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As I was walking back to the Police Station, which was in the same building with the City Hall and Post Office, I saw Mrs. Tim Williams sneaking into the back of my car.
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`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.
`` But that was war '', I said.
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.
I was nearly thirty at the time.
It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;
Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.
This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.
I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I felt certain it was self-appointed.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.
I and walking
I had no idea of what subjects one discussed when alone with a girl, or how one behaved: Should I hold her hand while walking or only when crossing the street??
And walking away I thought I need to find a machine not only to describe but to register, to photograph these sounds.
Munch wrote of how the painting came to be: " I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set ; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood.
My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear.
: I was walking down the road when I met Michael Jackson's lawyer.
* Imperfective ( an action with ongoing nature: combines the meanings of both the progressive and the habitual aspects ): ' I am walking to work ' ( progressive ) or ' I walk to work every day ' ( habitual ).
" When Steve is given an experience of walking through a park, semantic externalism allows for his thought, " I am walking through a park " to be true so long as the simulated reality is one in which he is walking through a park.
I just slapped my foot down as I turned it out while walking.
Audubon writes that while on horseback he believed the distant rumbling to be that of a tornado, “ but the animal knew better than I what was forthcoming, and instead of going faster, so nearly stopped that I remarked he placed one foot after another on the ground with as much precaution as if walking on a smooth piece of ice.
:: A few years after the publication of my first written story, " Incommunicado ," written 1947 and published 1950, I was taking a break from two weeks of typing, walking down Fifth Avenue, noticing vaguely that there were no coffee shops, and the storefronts were closed and it was dark.
Parks said, " My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest ... I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.
I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.
Bob Kohler, who was walking his dog by the Stonewall that night, saw the TPF arrive: " I had been in enough riots to know the fun was over ....
" I have no trouble with my enemies ", Harding told journalist William Allen White late in his presidency, " but my damn friends, they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!
Garland was reported not to have been very gracious about Kelly's win, saying in later years, " I didn't appreciate Grace Kelly taking off her makeup and walking away with my Oscar.
I and back
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.
`` I feel like getting back to town, that's what I feel like!!
If I don't come back in the house, Breed's going to '' --
`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.
I waved with discretion and moderation to the vague golden faces fading through rising dust and the distortions of the back window glass.
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.
I drew back, drawing back my foot for a kick.
`` Hell, yes '', I roared back between dusty lips.
When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.
Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.
I looked back at pale ovals framed in the elongated oval of the car's rear window.
Everybody left and I stayed in the pool, then Lou came back alone and leaped into the pool too.
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.
There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.
It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.
`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.
I heard a cry from a stoker as a pillar of flame leaped from a hatch and tongued the man's bare back.
`` If I don't come out within half an hour ride back to town and bring out a posse ''.
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