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S.K. and was
His wife, Katie, `` as gay as a lark and as lively as a gazelle '', -- she was then seventy-six, -- had `` a sense of humour that has been denied S.K., but neither has any aesthetic perceptions.
Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.

S.K. and for
Finally, colleges and clubs took the line that speakers from England were not wanted any longer, even speakers like S.K., so unlike the novelists and poets who had patronized the Americans for many years.

S.K. and .
While S.K. did not like Dylan Thomas, I liked his poems very much, but I made the mistake of telling Dylan Thomas so, whereupon he said to me, `` I suppose you think you know all about me ''.

was and visiting
it was visiting University of North Carolina alumni in New York to ask them for contributions to the Graham Memorial Building fund.
It spread to most of the audience and was often viewed by visiting whites who snickered behind handkerchief and afterward discussed Negro religion.
Common complaints included `` Mrs. Murphy '' leaving her windows open all the time, a fresh air fan, or the family was visiting `` Aunt Minnie '' with the house shut up but they still paid the same rate for oil.
`` Oh yes, the other day I reread some of Emerson's English Traits, and there was an anecdote about a group of English and Americans visiting Germany, more than a hundred years ago.
Police said the children's mother, Mrs. Eleanor Somerville, was visiting next door when the fire occurred.
Susan would be visiting her grandmother for only a few days, but even at seven she was a prudent soul ; ;
In the early 1830s, he met Mary Owens from Kentucky when she was visiting her sister.
Traces of this hidden agenda of the city's history is found in the 18th century guidebooks to Aachen as well as to the other spas ; the main indication for visiting patients, ironically, was syphilis ; only by the end of the 19th century had rheuma become the most important object of cures at Aachen and Burtscheid.
The projected union initially aroused great opposition: he did not consult with his father, who had been on vacation in Karlovy Vary and making arrangements to secure the hand of a German princess for his son, or his Prime Minister Dr. Vladan Đorđević, who was visiting the Paris Universal Exhibition at the time of the announcement.
During the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit in Kuala Lumpur, American authorities claim that immigration records show that a person named Abdulaziz al-Omari was visiting the country, although they say they are not sure that this was the same person.
The whaling industry was established, ships were visiting Sydney to trade, and convicts whose sentences had expired were taking up farming.
He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France.
" Later in his SIU tenure, Fuller was also a visiting professor at SIU Edwardsville, where he designed the dome for the campus Religious Center.
While visiting Beijing in 1970 Sihanouk was ousted by a military coup led by Prime Minister General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak in the early hours of March 18, 1970.
Throughout the months preceding the tour, Love was rarely seen in public, spending her time in her home or visiting the Namgyal Buddhist Monastery in New York.
He was elected President of the South African Baptist Union in 1949 and spent a year visiting churches and mission stations.
He performed an exhaustive market research on the available hydraulic limes, visiting their production sites, and noted that the " hydraulicity " of the lime was directly related to the clay content of the limestone from which it was made.
The Charlottetown Conference, as it came to be called, was also attended by a slew of visiting delegates from the neighbouring colony of Canada, who had largely arrived at their own invitation with their own agenda.
In December 2007 when Tramiel was visiting the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, for the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64, he was asked why he called his company Commodore.
He was also a visiting professor at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom and an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College.

was and waiting
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.
`` Jackson recruited his critters, and him and me fixed up his wagon while we was waiting for you to catch up.
I was waiting in front of it when she showed up and told me of my Uncle's indisposition.
He was waiting.
In June, 1940, Sergeant Helion, with a company of reserve troops waiting to go into battle, was sketching the hills south of the Loire River, when the war suddenly rolled in upon him.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
The car was waiting for him.
Outside, his brother Harry was waiting for him -- he had come to say good-bye.
He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.
Lawrence was waiting for Bill Boxell.
I was drunk with excitement and the smell of gunpowder that came floating down from the road, and the fact that I was not afraid now, but only waiting to know what to do next.
I knew that both these cynics were waiting with impatience for the dramatic moment when Viola was called to the stand.
This habit had become so fixed over the years that it seemed futile to do anything for which no one was waiting.
The place wasn't particularly busy at that time of night, and the girl who was waiting on me, who was clothed in the tightest-fitting pair of slacks I had ever seen on a woman and a sweater that showed everything there was -- and there was lots of it -- wanted to be sociable.
Marty smiled at Squire pleasantly and said, `` There was a cab waiting for me here.
It was in the kitchen, as she was watching the kettle, waiting for the water to boil, that he had grabbed for her.
Bake was waiting to report that Lou DuVol had been sobered up to the point where he could function efficiently.
he was straight, something angry in his attitude, as if he might be waiting to report something.

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