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I lured him there on 25 February under false pretences and, just as he began to suspect that something was up, I went for it.
DAVID DEWITT, a co-worker of mine at The New York Times who is also both an actor and a playwright; I lured him to the game by telling him I needed help moving a couch.
The title is taken from a marching song he learned with the army: "A yellow bird/With a yellow bill/Was perched upon/ my windowsill./I lured him in/With a piece of bread/And then I smashed/His fucking head".
So, Ms. Noto Clark said, "I lured him into the county" by showing him what had been built more than a century before as Boulderberg Mansion, and later operated as a restaurant called Boulderberg Manor in Tompkins Cove, the northern part of the Rockland County Town of Stony Point.
"A yellow bird/With a yellow bill," it goes, "was perched upon/ my windowsill./I lured him in/With a piece of bread/And then I smashed/His fucking head …" The lines, which looped round and through his 2004 tour of Iraq, snagged unshakeably in his mind; as he was writing the novel, the bird – suckered in then set upon – came to stand for "the lack of control soldiers have over what happens to them.
I lured him with treats to use them instead of jumping".
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"One day, I lured her back to my apartment for coffee.
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