`` 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 must then be standing on the line between France and Germany ''.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

I remember standing in a corner, watching Jessica act the hostess, serving soft drinks to her guests.

I was at least conscious of the distinction in my full Yokuts presentation that awaits publication, in which, in listing ' Two-Stem Meanings ', I set off by asterisks those forms in which N of stem B was Af of stem A/3, the unasterisked ones standing for Af ; ;

I don't even own the house I'm standing in.

We'd been standing right outside Miss Bancroft's door and as I went to turn the knob to enter, I was surprised to find that the door was slightly ajar.

As he passed where I was standing, he raised his head for a second, and to this day I can remember what I felt as our eyes met.

Giacometti's work on the project resulted in the four figures of standing women — his largest sculptures — entitled Grande femme debout I through IV ( 1960 ).

' Originally, it was used to cure illness and the ' thing ' was the illness, but I decided to make it the ' thing ' as in the person standing in front of me.

De Palma describes the sequence as a constant invocation of Brechtian distanciation: “ First of all, I am interested in the medium of film itself, and I am constantly standing outside and making people aware that they are always watching a film.

The Israelites cross the Jordan through the miraculous intervention of God and his ark and are circumcised at Gibeath-Haaraloth ( translated as hill of foreskins ), renamed Gilgal in memory ( Gilgal sounds like Gallothi, I have removed, but is more likely to translate as circle of standing stones ).

" If you bind me so that I am unable to release myself, then you will be standing by in such a way that I should have to wait a long time before I got any help from you.

" If I have seen further, it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Emperor Wilhelm I described Abeken in a condolence letter to his widow: One of my most reliable advisors, standing on my side in the most decisive moments ; His loss is irreplaceable to me ; In him his fatherland has lost one of the most noble and most loyal men and officials.

In a 1981 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Entwistle confessed, " A lot of times when Keith was blowing up toilets I was standing behind him with the matches.

A telling incident took place after the battle, a testimony to Mieszko's high standing among the Empire's dignitaries, just one year after his baptism: Widukind of Corvey reported that the dying Wichmann asked Mieszko to hand over Wichmann's weapons to Emperor Otto I, to whom Wichmann was related.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.

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??

As I slid in beside him he said, `` Some heap, hey??

I took the pint bottle from my pocket and handed it over as I sat down beside him on the spread blanket.

I swallowed hard and looked down at my feet plodding along beside Rachel.

I huddled miserably beside him in the truck.

I let the engine idle then, and I got down and went around the wheel and stood beside it.

The body caressed through my hands like cool satin, and my hands, usually tanned and dark, were pale beside it, and I asked it where the fire colors could come from the coolness of that body.

He asked, as he often did, and I had as often let him be on the tractor beside me.

Then looking at him darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him :' Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympos. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles .… And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, sinceyou are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you. But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinouslong since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky.

For he said, " I am God and there is no other God beside me ," for he is ignorant of his strength, the place from which he had come.

I employ a cab — I am seated beside white people — I reach the hotel — I enter the same door — I am shown into the same parlour — I dine at the same table — and no one is offended ...

Libanius says in his epitaph of the deceased emperor ( 18. 304 ) that " I have mentioned representations ( of Julian ); many cities have set him beside the images of the gods and honour him as they do the gods.

Justin speaks of the divine Logos as " another God " beside the Father, qualified by the gloss: ‘ other, I mean, in number, not in will ’.

Emperor Otto I the Great was buried here beside his wife in 973.