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I thought I saw a faint surge of color rise to her neck and quickly suffuse her cheeks.
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I and thought
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.
I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.
`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.
It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.
I and saw
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.
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.
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.
I and faint
I wore a new double-breasted brown worsted suit with a faint herringbone design and wide lapels like a devil's ears.
With faint heart and a brave smile, I endured his long absences from Chateau Belletch, his coldness, his indifference, his slights and his abuse.
I sat there with the faint odor of charcoal-broiled steaks tantalizing my nostrils and occasionally catching the aroma of coffee.
This piece of apparently routine work proved very fruitful — it led to the discovery that all the stars of very faint absolute magnitude were of spectral class M. In conversation on this subject ( as I recall it ), I asked Pickering about certain other faint stars, not on my list, mentioning in particular 40 Eridani B. Characteristically, he sent a note to the Observatory office and before long the answer came ( I think from Mrs Fleming ) that the spectrum of this star was A. I knew enough about it, even in these paleozoic days, to realize at once that there was an extreme inconsistency between what we would then have called " possible " values of the surface brightness and density.
He arranged his discoveries under eight " classes ": ( I ) bright nebulae, ( II ) faint nebulae, ( III ) very faint nebulae, ( IV ) planetary nebulae, ( V ) very large nebulae, ( VI ) very compressed and rich clusters of stars, ( VII ) compressed clusters of small and large and bright stars, and ( VIII ) coarsely scattered clusters of stars.
" Judith, Sorel and Simon seize on this cue from Love's Whirlwind and trot out the melodramatic dialogue as they had in Act I. David is overcome with laughter and the uncomprehending guests are dazed and aghast as Judith ends the scene by falling to the floor as if in a faint.
This sentence also includes two independent clauses, " I cried " and " I didn't faint ," connected by the coordinating conjunction " but.
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