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`` I find it hard to understand how anyone seeking a position in public life could demonstrate such poor judgment and bad taste.
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I and find
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 ''.
`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.
When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;
Given a theological lead, I asked what he thinks about those who find a religious significance to his plays.
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 ''.
The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.
To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.
Faced with a gesture like Di Bosis', I find usually that my sentiments are closer to those of my sculptor friend.
Recently I traveled the parkway from East Orange to Cape May and I found the most courteous group of men you will find anywhere.
I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.
I think, too '', he said, his dark eyes mischievous, `` that you will find there some clue to the secret of the cathedrals about which you have spoken ''.
I and hard
He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.
Occasionally if I pushed him too far he'd give me a look out of narrowed eyes and the hard cruel bony skull would show through that smooth face of his.
It is, I insist, hard to define the Rayburn contribution to our political civilization because it is so massive and so widespread and so complicated, and because it goes so deep.
There I got off, crossed the square, and on the side directly opposite the gate found a good restaurant, hard to come by in this part of the city.
After a supper of unagi ( rice with eel -- eel which is raised in an ice-cold pond at the foot of Mt. Fuji ), I returned to my beautiful room to sleep as hard as possible to be ready for another busy day.
He caught officer Simmons' eye, nodded toward young Bearden, and -- `` I swung my right as hard as I could.
I saw then, too, the stake driven straight and hard into the plowed soil, through something there where I had been not long before.
Walter Quin, tutor to the future Charles I, worked hard on multilingual anagrams on the name of father James.
Greetings from Anacharsis to Hanno: My clothing is a Scythian cloak, my shoes are the hard soles of my feet, my bed is the earth, my food is only seasoned by hunger-and I eat nothing but milk and cheese and meat.
Arthur Phillip quoted " The living conditions need to improve or my men won't work as hard, so I have come to a conclusion that I must hire surgeons to fix the convicts.
I and understand
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 ''.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.
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.
`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.
`` I understand [ Hearst ] is a candidate for Presidential honors '', Devery said without cracking a smile.
Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.
He said to the Secretary, `` I understand you came from a little Pennsylvania town near Wilkes-Barre.
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