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 felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.

`` I realize that this is hardly the time to say it, Penny '', said Keith.

I can hardly think of this simple fare without exclaiming, oh, what a luxury.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

I know because this is my 37th year with hardly a break.

This brief resume hardly does the book justice, but I heartily recommend it to all those who are engages with the major problems of our time.

I can hardly wait ''.

I could hardly believe such good luck was mine.

`` I can hardly say the same about you, Dave ''!!

Near the end, I could hardly breathe.

' I look into the pot, and hardly hold vomiting.

" I saw it, but still hardly can believe it ," Lions coach Buddy Parker said after the game.

While Philip I could hardly control his Parisian barons, Philip IV could dictate popes and emperors.

but I have only one ye now, and hardly that .’ I was really quite touched ". On 5 November Reynolds, fearing he may not have an opportunity to write a will, wrote a memorandum intended to be his last will and testament, with Edmund Burke, Edmond Malone and Philip Metcalfe named as executors.

Citing numerous instances of Pytheas apparently being far off the mark on details concening known regions, he says: " however, any man who has told such great falsehoods about the known regions would hardly, I imagine, be able to tell the truth about places that are not known to anybody.

He is under a sacred obligation with regard to all that he consents to spend ... I am bound to say hardly ever in the six years that Sir Stafford Northcote has been in office have I heard him speak a resolute word on behalf of economy.

George Templeton Strong noted in his diary: " People say the plot's immoral, but I don't see that it's so much worse than many others, not to speak of Don Giovanni, which as put on the stage is little but rampant lechery ", while the Evening Post critic wrote: " Those who have quietly sat through the glaring improprieties of Don Giovanni will hardly blush or frown at anything in La traviata.

One of these Daves, Dave Capisano, is unfamiliar to McCulloch, who sings " I hardly know him ", then looks vaguely uncomfortable for the rest of the song's lyricless measure.

It belonged to a red-haired person — a youth of fifteen, as I take it now, but looking much older — whose hair was cropped as close as the closest stubble ; who had hardly any eyebrows, and no eyelashes, and eyes of a red-brown, so unsheltered and unshaded, that I remember wondering how he went to sleep.

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.

My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

At first I thought he had missed.

`` I thought I told you to stay home ''.

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.

You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??

Suddenly and not a second too soon I thought of the coins in my pocket.

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

I thought I saw a faint surge of color rise to her neck and quickly suffuse her cheeks.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Ramey smiled but he thought to himself, I always see me too.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.

But I would never have thought of it myself ''.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.

`` 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 ''.

It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.