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They discussed the way people never tell each other the things on their minds.
They tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.
They tell you horses go crazy at the sight or smell of a bear or a lion, but these didn't.
His letter concludes thus " They come to tell me the ship is ready.
They tell him he wore a hairy coat with a leather belt and he instantly recognizes the description as Elijah the Tishbite.
They get into feuds with the heathen about it, and whenever their own parents practise it, they reproach them and come off to tell me at once.
They " tell no one " what they have seen (), compare with,,,.
They tell of a people commonly called the Jaredites.
They assert that the state space of a system is a Hilbert space, and that observables of that system are Hermitian operators acting on that space — although they do not tell us which Hilbert space or which operators.
" They now inform him that " at a certain stage of intoxication, no human power could keep from setting out, with impressive unction, to tell about a wonderful adventure which he had once had with his grandfather's old ram — and the mention of the ram in the first sentence was as far as any man had heard him get, concerning it.
" They tell Gagarin that Vostok 1 is in a stable orbit.
They demanded Dillinger tell them what the document meant, but he refused.
They tell that Estrid cleared a road and built bridges together with her grandson Jarlabanke ( by her son Ingefast ) and his family, and she dedicated the constructions to her sons Ingvar ( her son with Ragnvald at Harg ) and Ingefast ( her son with Östen at Broby bro ).
They then tell him the name of the real hotel where the General is staying.
They were unhesitatingly accused of witchcraft, and had nearly fallen a prey to that terrible charge ; for betwixt themselves they had sworn never to tell in words by what means they were supported, ashamed as they felt of the resource to which they had been driven ; and resolved, if possible, to escape the anticipated derision of their neighbours on its disclosure.
They have no evidence against Spade, but tell him that they will be conducting an investigation into the matter.
She wrote in her autobiography: " They used to tell me their stories, dreadful stories some of them, and all of them pathetic with that patient and uncomplaining pathos of poverty.
They go to the plantation and tell Johnny's mother, who is upset that Uncle Remus kept the dog despite her order ( which was unknown to Uncle Remus ).
They decide not to tell the rest of the town until the next morning.
They tell him their plan.
They then plan to murder the other pirates: " Dead men tell no tales.
They tell the others and Anderson confesses that the Indians are after him.
They tell her how she eventually grew bored with them, ate their bodies, and cast their spirits aside.
They wandered around with followers, begging for charity, in return for which they were prepared to tell fortunes.

They and Spade
* " They Can Only Hang You Once " ( November 19, 1932, Colliers ; also in A Man Called Spade and Other Stories )
He is referenced in one of the Honeymooners episodes ( from Art ' Ed Norton ' Carney to Jackie ' Ralph Kramden ' Gleason ): " They wouldn't-a won that except some guy slipped in a Spade Cooley record.

They and was
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.
They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.
They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.
But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.
They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.
While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.
They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.
They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.
They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.
They made the world seem friendly somehow, though he knew it was not.
They marched with bayonets fixed, and as fixed on their faces was anger, fear, and torment.
They tried to outface him, but Joseph Simmons was as wide as two average men, and it would have taken braver men than these were to outface him.
They would feel what Mary was undergoing.
They did not complain at the inhuman hour of starting ( seven in the morning ), nor of the tariff, which was reasonable since it covered everything but the tobacco.
They had been fed a hunting breakfast, so called because a kedgeree, the dish identified with fox hunting, was on the bill.

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