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Then I read David Copperfield and realized I could never write at that level, and therefore I should find something else to do.
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`` Then I return to the United States for engagements at the Hollywood Bowl and in Philadelphia '', he added.
Then, after overtures to accept a settlement and go through with a divorce, Miriam gave a ghastly echo of Mrs. Micawber by suddenly stating, `` I will never leave Mr. Wright ''.
My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;
Then I spoke at the ninetieth birthday party of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, who embarked on a fictional trilogy at eighty-nine and who, with The Crisis, had created a Negro intelligentsia that had never existed in America before him.
Then, all but blind, he said there was nothing in Back to Methuselah --, -- `` G.B.S. ought to have known that '', -- and `` I look at my bookshelves despairingly, knowing that I can have nothing more to do with them ''.
Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques, full of dash and wit and glamor, quoting from the books I read, imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special, after-school class I was enrolled.
Then I plan my attack: the parts I will finish first, the range of values, the accenting of minor details -- all in all, mechanics of producing the finished job with a maximum of crispness.
Then later I had quit my safe, secure five-a-week spot on a network soap opera to take a part in this play.
Then and read
Then, at last, his day would fall into an ordered pattern and he would be free to read, or garden or just wander through the woods in the late afternoon, accompanied by his dogs.
Then, to the regular sound of a metronome, and with the same voice inflection, he would read out the syllables, and attempt to recall them at the end of the procedure.
Then a letter of Pope Agatho was read that explained the traditional belief of the Church that Christ was of two wills, divine and human.
Then, Cicero had the incriminating letters read before the Senate the following day, and shortly thereafter these five conspirators were condemned to death without a trial despite an eloquent protest by Julius Caesar.
Conversely, the band's transition from lengthy, complex songs to more compact, simplistic, radio-friendly material was not welcomed by critics ; Rolling Stone's review of ... And Then There Were Three ... read: "... this contemptible opus is but the palest shadow of the group's earlier accomplishments.
The incident, like others in Matthew, is described as the fulfillment of a passage in the Old Testament read as prophecy, in this case a reading of Jeremiah: " Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children.
Atkinson ’ s history can be read about in depth in the book Atkinson Then and Now, which can be purchased at the Atkinson Public Library on Academy Avenue.
Then McQueen's manager, Elkins, successfully lobbied Vincent M. Fennelly, producer of the western series Trackdown, to have McQueen read for the part of bounty hunter Josh Randall in a Trackdown episode.
Then General Hospital casting director Gary Price noted that Stamos did not read for any particular parts.
Then other geeks can read the geek code and work back from that to discover what the writer looks like, what interests they have, and so forth.
Then Psalm 33 ( 34 ) is read up to the verse " O fear the Lord, all ye his saints ; for there is no want to them that fear him.
Then, using an interpretive principle known as the day-year principle, Miller, along with others, interpreted a prophetic " day " to read not as a 24-hour period, but rather as a calendar year.
Then, using the interpretive principle of the " day-year principle ", Miller, and others, interpreted a day in prophecy to read not as a 24-hour period, but rather as a calendar year.
Then, in one afternoon, they wrote his entire body of work: 17 poems, none longer than a page, and all intended to be read in sequence under the title The Darkening Ecliptic.
' Then there was a note, ' To those of you who read titles aloud, you can't pronounce the Count's name.
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