| But if I tried to treat my wife, Margot, the way Caligula treated his, she'd give me a thick ear pretty quick. |
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| And the thin jacket she'd worn did nothing to ward off the distinct chill that heralded coming rain. |
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| A sharp bark erupted along with the whistling, she didn't pay much mind to it and thought she'd imagined it. |
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| Two men who appeared to be FBI agents showed up at school and gave her the third degree about what she'd written. |
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| So all you had to do was play this one piece on the accordion and she'd start to sing. |
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| He was so deep in thought that he didn't notice that she'd gotten up and gone to the door. |
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| Though she'd been told otherwise, right to the last that woman thought a surprise rabbi would appear from the rafters to say mazel tov. |
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| I saw her start to move between the two dogs but knew if it got ugly, she'd be out of there like a shot. |
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| Thankfully, she'd parked in his wide driveway so no one would have to worry about a plow sideswiping her car during the night. |
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| There was a squeal of laughter and Maple breathed out, unaware until now that she'd been holding her breath. |
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| She didn't even so much as shed a tear the day she'd run her bike into a brick wall when she was nine. |
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| Of course, in the company of others, Angharad rode side-saddle, for she'd had to accustom her horse to it for propriety. |
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| Melanie held him in her embrace, savoring the feel of her arms around him, a feel she'd missed the last month. |
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| They said she was a misery because she'd worked the Baby's Room for so long and so many of them died. |
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| I'm sure even if you somehow did end up falling in love with her, she'd never allow it. |
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| As low, dejected and depressed as she'd ever felt, she began to get the morning's activities prepared. |
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| But she'd told me calmly that I was grounded the whole vacation for behaving atrociously. |
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| And I'll be blowed if the blue-suited First Lady didn't look like she'd had the same makeup artist set loose on her. |
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| For Christ's sake, she'd gotten engaged, to the guy that was currently bumming a cigarette off of Robin. |
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| He was the first man she'd been attracted to who was also a good friend and that in itself made him dear to her. |
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| Then, she'd toss out the rules and just go with what felt comfortable for her and find a decent guy and ta-da! |
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| If a crocodile ate her alive, you'd imagine she'd give the rotter a good ticking off while trapped inside its guts. |
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| Ah, but this time she'd enter the most prestigious shop, the salesgirl would be attentive, and she'd find just the most perfect dress. |
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| The problem was, like every other guy she'd dated in the past fifteen years, there'd been no sizzle between them. |
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| After she'd debriefed him, she had gone to Noelle's classroom, dodging the hall monitors on the way. |
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| That craziest part about it was that for a moment after she'd said it, he had actually contemplated madness and mayhem. |
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| Her dad, Dave James, was an engine tuner and she'd seen enough oily chains and carburettors at her home in Stockport to last her a lifetime. |
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| Even she hadn't noticed she'd bitten her lip until the coppery tang of blood rushed her taste buds. |
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| My nice neighbours the other side said that she'd been in there, mouthing off about her partner and asking for drink. |
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| Let's just hope she'd got her refund processed before the interview went live, or it could be a bit awk in-store. |
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| Scout insisted that she'd asked Atticus, and she got in trouble for sassing her aunt. |
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| Maybe if they gave her something to sate her hunger, she'd finally be silent. |
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| It wasn't the first time she'd been in the judgement court, but the majesty of it always filled her with awe. |
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| She'd come to school dressed pretty conservatively, but later in the day she'd be sauntering around in a tight mini skirt and sexy shoes. |
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| It wouldn't be until Monday morning that she'd have to face the consequences of being a tattletale. |
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| In Jack's eyes, his mom was unique among tattoo artists because she'd never been tattooed. |
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| If he wasn't, then she knew she'd never be able to garner enough courage to come back for a make-up. |
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| Over the weekend, a friend of mine was trying to work out how much she'd be getting in her pay packet after the new tax year starts on 6 April. |
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| One attendant placed Allyson on top of a backboard, taking care not to move her too much in case she'd broken something. |
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| I ended up backhanding Nicole, making sure I left my mark as she'd left hers. |
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| However, it was easier said than done, for Amelia was teleporting sporadically, making it impossible to determine where she'd appear next. |
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| He knew his mother, so he knew that she might say it teasingly, but she'd actually do it if he gave her anymore back talk. |
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| The spell that had been cast over him was gone and she'd been the one to break it. |
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| We saw it was her, took the laptop over, schmoozed her, explained the project we were doing, and she said yes, she'd do it. |
