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1. *The Hebrew here is fairly obscure, and we could wrangle over theories endlessly as to just what this means on its own
2. My initial plan was to wrangle the ships away from the home planet and destroy them somewhere where the debris would not be a hazard and then I wondered why we needed to create debris fields at all
3. He then remembered that if Paul were actually dead, it would be impossible for him to wrangle out of this situation with anything as insignificant as a Probation sentence
4. How could I have known that ten minutes could cost a number of lifetimes? Finally, I managed to wrangle it out without breaking it off in the steering column
5. Then he said to them, ‘One of you come forward and tell me the reason behind this wrangle
6. He felt her injuries needed to be taken care of immediately, and he had a strong suspicion Kathy would somehow manage to wrangle her way out of having her ankle properly taken care of, if it were left up to her
7. Now, can an opposer, after all of that, object and disparage this noble messenger or impute to Al'lah what he imputes of cruelty toward man? Truly, He the Almighty, always tries to return His obedient to the right way: "…Yet, the unbelievers wrangle about Al'lah though He tries a lot with them
8. It became a wrangle across the counter, and was only ended by Ingeborg's altogether siding with the young lady and the interests of Berding and Kühn, and ordering, as the Baroness had directed, ten dozen each of the ready-made squares
9. That he should be forced to act, to decide, to be artful, to wrangle with maids, to make ends meet, to squeeze his long frame and explosive disposition into a Creeper Cottage where only an ill-fitting door separated him from the noise and fumes of the kitchen, was surely a cruel trick of Fate, and not less cruel because he had brought it on himself
10. It was a time when the workload should not, under normal circumstances, have been too demanding, but as fate would have it he soon found himself immersed in a wrangle over the question of Vietnamese refugees
11. most wanted criminal in Branga to wrangle a ship from them
12. She had managed to wrangle an
13. Now you that want to wrangle with Paul help yourselves
14. I can't stand it when you wrangle
15. I am neither come to wrangle nor be reconciled; but I wish just to learn whether, after this evening's events, you intend to continue your intimacy with--"
16. Wrangle with Molly it was put me off
17. ones she could find at the bottom of the basket anything at all to get into a mans bedroom with her old maids voice trying to imagine he was dying on account of her to never see thy face again though he looked more like a man with his beard a bit grown in the bed father was the same besides I hate bandaging and dosing when he cut his toe with the razor paring his corns afraid hed get bloodpoisoning but if it was a thing I was sick then wed see what attention only of course the woman hides it not to give all the trouble they do yes he came somewhere Im sure by his appetite anyway love its not or hed be off his feed thinking of her so either it was one of those night women if it was down there he was really and the hotel story he made up a pack of lies to hide it planning it Hynes kept me who did I meet ah yes I met do you remember Menton and who else who let me see that big babbyface I saw him and he not long married flirting with a young girl at Pooles Myriorama and turned my back on him when he slinked out looking quite conscious what harm but he had the impudence to make up to me one time well done to him mouth almighty and his boiled eyes of all the big stupoes I ever met and thats called a solicitor only for I hate having a long wrangle in bed or else if its not that its some little bitch or other he got in with somewhere or picked up on the sly if they only knew him as well as I do yes because the day before yesterday he was scribbling something a letter when I came into the front room to show him Dignams death in the paper as if something told me and he covered it up with the blottingpaper pretending to be thinking about business so very probably that was it to somebody who thinks she has a softy in him because all men get a bit like that at his age especially getting on to forty he is now so as to wheedle any money she can out of him no fool like an old fool and then the usual kissing my bottom was to hide it not that I care two straws now who