For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

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.

But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

But you could ( as from yourself ) tell her that you had friends who, being with the army, don't know what to do with their money and would willingly let her have one or many thousand dollars ''.

No psychiatrist could tell me that the experience in a war can not have its effect in the ensuing years.

Human nature was not a piece of meat you could tell was bad by its smell.

He could think of nothing else to tell them: no assurances, no hopeful hints at great discoveries that day.

He could tell they were approaching the sea.

Nobody liked to hire him because you never could tell when he was going to be taken drunk.

they could tell exactly what it was.

and he could tell, simply by the feel of it, whether it was made of wood, iron, cloth, rubber, and so on.

I could tell you of plenty narrow escapes, but we take no notice of them now ''.

but for all his air of affluence, who could tell what his private financial picture was??

He could tell the Legislature they had provided the needed funds to carry on the battle.

Then he could tell them to go home, while the administration continued to wage the battle with the $28 million in extra revenues the sales tax measure would bring in over an eight months period.

We have to tell ourselves that when Parker spoke in this vein, he believed what he said, because he could continue, `` But the truth, which cost me bitter tears to say, I must speak, though it cost other tears hotter than fire ''.

Waiting for what and for whom, only he could tell and would not.

You could set up tables in the front room and serve salads and your baked beans and brown bread and Grandma could dress like a gypsy and tell fortunes ''.

I could tell them, but no one ever asked, why I had cried out so triumphantly at the sight of her body.

Moreover, nursing various Stubblefields -- her aunt, then her mother, then her father -- through their lengthy illnesses ( everybody could tell you the Stubblefields were always sick ), Theresa had had a chance to read quite a lot.

When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

I could see them in my sights.

Since they could see me but I not them, their presence in the hall disturbed me.

Red man or white man, pacifist or killer, the forest would accept them all -- knowing that it could thrive equally well on slaughter and beneficence ; ;

How could he exert authority over them -- make them toe the line, as he had to -- if he knuckled under to this small-town clown??

No more could he defend himself against them.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

By now Harmony could see that most of the adults in the train were winded and resting, or else siphoned off from the games by the challenging lure of the great cliff towering above them.

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

Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.

We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.

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.

and bright though they all were, they could not possibly compete for her interest with Papa, whose mind -- although he never tried to dazzle or patronize lesser lights with it -- naturally eclipsed theirs and made them seem to her even younger than they were.

`` I couldn't write with them in the same room with me, but I could with Harold.

First, it could locate the enemy infantry, learn what they were doing, and hold them until the heavy foot columns could come up and take over.

It could reach key tactical points faster than infantry and destroy them or hold them as the case might be for the foot soldier.

For them only a little more needed to be learned, and then all physical knowledge could be neatly sorted, packaged and put in the inventory to be drawn on for the solution of any human problem.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

This also gave them the unpleasant duty of being spokesmen for the mission, and they could foresee that that would not be easy.

You could hear them from our outpost.