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I and wouldn't
Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.
Finally Hernandez said, `` I could offer you advice, Tomas, but you wouldn't heed it ''.
I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.
I wouldn't have known the difference.
I wouldn't have the stuff in the house.
`` I might have starved, but at least I wouldn't be fried to a crisp and soaked with dirt ''!!
Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.
I felt a queasiness in my own stomach but it wouldn't do to show these girls that we were afraid.
`` He's a wrong-o '', said Runyon, `` and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw the Statue of Liberty ''.
Somehow I think that Watson paid more attention to me than he otherwise might have because his foe, Colonel Van Hamm, wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot blue pencil.
I wouldn't hear of it because it meant giving up the `` line '', though I realized I was in poor shape physically.
This man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.
I remember him pointing out of the window and saying that he wished he could live to see another spring but that he wouldn't.
I worked on the Schuylkill Expressway and if it had not been for the big trucks carrying rock and concrete there wouldn't be an Expressway.
You wouldn't have me throw the poor boy out on the street '', Eileen said when I needled her about it.
`` I promised him I wouldn't ''.
As I say, I wouldn't want to begin a day like this, but I often wonder what the dead would have done.

I and hear
So I can hear you while I'm checkin' the car.
`` 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 just wanted to hear you say so ''.
As I went out, I could hear water pouring in the shower.
His first inaugural address speaks of `` my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love ''.
but I hear the thunder roll ; ;
I could hear Alfred's voice a few words behind Meltzer's like a counterpoint, punctuated by sobs of sorrow and resignation.
I was anxious to hear about those dazzling days on the Great White Way.
In news broadcasts I consistently hear the foreign volunteers fighting in the Katanga Army referred to as mercenaries.
The monk who opened the door immediately calmed his worries about his reception: `` I speak English '', the old man said, `` but I do not hear it very well ''.
I hear the whole bunch is croakin out in the snow.
Now, if you don't mind, I should like to hear my own piece performed ''.
`` I stopped to say goodbye, Mrs. Lattimer, and to tell you how sorry I was to hear about your baby.
`` I don't hear the music.
I thought she'd gone upstairs and expected to hear she had.
I never thought I'd live to hear people chuckle and say `` zounds ''!!
I myself hear it said constantly -- in drawing-rooms.
I am very pleased that quite a number of you found ways to communicate to me your desire to hear of our reactions and experiences in the U.S.S.R..

I and from
At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.
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.
One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.
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.
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.
And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.
I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.
I kept circling the block hoping to see, from the street behind it, the rear of the hall.
I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.
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 ''.
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.
I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.
She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.
I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.
Shortly before nine I drove my jalopy to the street facing the Lake and parked the car in shadows far enough away from the rendezvous corner but near enough to keep the corner in clear view.
I heard a cry from a stoker as a pillar of flame leaped from a hatch and tongued the man's bare back.
My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.
But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.
I know this from my talks with him ''.
I write about Northern liberals from considerable personal experience.
The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.

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