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I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.
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I and started
No sooner had I started drinking than the driver started zigzagging the truck.
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.
He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.
She was still laughing when I grabbed her and started rolling her on the bed.
`` You look like that picture I have at the office '', Mr. Jack had started.
I started the seed in a flat in June and set out the little pansies in a cold frame.
I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.
I started my tour of them at the Turkish Government Tourist Office, next to Pan American's office on the left as you enter the driveway that leads to the Hilton Hotel.
Resolving to get something done, I started in on the dishes.
What I meant to say was that I started to start in on the dishes by gathering them all together in the kitchen sink.
`` I have come to talk with you about the future of humor and comedy '', I told him, at which he started slightly, and then made us each a stiff drink, with a trembling hand.
I started to say something else appropriate, but the man had hung up.
He started to say something as I walked in and then suddenly grinned and said, `` Oh, yes.
I hurried over to the agency heap, jumped in, started the motor and was just in time to see the car I wanted to shadow turn to the left.
`` Sure, sure, you're the one take over for Pretty, soon as I get the supply, get started up again, isn't it??
`` So I started practicing on it in spring training.
So I started making some calls of my own.
`` It's all right '', I said, as she started to look scared.
I and looking
He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
I asked, looking at her searchingly.
I grant that the dog may not be really protective, based on his training, but if you were roaming the streets looking for a purse to snatch or a young lady to molest, how quick would you be to attack a person strolling with a dog??
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
I didn't want to touch him and I hoped Ma would do it but she kept looking at the kid's clothes piled on the floor and the pool of water by them and didn't make any move to.
A Pennsylvania soldier wrote that `` they were the hardest looking set of men that ever I saw.
I put in new batteries so as to be certain I'd have plenty of power and on my way out walked over to the regular parking stalls and stood looking at them thoughtfully.
`` Yeah, it's a real load '', I told him, looking up the street at my battered Ford.
He hesitated a second, looking at the bottle, before he said `` Sure-sure '', and I reassured him.
When he handed it back and I had hold of it safely, Pops was looking toward me and I said `` Now '', to Charlie and he swung the short length of lead pipe he'd meanwhile taken from his pocket, once.
For A good many seasons I've been looking at the naughty stuff on television, so the other night I thought I ought to see how immorality is doing on the other side of the fence in movies.
`` She's so beautiful, and I do like to keep her looking nice ''.
`` You see '', she said, looking past him into the room, where the highball glasses sparkled dully in the bright light, `` you and I can't understand the many hardships they have to undergo ''.
I followed it, looking at the brilliant colors on its tubular back, the colors clear and sharp and perfect, in orange and green and brown diamonds the size of a baby's fist down its back, and the diamonds were set one within the other and interlaced with glistening jet-black.
I felt good and satisfied, looking at the snake.
I drove the tractor on, not looking down there ; ;
I took the broken length of it around the tractor and I took one of the wrenches from the tool-kit and I struck its head, not looking at it, to kill it at last, for it could never live.
I and on
I guess you'd better go on in the morning ''.
`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.
I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''
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.
`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.
I don't know what goes on around here, and I don't care.
I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.
When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.
) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
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.
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
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.
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