`` 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.

And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.

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.

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.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

`` I got no place to go ''.

I meant him no harm.

Maybe I should withdraw my advice -- no ''??

`` I ain't going to fight you no more ''.

Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

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.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

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

Certainly not, I mean, no that isn't what I said ''!!

Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

The debate needed no additional controversy and soon I could ask each individually what he expected from life, what his hopes were and what his fears.

In taking account of seventeen years of law practice, Adams concluded that `` no lawyer in America ever did so much business as I did '' and `` for so little profit ''.

When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )

When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.

`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.

I refer to the notion that the structure of society is a microcosm of the cosmic design and that history conforms to patterns of justice and chastisement as if it were a morality play set in motion by the gods for our instruction.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

God knows what the African nations, who hold 25 per cent of the voting stock in the U.N. were thinking -- they may, for example, have been thinking of the U.S. abstention when the vote on Algerian freedom was before the Assembly -- but I think I have a fairly accurate notion of what the Negroes in the gallery were thinking.

The stab-in-the-back myth ( German: )< ref > Despite the similarity of the German word Legende and the English word " legend ", " stab-in-the-back < u > myth </ u >" is the preferred term in English .</ ref > is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy.

The term exon derives from the expressed region and was coined by American biochemist Walter Gilbert in 1978: " The notion of the cistron … must be replaced by that of a transcription unit containing regions which will be lost from the mature messengerwhich I suggest we call introns ( for intragenic regions ) alternating with regions which will be expressedexons.

Mussolini wrote approvingly of the notion that profits should not be taken away from those who produced them by their own labour, saying " I do not respect — I even hate — those men that leech a tenth of the riches produced by others ".

he use of " liberty " to describe the physical " ability to do what I want ", the power to satisfy our wishes, or the extent of the choice of alternatives open to us ... has been deliberately fostered as part of the socialist argument ... the notion of collective power over circumstances has been substituted for that of individual liberty.

" The notion of the cistron [...] must be replaced by that of a transcription unit containing regions which will be lost from the mature messenger-which I suggest we call introns ( for intragenic regions )-alternating with regions which will be expressed-exons.

I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons.

It is generally accepted that single weapons system types are much less effective without the support of the full combined arms team ; the pre-World War II notion of " tank fleets " has proven to be as unsound as the World War I idea of unsupported infantry attacks.

" I am troubled by-and other scholars are troubled by-the notion of putting relatives on the bargaining table ," said Vivian Berger, a professor at Columbia University Law School, in a 1990 interview with the New York Times.

Dawson's first chance to prove himself against an NFL team ended in failure, with his Chiefs losing 35-10 in Super Bowl I, reinforcing the notion that his success was only due to playing in the " inferior league ".

Burnett was going to be credited on the film as " Music Supervisor " but asked his credit to be " Music Archivist " because he " hated the notion of being a supervisor ; I wouldn't want anyone to think of me as management ".

OS-9's notion of processes and I / O paths is quite similar to that of Unix in nearly all respects, but there are some significant differences.

A strong believer in the notion of rule by divine right, England's Charles I persecuted religious dissenters.

Frederick Henry Boland, Secretary of the Department of External Affairs, said caustically that the affair demonstrated that " the Taoiseach has as much notion of diplomacy as I have of astrology ".

Simek continues that the notion of an eternal battle and daily resurrection can be found in book I of Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum and in reports of the eternal battle of Hjaðningavíg.

It also contains the notion of military pre-eminence that was reflected in a Department of Defense paper of 1992, " Defense Policy Guidance ", prepared by two principal authors ( Paul Wolfowitz and I. Lewis Libby ) working under then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney.

A strong suggestion of this notion is the etymology of the name of the city itself, which matched that of the pyramid of Pepi I of the 6th dynasty.