In those days poems often told a story in verse and those boys had some corkers to tell ; ;

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

We had been walking quite briskly, for despite your being so small and me so tall, your stride in those days could easily match mine.

A story, no doubt apocryphal, for Mercer himself denies it, has him sporting a monacle in those Village days.

It was a somewhat unusual thing for a reporter to have a contract in those days before the epidemic of syndicated columnists.

I was anxious to hear about those dazzling days on the Great White Way.

After a nuclear blast, one bureaucrat suggested in those halcyon days, about all you had to do was haul out the broom and sweep off your sidewalks and roof.

It was one with the desolate rocks and the alien water on those days when she hated the sea.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

Ten days after the questionnaires were mailed, follow-up airmail postcards were sent urging those companies which had not yet returned their questionnaires to do so at once.

In those days, a wife had mighty few rights in the domestic sphere and even fewer in the sexual sphere.

Walton, who soon made a break from journalism to become one of the capital's leading semi-abstract painters, vows that he and Kennedy never once discussed art in those days.

Since the days when their two thousand pairs of skis outnumbered those assembled anywhere else in the United States, the students have stopped regarding the Olympic Ski Team as another name for their own.

If this woman had delayed until after 11:20 to start her shopping, she would have had little time in which to prepare the substantial meal that was eaten at dinner in those days.

Baseball was surely the national game in those days, even though professional baseball may have been merely a business.

A patient could receive up to 300 days paid-for nursing home care under a `` unit formula '' allowing more of such care for those who use none or only part of the hospital-care credit.

The modest and happy Spahn waved off his new laurels as one of those good days.

But there was terror in the thirties when the Nazis were on the loose and in those days Low struck like lightning.

It was just going to be one of those days.

She seemed to work to grow close to her son in the few days he spent at home, talking to him about some of the more pleasant moments of his childhood and then trying to talk to him about those things in which he alone was interested.

After all, his wife had written most of his letters for him in those first lean days of Partlow Products.

But it was fun those first days, kidding about the trail of garments he left littered across the rug.

A few days after the sermon, Paneloux is taken ill. His symptoms do not conform to those of the plague, but the disease still proves fatal.

Ah, those were the days Moosier.

Seeming much relieved, she smiled one of those worth-waiting-for smiles, and I smiled all the way into the bedroom.

I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

The rest of the time I devoted to painting or to those other activities a young and healthy man just out of college finds interesting.

I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.

It is these other differences between North and South -- other, that is, than those which concern discrimination or social welfare -- which I chiefly discuss herein.

Given a theological lead, I asked what he thinks about those who find a religious significance to his plays.

Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures ; ;

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

Here Wright gave a slight sigh of weariness, and continued, `` It means more long years lived across the social grain of the life of our people, making shift to live in the face of popular disrespect and misunderstanding as I best can for myself and those dependent upon me ''.

For pride's sake, I will not say that the coy and leering vade mecum of those verses insinuated itself into my soul.

The only rules which I think we shall follow will be those of common sense, justice, and fairness ''.

`` Everything tasted differently from what it does on land and those things I was most fond of at home, I loathed the most here '', Ann noted.

My reply is that I associate myself with all those who affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations should contribute to the theory and practice of human dignity.

It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.

Of course I hope Hal can also, but those hopes are much more faint ''.

To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.

Without really changing the general subject, I take this opportunity to confess that I am troubled by doubts, not only about pacifism, but also when asked to join in the protest against a law that most of those who consider themselves humane and liberal seem to regard as obviously barbarous ; ;