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

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.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

At first I thought he had missed.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

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

One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.

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 had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

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.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

I had signed it off on the forms.

Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.

While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.

As I have stated previously, the Attorney General has advised me that this section violates fundamental constitutional principles.

He had been advised not to leave his bed, but he went anyway saying, " What will the Navy say if I fail to attend Jellicoe's funeral?

After affirming that he had no intention of taking up arms Fox was able to speak with Cromwell for most of the morning about the Friends and advised him to listen to God's voice and obey it so that, as Fox left, Cromwell " with tears in his eyes said, ' Come again to my house ; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other '; adding that he wished no more ill than he did to his own soul.

When George I succeeded to the British throne in 1714, his German ministers advised him to leave the office of Lord High Treasurer vacant because those who had held it in recent years had grown overly powerful, in effect, replacing the Sovereign as head of the government.

Before the 2008 presidential election he said, " On social issues, I lean Libertarian, minus the crazy stuff ," but said in December 2011 that if he were president he would do whatever Bill Clinton advised him to do because that " would lead to policies that are a sensible middle ground.

In the video Saddam's son Uday advised al-Ali about hires in Al-Jazeera: " During your last visit here along with your colleagues we talked about a number of issues, and it does appear that you indeed were listening to what I was saying since changes took place and new faces came on board such as that lad, Mansour.

During that period, Preminger advised her on career matters, including an offer made to Dandridge for the featured role of Tuptim in the 1956 film of The King and I. Preminger advised her to turn down the supporting role, as he believed it to be unworthy of her.

Mervyn's founder Mervin G. Morris was advised by an architect to spell the name of his store chain with a Y instead of an I because the signs would be more pleasing to the eye.

With key Greek city-states in submission, Philip turned to Sparta ; he sent them a message, " You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city.

Many parents have since stopped me on the street or in airports to thank me for helping them to raise fine children, and they've often added, " I don't see any instant gratification in Baby and Child Care " I answer that they're right -- I've always advised parents to give their children firm, clear leadership and to ask for cooperation and politeness in return.

At about the same time, Theophylact advised his nephew-in-law Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria on the new Bogomil heresy.

The violinist and teacher Leopold Auer, writing in his book Violin Playing as I Teach It ( 1920 ), advised violinists to practise playing completely without vibrato, and to stop playing for a few minutes as soon as they noticed themselves playing with vibrato in order for them to gain complete control over their technique.

In 2009-10 it advised on about 2, 000 requests for listing, and processed 14, 072 applications affecting Grade I and II * listed buildings, 97 % of which were dealt with within the agreed deadline.

The police are responsible for enforcing part I of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, often advised by Natural England ( Natural England, 2007 ) and will investigate wildlife offences ; usually performed by Wildlife Crime Officers ( WCOs ).

Medar preached the value of movement and location above velocity, and advised throwing softer when in a jam instead of harder ; Maddux would later say, " I believed it.

On the advice of Gérard Houllier as well as his psychoanalyst, he moved to England to restart his career, " He psychoanalyst advised me not to sign for Marseille and recommended that I should go to England.

In March 1714, Herville, the French envoy in London, sent to Torcy, the French foreign minister, the substance of two long conversations with Bolingbroke in which the latter advised patience till after the accession of George I, when a great reaction was to be expected in favour of the Pretender.

Bruton vehemently denied this and Fine Gael counsel told the Planning Tribunal in 2003: " I refute entirely Mr Dunlop's contention that he advised me then of the alleged demand made to him by the late Tom Hand ".

I have advised all of my people who are not Christians, to study that religion, because it seems to me the best religion in enabling one to live right.

" Also saying " I called a Council, who unanimously advised to avoid an action, and to retire beyond the Roanoke immediately.

My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.

Others mentioned that I might have had to ask friends or even strangers for help and that to be stranded in a foreign country without sufficient funds did not contribute to international understanding.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

`` 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 ''.

`` Baby, I saw a lot of old friends I hadn't seen in a long time '', he told me, his eyes bright.

Lilly Banks and I became friends.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

He writes, `` Most of my friends and I were Jewish ; ;

I am proud of my country, the small city I live in, my wonderful parents, my friends and my school ; ;

I did have the decency to call up Thelma and tell her I'd met old friends and would be home late.

The kiss outraged our friends but it was done and meanwhile had released in me all the remote, exciting premonitions of lust, all the mysterious sensations that I had imagined a truly consummated kiss would convey to me.

Among my school and neighborhood friends, during the next months, I bragged and swaggered and pompously described my impending date.

I felt superior to the neighborhood friends I was leaving behind, felt older than my years, and was full of compliments for myself as I headed into the subway that was carrying its packs of passengers out of that dull borough and into the unstable, tantalizing excitement of Manhattan.

I could not bring myself to answer that `` some of my best friends are non-propagating mules ''.

I know now why our Japanese friends were surprised when they walked into our bathroom.

`` I never knew there were such neighbors and friends around me and my family.

Here I took my leave of my learned friends to step out on another path, to which we might give the modern name of Pragmatism, or the thing that works.