Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

If you draw the short straw I'll lend you some bread, like fifty bucks, before I take off to visit my sister in Frisco.

Against my folks' wishes, we'd been seeing each other for short rides in the truck.

Rhyming slang terms for Jew have included " Chelsea Blue ", " Stick of Glue ", " Four by Two ", " Buckle my shoe ", and " Front Wheel Skid ", which is a more palatable form of the insulting term " Yid ", short for Yiddish, the language spoken by many Jewish immigrants to the UK in the early 20th century.

So I wind up in Berlin, Germany, with my wife, and we were in a cab, and the cab made a short stop, and in front of us was an Opel Commodore.

" I was only on Merseyside a short time, nine or 10 months in total really, but it was still a happy time personally, while professionally it was one of the most successful periods of my career ," he says.

From the river bank they hear a very loud cry, followed by a complaining clamour in savage discords: " It culminated in a hurried outbreak of almost intolerably excessive shrieking, which stopped short "-" The sheer unexpectedness of it made my hair stir under my cap.

Marlow was surprised by her reaction: " I heard a light sigh and then my heart stood still, stopped dead short by an exulting and terrible cry, by the cry of inconceivable triumph and of unspeakable pain.

Rather would I cut short my life!

Composer Robert Smith has said that the song " was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in L ' Étranger ( The Stranger ) by Albert Camus " ( Cure News number 11, October 1991 ).

These early experiences inspired the celebrated short story " Miss Gentilbelle ", but according to Beaumont, " Football, baseball and dimestore cookie thefts filled my early world.

Only one extremely short letter – EA 223 ( EA-el Amarna ) is written from Endaruta of Akšapa, and it is a one sentence topic: a short 3-sentence formal-Prostration formula | formulaic introduction ... " Whatever the king ( i. e. pharaoh ), my lord, orders, I shall prepare.

Despite the fact that Mary was tall for her age ( eventually reaching, making her almost a giant in the sixteenth century ) and fluent in speech, while Francis was abnormally short and stuttered, Henry II commented that " from the very first day they met, my son and she got on as well together as if they had known each other for a long time ".

" Norma makes a short speech at how happy she is to be back making a film, and delivers the film's most famous line: " All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

::: So I ’ m not going to throw away my short allotment of life on a futile, silly hope, searching for something there simply cannot be, a completely blameless man — not among us mortals who must win our bread from the broad earth.

Perhaps this was a short while before my departure for ... for ... perhaps this was the end of 1943 ... this I do not know.

In other versions of this tale, the two halves of the village were not stopped short of extreme violence ; they actually annihilated each other, and Èṣù laughed at the result, saying " Bringing strife is my greatest joy ".

He relates to Shapiro that he never knows exactly how to entertain an audience “ short of faking my own death or setting the theater on fire ”.

Z. Ornea noted that, in a short section of his Autobiography where he discusses the Einaudi incident, Eliade speaks of " my imprudent acts and errors committed in youth ", as " a series of malentendus that would follow me all my life.

Needless to say, my art suffered drastically during this turbulent period.

This may just be pride in my adopted State of Washington, but certainly I love to visit their mound cities near Yakima and Prosser in July or August, when the bees are in their most active period.

" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.

Related to this Mosel quotes the aged composer concerning the radical changes in musical taste that were underway in the age of Beethoven, " From that period 1800 I realized that musical taste was gradually changing in a manner completely contrary to that of my own times.

Later in life, Chaplin referred to his Mutual years as " the happiest period of my career.

As she remarked in her book, " The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's highly publicized comment about my virginity (" I knew Doris Day before she became a virgin.

Marc Ecko, an urban clothing designer, has been an advocate of graffiti as an art form during this period, stating that " Graffiti is without question the most powerful art movement in recent history and has been a driving inspiration throughout my career.

The theatre of my tale is this earth, the one in which we now live, but the historical period is imaginary.

Mao later noted that Chen's adoption of Marxism " deeply impressed me at what was probably a critical period in my life.

In late July 1968, Baba completed a particularly taxing period of seclusion and stated that his work was " completed 100 % to my satisfaction.

In consequence my Government desires that the Government of the United States guarantee with its forces security for the property of American Citizens in Nicaragua and that it extend its protection to all the inhabitants of the Republic. United States Marines occupied Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933, except for a nine-month period beginning in 1925.

Bismarck later referred to this period as " the most significant of my life.

While Spock makes it clear that the events during the period of Surak are well documented (" The Savage Curtain "), he is completely uncertain in regard to the origin of the Romulans: " If the Romulans are an offshoot of my Vulcan blood -- and I think this likely -- then attack becomes even more imperative.

With reference to rumours which I believe were at one time afloat, though I know not with what degree of currency: and also with reference to the times when I shall not be here to answer for myself, I desire to record my solemn declaration and assurance, as in the sight of God and before His Judgment Seat, that at no period of my life have I been guilty of the act which is known as that of infidelity to the marriage bed.

Towards the end of the period of Crusader rule, in 1166 Maimonides visited Hebron, which he apparently thought lay east of Jerusalem, and wrote ,' On Sunday, 9 Marheshvan ( 17 October ), I left Jerusalem for Hebron to kiss the tombs of my ancestors in the Cave.

Roman Polanski gave away all of his possessions after the murders, unable to bear any reminders of the period that he called " the happiest I ever was in my life ".

” In my own compositions I judge a long period of conscious gestation necessary.

In Inward Hunger ' ms recounts that in the period following his graduation: " I was severely handicapped in my research by my lack of money ...

I'd put that as one of my top ten films, period.

According to Charles C. Fitzmorris, Chicago's Chief of Police during the beginning of the Prohibition period: " Sixty percent of my police in the bootleg business.

He would later look back on his time at Claverack as " the happiest period of my life although I was not aware of it.

In her reflection of this turbulent period, Gimbutas remarked, " Life just twisted me like a little plant, but my work was continuous in one direction.