`` 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 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 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.

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.

If the catechumen is of age, the celebrant will ask him or her if he or she desires Baptism, to which the catechumen will respond: " I do.

Beatty did not respond until after surgery on his arm in September 1900 when he wrote, I landed from China with my heart full of rage, and swore I did not care if I ever saw you again, or if I were killed or not.

In the Phase I trial enrolling five subjects with chronic HIV infection who had failed to respond to at least two antiretroviral regimens, a single intravenous infusion of autologous CD4 T cells genetically modified with VRX496 was safe and well tolerated.

In the Phase I trial enrolling five subjects with chronic HIV infection who had failed to respond to at least two antiretroviral regimens, a single intravenous infusion of autologous CD4 T cells genetically modified with VRX496 was safe and well tolerated.

(...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean.

" He had earlier written to Stalin in 1937, " For the sake of Gorky I am asking you for mercy, even if he may be guilty of something ," to which Stalin noted: " We must not respond.

* Aristagoras seeks help with the revolt against the Persians from Cleomenes I, the King of Sparta, but the Spartans are unwilling to respond.

Within days of the September 11 attacks in 2001, Perutz wrote to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, appealing to him not to respond with military force: " I am alarmed by the American cries for vengeance and concerned that President Bush's retaliation will lead to the death of thousands more innocent people, driving us into a world of escalating terror and counter-terror.

She had been composed throughout the trial until this accusation was made, to which she finally answered, " If I have not replied it is because Nature itself refuses to respond to such a charge laid against a mother.

Finally the high priest adjured Jesus to respond under solemn oath, saying " I adjure you, by the Living God, to tell us, are you the Anointed One, the Son of God?

* With Antigonus and Demetrius now each assuming the title of king, Ptolemy, as well as Cassander, Lysimachus and Seleucus I Nicator, respond by doing the same.

Asked to respond to his brother's death, Jack said, " I didn't give a shit about Harry.

The debate was initiated by an apostate rabbinic Jew, Pablo Christiani, who had been sent by the Dominican Master General, Raymond de Penyafort, to King James I of Aragon, with the request that the king order Ramban to respond to charges against Judaism.

She used that skill to respond to Byron's " Don Juan I and II ".

" I denounce the assassins of the people to you and you respond, ' let them act as they will.

It's not much of a meal, but it's what I eat ''.

`` I made you what you are '', Gavin whispered.

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.

I meant what I said about that fire.

I don't know what goes on around here, and I don't care.

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.

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??

I wished to prepare myself but did not even know what sort of clothes I ought to be wearing.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??