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Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
But his only hat was something else again.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
That was the new advertising angle -- something about a Lloyd's of London policy to insure the secrecy of the secret ingredient.
There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.
The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.
Yet he did drop his badinage with the ordinary country girl as much in deference to the Grafin as acknowledgement that here, indeed, was something special.
There was a wooden tower or derrick there, something like a ski jump ; ;
Karipo was something of a politician as well as a militarist.
He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.
Theirs is no mere lack of sympathy, but something closer to the passionate hatred that was directed against Fascism.
There was something about his face that disturbed me and it took several seconds to realize what.
`` A miracle, a revelation, it was like a curtain suddenly torn away to reveal something nude ''.
Neither the vibrant enthusiasm which bespeaks a people's intuitive sense of the fitness of things at climactic moments nor the vital argumentation betraying its sense that something significant has transpired was in evidence.
The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.
He said that Mr. Wright was not in, and so could not be arrested on something called a peace warrant that Miriam was waving in the air.
There can be little doubt that there was a conspiracy in Washington, overt or implied, to block anything Hearst wanted, even if it was something good.

something and home
But if anything can bring home to Mr. Khrushchev the idea that he will not really get much enjoyment from watching this Braddock-against-the-Indians contest, it will probably be the fact that SEATO forces are ready to attempt it -- plus the fact that Moscow has something to lose from closing off disarmament and other bigger negotiations with Washington.
`` I can fix him something later in the afternoon when we get home ''.
So something like this matters more than it would at home.
Their affection for their college home has even caused President Dickey to comment on this `` place loyalty '' as something rather specially Hanoverian.
It also brought home proof of something a casual observer might have missed: that more than half of the U.S. Negroes live outside the southeastern states.
In desperation Maggie consulted Eugenia one afternoon: `` Do you think you could find me something I could do here at home to make some money, so I could still watch the baby and do the rest of the things ''??
By chance he encountered a copy of " Captain Claridge's work on the ' Water Cure ,' as practised by Priessnitz, at Graefenberg ", and " making allowances for certain exaggerations therein ", pondered the option of travelling to Graefenberg, but preferred to find something closer to home, with access to his own doctors in case of failure: " I who scarcely lived through a day without leech or potion!
However around 750 BC, or a little later, there was a migration of sea-going merchants from his original home in Cyme in Asia Minor to Cumae in Campania ( a colony they shared with Euboeans ), and possibly his move west had something to do with that, since Euboea is not far from Boetia, where he eventually established himself and his family.
Instead, there is much more of a focus on the home and the family unit — something that the Romans, including Plautus, could easily understand and adopt for themselves later in history.
Rich Aurilia put up stellar numbers ( 37 HR, 97 RBI,. 324 BA ) in support of Barry Bonds, who once again gave fans something to cheer about as he hit 73 home runs, setting a new single-season record.
This was the first Super Bowl played at the Superdome in which the home ( and losing ) team's point total was something other than 10.
The first meeting at Sir Francis's family home in West Wycombe was held on Walpurgis Night, 1752 ; a much larger meeting, it was something of a failure and no large-scale meetings were held there again.
# The nursing home stay must be for something diagnosed during the hospital stay or for the main cause of hospital stay.
The key of the second subject may be something other than the dominant or the relative minor ( or relative major if the home key is minor ).
Mrs. Ann E. Hodges was on her sofa in her Oak Grove home when something crashed through her roof, striking her on the hip.
In April 2009, Lanai City was named one of the most endangered historic sites in the U. S. It is home to an intact plantation town, something not found on any of the other Hawaiian Islands, dating back to the early 1920s.
Grace Hall, a local resident who had been trapped in her home for three weeks, wrote to the Tryon Daily Bulletin with an idea: form a local crafts center so that area residents would have the knowledge to create arts or crafts so that in the wake of another blizzard they would have something to do with their time.
He decided to do something for his brother and when he got back home to America he donated $ 1, 000, 000 to build a new road for his brother and the people who live in Värmlandsnäs.
She was also something of a troublemaker, skipping home to attend parties, circumventing her parents ' strict curfew.
He tells the district attorney to go home and he will find that what he thought was for dinner will be something else.
Knight Lore was something of a revolution in the home computer game market, using a forced-perspective isometric viewpoint branded Filmation, the style of which would be extensively copied in other games, notable examples being Batman and Head Over Heels from Ocean Software.
In real life, Madden was something of a second father to Bonaduce, taking Danny into his home during periods of domestic strife in the boy ’ s own home.
I remember forcing myself to sing it over and over while I made my way home so as not to become distracted by something else and forget it completely.

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