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I and saw
`` Mr. Morgan, it's the best-looking food I ever saw ''.
I saw you driftin away -- but I tried.
I saw that letter.
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.
I saw the pony fall like a stone and the young warrior flew over its head, bouncing like a rubber ball.
I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian's face became shattered flesh and bone.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.
With distaste I saw him assume a pompous air.
When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.
`` I never saw him.
Then I saw the father's head slightly turn ; ;
Suddenly a treble auto horn tootley-toot-tootled, and, thumbing hopefully, I saw emergent in windshield flash: red lips, streaming silk of blonde hair and -- ah, trembling confusion of hope, apprehension, despair -- the leering face of old Herry.
When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.
Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.
I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.
One Monday morning I saw him approach the store with a woman and introduce me to her as my new Aunt.
And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.
I thought I saw a faint surge of color rise to her neck and quickly suffuse her cheeks.

I and Sedgwick
The magazine was purchased by its then editor, Ellery Sedgwick, during World War I, but remained in Boston.
As Sedgwick observes, performative utterances can be revoked, either by the person who uttered them (" I take back my promise "), or by some other party not immediately involved, like the state ( for example, gay marriage vows ).
I want your advice on so many points, indeed I am in the clouds " and on 15 October went on to Cambridge to get advice from Henslow and Sedgwick on the task of organising the description and cataloguing of his collections accumulated from the Beagle expedition.
" Richard Roeper said " I think Sienna Miller does a really nice job of capturing Edie Sedgwick, who really was the fore-runner to Paris Hilton and a lot of other people who are just famous for being famous.
Lord Fairfax's directorships of several companies are as follows: Thomas Miller P and I, and Thomas Miller Defence, 1987 – 90 ; Sedgwick Marine & Cargo Ltd, 1995 – 96 ; British-Georgian Soc.

I and often
While my memory holds with relentless tenacity, as I cannot too often stress, to my wrongs, when it comes to my shames, it gestures and jokes and toys with chronology like a prestidigitator in the hope of distracting me from them.
Next I refer to our program in space exploration, which is often mistakenly supposed to be an integral part of defense research and development.
And to top it all I am often sentimental on purpose, trying to prove to myself that I am not afraid of sentiment.
As I say, I wouldn't want to begin a day like this, but I often wonder what the dead would have done.
( Music often sounds best to me when I can dress informally and sit in something more comfortable than a theatre seat.
More often than not I have found easy excuse to leave my own work and stand at a respectable distance where I could watch this man transform raw nature into a composed, not imitative, painting.
One hebephrenic woman often became submerged in what felt to me like a somehow phony experience of pseudo-emotion, during which, despite her wracking sobs and streaming cheeks, I felt only a cold annoyance with her.
A somewhat less fragmented hebephrenic patient of mine, who used to often seclude herself in her room, often sounded through the closed door -- as I would find on passing by, between our sessions -- for all the world like two persons, a scolding mother and a defensive child.
Pozzatti and I could not know then that we would experience this sort of treatment more often in Moscow than elsewhere.
A Reb stationed near Petersburg informed his mother: `` I need not tell you that I dodge pretty often for you can see that very plainly by the blots in this letter.
I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts, and I think Mr. Jameson Campaigne has done it well in his new book American Might And Soviet Myth.
Her services to the School for many years were of a very high character, and I have often thought that one of the buildings should be named for her ''.
They knew what they could do and it was often a little more than I thought they could do.
How often have I looked to Jesus when entering the sick room, asking for His presence and help in my professional duties as I give my talents not only as the world giveth but as one who loves the Saviour and His creatures.

I and before
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
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.
I could consult this personage on any weekday morning, though not before ten o'clock.
The clerk impressed this upon me: that I should not arrive in the hall before ten o'clock.
I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.
`` 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.
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.
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 ''.
It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.
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.
In the bedroom before the husband and wife find their way to the bed, the lights go on: `` In dull domestic radiance I watch her staring face, still blind, Start wincing in obedience To dirty waters, counters, pots and pans, Waiting below stairs, in her mind ''.
I came up maybe fifty feet before I knew what was happening ''.
They saw it before I did, even with my binoculars.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
But before I try to diagnose it, I would offer other evidence.
You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.
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.

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