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I tried my hardest, with little help, may I say, from my husband and leading man, but somehow the outside pressures were too severe.
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`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.
I tried.
I saw you driftin away -- but I tried.
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If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
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The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.
When, in my enthusiasm, I proposed the party, my city editor ( who disliked the club and many of its members ) tried to block my participation in the gala event.
Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.
I heard of some that tried it back in the States, and he'd knock them clear across the room.
Many times I tried to reach you, but I never knew how.
I tried to do so by calling to their attention some of the problems that a senior departmental policy officer faces.
It's extremely accurate for an auto, and the test rifle I tried was completely trouble-free in functioning.
I once tried to describe to a very well-known American intellectual the conditions among Negroes in the South.
I tried to explain what has happened, unfailingly, whenever a significant body of Negroes move North.
I and my
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
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I loved my garden ''.
`` I never felt better in my life '', Fiske blustered.
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.
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.
I could see them in my sights.
I found his chest in my sights.
At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.
In my sights I watched him looming bigger and bigger.
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
I withdrew my hand.
Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.
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.
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 and hardest
I think we have the hardest working, best representative in Congress.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan said, `` I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two ''.
A Pennsylvania soldier wrote that `` they were the hardest looking set of men that ever I saw.
Sociological historian Holger Herwig found in studying German explanations for the origins of World War I, " Those events that are most important are hardest to understand, because they attract the greatest attention from myth makers and charlatans.
Angus MacIntyre of the University of London stated about Cohen: " He was dauntingly clever, and one would have had to be naive or exceptionally altruistic to put one's " hardest problem " to the Paul I knew in the ' 60s.
Using Roman numerals, it was originally intended to run from I ( easiest ) to VI ( hardest ), but as with all other grading systems, improvements to climbing standards have led to the system being open-ended after the grade VII was accepted in 1977.
Texas cattleman Charles Goodnight said about the town: " I think it was the hardest place I ever saw on the frontier except Cheyenne, Wyoming.
He seemed to find this last task the hardest, and only one, " How I Hate the Night ", is known.
The grade reflects both the technical difficulty and the danger associated with a rapid, with grade I referring to flat or slow moving water with few hazards, and grade VI referring to the hardest rapids which are very dangerous even for expert paddlers, and are rarely run.
Using Roman numerals, it was originally intended to run from I ( easiest ) to X ( hardest ), but as with all other grading systems, improvements to climbing standards have led to the system being open-ended.
" I fear that Merseyside is going to be much the hardest nut to crack ," he said.
" It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with ," she says.
She said that her recovery was " the hardest thing I have ever done physically ".
Ebdon stated after his victory over O ' Sullivan, " When I'm trying my hardest I seem to go slow.
Along that same line, Len Dawson has been quoted as saying " The hardest hit I ever received on a football field was by Wahoo McDaniel "
At the end, he caught Langford's hand and said to him, " Sam, this is the hardest I ever had to do in my life.
McGraw said that McGinnity was " the hardest working pitcher I ever had on my ballcub ".
Eddy Merckx said his hour record attempt was " the hardest ride I have ever done ".
" This, let's face it, is a book about one of the hardest of hard liquors and for all this let's be mature, I just drink it for the taste not the effect, honest, Two units a day only stuff ... it is, basically, a legal, exclusive, relatively expensive but very pleasant way of getting out of your head.
Fenn called the role " probably the hardest job I ’ ve ever done.
" Playing in front of that many people at that time in my life made me realize this is what I wanted to do with my life ," said Marquis, " and I was going to work my hardest to get it.
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