Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Then, after overtures to accept a settlement and go through with a divorce, Miriam gave a ghastly echo of Mrs. Micawber by suddenly stating, `` I will never leave Mr. Wright ''.

Here Wright gave a slight sigh of weariness, and continued, `` It means more long years lived across the social grain of the life of our people, making shift to live in the face of popular disrespect and misunderstanding as I best can for myself and those dependent upon me ''.

During the next years he gave me the second of the five contracts I would sign with the Hearst Service.

Mrs. Coolidge gave Mama this dress for me, and I wore it many times.

since my silence must have ended when I gave the purposed volume to you.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

Finally, after years, I gave up.

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 ''.

But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.

And so the young minister resigned, to go and study and pray, having never passed a day, he told his parishioners, when `` I did not gain from you far more than I ever gave to you ''.

but I do know that he gave the day tone and distinction.

She gave the nastiest laugh I ever heard.

Offer her a cup of tea and she would say, `` Why, these cups look just like a set I gave to the Salvation Army last year ''.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

But though I boasted and gave off a dapper front, I was beneath it all frightened.

Somehow managing to get out a cool, poised, `` Won't you hold on a second, please '', I covered up the mouthpiece, and with more warmth and less poise, gave a quick lecture on crime and punishment, mostly the latter, including Devil's Island and the remoter reaches of Siberia.

`` I seem to remember '', he said, `` that in an interview ten years ago you gave humor and comedy five years to live.

I never gave that boy a cent.

`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.

You fell down in front of the house, and I carried you in.

`` 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 saw you driftin away -- but I tried.

And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.

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

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

`` I made you so you could stand up.

I made you a man ''.

The charge, I tell you ''!!

`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.

`` I thought I told you to stay home ''.

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.

`` I won't even try to thank you ''.

He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

I quickly turned around and began to drink.

As cheerfully as possible, he said, `` Well, I guess we could all do with a little drink ''.

`` I do not drink so much, thank you ''.

`` I do not drink so much ''.

I used to go with Watson to call on the eminent neurologist at his apartment, to sit among the doctor's excellent collection of statues, paintings, and books and drink Oriental coffee while Watson seemed to thaw out and become almost affable.

I don't think he ever got to drink any of it.

`` And from now on, for the rest of this trip, I will only drink what you agree that I should drink ''.

`` I am terribly sorry to keep you waiting '', she said, `` but won't you make yourself a little drink while you wait??

`` I had a drink with the Flannagans ''.

`` I have come to talk with you about the future of humor and comedy '', I told him, at which he started slightly, and then made us each a stiff drink, with a trembling hand.

I asked, taking a final gulp of my drink, and handing him the empty glass.

I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said, `` I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ''.

Moreland sat brooding for a full minute, during which I made each of us a new drink.

In the second sentence if drinking water is a gerundial clause and without drinking water is roughly equivalent in meaning to unless I drink water, there will be stronger stress on water than on drinking ; ;

I closed the last bag and stood all three at the door for the bellboy to pick up, then went to the bathroom for a drink of water.

`` All right, you bastards '', I said, `` the great actor is about to buy a drink ''.

I said, `` Wait '', and handed the bottle to Pops for his final drink.

Because I liked this sad person so much, I said, `` Will you have a drink with me ''??