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She called them as she saw them, and sometimes she pleased one side and sometimes she pleased the other.


Janine Geske

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JEAN RAGS He's finally home, and I know she is looking down right now, and she is pleased.
FRED BYRD She had a lot of one putts for par. That's a solid round for her, and she was pleased with it.
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GLORIA NAYLOR She made what pleased her lawful
DANTE ALIGHIERI My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
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CHARLES DICKENS Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, / And that she increased her whoredoms...
BIBLE If she and I be pleased, what's that to you?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She looked out and she saw the teenagers in the yard and saw the car, and then she went to bed. And ...
LEE PROCUK Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.
RAINBOW ROWELL Sometimes she could swear that she saw, in Joe Grey's eyes, a judgment far too perceptive, a watchfu...
SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU MURPHY She has her little bean bag under the table. One other lady, she had two maltese dogs and she had a ...
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ANDREA NICHOLS She threw a fabulous game -- I'm very pleased with the way she threw. She showed me a lot. She's a c...
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JOE MARES We're pleased she is safe and that the police are handling this situation.
DAN EDWARDS She made life rough sometimes. She messed with the wrong crowd.
EUGENIA BLIZZARD One of them really felt like nauseous and not well, and so the mother was advised. The mother saw th...
CHANTAL MACKELS She [Beall] does really well, sometimes she struggles but she steps in and settles down and really r...
BETHANY BAKER Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had...
LEO TOLSTOY One side of me blames her because she did it, but the other side says she didn't because that wasn't...
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EDMUND WHITE She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Sometimes she was even sure that she had ever really existed.
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ED STEVENS I was pleased that the other district coaches gave her this honor considering how strong our distric...
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KRISTIN STEELE For when it comes, she is gone, and sometimes I wonder whether she and I will ever love again.
NICHOLAS SPARKS She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be.
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HARUKI MURAKAMI She would get more excited and show more emotion when she would make the pass and earn an assist or ...
KATHLEEN SINRAM They told her she basically wouldn't end up doing anything for them and she might as well retire. Sh...
FRANK KUDLAC She wants to put them in a good home and try to give them all the loving of a grandmother. She said ...
AWILDA CORDERO She was a fantastic individual. She put more hours, I think, sometimes into this park than she did a...
DONNA SMITH Yesterday she was feeling very weak, she was tired and she was hungry as well, ... And my mom said t...
JESSICA LYNCH The governor is extremely pleased the nomination is going forward and she looks forward to the confi...
JUDD EVERHART Sometimes, the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality but ...
EVANNA LYNCH You know this girl.
Her hair is neither long nor short nor light nor dark. She parts it precise...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN ALICE
She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME
And she grew so tall,
She ate from a pl...
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BRIAN ANDREAS She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps...
ALICE MEYNELL She loves those volunteers. She's always gracious and kind and appreciative. It's obvious in the way...
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FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for he...
GASTON LEROUX A little girl and her father were walking along in the evening. She was fascinated by the stars, and...
FRANCIS GAY She felt she was ready to go. Her caregiver, she told her she loved her and said to tell everyone el...
JAMES ROGERS How much she wanted it - that people should look pleased as she came in, Clarissa thought and turned...
VIRGINIA WOOLF She loved all her children. If they were upset, she was upset about them. She would buy dolls for th...
ANNE BOYD Did she help people?" Miss Level added.
...
...
"She made them help one another, she ...
TERRY PRATCHETT She raised her head and saw a squadron of fighter planes. She stretched her hand high as if she coul...
SARAH SUNDIN She just does everything. She passed well, she played great defense and she rebounded well. It was a...
LAURIE CARTER sometimes I hate you,"
she said.
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VERONICA ROTH She would tell you what she thought without hesitation. Sometimes it wasn't the sweetest thing, but ...
LAURA WEIGER She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able t...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG She is such a doer, Cara - she is so ambitious. She has always known what she wants, and she's a...
POPPY DELEVINGNE She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her moo...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I think sometimes she overdoes it. She obsessively wants to do a few (jumps) too many.
JOANNE MCLEOD How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he someti...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH It's crazy to watch. There were camera crews waiting for her when she went into rookie orientation a...
MORGAN PRESSEL We are very excited that Janine has decided to join our program. As she learns our systems and bette...
JIM MCLAUGHLIN Of course I'm pleased. Obviously, I felt that this was the decision she should make.
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DANA EIKENBERG She kept hitting the lines and going for her shots, but the closer it gets, she misses a smash. They...
KIM CLIJSTERS When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the do...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We went to church sometimes, so it's not like Mom had anything against religion, but Kerry totally d...
GAYLE FORMAN She had much more control tonight. She set some goals and met them. She pitched extremely well.
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ROBBY ALBARADO I thought there was a lot of speed ahead of me, ... I was sitting back and then I called on her and ...
ROBBY ALBARADO Two-thirty comes during Testifying. It's Janine, telling about how she was gang-raped at fourteen an...
MARGARET ATWOOD She glanced rapidly between them, blinking and hoping her double vision would go away. They were gla...
KAREN MARIE MONING She felt like weeping. She didn't know why at first, but then it hit her.

He knew her. DENNIS LEHANE I called her and she didn't even hesitate. She immediately said she wanted to go.
BETTY ANN DUFFY She might tell them when she goes there about the mess one can make by using energy as a political t...
ALEXANDER RAHR She had the swagger of a girl. She blushed like a boy. She had a girl’s toughness. She has a boy�...
ALI SMITH She was famous, and she was insane.
Her voice soared out over the audience, holding them spellb...
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