Actually, she is a sad beauty, I believe.

Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.

`` I don't believe I'll play any more neither ''.

I suspect that there are far more unreconstructed ones than the North likes to believe.

and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.

I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.

Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; ;

That John Locke's philosophy of the social contract fathered the American Revolution with its Declaration of Independence, I believe, we generally accept.

They have indicated the direction but they have not been explicit enough, I believe, in pointing out Faulkner's independence, his questioning if not indeed challenging the Southern tradition.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.

For innocence, of all the graces of the spirit, is I believe the one most to be prayed for.

I believe that the industrial countries are ready to participate actively in supplementing the efforts of the developing nations to achieve progress.

I believe it deficient in certain particulars.

I would like to believe that my ability warranted this advancement.

Speaking as a non-Jew I believe that its primary contribution is in the realm of future policy.

Consequently, on October 31, 1896, Mrs. King wrote to Thompson, quite against her daughter's wishes, asking him not to `` recommence a correspondence which I believe has been dropped for some weeks ''.

I believe there are seventeen short plays by Tom now housed in the Houghton Library at Harvard ; ;

This man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.

His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.

I believe that these proposals, however meritorious in terms of world needs, go far beyond our capacity to realize them.

I believe it is an area in which professional planners have failed to set adequate guide posts ; ;

`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.

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.

It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.

I said, `` Do we know each other, Miss ''??

Haven't we haven't I seen you.

I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;

I was aware that when our eyes met we both quickly averted them.

Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.

I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.

`` I guess we both felt it ''.

`` I know what we can do '', I said.

I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.

Why should I??

The clerk impressed this upon me: that I should not arrive in the hall before ten o'clock.

How long should I wait ''??

Maybe I should withdraw my advice -- no ''??

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.

I don't suppose a wife should be grateful to her husband for saving her life, but I am.

I don't get it why this time I should pull such a stupid trick ''.

`` I don't think you should go down again ''.

I should like, by the way, to make it clear that I am not using the word `` Persians '' carelessly.

The latter in turn assured him that `` were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause ''.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

Just as in the case of every prodigy child, we must watch for the efficacy of my teaching to show up in the future -- if he should master all the strenuous exercises I inflicted on him.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.