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Then she turned back to Wilson and smiled, and he wasn't quite sure what she meant by it.

Then she turned the station wagon around and headed it back down the hill, with the village as her ostensible destination.

Then, helpfully, as she merely stared at him in weary silence, `` Maybe you could write it down for me, huh??

Then, with a shrug of pretended indifference, she took a compact from her purse and went through the motions of fixing her make-up.

Then she saw Ramey and her face was misshapen with bewilderment.

Then she rounded on Weston and cried, `` You always did Wright's dirty work!!

Then she took iced lemonade to Marsh's young aide where he sat in the cool of the big trees around the flower garden.

Then she went back to the wicker chair and resolutely adjusted her eyes to the glare on the water.

Then she looked at the old woman again, her eyes calm.

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 I realized that she had been deliberately showing me, this time, what Granny was like ; ;

Then she catapults into `` everything and everybody '', putting particular violence on `` everybody '', indicating to the linguist that this is a spot to flag -- that is, it is not congruent to the patient's general style of speech up to this point.

`` Then she went to Deauville where she met a member of a powerful Greek syndicate of gamblers ''.

Then comes the time when the last wire is removed and Susie walks out a healthier and more attractive girl than when she first went to the orthodontist.

Then she heard Julia phone me.

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 ''.

Then she jerked her thumb toward the door in a very American gesture, and dropped into Navy slang.

Then, after a while, she went to her mirror.

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 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 it was gone.

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 back

Then, as Macklin obeyed: `` Now let's go out back ''.

Then he calmly and carefully slugged the remaining five shots into the venomous head -- caught in the wicker back of the chair, the eyes dead on him as the life finally went out of the brute.

Then the Communese reply came back from many mouthpieces with striking consistency.

Then, getting back into bed, he thought unashamedly of Mrs. Flannagan, planning where they would next meet and what they would do.

Then during washing, the greasy soil rolls back at the edges so that emulsified droplets can disengage themselves from the sorbed oil mass, with the aid of mechanical action, and enter the aqueous phase.

Then he went back for Roberts.

Then he turns back to you.

Then, after I'm back, another fifty so you can put some mileage on yourself and have a solid alibi somewhere while I take care of your seat cover boy ''.

Then the monk praised Yang Shan saying: `` I have come over to China in order to worship Manjucri, and met unexpectedly with Minor Shakya '', and after giving the master some palm leaves he brought from India, went back through the air.

Then, if Myra does nothing about fetching her, I'll pack her right back to her mother -- if I have to take her myself ''!!

Then, as their grokking made them ever closer and Mike felt himself almost ready to discorporate her voice called him back: `` Oh!!

Then, taking in on the first cable as the boat is motored into the wind and letting slack while drifting back, a second anchor is set approximately a half-scope away from the first on a line perpendicular to the wind.

Then comes her one solo, " Liaisons ", in which her character thinks back on the art of love as a profession in a gilded age, when sex ' was but a pleasurable means to a measurable end.

Then he went back to the club, only to lament under his bitter tears, " See how they've ruined my dress!

Then, following the battle, the Athenian army marched the 40 ( 25 miles ) or so kilometers back to Athens at a very high pace ( considering the quantity of armour, and the fatigue after the battle ), in order to head off the Persian force sailing around Cape Sounion.

Then, when Macbeth approaches, Banquo, having had dreams about Macbeth's deeds, takes back his sword as a precaution in this case.

Then with the calibration disk in the drive gently turn the stepper motor back and forth until the program showed a good alignment.

Then I hit, shoving him headfirst into the back seat of the car and piling in on top of him.

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