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And yet who knows what secret ambition might have tied me to the mother and her power to chide? Why do I love to remember this time, this symbolic little room, this cell, so spartan and small, and, because it was next down from the front bedroom where my mother slept, so utterly lacking in privacy?Not only did it place us under her eye as we slept, but she could, and did, pass through it at will, at any hour.

For he once told us that he had been trained to use his first camera as a soldier in the field, imaging the carnage of war, and now, perhaps, in the face of this possible death—this mortal life bleeding itself away—he was utterly beyond any cliché of mortality as defined by the burial crypt.

With its gentle light, utterly unlike the hard glint of southern Italy, Udine was cluttered with pleasant corners tempting one to while away the afternoon.

Allies, reported "extreme depression of spirits" due to "the utter destitution of my temporal fortunes."Let me utter song as the songbird's season comes, and I shall call out in song: go in peace, O rain.

Stay till you wean him, only may the Lord fulfill what yourmouth has uttered.what your mouth has uttered.

Perhaps his most noteworthy achievement came the night during his sophomore year when, while acting as an extra for a traveling repertory company, he single-handedly stopped the show without uttering a single line of dialogue.

When I think of the expression "Horse-pissing" and the entirely unamused way we used to utter it, I want to burst out laughing.

In 1843 he married Isabelle Grazebrook, and Gerald was to remember this grandmother as having `the air of an elderly Madonna, placid and matriarchal ... she had never been known to utter an unkind word or a hasty judgement'.

He was too Spartan to utter a moan, so my own discomfort was more obvious to me than his.

In those days I swore I would not utter the word.

It was very clear to everybody looking on that Mr. Taylor was in charge of this family, with everyone showing him utter deference and respect.

The inner-city community is actually quite diverse economically; various people are doing fairly well, whereas others are very poor but decent and still others are utterly and profoundly suffering, alienated, and angry.

A right-to-life protestor in the back row uttered a death threat against her.

Consider John Hurt's wizened TV replication of Alan Clark: witty, randy, self-absorbed, utterly devoid of principle.

But the disingenuous methods used by the pollsters render the survey's results utterly worthless.


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