I looked back at pale ovals framed in the elongated oval of the car's rear window.

I looked at my watch.

I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.

I looked.

I looked with revulsion at the legs.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

I looked unceasingly With my cold mind and with my burning heart ''.

As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.

Alarmed by this display of weapons, I looked toward the bridge and there saw, stretched across the near side, a cordon of policemen, their bicycles forming a roadblock before which stood several French officers in uniform and a small waspish man in a brown derby.

I looked from her to him.

The young banker looked at him with a certain surprise, and then he said flatly: `` I'm afraid I can't tell you anything in particular about Kent House.

`` Finally, all I needed was to throw a little piece of red wood that looked like a firecracker and that dumb dog would run ki-yi-ing for his life ''.

With my gray hair and my weatherbeaten countenance I certainly looked the honest working stiff.

She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.

I looked over their faces and felt a twinge: they all looked so much more knowing than I.

I looked away.

I looked for Jessica to materialize out of the clogging, curdling crowd and, as the time passed and I waited, a fiend came to life beside me and whispered in my ear: How was I planning to greet Jessica??

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

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.

No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.

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

If I don't come back in the house, Breed's going to '' --

`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.

I waved with discretion and moderation to the vague golden faces fading through rising dust and the distortions of the back window glass.

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.

I drew back, drawing back my foot for a kick.

`` Hell, yes '', I roared back between dusty lips.

When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.

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

Everybody left and I stayed in the pool, then Lou came back alone and leaped into the pool too.

I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.

It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

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

`` If I don't come out within half an hour ride back to town and bring out a posse ''.

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

When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.

) 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.

Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.

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.

`` I've got her as neat as I can '', Donovan said, as he dropped the straps of the Seton harness over Greg's shoulders.

Quickly but carefully lowering my duffel bag over the low side-rack, I stepped on the running board ; ;

I ducked just as the first strand broke somewhere down the line and came whipping over the sideboards.

Foster Lukuklu Frayne made a sign over his heart with his two linked thumbs: I recognized it as an ancient Manu gesture intended to propitiate the Devil.

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.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

Just as I was about to enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the leaf of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield its unsavory secrets, dashed ahead of me, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.