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Related To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN He just had a hold of her and was chewing her and shaking her, just shaking her. And I was hitting t... ANITA WALKER This is not justified. It was all wrong. The boy was coming in and all he wanted to do was tell his ... CLYDE EVANS I thought it was his arm, I didn't know his face was in the way. When I walked over there, he wasn't... BRANDON CLAUSSEN Across the field I saw the line judge (Rick Page), and he was shaking his head no. TONY HAYNES I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in ... J.K. ROWLING It was unbelievable. He beat all of the Carroll guys and took over two seconds off his best time. DEBI MEASE His face was all bloody. He had blood coming from his nose and mouth, and he was flopping (on the gr... JULIE WILSON He had just one arm, and there were all kinds of legends that he was fighting a guy and when he coul... JACKIE BERRY He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an... CORMAC MCCARTHY He was shaking violently, ... and tears streamed down his face. His whole frame quivered with the sp... GEORGE WILSON People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was... CESAR ROMERO He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is... HARRY S TRUMAN The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wron... CRISS JAMI The breadth of Zappa's catalog was unbelievable. He just thought out of the box. His music was diffe... BRENDAN BAYLISS There were a lot of times when he was coming back to the dugout shaking his head. DAVE MACHEMER He was astonished at how calm he found he was. Fear of death had always energised him, making him mo... K.J. PARKER The kid I played against was a complete head case. He was questioning all my calls, trying to get in... BARRETT WOLF [...] for the philosophy of Square rendered him superior to all emotions, and he very calmly smoaked... HENRY FIELDING He was coming across the lane and he had a good screen set on him. It was a clean play. It just caug... GRANT SMYTHERS He was half again my size, but when we embraced, I felt like I was holding him up, and it was all I ... RACHEL VINCENT He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged th... MEG CABOT He played like a warrior. ... Making those free throws and all, he played his tail off. And there's ... TOM IZZO He had a lot of drops today. I don't know what it was. Maybe Joey got in his head. His game plan all... JAMES FARRIOR He had just brought back a Central Asian Shepherd dog for my parents and a ring that was a gift from... JENNIFER WESTER It was unintentional, Andre headbutted me right in the head, ... He always liked me and he was reall... LANNY POFFO He was trying to rally all of his friends. KATHY STRONG These people all thought they knew him. They believed he was a whore, and sometimes he thought he wa... BEVERLY L. ANDERSON He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slau... BIBLE He didn't go to his mouth on the mound. He was simply sweating profusely on his face and was wiping ... PHIL GARNER He certainly was in discomfort and he ... was certainly in fear of choking. It all happened, gosh, i... BOB BECCIA Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not... NEIL GAIMAN He was unbelievable today. It was probably the finest Yasser has ever played. He came out from the f... BOB CALLAHAN When (Point Determined) came to me, he pinned his ears and dug in like I thought he would. And he is... COREY NAKATANI He did not go to his mouth. He was sweating profusely on his face. He wiped his eyebrow across his n... PHIL GARNER Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground. PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Whoever keeps his mouth shut when he realizes that he is wrong is wise and he who holds the mouth ev... VIKRANT PARSAI I had a hand in his face and he was just making it over me. RANSOM ANTOINE When I spoke with his widow today, she spoke touchingly about how important he felt this work was an... PETER HARDER I think (his father) was his reason for going after the music. When he was younger, he was going aft... HENRY TOWNSEND He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry... BRITTANY SNOW He’d lived in the desert all his life, and he loved it. He was its child. It was his home. TONY TAYLOR He was telling us all that he loved us, and we told him it was OK, he could go to all his friends, a... DONNA JOHNSON The umpire said he went to his mouth. It was a bad call. It was a mistaken call. It's unfortunate th... PHIL GARNER He reminded me of one of those adventure seekers on TV. He hadn’t shaved in a few days at least, a... JESSICA FORTUNATO It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN But at home, that same day he'd jumped into the fountain, he'd gotten so anxious, pacing around the ... JOHN COREY WHALEY I thought he was fantastic today. He glides by people as if they are not there, his first touch was ... ERIC BLACK All in all, he thought it was a bad idea to get involved with the woman investigating his ex's possi... MARYBETH NIEDERKORN I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it t... ILONA ANDREWS The