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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 natural
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 fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.
I once heard a comedian say that if you are killed by a taxicab in New York, it is listed as `` death due to natural causes ''.
I still recall the mild shock I experienced in reading material of an enthusiastic advocate of the `` clean, healthful, free way of natural life in nudism '', who seemed to brave much misunderstanding and persecution in fine spirit.
But that was only natural, I decided ; ;
A simple illustration of such cause and effect is the case of experiencing the effects of what I cause: if I cause suffering, then as a natural consequence I will experience suffering ; if I cause happiness, then as a natural consequence I will experience happiness.
" On July 27, 1868, the day before the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, U. S. Congress declared in the preamble of the Expatriation Act that " the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ," and ( Section I ) one of " the fundamental principles of this government " ( United States Revised Statutes, sec.
Under Ambrose's major influence, emperors Gratian, Valentinian II and Theodosius I carried on a persecution of Paganism .< ref name = " MacMullen1984p100 "> MacMullen ( 1984 ) p. 100: ‘ The law of June 391, issued by Theodosius [...] was issued from Milan and represented the will of its bishop, Ambrose ; for Theodosius — recently excommunicated by Ambrose, penitent, and very much under his influence < sup > 43 </ sup > — was no natural zealot.
Afonso I was the son of Henry of Burgundy and Theresa of León, the natural daughter of King Alfonso VI of León.

I and sock
Instead of wanting to sock the poor bastard I found myself having a fellowfeeling for him.
In one television statement, I told him when we were debating on TV, that he had pulled a sock over his head more often than I had pulled one on my feet.
The lyrics of the chorus ( which also serve as first verse lyrics ) read: " It's your thing / Do what you wanna do / I can't tell you / Who to sock it to ".
Moore continued to say " I wanted to sock him in the head ," and her song " It Ain't Suppose To Be This Way " is believed to reference the event of Comb's " stealing " her song.

I and says
`` By observing the conductor '', he says with a twinkle in his eyes, `` I learned how not to conduct ''.
May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.
I disagree with the writer who says funeral services should be government-controlled.
She says later, but still within the opening five minutes, `` I keep thinking of a divorce but that's another emotional death ''.
`` I feel cold '', the medium says, or `` My leg aches '', `` My head is heavy ''.
Or perhaps she hears words or sounds: `` There's such a noise of loud machinery '', or `` I hear a child crying '', or `` He says we're all here and glad to see you ''.
I know another Negro, a man very dear to me, who says, with conviction and with truth, `` The spirit of the South is the spirit of America ''.
`` I was full of booze and, well, a drunk is apt to do anything he says he'll do ''.
`` Look, my friend '', he said, `` in my life I learn, how is it the proverb says, better an ounce of prevention to a pound of cure.
He says the neighbors complain, but I don't believe it.
Ramsey, 6-3, 195 and ruggedly slim, says, `` I can't remember when I didn't pester my mother to teach me to cook ''.
Each enjoys seeing the other hit home runs ( `` I hope Roger hits 80 '', Mantle says ), and each enjoys even more seeing himself hit home runs ( `` and I hope I hit 81 '' ).
I came back, sitting by my locker, feeling real low, and the kid walks over to me, looks up, and says: ' You stunk ' ''.
`` When I've made a dumb play '', he says, `` I don't want to talk to anyone.
) `` That's the way I am '', he says.
So, I put my Bible to the practical test of noting what it says about itself, and then tested it to see how it worked.
Dr. Fortman says if I exercise my leg more, maybe I can use a cane when I'm big ''.
If, for instance, someone says " I buried $ 100 in the bank ", most people would not think someone used a shovel to dig in the mud.
" A person ranking at 7 on the scale would be a person who says " I know there is no God ..." Dawkins places himself at 6 on the scale, which he characterizes as " I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there ", but leaning toward 7.

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