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What a spectacle he was, caked with dirt and sweat and blood, filthy as a pig and naked as an Indian, kissing the finest, the sweetest, the bravest, and absolutely the prettiest girl in this whole wonderful world.
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What Sartre calls a situation in a theatrical play is what breaks the spectator's passivity towards the spectacle.
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What and was
What Joyce wanted me to do was go to Thor's house and `` do whatever detectives do '', and get her clothes -- and handbag containing her identification.
What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.
What Lincoln could not concede was that the states rather than the people were sovereign in the Union.
What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.
What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.
What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.
What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.
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What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.
Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.
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What and with
What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.
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What we have in mind does have something in common with the goals of psychoanalysis and with the methods by which they are sought.
What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.
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`` What in the world '', echoed others, those come with the beans, potatoes, the tomatoes, `` will any of us do ''??
What it is trying to do is to protect the little man, too, as well as trying to maintain a flow of fresh meat to all stores, with choice of cut being made by the consumer, not the store.
What he was about became clear to her with the circulation of another broadside proclamation by General McClellan, threatening reprisals against Rebel guerrillas.
What hope lay in the nephews, she asked the intensifying light out there, with one married to a barren woman and the other divorced, having sired two girl children, with none to bear on the Packard name??
`` What I want you to do is to go to the market with me early tomorrow morning and help smuggle the hen back into the hotel ''.
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What in the world were you going to do with a lot of dogs when you left for town on Monday afternoons??
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