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I and got
`` I got no place to go ''.
I'm well aware that you've got a pedigree as long as my leg, and that I don't amount to anything.
`` Might get there faster walkin' '', Lord drawled, `` seein' as how I got a busted front spring.
`` I know you've got a grudge against me, and maybe I can't blame you.
I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.
`` And I sort o' got a corner on the market ''.
If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!
`` I've got her as neat as I can '', Donovan said, as he dropped the straps of the Seton harness over Greg's shoulders.
Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.
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.
I swam like mad, got out of the pool, grabbed my robe, and ran to the car.
There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.
He said hesitantly, `` Hettie, I don't figure your things got wet too much.
`` You think I got you and Artie and Herr Schaffner all the way out here just for the boat ride??
`` Yes, George, but I ain't got poor old Pat's body yet.
`` I got Margaret Rider in one of them old box cars down there by the quarry ''.
`` Hell, I jist got on top of -- ''
I left the party as soon as possible and got into a taxi.
So I got out.
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
Much to Damon Runyon's amazement, as well as my own, I got along splendidly with the Hetman ; ;
As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.

I and hundred
But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.
His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!
It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.
and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;
A hundred years ago I would have worn a beard with pride.
`` I should say about a hundred thousand '', Fletcher said.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 21st day of April, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one and on Independence, the one hundred and eighty-fifth.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 17th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, and of Independence, the one hundred and eighty-sixth.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 20th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, and of Independence, the one hundred and eighty-fifth.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 11th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, and of Independence, the one hundred and eighty-sixth.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 5th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, and of Independence, the one hundred and eighty-sixth.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 23d day of October, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, and of Independence, the one hundred and eighty-sixth.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 21st day of November, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one and of Independence, the one hundred and eighty-sixth.
`` Oh yes, the other day I reread some of Emerson's English Traits, and there was an anecdote about a group of English and Americans visiting Germany, more than a hundred years ago.
But in the meantime the beer-runner, unhappy with this solution, telephoned Torrio and returned to O'Banion with the message: `` Say, Dionie, I just been talking to Johnny, and he said to let them cops have the three hundred.
I bring you the cash, say five hundred for ten decks.
I have calculated that if I could snap my fingers in one magic gesture to release the power of all the hydrogen in my body, I would explode with the force of a hundred bombs of the kind that fell on Hiroshima.

I and sixty
To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.
( I myself have identified about sixty sites, from the old maps and registers.
She looked about sixty, though I recalled that the chart gave her age as forty-four.
Later on, there were also the New Sentinels that were actually sixty of S. H. I. E. L. D.
I am thankful to have borne a part in the emancipating labours of the last sixty years ; but entirely uncertain how, had I now to begin my life, I could face the very different problems of the next sixty years.
Both Edward I and Edward II had been limited in their policy towards the nobility, allowing the creation of few new peerages during the sixty years preceding Edward III's reign.
Haig started the war as the commanding officer of British I Corps, then was promoted to command the British First Army and then the BEF, an army group eventually comprising sixty divisions in five armies.
Jaroslav Hašek (; April 30, 1883 – January 3, 1923 ) was a Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist best known for his novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures, which has been translated into sixty languages.
In all that time while I was awake, gunfire and rifle fire never ceased for sixty seconds ..... And behind it all was the constant background of the sights of the dead, the wounded, the maimed, and a terrible anxiety lest the line should give way.
Schematic diagram of the Yinwan Han dynasty Liubo divination diagram, showing the positions of the sixty terms of the sexagenary cycle ( following the corrections of Zeng Lanying ) and examples of the nine board positions: A = fāng 方 " square "; B = lián 廉 ( pàn 畔 ) " edge "; C = jié 楬 ( jiē 揭 ) " lift "; D = dào 道 " path "; E = zhāng 張 " stretch "; F = qū 曲 ( jiǔ 究 ) " bend "; G = qū 詘 ( qū 屈 ) " curve "; H = cháng 長 ( xuán 玄 ) " long "; I = gāo 高 " tall " ( terms used in Xu Bochang's rhyme given in brackets if different ).
Berlioz – who had commented that ' Meyerbeer not only had the luck to be talented, he had the talent to be lucky ' – wrote ' I can't forget that Meyerbeer was only able to persuade Opéra to put on Robert le diable ... by paying the administration sixty thousand francs of his own money '; and Chopin lamented ' Meyerbeer had to work for three years and pay his own expenses for his stay in Paris before Robert le diable could be staged .... Three years, that's a lot – it's too much.
" In his autobiography he stated that after sixty years he still thought about her, and that because of her death " if I saw the entire German nation sinking into the sea, I could be relied upon to help push it down.
The NAACP promptly released a statement from a contact in Arkansas providing an account of the origins of the violence: " The whole trouble, as I understand it, started because a Mr. Bratton, a white lawyer from Little Rock, Ark., was employed by sixty or seventy colored families to go to Elaine to represent them in a dispute with the white planters relative to the sale price of cotton.
King Frederick I, nearing sixty, was at this point more and more infamous for his sexual excesses.
" Reminded of Johnson's assessment sixty years later, Wood said, " Oh, I don't think there was ever anybody faster than Walter.
Jedburgh teams, or parties organised on a similar basis, also operated in the South East Asia Command ( SEAC ) in 1945, including Japanese-occupied French Indochina, where sixty French Jedburghs joined the newly created C. L. I.
Marginally performing shows tend to last less than five years in broadcast syndication, sometimes moving to cable channels after the end of their syndication runs, while more widely successful series can have a life in syndication that can run for decades ( I Love Lucy, the first series designed to be rerun, remains popular in syndication sixty years after its debut ).
I Solisti Veneti has toured the world playing in over sixty countries in places as diverse as Salzburg and Seoul.

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