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could and be
It could be some kind of trick Budd had thought up.
) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
Their roar, like the swelling volume of a hundred tornadoes could be heard for miles.
Atonement, if atonement were possible, could only be made at that sacred, sacrificial basin.
Bushes and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detours for the struggling stranger, and without the direct light of the sun to act as compass, Pamela could no longer be positive of her direction.
There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.
And even with her limited knowledge of such things, she knew that the car could be repaired there ; ;
Not even an empty cartridge case could be found.
Inside the crown, stuffed behind the stained sweatband, could be seen thin, crumpled wads of currency.
How much of an accident could that be ''??
So far as he knew, only his father could be there.
A hell of an altitude for a barrel roll, but it could be done.
With the rapid rate of closure, the approach from below, the side, and ahead, there would be only a moment when damage could be done.
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 ; ;
The entire length of the street could be raked with rifle fire from this barn.
When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.
It is hard to see how the situation could be otherwise.
Each could be the real thing.
Officers who participate in the continual practice drills assured me that the President's decision could be made and announced on the gold circuit within minutes after the first flash from Aj.
Seeking an obscure, dark, relatively quiet corner in the airy room otherwise suffused with afternoon sunshine, he asked if the soft background music could be turned off.
Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.
The conversation that ensued may have been engrossing but it could hardly be called world-shattering.

could and said
`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.
Finally Hernandez said, `` I could offer you advice, Tomas, but you wouldn't heed it ''.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
As cheerfully as possible, he said, `` Well, I guess we could all do with a little drink ''.
`` Hettie '', he said as gently as he could, `` we're still headed west.
This was the worst thing I could have said.
The girl took a couple of steps toward the man in shorts when Benson, in that barefoot courtliness Ramey could never decide was real, said, `` You don't want to go around there, Ma'am ''.
He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.
Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.
Yet, I responded, could not similar things be said about the art of the past??
He said that Mr. Wright was not in, and so could not be arrested on something called a peace warrant that Miriam was waving in the air.
He said that the architect might reasonably be expected to carry his financial burdens if all harrassment could be brought to an end, and that the bank would accept a mortgage on Taliesin to help bring this about.
`` He's a wrong-o '', said Runyon, `` and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw the Statue of Liberty ''.
When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.
Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.
Of course, there were books about which nothing good could be said.
but he defended the doctrine in The Art Of Happiness, and what indeed could be said against the Epicurean virtues, health, frugality, privacy, culture and friendship??
`` We tried to settle this dispute '', he said, `` but could never come to an agreement.
And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek: `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland.
He said he could do it.
Going downstairs with the tray, Winston wished he could have given in to Miss Ada, but he knew better than to do what she said when she had that little-girl look.
`` At least you could leave it for the movers '', Miss Ada said.
`` If I could only think of something at the studio, near me, to absorb his boundless energy '', I said.
One woman -- she could have been either English or American -- went up to him and said, ' But you are the foreigners ' ''.
`` I'm sorry, Mrs. Minks '', Arlene said in a tone so low you could hardly hear it.

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