It was a fair fight, the boy provoked it -- Big Charlie told me so.

I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.

She told me.

I was waiting in front of it when she showed up and told me of my Uncle's indisposition.

I was aware of a humid look in her eyes that told me the time was opportune.

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.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

`` But that's what he told me.

When Beckett's name came into the discussion, the priest grew loud and told me that Beckett `` hates life ''.

The maid then told her, `` Because he fired me ''.

Watson told me that his brother always sent roses to his mother, blossoms bought with Vic's allowance to him.

The Hetman told me to take the story over the phone and to write it.

A volunteer food brigade had been arranged, they told me, which would supply me with the necessities as long as I remained at the bridge.

`` Baby, I saw a lot of old friends I hadn't seen in a long time '', he told me, his eyes bright.

Tom told me about it, how one evening he went over to see the Theatre Guild man.

He told me that he had a big newt and a little newt and that he was transplanting a big eye of the big newt onto the little newt and a little eye of the little newt onto the big newt.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

One day Alfred told him that he had decided to leave everything to me.

Addressing the party's annual rally at Place de l ' Opéra, she vowed to cast a blank ballot and told her supporters to vote with their conscience, saying: " Hollande and Sarkozy-neither of them will save you.

Although Maliki, who vowed to crack down on militias upon stepping into office, presented his national reconciliation plan on June 25, and despite the security crackdown in Baghdad begun on June 14 dubbed Operation Forward Together, United States Central Command Commander John Abizaid, with the backing of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace, on August 3 told the Senate Armed Services Committee, " Sectarian violence is probably as bad as I have seen it.

Shree Rama told Her that during this Incarnation He had vowed to be faithful to only Sita.

Upon her return to Springfield, Phillip and Beth vowed to their daughter that they would never make her feel unwanted again when she told her mother that she thought Beth wouldn't miss her if she was gone.

A visibly annoyed André tried to decline the stipulation but when McMahon pressed on, André grabbed McMahon by the throat and told him to back off on the " retirement " stipulation and vowed he would slam Studd at Wrestlemania.

Phil didn't tell Sharon that he had told Dennis about Johnny threatening her, and feeling guilty, he told Sharon he would take her away from Walford to America, for a while, and vowed to sort Johnny out once and for all, when he returned.

`` That's right '', I told him.

Shayne told the bartender, `` Bourbon and water '', and Rourke told him, `` It's those two, all right.

The boy had, apparently -- if Mrs. MacReady was right in what she had told Mullins -- only in recent months been forced to give up college, to work as a busboy.

`` And told him right to his face he'd never slept with a woman ''!!

In an ecstatic interview after the game, Jim Tracy stated that he told the Rockies ' preceding batter, relief pitcher Adam Eaton, not to swing: " I don't care if he throws three right down the middle, don't swing because I want Spilborghs to have a shot with the bases loaded.

" Only when the driver told Clemens to look up and he saw the light towers did he realize he was in the right place.

Over the years Tenniel gradually lost sight in his right eye ; he never told his father of the severity of the wound, as he did not wish to upset his father to any greater degree than he had been.

An unnamed Libyan official at the airport asked to confirm the ban told Reuters: " This is right.

These people can usually normally perform daily activities such as driving according to signs and navigating according to a map, but will often take a wrong turn when told to turn left or right and may have difficulties performing actions that require precise understanding of directional commands, such as ballroom dancing.

Eli asked Samuel to honestly recount to him what he had been told, and upon receiving the communication merely said that God should do what seems right to himself.

The Thunderbird saw the boy, and told him that the story was now his, and he had the right to wear the Thunderbird mask and wings at the potlatch.

Although there is an indication in Targum Lamentations that " Zechariah son of Iddo " was killed in the Temple ,< ref > Targum on Lam 2: 20: " Is it right to kill priest and prophet in the Temple of the Lord, as when you killed Zechariah son of Iddo, the High Priest and faithful prophet in the Temple of the Lord on the Day of Atonement because he told you not to do evil before the Lord?

Zoroaster, the founder and first prophet of that religion, who is said to have told his people how to recognize the Saviour at the right moment, is identified with Balaam.

He testified that Sheriff Behan had inaccurately reported a conversation he had with Virgil Earp the evening after the gunfight during which, according to Williams, Behan told Virgil that one of the McLaury brothers drew his gun first, and " You did perfectly right.

Thorer befriended Olaf and told him of the situation in Norway, that Haakon Jarl had become unpopular with the populace, because he often took daughters of the elite as concubines, which was his right as ruler.

" Johnson continued to find reasons not to do the film, and finally Bogdanovich told him, " You, in this role, are going to get an Academy Award ," and finally Johnson accepted, " All right, I'll do the damn thing.

At his confirmation hearing, he told the Armed Services Committee of the U. S. Senate that the limited objective of the U. S. was to guarantee to the people of South Vietnam the right of self-determination.

Jeff Cook told the press in 2011 that the Farewell Tour didn't end right.

" Confirming Roach's pre-fight predictions that he'd grown too old, De La Hoya crossed the ring to Pacquiao's corner after the bout was stopped and told Roach, " You're right, Freddie.

Commenting on Perkins's playing, Sam Phillips has been quoted as saying that, " I knew that Carl could rock and in fact he told me right from the start that he had been playing that music before Elvis came out on record ...

He claimed the boys were there with the consent of their parents ,.... He also demonstrated a strong proprietorial interest in the boys, when he told Robinson they were ' as much his property as his farm and that he had as much right to keep them as the government '.

In 1884, she married the artist Charles Walter Stetson after initially declining his proposal because a gut feeling told her it was not the right thing for her.

He told his friend he was putting jumper cables in the shed and would be right back.