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`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.

Mike seized a blanket from a pallet in a corner, spread it on the floor and used it to form a bag in which he placed his booty.

He used the blanket for late morning naps when hosts of the night had gone off to jobs and proved reluctant to leave him in their small rooms with their few possessions.

In the small gallery used as the guests' dining room, Meredith sat down at his place and, as always, began teasing the young waitress.

It was a trick they used to try and conceal their identity when they followed trucks to check their speed.

Sometimes they just parked at the side of the road and used radar on the trucks as they passed.

The body continued to lash, but now Keith used the legs of the chair to fork the loathsome, bloody mass out of the bungalow.

There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.

He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.

when he went home at night, he took her with him in his mind, and she did the things the anonymous Woman used to do, and he did the thing afterwards each time as he used to do.

He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.

Additional codes can be used to challenge and counterchallenge the authentications.

Some look deliberately to devices used by creators in the other arts and apply corresponding methods to their own work.

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.

Alexander the Great, who used runners as message carriers, did not have to worry about having every officer in his command hear what he said and having hundreds of them comment at once.

I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.

Only Walter Lippman envisioned the possibility of our having `` outlived most of what we used to regard as the program of our national purposes ''.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

Corporations should pay added taxes, to be used for educational purposes ( not necessarily of the formal type ).

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

In the field of the social sciences a considerable fund of tested knowledge has been accumulated that can be used to good advantage.

and used gradations of color value as well as sharply contrasting elementary colors.