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`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.
`` I know '', Jones said dejectedly.
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.
He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.
`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.
`` I hate to leave my garden '', Gavin said.
`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.
`` But that was war '', I said.
`` I think Montero did right '', Amy said firmly.
`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.
I meant what I said about that fire.
`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.
`` I ought to '' -- he said.
`` I said go home, Joseph.
I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.
`` Why, I meant what I said '', Lord declared.
Finally Hernandez said, `` I could offer you advice, Tomas, but you wouldn't heed it ''.

I and didn't
I didn't understand why, Clay.
I didn't catch a wink.
I almost didn't tell you ''.
You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??
`` I didn't know.
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
I didn't mean to pull so hard ''.
Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.
`` I didn't know I was gonna have company in this car ''.
I really didn't know what he meant.
Like the cowboy in Stephen Crane's `` Blue Hotel '', we run around crying, `` Well, I didn't do anything, did I ''??
A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.
When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.
In describing it to Professor Baker after it had been chosen for production, he defended his great array of characters by declaring that he had included that many not because `` I didn't know how to save paint '', but because the play required them.
I wanted to wipe my flint, but I didn't dare to, the state my hands were in, just as I didn't dare to do anything about the priming.

I and make
If I could make myself feel the same way
I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.
`` Can I make you one ''??
I will make him distributor for all of Florida -- a big market.
And when I make the dive again '' -- He paused ; ;
I am naive, they say, to make use of such words.
The stink is all the same to me, but I really think they can make one another out blindfolded ''.
I should like, by the way, to make it clear that I am not using the word `` Persians '' carelessly.
I consider it the center of the world and make it a point to be there once a year ''.
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 )
But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.
One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.
The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.
To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.
I shall continue to urge the American people, in the interests of their own security, prosperity and peace, to make sure that their own part of this great project be amply and cheerfully supported.
`` the matters to be considered are obviously of a grave character, and I therefore respectfully request that the hearing be postponed for two weeks in order that I might make adequate preparation ''.

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