He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.

When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.

I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.

Seeking an obscure, dark, relatively quiet corner in the airy room otherwise suffused with afternoon sunshine, he asked if the soft background music could be turned off.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.

One of the girl students, sitting by while I ate the thick soup, asked me if I had a sleeping bag.

Once or twice my father asked me if I wasn't overdoing a bit in my churchgoing.

He asked Quiney to find out whether the money had been paid and, if not, to send to the lodging of Sir Edward and entreat him to pay what he owed.

I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.

She asked if I had other advice and, heady with success, I rushed it in, I hope not too late.

An out-of-town writer came up to Paul Richards today and asked the Oriole manager if he thought his ball club would be improved this year.

After a pause, during which he studied Scotty's face as if Scotty were not there and could not study him too, Mr. McKinley would ask the same questions he had asked downstairs.

The Vice President had called and asked if he could see the Secretary at his home.

When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.

Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.

I asked him if he took seeds from his own plants.

I have never seen Caper off his feet -- he seems to know nothing but ' trot ' and keeps trying a little harder if asked to do so.

When a witness at court was asked if he had been kicked in the ensuing rumpus, he replied, `` No, it was in the stomach ''.

Their father, when he came back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox.

They were asked to vote `` true '' if they thought they had seen him make the error, `` false '' if they thought he had not ; ;

After another long pause he asked, `` How many people know who they are ''??

He asked Charles suspiciously as they sat in the well-house shade, watching the girls congregate in front of the schoolhouse.

Robinson asked Herford to escort him to the club's lavatory before they sat down for a highball and a game of cards.

At least they hadn't stepped up and asked to see papers in the hated, flat, dialect mispronunciation of Mussolini's home district -- Dogumenti, per favore.

After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Congressman Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, asked the Department of Justice for its views on these legislative proposals as they related to anti-trust law enforcement.

Barbara asked, as they heard the front door close.

Another question that was asked of the assessors was whether they favored the assessment of movable property at its location or at the residence of the owner.

Finally, at Ye Olde Gasse Filling Station on Avocado Avenue, they learned that their man, having paused to get oil for his car, had asked about the route to San Diego.

Eighteen errors were located, and then the director asked each individual to vote whether or not they felt that this manager had made the particular errors.

Was a question that had to be asked long before they saw Paree.

and I asked myself a question: Suppose I had the same number of peas as there are atoms in my body, how large an area would they cover??

They are more cooperative if they can gradually build trust, instead of being asked to give extensive help immediately.

A study that asked participants to count each act of kindness they performed for one week significantly enhanced their subjective happiness.

He muttered that he just had to eat something, and he asked the students on the seats in the front row if they would also like a biscuit.

In the Jewish Deuterocanonical book Second Maccabees, Chapter 2, " one finds in the records " that Jeremiah, having received an oracle of the Lord, ordered that the tent and the ark and the altar of incense should follow him to the mountain of God where he sealed them up in a cave, and he told those who followed him in order to mark the way ( but they could not find it ) " The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy, and then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud shall appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place be specially consecrated.

There is an obligation to administer it to the sick who, when they were in possession of their faculties, at least implicitly asked for it.

Then who, they asked, and the Caliph al-Mansur replied: