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there and could
A man could make a mark there.
Two men, together like us, we could do somethin fine out there, maybe find a place where no one's ever been.
She remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.
And even with her limited knowledge of such things, she knew that the car could be repaired there ; ;
And now she could see him, looking uncommon handsome, standing there beside Sally Jackson and her folks in front of their trail-worn wagon.
Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.
And she was deeply thankful that she could see her now, out there in the midst of a gay, youthful circle, skipping and singing, `` Farmer in the dell, Farmer in the dell, Heigh-ho the dairy-oh, the farmer in the dell ''.
So far as he knew, only his father could be there.
Whoever was out there hiding in the brushy cover was besieging the Antler house and, having spotted his approach, was determined to drive him off before he could get into the fight.
As far as he could see there was no hole to climb through it.
With the rapid rate of closure, the approach from below, the side, and ahead, there would be only a moment when damage could be done.
The girl took a couple of steps toward the man in shorts when Benson, in that barefoot courtliness Ramey could never decide was real, said, `` You don't want to go around there, Ma'am ''.
From above one could only occasionally catch a glimpse of life on the floor of this green sea: a neighbor's gingham skirt flashing into sight for an instant on the path beneath her grape-arbor, or the movement of hands above a clothesline and the flutter of garments hung there, half-way down the block.
it was mud in wet weather and dust, ankle-deep, in dry, and could be crossed only at the corner where there were stepping stones.
Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.
If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.
Of course, there were books about which nothing good could be said.
After a pause, during which he studied Scotty's face as if Scotty were not there and could not study him too, Mr. McKinley would ask the same questions he had asked downstairs.
They were poems in a strange language, of which he could barely touch a meaning -- enough to make his being ache with the desire for the fullness he sensed there.
He did not really want to kill, but as in the sexual act, there was a moment when the impulse took over and could not be downed, even while you watched yourself giving way to it.
It was not exactly panic they gave way to, but they could not just sit there.
Rousseau was aware that he must seem like a hypocrite, standing there and arguing that he could not possibly permit a public performance.
Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.
In his concept there could be no one else present.

there and shave
The Fakir and Goshai was with the stronger religious influence, and there are even Bauls who would shave off their heads as in their past and kept on practicing and believing in many of the basic creeds of Vaishnava-Sahajiya Buddhism.
As noted by Arthur M. Greenhall: If there is fur on the skin of the host, the common vampire bat uses its canine and cheek teeth like a barber's blades to shave away the hairs.
That's what being too ugly to get a date does to your brain " and " Turned on twitter today and there was a barrage of angry feminists upset with me telling them to get in the kitchen and learn to cook "; " Good thing I didn't suggest the feminists ... you know ... shave.
Cosmetically, there are similarities in coloring and appearance, although one noticeable difference is the actors did not have to shave their heads for the short film, unlike the later feature version.
In retaliation for an attack and attempt by the Klan members to shave the head of the group's Seminole friend, the gang lures the Klan members ( who are on there way to Reverend Flavel's revival meeting ) into the school gym where the gang along with a gym-full of Seminole Indians " persuade " the Klan members to submit to having their heads shaved.

there and scrub
Because of the large training areas inaccessible to the public, the plain is a wildlife haven, and home to two National Nature Reserves, but there is concern that the low level of grazing on the plain could allow scrub to encroach on the grassland.
Although there is some scrub development on the Plain, it is remarkable that large expanses of the chalk grassland remain open with very little invasion of woody species.
The country is one vast wilderness, blasted out of recognition where once villages & orchards & fertile land, now tossed about & churned in hopeless disorder with never a landmark as far as the eye can reach & dotted about in the scrub and untidiness of it all are to be seen here & there singly & in groups little white crosses marking the place where men have fallen and been buried.
The trail heads basically north through mesquite scrub land to Aleman, named for a German merchant who died of thirst there in the 1670s.
Mole skinks are found in sandhills and scrub. They often like to be buried underground and live there.
The Red-necked Spurfowl is a wary species, keeping to deep cover, although it sometimes feeds in open scrub or cultivation if disturbance is limited and there are thickets nearby.
He was of the old belief that as an actor you not only represent yourself as a public person but also the theatre and the art as a whole ; as being part of a public institution there for people ; and therefore it is an actor's responsibility to " scrub up ".
The African race prefers savannah, forest edges, cultivation, and scrub, provided there are some large trees ; this is not a species of very open or densely forested habitats.
The habitats vary and there is a transition between open grassland, scrub and woodland.
Before the 1920s there was relatively little building beyond Lord St. John Wilson, born in Dungog in 1854, described the town as a ‘ sea of bush and scrub, with a house here and there ’, and with bullock teams and drays having ‘ to wend their way between stumps and saplings ’.
Without our work, the grassland would succeed to scrub and there would probably only be half an acre or so of grassland at the south end where salt spray and wind would suppress the growth of scrub.
The Island Scrub Jay has never been recorded on neighboring Santa Rosa Island, only about 10 km ( 6 mi ) away, and there are no definite occurrences of a scrub jay on any other of the Channel Islands, or on the Coronado Islands, only 13 km ( 8 mi ) from the mainland.
Their dwellings resemble igloos, built from what little scrub vegetation there is to be found amongst the volcanic wasteland surrounding the alkaline waters of this inland body of water.
In addition to woodlands there are wide open spaces, green fields, scrub, marsh, water and numerous off-shore islands.
It is rarely incised, but a surgeon working in the belly will often park a handy instrument or two there, reducing the constant back-and-forth of tools with the scrub tech.
Little Bookham Common is a mosaic of rough grassland and scrub ; much of this common is poorly drained and there are several old gunpits and bomb craters.

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