`` 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.

The piece is made up of two interlocking scallop shells, each broken, the upright shell being pierced with the words: " I hear those voices that will not be drowned ", which are taken from Britten's opera Peter Grimes.

In the centre of the East range, the portico of the hall entrance commemorates its construction during the reign of Charles I with the legend " REGNANTE CAROLO ", Charles, being King, in pierced stonework.

All who see me, laugh me to scorn, they draw apart their lips, and wag their heads: ‘ He trusts in the Lord: let him free him, let him deliver him if he loves him .’ Stand not far from me, for I am troubled ; be thou near at hand: for I have no helper … Yea, dogs are round about me ; a company of evildoers encircle me ; they have pierced my hands and feet – I can count all my bones – they stare and gloat over me ; they divide my garments among them, and for my raiment they cast lots " ().

Inspiration for the " Iron Maiden " may come from the Carthaginian execution of Marcus Atilius Regulus, as it was recorded in a passage in Tertullian's " To the Martyrs " ( Chapter 4 ) and Augustine of Hippo's The City of God ( I. 15 ) in which the Carthaginians " packed him into a tight wooden box, spiked with sharp nails on all sides, so that he could not lean in any direction without being pierced ", or by the account of Nabis of Sparta's deadly statue of his wife, the Apega.

It ends with his martyrdom: he dies pierced with spears, having earned the ire of the monarch Misdaeus ( Vasudeva I ) because of his conversion of Misdaeus ' wives and a relative, Charisius.

: Such an argument would not have been used against those whom Francis was appointed to oppose, unless they had believed that three nails were employed: and, accordingly more than a century earlier, the author of the Noble Lesson, whom I suppose to have been a Triclavian, mentions the five wounds ; but, probably in order to avoid giving needless offence is silent as to the number of the nails, and specifies not whether the right side, or the left side was pierced.

I had turned their right, pierced their centre and everywhere victory was mine – but they did not know how to run!

It is a tribute to Benjamin Britten and is pierced with the words " I hear those voices that will not be drowned " from his opera Peter Grimes.

The walls of the Memorial Chamber are divided into 17 niches, each containing a marble slab under a gothic blind arch topped with a gablet and finial, and decorated with various badges and insignia, including those of, on the mouldings: Canada's 178 pre-1914 militia regiments ; in the pierced quatrefoil panels: cavalry, and non-infantry field units ; in the diaper background: pre-Confederation French and British regiments and colonial forces ; on the gablet crockets: reinforced battalions ; on the gablet springers: all branches of the Canadian Corps ; on the arch quatrefoil and cusps: fighting battalions ; on the arch spandrels: medals and war decorations of the allied countries ; on the shield: coats of arms appropriate to the relevant historical context ; and on the low relief panel: historical scenes of Canadians during World War I.

And in truth, last night I dreamed that a griffin came out of the heavens and pierced my shield and armor, so that his claws struck into my liver and my spleen.

This was followed by a " voice of perfect mildness " that is said to have pierced " even to the very soul " when it twice times urged the people to repent and not to " destroy my servants whom I have sent unto you to declare good tidings " and once spoke " marvelous words which cannot be uttered by man ", interspersed with more earthquakes.

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.

I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.

I came to Warsaw twice, but there was that damned ghetto wall ''

The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head, fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed, but his face was turned to the wall -- there was the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster -- and I thought, Well you don't look much like a pig-drunk bully now.

Outside I walked past the entrance to St. Sophia, turned left at the end of it, and continued toward a gate in the wall ahead.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

Passing through the gate, with towers on either side once used as prisons, I entered a huge square surrounded by buildings, and on the wall to my right found a general plan of the grounds, with explanations in English for each building.

I put a small electric amplifier against the wall on the side I wanted to case.

The powerful microphone I could press against the wall between my motel unit and that occupied by the man would bring in the sound of any conversation, and I was positively nauseated I was so hungry.

Pompey built a parallel wall and in between a kind of no man's land was created, with fighting comparable to the trench warfare of World War I.

A first wall was erected by Constantine I, and the city was surrounded by a double wall lying about 2 km to the west of the first wall, begun during the 5th century by Theodosius II.

He said, “ I talked about the wall not only just dividing the U. S. and Mexico but the states of California, New Mexico and Texas.

The most famous historical account of trebuchet use dates back to the siege of Stirling Castle in 1304, when the army of Edward I constructed a giant trebuchet known as “ Warwolf ”, which then proceeded to “ level a section of wall, successfully concluding the siege .”

I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor.

An inscription identifies Callicrates as one of the architects of the Classical circuit wall of the Acropolis ( IG I < sup > 3 </ sup > 45 ), and Plutarch further states ( loc cit ) that he contracted to build the Middle of three amazing walls linking Athens and Piraeus.