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`` That's my wife Sharon.
But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
`` Both children are musical and my wife is a music lover of unfailing instinct and judgement ''.
Never in my life have I felt so remorseful about anything I've done as I did about spending that night with my own wife.
In conclusion, he wished me well -- and as kindly and humbly as this humane gentleman could express himself, he asked to be remembered to my wife and children.
Having ( through my unflagging effort and devotion ) achieved stardom, a fortune and a world-renowned wife at an age when most young men are casting their first vote, Letch proceeded to neglect them all.
In it was a stone Tibetan Buddha I had picked up in Bombay, and occasionally, to make merit, my wife and I garlanded it with flowers or laid a few pennies in its lap.
`` Now he's bought it '', said my wife contentedly.
`` Neither me nor my wife were helped by that chiropractor's treatments ''.
In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.
He said, `` I'm not going to leave my wife and my car out here in sight of those '' --
When they do that my wife has to drive me to work in the big car.
I feel a certain loss of status when I am driven up in front of work in a car driven by my wife, who is only a woman.
The logic of that is impeccable, of course, except that I feel like a fool being driven up to work in a little car, by my wife, when everybody knows I have a big car and am capable of driving myself.
`` This is a great national cultural asset, and therefore it is a great source of satisfaction to me, representing as I do today my wife, to welcome all of you here today at the White House ''.
' It's just a bat ', said my wife reassuringly, and I sighed with relief.
I will be the one to confront my daughter, not the wife of him who leads her to sin ''!!
Bede says: " Prayers are hindered by the conjugal duty because as often as I perform what is due to my wife I am not able to pray.
Pausing for a moment he scribbled on the back of an old tavern bill a note addressed to his wife, Sarah: " I have no time to say more but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory.
Certain that his wound was fatal, he cried out " I am killed, remember me to my wife ", and called for his chaplain Stephen Comyn.
I went to London with my wife to celebrate Christmas Day ... Sermon ended, as minister was giving us the holy sacrament, the chapel was surrounded with soldiers, and all the communicants and assembly surprised and kept prisoners by them, some in the house, others carried away ...