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| In fact, she'd struck up the friendliest relationship with Boxer, the old schnauzer always tied up in Tom Sawyer's yard, two houses down. |
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| At the beginning of the school year she'd signed up to help tutor precalculus students. |
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| She had been beautiful, once, for a peasant, though she'd never gotten married, even to one of the menservants. |
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| At least one Terran day, if not more, had now passed since she'd gone up to Space Station Freedom Alpha, in fact. |
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| Squirt taught Pippi everything he knew about wrestling, and she'd probably make a good terrifier of rodents if given a chance. |
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| It wasn't my Aunt Vera in the casket, not unless she'd changed into a bald-headed old man with a thick mustache. |
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| To be on the safe side, she'd prepared a large but light pasta marinara, with salad on the side. |
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| Nerissa shrugged in return as she scratched out whatever it had been that she'd been drawing. |
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| He had seen the ball lightning from a nearby section of the city, but waited to see where she'd stop for another attack. |
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| She isn't the marrying kind. If you knew her, she'd be nice to you till she got a good chance to flay you alive. |
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| She confessed that, from the very beginning, she'd secretly hoped to convert me to Mormonism and marry me. |
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| By the time scrimmages were over she knew that she'd managed to acquire a few more bruises. |
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| My sister informed me she'd finished her task and gave me the garlic mash which I scattered in a line across the front entry way. |
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| She had to write a theme once on what book she'd want to have with her if she were stranded on a desert island. |
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| Maybe if she'd rung a bell I could have stepped out of her way and come away with just a close call instead. |
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| He sat next to her on the bed, nervous of whether she'd boot him off or not. |
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| I could say it would be nice to see a woman in the top job but there's no guarantee she'd be ideal. |
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| So many turbaned and veiled well wishers, all agreed she'd made a fine catch. |
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| The janitor here had said the last time she'd used her master keys to get me in that it was the absolute last time ever. |
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| Gaumont never did answer the question of whether she'd be baring it all in the show. |
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| She said she'd let me know the next day when they'd made a decision on who to hire. |
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| Leslie didn't say anything, so I knew she'd drop it, but I bet if I could've seen her right then, she would have been pursing her lips. |
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| Kay felt inexplicably winded, as if she'd spent the last hour explaining a very simple concept to a very thick-skulled idiot. |
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| When my momma got paid on a Friday she'd leave and I watched her walk across the yard. |
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| Stomach queasy, Rebecca clutched a beaded throw pillow to her chest, certain she'd never eat again. |
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| All she'd worn was nightclothes and bathrobes for the two years she'd been in there. |
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| She tossed the towel she'd been drying herself with over the curtain rod and threw on a white, terrycloth bathrobe. |
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| I had heard her get up to go to the bathroom so I was afraid she'd fallen or something. |
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| I only had to look at Katie's thunderous expression to realize she'd not had a good day. |
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| Debbie also got a tiara because the band she'd made a while ago doesn't go with the new style wedding dress. |
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| She didn't have bangs and using the headband she'd created this sort of tiara of hair over her forehead. |
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| A miracle-worker who virtually robbed Peter to pay Paul, she'd get things on tick and then save to pay people back. |
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| Rose wondered, listening to Yashi's soft, mellifluous voice soothing Jess, and feeling a pang of annoyance that she'd gone straight for him. |
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| She wore the same gray dress, black tights, and white pinafore she'd worn almost everyday of her entire life. |
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| She stopped smiling and looked at him with a twisted mouth, like she'd just sucked on a lemon. |
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| Had she ever walked around nude in front of the monitor when she'd been online? |
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| She told me she wanted to say it was a load of nonsense and a waste of time and she'd be better off doing her times tables. |
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| Kuja couldn't reveal her true motive, so she said she'd sell it to buy more beauty products, as what the others said. |
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| Once there, she emptied her front pocket of her tips and the other money she'd taken that day. |
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| Besides, anyone with any sense would realise she'd be dirty after falling down a hole. |
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| Wilfred had screamed Cora's name, and she'd flown down the stairs to find Wilfred holding a senseless Jane in his arms. |
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| But Glenda said he stopped messing with her then because he knew she'd call the law on him. |
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| By the time she was able to go home, she'd lost much of her hair, her eyelashes, eyebrows, fingernails, and toenails. |
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| You know, Diary, Priscilla is a pretty girl, but I'd bet she'd look really great with a 16-inch beehive and about four pounds of makeup. |
