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up in the apricot tree
 

                        Thing things over
I hated the idea.   ₁
 
                        every strive, strong beach
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give me time to thing things over, or, as the novelist calls it, soliquizing: Just.   ₂
                        anta who, which
 
                        Vowels
                        time to thing things over, though he wondered what it was he was going to think about. He should have done his thinking and planning on the way up here, instead .   ₃  
 
                        Places
“you know — you have to thing things over. Do you know what I mean?”
                        “No.”
They were silent again for some time.   ₄
 
                        Lord, wit all me . and
first for Biloxi, then gradually for after
                        talking thing things
over net making and netting, twines and other.   ₅
 
                        O oh owe above
Was the procedure reasonable? This is not just a question of observing the basic steps and giving plenty of time to thing things over.   ₆
 
                        people,
                        quantity
3. Do you stop and thing things over before doing anything ?
5. Do you generally do and say things quickly without stopping to think ?   ₇
 
                        e contro
she wanted to be alone herself to thing things over. Whenever she had any problem to solve, she used to take refuge up in the apricot tree.   ₈
 
a way of smoothing thing things over...
The Big Sky Buy-Off.   ₉
 


sources

  1. “Diplomatische Korrespondenzen bt. die serbisch-österreichische Angelegenheit bis zur Kriegserklärung an Serbien...”
    in Jahrbuch des Völkerrechts 3 (1916) : 379 : link
  2. Will Rogers. There’s Not a Bathing Suit in Russia & Other Bare Facts, with illustrations by Herb Roth (1927) : 52 : link
    involving what appears to be a crazily multi-lingual OCR mis-construal of broken-up “University of Michigan Library” stamp at fore edge
  3. Story 8 somewhere (1936) : 40 : link
  4. “But you know — you have to thing things over. You have to think about love to feel you really have it. Do you know what I mean?”
          “No. At least I don’t have to stop and look after my love to find out whether it exists. It’s surer than that.” They were silent again for some time; Sten in a somber mood, Mariana faintly troubled. She spoken again, softly and appealingly:
          “I know if I could explain it right, you’d understand what I mean....”

    ex Sally Salminen, Mariana (Barrows Mussey, trans., 1940, of Den Långa Våren / The Long Spring, 1939) : 224 : link
    alas, doesn’t appear in preview snippet.

    aside —
    the inadvertent prompt of this cento.

  5. snippet only, ex Fishing Gazette 88 (1971?) : 28 : link

    first for Biloxi, then gradually for the world of fishing and shrimping.
          After talking thing things over with his wife (who became his first “unpaid” worker) Marinovich set up shop in an old abandoned fishing camp adjacent to their Point Cadet cottage . Net making and netting, twines and other supplies were crammed...

  6. Incomes Data Services, IDS Brief : Supplement, issues 1-25 (1973) : 12 : link
  7. Barbara L. Watts. The Beat of the Different Drummer : A Social Psychological Analysis of Time and Daily Rhythms (Michigan State University. Department of Psychology, dissertation; 1982) : 109 : link
  8. Sabahat Durrani. An Autobiography of a Diplomat’s Wife, from Cradle to Grave (1984; Lahore, Pakistan, Fisco Press... 1992?) : 84 : link

    “Sabina didn’t want to leave her mother alone, she wanted to be alone herself to thing things over. She left the room and went to the back garden. There was her favourite apricot tree with low branches which she could easily climb. Whenever she had any problem to solve, she used to take refuge up in the apricot tree.”

    see Sania Shahid her quite interesting Behind Every Successful Diplomat Is Their Spouse : The Buffer Role of Indian and Pakistani Diplomatic Spouses
    undergraduate honors thesis, William & Mary College (2021) : 16 : link

    “details the interactions of the wife of Sultan Aziz Durrani, a former Pakistani foreign service official.” p16

  9. Congressional Record, 111th Congress, Second Session, Volume 156 — Part 3 (March 20, 2010) : 4060 : link

    Mr. Lamborn. “Mr. Speaker, let me highlight several sweetheart deals in the health care legislation that I think are a real problem to me, many of my colleagues, and many Americans. we have the Rocky Top Vote Swap. Tennessee is quite familiar with the run-away costs associated with government-run health care as seen with TennCare. Payoffs from Washington, though, have a way of smoothing thing things over. So the bill includes tens of millions of extra Medicaid dollars for the State of Tennessee.”

    Doug Lamborn, (Republican) Congressman representing Colorado’s 5th District
    wikipedia : link

  10. italicized choralities throughout, the first “over” an OCR misconstrual of “ever,”
    taken from Plate cccxxi, at entry for “Stenography” in The New Encyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences vol 21 (of 23); London (1807) : 399 : link
    same plate, U Wisconsin-Madison copy/scan of second edition (1816), via hathitrust : link

    also known as Encyclopaedia Perthensis (1807)
    “Most of the text was taken verbatim from the third edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.”
    wikipedia : link
     

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