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I and figure
A few minutes later I saw my Uncle's car drive up and a woman's figure emerge and walk to the corner.
I must say the figure was well made up.
He said hesitantly, `` Hettie, I don't figure your things got wet too much.
I have argued that Oedipus of the Oedipus complex has a doubtful future as a tragic figure in literature.
I think I'm right in that figure.
`` Now, if I can just figure out what he's talking about, I'll use it ''.
Sonuvabitch, I can't figure out what in hell for they went and put niggers in my squad for.
If a human figure or wild life are to be part of the projected final picture, I try to place them in the initial sketch.
I was also publicly reprimanded, dragged through the mud by the radical press and made a figure of fun by such leftist publications as The New Republic, The New Yorker, Time and The Christian Science Monitor.
From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.
I used the alias of Robert C. Richards, gave the first three letters and the first and last figure of the license number on the agency heap, but a couple of phony numbers in between.
`` Not a bit '', I said, `` but she's keeping her figure in hand ''.
I mean, we all figured -- I guess anybody'd figure -- Angie '' --
Yes, well, it's a pity to spoil your girlish figure -- which all those kittens would do anyway -- but I think when you've raised these we'll just have the vet fix it so there won't be any more.
Then he said, `` Never noticed it before I mean, when she was dressed but for a woman her age, Julia had a real fine figure ''.
He was a very popular political figure, and since he was the Governor in the effective capital in the Roman West, he was a recognizable figure in the court of the Emperor Valentinian I. Ambrose never married.
I was struck by the size of the man, and although cumbersome and heavy, he was still a mighty figure.
" Sinatra was the first great public figure I ever wrote about ," Capp once said.
) Amestris has often been identified with Vashti, but this identification is problematic, as Amestris remained a powerful figure well into the reign of her son, Artaxerxes I, whereas Vashti is portrayed as dismissed in the early part of Xerxes's reign.
" Here's the way I figure it.
*** The I Ching is a manual of divination based on the eight trigrams attributed to the mythical figure Fuxi ( by the time of Confucius these eight trigrams had been multiplied to sixty-four hexagrams ).

I and if
I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''
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.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
`` Damned if I will.
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 ''.
But Johnson couldn't quickly unwire the truck door, and if I escaped, he might suffer.
But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.
You must forgive me if I seem to dwell too much on her physical aspects but I am an artist, accustomed to studying the physical body.
I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.
I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.
And I will greatly appreciate it if you will not tell your husband.
But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.
`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??
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.
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.
and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.
I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.
I do not know if such a way of life can come to be a self-conscious challenge, but I suspect that it can.

I and can
`` I can take care of this.
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.
So I can hear you while I'm checkin' the car.
Print it in real big letters, an' I can cipher it out later ''.
`` Yeah, I can see that '', the friend was forced to agree.
Now turn around so I can see your face ''.
`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.
I can see Dan.
`` I've got her as neat as I can '', Donovan said, as he dropped the straps of the Seton harness over Greg's shoulders.
I could show what I can do ''.
It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.
Even as I said it I realized that an education can be invaluable.
`` I know what we can do '', I said.
I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.
and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.
To this meek conjugation Nicolas had replied, `` O.K. I can use this blanket.
I can never pronounce it ''.
`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.

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