`` I got no place to go ''.

I'm well aware that you've got a pedigree as long as my leg, and that I don't amount to anything.

`` Might get there faster walkin' '', Lord drawled, `` seein' as how I got a busted front spring.

`` I know you've got a grudge against me, and maybe I can't blame you.

I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.

`` And I sort o' got a corner on the market ''.

If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!

`` I've got her as neat as I can '', Donovan said, as he dropped the straps of the Seton harness over Greg's shoulders.

Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.

I got a coin between my thumb and forefinger, leaned my elbows in a very natural and casual manner on top of the truck cab and flipped my little missile.

I swam like mad, got out of the pool, grabbed my robe, and ran to the car.

There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.

He said hesitantly, `` Hettie, I don't figure your things got wet too much.

`` You think I got you and Artie and Herr Schaffner all the way out here just for the boat ride??

`` Yes, George, but I ain't got poor old Pat's body yet.

`` I got Margaret Rider in one of them old box cars down there by the quarry ''.

`` Hell, I jist got on top of -- ''

I left the party as soon as possible and got into a taxi.

So I got out.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

Much to Damon Runyon's amazement, as well as my own, I got along splendidly with the Hetman ; ;

He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

I had signed it off on the forms.

`` I '' -- She broke off, frowning.

Couldn't I just '' -- His voice trailed off into silence.

I guided her to the divan, turned off the TV, faced her.

She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.

I was loaded with suds when I ran away, and I haven't had a chance to wash it off.

I suppose a Lascar sailor had sneaked a cigarette in the hold and touched off the blaze.

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.

I thought it expedient to take off my derby, my glasses, and the beard ; ;

After scouring around a bit in the open area, I came across what proved to be tar-soaked logs which crackled and burned brightly, giving off vast rolls of smoke into the ashen sky.

No matter how large the fire, I couldn't seem to shake off the chill that day.

`` I leave this church with a feeling that a great weight has been lifted off my heart, I have left my grudge at the altar and forgiven my neighbor ''.

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 went off with Cousin Simmons, who maintained that if he didn't see to me, he didn't know who would.

There I was a retired wobbly and structural iron worker who'd never gouged a cent off a fellow worker in my thirty years in the movement.

During this time, development bloomed around train and trolley stops, and a number of wealthy families, including those of Captain James Frederick Oyster and Charles I. Corby ( who developed methods that revolutionized the baking industry ), lived or summered in the area.

From the mid-19th century until about the time of World War I, Halesite was served by a trolley line, which brought passengers from Huntington Village to the end of New York Avenue, at the northwest end of Halesite.

* In On the Road, Riverdale-educated Jack Kerouac writes about getting off at a subway stop in Riverdale: " Filled with dreams of what I'd do in Chicago, in Denver, and then finally in San Fran, I took the Seventh Avenue Subway to the end of the line at 242nd Street, and there took a trolley into Yonkers ; in downtown Yonkers I transferred to an outgoing trolley and went to the city limits on the east bank of the Hudson River.

In one episode, circa 1974, Mr. Hooper shows his family album, describing each picture in song, " When I was as little as you are, I worked in my father's store ..." He delivered groceries on a " thing called a trolley ".