Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.


Ernest Thompson Seton

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The buffalo hunt is dead.
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She gave us a monster lift.
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Amy gave us a big lift.
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That basket gave us a big lift. It gave us a little bit of momentum heading into the second half.
STEVE GASPAR
Our bench has played well for us lately and I thought Amber and Kim gave us a lift.
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That was the key of the game. It gave us a big lift.
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That really helped lift us. I don't know a better way to lift a team. It gave our guys a lot of conf...
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The one at the end of the half really took us in the locker room on a real positive note. I don't kn...
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We were starting to get nervous, so I was delighted to score. It gave us the lift we needed,
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I thought Logan played awfully hard. He really gave us a lift.
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JOY COVEY
I didn't hear the chanting but the crowd gave us a nice lift at the end of the game.
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(Benson) gave us a big lift. He's a great athlete. He's really started to blossom.
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They're real big. Even though it's early, it still gets us back in the hunt.
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He came in and gave us a nice lift. He's just got to stay within the framework of what we're doing.
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We played well in the first game, we just couldn't come up with the big hit. Eric was just dominant ...
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Seton Hall outplayed us in every aspect of the game. They out-toughed us, out-hustled us and outplay...
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Nobody came to inspect our grounds and Thompson Park is in very good condition. But this is quite di...
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He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!
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Taking (Thompson) out didn't spark us because he's one of our toughest guys. I think hitting the big...
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things ...
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Quite frankly, this was a witch hunt,
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I felt he handled the elements a little better. He did a nice job and gave us a lift off the bench.
DON BROWN
They left him open and right away he stroked a three. He gave us a big lift in the fourth quarter.
BOBBY SANDQUIST
We also gave the whole place a face-lift.
JOANNE ZEZULA
She gave us the spark we needed in the first quarter and helped us pick up our game a little bit.
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It was our ability to pressure their guards so they couldn't quite run their offense. Now that was o...
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Justin gave us a big lift. He came in and you could see everyone pick it up. It was like a shot of a...
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That home run gave Maitland a huge lift.
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I thought that was big for us. There's nothing like putting some runs across the board early. It gav...
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I think after the first two games we collectively thought that it would all be that smooth and I thi...
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Kevin really gave us a lift. He came in a did a great job for us and Stefan McGhee came off the benc...
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He gave us a lift. He was huge for us last year, and when he hit those shots, he looked like that pl...
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Our superstars are carrying the team. We are still in the hunt, so we need to have a lot of guys com...
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We played with more heart. We were kind of lackadaisical in the first half. (Hunt) saw how we played...
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Cory was outstanding in the second half. He gave us a big lift at the guard spot and Lonnie had an e...
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Defensively, we played with a purpose in the first half. Our kids took advantage of what Eminence ga...
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It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading f...
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He had plenty of time, and I had my pad down. I figured he would try to lift the puck, so I just lif...
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It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ...
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The rapid growth of Cedar Park, Leander and the Central Texas region provided an ideal opportunity f...
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A lot of people didn't lift in high school. It gave me somewhat of an edge.
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I was only able to play Avery one quarter because she was suiting up with the varsity and she gave u...
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It was a lot of marijuana. So as you could imagine, it gave off quite an odor.
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The new lift was put in for the sport of skiing. That's pretty damn cool. Because of our numbers, th...
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Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
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With Seton Hill and UPJ joining the conference, it gives us a gateway into Pittsburgh and the Wester...
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God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
JAMES M. BARRIE
We had to win more than we lost (in Buffalo), and we did, so hopefully that gets us a little closer.
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We throw the ball to him (Thompson) out of the backfield. He can do a lot of things for us.
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Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead...
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Our legs kind of gave out on us a bit.
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It is very reminiscent of our other albums. It's a reunion album, though it is quite poignant.
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I guess we don't like charity, because they gave us the ball a few times in that first half and we c...
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Here a little child I stand, / Heaving up my either hand; / Cold as paddocks though they be, / Here ...
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Seton was just a bigger, faster team. And there were a lot of them out there too, so they were able ...
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I thought Matt gave us a huge lift off the bench. It is great to have that type of effort off the be...
GARY GOSHERT
Absolutely it was a success but it wasn't perfect. It gave us a lot of good groundwork and good trac...
KRIS RINGWALL
It would have been good to have home ice, but we have had some success against Buffalo.
MIKE KNUBLE
I saw (Thompson) was covering him -- when I saw that I gave him a signal that I wanted to go there. ...
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Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, workin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. B...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
ERNEST RENAN
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they...
ERNEST HELLO
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enou...
ERNEST RENAN
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the cl...
ERNEST RENAN
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religi...
ERNEST RENAN
Ideas are the roots of creation.
ERNEST DIMNET
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; c...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by p...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you d...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass o...
ERNEST RENAN
To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
ERNEST RENAN
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think y...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
ERNEST DIMNET
It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
ERNEST JONES
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplis...
ERNEST RENAN
Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
ERNEST BENN
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
ERNEST BRAMAH
Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-hab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-impor...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families al...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
ERNEST BEVIN
The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expect...
ERNEST RUTHERFORD
All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
ERNEST BEVIN
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Re...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY