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Then and vein

Then I briefly spoke in that vein to the Party leadership.

( not to be confused with the 1991 ITV special Further Up Pompeii ), the already-released Comedy Greats: Frankie Howerd DVD, and another Howerd series along a similar vein, Then Churchill Said To Me.

Then and had

Then he thought of a time when Clayton's horse had fallen lame in the Gap.

Then, as he doubled, gasping, vomiting the breakfast he had so lately eaten, Lord straightened him with an uppercut.

Then he noticed that the dry wood of the wheels had swollen.

Then there was no saying how many times the marine had blown his nose on the handkerchief.

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 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 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 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 followed a period in which he wrote reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Commonweal, Commentary, had a small piece in Partisan Review, and moved on to Hudson, The Village Voice, and Exodus.

Then, since the auction was being held nearby, he had walked to it.

Then there had been the auction itself.

Then, when he had it pointed down the hill, he stopped to gaze at her through the window.

Then Miss Ada had stood up, rustling and rustling, and gone upstairs.

Then, I remembered that the girls had had a banana for dessert every day for the last week.

Then they had always been romping around him on these walks, yelping with delight, dashing off into the bushes on fruitless hunting expeditions, returning to jump up on him triumphantly with muddy paws.

Then, she was back on her feet, winking and smiling that enormous smile ( she had lots of wonderful big teeth that you never would have suspected she had when she was not smiling ).

Then, they had to get up and be General Burnside.

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

Then China promptly went Communist, and Mr. Truman had to fight the interminable Korean war for the democratization of Korea before we learned how far our writ did `` reach in Asia ''.

Then the fact that the lower channel line was pierced had further forecasting significance.

Then and petered

Then the messages petered out.

Then and out

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

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 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 he wrinkled his huge brow and went slowly out of the room.

Then we pull out under our mortar and artillery cover, but nobody pulls out until I say so.

Then Rector, attired in his best blue serge suit, sat in a chair out on the lawn, in the shade of a tree, smoking a cigarette and waiting.

Then he spread out the last list on the counter.

Then, having wrapped the lot in an afghan my dog customarily slept on, you lammed out the front door, considerately leaving it open for neighbors to discover.

Then one day Dick's classmate Jimmy, from next door, let the cat out of the bag.

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 they let out a bellow of anguish and rage and, cursing, screaming and hollering `` Garryowen ''!!

Then the lights went out.

Then he called in his friend Walton and turned over the problem to him, with instructions to work out what was best -- provided it didn't pile unnecessary burdens on the President.

Then he came out and started driving toward the beach.

Then he would yawn and stretch and shout, `` All out.

Then he backed out and swung around to the front drive.

Then Charlie spooned out some quick impressions of the Nikita he had glimpsed: `` I was captivated by his humor, frankness and good nature and by his kind, strong and somewhat sly face ''.

Then he proves the antithesis, that time has no beginning, by showing that if time had a beginning, then there must have been " empty time " out of which time arose.

Then he realized the devil must have laid it out there to tempt him.

Then it turns out that the child has constructed this elaborate ruse in order to steal cookies and watch late-night TV without notice, giving him ur-manipulator status.

Then they cut into her chest and took out her heart.

Then Wollheim changed everything when he brought out an unauthorized paperback edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in three volumes — the first mass-market paperback edition of Tolkien's epic.

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.

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