When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:

`` When you gotta go, you gotta go '', Mrs. Forsythe said.

When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.

When I talked to Ching about it, he said, Everyone can learn, if he is not a Reactionary or lazy.

When they came to Mr. Jack's photograph, twenty by twelve inches in a curly silver frame, Miss Ada said, `` By rights I ought to leave that, seeing he won't take my clotheshorse ''.

When a customer asked for alligator shoes, she said, `` What size is your alligator ''??

One said, `` When I get a cold I buy a bottle of whiskey for it, and within a few hours it's gone ''.

When all has been said, however, the big branch store remains a major break with history in the development of American retailing.

When she said that she didn't have the money, he said that she could come in for treatment with his office model until she was ready to buy one.

`` When you marry, you want to have things in common '', a girl said, `` and it's hard when you don't marry someone with your own background ''.

When cattle in winter stopped and humped their backs up they were said to `` bow up ''.

When a cow came out of a corral in a crouchin' run she was said to `` come out a-stoopin' ''.

When a cowhand said that a man had `` good cow sense '', he meant to pay 'im a high compliment.

When she had finished I said:

When I answered it a voice too dignified and British to be real said, `` Is this Mr. Dale Nelson, the actor ''??

When he was answered, he said, `` Albert??

When it was finally pointed east, he said, `` You should never have come out here alone.

When he handed it back and I had hold of it safely, Pops was looking toward me and I said `` Now '', to Charlie and he swung the short length of lead pipe he'd meanwhile taken from his pocket, once.

When he protested, the hotel owner said:

When he was inducted into the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., Hansen's weight had dropped to 180 -- `` too light for me to be at my best '' he said.

`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.

`` I know '', Jones said dejectedly.

`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.

She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.

He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.

`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.

`` I hate to leave my garden '', Gavin said.

`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

`` But that was war '', I said.

`` I think Montero did right '', Amy said firmly.

`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.

I meant what I said about that fire.

`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.

`` I ought to '' -- he said.

`` I said go home, Joseph.

I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.

He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

`` Why, I meant what I said '', Lord declared.

Finally Hernandez said, `` I could offer you advice, Tomas, but you wouldn't heed it ''.