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I and can't
`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''
God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.
`` I can't leave him there.
`` I know you've got a grudge against me, and maybe I can't blame you.
`` That I can't answer, for I can't imagine something like this happening to me.
Like Luis, I can't see something like this happening to me.
A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.
I've had a trying day and I just can't make it out again '', I told them.
`` But why in the name of God can't I give my father blood ''??
`` Why can't I, Doctor ''??
Like every Southerner I can't escape the romantic tradition of brave defeats, forlorn lost causes.
This is why I say we just can't go ahead and disarm the Germans and pull down our own defenses.
The young banker looked at him with a certain surprise, and then he said flatly: `` I'm afraid I can't tell you anything in particular about Kent House.
As for this rider, I never saw him before or afterwards and never saw him dismounted, so whether he stood tall or short in his shoes, I can't say ; ;
`` But brother I can't take a job right now '', she said with her eyes on her ice cream, `` I'm going to have a baby, Francis Xavier's baby, my own husband's baby ''.

I and figure
A few minutes later I saw my Uncle's car drive up and a woman's figure emerge and walk to the corner.
I must say the figure was well made up.
He said hesitantly, `` Hettie, I don't figure your things got wet too much.
I have argued that Oedipus of the Oedipus complex has a doubtful future as a tragic figure in literature.
I think I'm right in that figure.
`` Now, if I can just figure out what he's talking about, I'll use it ''.
If a human figure or wild life are to be part of the projected final picture, I try to place them in the initial sketch.
I was also publicly reprimanded, dragged through the mud by the radical press and made a figure of fun by such leftist publications as The New Republic, The New Yorker, Time and The Christian Science Monitor.
From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.
I used the alias of Robert C. Richards, gave the first three letters and the first and last figure of the license number on the agency heap, but a couple of phony numbers in between.
`` Not a bit '', I said, `` but she's keeping her figure in hand ''.
I mean, we all figured -- I guess anybody'd figure -- Angie '' --
Yes, well, it's a pity to spoil your girlish figure -- which all those kittens would do anyway -- but I think when you've raised these we'll just have the vet fix it so there won't be any more.
Then he said, `` Never noticed it before I mean, when she was dressed but for a woman her age, Julia had a real fine figure ''.
I figure if I can get any kind of publicity campaign going, I'll land him on TV -- you know, one of those favorite horses for some Western hero.
He was a very popular political figure, and since he was the Governor in the effective capital in the Roman West, he was a recognizable figure in the court of the Emperor Valentinian I. Ambrose never married.
I was struck by the size of the man, and although cumbersome and heavy, he was still a mighty figure.
" Sinatra was the first great public figure I ever wrote about ," Capp once said.
) Amestris has often been identified with Vashti, but this identification is problematic, as Amestris remained a powerful figure well into the reign of her son, Artaxerxes I, whereas Vashti is portrayed as dismissed in the early part of Xerxes's reign.
" Here's the way I figure it.
*** The I Ching is a manual of divination based on the eight trigrams attributed to the mythical figure Fuxi ( by the time of Confucius these eight trigrams had been multiplied to sixty-four hexagrams ).

I and out
She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.
`` I guess I'll find out soon enough.
He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.
I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
Print it in real big letters, an' I can cipher it out later ''.
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.
At these words of sympathy and understanding, Harmony said generously, `` I don't mind setting here along with Gran while you go out and join in the games ''.
Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.
Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.
She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.
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.
`` So I just scooted out of his clutches.
I swam like mad, got out of the pool, grabbed my robe, and ran to the car.
As I went out, I could hear water pouring in the shower.
The rest of the time I devoted to painting or to those other activities a young and healthy man just out of college finds interesting.
I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.
`` I don't want to be thrown out and I don't think I will.
He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.

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