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It seems like ages before I can decently change the subject but, after an eternity, she runs down on the subject of Andy and his transgressions
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’ I said, arranging the blanket the woman has left for me so that it covers me decently and praying that it will stay put
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The apartment itself comprises three decent sized bedrooms, a large lounge with balcony (with washing line arrangements), a dining room, decently appointed kitchen and bathroom – all very modern and sleek
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He found the address, it was a decently nice door on a corner between two others
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She knew little of the technical details and couldn’t really play an instrument, though she could sing decently
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don’t enjoy the benefits of behaving decently, either
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He couldn't have been much older than me, and the two of them looked like they had been eating decently
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As long as such presents, as long as the emoluments of justice, or what may be called the fees of court, constituted, in this manner, the whole ordinary revenue which the sovereign derived from his sovereignty, it could not well be expected, it could not even decently be proposed, that he should give them up altogether
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However, he took it with his usual good grace and stashed as much of the profits as he decently could
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Once there, they stayed as long as they could decently get away with
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I made sure to keep Mark the Roonek's considerable bulk between them and me whenever I decently could get away with it
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I may not have had a girlfriend in those years but even I could figure out what she wanted and ran away as soon as I decently could
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The room was decently furnished and clean
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"If the child was only dressed decently itself," she groaned in spirit
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"If poor Faith had only been decently dressed," lamented Miss Cornelia again, "it wouldn't have been quite that bad
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10 And bury me decently and your mother with me; but tarry no longer at Nineveh
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Clean-shaven and wearing dress trousers and shirt with a tie, his shoes were decently shined, his ankles hidden by dark knee-socks
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Grant it, I was getting paid decently for the cooking gig, but cooking at an Irish
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Talking about poverty, I never understood how these proud people managed to always look very decently
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Her cloth-of-gold slippers were in tatters, her robes and silken under-garments torn to shreds that scarcely held together decently
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That might work, but it would not give her enough money to live decently or retire someday
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ing the Executive Assistant's chair before it had become decently cool, but on the
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A human who was decently dressed could get away with it much of the time
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You will be treated decently, like the rest of your comrades
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Composing the limbs as decently as I could, and averting my eyes from the pathetic, innocent looking sex, I wrapped it- him in an old blanket
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If there are any prisoners of war or forced laborers from other countries still in Japan, they are to be treated decently until they can be repatriated to their respective countries
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Maybe if fiction actually treated truth decently and paid it some attention, it wouldn’t have to get
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� He was calling to warn me to treat that woman in Northolt decently
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I expect that they be treated decently and with respect
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Anderson didn’t miss the ‘mister’ in the interrogator’s question, a good sign that he was going to be treated more decently than Nancy
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‘’Hum, that would imply that we would give them some land space or space habitat volume, so that they could live decently
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‘’Whatever happen, ladies, I promise you that you wil all be treated decently here
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They are making millions in that industry at the moment, so it’s not as if they couldn’t afford to treat you decently
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“We probed as much as we decently could without raising his suspicions over lunch, but turned up absolutely nothing
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"Yes, well, she questioned a few of the men and found they weren't clamoring to break down the doors to leave, that they were well-fed and housed decently
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stage, kissing him briefly and decently, only on the cheek
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Why, how do you suppose we could get all we need out of our hundred pounds a year--I translate our marks into your pounds for your greater convenience--if we had to give a servant more than eight of them and for our house more than fifteen? Papa and I do not like to be kept hungry in the matter of books, and we shall probably spend every penny of our income; but I know a number of families with children who live decently and have occasional coffee-parties and put by for their daughters' _trousseaux_ on the same sum
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In the middle of these decently arrayed rejoices, the candles on the tree lighting up every inch of him, stood Joey in a Norfolk jacket, gaiters, and green check tie
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What is the use, after all, of being so vocal? We have each given the other many hours of pleasure, and shall we not be grateful rather than tragic? Here we are, got at last to the point where we face the inevitable, and we may as well do it decently
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Never bothered you, has he, since you got rid of him? Played the game decently, eh? He was very much in love with you, poor devil--God, how much in love!" grinned George, as long-forgotten visions of Job, the hardest-headed man of money in Europe, abject with adoration following Fanny about at parties, never taking his eyes off her, flushing if she threw him half a look, trembling when she came near him, emerged again through the swamp of years
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"It would be a scandal not to be buried decently," she replied, manifestly surprised at my warmth, "and the neighbours respect her much more now that they know what nice clothes she had bought for her funeral
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Our existence, Robert, our decently happy existence in a decently happy home with properly cared-for children--"
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Why," fumed Tussie, "can't we live decently? Hasn't it struck you that we're very vulgar?"
