Well, yes, perhaps in literature, since you could argue that you couldn't keep silent about your feelings against literature and so were involved in spite of yourself.

The toilet hadn't had a sincere scrubbing in years and there were things written on the walls of the little boxed-in place because you couldn't keep the public out -- entirely.

He apologized so sweetly, I couldn't keep being annoyed with him ''.

Looks like Porre couldn't keep their hands out of this after all ,' says Lynx, flatly.

On numerous occasions in the 1990s real wages decreased since nominal wages couldn't keep up with inflation.

Even when the use of these gambling devices was banned in his home state after a few years, Fey still couldn't keep up with demand for the game elsewhere.

Once, when he was pulled over for a $ 50 speeding ticket ( a large sum at the time ), he gave the officer a $ 100 bill ; when the officer protested that he couldn't make change for that much, Johnson told him to keep the change, as he was going to make his return trip at the same speed.

As a result, the Nuggets gave up points so quickly that even their prolific offense couldn't keep up.

The barber found himself bursting with the secret and couldn't bear to keep the gossip to himself, but was afraid for his life.

Elatha refused, on the grounds that he should not seek to gain by foul means what he couldn't keep by fair.

Once found, the player that possesses an idol may keep it or transfer it to another player before or during Tribal Council ( in Cook Islands, it couldn't be transferred during tribal council ), and it cannot be stolen from that player.

Joss Whedon joked at the Nocturnal convention in 2001 Anya was originally supposed to die during the Season Five finale, " The Gift ", but he had to keep her alive because Emma Caulfield couldn't keep still while Xander was carrying Anya's supposedly lifeless body.

I have beautiful children .... I feel bad that I couldn't win, but you know, I think that everyone who saw me knows I won't get knocked out or I won't go down, I'll keep coming, I'm relentless, I persevere.

: Had a wife and couldn't keep her.

I couldn't find the phone so Velvet half dragged half carried me to the car which somehow I drove at not much more than walking pace to the hospital which was fortunately not far from home .” He said Velvet kept nudging him all the way to the hospital to keep him awake.

Hedren took in and cared for Togar, a lion that belonged to Anton LaVey, after he was told by San Francisco officials that he couldn't keep a fully grown lion as a house pet.

His generally accepted image is a man of personal integrity and honesty ( putting him at the top of Czech politicians ) but a dry technocrat who couldn't communicate his undeniable statesman's vision to the public and wasn't even able to keep his own party in line as his predecessor did.

" In defence of Spaceward's actions, Mike Kemp, the engineer, has since stated that " we were as poor as they were and couldn't afford to keep £ 60 multi-track tapes for every band either ... We did our best-I think for £ 5 a week we would hold them until either they were paid for or the band decided not to keep them any longer, e. g. after a remix.

: Had a wife but couldn't keep her ;

At the time, NHL teams relied on the reserve clause to keep players from jumping to other teams in the league, but the clause couldn't prevent players from leaving the NHL to join a different league.

Kramer also expresses his belief that Italian people used to sing to each other, but they stopped because ' they couldn't keep it up ; they got tired '.

On the day of her death she comes out of her house to find: many Feegles who couldn't miss out on the ceremony, ( or apparently keep their mouths shut about it ,) a grave dug by said-Feegles, and many hysterical villagers, ( who are primarily concerned with Ms.

He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.

I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I couldn't watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.

Sometimes he didn't seem to because he hid them so well he couldn't find them himself or because he looked and didn't find anything and figured he hadn't hid one after all or had drunk it up.

We have seen good new products shelved because no one had the assignment to develop such facts and plans -- and management couldn't make up its mind.

`` -- had enough brains to call ya up so as ya could do sompin about it when the parents -- I coulda let her go go '' -- His eyes were lowered, so he couldn't have seen the narrow, pointed face of his companion suddenly writhe with fury ; ;

Maggie couldn't seem to get her strength back or catch up with herself with all she had to do: there was the big basket of clothes to be coaxed through the rackety old washer and lugged out and lugged back ; ;

Maggie started laughing, and she laughed so hard she couldn't stop, and she kept on laughing while she lugged the clothes out to the yard to hang them up while the sun was still shining.

When he at last did go to his room, he couldn't sleep and instead paced up and down before his little image of Acala, thinking first of Charlotte's tale of the man at Ryusenji, then of his biwa and the invisible Pacific waters.

Jubal couldn't reconstruct the crime from the way the girls behaved because patterns kept shifting -- ABC vs D, then BCD vs A or AB vs CD, or AD vs CB, through all ways that four women can gang up on each other.

During this race, Earnhardt was briefly forced into the infield grass, but kept control of his car and returned to the track without giving up his lead — a maneuver now referred to as the " Pass in the Grass " even though Earnhardt actually didn't pass and couldn't have passed anyone for position as he was in the lead at the time.

Weinberger wrote that Reagan said " he could answer to charges of illegality but couldn't answer to the charge that ' big strong President Reagan passed up a chance to free the hostages.

In 1974, as well, the Detroit band Death — made up of three African-American brothers — recorded " scorching blasts of feral ur-punk ," but couldn't arrange a release deal.

However, Lifeson has expressed his indifference toward the perceived slight saying " I couldn't care less, look who's up for induction, it's a joke ".

In 1799 he decided that he couldn't tolerate another winter in the cold and draughty Edgbaston Hall, so he bought " The Larches " in the nearby Sparkbrook area ; his wife did not feel up to the move and remained at Edgbaston Hall.

Like most other characters, Danny is most often rude to his elders, on one occasion asking Smiffy to speak up because he couldn't hear him over ' teacher '.

When it became evident she was taking advantage of her power, Dennis stepped up proclaiming she couldn't boss him around.

Mercer Ellington has stated that Juan Tizol invented the melody to " Caravan " in 1936 as a result of his days studying music in Puerto Rico ; where they couldn't afford much sheet music so the teacher would turn the music upside down after they had learned to play it right-side up.

Whilst engaged in writing in his spare time, Garner attempted to gain employment as a teacher, but soon gave that up, believing that " I couldn't write and teach ; the energies were too similar ", and so began working as a general labourer for four years, remaining unemployed for much of that time.

When Chris Griffin in Family Guy in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story was required by his mother Lois Griffin to mention the fourth member of Sex and the City, he couldn't come up with the correct answer, he instead took a wild and very inaccurate guess by saying it was Scrappy Doo.

Rounds two and three couldn't live up to the first, as Hearns broke his hand in the first round, but were still very competitive.