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| She strutted around the stage and shook her hair like a seasoned metalhead, looking like she'd played to arenas and stadiums for years. |
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| When she first met Blake she'd pitied him because he only had a few friends, so she had befriended him. |
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| She replied that she'd obviously missed it, but that maybe I ought to set more of an example. |
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| Susan was terrified, she'd bellow songs to scare away ghosts before she ventured into a dark room. |
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| If it had not been for that day, she'd still be living with her mother, not knowing anything about her evil grandfather and his wicked schemes. |
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| Every step she felt terrified she'd fall or trip on something on the floor. |
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| She knew that if she wasn't already sitting on her short stool, she'd probably have fallen to the ground from weak knees. |
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| If Mother were alive today, she'd put TV makeover shows to shame, for she excelled in transformation. |
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| Molly, the horse I ride most often, is difficult, I think she'd be better off as a one rider horse than a Riding school nag. |
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| Three crowns and an old nag she'd borrowed from a student would not buy her that automobile. |
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| I used to deliver milk to her house on my milk round, and sometimes I'd look up to her bedroom window and she'd be there watching for me. |
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| She'd been too busy trying not to cut him with the razor to notice when she'd shaved him. |
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| She kept remembering the long look they had shared, and how easily she'd been tranced by those green eyes. |
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| Still, the woman behind me seemed to think it was the funniest film she'd ever seen. |
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| Every morning she'd take him from one side of the bay to the other and every night she'd take him back. |
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| She said she'd have to fill out another form, and produced a giant sheet of paper. |
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| I spotted it but by the time she'd realised what happened, the boy was nowhere to be seen. |
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| She says she'd prefer to live on the streets of Scotland with her mother and brother and sister. |
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| She would ask the child about what she'd seen that morning at home or on her way to school. |
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| She played the martyr and said she'd be quiet from now on, just like she'd promised before. |
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| She would scan the books, one by one, placing them to her right after she'd stamped them. |
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| The midwife asked us if we had any names for the baby, as she'd need to know in order to fill out the paperwork. |
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| For months she'd been trying to expand her empire, and I'd managed to pull it off in a week. |
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| I wish she'd just get out of my room, respect my need to be alone for a while and just stop bothering me. |
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| She's pretty certain her father is dead but she'd like to find out more about him. |
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| She had a row of cups that she'd earned as a result of league and team matches. |
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| I turned around and she'd obviously been trying to work out how to attract my attention. |
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| When her son was a small boy she'd take him to the park at the end of their street to play. |
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| She said she'd been reading the diary and wasn't happy that I was gambling and that it was bad. |
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| She took back some of the change she'd given him and gave him his cigarettes and he left, without a word. |
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| Marsha's frown returned and for a moment Thomas feared she'd go all motherly on him. |
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| The foundation made her look so pale she'd had to use the blush and lipstick to give her face some color. |
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| I made the introduction mostly to mollify the woman who looked like she'd rather shoot us than hear our story. |
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| She mounted her horse and rode away, satisfied with the transaction she'd just made. |
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| She looked like she'd as soon put a knife in you as not if you two-timed her. |
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| It wasn't deep enough to bleed her to death, but enough to sting and ensure she'd scar. |
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| Zassa was in a short, flouncy halter dress in blinding white that she'd bought. |
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| Elizabeth showed Aaron her lilac bushes, which she'd planted herself and nursed until they were hearty and all abloom. |
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| You can't afford to be so oblivious, she'd scold, or you're liable to waltz right into trouble. |
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| When we were boys Mum told my brothers and I not to use rude words or she'd wash our mouths out with soap. |
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| This one was normal, she'd have no trouble with that one, she'd jimmied locks before, she could do it again. |
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| His insides aching with sadness, Arthur did as she'd requested and then perched on the edge of his aunt's bed. |
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| She drank the weak coffee she'd bought from the vending machine and watched the clock. |
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| You could always tell where she'd been in the school, you just followed the red weals on the legs of the kids. |
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| Susan ordered windows with miniblinds sandwiched between the glass so she'd never need to clean another blind. |
