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It could be that Ayckbourn had written plays with himself and his own issues in mind, but as Ayckbourn is portrayed as a guarded and private man, it is hard to imagine him exposing his own life in his plays to any great degree.
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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 had
Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
No man could have reached his spot nor held it without being ruthless, and Hague had made a virtue of ruthlessness all of his life.
How could he exert authority over them -- make them toe the line, as he had to -- if he knuckled under to this small-town clown??
He could not grasp that Lord had withdrawn from the fight minutes ago, and that his leaden arms were flailing at nothing but the air.
Not that her mother knew what had happened, but they could speculate upon it.
Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.
The fact that Jess's horse had not been returned to its stall could indicate that Diane's information had been wrong, but Curt didn't interpret it this way.
Nor could they stop and find out about all that had happened until they made circle, tended the cattle, tethered the horses, gathered fuel, carried water, and started their cooking fires.
I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.
As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.
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.
What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.
Ramey could hear the crowd coming up rapidly behind him and the questioning voices coming over his shoulder had no identity or importance to him.
Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.
Old Commodore Forsythe, who had once lost a fifty-dollar bet on whether he could get both motors started and turn on the running lights without accidentally turning on something else first.
but if it had been, it had been smothered until now by fear ): you could tell it by the way she watched the older, bigger boys, like Jack.
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