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When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
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When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.
When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.
When my Uncle offered me a part-time job which would take care of my normal expenses and give me time to paint I accepted.
`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.
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`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.
When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;
When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.
When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )
When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.
When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.
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Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.
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 he was asked a question or addressed in such a way that some response was inescapable, he would answer ; ;
When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.
When a witness at court was asked if he had been kicked in the ensuing rumpus, he replied, `` No, it was in the stomach ''.
When a customer asked for alligator shoes, she said, `` What size is your alligator ''??
When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.
When asked how this was different from being a good Protestant, the boy answered, `` It's the same thing ''.
When I interviewed Kirby, who as a boy picked up pears in the Borden yard, I asked if anybody else in the household besides Lizzie and Morse had been under any suspicion at the time of the murders.
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When I asked, `` Why didn't you go into the living room to see how Mrs. Buck was ''??
When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.
When that monk came down and approached him with a respectful salutation, he asked: `` Where art thou from ''??
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When asked later why he had stopped writing about Greek poetry, he responded, " I found that I could not attain to excellence in both.
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When he had finished he led him and the mare to the porch.
When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.
When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.
When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.
When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.
When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.
When the young biologist, Dr. Ballard, began to show interest in our daughter Elizabeth, this induced a corresponding interest, on our part, in him.
When Breasted insisted that this was impossible for him, Lewis decided to go abroad.
When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.
When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
When Papa went out to do God's work, Stevie often accompanied him in the buggy, which was drawn by Violet, the new black mare.
When Joe identified himself, he nodded, unsmiling, and ushered him into a sedate living room.
When they got home Harold was grateful for the stillness in the apartment, and thought how, under different circumstances, they might have stayed on here, in these old-fashioned, high-ceilinged rooms that reminded him of the Irelands' apartment in the East Eighties.
When Kate hurried in alarm to tell him to put it out, she saw other dots of flames among the western Virginia hills from the few scattered fires of the faithful.
When I was in liquor I rode him pretty hard I guess.
When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.
When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.
When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.
When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.
When you and your dog step into the Junior ring, it should be just what the dog wants to do as much as what you want him to do.
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