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His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.
The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.
The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.
He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.
Dill was silent as if he hated to answer, and Barton had a cold, sick feeling of apprehension.
How could he exert authority over them -- make them toe the line, as he had to -- if he knuckled under to this small-town clown??
Greg climbed into the cockpit feeling as if he had never been in one before.
When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.
Greg slammed his throttle to the fire wall and rammed up the RPM, and the engine responded as if it had been waiting.
Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.
And he would have enjoyed it just as much if he had been a Nazi.
but if it had been, it had been smothered until now by fear ): you could tell it by the way she watched the older, bigger boys, like Jack.
and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.
They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.
He lifts her, puts her down, and walks off, neither pleased nor disturbed, as if nothing had happened.
They look as if they had been sculptured with an unsharpened chisel.
He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.
Under the influence of marijuana the beatnik comes alive within and experiences a wonderfully enhanced sense of self as if he had discovered the open sesame to the universe of being.

if and never
`` McLish '', he said as he kicked the horse into motion, `` I'd be a mighty sad man if we never met again ''.
But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.
For three straight years, Tom Horn patrolled the southern Wyoming pastures, and how many men he killed after Lewis and Powell ( if he killed Lewis and Powell ) will never be known.
What if the marines never came??
To us and to every nation of the Free World, rich or poor, these qualities are necessary today as never before if we are to march together to greater security, prosperity and peace.
Another Indiana observer later commented, `` Perhaps we shall never know how much was spent ( by Hearst ), but if as much money was expended elsewhere as in Indiana a liberal fortune was squandered ''.
In any event, the critical productivity of that time is abundant proof that if he was taking laudanum, it was never in command of him to the extent that it had been during his vagrant years.
And Pike never did find out if Robinson was really responsible for the `` Vale '' letter.
Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.
These never ceased to suggest that if, in the eyes of Marx and Lenin `` full communism '' was still a very distant ideal, the establishment of a Communist society had now, under Khrushchev, become an `` immediate and tangible reality ''.
if he missed it, never again.
He imagined they were the kind whose tax returns were never examined ( if they were, they were never penalized ), whose children had no unhappy romances, whose names never knew scandal.
He had gone into the Japanese navy, had been trained as an officer, had participated in one or two battles -- he never went into detail regarding his military experience -- and at the age of twenty-five, quite as a bolt out of the blue, he had walked into the mission as if he belonged here and had become a Christian.
I have never seen Caper off his feet -- he seems to know nothing but ' trot ' and keeps trying a little harder if asked to do so.
He never rested until he discovered who the culprit was, and when he did, he vowed vengeance on Viola Lake if ever the chance came his way.
Regardless of how much of a slob you knew yourself to be, you could be certain they would never find out -- and even if they did it would make no difference.
If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.
The suburban branch is thereby credited with a sale which would have been made even if its glass doors had never opened.
never seemed as if it could happen to you ; ;
I don't feel much like a maryed man but I never forgit it sofar as to court enny other lady but if I should you must forgive me as I am so forgitful ''.
Thus, red wine must, if possible, never be disturbed or shaken ; ;

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