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I wonder if one of you gentlemen could drive me back to town??
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I and wonder
As I say, I wouldn't want to begin a day like this, but I often wonder what the dead would have done.
But when I saw that it was already ten past seven, I began to wonder if something had gone wrong.
I wonder if anyone ever bothered to make the point that when it comes to boats and their motors, Americans excel over any country in the world in the long run.
As Mrs. Letch Feeley, was it any wonder that I, once the social arbiter of Filmdom, was excluded from the smart entertainments given by the Astaires, the Coopers, the Gables, the Colmans, the Rathbones, the Taylors, the Thalbergs and such devout, closely knit families as the Barrymores and the Crosbys??
No wonder that Pozzatti and I had at times difficulty in remembering the real purpose of our presence, namely, Cultural Exchange.
I wonder if the Carters would take one.
`` When you pile your `` guy '' on the bonfire tomorrow night, I wonder how much of the true story of Guy Fawkes you will remember??
Do not wonder that I said to thee, `` You must be born again ''.
Do not wonder that I said to thee, ' You must be born again ' ''.
`` I wonder if they did eat each other at the end '', Owen mused.
The metal-tasting nitrogen made me wonder if I should remove the mouthpiece and suck in the sweet water.
1: 5 “ Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously ; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.
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editor for NPR Digitial, said, “ I ’ m surprised and displeased, and it makes me wonder what other information is out-of-date or incorrect in the CIA World Factbook .”
:“‘ I do not wonder, that after you had suffered its terrors to impress your imagination, you fancied you saw specters, and heard wondrous noises .’ La Motte said.
I heard her weeping "-" I wonder, if I had rendered Kurtz that justice which was his due?
Elsewhere, the emperor had pictures of angels and demons, with the demons having a " most ugly shape, with long hornes, staring eyes ... with such horrible difformity and deformity, that I wonder the poore women are not frightened therewith.
Above all, in time of peace this is fine, but when there is a fear that there may even be a war, then more importantly, considering the welfare of the imperial house, I wonder about the wisdom of a member of the imperial family serving prime minister.
He calls this " a rare achievement of Art ," and notes that it was important to him as a reader: " It was in fairy-stories that I first divined the potency of the words, and the wonder of things, such as stone, and wood, and iron ; tree and grass ; house and fire ; bread and wine.
I often wonder what the vintners buy
I and if
I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
`` Damned if I will.
Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.
But Johnson couldn't quickly unwire the truck door, and if I escaped, he might suffer.
But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.
You must forgive me if I seem to dwell too much on her physical aspects but I am an artist, accustomed to studying the physical body.
I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.
I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.
And I will greatly appreciate it if you will not tell your husband.
But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.
`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??
The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.
and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.
I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.
I do not know if such a way of life can come to be a self-conscious challenge, but I suspect that it can.
I and one
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.
In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.
By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
Adios '', I said, exhausting my Spanish vocabulary on my host and exchanging one of a scarcely-tapped store of smiles with my host's daughters.
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
Seeming much relieved, she smiled one of those worth-waiting-for smiles, and I smiled all the way into the bedroom.
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 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.
I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.
I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.
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