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was and big
He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.
A big car was approaching, its chrome teeth grinning.
There was a mound of bleached human bones and skulls at the base of the big wooden derrick.
He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.
He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.
He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.
Within seconds the big barn was blasted into smoking splinters, with every outlaw either dead or injured inside.
This was the big man with the proprietory air and the beetling, shaggy eyebrows.
He was big, and filthy, and his toes stuck out of the flapping tops of his shoes.
He was big.
`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.
She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.
When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.
He was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;
He told me that he had a big newt and a little newt and that he was transplanting a big eye of the big newt onto the little newt and a little eye of the little newt onto the big newt.
He was then noting that the big eye on the little newt hung back until the little eye had grown up to it, while the little eye on the big newt grew rapidly until it was as big as the other.
He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.

was and hit
At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.
He was dead before he hit the ground.
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.
The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.
It was hit by a shell fired by the bombarding Venetian army and the great central portion of the temple was blown to smithereens.
Pa was on his side, looking at me, his eyes winking, the hand that had hit me a fist in the pillow.
It was better, though, he'd hit me.
He moved only about 30 feet after the 240-grain slug hit him -- and this was after the bullet had passed through a sapling.
I tested it in my scoped S & W and it was good enough to allow me to hit a chuck with every shot at 100 yards if I did my part by holding the handgun steadily.
Not a bullet touched Cook who was nearer the ambush, but one hit Russell in the leg and another broke his arm, passing on through his body.
If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried.
Just as it was being hauled inboard, a sea hit the ship.
And women were not expected to know that the pitcher was trying not to let the batter hit the ball.
`` I was hit -- knocked out.
It's at the far end of the county and the last time I came here was for a hit and run manslaughter -- about seven months ago.
It was ruled a difficult chance and a hit.
The Texans made themselves a comforting break on the opening kickoff when Denver's Al Carmichael was jarred loose from the ball when Dave Grayson, the speedy halfback, hit him and Guard Al Reynolds claimed it for Dallas.
Bobby Lowe of Boston was the first to hit four at home and Gil Hodges turned the trick in Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field.
Kieffer, the only junior in the group, was commended for his ability to hit in the clutch, as well as his all-round excellent play.

was and second
The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.
A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.
Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.
The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.
He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.
Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.
His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.
One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.
The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.
Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.
The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.
Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.
The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.
But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

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