I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.

No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.

As I had expected, he insisted that my visits to the hall would do nothing to further the process of my application.

What sort of men I would come into contact with, at the hall??

Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.

Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.

`` What else would I mean, anyways ''??

`` A body would swear I floated right up here on a cloud ''!!

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

I don't want to leave it ''.

Now dammit, I don't want to go into any more explanations.

`` I want to tell you something Thomas DeMontez Lord.

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

I just want you to take a message to Diane Molinari.

But I want this to sink in awhile.

Did I want a beer??

`` And I so want the part '', she said.

`` I don't want to be thrown out and I don't think I will.

Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.

`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??

I want you to find Monsieur Prieur at once and give him this money for the boy's purchase.

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

You did this you like to hurt to beat people I want to go home ''.

`` But you want a job guaranteed when you return '', I continued my attack.

I want, therefore, to discuss a second and quite different fruit of science, the connection between scientific understanding and fear.

I want to say more about Gabriel's so-called fundamental law.

But first I want to quote him on the relationship that he found between religion and politics in this country and what happened to it.

What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.

' I've found errors and I want you to look them over.

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In his Message of December 2, 1862, he put his purpose and his policy in these words -- which I would call the Lincoln Law of Liberty-and-Union: `` In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free ''.

And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek: `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland.

What I have to put up with!!

Sonuvabitch, I can't figure out what in hell for they went and put niggers in my squad for.

Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.

I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.

Had to put my foot on it to hole it down while I cut it up fer the lob-scuse ''.

`` Connections '' was all he would say with that smooth hurt smile when I put leading questions.

That's why I only put towels on his chest and belly.

I put my arm carefully around him.

As soon as they are large enough to move, I put mine 9 inches apart where they are to bloom.

I put a little scoop of pulverized phosphate rock or steamed bone meal into each hole with the plant.

( Sometimes I think you need only one rule for cooking: if you can't put garlic in it, put chocolate in it.

Her presence only made Letch more distant and irritable and, in the hurry of buying Chateau Belletch, I had neglected to consider a room for Baby-dear, so there was no place to put her, anyhow.

She said to the saleslady, `` I want a dress to put on around the house ''.

`` The human ego being what it is '', I put in, `` science fiction has always assumed that the creatures on the planets of a thousand larger solar systems than ours must look like gigantic tube-nosed fruit bats.

This theory has been put so clearly and precisely that it deserves criticism of the same kind, and this I will do my best to supply.

As for me, I am holding in reserve two huge puzzles ( I love puzzles ) to put together when time hangs heavy on my hands.