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I and took
I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.
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.
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 ; ;
When we `` forced '' individuals to assume the corporate structure by means of taxes and other legal statutes, we adopted what I would term `` pseudo-capitalism '' and so took a major step toward socialism.
I took one step eastward.
Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.
All this remembering took place the other night when I had supper with the Ziegfeld Girls at the Beverly Hills Club.
I took the pail and shovel and went out on the porch.
I guess fooling Hans and me took doing.
I took him by the shoulders.
In my letters I took on a personality that differed from the self I knew in real life.
The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.
I asked him if he took seeds from his own plants.
I really loved that boy, and, in a feverish attempt to preserve our marriage and to try to revive the wonderful, wonderful person Letch had once been, I took my troubles to Momma, hoping that her earthy advice would help me.
I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said, `` I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ''.

I and another
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;
I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.
The stink is all the same to me, but I really think they can make one another out blindfolded ''.
And I would further note that they all -- with one exception again -- sang in one key or another the same song.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
I remember him pointing out of the window and saying that he wished he could live to see another spring but that he wouldn't.
another I bought there to bring me home 7 weeks ; ;
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.
His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.
But, in spite of this, I, at present a man 31 years of age and a College Professor, have been recalled `` by direction of the President '' to report on November 25th to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, for another twelve months of Active Duty as an Sp 4 ( the equivalent of a PFC ).
A few days before I saw your mention of what Texas Liberals were doing to promote `` Louis Capet '' ( The Week '', June 3 ), another analogy had occurred to me.
And another time, without accusation: `` You never wore that scarf I bought you ''.
`` For a time I thought of trying to reach the Free Polish Forces, but one thing led to another.
Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.
Although the impact of these increases on our industry's shipments will be gradual, on balance I look for another good increase in shipments in the coming year, to at least $6 billion.
In sum, I look for another good year for the electronics industry in 1961, with total sales increasing about 7% to $10.8 billion, despite the uncertainties in the business outlook generally.
Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.
Going through a door into another small court, I had the Throne Room directly in front.

I and sidelong
The 1980 Doctor Who episode " Shada " makes a sidelong reference to this region – the Fourth Doctor ( played by Tom Baker ) claims that walking through the Time Vortex " is a little trick I learned from a space-time mystic in the Quantocks ".

I and glance
Yes, I went to the city, And there I did bitterly cry, Men out of touch with the earth, And with never a glance at the sky.
There had been some coconut in it, for I remember my mother's taking a quick glance at a stringy bit of this nut on the cheek of one of them and then putting down her radish with a shiver.
From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.
Since they did not glance curiously at us once, I guessed that there was a penalty for distraction.
I saw it all at a glance.
The fact that the ostraca records the case of only one worker rather than an entire group of workmen means the necropolis scribe cannot be presumed – at first glanceto have committed a dating error in altering the unknown king's Year date in the interval between IV Peret 28 and I Shemu 13.
" There is more meaning and mutual understanding in exchanging a glance with a gorilla than with any other animal I know.
... to steep myself in the fiery sun and balmy nights of Italy, to witness the drama of that passion swift as thought, burning as lava, radiantly pure as an angel's glance, imperious, irresistible, the raging vendettas, the desperate kisses, the frantic strife of love and death, was more than I could bear.
Cassius Clay, the U. S. minister in Russia, stated,I saw at a glance where the feeling of England was.
... A hurried glance behind revealed nothing wrong, but I decided to shut off the power and descend as soon as the machine could be faced in a direction where a landing could be made.
Lt. Selfridge up to this time had not uttered a word, though he took a hasty glance behind when the propeller broke and turned once or twice to look into my face, evidently to see what I thought of the situation.
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Giant Normal Dwarf ( 1990 ) was a kaleidoscopic affair which at first glance seemed like a return to the psychedelia of " I Am The Walrus " and " Glass Onion " but was actually inspired by Hofstede's desire to write musical fairy tales for his newborn child.
At first glance, the Map is simply a blank piece of parchment ; but when the user points his wand at the Map and says, " I solemnly swear that I am up to no good ", the message " Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, purveyors of aids to magical mischief-makers, are proud to present the Marauder's Map ," and a detailed layout of Hogwarts appears.
"... I could at a glance see the noble spirit he possessed beaming in his countenance, and when he began to speak it was with such force and power.
An old man came out of a hut wearing what at first glance I thought was a brass coal scuttle.
I shall review this exhibition soon, but upon my first glance his pictures and collages seemed to contain a very gentle beauty that made “ my rebel ” Dellert appear as a Titan by comparison.
At second glance one remembers that type I proteins are in fact two protein domains linked by a transmembrane alpha helix in between.
Not a brief glance I beg, a passing word,
Elenoire Casalegno, on the other hand, says: “ I am not scared of the competition with the virtual actresses, because the warmth, the joy, the emotion that can be given by a person in flesh and blood could never be given by a virtual character ; the emotions aroused by skin, a glance or a gesture, will never be given by virtual characters ”.
But at the level of textual action there is the more complex scenario I have discussed elsewhere and will merely glance at below: the scenario centered on the protagonist's fear of his own sexuality, on his need to defend himself against self-distrust and guilt, and on the conflicted nature of his relation to Una and her quest suggested by the opening stanzas of canto 1.
I turn now to his fortunes — or misfortunes — as a character, beginning with a glance at four critical opinions.

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