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.

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

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.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.

I meant him no harm.

Maybe I should withdraw my advice -- no ''??

`` I ain't going to fight you no more ''.

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 seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

Certainly not, I mean, no that isn't what I said ''!!

Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

The debate needed no additional controversy and soon I could ask each individually what he expected from life, what his hopes were and what his fears.

In taking account of seventeen years of law practice, Adams concluded that `` no lawyer in America ever did so much business as I did '' and `` for so little profit ''.

When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )

When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.

`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.