Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

`` I really do have something important to tell you, Mr. Scott.

I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.

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.

The stink is all the same to me, but I really think they can make one another out blindfolded ''.

I really didn't know what he meant.

I leave out of account the question of the best interests of the children, the question of what their best interests really are.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

I say the late seventeenth century because Racine ( whom Lessing did not really know ) stands on the far side of the chasm.

He felt as I felt about this best of all my books, that it was `` really tops ''.

I am really ill at the present moment, and I will go to some sort of a sanitarium to normalize myself ''.

Harcourt replied: `` I do really hope you can achieve serenity in the course of time.

Without really changing the general subject, I take this opportunity to confess that I am troubled by doubts, not only about pacifism, but also when asked to join in the protest against a law that most of those who consider themselves humane and liberal seem to regard as obviously barbarous ; ;

I grant that the dog may not be really protective, based on his training, but if you were roaming the streets looking for a purse to snatch or a young lady to molest, how quick would you be to attack a person strolling with a dog??

Although I suggested that you hold the bar at the back of the neck there's no reason why you shouldn't make some experiments with the bar held in front of the neck.

`` I shouldn't like to have to write you up for insubordination as well as dereliction of duty ''.

Actually, I shouldn't complain, I told myself in the shaving mirror.

`` I shouldn't have been able to do that ''.

`` One shouldn't mix commercial affairs with patriarchy, but in this case I have no choice.

Some day, if I ever get a chance, I shall write a book, or warning, on the character and temperament of the dachshund and why he can't be trained and shouldn't be.

In 1886 he said: " I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

I hadn't hurt anybody or been found taking something I shouldn't take, but I felt as if I was in the middle of a police investigation.

The film opened to poor reviews and mediocre ticket sales and Tate was quoted as confiding to a reporter, " It's a terrible movie ", before adding, " Sometimes I say things I shouldn't.

In Flashman, Flashman says that the family fortune was made by his great-grandfather, Jack Flashman, in America trading in rum, slaves and " piracy too, I shouldn't wonder.

He later said, " I just thought to myself, ' At this point in my life, if this is the best I can do, they shouldn't give me money to make movies.

However, if he shouldn't arrive in time to help me, I shall certainly be ready to ' head east '— perhaps I could help him in writing his new book!

" I said to him then, " But as a defender of Gruhnspahn shouldn't you protect not only the interests of your client, but his honour as well?

Because maybe I'm just some lame person and I shouldn't be in music at all.

`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.

`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

There's someone there I have to see.

I have to think about it.

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

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

I have it with me, right here.

) 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.

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

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

But, by gosh, I want him and I'm going to have him!!

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

`` I have a little job for you, Charlie.

`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.

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.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

I wouldn't have known the difference.