon recovered from the blow and prosecuted with great ardour my studies in the country ".
As she remarked in her book, " The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's highly publicized comment about my virginity (" I knew Doris Day before she became a virgin.
* When asked why he seemed so incredibly cheerful all the time: " Well, old bean, life is really so bloody awful that I feel it ’ s my absolute duty to be chirpy and try and make everybody else happy too.
" Writing to her daughter Victoria in 1858 about the gloominess of Windsor Castle, Queen Victoria stated, " I long for our cheerful and unpalacelike rooms at Osborne.
Samuel, a man not noted for a cheerful temperament, is said to have remarked on the day of his son's birth ( during a thunderstorm ), " I see nothing for him but the workhouse.
McCulloch later remarked that on the morning of Lincoln's assassination, " I never saw Mr. Lincoln so cheerful and happy ... The burden which had been weighing upon him for four long years, and which he had borne with heroic fortitude, had been lifted ; the war had been practically ended ; the Union was safe.
I had been to see Edward Martyn in the afternoon in his warm little flat ; very crippled, but more cheerful than I had seen him for a long time at the exit of the Tans.
This pejorative use can be heard in the introduction of the 1930 George and Ira Gershwin song But Not For Me: " I never want to hear from any cheerful pollyannas / who tell me fate supplies a mate / that's all bananas.
* The day after, I asked my pilot, a cheerful young New Zealander, if he thought we really needed an escort.
In the liner notes to Shoes for Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre, David Ossman is cheerful when discussing it and says that " I always thought it was the closest thing to the relentlessly pun-filled one-acts we did in clubs.
McWilliams adds: " He was a meticulous and conscientious meteorologist, and I personally remember him as always cheerful, courteous and eager to help to solve whatever operational problems might arise.
Instead of the cheerful little village I once anticipated finding — a few half-ruined stone cottages ; some straggling huts built of turf ; two or three stove boats ; some broken ground where gardens had been, and where a few cabbages or potatoes still grew ; some sheep and goats ; a few long-legged pigs ; some horses and cows ; with here and there a miserable-looking human being ,— were scattered over the fore-ground of a view which had dark clouds, ragged-topped hills, and a wild waste of moorland to fill up the distance .</ br >

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