`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.

`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

There's someone there I have to see.

I have to think about it.

We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

I have it with me, right here.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

But, by gosh, I want him and I'm going to have him!!

Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.

`` I have a little job for you, Charlie.

`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

I wouldn't have known the difference.

At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.

In as much as patients can throw themselves into the nervous sleep, and manifest all the usual phenomena of Mesmerism, through their own unaided efforts, as I have so repeatedly proved by causing them to maintain a steady fixed gaze at any point, concentrating their whole mental energies on the idea of the object looked at ; or that the same may arise by the patient looking at the point of his own finger, or as the Magi of Persia and Yogi of India have practised for the last 2, 400 years, for religious purposes, throwing themselves into their ecstatic trances by each maintaining a steady fixed gaze at the tip of his own nose ; it is obvious that there is no need for an exoteric influence to produce the phenomena of Mesmerism.

After a shaky peace of 1486 with King Ferdinand I of Naples failed and Ferdinand repeatedly refused to pay the tariff for his investiture, Innocent excommunicated him in 1489 and invited King Charles VIII of France to come to Italy with an army and take possession of the Kingdom of Naples, a disastrous political event for the Italian peninsula as a whole.

Individual shots were unlikely to hit, but a platoon firing repeatedly could produce a ' beaten ground ' effect similar to light artillery or machine guns ; but experience in World War I showed that long-range fire was best left to the machine gun.

President Hugo Chávez has repeatedly expressed his disapproval of the practice of kidnapping stating on 14 April that, " If I were a guerrilla, I wouldn't have the need to hold a woman, a man who aren't soldiers ... Free the civilians who don't have anything to do with the war.

" I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor.

::* habitual aspect, in which the action occurs repeatedly ( as in " I used to go there every day "), or

I am more deeply distressed for the welfare of the young man who was injured in this fight ," Daley read, pausing repeatedly, sometimes as long as 25 seconds, as he tried unsuccessfully to regain his composure.

Bede is the first English writer ( 673 – 735 ) to mention the story repeatedly ( Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, I, V ; V, 24, De temporum ratione, ad an.

:" Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog ... Well, replace the word ' kinda ' with ' repeatedly ' and the word ' dog ' with ' son '.

Ventura has declared he would no longer fly commercially and has repeatedly stated, " I love my country, not my government " in post-press-release interviews.

Again, in 2001, she made the following statement: " As I have stated repeatedly, consistently and unequivocally since assuming the leadership of the Bermuda Progressive Labour Party, I shall state once again for the record – independence is not an issue that we will address in our first term and probably not in our second term .... We believe that there are a number of areas that need addressing before Bermuda heads down this road.

The Spanish expression of exasperation me cago en la leche repeatedly recurs throughout the novel, translated by Hemingway as " I obscenity in the milk.

Despite Joyce's revolutionary techniques, the author repeatedly emphasized that the book was neither random nor meaningless ; with Ellmann quoting the author as having stated: " I can justify every line of my book.

As the male soloists sing the last line repeatedly, the boys sing " Hostias et preces tibi, Domine " (" Sacrifice and prayers we offer thee, Lord "), paralleling the sacrifice of the Mass with the sacrifice of " half the seed of Europe " ( a reference to World War I ).

The story also features Charles Constantine ( a member of the same infamous family as John Constantine ), a World War I veteran who has repeatedly struggled with his inability to kill.

The king's officers first sequestrated the assets of the Alien Priories in 1295-1303 under Edward I, and the same thing happened repeatedly for long periods over the course of the 14th century, most particularly in the reign of Edward III.

At one point Custer confronted a small group of Ohio men who repeatedly jeered Johnson, saying to them: " I was born two miles and a half from here, but I am ashamed of you.

Martinez then threw the shotgun onto the deck and hurriedly left the scene, repeatedly shouting the words " I got him.

R. D. Laing pointed repeatedly to ' the possibility that what we call psychosis may be sometimes a natural process of healing ( a view for which I claim no priority )', he sometimes added.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.

We would attend a film and, later on, I stated, we might go to the Mayflower Coffee Shop or Child's or Toffenetti's for waffles.

As I have stated previously, the Attorney General has advised me that this section violates fundamental constitutional principles.

But before discussing it, I should like to record one vote of thanks to them for the clarity with which they have stated their case.

A Yank writing from Vicksburg, May 28, 1863, stated: `` not less than 50 balls have passed over me since I commenced writing.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

Of his learning method, Lincoln stated: " I studied with nobody ".

Arminius referred to Pelagianism as " the grand falsehood " and stated that he " must confess that I detest, from my heart, the consequences that theology.

Norman, who once notably sang it at the end of a large outdoor rock concert for Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday, stated, " I don't know whether it's the text — I don't know whether we're talking about the lyrics when we say that it touches so many people — or whether it's that tune that everybody knows.

In February 2006, he suffered a stroke in Scarborough, and stated: " I hope to be back on my feet, or should I say my left leg, as soon as possible, but I know it is going to take some time.

" Clinton himself stated that DOMA was something " which the Republicans put on the ballot to try to get the base vote for President Bush up, I think it ’ s obvious that something had to be done to try to keep the Republican Congress from presenting that.

Whedon stated: " The Origin comic, though I have issues with it, CAN pretty much be accepted as canonical.

Writer Alan Grant has stated, " The Batman I wrote for 13 years isn't gay.

The memoradum stated that " I am assured that the solution of the problem of Palestine which would be much the most welcome to the leaders and supporters of the Zionist movement throughout the world would be the annexation of the country to the British Empire ".

Pfanzagl's axiomatization was endorsed by Oskar Morgenstern: " Von Neumann and I have anticipated " the question whether probabilities " might, perhaps more typically, be subjective and have stated specifically that in the latter case axioms could be found from which could derive the desired numerical utility together with a number for the probabilities ( cf.

In an ecstatic interview after the game, Jim Tracy stated that he told the Rockies ' preceding batter, relief pitcher Adam Eaton, not to swing: " I don't care if he throws three right down the middle, don't swing because I want Spilborghs to have a shot with the bases loaded.

Coloured Cheddar-style cheese has long been sold, but even as early as 1860, the real reason for this was unclear: Joseph Harding stated " to the cheese consumers of London who prefer an adulterated food to that which is pure I have to announce an improvement in the annatto with which they compel the cheesemakers to colour the cheese ".

:" If I had stated ... the possibility of the introduction or origination of fresh species being a natural, in contradistinction to a miraculous process, I should have raised a host of prejudices against me, which are unfortunately opposed at every step to any philosopher who attempts to address the public on these mysterious subjects ".