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Then he noticed the clouds racing upon them -- heavy, ominous, leaden clouds that formed even as they sliced over the crests of the surrounding hills.
Then he took off his wet boots and dropped down into the water to talk with the beasts, needing their comfort more than they needed his.
Then he would realize they were really things that only he himself could think.
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 an ambulance comes along, and they drive Praisegod Piepsam away.
Then more than ever before did they show their fortitude and patient cheerfulness.
Then they returned to their hotel and got ready for bed.
Then they moved offices of the East German puppet government into East Berlin and began illegally to treat it as the capital of East Germany.
Then they disappeared and Scotty got up and went into his own room and got into bed.
Then they went down to Black Bottom.
Then, getting back into bed, he thought unashamedly of Mrs. Flannagan, planning where they would next meet and what they would do.
Then they were given 1/2 to 1-1/2 avocados per day as a substitute for part of their dietary fat consumption.
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, they said General Burnside was going to jump over his horse's head ; ;
Then the editorial added prophetically: `` how far they may reach in Asia is yet undetermined, but they fall far short of our dreams of the war conferences ''.
Then they let out a bellow of anguish and rage and, cursing, screaming and hollering `` Garryowen ''!!
Then they picked up the smaller black specks on the plain in front of him.
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, with disappointment evident upon their faces, they moved to the work.
Then we have informed a large number of our crew that when they reach the United States, they will be punished but that in the meanwhile, they may run loose and are expected to perform their jobs in good order.

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 there was no saying how many times the marine had blown his nose on the handkerchief.
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, 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 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 get
Then he would get to his feet, as though rising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say almost invariably, `` Gentlemen, this is an amazing story!!
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 she'd get half of everything I have.
Then you multiply by the lifetime to get the expected number.
Then divide 18 by 12 to get a quotient of 1 and a remainder of 6.
Then divide 12 by 6 to get a remainder of 0, which means that 6 is the gcd.
The algorithm for deciding this is conceptually simple: it constructs ( the description of ) a new program t taking an argument n which ( 1 ) first executes program a on input i ( both a and i being hard-coded into the definition of t ), and ( 2 ) then returns the square of n. If a ( i ) runs forever, then t will never get to step ( 2 ), regardless of n. Then clearly, t is a function for computing squares if and only if step ( 1 ) terminates.
Then, if this business does not work, he can get a new contract with the village committee and return to farming.
Then, before you are well seated at table, a child is yelling :—' The cows are over the fence ;' or ' The sheep are in the crop ,' and everyone jumps up and runs ... And when you have managed to drive the cows or the sheep into their paddock and put up the rails, you get back to the house nicely ' rested ' to find the pea-soup cold and full of flies, the pork under the table gnawed by dogs and cats, and you eat what you can lay your hands on, watching for the next trick the wretched animals are getting ready to play on you.
Then, being unable to get out, they would starve to death.
Then what would happen is that I'd get onstage and see the cameras ready to roll.
Then in the next episode " Fast Hive " ( a parody of Fast Five ), Tigger was part of Pooh's team to get honey.
Then one day, after returning home from a fishing trip, the Vikings get captured by Tomator again.
Then, in 1915, a terrible accident during harvesttime seals Edith's fate: Her father's hands get entangled in a machine, and nine of his fingers are chopped off.
Then I told the rest to go on board at once, lest any of them should taste of the lotus and leave off wanting to get home, so they took their places and smote the grey sea with their oars.
" There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition ," he once said, " Then a self-loathing sets in when you realize you're enjoying it.
Its sequencing in the box set represented the opening stages of the journey that the core characters in Springsteen's work take ; Springsteen said, " Then you get ' Sandy '.
Then, the company started to get big.
Then the empty bus, within imposed weight limits, drives across and the students get back on the bus to continue their ride.
Then you get all the finest jazz pianists in the world and let them play in the presence of Art Tatum.
Then, Iceland should rather get some new friends ".
Then they started to get the Motown music and we would go back and the audiences were integrated and the kids were dancing together and holding hands.
Then it was revealed that it was a part of Bridget's plan for Nick to get Brooke " out of his system.
A few days prior to the attack, Lucas wrote in his diary, " They will end up putting me ashore with inadequate forces and get me in a serious jam ... Then, who will get the blame?

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