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| She says once she was driving through a National Park and recognised one of the roos to be Jack, a joey she'd reared years earlier. |
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| At the same time, I thought the fact that she'd actually survived was weirdly heroic. |
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| Every day after school, she'd smoke a joint of marijuana and then proceeded to prank call my house. |
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| She had no idea what she'd done to be charged with a serious crime like treason. |
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| Mehna was jolted hard, as if she'd been electrocuted, and she felt herself dislodge from the tranquilizer. |
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| She'd forgotten that for the next few weeks she'd be sleeping only feet away from the man she'd mistakenly raged at earlier. |
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| The adrenalin and lactic acid had dulled the senses and for a moment she'd forgotten who she was and what was happening. |
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| Aderyn turned back to the front of the church, deciding to ignore whatever she'd heard. |
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| She was a meek and mild kind of lady and she'd just come out of hospital a few weeks back. |
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| When she'd lifted it up, just past her stomach, she went limp and fell back on to the bed. |
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| He had once gone down to the practice ranges to mock her archery skills when she'd first begun to learn. |
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| She couldn't remember where she'd heard that saying, but it seemed to be a good one. |
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| Her car had been found on the Yorkshire moors, whereas she'd reappeared about fifty miles from there. |
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| We'd fight and then hide once mom started yelling because if we didn't, she'd either slap our bare bottoms with her hand or whip us with a belt. |
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| I was concerned, of course, that she'd be a ratbag for the rest of the day, but strangely, it didn't work out that way. |
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| Suddenly the prospect of an Angelo's white pizza wasn't so appealing, especially since she knew that she'd probably be eating it in silence. |
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| I never conferred with Alison about Faye so she left alone, however Amy could read me like a book and whenever I was feeling down she'd guess it. |
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| Told she'd be pushing up the daisies by 2004-10 years on, with two books and a devoted husband, she's still here. |
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| She carried on walking and went up the stairs to her bedroom, they obviously hadn't even noticed she'd gone. |
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| Her mind reeled back an hour, to when she'd been standing in Rick's office as he reamed her a new one. |
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| If she had more time, she'd ride horses, play the saxophone again, practise aikido and improve her Japanese, to add to her Italian and English. |
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| There was a breeze, and her rebellious hair began cascading down from the knot she'd put it in that morning. |
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| Jane was the best person to confide in but I knew once she got wind of what happened on New Year's Eve she'd be scheming again. |
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| He thought the piece she'd written on his recapture after a jail break was particularly commendable. |
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| David turned to look angrily at her but she'd stretched herself across the bed, arms splayed and hair akimbo. |
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| Elizabeth, vain and proud about her legendary beauty, was convinced she'd found the secret of youth. |
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| As soon as the telegraph lines were back up and running she'd wire the Western Rangers, after all this was what they did for a living. |
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| Hope had kindled in her heart when news of her pregnancy came, praying to the gods she'd have something to live for. |
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| I have a face that only a mother could love, and even then she'd need a couple of strong wines to keep from recoiling in horror. |
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| She pulled away, recoiling suddenly as if she'd been stabbed with a cattle prod. |
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| His second wife, Bettye, tied the knot without mentioning that she'd been married before. |
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| Constantly, without fail, she'd find herself in a group who completely ignored her. |
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| And then he'd come over, and she'd reddened, feeling as if he'd been able to see where her thoughts had been to. |
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| She felt still and calm for the first time in days as she realized that she'd managed to sleep for the entire duration of the red-eye. |
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| The bones had started to knit long before she'd been brought into the hospital. |
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| But she'd rather put on her woollies and galoshes and go splash in a puddle. |
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| Sanna hadn't even considered what she'd do if they encountered armed resistance. |
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| Being a nice guy and a man of his word, Darren sent the information she'd requested as soon as he got a spare moment. |
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| Upon hearing them, the old woman wrapped Altair into an embrace similar to the one she'd given Ada, nearly squeezing the life out of him. |
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| After a while, when she'd regathered her wits, and caught her breath, she raised her head to look around. |
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| She must've noticed it without registering it, and that's why she'd had the dream. |
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| I regretted the words immediately, knowing that they'd carried an inference of sourness, and guessing that she'd notice. |
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| As if everything was absolutely normal she'd hand him his cup of coffee along with a kiss. |
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| He knew she'd got religion because she'd said as much, but whatever it was, he hadn't wanted any part of it for himself. |
