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Then and suddenly
Then suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of another fight, an irrational, an indecent, an undeclared and immoral war with our strongest ( and some had thought noblest ) ally.
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 ''.
Then Miriam varied the senseless psychological warfare by suddenly withdrawing a suit for separate maintenance that had been pending, and asking for divorce on the grounds of cruelty, with the understanding that Wright would not contest it.
Then suddenly a group of men and dogs circled him.
Then one day, early in January, 1960, I sat down at my desk, and suddenly I was aware of the crucifix.
Then, with a motion so suddenly violent that she amazed herself, she tore them in two.
Then in 794 Kammu suddenly shifted the capital again, this time to Heian-kyō, which is modern day Kyoto.
It looked to me as if the whole town would break out into a riot ... Then suddenly I heard a heavy thump, and as if by magic the whole crowd dispersed in every direction ... One of the regular patrons had felled one of the noisiest rioters .... And it was the effect of this which had scattered everybody so suddenly.
Then suddenly we found that chimpanzees could be brutal — that they, like us, had a darker side to their nature.
Then, suddenly, an Allied attack on Berlin began.
Then, suddenly he caught Pintor with a right to the temple and Pintor fell on his knees, for the first knockdown of the fight.
Then, in 1986, the Sauk Village Library District Board of Trustees changed the district's name to the Nancy L. McConathy Public Library District in order to honor library district trustee and Village Clerk Nancy L. McConathy, who had died suddenly.
Then suddenly, Napoleon had to leave the field by virtue of a sudden fit of gastric spasma and the failure to follow up on his success allowed Schwarzenberg to withdraw and narrowly escape encirclement.
" Then the effects of the tablets rapidly started wearing off-as is the way with Benzedrine-and suddenly I was feeling worse than I had ever felt in my life.
Then Smith suddenly collapsed and was briefly unconscious before coming around.
Then suddenly without warning, Vorster then proceeded to remove the contingent of South African police guarding the northern border against guerrilla incursions.
Then, suddenly, a short right hand caught Moorer on the tip of his chin, gashing open his bottom lip, and he collapsed to the canvas.
Then, suddenly, the world ends.
Then, in 1964, thanks to Stanley Dance, Earl Hines ' determined friend and unofficial manager, Hines was " suddenly rediscovered " following a series of " recitals " at The Little Theatre in New York that Dance had cajoled him into.
Then, one day recently, his bed suddenly tipped over ( courtesy of an invisible Elliott ); Paul bumped his head and regained his memory.
Then suddenly, the responsibility of the civil administration of Kedah was transferred to the Siamese.
Then the king, restraining both, lest a disturbance should suddenly arise out of this altercation, yielded to the will of the Galwegians.
Then, as suddenly as you entered, you have left this small place.

Then and there
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, on July 2, there occurred another incident which set tongues to wagging at a furious clip.
Then there were the distinguished foreign volunteers.
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 there had been the auction itself.
Then, of course, there are those of us who either do not want or need or cannot afford another car.
Then there was the caterer's ad which read: `` are you getting married or having an affair??
Then there was the General kissing his wife.
Then there is a diagonalizable operator D on V and a nilpotent operator N in V such that ( A ) Af, ( b ) Af.
Then there are the trustees and officers of the great educational foundations, who inevitably exert an influence on educational decisions by their support or refusal to support various educational programs, experiments, and demonstrations.
Then we drove on, until there was no more road and we traversed dry rice fields, bouncing across their squat earth walls.
Then, with the new affluence, there is actually a sallying forth into the wide, wide world beyond the precincts of New York.
Then there was a chorus of wild barking and baying.
Then there was another sound.
Then on Monday morning -- or it might have to be Tuesday -- get up and leave just the usual time, and last thing, put the money in an envelope under the old woman's purse there in the drawer.
Then Dick Hyde, submarine-ball hurler, entered the contest and only five batters needed to face him before there existed a 3-to-3 deadlock.
Then there is a matchmaker, one Mikeen Flynn, a role for which Eddie Foy was happily selected.
Then there are a pair of old biddies played by Grace Carney and Sibly Bowan who may be right off the shelf of stock Irish characters, but they put such a combination of good will and malevolence into their parts that they're quite entertaining.
Then there was a bad delay in getting Mort Lindsey's 30-piece orchestra wedged into its chairs.
Then there was exercise, boating and hiking, which was not only good for you but also made you more virile: the thought of strenuous activity left him exhausted.
Then there was a spat over something, as there had been lovers' spats before ; ;

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