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I tried to do so by calling to their attention some of the problems that a senior departmental policy officer faces.
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I and tried
`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.
I tried.
I saw you driftin away -- but I tried.
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.
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.
I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.
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.
It's extremely accurate for an auto, and the test rifle I tried was completely trouble-free in functioning.
I tried my hardest, with little help, may I say, from my husband and leading man, but somehow the outside pressures were too severe.
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 do
`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.
`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.
Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.
As I had expected, he insisted that my visits to the hall would do nothing to further the process of my application.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
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.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.
Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.
You think that Highlands swindled you and I helped 'em do it.
I just do what I'm told, and '' --
`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.
`` So help me, Crouch, I'd like to kill you where you stand, but, before I do, I'm going to hear you admit killing him.
I don't mean to pry, but do they hide the swimsuit with the bubbles??
`` I really do have something important to tell you, Mr. Scott.
I could show what I can do ''.
As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.
`` Only when I do it ''.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
Why she married him I do not know.
`` I know what we can do '', I said.
If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??
I and so
And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.
`` I made you so you could stand up.
I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.
`` Not a danged thing but rattlesnakes, so I reckon I'll get the boss rattler to help me ''.
Now turn around so I can see your face ''.
I just wanted to hear you say so ''.
`` Moriarty '', my driver suddenly exclaimed with something so definite, so final in his tone I once more repeated the absurdity, mustering all my latent powers of hypocrisy to sound convinced.
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.
She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.
I was so scared well, I just ran to my car and came here ''.
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.
`` And I so want the part '', she said.
I said, `` O.K., so now only Blake knows.
I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.
`` I guess so '', she said.
I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.
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