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I saw the pony fall like a stone and the young warrior flew over its head, bouncing like a rubber ball.
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 was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.
We've been starving and I don't like to starve ''.
Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.
`` I feel like getting back to town, that's what I feel like!!
Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.
`` That I can't answer, for I can't imagine something like this happening to me.
Like Luis, I can't see something like this happening to me.
`` So help me, Crouch, I'd like to kill you where you stand, but, before I do, I'm going to hear you admit killing him.
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 ''.
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 swam like mad, got out of the pool, grabbed my robe, and ran to the car.
However, when there's a job to be done, I'm a monstrosity of grim determination, I like to think.
At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.
You hate me, you hate my guts, because I like to hunt.
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 and hay
I like sawdust for this, or hay.
... I have the concurrent testimony of several persons, who have been upon the Prairies in winter, that, like rabbits and squirrels, they issue from their holes every soft day ; and therefore lay up no doubt a hoard of ' hay ' ( as there is rarely anything else to be found in the vicinity of their towns ) for winter's use.
In September 2007, he confirmed that he would contest North Antrim at the 2010 general election as well as serving the full four years as first minister stating " I might as well make hay while the sun shines.
" I have no quiet at all ", he complained, and his hands were covered " with a new crop of blisters — the effect of raking hay ".
I am willing, and if he keeps on in that spirit I ’ ll make him eat hay with his horses before he is much older.
" Rocking " and " rolling " were also used, both separately and together, in a sexual context ; writers for hundreds of years had used the phrases " They had a roll in the hay " or " I rolled her in the clover ".
According to the hotel's publicity, Rilke wrote ( though probably not in Spanish ) " He buscado por todas partes la ciudad soñada, y al fin la he encontrado en Ronda " and " No hay nada más inesperado en España que esta ciudad salvaje y montañera " (" I have sought everywhere the city of my dreams, and I have finally found it in Ronda " and " There is nothing that is more startling in Spain than this wild and mountainous city.
I am threatened with a notice to appear before a magistrate for trespassing in a field and destroying the hay ... and am also in danger of being blown by the wind into the water.
One example that may date back to the year 1900 is as follows: Carnation Milk is the best in the land / Here I sit with a can in my hand / No tits to pull, no hay to pitch / You just punch a hole in the son of a bitch.
Mamet disavowed the movie, ruefully recalling that " as a callow youth with hay sticking out of my ears, I sold both the play and the screenplay for about $ 12 and a mess of porridge ...."
* Yak ya spala na seni ( Як я спала на сені, As I slept on hay ) ( 2000 )

I and for
She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from 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.
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 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.
I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.
I returned to the hall, despite my dislike for the clerk.
When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.
I did it for the valley.
I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.

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