`` I can take care of this.

I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.

So I can hear you while I'm checkin' the car.

Print it in real big letters, an' I can cipher it out later ''.

`` Yeah, I can see that '', the friend was forced to agree.

Now turn around so I can see your face ''.

`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.

I can see Dan.

Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.

`` I've got her as neat as I can '', Donovan said, as he dropped the straps of the Seton harness over Greg's shoulders.

I could show what I can do ''.

It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

Even as I said it I realized that an education can be invaluable.

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

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

and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.

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

I can never pronounce it ''.

`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??

`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.

God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.

`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

`` Hell, that's all right, buddy '', the Indian ( I now guessed ) said.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

I said, `` O.K., so now only Blake knows.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

`` And now '', said Tilghman with deadly calm, `` I'll repeat what I said.

I been riding train for a ways now ''.

I followed them in the jeep and now they did not care.

His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!

`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).

Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.

The Commission seems to represent the viewpoint of what I would call the unconscious liberal, but not unconscious enough, to invoke the now taboo symbolism of socialism.

If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;

Yet this passion for passion, now that I look back on it with passion spent, seems somewhat overblown and operatic, though as a diva Miss Millay perfectly controlled her notes.

I can see us now.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

I lived in a state of suspense because of it.

Even now I will not intrude upon her except to state a few bare facts.

I explained my state of mind to artist Winsor McCay and to `` Bugs '' Baer.

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.

This agreeable state of affairs is explicable, I think, on two counts.

I became disgusted at being so preoccupied with the state of my own miserable soul.

For my part I find it difficult to conceive such a state of affairs.

After three months of research, I can state unequivocally that Los Angeles drivers are considerably more courteous and competent than any other drivers I've ever encountered.

-- In reply to a letter in Today's `` Voice '' urging the sale of meat after 6 p.m., I wish to state the other side of the story.

-- I, too, congratulate the American Legion, of which I am proud to have been a member for more than 40 years, on the recent state convention.

I wanted to wipe my flint, but I didn't dare to, the state my hands were in, just as I didn't dare to do anything about the priming.

I must state that the faster things happened, the slower they happened ; ;

I have the honor to refer to the Agricultural Commodities Agreement signed today between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of India ( hereinafter referred to as the Agreement ) and, with regard to the rupees accruing to uses indicated under Article 2, of the Agreement, to state that the understanding of the Government of the United States of America is as follows: 1.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

And I have established that the action of municipal, county, or state school boards or boards of education is small, infinitesimally small in comparison with the number of districts.

I state categorically that we shall under no circumstances resort to the use of such weapons unless they are first used by our enemies ''.

Another Yankee became so disgusted as to state: `` I wish to God one half of our officers were knocked in the head by slinging them against ( the other half ) ''.

He was also personally active in ward politics, and by 1924 O'Banion had acquired sufficient political might to be able to state: `` I always deliver my borough as per requirements ''.