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never and did
For weeks I wandered about this neighborhood of warehouses and garages, truck terminals and taxi repair shops, gasoline pumps and longshoremen's lunch counters, yet never did I cease to feel myself a stranger there.
`` No, I never did see his face.
He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.
Never, never did I offer him the exclusive rights.
That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.
The slaves never shared in their profits, while they did share, in a very real sense, in the profits of the slave-owners: they were fed, clothed, doctored, and so forth ; ;
Koenigsberg never did learn what Hearst wanted, for the latter shook hands and moved toward the door.
There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.
And Pike never did find out if Robinson was really responsible for the `` Vale '' letter.
Yes, I went to the city, And there I did bitterly cry, Men out of touch with the earth, And with never a glance at the sky.
And so the young minister resigned, to go and study and pray, having never passed a day, he told his parishioners, when `` I did not gain from you far more than I ever gave to you ''.
Only Palestine, and I will never live to see Palestine because I did not believe.
often tempted to ask questions but he never did.
He never rested until he discovered who the culprit was, and when he did, he vowed vengeance on Viola Lake if ever the chance came his way.
Regardless of how much of a slob you knew yourself to be, you could be certain they would never find out -- and even if they did it would make no difference.
`` Did you or did you not say what I said you said, because Jane said you never said what I said ''??
When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.
Somewhat to his surprise he found that one girl, whom he would never have considered for the job since she had appeared somewhat mousy and also had been in the office a relatively short time, did the most outstanding job of playing the role of receptionist, showing wit, sparkle, and aplomb.
The pro-Western government, which the United States had helped in a revolt against the Souvanna Phouma `` neutralist '' government, never did appear to spark much fighting spirit in the Royal Lao Army.
I never did miss one in a playoff game -- I kicked about 20 in the five playoff games my last two years ''.
The Bears took the lead in the first inning, as they did in Sunday's opener, and never lagged.
Benington said, `` I've never seen a player have a game as great as Mankowski did against Bradley that day ''.
A tiny handful never did make the concert.
In a sense, he is offering Bonn what its famous son ( who left as a youth ) never did -- the sound of the composer's mature style.
If he died before she did, she would never be unable to resist opening it.

never and flood
According to the Lanercost Chronicle, Alexander did not spend his decade as a widower alone: " he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.
When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.
It is said that Mutina was never sacked by Attila, for a dense fog hid it ( a miracle said to be provided by Saint Geminianus, bishop and patron of Modena ), but it was eventually buried by a great flood in the 7th century and abandoned.
According to the Christian Bible, God first created the rainbow as a sign to Noah that there would never again be a world-wide flood.
This flood even ran over the Rosendale Bridge and crossed the road down by the " C " Highway bridge which had never been seen.
The town suffered a blow from which it never recovered on August 27, 1908 when a devastating flood nearly destroyed the town and killed 18 people.
Following the flood, the encampment facilities were never rebuilt, and the property eventually became a public park.
As a result of the floods, a flood control project was started to ensure the same would never happen again.
The Corps of Engineers was criticized by the Pittsburgh Flood Control Commission for over-engineering, in planning for a " flood that had never happened and never would happen ," and the report was shelved.
FitzRoy's account includes a section of Remarks with reference to the Deluge in which he admits that having read works " by geologists who contradict, by implication, if not in plain terms, the authenticity of the Scriptures " and " while led away by sceptical ideas " he had remarked to a friend that the vast plain of sedimentary material they were crossing " could never have been effected by a forty days ' flood " indicating that in his " turn of mind and ignorance of scripture " he was willing to disbelieve the Biblical account.
FitzRoy's account includes Remarks with reference to the Deluge in which he recanted his earlier interest in the geological writings of Charles Lyell and his remarks to a Darwin during the expedition that sedimentary features they saw " could never have been effected by a forty days ' flood ", asserting his renewed commitment to a literal reading of the Bible.
Since then, even though Glen Canyon was never built for the purpose of flood control, Reclamation has maintained a minimum of of flood-storage space in the reservoir ( approximately 9 % of Lake Powell's capacity ) to be available on January 1 of any year.
: there are no very creditable explanations for his flood of anthologies in the mid-1970s ; that the publishers who bought them would never have done so if they'd had any idea that he was carpet-bombing SF publishing with anthology projects ; that many of his anthologies ( if not all the stories in them ) were well below par in terms of their quality ; and that the subsequent collapse of the anthology and story-collection market did long-term damage to science fiction as a whole.
" Fanmi Lavalas " may be roughly translated into English as " Avalanche Family " or " Waterfall Family " ( referring to the Biblical flood ), but the name is almost never completely translated from Kréyòl, although it is sometimes given as " Lavalas Family ".
Shimkus then quoted the Bible in attempting to allay concerns of global warming induced rise in sea levels, stating that God had promised mankind through Noah that the earth would never again be destroyed by a flood.
Many victims were swept out to sea when the flood reached the Pacific Ocean and were never recovered while others were washed ashore, some as far south as the Mexican border.
When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims, as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.
When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for tangible assistance to the flood victims as well as determining to never speak publicly about the club or the flood.
On July 31, 1976, during the celebration of Colorado's centennial, the Big Thompson Canyon was the site of a devastating flash flood that swept down the steep and narrow canyon, claiming the lives of 143 people, 5 of whom were never found.
Some of the roads were never demolished, but simply allowed to flood over.

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