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

Finally Hernandez said, `` I could offer you advice, Tomas, but you wouldn't heed it ''.

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 wouldn't have known the difference.

I wouldn't have the stuff in the house.

`` I might have starved, but at least I wouldn't be fried to a crisp and soaked with dirt ''!!

Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.

I felt a queasiness in my own stomach but it wouldn't do to show these girls that we were afraid.

I wouldn't hear from him for a couple of weeks, then he'd come around with the completed lyric ''.

`` He's a wrong-o '', said Runyon, `` and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw the Statue of Liberty ''.

Somehow I think that Watson paid more attention to me than he otherwise might have because his foe, Colonel Van Hamm, wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot blue pencil.

I wouldn't hear of it because it meant giving up the `` line '', though I realized I was in poor shape physically.

This man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.

I remember him pointing out of the window and saying that he wished he could live to see another spring but that he wouldn't.

I worked on the Schuylkill Expressway and if it had not been for the big trucks carrying rock and concrete there wouldn't be an Expressway.

You wouldn't have me throw the poor boy out on the street '', Eileen said when I needled her about it.

`` I promised him I wouldn't ''.

As I say, I wouldn't want to begin a day like this, but I often wonder what the dead would have done.

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

`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

There's someone there I have to see.

I have to think about it.

We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.

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.

I have it with me, right here.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

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.

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

Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.

`` I have a little job for you, Charlie.

`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.

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 ; ;

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

I want you to be grandfather to these orphaned poems, dear father-brother, now I am gone ; ;

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 don't know whether he was after our rider, who had gone by a minute before, or whether he was simply scouting conditions ; ;

I raised some kale by hocking the good clothes I had left over from my respectable uptown life, but when that was gone I didn't have a cent.

The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head, fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed, but his face was turned to the wall -- there was the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster -- and I thought, Well you don't look much like a pig-drunk bully now.

I thought she'd gone upstairs and expected to hear she had.

But when I saw that it was already ten past seven, I began to wonder if something had gone wrong.

One said, `` When I get a cold I buy a bottle of whiskey for it, and within a few hours it's gone ''.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

The last time I saw Bird, at Jimbo's Bob City, he was so gone -- so blind to the world -- that he literally sat down on me before he realized I was there.

`` I know when my reflexes are gone and I'm not going to be any 25th man on the ball club ''.

as halfbacks, both came close to playing football at the University of Oklahoma ( `` Sometimes in the minors '', Maris recalls, `` I wished I had gone to Oklahoma '' ).

If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper.

But I would have gone anyway, thought Henrietta.