Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

The day passed eventfully enough, with a constant stream of visitors, some stopping only to say hello, others getting into serious conversations, such as one Andre Fuchs, a free-lance journalist from Strasbourg who wrote an article for the Nouvelle Alsatian in highly sympathetic terms.

I assumed it was one of those hour-long conversations with Dolly or Constance, she comfortable in bed.

* Affinity ( Fire Emblem ), the numerous bonuses units in the videogame Fire Emblem have from sharing support conversations with one another

Pressing one of these keys gave your call priority, overriding other conversations on the network.

Ernest Hemingway in For Whom the Bell Tolls made deliberate use of false friends as one of the devices intended to convey to the reader that English conversations in the book in fact represent Spanish.

In May 2006, based on conversations with members of Congress, key aides and lobbyists, The Hill magazine listed Ashcroft as one of top 50 " hired guns " that K Street had to offer.

#*:" In some of the delightful conversations with you, in the evenings of 1798 – 99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Christian religion was sometimes our topic ; and I then promised you, that one day or other, I would give you my views of it.

Two weeks later, during one of Scott's conversations with his new small friend, he suddenly notices he has become even shorter than her, meaning the antidote has stopped working.

Several were heard defending him in personal conversations with one another.

With 4 computers ( e. g., A, B, C, and D ) on 4 switch ports, any pair ( e. g. A and B ) can transfer data back and forth while the other pair ( e. g. C and D ) also do so simultaneously, and the two conversations will not interfere with one another.

In what would become one of the most notable conversations of the war, Sherman said simply: " Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?

In one of their last meetings, all of which took place at an underground parking garage somewhere in Washington, DC at 2: 00 am, Felt cautioned Woodward that he might be followed and not to trust their phone conversations to be secure.

The film is noted for its rapid-fire repartee, using overlapping dialogue to make conversations sound more realistic, with one character speaking before another finishes.

* Dorothy Sayers ' 1936 mystery novel Gaudy Night is set in Oxford, and one of the most important concluding conversations between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane takes place on the balustraded circular rooftop of the Radcliffe Camera.

They also pulled down the shade so no one could see his face, changed his clothes daily, brought food and when he had to have important conversations they would act as if he wanted to send them a message.

In his review of Floating Weeds, film critic Roger Ebert recounts once had a young assistant who suggested that perhaps he should shoot conversations so that it seemed to the audience that the characters were looking at one another.

The court documents also state that Regan taped one of the conversations between Ailes and herself, where Ailes discusses her relationship with Kerik.

The next references to Alan's children are made in I'm Alan Partridge, in which Fernando hangs up on one of Alan's rambling go-nowhere telephone conversations, and in which a staff member at the Travel Tavern mentions that Denise has an oddly similar appearance to Alan.

Extreme contradictions characterised his personality: one constantly feared catastrophe, yet he was always available to musicians for private conversations.

A chat room form of a virtual community may give real time conversations, but people can only talk to one another.

In 1945, Hermetic writings were among those found near Nag Hammadi, in the form of one of the conversations between Hermes and Asclepius from the Corpus Hermeticum, and a text about the Hermetic mystery schools, On the Ogdoad and Ennead, written in the Coptic language, the last form in which the Egyptian language was written.

During one of their many conversations, Chang tells Lai that his goal is to reach the lowest point in South America.

The three scholars set out to demonstrate that Christians could hold their own in conversations with learned Greek-speaking intellectuals and that Christian faith, while it was against many of the ideas of Plato and Aristotle ( and other Greek philosophers ), was an almost scientific and distinctive movement with the healing of the soul of man and his union with God at its center — one best represented by monasticism.

The old man beckoned with one finger and Clayton went forward to him.

He fled through the door and down the steps, running, and the men grunted and followed, pushing Lester to one side where he backed against the wall with the sleeve of his jacket raised before his eyes to shut out the light.

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.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

I'm not the only man in town with a gun, or the only one without a permit ''.

one with blood all over it, Arbuckle's blood ''.

All the doors were open at this hour except one, and it was toward this that Stevens made his way with Russ close at his shoulder.

Adios '', I said, exhausting my Spanish vocabulary on my host and exchanging one of a scarcely-tapped store of smiles with my host's daughters.

Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

The girl kneeled by her husband with one arm at his back.

And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.

He decided that the marines must be deploying around the meadow, with the one left to distract him.

Awkwardly with one hand Matsuo got the cap back on the water bottle.

Any posse riding down the street to demand Blue Throat's surrender would be wiped out with one deadly burst of fire.

Along each side of the room were six tiered bunks, each one screened off with a curtain.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

`` Oh, come on Miss Langford, play with us just onct '', one of the little girls begged, smiling wistfully.

With one hand she held her skirt down while she took Jack's extended hand with the other.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.