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I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra. In his foreword to the 1952 reprint, [citation needed] O'Hara says that the working title for the novel was The Infernal Grove. He got the idea for the title Appointment in Samarra when Dorothy Parker showed him the story in Maugham's play, Sheppey. He ...
had not had’ve: had have hasn’t: has not haven’t: have not he’d: he had / he would he'd'nt've (informal) he did not have / he would not have he'll: he shall / he will helluva (informal) hell of a yesn't (informal) yes not / no he’s: he has / he is here’s: here is how’d (informal) how did / how would howdy (informal) how do you do ...
When Becket resisted their attempts to seize him, they slashed at him with their swords, killing him. [12] Although nobody, even at the time, believed that Henry directly ordered that Becket be killed, his words had started a chain of events that was likely to have such a result. [13]
The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.
"I let the word wash over me. I wanted Mom to know I’d heard her, and I repeated back the same word. When I said it, I felt as if I was signing a contract between us."
She had him at the word “rallies.” During Tuesday night's presidential debate between Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and her Republican counterpart, Donald Trump, she exploited one of Trump ...
Einstein had a second epiphany two years later in 1907 which he called "the happiest thought of my life" when he imagined an elevator falling, and realized that a passenger would not be able to tell the difference between the weightlessness of falling, and the weightlessness of space – a thought which allowed him to generalize his theory of ...
The couple never had children, and Parton has spoken about how much Dean meant to her in her life. “I think I’ve had many loves, but Carl is my best and lasting,” she told Woman’s World in ...