I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian's face became shattered flesh and bone.

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.

I almost didn't tell you ''.

I have been so weary of the excessive rocking of the vessel, and the almost intolerable smell after the rain, that I have done little more than lounge on the bed for several days.

I used to go with Watson to call on the eminent neurologist at his apartment, to sit among the doctor's excellent collection of statues, paintings, and books and drink Oriental coffee while Watson seemed to thaw out and become almost affable.

We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.

And this means, I suppose, that almost invariably age reveals itself by easily recognizable signs engraved on both the body and the mind.

Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.

Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.

As the mother of an autistic child who is lacking in interest and enthusiasm about almost anything, I have to manipulate my son's fingers for him when he first plays with a new toy.

I never found it among any of the Chinese with whom I spoke, though granted they were, almost all, members of the official family who, presumably, harbor official thoughts.

`` How many times have I told you '' -- he began, and was almost glad when she cut him off -- `` Too many times ''!!

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

I found it fairly depressing and emerged almost immediately.

Or am I taking something that could really apply to almost anybody, and forgetting that many other people probably have had a similar experience ''??

`` But when I arrived and recognised a number of notorious characters I had thrown into the detective bureau basement half a dozen times, I knew I had been framed, and withdrew almost at once ''.

To this meek conjugation Nicolas had replied, `` O.K. I can use this blanket.

`` You have every right to be '', I replied gravely in the Manu dialect, but my attention was fixed on Brassnose, the biggest and strongest of us.

`` And I think you had better leave '', replied Miriam.

I replied in the affirmative, taking out my recently acquired titre d'identite et de voyage, on which was stamped a permission to leave France.

I should have replied, `` I probably know something about the best part of you ''.

Harcourt replied: `` I do really hope you can achieve serenity in the course of time.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

`` Well '', I replied, `` some of my colleagues on the paper regard me as a rank reactionary ''.

The daughter replied, `` Oh, I had dinner with -- well, you don't know him but he's awfully nice -- and we went to a couple of places -- I don't suppose you've heard of them -- and we finished up at a cute little night club -- I forget the name of it.

I asked Quasimodo recently how he accomplished this, and he replied that he had painted his model `` a beautiful shade of red and then had her breathe on the canvas '', which was his typical tongue-in-cheek way of chiding me for my lack of sensitivity.

and when I replied in this spirit, she corroborated my hunch.

Then I replied, coldly, `` If you despise me, why don't you say so, directly ''??

She replied, `` I know of one man that has not been friendly with him.

Asked to elaborate, Pierre Salinger, White House press secretary, replied, `` I would say it's got to go thru several more drafts ''.

`` Early this morning '', replied the other, `` I set out from India ''.

`` I rather like the music '', Willis replied quietly.

While preparing for the nuptials and feeling anxiety again, Lincoln, when asked where he was going, replied, " To hell, I suppose.

The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

" I was giving water to the wounded because I saw your face in all of them ," replied Bhai Kanhaiya.

" Johnston glanced down at his leg wound, then faced Harris and replied with his last words: " Yes, and I fear seriously.

`` Yes, George, but I ain't got poor old Pat's body yet.

Yes, I went to the city, And there I did bitterly cry, Men out of touch with the earth, And with never a glance at the sky.

`` Yes, I know, Fritzie.

`` Yes '', she said, `` I remember that they came here every summer.

Became `` Yes, the first half hour is tough, but by then I'm so numb I don't notice it ''!!

Yes, well, it's a pity to spoil your girlish figure -- which all those kittens would do anyway -- but I think when you've raised these we'll just have the vet fix it so there won't be any more.

Yes, gentlemen, I am getting to the point, to my point.

`` Yes '', I said.

`` Yes, it sounds great '', I said, `` but suppose you don't think of yourself as an impressionist painter ''??

Yes, I had cried out that I knew she'd do it, but without my fully realizing it at the time, it was a cry of triumph for her, praise at her deliverance from pettiness and greed -- and guilt.

`` Yes, I thought you'd probably be up.

`` Yes '', he lied to shorten the conversation, `` I still have it ''.

`` Yes, I appreciate that.

Yes, I heard it in the news ''.

Following each question, the candidate answers by saying " Yes, I believe ".

Yes, I have.

* Yes, I have seen Galaxy Quest and no, Star Trek fandom is not really like that.

Put simply, when you are vexed just be vexed and say, ' Yes, and what shall I do?

" " Yes do, I have seven.

Several crew members wore protest t-shirts with slogans such as " Yes Guvnor, my ass " and " Will Rogers never met Ridley Scott " in reference to Will Rogers's most famous quotation, " I never met a man I didn't like ".

:- Yes, Mr Bloom said, and another thing I often thought is to have municipal funeral trams like they have in Milan, you know.