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There will be a cage over their heads, so any foul balls will bounce back onto their own heads, so they have to throw it back to the pitchers and hit it again decently
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Perhaps because I resented Hassan, I found that noisy and merry evening unbearable and left with a lame excuse as soon as was decently possible
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She had adjusted to the shoes, and was able to perform decently, if not pretty damn well
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This chapter connects all of the distant enlightening points of truth throughout human history and explains the existence of these undead evil things as a constant condition which systematically hides and twists every attempt of Living Life to straighten itself out and live decently in happiness and health
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People all over Europe and Russia and America were rising up and refusing to be obedient oppressed slaves and demanding to be treated more decently, and demanding more rights
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The masses were beginning to wake up and were quickly becoming aware of themselves as human beings, as workers as women who deserved to be treated decently and have a say in their country’s govt
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else would wait till they were decently into their forties
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Or there were two paradises, the upper and the lower—one in Heaven, for those who had attained the heights of holiness; one in the earth, for those who had lived but decently; and the heavenly paradise was sixty times larger then the whole lower earth
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Meanwhile, six miles late in the summer is more difficult because this is the time when the water is low, sometimes too low to paddle decently
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But they were very decently kept
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Then she would make a rush at the crowd; if she noticed any decently dressed person stopping to look, she immediately appealed to him to see what these children "from a genteel, one may say aristocratic, house" had been brought to
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He is decently put away--is there any thing more?
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He had only been waiting till the aforesaid blighted affections were decently interred
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decently, as the virago of a nurse said, when the gentlemen (the surgeons)
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We all must die; but, hang it all, a man ought to be given a chance, if not for his life, then at least to die decently
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In extremity, in the worst extremity, the majority of people, even of common people, will behave decently
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Elinor answered in some distress that she was, and then talked of head-aches, low spirits, and over fatigues; and of every thing to which she could decently attribute her sister's behaviour
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Will that satisfy you?""Yes, yes, make your mind easy, he shall be decently interred in the newest sack we can
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Ten times, as I told you, he came to see Dantes' father, and offered to receive him in his own house; and the night or two before his death, as I have already said, he left his purse on the mantelpiece, with which they paid the old man's debts, and buried him decently; and so Edmond's father died, as he had lived, without doing harm to any one
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I made inquiries, and found that the house in the Champs Elysees is his own property, and certainly it was very decently kept up
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When these visiting ladies' went into a workman's house and found it clean and decently furnished, and the children clean and tidy, they came to the conclusion that those people were not suitable `cases' for assistance
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Fortunately his wife was a good needlewoman, and as sober and industrious as himself; by dint of slaving incessantly from morning till night she managed to keep her home fairly comfortable and the children clean and decently dressed; they always looked respectable, although they did not always have enough proper food to eat
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The Semi-drunk and one or two other habitual boozers were very shabby and down at heel, but the majority of the men were decently dressed
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Harlow, desiring that everything should be done decently and in order, had meantime arranged in front of the pulpit a carpenter's sawing stool, and an empty pail with a small piece of board laid across it, to serve as a seat and a table for the chairman
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going about with some of them Sinner Fein lately or whatever they call themselves talking his usual trash and nonsense he says that little man he showed me without the neck is very intelligent the coming man Griffiths is he well he doesnt look it thats all I can say still it must have been him he knew there was a boycott I hate the mention of their politics after the war that Pretoria and Ladysmith and Bloemfontein where Gardner lieut Stanley G 8th Bn 2nd East Lancs Rgt of enteric fever he was a lovely fellow in khaki and just the right height over me Im sure he was brave too he said I was lovely the evening we kissed goodbye at the canal lock my Irish beauty he was pale with excitement about going away or wed be seen from the road he couldnt stand properly and I so hot as I never felt they could have made their peace in the beginning or old oom Paul and the rest of the other old Krugers go and fight it out between them instead of dragging on for years killing any finelooking men there were with their