`` 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 fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

I marched up to the waiting officials, the students massed behind me.

I was drunk with excitement and the smell of gunpowder that came floating down from the road, and the fact that I was not afraid now, but only waiting to know what to do next.

`` I have been waiting across the street at the post office since dawn.

`` I am terribly sorry to keep you waiting '', she said, `` but won't you make yourself a little drink while you wait??

I knew that both these cynics were waiting with impatience for the dramatic moment when Viola was called to the stand.

I knew that I'd soon be back working as an orderly at the hospital or as a counterman at Union News or Schraffts while waiting for another acting job to open.

The place wasn't particularly busy at that time of night, and the girl who was waiting on me, who was clothed in the tightest-fitting pair of slacks I had ever seen on a woman and a sweater that showed everything there was -- and there was lots of it -- wanted to be sociable.

Still, I wanted to get this over with, had a lot of paper work waiting in my own office.

I can testify that motels, service and comfort stations ( they go together like Scots and heather ), dog wagons, roadside restaurants, souvenir stands and snake farms are braced and waiting.

Thompson himself said: `` I want to enjoy once more the pleasure of bare walls waiting for new pictures ''.

The boys were already waiting in the corridor outside my office when I got to Fairview.

I sat waiting for Life to come along and sweep me up.

Early computer programs performed I / O by waiting in a loop for the peripheral to become ready.

This context switch can be triggered by the process making itself unrunnable, such as by waiting for an I / O or synchronization operation to complete.

" He did not have much time for Kurtz: " One evening coming in with a candle I was startled to hear him say a little tremulously, ' I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.

" She was escorted into a waiting room, and when granted access to see her husband, he quipped to her, " Honey, I forgot to duck ", borrowing the defeated boxer Jack Dempsey's jest to his wife.

# Blocked ( waiting for an event, I / O for example ).

In Polish, a word / phrase can be brought to the front or, less commonly, put to the back of a sentence or clause to add emphasis e. g. " Roweru ci nie kupię " ( I won't buy you a bicycle ), " Od piątej czekam " ( I've been waiting since five ).

You fell down in front of the house, and I carried you in.

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

`` Might get there faster walkin' '', Lord drawled, `` seein' as how I got a busted front spring.

There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.

I spun about and clattered through the front room to the door.

In the shade of a palm tree in front of the squalid dwelling I saw four figures in a semi-circle on the ground.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

It was late, we were playing kissing games, and Jessica and I were called on to kiss in front of the others.

But though I boasted and gave off a dapper front, I was beneath it all frightened.

At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.

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.

Outside St. Sophia I walked through the flower garden in front of it, with the Blue Mosque ahead on my left.

Going through a door into another small court, I had the Throne Room directly in front.

I made a big circle until I located the car parked at the curb in front of an apartment house.

I got into the front seat.

I feel a certain loss of status when I am driven up in front of work in a car driven by my wife, who is only a woman.

`` The old man came from the front of the plane and said he wanted four volunteers to go to Cuba '', McCauley said, `` and like a nut I raised my hand.

( Several times recently I have wondered whether shows were being staged for the sake of the script or just to entertain the audience with the spectacle of scenery being shifted right in front of their eyes.

Even at a car's length I could sense that something was wrong, and so I followed her up to the turnaround in front of the house.