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"I'll make it a dinner dish," said Jim.
Katie washed a dish and rinsed it in silence.

She can drink milk like a real baby.
Drink some of it.

I learned a song about spring.
You were singing a different song a few hours ago?

Would you start the music for me?
The muffled beats of music thumped through her open windows.

His festival is celebrated on the 8th of July.
They're having a spring festival at the preschool and I'm taking the boys.

Maybe you should take off that wolf costume and show him how it's done.
That's because your usual costume isn't a costume at all.

Her hand went to the symbol around her neck.
His eyes went to the symbol at her neck, and one eyebrow shot up.

Every member of the congregation of Israel must labour, as God has appointed, at some handicraft or profession to provide for his home.
Such as it was, this was about the only manufacturing or handicraft in California.

It was a typical night.
It was a skit about the typical problems faced by both adults and students.

This region is locally known as the mattas (forests).
Briefly summarized, the battle came to this - in four successive efforts the Prussians failed because they were locally outnumbered.

There is an export trade in opium.
There is little export of the news with the only means of communication being local travelers.

The market is only two blocks away.
There is a large weekly market for grain, and annual horse and cattle fairs.

Can you hold things down for two weeks?
Can you hold lunch for a little bit?

Obviously he thought her manner of dress was too casual.
She carefully laid out the food in an attractive manner and retired to the kitchen.

We're going to eat before we leave, and you're going to act grateful.
"I eat in here," he said.

Then you'd get on the bus or subway and go to the polling place and vote.
The subway was built by the city, but leased and operated by a private company on such terms as to repay its cost in forty years.

It simply wasn't like him to be rude like that.
There they might live in peace and safety while all the country round was overrun by rude and barbarous men.

I didn't mean to offend you.
Katie tried to suppress it, not wanting to offend her friend, but it escaped.

Her lips were full, a perfect bow, and her large eyes steady and concerned.
Their weapons were the bow and arrow and stones.

The girl continued to stare at her.
She tried hard not to stare at the men.

I'm like some poor farm girl, barefoot as the day I was born.
She was barefoot too, remember?

I'll show you where you can sleep.
Almost three-quarters of all defense spending occurs within NATO countries, meaning the alliance is largely the only military show in town.

Lifting her chin for his affection, she forced his lips down to hers.
Tim didn't show much affection, even to his thirteen sons.

Would you like to kiss me? she whispered almost inaudibly, glancing up at him from under her brows, smiling, and almost crying from excitement.
It is like the kiss of warm lips on my face.

He was talking and acting in an inappropriate manner.
Carmen, when a man touches and talks to you in an inappropriate matter, you set him straight.

Don't just stand there.
He can't stand to sit around and do nothing.

She had to move a few things to make room, but that wasn't too hard.
I'm too warm in this one.

She had continued her classes and was somehow maintaining acceptable grades.
The twins were healthy and acceptable weight, so they released Katie.

After a silent prayer, I telephoned the tip line.
Actually, the tip of the tip of the iceberg.

There was no point in working herself up this way.
At some point she fell asleep.

All else was to him only life's customary routine.
It was customary to wear the highest rank, and the VP trumped Mr. Tim twice over.

Neither was willing to bargain with me for your life.
Our bargain is over.

The vendor is usually made to "eat" the charge.
At a farmers' market I recently visited, one vendor boasted that all his chickens "retained their dignity throughout their life."