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It has been said ( citation: following Blanche's request, " tell me you married me for my bod and not for my money ", the Wizard puts on a lightning conductor hat, grounds it thoroughly, and swears, " may lightning strike me dead ... it was not for your money ( strip of 4 / 30 / 1976, also published in " My Kingdom For A Horsie!
Nobody would ever say a doctor had learned his profession by instinct ; yet in my own way I ’ ve put in almost as much time studying hockey as a medical student puts in studying medicine.
His Prize for winning the Walk is to be for the Major to publicly acknowledge him ; to " be taken into my father's house ", as he puts it.
Usually they call before they come, Jim Jones said, " and Judy puts my beer in the freezer for me.
Holm has also appeared in two David Cronenberg films, Naked Lunch ( 1991 ) and eXistenZ ( 1999 ) and was Harold Pinter's favourite actor, the playwright once stating: " He puts on my shoe, and it fits!
His teddy bear Gladly ( short for " Gladly, my cross-eyed bear ") puts in occasional appearances.
In QI ( Season G, Episode 1, " Garden ") Stephen Fry puts both hands on his hips and changes the rhyme to " I'm a little teapot, short and stout, here is my handle, oh bugger I'm a sugar bowl ".
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada stated, " Although I appreciate that the bank notified us of this incident and that it is working cooperatively with my Office, I am nevertheless deeply troubled, especially given the magnitude of this breach, which puts at risk the personal information of hundreds of thousands of Canadians.
: Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can -- Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day working together he says I have not been with out assistance but can not say more only you better find out the next day I take the older Smith by the arm & he says Joseph can see any thing he wishes by looking at a stone Joseph often sees Spirits here with great kettles of coin money it was Spirits who brought up rock because Joseph made no attempt on their money I latter dream I converse with spirits which let me count their money when I awake I have in my hand a dollar coin which I take for a sign Joseph describes what I seen in every particular says he the spirits are grieved so I through back the dollar in the fall of the year 1827 I hear Joseph found a gold bible I take Joseph aside & he says it is true I found it 4 years ago with my stone but only just got it because of the enchantment the old spirit come to me 3 times in the same dream & says dig up the gold but when I take it up the next morning the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times & held the treasure & would not let me have it because I lay it down to cover over the hole when the spirit says do not lay it down Joseph says when can I have it the spirit says one year from to day if you obay me look to the stone after a few days he looks the spirit says bring your brother Alvin Joseph says he is dead shall I bring what remains but the spirit is gone Joseph goes to get the gold bible but the spirit says you did not bring your brother you can not have it look to the stone Joseph looks but can not see who to bring the spirit says I tricked you again look to the stone Joseph looks & sees his wife on the 22d day of Sept 1827 they get the gold bible -- I give Joseph $ 50 to move him down to Pa Joseph says when you visit me I will give you a sign he gives me some hiroglyphics I take then to Utica Albany & New York in the last place Dr Mitchel gives me an introduction to Professor Anthon says he they are short hand Egyption the same what was used in ancient times bring me the old book & I will translate says I it is made of precious gold & is sealed from view says he I can not read a sealed book -- Joseph found some giant silver specticles with the plates he puts them in an old hat & in the darkness reads the words & in this way it is all translated & written down -- about the middle of June 1829 Joseph takes me together with Oliver Cowdery & David Whitmer to have a view of the plates our names are appended to the book of Mormon which I had printed with my own money -- space and time both prevent me from writing more at present if there is any thing further you wish to inquire I shall attend to it
I never felt that he knew what I was having to do to adjust my acting to some of his damn cameras – sometimes he puts you in ridiculous postures.
It is usually surrounded with the text " Whoever puts their hand upon me to govern me is a usurper, a tyrant, and I declare them my enemy.
As he puts it, " Insanity runs in my family, practically gallops!
Ozawa stated on this occasion: " I will do my best, considering this is my last chance to put an end to the LDP-led government and bring about a government that puts a priority on people's lives.
His mind is more on " some sort of outlaw " heading into town, a fellow named Tornado Johnson ; besides he knows a fix-up when he sees one, and as he puts it, " I can mend my own shirts.
The text expands on the meaning of Imzadi, when Troi explains that Imzadi is a Betazoid word for " the first ," ( imzadi means " my beloved ", not " the first ") although not necessarily first sexual partner -- as Deanna puts it to Will, she is " the first to ever touch your soul.
In Letter 6, Voltaire attacks the Presbyterians, whom he sees as intolerant (" Presbyterian affects a serious gait, puts on a sour look, wears a vastly broad-brimmed hat and a long cloak over a very short coat, preaches through the nose, and gives the name of the whore of Babylon to all churches where the ministers are so fortunate as to enjoy an annual revenue of five or six thousand pounds, and where the people are weak enough to suffer this, and to give them the titles of my lord, your lordship, or your eminence ") and overly strict (" No operas, plays, or concerts are allowed in London on Sundays, and even cards are so expressly forbidden that none but persons of quality, and those we call the genteel, play on that day ; the rest of the nation go either to church, to the tavern, or to see their mistresses ").
Unrobing to reveal a beautiful woman, she identifies herself to Spock as Zarabeth, and explains that she and her family have been exiled because one of them was involved in a plot to assassinate Zor-kahn, the tyrant who ruled in her time, or as she wryly puts it, her crime was " choosing my kinsmen unwisely ".
As he puts it, " There's a white, one-legged busboy in here right now that won't change places with my black ass.

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`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.
`` I hate to leave my garden '', Gavin said.
`` He works for my father '', the girl said, and then seemed to change her mind.
I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.
Adios '', I said, exhausting my Spanish vocabulary on my host and exchanging one of a scarcely-tapped store of smiles with my host's daughters.
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
He then said something which struck a chord in my memory.
So, I mustered my few words of the Manu dialect and said, `` We greet you in peace.
As if divining my thoughts, the girl Songau smiled warmly and said in the casual tone an American woman might use in describing her rose garden:
`` Mough -- it's my mough '', the man said, trying to talk without moving his lips.
`` Amen '', said the Reverend Doran, grabbing his rifle propped up against a tombstone, `` and now my brethren, it would seem that our presence is required elsewhere ''.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
In recollection he has said: `` Natural or man-made objects kept coming into my head, but I would suppress them sternly ''.
Miriam Noel Wright said, `` Here I am at my own home, locked out so I must stand in the road ''!!
Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.
`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.
As I have said, words from Tennyson remain ever in my memory: `` That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before ''.
Then, all but blind, he said there was nothing in Back to Methuselah --, -- `` G.B.S. ought to have known that '', -- and `` I look at my bookshelves despairingly, knowing that I can have nothing more to do with them ''.
Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.
`` I soon came back to my senses '', he said, aloud, to the young blizzard, proudly, drawing himself up, as if making a report to some important superior.

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