`` Tom '', a friend asked him once, `` how come you bushwhacked them rustlers??

This friend of many years came once to visit us in the house at Weston.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

Several modern authors such as Dorey have argued the opposite: that Agricola was in fact a close friend of Domitian, and that Tacitus merely sought to distance his family from the fallen dynasty once Nerva was in power.

Robert Pocock, a friend from the BBC, recalled " I only once heard Dylan express an opinion on Welsh Nationalism.

Consider, friend, as you pass by: As you are now, so once was I.

In a letter to a friend, Erasmus once had written: " That you are patriotic will be praised by many and easily forgiven by everyone ; but in my opinion it is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all.

To that effect, Cassatt's lifelong friend Louisine Havemeyer wrote in her memoirs: " Anyone who had the privilege of knowing Mary Cassatt's mother would know at once that it was from her and her alone that inherited her ability.

She learned from a newspaper of the death of Fannie Lou Hamer, once a close friend.

Sondheim famously hated his mother ; he once wrote a thank-you note to close friend Mary Rodgers that read, " Dear Mary and Hank, Thanks for the plate, but where was my mother's head?

According to his friend, the theologian Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, More once seriously contemplated abandoning his legal career to become a monk.

A constituent, James Stewart, once commented to a friend who wrote this letter, "... he ( Stewart ) had come mainly to see one Jardine, an enormous Laird from Applegarth Parish and China, and a very good man ; who is understood to be dangerously ill at present.

Mark Paytress recounts in the liner notes for the 2002 compilation, The Anthology, that Jah Wobble, Rotten's longtime friend and bassist for his post-punk venture PiL, once described Styrene as a " strange girl who often talked of hallucinating.

He once discussed how his friend Elton John booked him into a clinic to cope with his drug use that emerged from the depression he was experiencing while still in Take That.

The king, once more ignoring the queen's pro-Austrian candidate, appointed a childhood friend, the comte de Montmorin, to replace Vergennes as Foreign Minister.

: But it knows any friend it has met once before:

In a letter to a friend, the prince claimed that the couple only had sexual intercourse three times: twice the first night of the marriage, and once the second night.

According to his friend Vaughan Williams, Holst once told him two things about art " that ought to be recorded ":

"-only once, on their second appearance, does Sandy start by introducing his friend Julian.

Zaharoff was a friend of both the actress Sarah Bernhardt and her Greek husband Jacques Damala ( who was once described as the handsomest man in Europe ).

However, The Craze still split up fairly quickly, and Ash once again tried to convince his old school friend Peter Murphy to join him, simply because Ash thought he had the right look for a band.

A friend of mine in New Mexico said the Court order had caused no particular trouble out there, that all had gone as merry as a marriage bell.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

One had it that a friend, protesting her snobbery, said, `` But, Gracie, you are an American, aren't you ''??

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

I am not a prostitute, and I had only one very wealthy boy friend '', she said.

And there was the case of Tom Hepker, a machinist, who was referred by a friend to a health machine quack who treated him with a so-called diagnostic machine for what Doctor Fraud said was a system full of arsenic and strychnine.

A sympathetic friend made poultices of raw potato parings, which she said was the best and quickest way to draw out the `` heat ''.

`` Look, my friend '', he said, `` in my life I learn, how is it the proverb says, better an ounce of prevention to a pound of cure.

`` I do my best '', said Mr. Skyros earnestly, `` just for you, my friend.

He said he contacted a friend, Henry Hall Wilson, on the President's staff and asked whether his orchestra could play, in the series.

A visitor from a more peaceful country across the sea was taken to one of our amusement parks, and after he had seen it all, he said to a friend: `` You must be a very sad people ''.

Lindbergh considered Carrel his closest friend, and said he would preserve and promote Carrel's ideals after his death.

He went and heard him, and said to his friend, " This is the man I was looking for.

According to the story recounted by Hermippus, he arrived at the house of Solon and said, " I have traveled here from afar to make you my friend.

Upon his return, the Buddha says, among other things, that Pasenadi is " a friend of virtue, acquainted with virtue, intimate with virtue ", while the opposite is said of the aggressor, King Ajatasattu.

Beethoven's friend Anton Schindler, later said: " When he started working on the fourth movement the struggle began as never before.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

Mestre Bimba often said, " o chão é amigo do capoeirista " ( the floor is a friend to the capoeirista ).

Johnny Whitaker, Plato's former manager and a friend of the family, told ABCNews. com that Lambert always said he " wanted to be with Mom.

Upon presenting the painting to the convention, he said " Citizens, the people were again calling for their friend ; their desolate voice was heard: David, take up your brushes .., avenge Marat ...

Her friend Rick McKay said that " she just kind of drifted off quietly as if she was going to sleep ... she just kind of gave out.