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  • As others have also said-the size had much to do with the success.

    On Magpies and Fireflies – Impressions from ThrillerFest 2006

  • Fire fighters are real-like I said-the macho-man stuff, and you don't let people see you sweat.

    The Aftermath: An Oral History 2007

  • Ms. Mead said-the idea is at least as old as Horace Greeley's 1841 advice to New Yorkers to "turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune": advice that was followed by New Yorkers from Sam Goldwyn to J.

    Go West, Young Babes 2002

  • I had spent the summer brooding over a misspent youth, I said-the state of the world and the state of my soul.

    Dreams From My Father Obama, Barack 1995

  • It was impossible to relieve Young Marius, he said-the fortifications Ofella had built were impregnable.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • It is the society of man exploiting man, man the enemy of man, man-as Engels or Marx said-the wolf of man.

    Castro Addresses UJC Congress Closing Session 1992

  • Who would have thought back then that on a day like today, on this 10 October 1991, we would be gathered at this congress and in this same city of Santiago de Cuba-as Lazo said-the land of Baragua, the land of the struggles for our independence, the land where Marti's remains lie, the land where the Maceos were born, the home of so many heroes and and martyrs, the home of Moncada.

    Proceedings of Fourth PCC Congress Reported 1991

  • Her erect nipples -- "It's the cold," she said-the fragrance of her juices on his hands, above all the awareness that he was giving her pleasure, were almost too much for him.

    Cal Laverty, Bernard Mac 1983

  • He said-the surf growled faintly beneath his words, while never a leaf rustled in the breathless dark — “I have read that your people can make a lost part grow forth afresh.”

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • "But when I checked ... the records said-the records in Tucson said your parents were both dead."

    The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975

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