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I and had
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 my
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.
`` I hate to leave my garden '', Gavin said.
I loved my garden ''.
`` I never felt better in my life '', Fiske blustered.
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.
I could see them in my sights.
I found his chest in my sights.
At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.
In my sights I watched him looming bigger and bigger.
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
I withdrew my hand.
Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.

I and arm
I wanted to grab her by the arm and beg her to wait, to consider, to know for certain because life is so long and marriage is so important.
I would have stood there and died there if left to myself, but Cousin Simmons grabbed my arm in his viselike grip and fairly plucked me out of there ; ;
When his arm came up I ducked away but it caught me on the side of the neck, watering my eyes, and I backed off to cough.
I put my arm carefully around him.
One subject spontaneously asked ( after her arm had finally risen ), `` Do you suppose I was unconsciously keeping it down before ''??
Another said that her arm did not go up at first `` because I wouldn't let it ; ;
When informed that there were some persons who did not have their arm go up, she commented, `` I don't see how they can prevent it ''.
One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.
I grabbed her arm and she turned on me and for a scared second I thought that maybe Wally was right, and she was crazy.
" I figured the old arm had just so many throws in it ," said Young, " and there wasn't any use wasting them.
Beatty did not respond until after surgery on his arm in September 1900 when he wrote, I landed from China with my heart full of rage, and swore I did not care if I ever saw you again, or if I were killed or not.
However, when it was revealed that von Bardas was employing the Tinkerer to use Doom's technology to arm various tech-based villains in the United States, S. H. I. E. L. D.
The first signs may be subjective observations such as " my arm feels heavy " or " I have difficulty these days getting rings on and off my fingers ".
" ( I will destroy you, Rome, with my bare hands, arm yourselves and hide!
One afternoon of November, 1868, in the Park at Hawarden, I was standing by Mr. Gladstone holding his coat on my arm while he, in his shirt sleeves, was wielding an axe to cut down a tree.
Miller put his arm around Kazan and retorted, " don ’ t worry about what I ’ ll think.
The work was commissioned by Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm during World War I. Ravel was inspired by the technical challenges of the project.
He declared she was: on which i gave him my hand, and desired him to call on his officers and ship's company and tell them of it: which he did – and on the quarter deck of a Spanish first-rate, extravagant as the story may seem, did I receive the swords of vanquished Spaniards: which as I received, I gave to William Fearney, one of my bargemen, who put them, with the greatest sang-froid, under his arm.

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