`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

`` But that was war '', I said.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

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

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.

This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

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 decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

`` I've been in government and I can tell some pretty hairy stories about personnel difficulties, so I know what a problem he was ''.

I was the first to get my squad on the ball, and anybody thinkin it was easy is pretty damn dumb.

When I was in liquor I rode him pretty hard I guess.

In I knew you when you were a child, and you were pretty then dominant stress on then implies that the young woman spoken to is still pretty.

A Reb stationed near Petersburg informed his mother: `` I need not tell you that I dodge pretty often for you can see that very plainly by the blots in this letter.

I suddenly thought of Mary Jane Brennan, the way her pretty eyes could flash with anger, her quiet competence, the gentleness and sweetness that lay just beneath the surface of her defenses.

`` Oh, yes '', I said, feeling annoyed, `` she was very pretty.

Oh, Katharine's awfully nice, and pretty too, I like Katharine -- Let's ask Katharine to go with us, she's always lots of fun -- Katharine --

`` I know we'd be pretty crowded.

I thought that was pretty humorous, but I didn't laugh.

" I suppose you know pretty well everything there is to know about Poirot's family by this time ".

Whedon stated: " The Origin comic, though I have issues with it, CAN pretty much be accepted as canonical.

But, even though I disagree with him, his simulation is pretty good, so I ’ m willing to credit him with real thought.

I could have wound up in pretty bad shape.

It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.

At 15 he began to write lyrics (" I like to rock, I like to dance, I like pretty girls taking down their pants " MixMag 1996 ).

Finale, Act I: " Can I survive this overbearing?

" He said: " I am indeed a servant of Allah: He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet ; And He hath made me blessed wheresoever I be, and hath enjoined on me Prayer and Charity as long as I live ; ( He ) hath made me kind to my mother, and not overbearing or miserable ; So peace is on me the day I was born, the day that I die, and the day that I shall be raised up to life ( again )"!

Barron's character, CJ ( Charles Jefferson ), was Perrin's overbearing boss, famous for the catchphrase " I didn't get where I am today by ...".

A lot of people feel I'm overbearing, so I wasn't allowed in the studio when she did her vocals. I'm trying to work on that, I'm such a perfectionist, sometimes I don't give people the chance to breathe.