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`` I was expecting it, sure.
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`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.
`` But that was war '', I said.
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
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.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.
I was nearly thirty at the time.
It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;
Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.
This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.
I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I felt certain it was self-appointed.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.
I and expecting
`` I will be expecting them ''.
In the Russian turmoil near the end of World War I, when a negotiated peace with the Central Powers was looming, he demanded a continuance of the war, fully expecting to incite all the foreign proletarian classes to arms.
I didn't have much faith that it would work, expecting that I might possibly hear a word or so that would give hope of a future for the idea.
The album was a huge success, and went platinum in the UK, but confused some fans expecting I Should Coco part 2.
Here is how I was led to make this observation: among the preceding experiments, some had been prepared on Wednesday the 26th and Thursday the 27th of March, expecting to find the images very weak.
The exception was critic Gene Siskel who, on the TV show " Siskel & Ebert ", admitted " I went to the theater to see it expecting the worst ", and called it, " a brave little movie that explored the provocative issue of how some frustrated men channel their inability to love a woman into cruelty.
But now the Emperor Anastasius I ( 491 – 518 ) refused subsidies, expecting that the two rival powers of the East would exhaust one another in war.
CBS would not allow I Love Lucy to use the word " pregnant ", so " expecting " was used instead.
Jews are currently fighting with all forces to maintain their positions, expecting a future offensive — and, as far as I am concerned, I understand their fight and admire their vitality, tenacity, genius.
" I didn ’ t know if the 1981 print would stand up to a full IMAX transfer, so I came expecting a sort of grainy, muddy, and overly enlarged representation of the movie I had made years ago ," Spielberg said.
* " Anyone expecting an autobiography or a treatise on what it's like to have been as lucky as I have been will be disappointed.
In his memoirs, Kennan recalled, " So far as I could see, we were expecting to be able to gain our objectives ... without making any concessions though, only ' if we were really all-powerful, and could hope to get away with it.
I, who was expecting nothing of the sort, had nothing to offer ; but I promised that somehow, at some other time, I would show my duty towards him.
" I was expecting to find Vietcong soldiers with weapons, dead.
Rothney castle originally belonged to P. Mitchell, C. I. E and after Hume bought it, he tried to convert the house into a palace expecting it to be bought by the Government as a Viceregal residence since the Governor-General then occupied Peterhoff, a building too small for large parties.
I agreed to listen to just one of them, expecting our meeting to last for no more than five minutes.
Cage entered the chamber expecting to hear silence, but he wrote later, " I heard two sounds, one high and one low.
Yes, my vanity was stung, but you know it was not a bolt from the blue ; I was expecting a failure, and was prepared for it, as I warned you with perfect sincerity beforehand.
I and sure
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.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.
In the half darkness I approached cautiously, making sure he did not see me.
I am sure that none of the effects of this story were consciously employed by Lawrence to describe an oedipal fantasy in childhood.
I shall continue to urge the American people, in the interests of their own security, prosperity and peace, to make sure that their own part of this great project be amply and cheerfully supported.
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.
A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.
I might not make any money but I'd sure have patients ''.
Besides, in all honesty, I don't know how you can be sure.
I am sure that they did when Eisenhower was President.
I said sure that was what I wanted her to do but she paid no attention.
My first thought was how had it happened so soon, but I counted back on my fingers and sure enough we'd been living together six weeks.
I am sure he is in raptures ''.
`` And I am not sure that I have any cash -- any money, that is -- but if you will wait just a minute I will write you out a check if I can find my checkbook.
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