fever if he was even decently shot it wouldnt have been so bad I love to see a regiment pass in review the first time I saw the Spanish cavalry at La Roque it was lovely after looking across the bay from Algeciras all the lights of the rock like fireflies or those sham battles on the 15 acres the Black Watch with their kilts in time at the march past the 10th hussars the prince of Wales own or the lancers O the lancers theyre grand or the Dublins that won Tugela his father made his money over selling the horses for the cavalry well he could buy me a nice present up in Belfast after what I gave him theyve lovely linen up there or one of those nice kimono things I must buy a mothball like I had before to keep in the drawer with them it would be exciting going round with him shopping buying those things in a new city better leave this ring behind want to keep turning and turning to get it over the knuckle there or they might bell it round the town in their papers or tell the police on me but theyd think were married O let them all go and smother themselves for the fat lot I care he has plenty of money and hes not a marrying man so somebody better get it out of him if I could find out whether he likes me I looked a bit washy of course when I looked close in the handglass powdering a mirror never gives you the expression besides scrooching down on me like that all the time with his big hipbones hes heavy too with his hairy chest for this heat always having to lie down for them better for him put it into me from behind the way Mrs Mastiansky told me her husband made her like the dogs do it and stick out her tongue as far as ever she could and he so quiet and mild with his tingating cither can you ever be up to men the way it takes them lovely stuff in that blue suit he had on and stylish tie and socks with the skyblue silk things on them hes certainly well off I know by the cut his clothes have and his heavy watch but he was like a perfect devil for a few minutes after he came back with the stoppress tearing up the tickets and swearing blazes because he lost 20 quid he said he lost over that outsider that won and half he put on for me on account of Lenehans tip cursing him to the lowest pits that sponger he was making free with me after the Glencree dinner coming back that long joult over the featherbed mountain after the lord Mayor looking at me with his dirty eyes Val Dillon that big heathen I first noticed him at dessert when I was cracking the nuts with my teeth I wished I could have picked every morsel of that chicken out of my fingers it was so tasty and browned and as tender as anything only for I didnt want to eat everything on my plate those forks and fishslicers were hallmarked silver too I wish I had some I could easily have
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They’d laid them out as decently and with as much respect as they could
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It wasn’t all that surprising, Sharpfield thought, that Sarmouth had released the ship which had been a floating chamber of horror for the Charisians aboard it and retained the one aboard which they’d been decently treated
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There isn't even a room you could use decently as a studio
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Husbands roused wives at dawn and told them as much as could be decently told to women
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He was now decently clothed in a ‘sport shirt’ open at the neck, sneakers and duck trousers of a nebulous hue
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"What is the use of counting on any success of mine? It is a mere toss up whether I shall ever do more than keep myself decently, unless I choose to sell myself as a mere pen and a mouthpiece
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The message to Price was clear: if you don't do too badly during the down years, you only have to perform decently during the up years to beat the averages over time
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If we had a quick voyage it would be no to our miscredit wi' the owners, or no hurt to our traffic, an' the Old Mon who had served his ain purpose wad be decently grateful to us for no hinderin' him
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‘And you? Are you going to have lunch too? They feed you quite decently here,’
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We have an excellent priest, he conducts the service decently and with dignity, and the deacon is the same
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’ Glancing indolently and indifferently at all the prisoners, he ordered the officer in charge to have them decently dressed and tidied up before taking them to the marshal
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While struggling to eat a mango decently she asked, "Joe, why don't places like Willstown have more fresh fruit? Won't it grow?"
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Behave decently in her presence
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"Are you rested now?" Mona asked, pretending to be a decently behaved creature
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I was glad to give her a sufficient sum to set her up in a good line of business, and so get decently rid of her
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Elinor answered in some distress that she was, and then talked of head-aches, low spirits, and over fatigues; and of every thing to which she could decently attribute her sister’s behaviour
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Does not America offer any inducement for men to settle here? The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow—one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness, and a manifest lack of intellect and cheerful self-reliance; whose first and chief concern, on coming into the world, is to see that the almshouses are in good repair; and, before yet he has lawfully donned the virile garb, to collect a fund for the support of the widows and orphans that may be; who, in short ventures to live only by the aid of the Mutual Insurance company, which has promised to bury him decently
