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They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.
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They and answered
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They were usually answered by an ordonnance, and it is chiefly through these that we are acquainted with the activity of the estates of the 14th and 15th centuries.
" Malik ensuingly answered, " Yes, with these two eyes of his ," though his student replied, " there are a people who say he will not be looking at Allah, that ' looking ' means a reward " to which Malik answered, " They lied, rather they will look at Allah.
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They and him
They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.
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They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.
They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.
They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.
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