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| Angel turned on her radio and switched to an alternate frequency reserved for emergencies, hoping she'd be able to contact Quinton. |
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| And she'd been stupid enough to believe there was even a remote chance he might actually like her as a friend? |
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| She put both hands flat on her lap, then reached them up again to mend the damage she'd done to her hair. |
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| However, after nearly a week of their nonsense, Madelyn concluded that she'd had enough and the two were coerced into amends. |
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| I admitted to myself it made me feel a little better knowing she'd be running around in an outfit two sizes too big for her. |
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| I'd come out with the milk bottles, and she'd walk beside me with her skipping rope, whirling it around her head like a lasso. |
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| By the time she'd fully rinsed the lather off of her body, the shivers had become completely uncontrollable. |
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| After cutting his beard as close as she dared, she lathered his face and shaved it clean, as she'd often done for her father. |
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| Climbing up the lattice made Cerri dizzy, so as she climbed, she focused her thoughts on what she'd say to Alia to convince her to stay. |
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| Lately she'd sighed an awful lot, that troubled sigh that signifies the strain of carrying a secret burden. |
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| She'd grown cold against him, resenting him because he had a good job whilst she'd chosen to be a housewife. |
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| I figured she'd have leeboards and a very low single sail Chinese rig of no more than 63 square feet. |
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| Walking past ever remaining durable pavements over hundreds of years old, she'd retained her past memories. |
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| It depicts a blue-collar worker, but it's afraid to show the work she'd actually do. |
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| If they'd have let her come with us, she'd have been on that boat as quick as a flash. |
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| As Gilman points out, in a short story this would be the moment where she'd realize that the idol of her dreams was in fact a lewd creep. |
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| Straight ahead, random chance determined she'd be born with a severe birth defect but random chance may also save her life. |
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| Whatever poison she'd been fed about me hadn't sunk in, and she accepted me completely. |
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| And, by rights, I should marry her if she'd have me, but I am still a bit dubious. |
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| She swore the second night would be much better, that she'd pick some place less wild and riotous. |
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| She hit and hit until she'd gotten through to the picture itself and then it finally was heard ripping apart. |
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| In a fashion shoot called Doll Drums, the model lies limp and stiff, draped over chairs as if she'd been thrown there by a petulant child. |
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| She watched the girl turn and walk away her skirt rippling around her like water, and suddenly she wished she'd asked for her name. |
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| I was astonished that she'd found any boy to marry, thinking anyone so foolish would be like her, a flawed appendage to a decent family. |
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| On the other hand, she'd still be famous even if she'd never written a line for the stage. |
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| She spotted him slipping off his roan horse next to the tree she'd been hiding behind just moments before. |
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| Asked if she would approve the use of robocalls if she were running the campaign, Mrs Palin told the reporter she'd try to do things differently. |
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| She then jumped into the air and, expelling the rest of the energy, created a rockslide that completely filled the opening she'd just made. |
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| One resident said she'd found what she thought was a hornet hiding behind the mixer tap in the kitchen. |
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| For the final touch, she'd added a rosary made of black glass and pewter, finishing off the look she was going for perfectly. |
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| He was Tamerlane himself, prince of the Sidhe, and a more tender, more noble being she'd never known. |
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| She looked like she'd had a rough time, and there was a three-foot-thick solid wall a mile high around her heart. |
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| Every time Katy left her with him, she'd head straight for the back room, then wander round the house with a puzzled unhappy look on her face. |
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| After one longing look down the path, she turned around, and started running back the way she'd come. |
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| This arvo I made up a CD of all the songs she'd like that have been released in the last 4 months, and she will not have heard before. |
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| If Lydia ever thought you knew, she'd be too embarrassed to ever look you in the face again. |
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| She was dressed in a normal housemaid's uniform, but her face was ruddy and she looked like she'd spent her entire life in the country. |
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| She was willing to do anything if she'd get some answers and he stopped asking all these questions. |
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| If she didn't let him, he'd go to Uncle Luther, and then she'd be done for sure, her big break would be ruined. |
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| If Joan were really around, she'd skull Le Pen with a spiked mace. |
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| Perhaps more insulting than if she'd been another woman, Samantha was Altman's cocker spaniel. |
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| The logical choice was to go quietly and hope that she'd be able to escape, but she could also make a run for it if she thought she was fast enough. |
