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It rained all through the evacuation.

I must say he took it all pretty quietly.

All the piles of lumber were carried away.

Like all Greeks he wanted to go to America.

All right. Come on, then,” his father said.

It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.

“Oh, you’re a great man, all right,” he said.

We all looked⁠—the knuckle was black and blue.

All her muscles are trying to get the baby born.

All the shutters of the hospital were nailed shut.

All the old women in the camp had been helping her.

When he started to kill it was all in the same rush.

All the time now Liz was thinking about Jim Gilmore.

It was cold but Liz was hot all over from being with Jim.

There were only a few patients, and they all knew about it.

It would have been all right with Mrs. Smith but Liz was afraid.

They all watched him walk up the hill and go inside the cottage.

“Well, after all,” I said, “he’s just an ignorant Mexican savage.”

Especially all the things you’ve waited so long for, like absinthe.

It’ll be all right for bait but it’s better with the ventral fin in.

“Here’s all the ones we missed A. J.,” said Jim and downed his liquor.

All the time Jim was gone on the deer hunting trip Liz thought about him.

She was intent on the rod all the time they trolled, even when she talked.

Once the horn went all the way through him and he felt it go into the sand.

He did not understand English but he had sweat all the time the row was going on.

“Well, these books are all scientific,” insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently.

He turned him up, all his legs walking in the air, and looked at his jointed belly.

The young Indian stopped and blew out his lantern and they all walked on along the road.

“Don’t look at me,” Daisy retorted, “I’ve been trying to get you to New York all afternoon.”

—And we’ve produced all the things that go to make civilization⁠—oh, science and art, and all that.

This isn’t just an epigram⁠—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

She couldn’t wait till she saw Jim and it seemed as though everything would be all right when he came.

Fifteen came in a bunch to the front and he sorted them by the dates and read them all straight through.

“I’m terribly sorry I brought you along, Nickie,” said his father, all his postoperative exhilaration gone.

He was very short with a brown face and quite drunk and he said, “After all, it has happened before like that.”

“That’s all right maybe this time,” said Drevitts, “but how did you know they were wops when you bumped them off?”

After all, in the very casualness of Gatsby’s party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her world.

The Indian who was rowing them was working very hard, but the other boat moved further ahead in the mist all the time.

They moved with a fast crowd, all of them young and rich and wild, but she came out with an absolutely perfect reputation.

I heard the drums coming down the street and then the fifes and the pipes and then they came around the corner, all dancing.

And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.

For the second time that evening Anthony’s mind made an abrupt jump, and what he said was not at all what he had intended to say.

We went along the road all night in the dark and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, “You must put it out.”

All the men had beards and there were three deer in the back of the wagon, their thin legs sticking stiff over the edge of the wagon box.

All the cars have the left rear wheel painted black as a mourning wreath, and there’s a persistent wail all night along the north shore.

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep school for me, and finally said, “Why⁠—ye-es,” with very grave, hesitant faces.

The big mill building had all its machinery that was removable taken out and hoisted on board one of the schooners by the men who had worked in the mill.

Reading over what I have written so far, I see I have given the impression that the events of three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me.

Spider Kelly taught all his young gentlemen to box like featherweights, no matter whether they weighed one hundred and five or two hundred and five pounds.

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