He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

But no President ever before referred to his as a `` lousy job '' ( as Walter Trohan recently quoted President Kennedy as doing in conversation with Sen. Barry Goldwater ).

Since ordinary breakfast-table conversation was impossible, it was at least something that they were able to offer Eugene the sugar bowl with their sugar in it, and the plate of bread and butter, and that Eugene could return the pitcher of hot milk to them handle first.

Between the telephone and the wall plug there was sixty feet of cord, and when the conversation came to an end, Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment, to his bathroom, where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub.

Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.

After a conversation with another man, he was able to recount practically everything that had been said but could not describe at all what the other man looked like.

Emerson, in his lecture, refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before, whether dreaming or waking, a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour, they know not when ''.

Although we enjoyed our rounds of the government offices in Vientiane, with officials offering tea and pleasing conversation in French, we were getting nowhere.

The New Bedford Standard-Times has reported Knowlton as saying, long after the trial, that if he only knew what Borden said during his conversation with Morse, he would have convicted `` somebody ''.

The hangover in turn reminded him of his conversation with the weirdy, and he groaned.

He was no longer able to relax in the presence of his parents and found it difficult to keep up a conversation with his mother or father, no matter the subject.

Richard thought it a more promising remark than any made during the last conversation, but Charlotte's manner during the gatherings was more flippant and superficial than when she was alone with him and he was sure her remark would lead to nothing much better than the pointless words which had preceded it.

Rieux's position is made clear in part II in a conversation with Tarrou.

One of Xu's students is quoted as having criticized the duke of Teng in a conversation with Mencius by saying:

Alcott's plan was to develop self-instruction on the basis of self-analysis, with an emphasis on conversation and questioning rather than lecturing and drill, which were prevalent in the U. S. classrooms of the time.

In 1763, Greek Orthodox bishop Erasmus of the Diocese of Arcadia, visited London, where John Wesley had considerable conversation with him, and ordained several Methodist lay preachers as priests, including John Jones.

The work arose, he says, from a conversation he had with the emperor Nerva at Frontinus's house at Formiae.

Griffin described Abdur Rahman as a man of middle height, with an exceedingly intelligent face and frank and courteous manners, shrewd and able in conversation on the business in hand.

In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.

" By 1928, Fuller was living in Greenwich Village and spending much of his time at the popular café Romany Marie's, where he had spent an evening in conversation with Marie and Eugene O ' Neill several years earlier.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

It was clear, however, that Leonidovich himself felt he had not come as well as he should out of his unexpected conversation with the Leader.

According to Ivinskaya, " After this, in conversation with people he scarcely knew, he always referred to Stalin as a ' murderer.

Before Pasternak's civil funeral, Olga Ivinskaya had a conversation with Konstantin Paustovsky.

Years later, Pasternak recalled that he was horrified at how the conversation had ended.

Napoleon happened to present socially one evening and during a casual conversation over a misplaced 24-pounder explained the value of artillery.

In a follow-up conversation with Stalin, he explained that an armed struggle would be impossible and that the struggle against the Marshall Plan was to be waged under the slogan of national independence.

Mr Bingley is soon well received, while his friend Mr Darcy makes a less favorable first impression by appearing proud and condescending at a ball that they attend ( this is partly explained in that he detests dancing and is not much for light conversation ).

On 8 January 1896, in conversation with L. A. Tollemache, Gladstone explained that: " I am not so much afraid of Democracy or of Science as of the love of money.

'" Also in the same conversation Robert Jordan is having with the others, he realizes how there are populist policies right in America, namely homesteading which was widely used by American settlers to settle the West from 1863 onward: " Robert Jordan explained the process of homesteading.

During his apostolic visit to Portugal between 11 and 14 May 2010 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the beatification of Jacinta and Francisco Marto, Pope Benedict XVI explained in a rare conversation with reporters that the interpretation of the third secret did not stop with the interpretation of a prediction of the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in Saint Peter's Square in 1981.

A Stoke official explained Kewell " turned up out of the blue, wasn't expected, had a five-minute conversation with our manager and left.

Welles ' explained the 1940 incident to his family as nothing more than drunken conversation with the train staff.

Janice, during a conversation with Carmela calls into question whether or not her mother loves them, and that in therapy her therapist explained to her that she does indeed love them, but does not know how to express it.

Many Italian-American mobsters distrusted the Zips, as Bonanno soldier Benjamin " Lefty " Ruggiero explained in a conversation to undercover FBI agent Joseph " Donnie Brasco " Pistone: " Lots of people hate him ...

This principle is very useful for word learning in conversational settings, as words tend not to be explained explicitly in conversation, but may be referred to frequently throughout the span of a conversation.

Cormega explained that their conversation had come about due to the death of Cormega's grandmother.

In conversation with Susan Cotter, Bonvicini explained some of the motivations behind the Anxiety Attack exhibition:

Huxley recounted that he once overheard a conversation about the club between two men of the Athenaeum Club, and when one asked what the X-Club did, the other explained " Well they govern scientific affairs, and really, on the whole, they don't do it badly.

On the way home, Umm Anmaar and Khabbab had a conversation where Khabbab explained his background.

During an online conversation John Twelve Hawks had with his fans on his new website he explained the origin of his name: