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my and recollection
In recollection he has said: `` Natural or man-made objects kept coming into my head, but I would suppress them sternly ''.
But the cheerfulness of my mind, which comes from the recollection of all my philosophical contemplation, counterbalances all these afflictions.
Phillpott said that Shaffer was " relying on my recollection 100 percent ", and the Defense Department Inspector General's report indicated that Philpott strongly supported the social network analysis techniques used in Able Danger, and might have exaggerated claims of identifying the hijackers.
Here is my best, honest recollection of what happened: someone ( I don't remember who ) led me towards the gun, and I sat down, still laughing, still applauding.
He had chosen to study mathematics at Cambridge because, in his own words in his 1868 application for the professorship, " From my earliest recollection I have had an irresistible liking for mechanics and the physical laws on which mechanics as a science is based .... my attention drawn to various mechanical phenomena, for the explanation of which I discovered that a knowledge of mathematics was essential.
It traveled a distance of approximately three hundred feet, and at a height of approximately fifteen feet in the air, to the best of my recollection.
I shewed the air to Urbani, who was highly please with it, & begged me to make soft verses for it ; but I had no idea of giving myself any trouble on the subject, till the accidental recollection of that same struggle for Freedom, associated with the glowing idea ’ s of some other struggles of the same nature, not quite so ancient *, roused my rhyming Mania.
Indeed, to the best of my recollection his name has never even been suggested as a possible expert to be used in this case.
“ As I recall it, after refreshing my recollection from the original minutes now in my possession, on the evening of October 13, 1890, six students in the Law School, Brothers John M. Gorham, Thomas J. Sullivan, F. K.
Pitt wrote to Fitzwilliam on 9 February that Beresford's removal was never " to my recollection ... hinted at even in the most distant manner ... much less ... without his consent " and that he should have discussed it at the meeting held on 15 November.
Had I framed my story on this model, I should have done no more than have attempted to restore the lost drama of Æschylus ; an ambition which, if my preference to this mode of treating the subject had incited me to cherish, the recollection of the high comparison such an attempt would challenge might well abate.
In most of the rest of the statement, one not only heard the aggrieved passive voice, but felt the hand of a lawyer: " To the best of my recollection, my fraud began in the early nineteen-nineties.
To the best of my recollection, I never saw a jury at any County Court on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that was not partially composed of members of the M. E. Church.

my and there
He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;
Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
These my grandmother left in their places ( they are still there, more persistent and longer-lived than the generations of man ) and planted others like them, that flourished without careful tending.
Then, all but blind, he said there was nothing in Back to Methuselah --, -- `` G.B.S. ought to have known that '', -- and `` I look at my bookshelves despairingly, knowing that I can have nothing more to do with them ''.
To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.
I would have stood there and died there if left to myself, but Cousin Simmons grabbed my arm in his viselike grip and fairly plucked me out of there ; ;
-- Henry said that he'd take my arm and get me right there.
That first entry there is the Vermont Flumenophobe, the earliest and one of the most successful of my eighty-three varieties -- great big scapulars and hardly any primaries at all.
I got off there, crossed the street, walked ahead with St. Sophia on my left, the Blue Mosque on my right, and in a moment came to the entrance of St. Sophia.
In my view, there should be a school which offers significant vocational programs for boys within easy reach of every family in a city.
I sat there with the faint odor of charcoal-broiled steaks tantalizing my nostrils and occasionally catching the aroma of coffee.
Although there was no doubt in my mind and we've been handling it as one I'm glad to have it made official ''.
`` I never knew there were such neighbors and friends around me and my family.
Hayes said that if a way can be found to deal effectively with short-term capital movements between nations, `` there is no reason, in my judgment why the international financial system cannot work satisfactorily for at least the foreseeable future ''.
and I asked myself a question: Suppose I had the same number of peas as there are atoms in my body, how large an area would they cover??
Sat there and as a woman sang, she kept getting thinner and thinner, right before my eyes, and the eyes of some 5,500 other people.
I did my shopping, had my dentist appointment, and from there I went to the women's lunch at our parish church where we discussed plans for the annual Christmas bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I drove home in the late afternoon.

my and was
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.
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.
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.
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.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
Miraculously, the bottle was still in my hand, foam still geysering over my ( luckily ) waterproof watch.
The Indian was again raising his bottle, but to my astonished relief -- probably only a fraction of Johnson's -- the bottle this time went to the Indian's lips.
There was a blur just under my focus of vision, a crash ; ;
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

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