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.

I guess you'd better go on in the morning ''.

`` I never felt better in my life '', Fiske blustered.

Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.

I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

I heard her murmur, `` We'd better lock the door ''.

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

`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

`` Madame Noel, I think you had better go '', said Mrs. Cupply.

`` And I think you had better leave '', replied Miriam.

' I think you had better leave '!!

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly -- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

`` She's probably getting old -- crotchety, I mean -- and we figured uh-uh, better not.

I knew better.

I knew better but I was thinking of the Pedersen kid mother-naked in all that dough.

`` Chickens have short memories '', the doctor remarked, `` that's why they are better company than most people I know '', and he went on to break some important news to Alex.

`` I guess I better get ready to go ''.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Tuesday, October 24th, 1961, as United Nations day, calling upon all our citizens to engage in appropriate observances, demonstrating faith in the United Nations and thereby contributing to a better understanding of the aims of the United Nations throughout the land.

( An unheated greenhouse would have been better, if I had had one.

During the return trip, Barco kept muttering to himself in meaningless phrases, such as: `` They're under sand dunes They're better off, I tell you I saved their souls ''.

While S.K. did not like Dylan Thomas, I liked his poems very much, but I made the mistake of telling Dylan Thomas so, whereupon he said to me, `` I suppose you think you know all about me ''.

There also came a brief contretemps with the sound mixers who made the mistake of being overheard during a quiet moment near the conclusion of `` Do It Again '', and she made the tart observation that `` I never saw so much moving about in an audience ''.

I made the mistake of going to the Jour et Nuit.

Training as a jockey in his teens, Jones later said " I made one huge mistake.

When Hayek left Salzburg in 1977, he wrote, " I made a mistake in moving to Salzburg ".

When I told him that to initiate war was a mistake, he agreed.

I was scared -- scared to make a mistake.

A frustrated Napoleon remarks, " I made one mistake in my life — I should have burnt Berlin ".

Of the influence of Dilthey, Hans-Georg Gadamer writes the following: " As far as Dilthey is concerned, we all know today what I have known for a long time: namely that it is a mistake to conclude on the basis of the citation in Being and Time that Dilthey was especially influential in the development of Heidegger's thinking in the mid-1920s.

In 2004, Ford declined a chance to star in the thriller Syriana, later commenting that " I didn't feel strongly enough about the truth of the material and I think I made a mistake.

And after winning his Best Actor Oscar later in the evening, he said in his acceptance speech, " There must be some terrible mistake, I used up all my English!

Volsky thought there must have been some mistake: " I went up to Chernenko and said, ' There was an addendum in the text.

At a Soviet Politburo meeting, Gorbachev said, " It's difficult to build a new building out of old material [...] I hope to God that we haven't made a mistake with Najibullah.

Either I mistake your shape and making quite ;

Allegedly, the last words he uttered before passing away were: " I have made but one mistake ".

" I think we at ECD we made a mistake of having a joint venture with an oil company, frankly speaking.

Eisenhower is often said to have remarked that his appointment was " the biggest fool mistake I ever made.

During this performance, he inadvertently disobeyed the choreography by walking around the stage when it was planned that he would stay still, and was chastised by the band manager after the show: " The mistake was such a big deal that from that moment on, never again did I move when I wasn't supposed to move ... That was the discipline of Menudo: You either did things the way you were told or you were not part of the group.