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was and so
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.
Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.
She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.
It was a fair fight, the boy provoked it -- Big Charlie told me so.
It was nice then, so peaceful and quiet.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
Evidently this was a precaution so that mounts would be available in an emergency.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
He had forgotten that she was so pretty.
The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.
There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't stop to graze.
clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.
He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.
One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.
If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.
Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.
Against all expectation, Carmer was inside, clearly enjoying himself to the hilt and already so tipsy that it seemed unlikely he was bothering to note anything or anyone about him.
An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

was and novel
The novel was not only the presenter of the new, secular, rationalistic, private world of the middle class.
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.
Krim was able to get an advance for a novel, and time and opportunity to write at Yaddo, but it was no good.
He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.
His lordship was concerned in the management of Drury Lane but, if there were no opportunities there, would he read and criticize her novel??
Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.
A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.
Mr. Remarque's conception of this novel was sound and perhaps even noble.
the book was a fine historical novel about Edward 3,, and I did a week of research to get the details just right: the fifteenth-century armor, furnishings, clothes.
As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.
Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.
According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.
In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).
He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.
According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.
The scenes at the end of the novel, when Oran's gates are reopened, recall the jubilant scenes in Paris when the city was liberated in 1944.
Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.
The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.
This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

was and proposition
The very proposition was sacrilege.
Or, he might remind Fromm that the 41 per cent figure is really astonishingly low: after all, the medieval guild system was dedicated to the proposition that 100 per cent of the workers ought to turn out only the average amount ; ;
In 272 words, and three minutes, Lincoln asserted the nation was born not in 1789, but in 1776, " conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The proposition that special operations by the CIA in Saudi Arabia affected the prices of Soviet oil was refuted by Marshall Goldman — one of the leading experts on the economy of the Soviet Union — in his latest book.
This made investing in the Docklands a significantly more attractive proposition and was instrumental in starting a property boom in the area.
Because this geometrical interpretation of multiplication was limited to three dimensions, there was no direct way of interpreting the product of four or more numbers, and Euclid avoided such products, although they are implied, e. g., in the proof of book IX, proposition 20.
The particle nature is more easily discerned if an object has a large mass, and it was not until a bold proposition by Louis de Broglie in 1924 that the scientific community realised that electrons also exhibited wave – particle duality.
He resented the suggestion ( from a man in North Carolina ) that " the Light and Spirit of God ... was not in the Indians ", a proposition which Fox refuted.
Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary noted: " Marshal Stalin as a negotiator was the toughest proposition of all.
A standing army was an expensive proposition to a medieval ruler.
In the end, Akzo decided the process was not a viable commercial proposition, and shut down their research at the end of 1994.
The third step from political economy to economics was the introduction of marginalism and the proposition that economic actors made decisions based on margins.
This proposition was immediately rejected by the U. S. Shortly afterward, the same day, United States and British forces initiated military action against the Taliban, bombing Taliban forces and al-Qaeda terrorist training camps.
" Wittgenstein was insisting that a proposition and that which it describes must have the same ' logical form ', the same ' logical multiplicity ', Sraffa made a gesture, familiar to Neapolitans as meaning something like disgust or contempt, of brushing the underneath of his chin with an outward sweep of the finger-tips of one hand.
As a joke, he said, " It was said to be very hard on His Majesty's ministers to raise objections to this proposition.
In 1616, the Roman Inquisition's consultants gave their assessment of the proposition that the Sun is immobile and at the center of the universe and that the Earth moves around it, judging both to be " foolish and absurd in philosophy " and that the first was " formally heretical " while the second was " at least erroneous in faith ".
This was the regress argument, whereby every proposition must rely on other propositions in order to maintain its validity ( see the five tropes of Agrippa the Sceptic ).
The resolution from the UN General Assembly called for a UN-supervised general election in Korea, but with the North rejecting this proposition, a general election for a Constitutional Assembly was held in the South only, in May 1948.
As this was an expensive proposition, it was determined to be less costly to build Challenger around a body frame ( STA-099 ) that had been created as a test article.
Sir William Jones ( 28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794 ) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages.
Schopenhauer used Jones's authority to relate the basic principle of his philosophy to what was, according to Jones, the most important underlying proposition of Vedânta.

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