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I wasn't surprised.
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I and wasn't
Anyway, I wasn't down long enough to matter.
Once or twice my father asked me if I wasn't overdoing a bit in my churchgoing.
He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.
When he was a kid I wasn't around ''.
It wasn't long before I sensed that there was something deeper than overvaulting ambition back of his desire for Viola's destruction.
I thought it wasn't supposed to ''.
She wasn't quite sure that I felt enough remorse about my drinking, or that I would not return to it once I was out and on my own again.
I wasn't far behind him when he entered the parking lot and hurried over to his car.
I could get up close to him where there was traffic but had to drop far behind when there wasn't traffic.
The place wasn't particularly busy at that time of night, and the girl who was waiting on me, who was clothed in the tightest-fitting pair of slacks I had ever seen on a woman and a sweater that showed everything there was -- and there was lots of it -- wanted to be sociable.
But then I wasn't her social secretary ''.
Anyhow, I wasn't surprised, early that morning, to see Handley himself crossing from Dogtown Common Road to the Back Road.
I might have got hit by that truck if it wasn't for you.
I wasn't sure there were such people anywhere in the world.
Bob Carroll may not bear quite as close a physical resemblance to LaGuardia as Tom Bosley does, but I was amazed at the way he became more and more Fiorello as the evening progressed, until one had to catch one's self up and remember that this wasn't really LaGuardia come back among us again.
`` I don't believe I know you, and I can't understand your quaint brand of English -- it was meant to be English, wasn't it ''??
And I wasn't.
It wasn't just the pressure of work, although that was the excuse I often used, even to myself.
Partly, it was because Pendleton himself wasn't what I anticipated.
`` I wish I wasn't wearing this ridiculous costume, and that we could go to a theater together, or a nice restaurant, forget we knew '' He stopped speaking.
I and surprised
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
I was surprised at Mayor Miriani's defeat, but perhaps Mayor-elect Cavanagh can accomplish some things that should have been done years ago.
I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.
I was ready to jump but when Ma said she'd get the whisky it surprised him like it surprised me, and he ran down.
She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.
I know now why our Japanese friends were surprised when they walked into our bathroom.
Expecting something more-than-average wacky, I was surprised by what we found.
`` Maybe I could '', he said, surprised that she could turn from herself and notice anything about him.
`` I wouldn't even be surprised '', she said unhappily, `` if Myra tried to leave her with us forever ''.
We'd been standing right outside Miss Bancroft's door and as I went to turn the knob to enter, I was surprised to find that the door was slightly ajar.
I think we were very tired, for we awoke at the same moment, deeply rested, surprised to see the late morning sun on the windows, which were wet where the rime had melted.
Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked ..."
' I remember my news syndicate was so worried about what his reaction might be, and we were all surprised when he telephoned and told me how thrilled he was with it.
I went to London with my wife to celebrate Christmas Day ... Sermon ended, as minister was giving us the holy sacrament, the chapel was surrounded with soldiers, and all the communicants and assembly surprised and kept prisoners by them, some in the house, others carried away ...
Chuck Holmes, foreign editor for NPR Digitial, said, “ I ’ m surprised and displeased, and it makes me wonder what other information is out-of-date or incorrect in the CIA World Factbook .”
The Japanese destroyer commander finished with, " Yesterday I looked at myself in a mirror for a long time ; I was disagreeably surprised to see my face thin, full of wrinkles, and as old as though I were fifty.
I and .
`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.
I guess you'd better go on in the morning ''.
`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.
`` I know '', Jones said dejectedly.
You fell down in front of the house, and I carried you in.
I gave you a drink and then you went to sleep ''.
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
It's not much of a meal, but it's what I eat ''.
`` Mr. Morgan, it's the best-looking food I ever saw ''.
When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
`` I get up early.
He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.
I believed him.
I didn't understand why, Clay.
`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.
I tried.
I saw you driftin away -- but I tried.
And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.
God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.
There's someone there I have to see.
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