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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 suddenly there was a tremendous revulsion of popular feeling.
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, 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 ; ;
Then and had
Then he thought of a time when Clayton's horse had fallen lame in the Gap.
Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.
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 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, 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.
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