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my and great
While I was sitting at one of the rewrite telephones with my derby and my great beard, Arthur Brisbane whizzed in with some editorial copy in his hand.
It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.
`` I leave this church with a feeling that a great weight has been lifted off my heart, I have left my grudge at the altar and forgiven my neighbor ''.
It has not been any great mental effort on my part to keep up with this mechanization which has brought about new ways of dialing.
That first entry there is the Vermont Flumenophobe, the earliest and one of the most successful of my eighty-three varieties -- great big scapulars and hardly any primaries at all.
Lovingly, she accepted, and so great was my emotion that all I could think of saying was, `` You're amazing, you know ''??
It is a matter of deep personal satisfaction for me to add my voice to the great and distinguished chorus of my colleagues in this paean of praise, respect, and affection for Speaker Sam Rayburn.
I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.
No greater pleasure has come to me in my own service in this House than to be present today to participate in this tribute to this great Speaker, this great legislator, this great Texan, this great American.
In my experience, a great many of the patient's more puzzling verbal communications are so for the reason that concrete meanings have not become differentiated from figurative meanings in his subjective experience.
I encountered many questions and great interest upon my return from the Soviet Union about my reactions to that experience.
`` This is a great national cultural asset, and therefore it is a great source of satisfaction to me, representing as I do today my wife, to welcome all of you here today at the White House ''.
It makes my work a great deal easier to be able to pray for the Lord's guidance while ministering to the physical needs of my patients.
These balls are moving in great circles and ellipses, and are of course, the electrons, the particles of negative electricity which by their action create the forces that tie this atom of calcium to the neighboring atoms of oxygen and make up the solid structure of my finger bone.

my and surprise
The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??
When I arrived at Viola's I was shown, to my surprise, into the kitchen.
* In the video game Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War II – Retribution, the character Inquisitor Andrastia has " my chief weapons are surprise and fear " as one of her lines.
The public utterance of the sentence and its context changes the judge's meaning to something like " there will be a surprise hanging despite my having told you that there will be a surprise hanging ".
Finally, the film's director complained to Mayer that he could get nothing out of the young actress, and when summoned to Mayer's office, she fully expected the axe to fall: " But to my surprise, Mr. Mayer's manner was paternal.
" To my surprise, they didn't pay too much attention to it ; they invested on faith.
I was certain that the tram would stop in its regular place and we would have to run for it, and he was equally certain it would stop where he was standing ... To my surprise, the tram did stop right in front of us.
Writer Len Strazewski, in an interview explaining the cancellation of this surprise hit series, said, " It was a capricious decision made personally by Mike Carlin because he didn't like Mike's artwork or my writing and believed that senior citizen super-heroes was not what DC should be publishing.
I formed the habit of dipping my bread in my tea and eating a great deal of it, to the surprise of my English comrades.
A veiled surprise witness for the prosecution appears in the season finale " The Testimony ," and Fallon gasps in recognition: " Oh my God, that's my mother!
He says of his surprise selection " I fell off the chair, and my opponents certainly did ".
But judge by my surprise when today I saw a whole fleet of wheelbarrows of the same size.
The late amateur physicist Michael Talbot wrote, " To my great surprise -- and slight annoyance -- I found that Seth eloquently and lucidly articulated a view of reality that I had arrived at only after great effort and an extensive study of both paranormal phenomena and quantum physics.
Then to my surprise he stated, ' They are on their way already.
In response to these critics, Rogers has stated, “ It should surprise no one that this article from Rolling Stone regarding my activity in connection with the Transportation Worker Identity Card ( TWIC ) is grossly incorrect, and highly slanderous ,” the congressman said.
John Adams wrote, " I think we shall never be able to defend a post until we shoot a general ", and George Washington said it was " an event of chagrin and surprise, not apprehended nor within the compass of my reasoning ".
I had the surprise of my life.
A new song was written from series nine until the show's conclusion in 2001: " Reaching out, holding hands, reliving memories ... Life is full, full of surprises ... And the nicest surprise in my life is you!
: I expressed the surprise which I experienced upon seeing with my own eyes the wonderful revelatory powers of the chrome-silver reaction and the absence of any excitement in the scientific world aroused by its discovery.
:...‘ about six o ’ clock, that morning, I observed the air very much condensed in my chamber-window ; and, upon getting up, was informed by a tenant that finding himself cold in bed, about three o ’ clock in the morning, he looked out at his window, and to his great surprise saw the ground covered with a white frost: and I was assured that two men at Barton, about off, saw in some shallow tubs, ice of the thickness of a crown-piece .’

my and delight
I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.
During the rest of the summer my scholarly mania for making plaster casts and spatter prints of Catskill flowers and leaves was all but surpassed by the constantly renewed impressions of Jessica that my mind served up to me for contemplation and delight.
The mood of the story is fashioned from the start through names of the participants: Naomi, which means " my gracious one " or " my delight ," later asks to be called Mara, " the bitter one "; her two sons are Mahlon, " sick ", and Chilion, " weakening " or " pining " and Orpah, meaning " mane " or " gazelle ", is from the root for " nape " or " back of the neck ", appropriate for the daughter-in-law who turns her back on Naomi and returns to her people.
In Georgia, Alice Baldy wrote to Josie Varner in 1870, " Do you know that if you touch me, or speak to me there is not a nerve of fibre in my body that does not respond with a thrill of delight?
I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Thou didst delight my eyes
My native land, my joy and delight,
In his autobiography, The Magic Lantern, Bergman wrote that " Wood Painting gradually became The Seventh Seal, an uneven film which lies close to my heart, because it was made under difficult circumstances in a surge of vitality and delight.
And with what fervor and delight will it not listen and say to Him: Ready is my heart, O God, ready is my heart ( Ps.
* Thou didst delight my eyes
They are even worse than the Italians ... I have done my best to further the process of exter-mination by killing off eight and transplanting cancer into several more ... All physicians take delight in the abuse and torture of the unfortunate subjects.
I drank little or nothing ; my delight was in dancing.
Before meeting Frances, Erskine had written about the qualities he was looking for in a bride: " Let then my ornament be far from the tinsel glare, let it be fair yet modest, let it rather delight than dazzle, rather shine like the mild beams of the morning than the blaze of the noon.
: I sat out the performance on Wednesday to the last note, an act of professional devotion which was no part of my plan for the evening … You have only to think of Parsifal, of the Ninth Symphony, of Die Zauberflöte, of the inspired moments of Bach and Handel, to see the great gulf that lies between the true religious sentiment and our delight in Mendelssohn ’ s exquisite prettiness.
His best known lyrics were " You are my heart's delight ", his English version of " Dein ist mein ganzes Herz ", from The Land of Smiles, composed by Franz Lehár ( and made famous by the popular tenor Richard Tauber ), and " Goodbye ", from his English adaptation of The White Horse Inn ( originally " Adieu, mein kleiner Gardeoffizier " from Robert Stolz's operetta Die lustigen Weiber von Wien, a song which later achieved great popularity as sung by Josef Locke ).
: its music, only in your delight in my love ;
The poet proudly says: ' Your flute could not have its music of beauty if your delight were not in my love.
" The fellow, to my delight, found me programming time on an IBM 1130 on weekends and late-evening hours.
The childish delight with which Mr. Dickens acts Jack Horner, and says What a good boy am I, in comparison with my benighted ancestors, is thoroughly contemptible.

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