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When someone was praising an orator for his ability to magnify small points, he said, " In my opinion it's not a good cobbler who fits large shoes on small feet.
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When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.
When someone says, for example, `` They took x-rays to see that there was nothing wrong with me '', it pays to consider how this statement would normally be made.
`` When you marry, you want to have things in common '', a girl said, `` and it's hard when you don't marry someone with your own background ''.
When he had finished with that, he would go to another part of the hotel and say much the same things to someone else, most probably a busboy.
When someone does develop chronic or severe problems with anxiety, such problems are usually classified as being one or more of the specific types of Anxiety Disorders.
When used in a generic sense, a Buddha is generally considered to be someone who discovers the true nature of reality.
Writing in 2010 Neil Finn said, " When we lost Paul it was like someone pulled the rug out from underneath everything, a terrible jolt out of the dark blue.
When police speculated about the assailant, the juvenile probation officer assisting at the scene of the murders speculated that Echols was " capable " of committing the murders, stating " it looks like Damien Echols finally killed someone.
When someone judges something to be good, or some action to be right, then the person is using the faculty of moral intuition.
When someone hit a scram switch the clock stopped and the display was replaced with the word " FOO "; at TMRC the scram switches are therefore called " Foo switches ".
When asked to recommend someone else, Davis suggested Robert E. Lee, then an army major in Baltimore ; López approached Lee, who also declined on the grounds of his duty.
When someone speaks of a mishap involving an audible arcing of electricity, the word " zap " is often used ( and has subsequently been expanded and used to describe non-auditory effects generally connoting the same sort of localized but thorough interference or destruction similar to that produced in short-circuit sparking ).
When the U. S. Attorney decides to indict someone under RICO, he or she has the option of seeking a pre-trial restraining order or injunction to temporarily seize a defendant's assets and prevent the transfer of potentially forfeitable property, as well as require the defendant to put up a performance bond.
When a landowner left England to fight in the Crusades, he needed someone to run his estate in his absence, often to pay and receive feudal dues.
When some effort at fulfilling some reparation condition fails, it must be repeated, usually by someone else after some intervening time-period ; history therefore exhibits a cyclic pattern.
When she realizes her powers have gone at the end of Season Eight, however, Willow ends her relationship with Kennedy, saying that there is someone else Willow is in love with, who she will never see again.
When Heath called a leadership election at the end of 1974, Powell claimed they would have to find someone who was not a member of the Cabinet that " without a single resignation or public dissent, not merely swallowed but advocated every single reversal of election pledge or party principle ".
When a door is locked only someone with a key can enter through the door depending on how the lock is configured.
When the crate reaches the destination matching its label, it is opened and the bags ( SDUs ) removed only to become PDUs when someone reads the code of the destination post office.
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When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.
When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.
When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.
When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.
When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.
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 he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
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