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It was even all right sometimes to use the faulty forms of the verb " to be ," as long as one was aware of their structural limitations.
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It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.
She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.
Both had blonde hair and blue eyes, and there was even a faint similarity of features.
He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.
So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.
The slight flutter that had disturbed the motion of her heart when she entered the forest was gone now, and even the dim groves of trees through which she occasionally passed did not reawaken her fear.
One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.
Such ranchers as Coble and Clay and the Bosler brothers carried him on their books as a cowhand even while he was receiving a much larger salary from parties unknown.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.
I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.
in reading, on platforms, even in the large auditorium of the Y.M.H.A., Poetry Center nights, his voice was intimate, thoughtful, and a trifle shy.
He knew she was not sulking, not even angry at him.
He had a war reputation, but this was the kind of man women like even without medals.
Now it did not occur to him even to wonder whether it was wise for Robinson to dive again: Rob was his boy, the kid he had rescued from the streets, the object of his pride.
And when this was gone, he hadn't even a little bitter tablet to purify other water if he were to discover some stagnant jungle pool.
He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.
Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.
It was a difficult and ambiguous kind of negotiation, even though the rancher was said to be expert in his knowledge of the aborigines and their language.
was and all
But all of this was rationalization.
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
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.
What else he said was lost in the rattle of gunfire on all sides.
But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.
The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.
under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.
It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.
Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.
Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.
Perhaps it was all a vividly conceived dream.
It was not, thought Pamela, such an evil place after all.
Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.
Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.
Against all expectation, Carmer was inside, clearly enjoying himself to the hilt and already so tipsy that it seemed unlikely he was bothering to note anything or anyone about him.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
It was all Greg had time to see.
An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??
was and right
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.
Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.
It was fun for me, all right.
Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.
`` You have every right to be '', I replied gravely in the Manu dialect, but my attention was fixed on Brassnose, the biggest and strongest of us.
The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.
It was simply a matter of curiosity, a natural right to examine.
It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.
He didn't stop till he was within three feet of Blue Throat and by that time the gang leader's right hand was on the butt of his revolver.
Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.
But they never said anything, so he figured it was all right.
It was our hope to educate him and to give him his freedom when the right time came, for he was a bright and friendly youth who seemed worthy of our interest.
He was right.
The air, he said, was just right ; ;
To their leaders the Constitution was a compact made by the people of sovereign states, who therefore retained the right to secede from it.
This right of the State, its upholders contended, was essential to maintain the federal balance and protect the liberty of the people from the danger of centralizing power in the Union government.
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