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Then and was
Then he was on his way at a gallop.
Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.
Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!
Then the darkness thinned, and there was light again, and then bright sunlight.
Then she saw Ramey and her face was misshapen with bewilderment.
Then there was no saying how many times the marine had blown his nose on the handkerchief.
Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.
Then suddenly there was a tremendous revulsion of popular feeling.
Then, in some way, this lack of faith in the cavalry became mixed up in his mind with the dragging effect of wagon trains and was hardened into a prejudice.
Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.
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 he kept Blackman awake for more than an hour while he did an imaginary dialogue between his wife and himself in which, discussing the evening, he was continually berated.
Then, since the auction was being held nearby, he had walked to it.
Then the nigger boy turned back and he was alone.
Then Katie stumbled, and again he was falling, falling!!
Then he was asking himself the usual early morning questions: What the Hell am I doin here??
Then why was he assuming the role -- the gesture and the suffering??
Then Laura took her gently and shoved her off again, toward Fritzie: Amy did not laugh -- this was work, concentration, achievement.
`` Then what was it ''??
Then she fell asleep again as soddenly as a person with fever, and when she awoke it was dark outside and the clarity was back in her eyes.
Then he stood back to look at Mr. Jack, who was pulling on his pigskin gloves.
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 and gone
Then they were tumbling again, and the big man reached into the same pocket he had gone for earlier, and came up with a vicious switchblade.
Then Miss Ada had stood up, rustling and rustling, and gone upstairs.
Then the flames were gone, the stillness fell upon the severe black face and Richard began to tremble violently.
Then, she discovers that Jerry hadn't gone to Florida as he had claimed.
Ungoliant had grown great, and less by the power that had gone out of him ; and she rose against him ... Then Morgoth sent forth a terrible cry, that echoed in the mountains.
Then a few weeks later I learned he was gone.
Then it may be said that the citta has " gone well free ".
* " Weg nach unten " (" The way down ") describes a depressed person digging himself into the earth ; what appears to be metaphorical at first is in the end revealed to be meant literally: " Dann kommt Licht und ein Känguruh, und ich weiß ich bin zu weit " (" Then there's light and a kangaroo, and I know I've gone too far ")
Jason Stollsteimer's last release with the Von Bondies, " Love, Hate and Then There's You ," has gone through a long process of discovery and change before coming to its current polished form.
Then, near dusk on October 14, 1965, while walking along U. S. highway 15-501 near Chapel Hill, N. C., where he had gone seeking medical treatment, Jarrell was struck by a car and killed.
Then with most of the wartime talent gone from the scene, the Irish fell to 4 – 4 – 1 in 1950.
: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul.
Then, having gone out the presence of the Father and no longer being clothed with His glory, Moses falls to the earth ( cf.
Then, with the aid of William A. Pickering and James Horn, Le Gendre negotiated an effective treaty guaranteeing the safety of shipwrecked American and European sailors with Tauketok, the chief of 18 aboriginal tribes in the area when the Rover had gone ashore.
Then with the Christians gone, the Syrians were able to conquer Egypt themselves.
Then the new catalog came out, and the Contax was gone.
Then, as if a raft floating in deep water should suddenly disappear from under its living burden, so our platform went from under us, and we made for shore in every direction ; but our unity was gone, and, like drowning men, we caught at straws .”
Then she can be so polite, he'll wish he'd gone to a wine-bar ... Sometimes Pearl gets so legless that Jack has to throw her over his shoulder and fireman's lift her upstairs to their flat, where they have separate bedrooms ... She's fun, she tries and she's trapped.
" Then, grabbing Object to Destroy, they were gone — but with Dadaist Man Ray puffing after them, crying: " They're stealing my painting!
In years and years he saved up a little money, and bought his freedom, which he got pretty cheaply at last, on account of his strength nearly gone, and he being ill. Then he come here.

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