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Mrs. Pastern asked sadly, when he came in.
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It bulks under a veil of thin, new grass, like some embarrassing fact of physicalness, and I think Mrs. Pastern set out the statuary to soften its meaning.
She usually wore weeds, and a stranger watching her board a train might have guessed that Mr. Pastern was dead, but Mr. Pastern was far from dead.
Leaving her house one late afternoon, Mrs. Pastern stopped to admire the October light.
Mrs. Pastern had been given sixteen names, a bundle of literature, and a printed book of receipts.
Mrs. Pastern undertook the work of going from house to house with the thoughtless resignation of an honest and traditional laborer.
Mrs. Pastern had telephoned most of her neighbors in advance, and most of them were ready for her.
`` But I don't know the Flannagans '', Charlie Pastern said.
The sheer pressure of the horse's weight caused the crumbling of the rim of the Pastern bone and the breaking of the cannon bone.
asked and sadly
As the detective slid it into his pocket, Rourke asked sadly, `` What in hell are you going to do, Mike ''??
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He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.
Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.
Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat with Franklin K. Lane, a prominent California journalist and reform politician, whom he asked for his support.
There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.
It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.
I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.
Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??
He telephoned L. M. Birkhead and asked him and his wife to come to Europe as his guests, but Birkhead declined on the grounds that one of them must be in the United States when Elmer Gantry was published.
Without really changing the general subject, I take this opportunity to confess that I am troubled by doubts, not only about pacifism, but also when asked to join in the protest against a law that most of those who consider themselves humane and liberal seem to regard as obviously barbarous ; ;
American history should clinch the case when Congress is asked to approve.
After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.
He hesitated for a moment when Michelangelo asked him to disrobe, so Michelangelo gave him a piece of toweling to wrap around his loins, led him to the kitchen to take off his clothes.
He asked, when she passed him a glass.
You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??
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The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.
An out-of-town writer came up to Paul Richards today and asked the Oriole manager if he thought his ball club would be improved this year.
`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.
'' Mark asked, and Abel lifted his eyes from the double lines in the middle of the road, the twin white ribbons which the car swallowed rapidly as it ascended the crest of the hill and came down.
There were times it wasn't right to make a person happy, like the times she came in the kitchen and asked know we don't keep peanut `` butter for a peanut butter sandwich.
Their father, when he came back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox.
Fleet asked the same question about Bridget, and Lizzie pointed out that as far as she knew Bridget had gone up to her room before her father's murder and came down when she called her.
When that monk came down and approached him with a respectful salutation, he asked: `` Where art thou from ''??
When Abdülhamid came to the throne the army asked for gratuities and the sultan claimed that: " There are, no longer, gratuities in our treasury, all of our soldier sons should learn ".
When asked if his wisecracking and talking on the bandstand came from his medicine show experience, he said it did not.
When Chaplin's contract came up for renewal at the end of the year, he asked for $ 1, 000 a week.
Wyche asked to talk directly to the Commissioner and word immediately came back that the " no-huddle " would not be penalized.
Coldcut's first mainstream success came when a representative from Island Records asked them to remix Eric B.
The nomenklatura system came under attack ; several delegates asked why the leading party members had rights to a better life, at least materially, and why the leadership was more-or-less untouchable, as they had been under Leonid Brezhnev, even if their incompetence was clear to everyone.
Kaminsky's first break came in 1933 when he was asked to become one of the " Three Terpsichoreans ", a vaudeville dance act.
Early the next morning, Haman came to the king to ask permission to hang Mordecai, but before he could, the king asked him " What should be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?
Marx was asked to apply the greasepaint mustache once more for You Bet Your Life when it came to television, but he refused, opting instead to grow a real one, which he wore for the rest of his life.
" When asked why she came back to chess after taking time off to care for her children, she said " I cannot live without chess!
Philby admired the strength of her political convictions and later recalled that at their first meeting: " frank and direct person, Litzi came out and asked me how much money I had.
So it came that Godan spotted the Winnili first, and asked, " Who are these long-beards?
Miriam came forward and asked Pharaoh's daughter if she would like a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby.
In October 1028, the Emperor's opportunity came as the Lutici district of Pöhlde asked the Emperor to defend against the attacks of Mieszko II, promising support in the fight against the Polish ruler.
The tribes of the southern Arabia, asked the Persian king Khosrau I for aid, in response to which he came south to Arabia with both foot-soldiers and a fleet of ships into Mecca.
The people from the village of Hakupu, although the last village to receive Christianity, came and asked for a " word of god "; hence their village was renamed " Ha Kupu Atua " meaning " any word of god ", or " Hakupu " for short.
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