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When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
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.
When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.
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.

When and came
When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.
When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.
When Beckett's name came into the discussion, the priest grew loud and told me that Beckett `` hates life ''.
When fame came it changed Sandburg only slightly.
When May came the Caravan had already crossed the Equator.
When their levies came shambling into camp, they were all elbows, hair, and beard.
When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.
When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.
When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.
When the sun came out, Stevie strode proudly into Orange Square, smiling like a landlord on industrious tenants.
When he felt the side of his head, his fingers came away covered with blood.
When his arm came up I ducked away but it caught me on the side of the neck, watering my eyes, and I backed off to cough.
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 came to Mr. Jack's photograph, twenty by twelve inches in a curly silver frame, Miss Ada said, `` By rights I ought to leave that, seeing he won't take my clotheshorse ''.
When radio came in, it continued the misplaced modifier in its routines as a standard device.
When the therapist came to feel on sufficiently sure ground with him to ask him, `` What is that, Bill -- hello or farewell ''??
When the chance came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day.
When a second quake came, they dashed back to the beach, fearing that they might be buried under landslides.
When a cow came out of a corral in a crouchin' run she was said to `` come out a-stoopin' ''.
When he came to the movies -- more or less by accident -- they were still cheap entertainment capable of enthralling the unthinking for an idle few minutes.
When he snatched it up the voice that came to him was quick and urgent.
When the verdict came in against his young neighbor, Hengesbach said:
When Dr. W. A. Swim celebrated his 75th birthday at the Wilshire Country Club, guests came by chartered plane from all over the country.
`` When you came up to the majors, did you seek out Williams for advice ''??

When and up
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
When the station wagon drew abreast of the dusty dirt road that led up to the porch of the Culver house, Pamela turned the wheel, guiding the car to its familiar parking spot close to the house, and stopped.
When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:
When she appeared, two or three of the little girls jumped up and down, yelling, `` Goody, goody ''.
When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.
When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.
When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.
When the victory cheer went up this officer found himself still mounted, with his horse pressed broadside against Cleburne's log parapet in a tangled group of infantrymen.
When Partisan and Kenyon set up shop, Mencken was still accepted as an arbiter of taste ( remember Hergesheimer??
When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain, tied the fly of the tent, and picked up the cash box, he moved up the darkening street.
When I'd delivered myself of that gem there was nothing to do but order up another drink.
When would the oyabun like to bring his guests up here ''??
`` When Konishi gets back with the jeep, I want you to round up two or three Japanese boys.
When Linda Kay had put up her breakfast dishes and mopped her linoleum rugs, she would go to the Big House.
When that was broken up after the First World War, its name was changed once more.
When changing from one color to another, whether working on right or wrong side, pick up the new strand from underneath dropped strand.
When the resin has hardened, mix up another batch with a pigment added if you wish.
`` When working from one of my sketches I square it up and project its linear form freehand to the watercolor sheet with charcoal.
When I looked up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th, I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 ).

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