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

Ramey smiled but he thought to himself, I always see me too.

At a party an English intellectual -- so-called -- asked me why I write always about distress.

But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.

The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.

I would have liked the town and the busyness of its people but I always followed Lilly into the peace of the silent and unstaring road.

I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

But I will also remind them that I have always been inclined to skepticism, to a kind of Laodicean lack of commitment so far as public affairs are concerned ; ;

At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.

The concern they felt for me was such as I shall never forget and for which I will always be grateful.

( He always smiles -- at least at visitors, I gather.

`` I imagine you're always battling in school ''.

`` I'm dressed as I always am '', Rousseau said.

What I did know was that Precious was always around.

`` Funny thing '', Mr. Kahler said, when they were seated, `` when I heard you ringing, I figured it was that guy down the block, Hausman ''.

`` She's probably getting old -- crotchety, I mean -- and we figured uh-uh, better not.

I grinned at him, handed him a couple of dollars and said, `` By the time you get the parking charge figured up, there should be a cigar in it for you ''.

I mean, we all figured -- I guess anybody'd figure -- Angie '' --

`` I figured he was sick ''.

It was three o'clock before I figured it was all right to go.

I figured I could stand practically anything for a couple of weeks.

He was plenty attentive, all right, but he behaved like a gentleman, and I figured that, emotionally, I was closer to his age than to my own eighteen and a half.

" I figured the old arm had just so many throws in it ," said Young, " and there wasn't any use wasting them.

* 1502 10 July – By a Royal Warrant passed in Toledo by Isabella I of Castile, Gibraltar was granted its coat of arms: " An escutcheon on which the upper two thirds shall be a white field and on the said field set a red castle, and below the said castle, on the other third of the escutcheon, which must be a red field in which there must be a white line between the castle and the said red field, there shall be a golden key which hangs by a chain from the said castle, as are here figured ".

It's connected with so many synchronicities and weird coincidences that it must mean something, I just haven't figured out yet what it means!

It was named for Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, third son of Charles I. Gloucester County figured prominently in the history of the colony and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Of her research for Falls the Shadow, Penman explains: " I did a great deal of on-site research, visiting the castles and battlefields that figured in Falls the Shadow, visiting the Reading Room at the British Library, the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, and local reference libraries .... Here at home, I made use of the University of Pennsylvania Library in Philadelphia, which has an excellent medieval selection.

There is a little curve just after passing over the river, and I wondered if the engine were going to take that curve or if it were going to take to the woods .” When the train came into Waycross, the crew figured they had come the 40 miles from Jesup in 28 minutes.

I figured – since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing – that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

So, without mentioning any denomination of organized religion, I figured that both Moreta and Leri deserved respite after their trials ... and that's where ' Beyond Between ' is.

Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse — whose lands lay midway between Saxony and the Rhine — also supported the Reformation, and he figured prominently in the lives of both Luther and Bucer.

Said Johnson, " I figured we could get better jobs with Chuck running the band.

) I figured out that I had made – and spent – some thirty million dollars.

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

`` I made you so you could stand up.

I could see them in my sights.

Far up the valley I could see the Rees circling and reorganizing.

I could see their faces glistening with sweat and bear grease, their mouths open, shouting their spine-chilling cries.

I could see the blood running down his chest.

I could smell woodsmoke, grease, and oil.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Since they could see me but I not them, their presence in the hall disturbed me.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.

I could not cling to my past nor did I wish to.

When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.

I could consult this personage on any weekday morning, though not before ten o'clock.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.