old man had a big gash in his arm and a hole in his head, a small hole in his head. So we were k... ANDY AKAMINE His nostrils flared just a little bit, and the lines bracketing his mouth grew deeper. He snarled wi... ELIZABETH HOYT Personally, I loved it - I thought it was great. He just connected with all the students. DANA MARTELL He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance a... JACK LONDON It was getting back to timing with his swing. He was feeling really good. All I did was ... check hi... MIKE MOORE Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks." Jen turned and punched hi... HARPER LEE I love you, ” he says , his words harsh and soft all at once. “ I love you and it isn’t enough... TAHEREH MAFI Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that ra... WERNER HERZOG Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands,... DESIDERIUS ERASMUS In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it w... SPIKE MILLIGAN Harry was speeding toward the ground when the crowd saw him clap his hand to his mouth as though he ... J.K. ROWLING Hussy is a much smarter fighter, ... He knows where he went wrong and when I offered him this rematc... JEFF FENECH Robert had his chance. He may have his chance again, but right now, I feel Michael Spurlock is the b... ED ORGERON It was a much different experience this time around, ... He knew it was out of his hands, first of a... MARC BROUSSARD I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In th... ANNE RICE All of a sudden, a kid shows up and sneaks into the picture without a jersey on. I didn't know who h... TOM LEMMING Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in... CRAIG GROESCHEL She's tired and leans her head on his shoulder, which is the resting place for all their heads, but ... MELINA MARCHETTA Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin. JENNIFER SCHMIDT (Francoeur is) unbelievable. I forgot the kind of pop he has. When he first hit it, I thought it was... ADAM LAROCHE I thought he played pretty well; he did a lot of things we asked him to do. No. 1, he had a lot of p... TIM LAPPANO He is a true hero to us here. He enjoyed what he was doing, and we're sure he gave it his all. CLAY COCKE [His star professes a lifelong interest in the subject matter dating back to Catholic grade school.]... PATRICIA ARQUETTE She stood in his kitchen, watching him toy with the ring in his lip. It wasn't quite that he was bit... MELISSA MARR He had good command of his cutter. He was getting strike one with his fastball and then cutting all ... CHAD MOELLER All at once it was just too much, and Harvey felt something about to snap. He drew back into the sha... YUKAKO KABEI He sounds like he's been doing it for years. In his head he probably has. GREIL MARCUS He then, with great presence of mind, put a stop to any further recriminations by kissing her; and h... GEORGETTE HEYER He shook his head in disbelief. He would cook and take her to his place. He was about to break two o... MARCIA WEBER MARTINS Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us... TITO JACKSON Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth. ANN RICHARDS He is badly beaten up. It took 24 hours for his brain to recuperate and for his thought processes to... FERDIE PACHECO He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsm... FRANCIS OF ASSISI He had hold of the climber's climbing line in two hands and he was pulling down with all of his weig... ANDREW PETERSON Carl Robinson, he is the package. He does it all, he's a great running back and I was real proud of ... DOUG DIXON Anybody who wasn't a fan of Gate, well, there's something wrong with them. He covered all genres and... SCOTTY MOORE When I hit it, I hit it well. I saw [Brown], and he kind of stopped, and in my head I was figuring, ... FRANK CATALANOTTO He was a genius. To think all these years on his comedy is still making us laugh EDDIE IZZARD The thing I like about Martin's play was his defense. I thought with his four steals and his very go... DAN DAKICH Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under
his tongue;
Though he spare it, ... BIBLE Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; / Though he spare it, a... BIBLE It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, ... EYDIE GORME She doesn’t even have shoes on” He was trying to reconcile something in his head while talking t... JENNA-LYNNE DUNCAN I want to make you weep. I want all your pleasure, Iris, all your pain, everything you are. Come for... ELIZABETH HOYT He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate t... HENRY MILLER But the results are unbelievable. Everything has improved with my son. He writes with more ease; his... CHRISTINE MCCABE I wasn’t aware of just how close he’d moved to me until now. So many details came into focus. Th... RICHELLE MEAD Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with wo... MATTHEW BOURNE You have to be patient with him. Travis doesn't remember much about it, but he was close to his mom,... JAMIE MCGUIRE The silky swirl of his tongue in the hollow of her navel sent fire licking through her veins. Hazily... LISA KLEYPAS
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