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.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.

`` You have visited England five times in the past quarter-century, I believe '', my host said.

Today Dogtown is the only deserted village in all New England that I know of.

Chaplin, 71, who met K. when the Soviet boss visited England in 1956, confided that he hopes to visit Russia some time this summer because `` I have marveled at your grandiose experiment and I believe in your future ''.

being intellectually influenced by Newman and the general 19th-century literature of England, I knew only a Protestant-dominated country.

Since arriving here, however, I have formed a far different religious picture of present-day England.

" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

In England it was first imposed by statute in the reign of Elizabeth I of England ( 1558 ) and its form has more than once been altered since.

The Church of England ( which until the 20th century included the Church in Wales ) initially separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1538 in the reign of King Henry VIII, reunited in 1555 under Queen Mary I and then separated again in 1570 under Queen Elizabeth I ( the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the Act of Supremacy 1559 ).

* 1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.

Puttenham, in the time of Elizabeth I of England, wished to start from Elissabet Anglorum Regina ( Elizabeth Queen of the English ), to obtain Multa regnabis ense gloria ( By thy sword shalt thou reign in great renown ); he explains carefully that H is " a note of aspiration only and no letter ", and that Z in Greek or Hebrew is a mere SS.

He was responsible for the destruction of the musical clock organ that Elizabeth I of England sent to the court during the reign of his father.

Edmund ( reigned 1016 ) was an elder half-brother of King Edward the Confessor, and Edmund's son Edward was in Hungary with King Andrew I, having left England as an infant after his father's death and the accession of Cnut as King of England.

Edgar's will granted David the lands of the former kingdom of Strathclyde or Cumbria, and this was apparently agreed in advance by Edgar, Alexander, David and their brother-in-law Henry I of England.

He points that his father-in-law Henry I of England is asking them for a grandson.

The novel concludes that Alexander was indeed murdered " by a fanatical servant " of Edward I of England.

Alfred lamented in the preface to his translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care that " learning had declined so thoroughly in England that there were very few men on this side of the Humber who could understand their divine services in English, or even translate a single letter from Latin into English: and I suppose that there were not many beyond the Humber either ".

At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.

`` You know what I done last night ''??

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.

I will mention two volumes of specific comment on this malaise that appeared last year.

Other countries, some of which I visited last month, have similar needs.

I managed to do this by the time the great A.B. returned to the place where he last had seen the fierce nihilist.

I have supported the Democratic party in the last five campaigns.

I ask you to do me the last favour of reading them by 8 to-morrow evening, about which time I shall come to say my sad good-bye.

Papa, I should emphasize, had been an invalid the last several years of his life ; ;

He set down that `` I gave Mr. Greene a pynte of muskadell and a roll of bread that last morning I went to have his company to Master Attorney ''.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.

`` As a writer, by what have I been obsessed these last ten years, if not by mankind??

Upon a visit to a local junior college last week, I was shocked to see the young ladies wearing short shorts and the young men wearing Bermuda shorts.

Rising costs have increased the difficulties of the elderly, and I would be the last to say they should not receive consideration.

Now, if I were you I would just plan to repair the old church so it would last for five or ten years.

It was only hours since I had last seen them, but they had changed and I had changed.