I saw the pony fall like a stone and the young warrior flew over its head, bouncing like a rubber ball.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

We've been starving and I don't like to starve ''.

Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.

`` I feel like getting back to town, that's what I feel like!!

Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.

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

Like Luis, I can't see something like this happening to me.

`` So help me, Crouch, I'd like to kill you where you stand, but, before I do, I'm going to hear you admit killing him.

Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.

She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.

I swam like mad, got out of the pool, grabbed my robe, and ran to the car.

However, when there's a job to be done, I'm a monstrosity of grim determination, I like to think.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

You hate me, you hate my guts, because I like to hunt.

But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.

`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.

I mean such concepts as the presence of the supernatural in human affairs, the sacraments of grace and divine retribution, the idea of preordainment ( the oracle over Oedipus, the prophecy of the witches to Macbeth, or God's covenant with His people in Athalie ).

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??

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.

In his analysis, however, he touches upon but fails to explore an idea, generally neglected in discussions of the book, which I believe is central to its art -- the importance of human hands as a recurring feature of the narrative.

`` I haven't the faintest idea.

I asked a silly question: `` You've no idea where your husband could be, now ''??

You see, I thought -- I mean I really had no idea '' --

`` Do you have any idea how far I travel every day??

Attending the life class was my idea -- or rather, Askington's idea, but I was ripe for it, and the other two wouldn't have gone if I hadn't talked them into it.

I was turning over the idea of a good debauchery when I dozed off.

My head was clear, my thinking sober and I was reconciled to this Paris idea as a flop on top of all my others.

I said with enthusiasm at the idea.

`` I had no idea that you, too, would be on this glorious voyage.

Lincoln rejected the idea, saying, " I will suffer death before I consent ... to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right.

Abby May described her idea: " I thought it would afford a daily opportunity for the children, indeed all of us, to interchange thought and sentiment ".

A modest Bradman can be heard in a 1930 recording saying " I have always endeavoured to do my best for the side, and the few centuries that have come my way have been achieved in the hope of winning matches.

Supposedly the twenty domes were built instead of the twenty separate mosques which Sultan Bayezid I had promised for winning the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396.

At the Division I FBS level, teams must earn the right to be bowl eligible by winning at least 6 games during the season ( teams that play 13 games in a season, which is allowed for

He enlisted in the Army during World War I after graduating college, and again in World War II at the peak of his career, when he directed 11 documentary war films for the U. S. government's Why We Fight series, winning an Academy Award for one and a Distinguished Service Medal when the war ended.

Rockne posted the highest all-time winning percentage (. 881 ) for an American FBS / Division I college football coach.

* 1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: " I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing.

After winning re-election in December 2006, Chávez said, " Now more than ever, I am obliged to move Venezuela's path towards socialism.

I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money ".

Williams felt that he should have gotten a " little more consideration " because of him winning the Triple Crown, and he thought that " the reason I didn't get more consideration was because of the trouble I had with the draft ".

* November 21 – Vietnam War: United States General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: " I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing.

* 1288 – June 5 – John I of Brabant defeats the duchy of Guelders in the Battle of Worringen — one of the largest battles in Europe of the Middle Ages — thus winning possession of the duchy of Limburg.

Despite winning all three main round games, so did France and Spain, and those two teams qualified for the semi-finals from Group I.

* June 5 – Battle of Worringen: John I of Brabant defeats the duchy of Guelders in one of the largest battles in Europe of the Middle Ages, thus winning possession of the duchy of Limburg.

And after winning his Best Actor Oscar later in the evening, he said in his acceptance speech, " There must be some terrible mistake, I used up all my English!

During World War I he fought with Infanterieregiment 363 on the Western Front, winning the Iron Cross twice.

Italy suffered enormous losses in World War I but came out on the winning side.

There does not appear to be any such outward sign of a championship at present, and considering the general interest which matches now elicit, and the importance of having the game played fairly and under rules generally recognized, I am willing to give a cup which shall be held from year to year by the winning team.

The unbeaten Hill Rise had an impressive campaign in California, winning the San Felipe Stakes and the Grade I Santa Anita Derby.

The Juniata Men's Volleyball Team competes in the Continental Volleyball Conference ( formerly it competed in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association winning several titles under, both, Division I and Division III sanctioning ).

Sanskritic interpretations of Mitanni royal names render Artashumara ( artaššumara ) as Arta-smara " who thinks of Arta / Ṛta " ( Mayrhofer II 780 ), Biridashva ( biridašṷa, biriiašṷa ) as Prītāśva " whose horse is dear " ( Mayrhofer II 182 ), Priyamazda ( priiamazda ) as Priyamedha " whose wisdom is dear " ( Mayrhofer II 189, II378 ), Citrarata as citraratha " whose chariot is shining " ( Mayrhofer I 553 ), Indaruda / Endaruta as Indrota " helped by Indra " ( Mayrhofer I 134 ), Shativaza ( šattiṷaza ) as Sātivāja " winning the race price " ( Mayrhofer II 540, 696 ), Šubandhu as Subandhu ' having good relatives " ( a name in Palestine, Mayrhofer II 209, 735 ), Tushratta ( tṷišeratta, tušratta, etc.

A modest Bradman can be heard in a 1930 recording saying " I have always endeavoured to do my best for the side, and the few centuries that have come my way have been achieved in the hope of winning matches.

I considered it like winning a gold medal ; I had done my very best and I still believe I would have won at sea level.