he does it with or knew before that way though Id like to find out so long as I dont have the two of them under my nose all the time like that slut that Mary we had in Ontario terrace padding out her false bottom to excite him bad enough to get the smell of those painted women off him once or twice I had a suspicion by getting him to come near me when I found the long hair on his coat without that one when I went into the kitchen pretending he was drinking water 1 woman is not enough for them it was all his fault of course ruining servants then proposing that she could eat at our table on Christmas day if you please O no thank you not in my house stealing my potatoes and the oysters 2/6 per doz going out to see her aunt if you please common robbery so it was but I was sure he had something on with that one it takes me to find out a thing like that he said you have no proof it was her proof O yes her aunt was very fond of oysters but I told her what I thought of her suggesting me to go out to be alone with her I wouldnt lower myself to spy on them the garters I found in her room the Friday she was out that was enough for me a little bit too much her face swelled up on her with temper when I gave her her weeks notice I saw to that better do without them altogether do out the rooms myself quicker only for the damn cooking and throwing out the dirt I gave it to him anyhow either she or me leaves the house I couldnt even touch him if I thought he was with a dirty barefaced liar and sloven like that one denying it up to my face and singing about the place in the W C too because she knew she was too well off yes because he couldnt possibly do without it that long so he must do it somewhere and the last time he came on my bottom when was it the night
18. ” Magnus nods to the doorman, who takes their tags and the invitation Magnus managed to wrangle
19. Estranged from her by the divorce, and all too aware of my part in her sadness, I tried too hard to wrangle quick smiles
20. There have been a few trips, each one more difficult to wrangle from the authorities, and never farther than London
21. I am neither come to wrangle nor be reconciled; but I wish just to learn whether, after this evening’s events, you intend to continue your intimacy with—’
22. It seemed to me that every one must have observed my embarrassment while I was talking with the prince, and also his very singular manner; “God knows,” said I to myself, “what interpretation may be put upon it; could any one happen to know of my wrangle with my husband?” My cousin took me home, and on the way we were talking about him
23. To this proposition the old longshoreman gave a grudging and indifferent assent; then gleefully pushed out in a dory to arrange terms with his relative and wrangle about the amount of commission which his own enterprise was to receive; while Stephen went back to the hotel to pack up a few necessaries for the trip and arrange with the landlady for the storage of his luggage till his return
1. They wrangled all through the meal
2. had so wrangled with the master of the school, to which little Wolff
3. 16 Now therefore cease this accusation lest the whole earth hear your words, saying, For a little silver the King of Egypt wrangled with the men, and he accused them and took their brother for a slave
4. 16 Now therefore cease this accusation lest the whole earth hear your words saying For a little silver the King of Egypt wrangled with the men and he accused them and took their brother for a slave
5. He wrangled out of
6. Conan strode through a garden where great pale blossoms nodded in the starlight, and entered the tap-room, where a Stygian with the shaven head of a student sat at a table brooding over nameless mysteries, and some nondescripts wrangled over a game of dice in a corner
7. The image of a courteous lady in a Salvation Army uniform took its place once more in his mind as he wrangled with the problem of her demise and its connection with the Clegg mystery
8. That wrangled a grin from Norah’s lips
9. Melvin, now awake, reached for his breathing tube and wrangled it out of his mouth with a gasp
10. (Each needed to be wrangled)
11. “I’m having trouble understanding why this is a problem for you, especially after you chased me down and wrangled me into this in the first place
12. And, all those years he wrangled skiers at
13. I looked at him, astonished, stammered, “But, but, but what deal? What deal could you have wrangled to get me out of this?”
