I ducked just as the first strand broke somewhere down the line and came whipping over the sideboards.

Everybody left and I stayed in the pool, then Lou came back alone and leaped into the pool too.

I was so scared well, I just ran to my car and came here ''.

He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

I came up maybe fifty feet before I knew what was happening ''.

Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.

His letter had suggested we meet at my hotel at noon on Sunday, and I came into the lobby as the clock struck twelve.

But the time came when I was no longer innocent and therefore no longer helpless.

After scouring around a bit in the open area, I came across what proved to be tar-soaked logs which crackled and burned brightly, giving off vast rolls of smoke into the ashen sky.

I came under the spell of a younger group in the church led by the pastor's older son.

Try as I might to confess my sins and accept salvation, no answer came to me from heaven.

I bethought me of the Lord's Prayer, and these words came to mind: `` Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ''.

This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.

The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.

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

I wouldn't hear of it because it meant giving up the `` line '', though I realized I was in poor shape physically.

I never had the courage to look at them, when my projected volume became hopeless, fearing they were poor, until now when I was obliged to do so.

Instead of wanting to sock the poor bastard I found myself having a fellowfeeling for him.

You wouldn't have me throw the poor boy out on the street '', Eileen said when I needled her about it.

`` And in the future, since I write for a public of one, I can save the poor publishers from wasting their money ''.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

I was amazed at the very poor hospital facilities accompanying the medical school.

`` I find it hard to understand how anyone seeking a position in public life could demonstrate such poor judgment and bad taste.

:::: Kissing Agathon, I had my soul upon my lips ; for it rose, poor wretch, as though to cross over.

Mechanical problems, poor mobility and piecemeal tactical deployment limited the military significance of the tank in World War I and the tank did not fulfil its promise of rendering trench warfare obsolete.

A recent 20-year prospective study on bipolar I and II found that functioning varied over time along a spectrum from good to fair to poor.

The poor performance of Zaire's military during Shaba I gave evidence of chronic weaknesses ( which extend to this day ).

* Level I: Scientific evidence is lacking, of poor quality, or conflicting, such that the risk versus benefit balance cannot be assessed.

When his eighty-year-old son died, the father mourned: “ I always told him he wouldn ’ t live long, poor boy.

He wrote in volume one: " I shall consider the whole of the metropolitan poor under three separate phases, according as they will work, they can't work, and they won't work ".

Italy emerged from World War I in a poor and weakened condition.

For weeks I wandered about this neighborhood of warehouses and garages, truck terminals and taxi repair shops, gasoline pumps and longshoremen's lunch counters, yet never did I cease to feel myself a stranger there.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

I sensed no stranger in her.

" If psychiatry is the medical technique that aims to enable man no longer to be a stranger to his environment, I owe it to myself to affirm that the Arab, permanently an alien in his own country, lives in a state of absolute depersonalization .” ( 2 )

Mayr said of his own involvement with the local birdwatchers: " In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Sample lyrics: " Now ain't it strange that I feel like Philby / There's a stranger in my soul / I'm lost in transit in a lonesome city / I can't come in from the cold.

:“ I say, stranger, are you Kit Carson ?” the man asked.

Some man who seemed to be a stranger ( a United States officer, I presume ) made a little speech and then read a rather long paper — the Emancipation Proclamation, I think.

" I was a stranger in a strange land ," she said later.

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.

For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.