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I heard a cry from a stoker as a pillar of flame leaped from a hatch and tongued the man's bare back.
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I and heard
I heard the whir of an ax and a Canadian's face burst apart in a bloody spray.
I heard o' Texas cattlemen wrappin' a cow thief up in green hides and lettin' the sun shrink 'em and squeeze him to death.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
`` I heard how you outdrew Chico.
Just as I straightened up with my duffel bag, I heard: `` Sahjunt Yoorick, meet Mrs. Major J. A. Roebuck ''.
I heard the screech of brakes behind me, an insane burst of laughter beneath me.
I heard her murmur, `` We'd better lock the door ''.
I heard subsequently that my Uncle and Aunt had dinner in a nearby restaurant in the French Quarter after which he went home to get into his costume to keep the date.
Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.
Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.
Besides I heard her old uncle that stays there has been doin' it ''.
`` I never heard that ''.
I never heard of a poll being taken on the question.
and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.
I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.
She wrote in her journal, `` I have not heard the least profane language since I have been on board the vessel.
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 ''.
I and cry
Yes, I went to the city, And there I did bitterly cry, Men out of touch with the earth, And with never a glance at the sky.
`` Why, Winston '', she'd cry, `` I just now saw you eating it out of the jar ''!!
In final separation from them, in the railroad terminal across the river from New York, I would nearly cry.
Or what was it that, before Via, Sonny, Walter and all, I began almost to dance with shuddering and cry out, `` I knew she'd do it!!
Yes, I had cried out that I knew she'd do it, but without my fully realizing it at the time, it was a cry of triumph for her, praise at her deliverance from pettiness and greed -- and guilt.
: I cry, " The Bronx?
" 1: 2 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear?
I cry out to you “ Violence !” and will you not save?
" Before she can cry any further, Rhett asks Scarlett to marry him saying, " I always intended having you, one way or another.
Marlow was surprised by her reaction: " I heard a light sigh and then my heart stood still, stopped dead short by an exulting and terrible cry, by the cry of inconceivable triumph and of unspeakable pain.
In the first part of the second chapter, the Prophet sees the injustice among his people and asks why God does not take action: " 1: 2 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear?
I cry out to you ' Violence!
Another theory occasionally encountered is a derivation from the phrase thog mi an èigh / eugh () " I raised the cry ", which in pronunciation bears a certain resemblance to Hogmanay, as part of the rhymes traditionally recited at New Year but it is unclear if this is simply a case of folk etymology.
" Tucker explained, " If I go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer.
Alcimede I ( wife of Aeson ) already had an infant son named Jason whom she saved from being killed by Pelias, by having women cluster around the newborn and cry as if he were still-born.
In Psalms, David states: " Evening, morning and afternoon do I pray and cry, and He will hear my voice " ().
I have to control myself not to cry.
" Orbison acknowledged this in looking back on the era in which he became popular: " When came out I don't think anyone had accepted the fact that a man should cry when he wants to cry.
I and from
At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.
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.
One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.
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.
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.
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 felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.
I kept circling the block hoping to see, from the street behind it, the rear of the hall.
I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.
Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.
She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.
I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.
Shortly before nine I drove my jalopy to the street facing the Lake and parked the car in shadows far enough away from the rendezvous corner but near enough to keep the corner in clear view.
My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.
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.
I know this from my talks with him ''.
I write about Northern liberals from considerable personal experience.
The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.
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