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| Kina continued riffling through the box, extracting song, poems, pieces of the past she'd never throw away despite the pain and resentment that clung to them. |
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| Having preferred the fun, party-filled, alcohol-laced life she'd become accustomed to in college, she was unprepared and unequipped for motherhood. |
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| She seemed to count to 10, her smile fixed, then said she'd have to ask. |
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| A few minutes earlier, Marylou, running a temperature of 103, was wilting, moaning that she'd die if made to pose in the humidity of the pastel-hued pool house. |
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| Her parents probably would be happy that she'd got this part, although it would be the same sort of happiness that they'd show a child successfully making mud pies. |
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| But she'd been reading cheap romance novels purchased from the bookstore next door, so when she started spouting unrealistic blabber about needs and desires I ignored her. |
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| Sure, it was unhealthy, but at least she wasn't biting her nails so much anymore and bitten nails, she'd decided, were so ugly and spoke of an unbalanced mind. |
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| See, the doctor not just bandaged Bobby himself, but stuck a big wad of gauze into the slice she'd put in him, to keep it open and to help it drain. |
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| Anyway, if the young miss above should visit, she'd fit right in! |
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| I sat down with the only female recruiter in the office, in the hopes that she'd be less inclined to perceive my general sissiness than her male counterparts. |
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| At nine o'clock that morning, when she'd gone out to hang the wash to dry, she hadn't been able to bear the thought of staying inside all day working. |
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| She blinked and searched her memory, wondering how she'd gotten there. |
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| That was where she'd hide, but first she wanted to redecorate the room. |
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| The dance was, well, lovely, swirling around the floor in his arms to soft music, and it almost made her forget how hard she'd worked in Social Dance to learn to waltz. |
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| The masseuse said she'd never known anyone with such knotted shoulders. |
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| It was the woman she'd seen Thursday, when the policeman came. |
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| Sometimes, when Josie knew know no one would notice, she'd creep downstairs to the kitchen as quiet as a mouse and tiptoe out the back door when the cook wasn't looking. |
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| Yesterday evening Abi lost a bunch of stuff she'd been typing in because she pressed the backspace key when the focus was outside of the editing text box. |
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| And she'd just look at me with those calm, unblinking eyes of hers. |
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| Then, she'd sunbathe sensuously on the doormat, brown eyes half closed, body hot from the rays, like a jet-set heiress on the white sand beach in Ibiza. |
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| Beau stared at her in bedazzlement, he knew she'd gone through the hardest decision of her life, but it seemed like she'd had a personality change along with an operation. |
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| Of the two twins, she'd always been the late riser and the light sleeper. |
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| He knew Sarah was a woman of her word and she'd rather die than break it. |
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| She removed the master key she'd secretly made and unlocked the door. |
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| She'd planned to act dumb and pretend she'd never known he was there. |
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| At the age of 11, while other girls dreamed of wedding dresses and engagement rings, Ruth already knew she'd never let herself be bound by matrimony. |
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| He knew from nothing about playing a piano, but his daughter did and from what she'd told him Steinway was one of the premier piano makers in the world. |
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| Tyler thought she looked rather pretty wearing a pair of jeans she'd made into bell-bottoms herself, and a long-sleeved light blue shirt under a grey polar fleece vest. |
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| For Xi'an Coy Manh, the explosion was as if she'd suddenly been cast back into the childhood inferno, the terrible war, that consumed her homeland, Vietnam. |
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| Even though she's the state's fifth all-time leading scorer, she'd rather just as soon pass the ball, get a great assist or bring the ball up the court under pressure. |
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| The vet told me that she thought this was primarily about the cat not eating and that if I could force feed her, her liver would regenerate and she'd probably be okay. |
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| Her black hair had crooked bangs as if she'd cut it herself. |
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| We crawled away, leaving the lioness unaware she'd been spied upon. |
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| Feeling remarkably like a shamefaced puppy, she trod reluctantly into the kitchen and gave them both that icy what-the-hell-do-you-want look she'd perfected by ninth grade. |
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| Ward, who owns the Gresham gun store with her husband, then did something she'd never done before. |
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| But most of all, Anna hated the way she scowled at her every time she passed by, simply because she'd always turned her down on her offers to play doll. |
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| Then, of all things, she'd taken up spinning and needlework and all those feminine accomplishments she'd always scorned in favor of roping and riding. |
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| I also remember when I was a kid my mother came hopping on one foot into my room, claiming she'd lost sensation in her lower leg save for excruciating pain. |
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| Violet, an elderly resident in a care home, discusses the present and reminisces about the past, but ends up recalling events she'd rather have forgotten. |
