`` We'll pay you back if you'll let us.

I'll be down at the creek finishing the dishes, if you want me ''.

Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.

Don't you worry, chief '', Greg replied, wondering if he himself believed it.

Plus flawless skin, smooth brow and cheeks, lips that looked as if you could get a shock from them.

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

`` You might as well wait here while I'm gone, so you can use my shower if you'd like ''.

So if all these beers was to get me in bed, man, you just spent a lot of money ''.

And I will greatly appreciate it if you will not tell your husband.

But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.

`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??

`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.

but if it had been, it had been smothered until now by fear ): you could tell it by the way she watched the older, bigger boys, like Jack.

And if you get sick, ask the teacher to let you come home early.

`` All right, if you can't do your arithmetic during school hours you can do it after school is out '', Miss Langford said firmly, not smiling.

But if you don't know the place like the palm of your hand, you'd better use a compass and the speedometer.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.

I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.

At one time it seemed as if the Soviet Union had done us a favor by providing a striking example of how not to behave towards other peoples and other nations.

There remains a residue of total costs, or total `` revenue requirements '' which, since it is found to behave as if it were constant over substantial variations in traffic density, is strictly unallocable on a cost-finding basis.

Her ostensible indifference to and rebellion against suggestions and criticisms by anyone except peer friends during adolescence are the manifestations, in her adolescence, of her having been indoctrinated in childhood to feel shame, if not guilt, for failing to behave in a manner acceptable to, and judged by, the performance of her nursery- and elementary-school peer friends.

In the high Middle Ages — and well into the early modern period — few intellectuals, if any, questioned the basic assumptions of astrology: humans live within a web of celestial influences that affect our bodies, and thereby motivate us to behave in certain ways.

semantics are very strong: they guarantee that the read and write operations to the variable behave exactly as if they happened instantaneously in some point in time which is within the actual time where the operation took place.

* Judges ' commissions are valid quamdiu se bene gesserint ( during good behaviour ), and if they do not behave themselves they can be removed only by both Houses of Parliament, or the one House of Parliament, depending on the legislature's structure.

This increases total cache size of the processor and effectively makes caching behave as if there is a very large L1 cache with a slower region ( the L2 ) and a very fast region ( the L1 ).

If the ruler lacks rén, Confucianism holds, it will be difficult if not impossible for his subjects to behave humanely.

However, the later discovery of the photoelectric effect demonstrated that under different circumstances, light can behave as if it is composed of discrete particles.

A measure of charge should be a multiple of the elementary charge e, even if at large scales, charge seems to behave as a real quantity.

These are coherent states ( or solitons ) which behave like a particle, and they can be fermionic even if all the constituent particles are bosons.

On anarchism, Orwell wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier: " I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can be trusted to behave decently if you will only let them alone.

Universal hashing ensures ( in a probabilistic sense ) that the hash function application will behave as well as if it were using a random function, for any distribution of the input data.

The Jews ought to please observe the laws of hospitality and not behave as if they were the same as us.

Affricates often behave as if they were intermediate between stops and fricatives, but phonetically they are sequences of stop plus fricative.

In the latter case, these are known as allopolyploids ( or amphidiploids, which are allopolyploids that behave as if they were normal diploids ).

The line RG is tangent to the parabola at P, so any light beam bouncing off point P will behave as if line RG were a mirror and it were bouncing off that mirror.

The holes themselves don't move, but a neighboring electron can move to fill the hole, leaving a hole at the place it has just come from, and in this way the holes appear to move, and the holes behave as if they were actual positively charged particles.

The precise dependence can be calculated from the Néel-Arrhenius equation, assuming that the neighboring clusters behave independently of one another ( if clusters interact, their behavior becomes more complicated ).

The term undead describes beings in mythology, legend or fiction that are deceased yet behave as if alive.

In some states which recognize it, cohabitation can be viewed legally as common-law marriages, either after the duration of a specified period, or if the couple consider and behave accordingly as husband and wife.

Dirac further reasoned that if the negative-energy eigenstates are incompletely filled, each unoccupied eigenstate – called a hole – would behave like a positively charged particle.

As noted above, Dirac initially thought that the hole might be the proton, but Hermann Weyl pointed out that the hole should behave as if it had the same mass as an electron, whereas the proton is over 1800 times heavier.

Thus, although juries must render unanimous verdicts, in run-of-the-mill criminal trials they behave in practice as if they were operating using a majority rules voting system.

Later, however, Lysenko falsely claimed that a vernalized state could be inherited-i. e., that the offspring of a vernalized plant would behave as if they themselves had also been vernalized and would not require vernalization in order to flower quickly.