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get and them
There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.
There's bound to be someone on guard, but the hat might fool them long enough for me to get close ''.
sufficiently, at least, to get them back into town.
There was, of course, no way for the other planes to get by them.
Plus flawless skin, smooth brow and cheeks, lips that looked as if you could get a shock from them.
If you want to get them aired ''
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
Miss Langford, in a fresh white dress and low-heeled white sandals, without socks, was out there with them, trying to get them inside.
At the corroborees, when they get to dancing and sweating, you'll see them rubbing up against a man who's supposed to have a specially good smell.
`` Well, I might not get that far '', I told them, `` as actually I have no papers to enter Germany and, as a matter of fact, no permit to return to France once I leave ''.
There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.
Preoccupied with his own defense and his attempts to get Robinson to fight, Pike lessened his attacks on Woodruff, and finally stopped them altogether.
`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.
The Frenchman had been ordered to approach the enemy's lines, harass them and get intelligence of their movements.
She had, with her own work-weary hands, put seeds in the ground, watched them sprout, bud, blossom, and get ready to bear.
This is no criticism of them, as they obviously cannot get a half-hour program into a fifteen-minute news summary.
Congress is full of politicians, and if you want to get along with them, you have to be politic.
`` They'll get them by God and let them bring them down here to me, just let them, God, I'll slice their balls right off.
it took them over an hour to get back to the station where they should have changed, in order to take the line that went to the Place Redoute.
One reason the portwatchers let Sposato take them over was to get the protection of his musclemen.
If he wanted to know anything, he would end up asking about it point-blank, but in this guileless manner he would probably receive more truthful answers than if he tried to get them by indirection.

get and back
Sometimes he woke up in the middle of the night thinking of Ann, and then could not get back to sleep.
She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.
The rest of us can fort up in the house and hang on until you get back.
`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.
Let me set the record this time, and let me get back OK, so the German will give me the exclusive.
If you'd get out of your back yard once in a while you might even get her your ownself ''.
`` That's all right '', she said, tossing her head back to get the hair out of her eyes.
Although after much trouble he did manage to get it back, he discovered there was no trade to be had.
But to get back to the Coolidge household, Mrs. Coolidge so obviously loved dogs, that the public sent her more dogs -- Calamity Jane, Timmy, and Blackberry.
In addition, it is small enough to get into crevices, jacket and crown margins, malposed anteriors, and the back teeth.
The most articulate Republicans are those who, in their desire to get back at Mr. Kennedy, already have created the image of a Republican leadership which is reluctant to assist the distressed and the unemployed, and which is even more unwilling to help old people who need medical care.
Honest I could feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck like a dog's that is going to get into a fight.
How about me trying to help her get her job back??
Usually back in Concord by noon, there was just time to get partially thawed out, refuel, and grab a bit of Mrs. Fogg's hot broth before starting the second trip.
Well, to get back to the problem of retirement.
When you see a needle in my hands you will know the family buttons have fallen off and I have to sew them back on, or get out the safety pins.
`` To get a marriage back where it belongs '', comments Dr. Schillinger of the Lincoln Institute, `` the husband must take some very basic steps.
There is much to be said for a college that, while happily attuned to the sophisticated Ivies, still gives its students a chance to get up early in the morning and drive along back roads where a glimpse of small game, deer, or even bear is not uncommon.
The counters rode through the pasture countin' each bunch of grazin' cattle, and drifted it back so that it didn't get mixed with the uncounted cattle ahead.
She went in to get the hamburgers, and I switched on the device again and kept the signal from Dowling's car coming in steady and clear until I saw her starting back with the hamburgers.
`` I have to get back to Jarrodsville '', he went on.

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