`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.

`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

There's someone there I have to see.

I have to think about it.

We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.

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.

I have it with me, right here.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

But, by gosh, I want him and I'm going to have him!!

Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.

`` I have a little job for you, Charlie.

`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

I wouldn't have known the difference.

`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.

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

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

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

We've been starving and I don't like to starve ''.

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.

Neither of them, I understood, had been present at the filming session earlier.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

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.

I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.

There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

She's been hangin' around me a lot here lately, and I figgered I might as well's try it.

Besides I heard her old uncle that stays there has been doin' it ''.

I been riding train for a ways now ''.

and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.

The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.

`` I am thoroughly convinced that most watercolors suffer because the artist expects nature will do his composing for him ; ;

I am sure that nothing within me is capable of composing that life-like sequence, so complete in detail, from the hodge-podge of news pictures I have seen.

The outbreak of World War I forced him to stop the expeditions, and he returned to composing, writing the ballet The Wooden Prince in 1914 – 16 and the String Quartet No. 2 in 1915 – 17, both influenced by Debussy.

After the completion of Do I Hear a Waltz, Sondheim has devoted himself to both composing and writing lyrics for a series of varied and adventurous musicals, beginning with the innovative " concept musical " Company in 1970.

: And at composing, a thunderbolt am I.

::(" I am the Empire at the end of the decadence, who watches the large, white barbarians passing, while composing lazy acrostic poems in a gilded style in which the languor of the sun dances.

He stated, " I started to write music when I was four or five and didn't realise I was composing tonally because I was simply using the piano ".

Many other Pahlavi sources were used in composing the epic, prominent being the Kārnāmag-ī Ardaxšīr-ī Pābagān, which was originally written during the late Sassanid era and gave accounts of how Ardashir I came to power which, because of its historical proximity, is thought to be highly accurate.

With Rodgers composing the music and Hammerstein writing the lyrics, five of their shows, Oklahoma !, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music, were outstanding successes.

Mahmud I entrusted government to his viziers and spent much of his time composing poetry.

Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I.

Emperor Pedro I composing the anthem, in 1822.

After The Police stopped touring in 1984, Copeland established a career composing soundtracks for movies Airborne, Talk Radio, Wall Street, Riff Raff, Raining Stones, Surviving the Game, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Highlander II: The Quickening, The Leopard Son, She's Having a Baby, Taking Care of Business, West Beirut, I am David, Good Burger ), television ( The Equalizer, Dead Like Me, Star Wars: Droids, the pilot for Babylon 5 ( 1993 ), Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show, The Life and Times of Juniper Lee ), and video games ( Spyro the Dragon and The Agents ), along with operas ( Holy Blood and Crescent Moon, commissioned by Cleveland Opera ) and ballets.

In a letter dated 17 July 1919, Delius advised the younger man to concentrate either on writing or composing: " I ... know how gifted you are and what possibilities are in you ".

It would prove to be a long process and due to both Ruggles's sluggish composing and anti-German sentiment ( as a result of World War I ), he never finished the opera.

( Beckett explained to James Knowlson that when he was composing Catastrophe, “ In my mind was Dupuytren ’ s contracture ( from which I suffer ) which reduces hands to claws .”) The Director dismisses his Assistant ’ s proposal to have the man gagged (“ This craze for explicitation !”) or to “ show his face … just for an instant .” He also has her make notes to whiten all the exposed flesh.

I realized right away that this allowed me to make a choice: whether I would decide to spend a few years not composing and learning what I would need to do to become a self-sufficient computer-music composer or that I was going to collaborate with other people.