In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

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

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

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 ; ;

Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.

Miraculously, the bottle was still in my hand, foam still geysering over my ( luckily ) waterproof watch.

The Indian was again raising his bottle, but to my astonished relief -- probably only a fraction of Johnson's -- the bottle this time went to the Indian's lips.

There was a blur just under my focus of vision, a crash ; ;

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

Reverend Jason was understandably bitter.

And when this was gone, he hadn't even a little bitter tablet to purify other water if he were to discover some stagnant jungle pool.

This was a doubly bitter blow to the king.

William, he was called, in honor of the man who was at once Shelley's pensioner and his most bitter detractor.

He was bitter when he missed.

He was bitter and resentful toward her, personally resentful.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

There followed a long and sometimes bitter discussion of the feasibility of elections for the fall of 1957, in which it appears that the Minister of the Interior took the most pessimistic view and that the Istiqlal was something less than enthusiastic.

The mate, Robert Juet, who had kept the journal on the Half Moon, was experienced -- but he was a bitter old man, ready to complain or desert at any opportunity.

This was the bitter end, and Hudson seemed to know he was destined to failure.

Mrs. Tim Williams was about 21, with skin the color of bitter chocolate, and if you discounted the plain dress and worn slippers, she was startlingly pretty.

Initially the White House reaction was that the bitter exchanges with Moscow over Cuba and the conflict in Laos had dampened prospects for a meeting.

Actually, the dispute between Parker and the society of his time, both ecclesiastical and social, was a real one, a bitter one.

The cynicism was back in her eyes, a bitter wisdom, and I wondered if forty were not so far wrong after all.

I hadn't liked it at first -- it was bitter and burning.

`` There was that fellow out there in the bitter cold '' --

Conflict between the two was constant and bitter in the following years.

Their unhappy marriage and bitter divorce was a great strain for the star.

The document was drawn up with the explicit concern of bringing to an end the bitter inter tribal fighting between the clans of the Aws ( Aus ) and Khazraj within Medina.

The period from the 15th to the 17th centuries was marked by bitter struggles with the Ottoman Empire.

In 1757, he engaged in a bitter dispute with playwright Carlo Gozzi, which left him utterly disgusted with the tastes of his countrymen ; so much so that in 1761 he moved to Paris, where he received a position at court and was put in charge of the Theatre Italien.

It was conceived as a leave-taking, a kind of melancholy gathering-in of the myths of the West, `` bevor die Nacht sinkt, eine lange Nacht vielleicht und ein tiefes Vergessen ''.

Cossack leave-taking was always festive.

Klaus soared into prominence as the first defector whose leave-taking was accomplished at the virtual insistence of the defectees.