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was and asked
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??
She confessed she was unhappy, he asked was it her husband??
His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.
Seven years later he was asked to become director of the Pittsburgh Symphony.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.
He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.
Just as I was about to enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the leaf of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield its unsavory secrets, dashed ahead of me, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it.
Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat with Franklin K. Lane, a prominent California journalist and reform politician, whom he asked for his support.
This was not before the House but before the Judiciary Committee, where he asked for action on one of his pet bills, that calling for an investigation of the coal-railroad monopoly.
Upon intelligence that the formidable agitator was to favor them with his presence, the benighted inhabitants of Pawtuxet, alas, gave their allegiance to Massachusetts and asked that colony to expel the newcomers.
I asked one day what he was doing.
There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.
It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.
Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??
He telephoned L. M. Birkhead and asked him and his wife to come to Europe as his guests, but Birkhead declined on the grounds that one of them must be in the United States when Elmer Gantry was published.
Lewis looked at him and began to cry, and then, saying that he was going to make a promise, he asked Blackman to call the porter and to tell him to take out all the liquor that he did not want.
It was the oldest and toughest question young lovers have ever asked: How can you be sure??
Mr. Dwyer said that although it was obvious that Mr. Rayburn was not well he stopped, gave the youngster his autograph, asked where he was from and expressed the hope that he would enjoy his visit to Congress.
The promoter who wanted to sign him up for the circus asked him how he was able to do it.

was and Siri
Jones's daughter Siri was born in early September 2009.
Thus, the Samis saw no change or a transformation of their name, for example: some Sire became Siri, Hætta Jáhkoš Ásslat became Aslak Jacobsen Hætta — as it was the norm until recently, when integration into the EU and accelerated international exchanges pushed many people to reverse the order of their full name to given name-surname, so that they are not called Ms. Rauha ( a first name ), just like Japanese, some Koreans, Chinese or some Vietnamese do, for the same reason.
The French also used napalm, which was depicted for the first time in the 2007 film L ' Ennemi intime by Florent Emilio Siri.
Long Beach was the childhood home of current U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Siri intelligent personal assistant founder Dag Kittlaus.
In a letter of 31 January 1985 to Cardinal Giuseppe Siri, regarding the book Poem of the Man God, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ( then Prefect of the Congregation, who later became Pope Benedict XVI ), referred to the 1966 notification of the Congregation as follows: " After the dissolution of the Index, when some people thought the printing and distribution of the work was permitted, people were reminded again in L ' Osservatore Romano ( 15 June 1966 ) that, as was published in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis ( 1966 ), the Index retains its moral force despite its dissolution.
The iPhone 4S was announced on October 4, 2011, improving upon the iPhone 4 with a dual core A5 processor, an 8 megapixel camera capable of recording 1080p video at 30 frames per second, World phone capability allowing it to work on both GSM & CDMA networks, and the Siri automated voice assistant.
* Some right-wing Roman Catholics also claimed Giuseppe Siri ( 20 May 1906 – 2 May, 1989 ) had been elected as Pope Pius XII's successor in 1958 but that his election was in effect vetoed under Communist threat that Catholics in Communist countries would be persecuted if Siri, who allegedly had announced that he wished to be known as Pope Gregory XVII, was accepted as Pope.
It was further alleged that Siri was again ' elected ' in the 1963 conclave, only again to be vetoed in favour of Giovanni Montini who became Pope Paul VI.
* Giuseppe Cardinal Siri was believed by some sedevacantists to have been the rightful pope with the name Gregory XVII
Giuseppe Siri ( 20 May 1906 – 2 May 1989 ) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Genoa from 1946 to 1987, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.
Siri was born in Genoa to Nicolò and Giulia ( née Bellavista ) Siri ; his father was a stevedore, or dock worker.
Siri then studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Carlo Minoretti on 22 September 1928.
In addition to his academic duties, Siri was a preacher, conferencist ( public speaker ), and professor of religion at the lyceums Andrea D ' Oria and Giuseppe Mazzini from 1931 to 1936.
On 14 March 1944, Siri was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Genoa and Titular Bishop of Livias by Pope Pius XII.
Following the death of Cardinal Boetto, Siri was named Archbishop of Genoa on 14 May 1946, and installed on 29 May of that year.

was and which
It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.
The land over which he sped was the land he had created and lived in: his valley.
On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.
For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.
There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets of water against the huge seam of tertiary gravel which was the mountainside.
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.
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.
The slight flutter that had disturbed the motion of her heart when she entered the forest was gone now, and even the dim groves of trees through which she occasionally passed did not reawaken her fear.
The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.
There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.
Jess's coarse features twisted in a surprised grin which was smashed out of shape by Curt's fist.
Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.
He had no idea which was up and which was down.
I was again in motion and at a speed which belied the truck's similarity to Senor X's Ford turtle.
But it was only Johnson reaching around the wire chicken fencing, which half covered the truck cab's glassless rear window.
The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
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.

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