`` 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.

It was also used by Robert Hooke and Voltaire, the latter of whom remarked: " L ' univers m ' embarrasse, et je ne puis songer Que cette horloge existe, et n ' ait point d ' horloger "; " I'm puzzled by the world ; I cannot dream The timepiece real, its maker but a dream ".

I must have shown that I was not only puzzled but crestfallen, at this exception to what looked like a very pretty rule of stellar characteristics ; but Pickering smiled upon me, and said: " It is just these exceptions that lead to an advance in our knowledge ", and so the white dwarfs entered the realm of study!

We had a phonograph and I often noticed how puzzled he was to make out where the voice came from.

When it could be turned over an inscription of Merenptah recording his triumphs over the Libyans and the Peoples of the Sea was revealed ; Spiegelberg noted German philologist came over to read it, and near the end of the text he was puzzled by one, that of a people or tribe whom Merenptah had victoriously smitten --" I. si. ri. ar?

However puzzled I may be by this dissonance-inducing news, I may be convinced due to my friendship to accept this evaluation and share it.

But from the start I was puzzled by their occurrence.

Of Ruppelt, he wrote " In my contacts with him I found him to be honest and seriously puzzled about the whole phenomenon.

He went on to say in the article, " I would think that if I was a gay activist, people would say ' Oh, just another bloody fairy out there trying to push his own agenda ', but because of my background, people are a little bit puzzled by it and sitting up and listening.

The room was nearly dark and I was puzzled to hear repeated noises in the loudspeaker attached to the amplifier, noises indicating that a great deal of impulse activity was going on.

< p >... hen critics say in supposed response to me that ' before striking our colors in the culture wars, Christians should at least put up a fight ,' I am puzzled.

Even when Lana Cantrell came into the scene I was puzzled and I did say to him why all this, and of course we all know it was good publicity.

Overall, the first performance was poorly received, something which puzzled the composer: " I thought I had done quite well with it ... it appears I was mistaken ".

Hynek wrote " In my contacts with I found him to be honest and seriously puzzled about the whole phenomenon ".

The initial reviews ranged “ from puzzled to disapproving ” and the play fared little better in America but for all that Beckett wrote to Thomas MacGreevy: “ I have never had such good notices .” Alan Schneider believed the problem was that “ ritics can ’ t seem to comment on what ’ s before them without dragging in the older and rationalising their previous reactions .”

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

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

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.

When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.

I stopped by the counter.

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

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 sat by her on the divan.

I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.

In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.

`` I got Margaret Rider in one of them old box cars down there by the quarry ''.

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;