`` I got no place to go ''.

I'm well aware that you've got a pedigree as long as my leg, and that I don't amount to anything.

`` Might get there faster walkin' '', Lord drawled, `` seein' as how I got a busted front spring.

`` I know you've got a grudge against me, and maybe I can't blame you.

I've got to take Danny away from Clayton before I lose him altogether.

`` And I sort o' got a corner on the market ''.

If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!

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

Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.

I got a coin between my thumb and forefinger, leaned my elbows in a very natural and casual manner on top of the truck cab and flipped my little missile.

I swam like mad, got out of the pool, grabbed my robe, and ran to the car.

There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.

He said hesitantly, `` Hettie, I don't figure your things got wet too much.

`` You think I got you and Artie and Herr Schaffner all the way out here just for the boat ride??

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

`` I got Margaret Rider in one of them old box cars down there by the quarry ''.

`` Hell, I jist got on top of -- ''

I left the party as soon as possible and got into a taxi.

So I got out.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

Much to Damon Runyon's amazement, as well as my own, I got along splendidly with the Hetman ; ;

As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.

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

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

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 didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

`` Dear Miss Steichen: It is a very good letter you send me -- softens the intensity of this guerilla warfare I am carrying on up here.

In any case I do not intend to let the present occasion pass without dealing more directly with the problem of implementing good intentions.

`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.

The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.

Sir Ed. Gre. is gonne to Brestowe and from thence to Lond. as I heare, who verie well knoweth our estates and wil be willinge to do us ani good ''.

Wherefore I thynke yow maye doo good yff yow can have money ''.

But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.

`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.

Without the good magazines, without their book reviews, their hospitality to European writers, without above all their awareness of literary standards, we might very well have had a generation of Krim's heroes -- Wolfes, Farrells, Dreisers, and I might add, Sandburgs and Frosts and MacLeishes in verse -- and then where would we be??

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

I feel that few burglars would be prone to break and enter into someone's apartment if they were met with a good hardy growl that a dog would provide.

The matter may seem a small thing to some people, I know, but it's a very good start on the road to Totalitarianism The Commission has posted signs in Washington Square saying:

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.