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  • At the time Paolini said I'm still trying to get used to itbut I'm not sure if I really want to get used to it, because there's no guarantee it will last.

    Christopher Paolini biography 2008

  • She believed in demons nowshed seen enough of what they did that she wasnt able to deny itbut she wished she didnt have to.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • The maiden resists at first, because its her lifes work to guard the eggher birthright, I think, is how she describes itbut the queen wears her down and in the end she consents because shes convinced that if she doesnt, the princess will suffer eternal sorrow and the kingdom will be cursed to an endless winter.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • Water down there, and plenty of itbut for how long?

    Dog on It Spencer Quinn 2009

  • At Garlenda, there was a breeze from the direction of the oceanyou could taste the salt in itbut the sunlight was what I think of as Italian sunlight: a yellow-gold that dusts the blades of grass and glints off the bunker rakes and flagsticks and has such an intensity that it feels capable of drying a soaked shirt in thirty seconds.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • Water down there, and plenty of itbut for how long?

    Dog on It Spencer Quinn 2009

  • Now, the thing weve done that I dont know if well get credit for itbut I love it and I think we probably willis we have the lab in India specialize in looking out for the poorest.

    Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009

  • This had originally been scheduled for the day after we arrived in Italyin fact, I had arranged our arrival so I would be able to play in itbut, for unspecified reasons it had been postponed.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • The maiden resists at first, because its her lifes work to guard the eggher birthright, I think, is how she describes itbut the queen wears her down and in the end she consents because shes convinced that if she doesnt, the princess will suffer eternal sorrow and the kingdom will be cursed to an endless winter.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • There had to be other petticoats like itbut stillAnastasia had been wearing just such an undergarment; hed seen it beneath her torn dress.

    The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009

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