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I and suppose
I suppose you don't know anything about a piece of two-by-four, either ; ;
`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.
I don't suppose a wife should be grateful to her husband for saving her life, but I am.
I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.
`` I suppose because it saves them some loss of body water.
In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;
One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.
I suppose we might classify Billy Graham as an old liberal.
There is no necessity, I suppose, to assert that Mr. Faulkner is Southern.
I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.
To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.
In The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, it may be noted, Swift himself contemptuously dismissed Steele's reference to his friend at court: `` I suppose by the Style of old Friend, and the like, it must be some Body there of his own Level ; ;
I suppose the same emotion holds, if to a lesser degree, with any famous monument.
I suppose the day will inevitably come when the area will be encrusted with developments, but at present it is deserted and seductive.

I and Lascar
His love of language influenced many of his comedy routines-for example one otherwise fairly routine joke began with the line " I was vouchsafed this vision by a pockmarked Lascar in the arms of a frump in a Huddersfield bordello ..." He was also a master of painting a beautiful word picture and then letting the audience down with a bump: " The other day I was gazing up at the night sky, a purple vault fretted with a myriad points of light twinkling in wondrous formation, while shooting stars streaked across the heavens, and I thought: I really must repair the roof on this toilet.

I and sailor
* nautae ( dative ) " to / for sailor " an indirect object ( e. g. nautae donum dedi I gave a present to the sailor )
* nautam ( accusative ) " sailor " a direct object ( e. g. nautam vidi I saw the sailor )
* nautā ( ablative ) " by / with / from / in sailor " various uses not covered by the above ( e. g. sum altior nautā I am taller than the sailor ).
* nauta ( vocative ) " calling to / addressing the sailor " ( e. g. " gratias tibi ago, nauta " I thank you, sailor ).
He also explains how brutal and unscrupulous these Romans must have been: " They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force "-After some silence, Marlow abruptly starts up again saying, in a hesitating voice, " I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn fresh-water sailor for a bit.
In chapter 5 of Voltaire's novella Candide, a minor character remarks that he was from this region ; " I am a sailor and born at Batavia ".
* Jesse Whitfield Covington ( 1889 – 1966 ), United States Navy sailor who received the Medal of Honor during World War I
" I have seen death in many shapes, I've been a soldier and a sailor in my time ; in the east, in the Crusade, and for ten years after Jerusalem fell.
On a bridge of a British ship, a sailor calls down to the galley and asks in my script for a pot of tea, because I believe that it's constitutionally acceptable in the British Navy to drink tea.
An avid sailor, Albert Einstein once called Little Peconic Bay in Cutchogue " the most beautiful sailing ground I ever experienced.
Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor in the service of Charles I of Spain, became the first European to navigate the strait in 1520 during his global circumnavigation voyage.
Booth recalls of his childhood, " I was destined by my Controllers first for the Printing office, then to be an architect, then to be a sculptor and modeler, then a lawyer, then a sailor, of all of these I preferred those of sculptor and modeler .” Booth ’ s interests in theatre came after he attended a production of Othello at the Covent Garden theatre.
:" Disguising myself as different characters and I had a whole box of dressing up clothes ... Red Indian, sailor suit, Chinese costume and I was very spoiled in that way ...
According to these accounts, Godric, who began from humble beginnings as the son of Ailward and Edwenna, " both of slender rank and wealth, but abundant in righteousness and virtue ", was a pedlar, then a sailor and entrepreneur, and may have been the captain and owner of the ship that conveyed Baldwin I of Jerusalem to Jaffa in 1102.
According to writer Nigel Clarke, the original Lassie who inspired so many films and television episodes was a rough-haired crossbreed who saved the life of a sailor during World War I.
* Anton Schmitt ( died 1916 ), German sailor killed during World War I
He demurred, saying, " Never mind, I am all right ," but the sailor obeyed his captain's orders, tying one end of the line to a forward shroud, then around the admiral and to the after shroud.

I and had
And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.
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.
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
At first I thought he had missed.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.
One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.
I had signed it off on the forms.
Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.

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