14. ” Why should she thank these thieves for returning her own property to her? She held the sword against her while the little cavalryman argued and wrangled with the sergeant
15. These folks were imaginary, it was true (the nearest neighbors were white people who hadn’t much spoken to the Goodmans since Pop had wrangled his loan for the land all those years ago), but they were, for Mama, a necessary fiction
16. He wrestled and wrangled
17. The most painful moment was that which followed the dinner; some went to sleep, if they had no other way of passing their time; others either wrangled or told stories in a loud voice
18. His family consisted of a vulgar, irritable wife, who wrangled with him continually over every petty detail, a son, a ne’er-do-well, spendthrift and roue—yet a “gentleman,” according to his father’s code, two daughters, of whom the elder had married well, and was living in St
1. wrangles, wanting to use the bathroom at the same time, trivial misunderstandings, knowing when to
2. The truth is that, as in this case, more often it is the fathers, when accused by their victims, who use legal custody wrangles as weapons, to intimidate the mothers who are simply trying to save their children from further harm
3. Divorce, in real life, may be a serenely satisfactory settlement of domestic wrangles, but on the stage its unromantic practicality has not yet succeeded in appealing, except in farce
1. After much consultation and some legal wrangling, the judges reached an agreement
2. After much consultation and some legal wrangling, the judges
3. legal wrangling over the contract, a project team with disparate ideas about how to
4. Working things out with Verizon would take a few days because of the company’s lawyers and normal bureaucratic wrangling
5. 'Crom, what a day it has been! Such haggling and wrangling I never heard
6. 2 When the crowd heard these words, they fell to wrangling among themselves
7. wrangling, but the humanated Rollins’ Plant swallowed its first load of logs
8. It took several minutes of wrangling with the obstinate receptionist about the nature of the call and its urgency before Wickland was finally able to learn that Mr
9. For long weary centuries they have been waiting for the tardy movements of the Church of Christ, while Christians have been asleep, or wasting their energies on useless controversies, and squabbling and wrangling about forms and ceremonies
10. Reg had only earned the status of a Kroonum judge because of the illegal wrangling and bribery performed by the Algreenian Fog-Specters
11. When faced with creatures up to ten times your size and strength, who carried weapons of a sort you’d never even imagined, that could vaporize anything they chose, what choice remained to an intelligent race such as homo sapiens sapiens? What they were, would become a subject for much discussion and wrangling amongst our world’s greatest minds
12. Mitch had volunteered to head up set construction for the show, which meant wrangling all the untrained help
13. Hairdryers, curling irons, and straighteners were wrangling unruly hair while fancy electric razors were being used to deforest legs
14. It didn’t matter that the publicity and political wrangling were cost-ing precious time–time that allowed Ivan Lions and his three-man staff to pull up stakes and skip the state; time that allowed Roy Higgins to melt under the clutches of slick lawyers and plead the 5th
15. There must have been some wrangling of the jury, for twice hope of the gangsters revived when they sent in for the record
16. and for when teaching and wrangling students can be
17. It is how all the wrangling in stardom and the Media works
18. Hitler was responsible for invading Poland… But that was a result of 10 years of wrangling and arguing with the Polish govt over the stolen part of Western Prussia and the repatriation German people under Polish rule: it a perfectly legitimate retaking of the stolen lands of Western Prussia which the allies had taken from Germany after Germany lost the 1st World War
19. internal wrangling that may have caused this separation? We have our own situation with
20. "Son of a bitch," said the duenna, all aglow with anger, "whether I'm old or not, it's with God I have to reckon, not with you, you garlic-stuffed scoundrel!" and she said it so loud, that the duchess heard it, and turning round and seeing the duenna in such a state of excitement, and her eyes flaming so, asked whom she was wrangling with
21. Some of the very peasants who had been most active in wrangling with him over the hay, some whom he had treated with contumely, and who had tried to cheat him, those very peasants had greeted him goodhumoredly, and evidently had not, were incapable of having any feeling of rancor against him, any regret, any recollection even of having tried to deceive him
22. To avoid their wrangling I moved some little way apart, and was seated smoking upon the trunk of a fallen tree, when Lord John strolled over in my direction
23. After some wrangling, Marilyn made a decision to eject him from the company on April 11
24. ” After much legal wrangling, Marilyn settled with Greene for $100,000, which was just the return of his original investment in MMP
25. Twice every day for three days this was repeated; but on the fourth morning a confused wrangling, and then a scuffling was heard, as the customary summons was delivered; and suddenly four men burst up from the forecastle, saying they were ready to turn to
26. A thousand times perhaps he may, recalling his childhood, have driven away the loathsome phantoms that haunted his childish dreams and with all his heart he may have longed to embrace and to forgive his father! And what awaited him? He was met by cynical taunts, suspicions and wrangling about money
27. They gave up the game, then got into an argument about something, then began to be loud and noisy, finally dispersed to their various corners, went on for a long time angrily shouting and wrangling, and as all of them felt suddenly ill-humoured they no longer cared to sit up, so went to sleep
28. While the neighbors were wrangling over the affair, each suing the other, it happened that a perch-bolt from Gavryl’s wagon was lost; and the women of Gavryl’s household accused Ivan’s son of stealing it
