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Cissy said to excuse her would he mind please telling her what was the right time and Gerty could see him taking out his watch, listening to it and looking up and clearing his throat and he said he was very sorry his watch was stopped but he thought it must be after eight because the sun was set.

I looked at those hands, I looked at those eyes, I looked at that flowing hair; and I compared them with other hands, other eyes, other hair, that I knew of, and with what those might be after twenty years of a brutal husband and a stormy life.

Edgar Linton, as multitudes have been before and will be after him, was infatuated: and believed himself the happiest man alive on the day he led her to Gimmerton Chapel, three years subsequent to his father’s death.

" "Why would they be after me?

The soldiers' motives are still unclear-- some seem to be after back pay, while others said they specifically wanted to topple Bedie.

The margins are higher, not lower, than they will be after the knitting machines are sold.

I do not deny the fact that it does not appear as one word, but if it is going to appear that way in anything I have written it will be after I am dead (and if this carping keeps up, there will soon be a contract out on me).

” breeth - Charles Wolley in A Two Year's Journal in New York wrote, “Were I to draw their Effigies [beasts and birds] it should be after the pattern of the Ancient Britains, called Picts from painting, and Britains from a word of their own language, Breeth, Painting or Staining.

With few exceptions, they appear to be phrases ( bridging loan, wide open, Hyde Park railings ), adages or proverbs ( Don't be after breaking your shin on a stool that is not in your way, When the wheat lies long in bed, it rises with a heavy head, The water that comes from the same spring cannot be both fresh and salt, Better feed five drones than starve one bee ), and, occasionally, individual words ( beeswax business, grape-vine, stagnant ).

How mobile will I be after my surgery?

, able to walk again) they would be after surgery.

However, this isn’t the place to be after dark.

That will be after we have stopped all shooting of upland game birds and shore birds for about eight years.

It may only be after a third waking, by a summation of stimuli, that he is finally roused and breaks into loud crying.

Thus we were before our birth, and thus we shall be after death.

But never had she felt so grieved for him or so much afraid of losing him.


She recalled all her life with him and in every word and act of his found an expression of his love of her.


Occasionally amid these memories temptations of the devil would surge into her imagination: thoughts of how things would be after his death, and how her new, liberated life would be ordered.


But she drove these thoughts away with disgust.


Toward morning he became quiet and she fell asleep.


My heart stood still within me as it flashed across me that the beast, whatever it was, must surely be after ME.

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