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We and were
We were coming
to an intersection
, turning right
, chuffing
to a stop
.
We were off
the road
, gleaming barbed wire pulling taut
.
We were in
a field
, in
a tight
, screeching turn
.
We were back on
the road
.
We were slowing
.
We enjoyed
a paradoxical freedom when we
were still too young for school
.
We were not
, however
, entirely unacquainted with
the varying aspects
of the street
.
We were forbidden
to swing on
the gates
, lest they sag on their hinges in
a poor-white-trash way
, but we could stand on them
, when they
were latched
, rest our chins on
the top
, and stare
and stare
, committing
to memory
, quite unintentionally
, all
the details that lay before our eyes
.
We can also argue that
the three brothers Karamazov
and Smerdyakov
were the external representatives
of an internal conflict within one man
, Dostoevsky
, a conflict having
to do with father-murder
and the wish
to possess
the father's woman
.

``
We were possessed by visions
of a new civilization
to come
, very pure
and elevated ''
, he has said
, `` in fact some ideal form
of socialism such
as we
had dreamed
of since
the war
of 1914-1918 ''
.
We were given
a job
and we carried
it out
, and later
, his case
was taken up by
the Disciplinary Committee
.

``
We were requested by
the Secretary General
, as I understand
it, to discuss with you such matters
as appear
to us
to be relevant
, and we are not
of course either
a formal group or
a committee in
the sense
of being guided by any rules or regulations
of the Secretariat
.
We were struck by
the notable absence
of banana skins
and beer cans
, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement
, perfection
was side-stepped by
a couple
of braying portable radios
.
We may say
of some unfortunates that they
were never young
.
We were at
a party once
and heard an idealistic young European call that awful charge glorious
.

``
We have just returned from Roswell
, N.M.
, where we
were defeated
, 34
to 9 ''
, the young man noted
.
We were less than
a quarter
of a mile from
the road
, and we could trace its shape from
the ribbon
of powder smoke
and dust that hung over
it.

``
We were on our vacation in Canada ''
, Howard explained
, in
a muffled voice that must have been used
to booming
, ``
and the news didn't catch up with us till we
were nearly home
.
We blushed
and were flustered
, and it turned out
to be
the fleetest brush
of lips upon cheek
.
We would have
the means
to seek out
and destroy
the enemy's force -- whether
it were fixed or mobile
.
We were in business!!
We were camping
a few weeks ago on Cape Hatteras Campground in that land
of pirates
, seagulls
and bluefish on North Carolina's famed Outer Banks
.
We and almost

"
We almost became The Commodes!

The whole
, however
, may be judged from this fragment: "
We Irish
, though dwelling at
the far ends
of the earth
, are all disciples
of St
. Peter
and St
. Paul ... we are bound
to the Chair
of Peter
, and although Rome is great
and renowned
, through that Chair alone is
she looked on
as great
and illustrious among us ... On account
of the two Apostles
of Christ
, you pope are
almost celestial
, and Rome is
the head
of the whole world
, and of the Churches ".
where ω is implicitly
a function
of k
. We assume that
the wave packet α is
almost monochromatic
, so that A ( k ) is nonzero only in
the vicinity
of a central wavenumber k < sub > 0 </ sub >.
We have
almost no information about John's
life.

Dr Simon Kraiz
, an expert on Eastern European Jewry at
the University
of Haifa
, pointed out that no Khazar writings have been found: "
We know
a lot about them
, and yet we know
almost nothing: Jews wrote about them
, and so did Russians
, Georgians
, and Armenians
, to name
a few
.
We just know that
it is done
, annually
, weekly
, daily
, for some people
almost hourly ;
and we have an enormous ethnographic literature
to demonstrate
it ".
We consider
it almost obvious today
.
We repeat
, then
, in
the light
of this recapitulation
of events
, almost too recent
to be called history
, but which are familiar
to us all
, and on
the most casual examination
of the language
of these amendments
, no one can fail
to be impressed with
the one pervading purpose found in them all
, lying at
the foundation
of each
, and without which none
of them would have been even suggested ; we mean
the freedom
of the slave race
, the security
and firm establishment
of that freedom
, and the protection
of the newly made freeman
and citizen from
the oppressions
of those who
had formerly exercised unlimited dominion over him
.
We have also come
to understand Harvey's somewhat unorthodox method
of dealing with his gout
, here cited completely: "... his ( Harvey's ) cure
was thus: he would sit with his legs bare ... put them into
a pail
of water till he
was almost dead with cold
, then betake himself
to his stove
, and so ' twas gone ".

Ironically
, one finds within this move
almost every iconic paradigm inherent
to the gangster image in
the U
. S
. We have
a plethora
of drugs
and guns
.
We have legal texts from
the earliest writings through
the Hellenistic period
, but evidence on
a particular point may be very full at one period
and almost entirely lacking for another
.

Dan Olinger
, a professor at
the fundamentalist Bob Jones University in Greenville said
, “
We want
to be good citizens
and participants
, but we ’ re not really interested in using
the iron fist
of the law
to compel people
to everything Christians should do .” Bob Marcaurelle
, interim pastor at Mountain Springs Baptist Church in Piedmont
, said
the Middle Ages
were proof enough that Christian ruling groups are
almost always corrupted by power
.

News
of the two deaths broke
almost simultaneously
and some newspapers ran an obituary
of Howerd in which Hill
was quoted
as regretting Howerd's passing
, saying "
We were great
, great friends ".

"
We almost went bankrupt after
a month ".

In truth
, a few songs sounded like solo efforts
, while Lodge's " Survival ", Hayward's appropriate closing " The Day
We Meet Again "
and Pinder's lone final contribution
and lead vocal
, " One Step Into The Light " ( curiously
as the band is depicted
as doing so on
the cover photo –
where Pinder is perhaps significantly barely glimpsed at all
and almost out
of focus )
were all high points on
the album
.
We follow
, in
almost educational film style
, all
the processes
, in close-up
, by which
the various portions
of the well are built
.

Since " Why Don't
We Get Drunk " has been knocked off
the standards list
, there are only nine songs played at
almost every show in recent years
.

“
We were really taking
a ‘ best
of everything ’ sort
of approach
, almost like
a band's first album
, in which there's
a lot
of material
to choose from ,” Fagenson notes
.
We have become accustomed
to an
almost universal terminology for units
of storage
.

The opening music
was almost always
the 1941 opening version
of " Merrily
We Roll Along ".

However
, consistent with
the Reformed formula
, “
We are justified by faith alone but not by
a faith that is alone ”, salvific faith has overall been seen
as one that effected obedience
, with those teachings ( known somewhat imprecisely )
as the moral law in contrast
to ceremonial law being retained in
almost all Christian denominations
.

Omitting other appropriate passages which are
almost numberless in
the writings
of the Fathers
, We shall praise Saint Gregory
the Great
, who expressly testifies that this is indeed
the teaching
of the Catholic Church
.
We assume that we are working over
a fixed
, algebraically closed field k
, which in classical geometry
was almost always
the complex numbers
.

"
We almost knew
it was going
to happen ," Guyer said
of his death
.
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