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I and lived
I lived in a state of suspense because of it.
`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.
A Southerner married to a New Englander, I have lived for many years in a Connecticut commuting town with a high percentage of artists, writers, publicity men, and business executives of egghead tastes.
I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
Here Wright gave a slight sigh of weariness, and continued, `` It means more long years lived across the social grain of the life of our people, making shift to live in the face of popular disrespect and misunderstanding as I best can for myself and those dependent upon me ''.
I lived to see an envelope of hers in the morning mail and to lock myself in my room in the afternoon to reread her letter for the tenth time and finally prepare an answer.
But having lived with the disc for some time now, I find the performance less exciting than either Schnabel's or Fleisher's ( whose superb performance with the Budapest Quartet has still to be recorded ) and a good deal less filled with humor than Curzon's.
You explain, `` I have the strangest feeling of having lived through this very same event before.
I recall the startling, vivid realism of a dream in which I lived through the horror of the bombing of a little Korean town.
She knew that I lived at a good address on the Gold Coast, that I had once been a medical student and was thinking of returning to the university to finish my medical studies.
) Even I can remember nothing but ruined cellars and tumbled pillars, and nobody has lived there in the memory of any living man.
Both Red McIver and Handley Walker lived nearby, almost as near as I do.
To his Harvard colleague, Josiah Royce, whose philosophic position differed radically from his own, James could write, `` Different as our minds are, yours has nourished mine, as no other social influence ever has, and in converse with you I have always felt that my life was being lived importantly ''.
`` I wish I didn't have to go back to school '', she said, and then, `` I wish you lived in New York.
Little by little, during the week, Chris and I discovered the crazy unbelievable way Nadine and Wally had lived.
They could still read the opening: `` Once, I was like you, stepping out of my window at the end of day, and letting the winds blow me gently toward the place I lived in.
It is in the Boethius that the oft-quoted sentence occurs: " My will was to live worthily as long as I lived, and after my life to leave to them that should come after, my memory in good works.

I and contest
`` It's a little contest Martin and I have '', she would begin gaily, carrying the anecdote through a frothy and deceptive course.
" It was a hard-fought contest, leading Prince Eugene to observe – " I have not a squadron or battalion which did not charge four times at least.
It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine "-" I was within a hair's breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say.
He also had a role in the Hungarian invasion of the Kingdom of Naples, namely a papal fief ; the contest between Louis I of Hungary and Joan I of Naples, accused to have ordered the assassination of the former's brother, was ended in 1352 by a trial held in Avignon, by which she was acquitted from any charge.
Before John XXII's election a contest had begun for the imperial crown between Louis IV of Bavaria and his opponent, Frederick I of Austria.
On December 27, 2006, Incubus launched the " I Dig Incubus " contest, in which participants cut together clips of the band performing their single " Dig ", to form a complete music video.
On February 1, 2007, five finalists were announced for the " I Dig Incubus " contest.
I see my beloved South go down in the unequal contest, in a sea of blood and smoking ruin.
" I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany.
A hundred knights would accompany each side and Edward I of England would adjudge the contest ; the English king, heeding the pope, however, refused to take part.
When the contest was over, Trinidad explained his strategy by stating: " I knew he wanted to impose his will, his weight, and I wouldn't let him do it ".
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.
Among his best-known comedy songs were " Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout ( Would Not Take The Garbage Out )", " The Smoke-Off " ( a tale of a contest to determine who could roll — or smoke — marijuana joints faster ), " I Got Stoned and I Missed It " and " Bury Me in My Shades ".
In the party leadership of contest 1995, in which John Major won against John Redwood, Clarke kept faith in Major and commented " I don't think the Conservative Party could win an election in 1, 000 years on this ultra right-wing programme ".
* An autographed picture of Bow is offered as a consolation prize of a beauty contest in the 1931 George Gershwin musical Of Thee I Sing.
A eugenicist who applied his social Darwinism to entire nations, Pearson saw " war " against " inferior races " as a logical implication of his scientific work on human measurement: " My view – and I think it may be called the scientific view of a nation ," he wrote, " is that of an organized whole, kept up to a high pitch of internal efficiency by insuring that its numbers are substantially recruited from the better stocks, and kept up to a high pitch of external efficiency by contest, chiefly by way of war with inferior races.
Jones ' involvement with the gospel choir occurred after she won an amateur contest at Chicago's Regal Theater where she sang " I Can't Face the Music ".
In the contest for the imperial throne upon the death of Maximilian in 1519, Sickingen accepted bribes from King Francis I of France, but when the election took place he led his troops to Frankfurt, where their presence assisted to secure the election of Charles V. For this service he was made imperial chamberlain and councillor, and in 1521 he led an expedition into France, which ravaged Picardy, but was beaten back from Mézières and forced to retreat.
By the 2000s this fusion of ethno / dance / pop had crossed over to mainstream success in the contest, with entries like Turkey's " Everyway That I Can ", Ukraine's " Wild Dances ", Greece's " My Number One " and Norway's " Fairytale " winning in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2009.

I and where
It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.
`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.
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.
`` 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.
How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.
It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.
The keys were still in it, and I was miles away before I remembered that my clothes and purse and everything were still in the little cabana where I'd changed ''.
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.
Now I wish to enter the American market, where the competition is very strong.
I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.
When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )
As a Christian, I know I do not stand where Beckett stands, but I do see much of what he sees.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
Being a teacher of American literature, I remembered Whittier's `` Massachusetts To Virginia '', where he said: `` But that one dark loathsome burden ye must stagger with alone, And reap the bitter harvest which ye yourselves have sown ''.
Robert Penn Warren puts it this way in `` Brother To Dragons '': `` The recognition of complicity is the beginning of innocence '', where innocence, I think, means about the same thing as redemption.
A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.

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