I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

) 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.

For weeks I wandered about this neighborhood of warehouses and garages, truck terminals and taxi repair shops, gasoline pumps and longshoremen's lunch counters, yet never did I cease to feel myself a stranger there.

`` I never saw him.

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 never wear anything at all.

`` No, I never did see his face.

I can never pronounce it ''.

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

Never, never did I offer him the exclusive rights.

`` I never heard that ''.

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

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

His first inaugural address speaks of `` my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love ''.

But I would never have thought of it myself ''.

Then, after overtures to accept a settlement and go through with a divorce, Miriam gave a ghastly echo of Mrs. Micawber by suddenly stating, `` I will never leave Mr. Wright ''.

From her California headquarters, Miriam fired back, `` I shall never divorce Mr. Wright, to permit him to marry Olga Milanoff ''.

), I have never wanted to know what you knew of passion.

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.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I felt certain it was self-appointed.

I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.

I had felt the draft they were making while mounting the stairs.

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.

Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.

I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.

`` I guess we both felt it ''.

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 felt a queasiness in my own stomach but it wouldn't do to show these girls that we were afraid.

`` I saw the boy Dandy at the Congo Square festivities and felt sorry for him.

Since he introduces so much modern music, I could not resist asking how he felt about it.

Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; ;

If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

`` I felt that I must devote myself to the ' outside ' world ''.

Never until in this work of S-D organization have I realized and felt the attitude and experience of a Teacher.

I guess you'd better go on in the morning ''.

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

I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

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

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

`` Madame Noel, I think you had better go '', said Mrs. Cupply.

`` And I think you had better leave '', replied Miriam.

' I think you had better leave '!!

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

So far as I am concerned, the child is unmistakably father to the man, despite the obvious fact that child and father differ greatly -- sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.

`` She's probably getting old -- crotchety, I mean -- and we figured uh-uh, better not.

I knew better.

I knew better but I was thinking of the Pedersen kid mother-naked in all that dough.

`` Chickens have short memories '', the doctor remarked, `` that's why they are better company than most people I know '', and he went on to break some important news to Alex.

`` I guess I better get ready to go ''.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Tuesday, October 24th, 1961, as United Nations day, calling upon all our citizens to engage in appropriate observances, demonstrating faith in the United Nations and thereby contributing to a better understanding of the aims of the United Nations throughout the land.

( An unheated greenhouse would have been better, if I had had one.

During the return trip, Barco kept muttering to himself in meaningless phrases, such as: `` They're under sand dunes They're better off, I tell you I saved their souls ''.