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.

Using fire in a World War I battle predated actual flamethrower use, with a petrol spray being ignited by an incendiary bomb in the Argonne-Meuse sector in October 1914.

I was still doing late night petrol station shifts.

Mark I Polos only came with four-cylinder petrol engines, but for the Mark II, a diesel engine was offered for the first time, although only in certain markets, others having to wait until the launch of the Mark III.

In this alternate history, the death of Queen Elisabeth I in 1588 allows the Catholic Church to dominate world history, and the Index Prohibitorum includes petrol vehicles with engines larger than 100cc.

* April-Motor Rail deliver the first of over 900 petrol engined 60 cm narrow gauge railway locomotives for the British War Department Light Railways on the Western Front ( World War I ); substantially the same design is in production until the 1980s.

This impression would last with him the rest of his life ; when asked by a journalist what he thought would be the thing he would most value he said " I should like my own Rolls-Royce car with enough tyres and petrol to last me all my life ".

He was involved in the design of London General's B-Type bus, under Frank Searle and then George Green ; during World War I, he and Green worked on the Tank along with other gifted engineers such as Walter Wilson, after the war he had moved to the United States and under Green had been chief designer for John Hertz ' Yellow Coach Company, one of the leading bus-builders in the States, Rackham, under Green's direction had evolved a range of fast, relatively light chassis with powerful engines and a trademark of frames gracefully swept with elegantly varying side-member depth, the Y and Z models also had off-set under-slung worm rear-axles and six-cylinder overhead-camshaft ( OHC ) petrol engines, OHC was not generally known in UK buses at the time and six-cylinder engines likewise.

The steam engine was gradually phased out by the mid-1920s as the less expensive, lighter, and faster-starting internal combustion ( kerosene, petrol or distillate ) tractors fully emerged after World War I.

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

To this effect I had already severed all connections which bound me to my former existence.

`` That's all I ask ''!!

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

It's all I ask, Stevens ''.

`` Moriarty '', my driver suddenly exclaimed with something so definite, so final in his tone I once more repeated the absurdity, mustering all my latent powers of hypocrisy to sound convinced.

Maybe I would beat old Herry to Siberia after all.

`` Hell, that's all right, buddy '', the Indian ( I now guessed ) said.

`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.

I never wear anything at all.

He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.

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.

But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.

Seeming much relieved, she smiled one of those worth-waiting-for smiles, and I smiled all the way into the bedroom.

Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.

veal cutlets: `` Oh, I couldn't possibly eat all this ''!!

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

`` I guess he spent the morning getting himself all organized, then headed for home.

`` Nope, just you, all the time -- sometimes I think it's the only way I'll ever get a decent partner ''.

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

I will make him distributor for all of Florida -- a big market.