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I and still
We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.
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.
`` But I still think Penny's an awful nice girl, Russ '' --
She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.
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 ''.
I bent and kissed the still pink neck and suddenly she jumped up, and her two arms encircled me in a bear-like crush.
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 ''.
`` Well, I get it '', Artie said, still on the ladder.
today, these many years later, after all the temptations resisted or yielded to, the weasel satisfactions and the engulfing dissatisfactions since endured, I call it corrupting still.
`` I care not how soon we reach Calcutta, and are placed in a still room, with a bowl of milk and a loaf of Indian bread.
It was not until we had returned to the city to live, while I was still at Brown and Sharpe's, that I felt the full impact of evangelical Christianity.
I became fifteen, sixteen, then twenty, and still Tessie Alpert sat on the porch with a rose in her hair, and Alfred got richer and sicker with diabetes.
And although they were, as I have indicated, under increasing strain at the time of Racine, they are still alive in his theatre.
To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.
There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.
However, at eighty-five, he had still been busy writing articles, reviewing and speaking, and I had never before known an Englishman who had visited and lectured in three quarters of the United States.

I and have
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
There's someone there I have to see.
I have to think about it.
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
I have it with me, right here.
) 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.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.
But, by gosh, I want him and I'm going to have him!!
Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.
`` I have a little job for you, Charlie.
`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.
I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
I wouldn't have known the difference.

I and dress
I would like to straighten out a misconception about the dress Mrs. Coolidge is wearing in this painting.
Mrs. Coolidge gave Mama this dress for me, and I wore it many times.
( Music often sounds best to me when I can dress informally and sit in something more comfortable than a theatre seat.
She said to the saleslady, `` I want a dress to put on around the house ''.
`` I reached into that funny little pocket that is high up on my dress.
From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.
`` I bought my first dress from him when I was still a struggling young actress '', she reminisces.
Everything was as I had left it the night before last -- her portfolio and bag for town, her lingerie and dress and shoes laid out only her mink coat was missing.
The resurgence of these dress daggers and accoutrements in post-World War I Germany gave a much needed boost to the flagging fortunes of the metalworking center Solingen.
Second Council of the Lateran ( 1139 ) reaffirmed Lateran I and addressed clerical discipline ( dress, marriages ).
The theater's peak was between World War I and World War II, when it was frequented by royalty and celebrities in evening dress.
Under pressure from Starr, who had obtained from Lewinsky a blue dress with Clinton's semen stain, as well as testimony from Lewinsky that the President had inserted a cigar tube into her vagina, Clinton stated, " I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate.
Nor is it a matter of faith only ; more than once I have been in villages where certain Nereids were known by sight to several persons ( so at least they averred ); and there was a wonderful agreement among the witnesses in the description of their appearance and dress.
Prior to the outbreak of World War I in 1914 detachable black or white plumes were worn with the pickehaube in full dress by German generals, staff officers, dragoon regiments, infantry of the Prussian Guard and a number of line infantry regiments as a special distinction.
I didn't have a manager who told me to dress or how to present myself or anything.
Last night on Letterman, I wore this skintight Herve Leger dress.
Top hats were originally worn with black-tie, but had been reserved to white tie and morning dress from World War I. Black-tie dress does not require a hat today.
" Come, LĂ©onard, dress my hair, I must go like an actress, exhibit myself to a public that may hiss me ", the queen quipped to her hairdresser, who was one of her " ministers of fashion ", as she prepared for the Mass celebrating the return of the Estates General on 4 May 1789.
And that the inhumanity of these men may the better appear, I ( Edmond Ludlow ) must not omit, that the executioner in an ugly dress, with a halter in his hand, was placed near the Major-General, and continued there during the whole time of his trial, which action I doubt whether it was ever equaled by the most barbarous nations.

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