`` 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 do not know if such a way of life can come to be a self-conscious challenge, but I suspect that it can.

At the risk of losing my charge-a-plate at Marshall Field and Company, I would like to challenge an old and hallowed stereotype.

But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

It was only after we had responded, with what I fear were similar cliches, that she went into action by questioning our desire for friendship and understanding with a challenge about aggressive and warlike actions by the U.S. Government in Cuba and Laos.

The state is now faced with the immediate question of raising new taxes whether on utilities, real estate or motor vehicles, he said, `` and I challenge Mitchell to tell the people where he stands on the tax issue ''.

Most studies have been based only on bipolar I, however, and treatment during the acute phase can be a particular challenge.

David Kusche pointed out a common problem with many of the Bermuda Triangle stories and theories: " Say I claim that a parrot has been kidnapped to teach aliens human language and I challenge you to prove that is not true.

Speaking to Soviet officials in the aftermath of the crisis, Khrushchev asserted, " I know for certain that Kennedy doesn ’ t have a strong background, nor, generally speaking, does he have the courage to stand up to a serious challenge.

" This " Israel " was a cultural and probably political entity of the central highlands, well enough established to be perceived by the Egyptians as a possible challenge to their hegemony, but an ethnic group rather than an organised state ; Archaeologist Paula McNutt says: " It is probably ... during Iron Age I a population began to identify itself as ' Israelite '," differentiating itself from its neighbours via prohibitions on intermarriage, an emphasis on family history and genealogy, and religion.

) Polgár said she did not challenge this, explaining afterwards, " I was playing the World Champion and didn't want to cause unpleasantness during my first invitation to such an important event.

Polgár said that for her to consider competing it would have to be a challenge and " if I get an extremely nice offer just to play for the title.

This challenge was overcome when in a pioneering development in 1982, excimer laser lithography was proposed and demonstrated at I. B. M.

Burton commented how hard it sometimes was to straight-facedly deliver the Treknobabble used by La Forge in these scenes: " Technobabble brings with it its own challenge ... I ’ m not an engineer, I just played one on TV.

The challenge may be expressed as follows: given that I can only observe the behavior of others, how can I know that others have minds?

In his most open challenge to Congress, Harding forced a deferral of a budget-busting World War I soldier's bonus in an effort to reduce costs.

I responded to the challenge by becoming that alarming, hazardous, sexually disruptive woman.

As I write, there is an important one-off performance on offer, in the USA, and it remains to be decided whether we will take up this particular challenge.

In response to the challenge, Williams countered with a broadcast entitled I am for Black Power.

Determined to prevent this formidable challenge to his Christological compromise, Sergius wrote to the Patriarch of the West, Pope Honorius I, at Rome, asking him to endorse a position that Church unity should not be endangered by having any discussions or disputes over Christ ’ s possessing one energy or two.

Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.

His heart was pounding like a mighty dynamo and he was trying to think, his mind seeming to scream at him like a hurt or frightened child, `` How will I do it??

The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.

If I am to speak the whole truth about my knowledge of love, I will have to stop trying to emulate the transcendant nightingale.

I was delighted to make that personal contact in such trying and unusual circumstances.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

I've had a trying day and I just can't make it out again '', I told them.

Never once during the trying thirties did I come so close to succumbing to the private climate of opinion as to grant Russian communism even that most weasel-worded of encomiums `` an interesting experiment ''.

And to top it all I am often sentimental on purpose, trying to prove to myself that I am not afraid of sentiment.

`` For a time I thought of trying to reach the Free Polish Forces, but one thing led to another.

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 was stumbling in my undershirt trying to find my way around her damn kitchenette when I smelt that sickish sweet hairtonic smell.

Afterwards I learned that Eileen had called Thelma on the telephone and made a big scene about Thelma trying to take her husband away.

I didn't say anything, trying to get my throat clear, but I watched him.

I have never seen Caper off his feet -- he seems to know nothing but ' trot ' and keeps trying a little harder if asked to do so.

Louise climbed onto a stool and clutched the hand with which I was trying to hold the phone, claiming my immediate attention on grounds of extreme emergency.

They were, I felt, people invariably trying to prove not who, but what they were, and trying to determine what, not who, others were.

It was for this reason, and no other that I can see, that in September 1912, Braque took the radical and revolutionary step of pasting actual pieces of imitation-woodgrain wallpaper to a drawing on paper, instead of trying to simulate its texture in paint.