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.

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.

So many times I have wondered why veterinarians do not wipe the table clean before each new canine patient is placed on it for examination.

'' I thought, and wondered what kind of homesteads such odd pioneers would establish in this suburban frontier ; ;

Rudyard Kipling's scorn for the `` jargon '' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered `` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film ''??

( 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.

`` I think I'll sleep in this morning '', she said drowsily, and as she snuggled against him, he wondered if she ever went to church.

I could see the ancient cynicism reinforce itself in her eyes, and I wondered how many men she had picked up with this same gambit.

I wondered if I ought to go use the new one myself.

The cynicism was back in her eyes, a bitter wisdom, and I wondered if forty were not so far wrong after all.

He then wondered " I took those pleas twice ... were you lying to me then or are you lying to me now?

Often letters feature simple yet absurd statements (" I'm heading off to the pub in a few minutes and wondered if any of your readers fancied joining me for a pint " or " They say size doesn't matter-if that's true, why can't I get these shoes on?

:" I was 17 and I wondered what I was going to do.

She also said in an interview: " I have wondered about lesbianism ... At various times in my life I wanted to be open to the possibility of having a woman as a lover.

" I wondered what this thing could be ," she said.

" I saw you walking and wondered why you did not come ," First Man said.

There is a little curve just after passing over the river, and I wondered if the engine were going to take that curve or if it were going to take to the woods .” When the train came into Waycross, the crew figured they had come the 40 miles from Jesup in 28 minutes.

`` Moriarty '', my driver suddenly exclaimed with something so definite, so final in his tone I once more repeated the absurdity, mustering all my latent powers of hypocrisy to sound convinced.

I bent and kissed the still pink neck and suddenly she jumped up, and her two arms encircled me in a bear-like crush.

Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.

Then, after overtures to accept a settlement and go through with a divorce, Miriam gave a ghastly echo of Mrs. Micawber by suddenly stating, `` I will never leave Mr. Wright ''.

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.

`` If you saw the drama called Rhinoceros '', I said, `` think of the effect it would have on an audience of rhinos when the actor on stage suddenly begins turning into a rhinoceros.

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.

It suddenly seemed very important to me that Mary Jane Brennan should know the truth about me -- that I was not the confused, sick, irresponsible person she believed me to be.

It suddenly occurred to me that I did not particularly like acting, that I was at some sort of crossroads and would have to decide soon what I was going to do with my life.

He started to say something as I walked in and then suddenly grinned and said, `` Oh, yes.

`` -- had enough brains to call ya up so as ya could do sompin about it when the parents -- I coulda let her go go '' -- His eyes were lowered, so he couldn't have seen the narrow, pointed face of his companion suddenly writhe with fury ; ;

Then one day, early in January, 1960, I sat down at my desk, and suddenly I was aware of the crucifix.

I was suddenly conscious of my bare arms.

Johnnie I suddenly realized he'd been totally out of my thoughts all evening.

My head began to ache, and the fumes of the tractor began to bother my eyes, and I hated the job suddenly, and I thought, there are only moments when one sees beautiful things, and these are soon crushed, or they vanish.

I wanted to slap his face, to wipe forever the insolence and brutal glee from his mouth, and I decided then, very suddenly, what I would do.

But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.

Recently I was struck anew by the divergent approaches, when in the course of one afternoon and evening I listened to no fewer than ten different performances.

But Schnabel was a great teacher in addition to being a great performer, and the fact that four of the ten versions I listened to are by Schnabel pupils ( Clifford Curzon, Frank Glazer, Adrian Aeschbacher, and Victor Babin ) also sheds light on the master's pedagogical skills.

It seemed incredible, as I listened to the monotonous drone of voices and smelled the fetid odors coming from the patients, that technically I was a ward of the state of Illinois, going to a hospital for the mentally ill.

With his free hand he pulled a pad and pencil toward him and began to make notes as he listened, saying, `` Uh-huh '' and `` I see '' at intervals.

Noticing a rush of horsemen fast approaching from the south, he later recalled – " … I went towards the nearest of these squadrons to instruct their officer, but instead of being listened to was immediately surrounded and called upon to ask for quarter.

But the one radio voice I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald.

* Intentional: ' I listened carefully '

If you listened very carefully, I have already stated to you what the third word is.

If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

I listened to what Hitler said one day when Ribbentrop wasn't present: ' With Ribbentrop it is so easy, he is always so radical.

I had to console them with feeble excuses such as that His Excellency was not very well, or engaged in an urgent state call to Berlin ... For the rest of the morning he listened to reports from members of the Embassy staff, unless I had to accompany him to the Foreign Office ... When Ribbentrop strutted through the Office corridors like a peacock, his head thrown back, it was a miracle that he did not fall over.

I'm saying if I had to sit down in a room and put on an X record — which I don't generally do — I have recently listened to some X records but I generally don't listen to myself — the record I would pick to listen to would be Under the Big Black Sun.