`` That I can't answer, for I can't imagine something like this happening to me.

Prior to 1954 I imagine that a majority of Southerners would have voted against the Confederacy.

Says he, `` I may never imagine that in the struggle between personal and supra-personal responsibility it is possible to make a compromise between the ethical and the purposive in the shape of a relative ethic ; ;

In fact I cannot imagine myself condemning a man to the noose or the electric chair if I had to take, as an individual, the responsibility for his death.

`` I imagine you're always battling in school ''.

I cannot imagine a single scene that isn't done in a far naughtier manner on TV every week.

`` I can imagine '', she said.

`` What did I imagine ''??

`` Somehow I imagine that as you grew up you were alone a lot.

`` I can imagine ''!!

I couldn't imagine her without it.

But on meeting Mackenzie, Dufferin revised his opinions: " However narrow and inexperienced Mackenzie may be, I imagine he is a thoroughly upright, well-principled, and well-meaning man.

Whatever my mistakes or failings, I could not imagine that I should find myself at the center of such a political campaign as has been worked up round my name in the West.

In contrast, Huston Smith, scholar of world religions, said of the Mitchell version, " This translation comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine.

The expedition was successful, and Jenner wrote, " I don ’ t imagine the annals of history furnish an example of philanthropy so noble, so extensive as this.

It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine "-" I was within a hair's breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say.

I could scarcely imagine myself to be in the woods of Indiana, on the borders of the Wabash, while pacing the long resounding aisles, and surveying the stately colonnades of this church.

" I can imagine only 60 percent of the space in this building ," he said during the early stages.

I would imagine we'll probably get there some time in the next year and start working on that.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

Suddenly a treble auto horn tootley-toot-tootled, and, thumbing hopefully, I saw emergent in windshield flash: red lips, streaming silk of blonde hair and -- ah, trembling confusion of hope, apprehension, despair -- the leering face of old Herry.

Maybe I would beat old Herry to Siberia after all.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

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

`` Yes, George, but I ain't got poor old Pat's body yet.

`` I got Margaret Rider in one of them old box cars down there by the quarry ''.

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

If the old fool argues about the price, tell him I shall order my husband not to treat him as a patient any longer.

But I usually stick to the old phrase: ' Ich habe ein Amt, aber keine Meinung ( I hold an office, but I do not feel entitled to have an opinion ).

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

I saw a piece the other day assailing William Buckley, author of Man And God at Yale and publisher of The National Review, as no conservative at all, but an old liberal.

I suppose we might classify Billy Graham as an old liberal.

Don't forget, I am an old member of the club, a former delegate.

In The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, it may be noted, Swift himself contemptuously dismissed Steele's reference to his friend at court: `` I suppose by the Style of old Friend, and the like, it must be some Body there of his own Level ; ;

May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.

`` Baby, I saw a lot of old friends I hadn't seen in a long time '', he told me, his eyes bright.

Never hearing from him again, I remembered the little boy of whom I had had such doubts when he was ten years old.

To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.

`` But I still think Penny's an awful nice girl, Russ '' --

One of the girl students, sitting by while I ate the thick soup, asked me if I had a sleeping bag.

but I am also a young, able and willing girl who wants to study the Chinese language but is not old enough.

She said, `` I notice the girl from across the street hasn't bothered to phone or visit ''.

I got a girl in trouble and we had to get married.

`` I'd give anything if I could have found a girl like you ''.

It would be the first time I had ever been completely alone with a girl I loved.

I had no idea of what subjects one discussed when alone with a girl, or how one behaved: Should I hold her hand while walking or only when crossing the street??

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

`` I see the girl but I don't see the car with slacks on ''.

`` I like the tradition '', a girl said.

I don't blame that girl for breaking her engagement with you.

As for that other girl, let's just say that I never want to see her again.

Now, riding this hospital bus, feeling isolated and utterly alone, I knew that she was genuine and unique, quite unlike any girl I had known before.

The place wasn't particularly busy at that time of night, and the girl who was waiting on me, who was clothed in the tightest-fitting pair of slacks I had ever seen on a woman and a sweater that showed everything there was -- and there was lots of it -- wanted to be sociable.

I had a bowl of decent chowder, phoned the Doc and he said he'd leave the death statements with his girl -- in a half hour.

In the end, I did the same old picture, the naked girl and the guy in the doorway, only I put a Lord Byron shirt on the guy, gave him a sword instead of a pistol, and painted in furniture from the stills of a costume movie.