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It was a happy thing for the troops, that they did not succeed in getting into the Pa. Had they accomplished their object, from the construction of the Pa the poor fellows must all have fallen.
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When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.
Ann, pleased to see her friend happy, was intrigued by the new fruits a friend of Captain Heard had sent on board for their enjoyment.
But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.
That's to say, he was trigger happy.
He was delighted to see them so happy.
`` When that woman found me and told me that you needed me I was never so happy since before the war ''.
Pat took Eileen and me out to dinner at a swell steak house and told us with tears in his eyes how happy he was we had come together again.
He was happy enough to take the convertible and race up the hill to the Blevins', thinking that they might give him a drink.
but the letter went on: she had cried, she had implored, she had been miserable at his refusal, and finally he had relented -- and now how happy she was, how expectant!!
She was rollickingly happy.
For Blanche, Kitti's death was a source of guilty, but nonetheless soaring, happy hope.
Haney went to bed, happy that at least he was rid of that lousy landlord.
In a low voice, almost whispering, the man had asked Phil if he was happy with the way the landlord had been taken off his back.
A year after he was catapulted over nine officers senior to him and made commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup delivered a peppery annual report in the form of a `` happy, warless New Year '' greeting to his Pentagon staff.
At first I was happy to throw the support of our newspaper behind this man.
I am sure that Castro was happy, too, about that support.
Yet when the dear baby came, he had Tillie over here in a jiffy, and was as attentive and sweet and worried and happy when it was all over as any husband could have been.
But now he was happy she would let him straighten out her life and take care of her.
McKenzie was as happy as a clam.
He was enormously happy with her gift and smiled, then went to his room to read.
With most of his mind he was happy.
Only the memory of previous hurt, bewilderment and perplexity made him sure that if he did not ask B'dikkat when he, Mercer, was happy, the answer would no longer be available when he needed it.
The marriage of Julia and Tiberius was not a happy one.
Afonso IV was not happy to see his daughter abused, and started a war against Castile.
was and thing
The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.
It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.
Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.
`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.
`` It was a terrible thing to do.
It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.
The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.
The one thing they had in common was their hatred.
It was the wrong thing to say.
One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.
This was the worst thing I could have said.
The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.
And in the hunting land, this hunger was considered to be a noble thing.
Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.
In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).
But the most notable thing about the incantation of these ex-liberals was that the one-time shibboleth of socialism was conspicuously absent.
One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.
When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.
It was a somewhat unusual thing for a reporter to have a contract in those days before the epidemic of syndicated columnists.
They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.
The man, Tom said, explained that it was not only too long and detailed but that as it stood it wasn't the sort of thing the public wanted.
It was one thing to call men to the colors ; ;
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