Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

Never, he'd once told Joyce, had he encountered any man or situation that called for a gun.

Joyce had seen him like this once before -- more than once, actually, but on one particularly memorable occasion.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

Hardly had Mrs. Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck, father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty's '' Ford sedan, came screeching to a dust-swirling stop, and a brown face appeared, its nose threatened by shards of what had once been the side window.

She might have been someone he had once loved.

The man had spoken only once.

Old Commodore Forsythe, who had once lost a fifty-dollar bet on whether he could get both motors started and turn on the running lights without accidentally turning on something else first.

Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

Billy Koch, who had once worked for Wright as a chauffeur, gave a deposition for Miriam's use that he had seen Olgivanna living at Taliesin.

So once again Shann had to argue with him about this.

In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.

Lewis had expected to report at once to Jones's and Nassau's naval command post.

Dr. Glenn saw at once what had happened.

Adams contended that once such a special class had been created it became a vested interest and sought to maintain itself by assuming exclusive control over the relationships between God and man.

To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.

Irving Berlin quipped, " The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl ", In his book The Groucho Phile, Marx says " I've been a liberal Democrat all my life ", and " I frankly find Democrats a better, more sympathetic crowd ....

Lee later quipped to the newsmedia that " he had hit a walk-off grand slam and he got second billing ", considering Biggio's achievement.

Alfred Hitchcock had quipped that he was " very happy that Grace has found herself such a good part.

O ' Toole's looks prompted a different reaction from Noël Coward, who after seeing the première of the film quipped " If you had been any prettier, the film would have been called Florence of Arabia ".

The director then quipped that perhaps the Academy had acted prematurely in recognizing the body of his work, as he felt like he might have four more decades of life ahead of him.

Senator Charles Sumner credited Uncle Tom's Cabin for the election of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln himself reportedly quipped that Stowe had triggered the American Civil War.

Chicago Fire offensive lineman Steve Wright quipped bitterly that he had been offered a million dollar contract: " A dollar a year for a million years!

He then quipped, regarding divination from the singing of frogs: Who could suppose that frogs had this foresight?

Known for a sense of humour, at an early meeting with Ahern at the Irish embassy in London, Paisley requested breakfast and asked for boiled eggs ; when Ahern asked him why he had wanted boiled eggs, Paisley quipped " it would be hard for you to poison them ".

Nakajima quipped once that the staggering gait of some of the monsters he portrayed was due less to his acting than to the fumes he had to endure.

During the discussion, the Hartleys ' neighbor, Howard Borden ( Bill Daily ), quipped, " I had a dream like that once.

Though in a moment of pique, he had once quipped that he would sell the country to Bill Gates and rename it Microsoft, he did seriously threaten to move to Austria with the Princely Family.

In a later interview, when the band were collectively asked what they had learned from making a solo album, Sean Moore dryly quipped, " Not to do one ".

Packer later quipped ; " You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime, and I've had mine ".

The cow was killed, leading to " Marie Dressler: Killed In Line of Duty " headlines, to which Dressler quipped " I had a hard time convincing people that the report of my death had been greatly exaggerated.

Pirès humorously quipped that it was the first time in 13 years he had got the better of Vieira physically.

Doherty, obviously annoyed, stated that Kenny had asked him " about 12 " questions about drugs and Kate Moss, but nothing about his music ; " I don't know if you could even name a song that I've written ", Doherty quipped at one point.

Maddox quipped that he had been nominated despite having " no money, no politicians, no television, no newspapers, no Martin Luther King, no Lyndon Johnson, and we made it!

In 1990, asked to comment on the resignation of cabinet colleague Norman Fowler who had given as the reason for his resignation the wish " to spend more time with my family ", Ridley quipped dryly that the last thing he wanted to do was spend more time with his family.

The creator of the new sound alerts for System 7, Jim Reekes, had grown frustrated with the legal scrutiny and first quipped it should be named " Let It Beep ", a pun on The Beatles ' " Let It Be ".

On the subject of Pat Buchanan's famously combative Culture War Speech at the 1992 Republican Convention, which attracted controversy over Buchanan's aggressive rhetoric against Bill Clinton, liberals, supporters of reproductive and gay rights, and for his comparison of American politics to religious warfare, Ivins famously quipped that the speech had " probably sounded better in the original German ," noting the similarity between the concept of " culture war " and the Kulturkampf of Otto von Bismarck's Germany.

When he did so, Chávez famously quipped on national television that he had only failed " por ahora "—" for now ".

It was also quipped that Sanjay Gandhi had total control over his mother and that the government was run by the PMH ( Prime Minister House ) rather than the PMO ( Prime Minister Office ).