I heard the whir of an ax and a Canadian's face burst apart in a bloody spray.

I heard o' Texas cattlemen wrappin' a cow thief up in green hides and lettin' the sun shrink 'em and squeeze him to death.

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

`` I heard how you outdrew Chico.

Just as I straightened up with my duffel bag, I heard: `` Sahjunt Yoorick, meet Mrs. Major J. A. Roebuck ''.

I heard the screech of brakes behind me, an insane burst of laughter beneath me.

I heard her murmur, `` We'd better lock the door ''.

I heard subsequently that my Uncle and Aunt had dinner in a nearby restaurant in the French Quarter after which he went home to get into his costume to keep the date.

I heard a cry from a stoker as a pillar of flame leaped from a hatch and tongued the man's bare back.

Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

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.

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

`` I never heard that ''.

I never heard of a poll being taken on the question.

and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.

I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.

She wrote in her journal, `` I have not heard the least profane language since I have been on board the vessel.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.

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

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

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.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

As best as I could determine, we were some 700 miles west of New Guinea, in the Bismark Archipelago.

I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.

`` I suppose because it saves them some loss of body water.

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 )

I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

I am usually filled with an uneasiness that through some unwitting slip all hell may break loose.

But I have been at some pains to review it as the drama of the common man, to point up what happened to him under Eisenhower's leadership.

If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

Other countries, some of which I visited last month, have similar needs.

I had known him for some years, when I was a delegate and before, and this manner had never been his ''.

`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.

I tried.

I saw you driftin away -- but I tried.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.

The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.

When, in my enthusiasm, I proposed the party, my city editor ( who disliked the club and many of its members ) tried to block my participation in the gala event.

Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.

Many times I tried to reach you, but I never knew how.

I tried to do so by calling to their attention some of the problems that a senior departmental policy officer faces.

It's extremely accurate for an auto, and the test rifle I tried was completely trouble-free in functioning.

I tried my hardest, with little help, may I say, from my husband and leading man, but somehow the outside pressures were too severe.

I once tried to describe to a very well-known American intellectual the conditions among Negroes in the South.

I tried to explain what has happened, unfailingly, whenever a significant body of Negroes move North.