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I had always resisted the passes made at me by other kids, and many times I had thought about my love for Johnnie who, being thirty, brought a maturity to love that the kids around town could know nothing about.
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And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.
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.
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
At first I thought he had missed.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.
One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
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.
And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.
I had signed it off on the forms.
Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.
I and always
I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.
I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.
Ramey smiled but he thought to himself, I always see me too.
At a party an English intellectual -- so-called -- asked me why I write always about distress.
But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.
The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.
I would have liked the town and the busyness of its people but I always followed Lilly into the peace of the silent and unstaring road.
I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.
If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.
But I will also remind them that I have always been inclined to skepticism, to a kind of Laodicean lack of commitment so far as public affairs are concerned ; ;
At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.
The concern they felt for me was such as I shall never forget and for which I will always be grateful.
( He always smiles -- at least at visitors, I gather.
`` I imagine you're always battling in school ''.
`` I'm dressed as I always am '', Rousseau said.
What I did know was that Precious was always around.
I and resisted
today, these many years later, after all the temptations resisted or yielded to, the weasel satisfactions and the engulfing dissatisfactions since endured, I call it corrupting still.
He was elected and installed as pope under the protection of Otto I, whose dominance in Roman and ecclesial affairs was resisted by local aristocracy.
The Iraqi government had, since the end of World War I and the beginning of the British Mandate in the Middle East, constantly resisted British efforts to control or restrict them.
* November 10 – Pope Leo I dies at Rome, age 61 ( approximate ), after a 21-year reign in which he has resisted Manichaeism and defended the Church against Nestorianism.
" Powell also refused to launch a public inquiry, resisted calls to issue a warning against any left-over thalidomide pills that might remain in people's medicine cabinets ( as US President John F. Kennedy had done ), and said " I hope you're not going to sue the Government .... No one can sue the Government.
The marriage was initially resisted by Emperor Franz Joseph I, but after pressure from family members and other European rulers, he eventually relented in 1899 ( but did not attend the wedding himself ).
) Cecil resisted for a while, in a letter to his wife, he wrote: " Seeing great perils threatened upon us by the likeness of the time, I do make choice to avoid the perils of God's displeasure.
Sheen has resisted calls to run for office, saying: " There's no way that I could be the president.
Bismarck was appointed by Wilhelm I of Prussia ( the future Kaiser Wilhelm I ) to circumvent the liberals in the Landtag who resisted Wilhelm's autocratic militarism.
James I resisted this abrogation of his ' Divine Right ' and dealt with the situation by dissolving the Parliament.
This move was made to take advantage of the protection provided by the large French garrison stationed in Leith which resisted attacking Scottish Protestant lords, reinforced by troops and artillery sent from England by Queen Elizabeth I.
He was resisted by supporters of his rival for the throne John I of Portugal, and was utterly defeated at the battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385.
" Saxe wrote to his brother, King Augustus III, at Dresden, "" The engagement lasted nine hours and although I was half-dying by the end of it, I resisted my fatigue as though I was in perfect health.
Pitt ’ s response to Grenville included, " I rejoice that America has resisted.
Tracy initially resisted playing such an unsympathetic character but later told Cukor, " It's rather disconcerting to me to find out how easily I play a heel.
After he hired Frank I. Cobb ( 1869 – 1923 ) as the editor of the New York World, the younger man resisted Pulitzer's attempts to " run the office " from his home.
Emperor Leopold I, desperate for a continuation of the war so as to strengthen his own claims to the Spanish succession initially resisted the treaty, but because he was still at war with the Turks, and could not face fighting France alone, Leopold I also sought terms and signed on 30 October.
Similarly, Michael Shermer, who is an Enthusiastic Bright, has nevertheless resisted using the term to describe himself, saying, " I don't call myself a ' Bright '.”
* Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone ( c. 1540 – 1616 ), Irish chieftain who resisted the annexation of Ireland by Elizabeth I of England
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