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I and now
God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.
`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.
This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
`` Hell, that's all right, buddy '', the Indian ( I now guessed ) said.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
I said, `` O.K., so now only Blake knows.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.
`` And now '', said Tilghman with deadly calm, `` I'll repeat what I said.
I been riding train for a ways now ''.
I followed them in the jeep and now they did not care.
His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).
Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.
The Commission seems to represent the viewpoint of what I would call the unconscious liberal, but not unconscious enough, to invoke the now taboo symbolism of socialism.
If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;
Yet this passion for passion, now that I look back on it with passion spent, seems somewhat overblown and operatic, though as a diva Miss Millay perfectly controlled her notes.
I can see us now.
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.

I and felt
`` I never felt better in my life '', Fiske blustered.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
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 felt certain it was self-appointed.
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 had felt the draft they were making while mounting the stairs.
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.
Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.
I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.
`` I guess we both felt it ''.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
I felt a queasiness in my own stomach but it wouldn't do to show these girls that we were afraid.
Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.
`` I saw the boy Dandy at the Congo Square festivities and felt sorry for him.
Since he introduces so much modern music, I could not resist asking how he felt about it.
Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; ;
If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.
`` I felt that I must devote myself to the ' outside ' world ''.
Never until in this work of S-D organization have I realized and felt the attitude and experience of a Teacher.

I and wiser
To judge of this I leave to wiser heads than mine.
I can only tell you I have learned from those mistakes and I am the wiser for them.
Clarendon describes him as " the only man I ever knew of such incomparable parts that was none the wiser for any experience or misfortune that befell him ," and records his extraordinary facility in making friends and making enemies.
" or " I feel sad .” This is because they have not yet rejoined the human collective experience, commonly reestablished in their older, wiser years, according to Jung.
He said: I see you are wiser than he.
Death is a place where better and wiser Gods rule and where the most noble souls exist: " And therefore, so far as that is concerned, I not only do not grieve, but I have great hopes that there is something in store for the dead ..., something better for the good than for the wicked.
According to Professor Sig, a psychologist with the Transformation service, " Years before, wiser men than I.
She undoes the foolish wishes that the cloak granted, allowing the wiser ones to remain, and graciously allows Bud to use the cloak for one last wish: " that I may become the best king that Noland has ever had!
In June 2009, he remarked: " I get the feeling that Obama is tougher and proving wiser than many people seem to think ".
Judah Ben Saul Ibn Tibbon said of Zerachiah: " he was unique in his generation and wiser than I ", and praised him for his elaborate style of writing.

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