`` 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.

He was surprisingly able to complete " I Could Have Danced All Night " from My Fair Lady in one 24 hour period.

Further, test audience screenings revealed a surprisingly mixed reaction to the sequences as they appeared in their unfinished form ; in post-screening surveys, they dominated both the " Scenes I liked most " and " Scenes I liked least " fields.

There is a hill overlooking the town called Cross Hill, which has a fort on it with some Victorian cannons and a pair of BL 5. 5 inch Mark I naval guns, that were originally fitted to HMS Hood ; the latter were used to repel a U-Boat German attack during World War II with surprisingly great success-the Germans did not approach the island again.

She additionally performed the songs " I Got Rhythm " ( also in Garland's repertoire ) and " Who Wants to Be a Millionaire " in a duet with, perhaps surprisingly, Seth MacFarlane.

King Stephen Tvrtko I surprisingly died on 10 March 1391.

Not surprisingly he was a great Sevens player: I don't think Gordon shone at the short game.

Ned Raggett of Allmusic gave I Don't Want to Grow Up four stars out of five, saying that " When the four want to be straight up and perfectly poppy, they can and do with smashing success, with surprisingly mature, emotional lyrics and playing that doesn't rely on all-speed all the time.

He recalled, " I was surprisingly calm.

For such an avant-garde figure, Denis had a surprisingly broad religious streak, writing in his notebook at age 15, " Yes, it's necessary that I am a Christian painter, that I celebrate all the miracles of Christianity, I feel it's necessary.

John might be mistaken about his belief that I have a wife, or he might be deliberately trying to misinform his audience, and this has an effect on the meaning of the second sentence, but, perhaps surprisingly, not on the first one.

The response to Good as I Been to You was surprisingly positive, particularly for an album with very modest ambitions.

The video was memorable, and the song itself – somewhat unusual in its musical approach, and even more so in its lyrics, which led off with a quotation from Oscar Wilde and ran through an extensive roster of famous artists from various fields, all dead, with years of births and deaths specified – stabilized the band as a cult favorite among indie lovers, and is the paradigm of the surprisingly successful " list " style of song which Couse has frequently used ( the first example of this style had been the title track on I Want Too Much ).

Highlights include a rare and surprisingly fine lead vocal by Williams on his own composition, " Darling, Stand by Me ( Song for My Woman )", Richard Street's ballad, " If I Don't Love You This Way ", and Leonard's stunning debut as a Temptation in the ensemble vocal of " What You Need Most ( I Do Best of All )".

I say appearing to ; for then, in its own way, his music surprisingly regains its form, makes sense, establishes its own boundaries.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

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 got a coin between my thumb and forefinger, leaned my elbows in a very natural and casual manner on top of the truck cab and flipped my little missile.

In fact, I was watching you on that little seventeen-inch screen when you rang my bell.

The keys were still in it, and I was miles away before I remembered that my clothes and purse and everything were still in the little cabana where I'd changed ''.

As cheerfully as possible, he said, `` Well, I guess we could all do with a little drink ''.

`` Well, I was a little bit confused.

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 ''.

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.

Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; ;

That little spark is all the wealth I know, That little spark is my life's misery ''.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

I have been so weary of the excessive rocking of the vessel, and the almost intolerable smell after the rain, that I have done little more than lounge on the bed for several days.

I am a great deal at the little children's Hospital.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

yet the tide is too strong against us, and I fear ( if the framer of hearts help not ) it will force me to little Patience, a little isle next to your Prudence ''.