`` 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.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.

`` I try to treat Daniel as if he were normal, though of course I realize he is far from that at present.

For some unusual photographic subjects, if your vacation takes you nearby, try these events: the 600-mile auto race in Charlotte, N.C.,, on May 27 ; ;

`` Adults take a long time to convince and you are thwarted if you try to push ''.

There are three soft-drink vending machines, and if you should be joined by -- anybody -- try to keep things quiet, if you will.

It'll be a tedious job, but if you want to try it, the old newspaper files are in the basement here in the county supervisor's office ''.

I don't know if I can manage it tonight or tomorrow, but I'll try my best, my friend.

And if by some wild chance Mahzeer was the man, he wouldn't dare try anything now -- not after Docherty had looked in on the two of them to see that all was well.

Besides, I doubt if the cops will even try dusting.

Test it, try it, and if it works, accept it as a guiding principle.

He has already devoured huge areas of the world, putting men behind concrete walls and iron curtains and barbed wire, reducing them to slavery, systematically crushing not only their bodies but their souls, and shooting them to death if they try to escape their prison.

I won't try the experiment, but I think you can see that if we all knew the secret and we could all let ourselves go, there would be quite an explosion.

So you sit in the car and listen to the air run out and listen to the rain and see the mud in front of the headlights, waiting for you, for your new spectator pumps, waiting for you to squat by yourself out there in your tight skirt, crying and afraid and trying to get that damned son-of-a-bitch tire off, because that is being an old maid too, if you happen to drive a car, it is changing the tire yourself in the night, and in the mud and the rain, hating to get out in it but afraid to stay and afraid to try to walk out for help.

First we might try to proceed as if X were finite.

Alternatively, if characters ' attribute ranks are close, the weaker character can try to change the relevant attribute by changing the nature of the conflict.

For example, if two characters are wrestling the relevant attribute is Strength ; a character could reveal a weapon, changing it to Warfare ; they could try to overcome the other character's mind using a power, changing it to Psyche ; or they could concentrate their strength on defense, changing it to Endurance.

Accordingly, patients with jargon aphasia often use neologisms, and may perseverate if they try to replace the words they can't find with sounds.

A person who had been branded with a nota censoria, might, if he considered himself wronged, endeavour to prove his innocence to the censors, and if he did not succeed, he might try to gain the protection of one of the censors, that he might intercede on his behalf.

In Blockburger v. United States ( 1932 ), the Supreme Court announced the following test: the government may separately try and punish the defendant for two crimes if each crime contains an element that the other does not.

" I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this ( award ) two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton ," she joked.

Thor asks Freyja if she will lend him her cloak of feathers, so that he may try to find his hammer.

Continuous debates among scholars on methodological issues in empirical studies of the connection between economic freedom and economic growth still try to find out what is the relationship, if any.

A youth court has jurisdiction to try all indictable offences with the exception of homicide and certain firearms offences, and will normally do so provided that the available sentencing power of 2 years detention is adequate to punish the offender if found guilty.