And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach

`` And the boy will be too much under his influence by then.

And then he thought Todman might be right.

And then I became aware that she, too, glanced at me surreptitiously.

And then we shall see.

And then came the water -- not rain, but solid sheets that sluiced down like water slopping from a bucket.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

And then perhaps one day we get to Athens.

And then it took considerably longer to make preparations for giving transfusions.

And with the publication of E. T. Leeds' Archaeology Of The Anglo-Saxon Settlements the student was presented with an organized synthesis of the archaeological data then known.

And she withdrew then to Cromwell Hall, in Cromwell, Connecticut.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

) And then there were ecclesiastical matters, the matter of Garibaldi's anti-clericalism.

And then there were other things.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

And if you bore each other then, heaven help you.

And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek: `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland.

And if the foreigners fighting in the Katanga Army are mercenaries then Lafayette and Von Steuben were mercenaries too, as were also the members of the Lafayette Escadrille in the early part of World War 1, and of Chennault's Flying Tigers in the early days of World War 2.

And then: `` There are lots of kids around here ''.

And then the questions came, eager, interested questions, and many compliments on his having overcome his infirmity.

And then the Amen corner took hold, re-enacting a form of group participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West Indies, and then here in Alabama.

And put water on to boil and then searched through the icebox.

And, if we follow the Rayburn pattern, as consciously or by an instinctual political sense I like to think I have followed it, then the very nature of our loyalty to our own immediate areas must necessarily be reflected in the devotion of our services to our country.

And then again perhaps the reason why he couldn't find time to do any of the things he had planned to do after retirement: reading, roaming, gardening, lying on his back and watching the clouds go by, was because he didn't want to do them.

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.

And their arrival caught John Clayton and Charles Ansley off guard.

And when you get off this job tonight, well, you can gimme something to eat ''.

And with that he walked off to give instruction to a rookie pitcher.

And they wouldn't leave off arguing and pleading until he had promised.

And with passenger weight shifted forward, Hotei levels off for speed under power of a Merc 800.

And even if he'd somehow missed seeing him, he wouldn't have gone off and left the light on and door open in the file room.

And I done favors for you, big favor not so long back, didn't I, and I'm right here to take on where Pretty left off.

And so off we went to her apartment.

`` And '', I was ticking off the items on my fingers, `` swears too much and goes out with the boys, whoever they are, too much, and who ever goes to church and won't even listen when I try to persuade him to come back to the fold ''.

And so, you see, I put people off their guard.

And against the sack of Megara, she had to face the temporary capture of the castle of Aegina by Kemal Reis and the carrying off of 2000 Aeginetans.

: And Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball ;

And it did not do execution, because he seldom loaded it, and never let it off.

And I roared when the shirt came off, and Sigourney rolls her eyes and says, ' There goes that shirt again.

And I am satisfied that there is no other city in the world that is so anxious to shake off the memories of its early origins.

" And being a very powerful man, he took him up in his arms, and carried him off per force.

And the Macedonians, who had docked closer to the city anyway, cut the rest of the fleet off outside the city gates, and on the road leading to the city.

::" And Be Merry " ( Eat Drink and Be Merry for Tomorrow We Die ) A lab biologist, female, takes advantage of her husband going off on an archeology trip, to use the privacy to experiment on herself for rejuvenation by a severe and dangerous method.

And finally, before the 1970s, parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia had been off limits to Western scholars, while non-Western archaeologists did not have access to publication in Western peer-reviewed journals.

And when Kapp did take off and run, instead of sliding when he was about to be tackled like most quarterbacks, he lowered his shoulder and went right at the tackler.

" And so God scattered them upon the face of the Earth, and confused their languages, and they left off building the city, which was called Babel " because God there confounded the language of all the Earth ".

* " Ladies And Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis " ( 1976 ) was a short story by science fiction author Kate Wilhelm about a television show in which contestants ( including a B-list actress who is hoping to revitalize her career ) attempt to make their way to a checkpoint after being dropped off in the Alaskan wilderness, while being filmed and broadcast around the clock through an entire weekend.

And another thing ; if you really don't like it, then fuck off ".