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There and was
There was more to this than Jones had told him
.
There was no
one but me
.
There was a ragged volley
.
There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry:
the peace and quiet
.
There was brush
, and stands of pine
that no grass could grow under
, and places so steep
that cattle wouldn't stop to graze
.
There was an artificial lake just out of sight
in the first stand of trees
, fed by a half dozen springs
that popped out of
the ground above
the hillside orchard
.
There was no chance
.
There was no moon
.
There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets of water against
the huge seam of tertiary gravel which
was the mountainside
.
There was a peculiar density about it
, a thick substance
that could be sensed but never identified
, never actually perceived
.
There was some idle talk
, a listless discussion of this or
that small happening during
the day's drive
.
There was to be no gunplay
.
There was a light
in Black's front room
, but drawn curtains prevented any view of
the interior
.
There was no lock on
the door
, only an iron hook which he unfastened
.
There was raw fury
in his eyes
, and
the veins of his neck were swollen
.
There was a feeling
that this mission would be canceled like all
the others and
that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever
.
There was not enough room to make
the usual vertical bomb run
.
There was, of course
, no way for
the other planes to get by them
.
There was no time to pick out a penny ; ;
There was a blur just under my focus of vision
, a crash ; ;
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out
, and now I
was certain I'd seen
her somewhere before
.
There was something about
the contour of
her face
, her smile
that was like New Orleans sunshine
, the way she held
her head
, the way she walked
-- there
was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me
.
There and only
There might have been a
pool of cool water behind any of these tree-clumps:
only -- there
was not
.
There is
only one catch to this idyllic arrangement: Adam Smith
was wrong
.
There was only one hitch:
the small town of Kehl
, on
the other side of
the Rhine
, was still under French jurisdiction
.
There is no explanation of terms nor a qualification
that most such revolts have been dealt with by force
-- only a bald dogmatism
that they must
, because of some undefined compulsion
, be so repelled
.
There are
only two men remaining
in Congress who
, with Rayburn
, voted for
the declaration of war against Germany
in 1917
.
There was no cover here
, only grass sighing against pant-legs
.
There was only one way to accomplish this: by design
, by drawing diagrams and sketches
in which he probed
the remotest corner of his mind for creative ideas to carry his concept
.
There are
, after all
, fortunate souls who hear everything
, but
only know how to listen to what is good for them
, and Stowey
was, as things go
, a fortunate man
.
There appeared to be no difference
in the distribution of anti-A and anti-B activity
in group O serum
, though
in two group O donors ( J. F. and E. M. )
only one type of agglutinin
was found
in the regions of low anionic binding capacity ( Figs. 1 and 2 )
.
There is a marked tendency for religions
, once firmly established
, to resist change
, not
only in their own doctrines and policies and practices
, but also
in secular affairs having religious relevance
.
There has been a tendency on
the part of many American linguists to assume
that a phonemic transcription will automatically be
the best possible orthography and
that the only real problem will then be
the social
one of securing acceptance
.
There remained
only the delicate task of maneuvering
the laws through
the labyrinth of Palace politics and making a small number of policy decisions
.
There is
only one sense
in which it is valid to talk about Hardy's development: he did develop toward a more consistent and more effective control of
that tone which we recognize as uniquely his
.
There is
only one Hardy style
, but
in the earlier poems
that style is
only intermittently evident
, and when it is not
, the style is
the style of another poet
, or of
the fashion of
the time
.
There was one sterile period:
only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and
, except for
the poems written on
the trip to Italy
in 1887
, very few from 1882 to 1890
.
There are more poems dated
in the 1890's than
in the '80's
-- Hardy had apparently resumed
the viewless wings as he decreased
the volume of his fiction
-- but none
in 1891
, the year of Tess
, and
only one in 1895
, the year of Jude
.
There is
only one trouble with this big
, beautiful dream
.
There was, of course
, no special reason to believe
that the man or woman they sought had stayed
only overnight at
the hotel
.
There was a sound like
the one you produce by flicking a watermelon with your finger
, only louder
, and Pops fell forward from
the waist and then over sidewise
.

``
There was only one power control
-- a valve to adjust
the fuel flow
.
There is
only one escape left
, a tragic
one, and too many people are taking it: suicide
.
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