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| She also considered if she'd been tranquilised, but then it struck her. |
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| I nodded her away, praying that she'd take the hint and scram. |
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| A moment later, I catch the dishrag she'd balled up and thrown at me. |
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| That's one reason that I thought she'd had a rotten time at the social. |
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| Here was the building that housed the penthouse where Nick had lived, and where she'd met his street rat friend that actually caught her heart for a time. |
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| It made perfect sense that she was working with Mercalli, and that she'd won Stratford over by clever manipulation to get her post with the company. |
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| I gave her the address considering that she'd probably become another lurker, and that we'd probably see each other around at parties and make small talk, nothing more. |
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| The thought of unscrewing the lid and just upturning the contents into the rushing water seemed so unceremonious, even though it's what she'd come 3,000 miles to do. |
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| Maybe he wasn't the black-hearted creature she'd thought him. |
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| Like the princess in a fairy-tale forest, she'd free the jewel from its stinging enchantment, quickly polish it to high luster, then royally present it. |
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| She was convinced that if she signed a will, she'd be tempting fate. |
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| One of my Ma's friends came up with a second broken chicken crate she'd found rotting in a field in Linden, on the other side of St. George Avenue. |
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| And she'd be dolled up for it, too, her dyed red hair shellacked into an indestructible coif, resplendent in a velour maxi lounging gown and jewel-encrusted slippers. |
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| Sometimes there'd be a whole flock of guys, and she'd give us a stew or a thick soup. |
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| His mum was cooking his tea, and she'd kill him if he was late. |
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| I grabbed the pot she'd set down and scooped the grains onto my plate. |
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| She told the court that like Murdoch, she'd once lived in Broome, where she'd worked as a barmaid at the private club of the Coffin Cheaters bikie gang. |
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| When we'd arrived at her place she'd panicked over Ken not being there, and rushed around like a madwoman checking to make sure things were still there. |
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| A big ration of monkey nuts, but daughter Sybil Davies thinks she'd be far happier with a powder puff. |
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| If she had a choice between being supercautious or supersorry, she'd pick cautious every time. |
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| Mrs Dudley came bouncing back, hand swinging, big stain on her right bap like she'd been shot or Da had got at her in an alleyway. |
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| Newspaper artists gave their impressions of how she'd look today, fleshing out her bones with a beachgirl's curves. |
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| Lady O'Dowd is also so attached to it that, she says, if anything were to happen to Mick, bedad she'd come back and marry some of 'em. |
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| And all the time she'd be brivetting about on the sly with any good-for-nothing young rascals she could get hold on. |
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| Once they all went to a dance hall called the Rialto which she hadn't liked much, but when they went to the cinemagraph, she'd really enjoyed it. |
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| He ordered a schpritzer for himself and after she'd finished her Collins, he asked if she wanted to order. |
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| Or she'd have gone straight, married a dentist, squeezed out a minivan full of crib lizards, and gotten fat. |
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| Which meant she'd sound like a gigantic douche-canoe if she asked him if he had any, like, psychic powers or whatever. |
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| Although they had eloped in Vegas, she'd insisted he wear a tuxedo and she buy a wedding dress at one of the local stores. |
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| She got him going with all these stories, and then she'd leave him, and he'd be up all night trying to figure out the end. |
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| And even if she had believed the story about a John Smith, she might go telling everyone in town about what she'd seen. |
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| If Kathy had been with us, she'd have countered with a few ha-has of her own, thus guaranteeing a laugh at his expense. |
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| Except her dad had a go last time, the last time she'd brought home a detention slip for him to sign. |
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| I guess at this point we were supposed to feel elated she'd come to her senses and decided she hearts dogs after all. |
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| His mother later expressed disappointment that she'd been wrong, but by then, Belinda had a butterfly on her hoo-ha. |
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| She'd show me her doll, and talk about play-parties she'd been to, infares and dances. |
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| Knew it all too well from a couple of jerks she'd dated before her jerkdar had kicked in fully at age twenty. |
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| The kick-step she'd used to make steps out of the play area, was necessary to keep from sliding while walking across a slope. |
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| The girls had been out to the oat-stacks, each with a kiddhoge over her eyes to pull out a stalk and see when she'd be getting married. |
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| Over the years she'd tried to tell himself that his uptown girl was just another lay. |
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| Reach me some of that long sweetening, honey, she'd say at the breakfast table. |
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| God above, this man was as chiseled as the statues she'd spied in the Louvre. |
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