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

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

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

I sat down to wait, and I watched Tessie Alpert, who hadn't moved or said a word but kept staring out of the window.

I'd have been more impressed if I hadn't remembered that she'd played Hedda Gabler in her highschool dramatics course.

I don't know what we would have done if Pat O'Dwyer hadn't come to town.

She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.

Suppose I hadn't brought along enough money??

I thought you hadn't come in yet ''.

It was almost one and I hadn't had lunch.

Attending the life class was my idea -- or rather, Askington's idea, but I was ripe for it, and the other two wouldn't have gone if I hadn't talked them into it.

I hadn't done a serious picture in almost a year.

I hadn't chosen medicine -- it had chosen me.

After a few hours, Life hadn't showed, and I was crocked.

It's really rotten to drink good cognac like that, but I hadn't cared before.

We finished the bottle -- I hadn't had a lot out of it earlier -- not speaking much to each other, and we stayed sober.

And hadn't I rescued him from Lucille Warren??

She'd have gotten him, if I hadn't stopped her.

I wished to prepare myself but did not even know what sort of clothes I ought to be wearing.

`` I won't even try to thank you ''.

If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??

I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.

`` But knowing you, I know that you're glad to be alive, and grateful -- and sorry because I killed the snake, even though I had to.

Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.

They saw it before I did, even with my binoculars.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

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.

I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.

Also, I am convinced that if my company were a sole proprietorship instead of a partnership, I would have been even abler to solve long-range problems for myself and my fellow-employees.

I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

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

`` I seen a lot o' things in my time.

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

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.

Haven't we haven't I seen you.

I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

The aborigine lives on the cruelest land I have ever seen.

I managed to do this by the time the great A.B. returned to the place where he last had seen the fierce nihilist.

Along these lines, the particular point that sensitivity in literature leads to sensitivity in human relations would require more proof than I have seen.

Victor had been stirred by my account of him in Makers And Finders, for Stephens was one of the lost writers whom Melville had seen in his childhood and whom I was bent on resurrecting.

But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.

the combination of the Jewish intellectual tradition and the sensibility needed to be a writer created in my circle the most potent and incredible intellectual-literary ambition I have ever seen or could ever have imagined.

I have seen diapers strung across the ruined roof.

Never have I seen this expressed so clearly and so sympathetically.

It was only hours since I had last seen them, but they had changed and I had changed.

`` Since the war I have seen the way the Germans have behaved and I think, Holy Mother, we have behaved like this for hundreds of years.