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was and nice
It was a nice day, granted.
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 then
He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.
First it was the Nations against themselves, then it was them against the whites.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach
The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.
It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.
He looked around in surprise, then noticed that Fred Powell was clutching his chest.
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.
The finished -- and drastically cut -- product would begin with a hazy longshot of Joyce entering the suds, then bursting above the pool's surface clad in layers of lavender lather, and I had a hunch this item was going to sell tons and tons of soap ; ;
Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.
For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;
Then the darkness thinned, and there was light again, and then bright sunlight.
I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.
It was only then that he turned to look at Penny.
The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.
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.
For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.
We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.
If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

was and so
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.
She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.
It was a fair fight, the boy provoked it -- Big Charlie told me so.
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.
Evidently this was a precaution so that mounts would be available in an emergency.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
He had forgotten that she was so pretty.
The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.
There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't stop to graze.
clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.
He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.
One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.
If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.
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.
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 ''??
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

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