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was and nice
It was nice then, so peaceful and quiet.
It was nice to be able to isolate it.
Also, he was so nice when he was nice ''.
The captain was remarking that it was a nice day for a picnic when finally one of the shovels struck an object.
It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.
people who thought it was nice to be important, but not important to be nice ; ;
One of the many things that was so nice about her was that she always took your questions seriously, particularly your very, very serious questions.
`` It was a nice round figure, that 12 '', he said as he headed for the clubhouse, not too much perturbed.
It was nice to have something a little up-to-date for a change.
There was something not nice about triplets, though their father seemed pleased, showing no disappointment that they hadn't been the son he wanted, saying, `` You don't see triplets trippin' down the pike ever' day, Miss Jen, hon.
I'll bribe you with a nice '' -- He was about to say `` double martini '' but thought better of it.
But it was such a nice thought that he nodded his head.
She was blonde, and young, and nice and round in a tight white dress.
It was a nice place, not filled with smoke.
It was foolish and snobbish to wear clothing when none of these nice people did.
This simple design gave very nice smooth linear control and was highly reliable.
They did a cool job of combining the movie script with the series, that was nice, and using the series Merrick and not a certain OTHER thespian who shall remain hated.
Moe Howard of the Three Stooges recalled in 1975 that Sullivan had a memory problem of sorts: " Ed was a very nice man, but for a showman, quite forgetful.

was and day
each day the hurt was a little duller, a little less poignant.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.
While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.
The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.
For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;
As we expected, on the following day my Uncle was completely recovered and opened the store as usual at 10 in the morning.
I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.
The next day he was gone.
Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.
Directly opposite the door was a roaring log fire, a welcome sight on that bitterly cold day.
Sometimes he did this three or four times a day, for this Woman was almost always with him.
Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
That was the day it ended.
The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;
Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;
This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.
It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.
One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.

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