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.

I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.

Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.

I say the late seventeenth century because Racine ( whom Lessing did not really know ) stands on the far side of the chasm.

He did say she could get her beef and vegetables in cans this summer.

He did say he was out of cans, the No. 3's, but `` I requisitioned 22,000 ''.

The audience did not think much of the new pastor, and what the new pastor thought of the audience he did not dare at the time to say.

Let me say at the outset that the music sounded as sparkling on the last playing as it did on the first.

`` Did you or did you not say what I said you said, because Jane said you never said what I said ''??

When go represents itself and a complement ( being equivalent, say, to go to Martinique ) in which boat did Jack go on??

These children have been described as those who were trying to say something to adults who did not understand.

Are we prepared to say that in that case nothing bad occurred in the sense in which we said it did??

Let us suppose that the animal did not in fact fall into the trap and did not suffer at all, but that we mistakenly believe it did, and say as before that its suffering was an evil thing.

If we did not mean to say this, why should we be so relieved on finding that the suffering had not occurred??

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions, that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.

It is not a farfetched analogy to say that this is what Thomas did to poetry.

But I wold say I recond he did not mind it for he had a plenty more left and then they would lean to me like a sore eyd kitten to a basin of milk ''.

Notice, Knowlton did not say that he would have obtained a conviction in the trial of Lizzie Borden.

But she did not know which way to go.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

He possessed the fighter pilot's horror of bad weather and instrument flying, and he wondered, if the ceiling did drop, whether he and the other flights would be able to find their way back in this unfamiliar territory.

There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.

The thoroughgoing idealization of the planter society did not come, however, until after the Civil War when Southern writers were eager to defend a way of life which had been destroyed.

He probably didn't mean to write it this way, or maybe he did.

It was the hard way to fight a war but Thomas did it without making any disastrous mistakes.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

Not only, as we know, did Chou En-lai publicly treat Khrushchev's attack on Albania as `` something that we cannot consider as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach '' to the problem ( i.e., as something thoroughly dictatorial and `` undemocratic '' ), but the Albanian leaders went out of their way to be openly abusive to Khrushchev, calling him a liar, a bully, and so on.

He did not really want to kill, but as in the sexual act, there was a moment when the impulse took over and could not be downed, even while you watched yourself giving way to it.

He never rested until he discovered who the culprit was, and when he did, he vowed vengeance on Viola Lake if ever the chance came his way.

In no way, either verbally or behaviorally, did the experimenter indicate to the subjects any preferred mode of responding to the voluntary contraction.

He did not really listen to others, had little interest in their ideas, and wanted to have his own way -- which was the only right way.

And there is a way in which he might hold that badness did in this case precede our own feeling of disapproval without belonging to the pain itself.

Shout at Eichmann though he might, the Prosecutor could not establish that the defendant was falsifying the way he felt about Jews or that what he did feel fell into the generally recognized category of anti-Semitism.

If not, he was willing to accede to William's wishes in any way that did not block his ultimate aim.

I went up stairs and did the bath and her bedroom -- way I always do in the morning ''.

The true way to immortality lay through obedience, but man did not believe this.

Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

From this taste of the 1920s, we leaped way out to Stan Getz's private brand of progressive jazz, which did lovely, subtle things for `` Baubles, Bangles And Beads '', and a couple of ballards.