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When and I
When they were finally satisfied
, Jones said
, `` I think he's
going to give us work ''
.
When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle
I noticed how the clerk winced
.
When I asked him what
, if anything
, I could do about it
, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall
.
When I went for my interview with the director
I saw why
.
When I fell on my back
, I saw a vulture hovering
.
When my Uncle offered me a part-time job which would take care of my normal expenses and give me time to paint
I accepted
.
`` When I was in college ''
, I grinned
, `` I remember a poem
I had to read in my lit class
.
When I show
up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''
.
When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy
, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;
When I mentioned that for my first long voyage
I did not even have the money for the return fare
, but had trusted to luck that
I would earn a sufficient amount
, the young people looked at me doubtingly
.
When it comes to this
, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia
, for instance
, where despotism can be taken pure
, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )
When confronted with a drunk or an insane person
I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others
.
When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence
, they may be right
, I don't know
, but their language is too philosophical for me
.
When and came
When his head
came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall
.
When he
came back to the schoolhouse
, his mind
was made
up.
When Beckett's name
came into the discussion
, the priest grew loud and told me that Beckett
`` hates life ''
.
When fame
came it changed Sandburg only slightly
.
When May
came the Caravan had already crossed the Equator
.
When their levies
came shambling into camp
, they were all elbows
, hair
, and beard
.
When he
came home from his office at the end of the afternoon
, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find
, but there almost always
was one
.
When I first
came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement
, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical ''
, it seemed to me to sum
up the profoundest of political and social truths
.
When he
came to Baltimore
, he
was leaving a team which
was supposed to win the National League pennant
, and he
was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club
.
When the sun
came out
, Stevie strode proudly into Orange Square
, smiling like a landlord on industrious tenants
.
When he felt the side of his head
, his fingers
came away covered with blood
.
When his arm
came up I ducked away but it caught me on the side of the neck
, watering my eyes
, and
I backed off to cough
.
When he
was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon
, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before
, she
came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head
, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad
, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window
.
When they
came to Mr. Jack's photograph
, twenty by twelve inches in a curly silver frame
, Miss Ada said
, `` By rights
I ought to leave that
, seeing he won't take my clotheshorse ''
.
When radio
came in
, it continued the misplaced modifier in its routines as a standard device
.
When the therapist
came to feel on sufficiently sure ground with him to ask him
, `` What is that
, Bill -- hello or farewell ''??
When the chance
came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week
, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day
.
When a second quake
came, they dashed back to the beach
, fearing that they might be buried under landslides
.
When a cow
came out of a corral in a crouchin' run she
was said to
`` come out a-stoopin' ''
.
When he
came to the movies -- more or less by accident -- they were still cheap entertainment capable of enthralling the unthinking for an idle few minutes
.
When he snatched it
up the voice that
came to him
was quick and urgent
.
When the verdict
came in against his young neighbor
, Hengesbach said:
When Dr. W. A. Swim celebrated his 75th birthday at the Wilshire Country Club
, guests
came by chartered plane from all over the country
.
`` When you
came up to the majors
, did you seek out Williams for advice ''??
When and up
When the meal
was ready
, he told Jones to wash
up, and
going into the front room
, woke the girl
.
When the station wagon drew abreast of the dusty dirt road that led
up to the porch of the Culver house
, Pamela turned the wheel
, guiding the car to its familiar parking spot close to the house
, and stopped
.
When Fred Powell's brother-in-law
, Charlie Keane
, moved into the dead man's home
, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking
up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:
When she appeared
, two or three of the little girls jumped
up and
down, yelling
, `` Goody
, goody ''
.
When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance
, I come
up with the following ideas
, which
I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay
.
When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship
, the Astra
, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors
up the Irrawaddy River
.
When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944
, it
was to take
up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer
, begun some years before
.
When the victory cheer went
up this officer found himself still mounted
, with his horse pressed broadside against Cleburne's log parapet in a tangled group of infantrymen
.
When Partisan and Kenyon set
up shop
, Mencken
was still accepted as an arbiter of taste ( remember Hergesheimer??
When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest
, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain
, tied the fly of the tent
, and picked
up the cash box
, he moved
up the darkening street
.
When I'd delivered myself of that gem there
was nothing to do but order
up another drink
.
When would the oyabun like to bring his guests
up here ''??
`` When Konishi gets back with the jeep
, I want you to round
up two or three Japanese boys
.
When Linda Kay had put
up her breakfast dishes and mopped her linoleum rugs
, she would go to the Big House
.
When that
was broken
up after the First World War
, its name
was changed once more
.
When changing from one color to another
, whether working on right or wrong side
, pick
up the new strand from underneath dropped strand
.
When the resin has hardened
, mix
up another batch with a pigment added if you wish
.
`` When working from one of my sketches
I square it
up and project its linear form freehand to the watercolor sheet with charcoal
.
When I looked
up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th
, I realized that Roy
was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 )
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