Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

It was really quite simple.

`` You owe it to Penny to give her a chance to explain that she was defending you, really '', he observed mildly.

It was really a May and December combination.

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

Of course it was water he really craved ; ;

and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.

And Pike never did find out if Robinson was really responsible for the `` Vale '' letter.

He felt as I felt about this best of all my books, that it was `` really tops ''.

It was a dinner party, Lewis had been drinking during the afternoon, and long before the party really got under way, he was quite drunk, with the result that the party broke up even before dinner was over.

`` Billie was really beautiful ''!!

He thought how this dainty, fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June, enjoying the flowers in the shops, the greetings from old friends, but never really drawing a deep, passionate breath, was so like himself.

He did not really want to kill, but as in the sexual act, there was a moment when the impulse took over and could not be downed, even while you watched yourself giving way to it.

The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.

That was really something, coming from Ching.

He was really amazed to discover the other guests so excited about these delicate little songs.

But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.

He didn't, but it was not really a question, and so he left the room, walked down the hall to the front of the apartment, hesitated, and then knocked lightly on the closed door of the study.

`` I don't think it was that, really ''.

He was not sure what effect it would have, but that was really beside the point when you got right down to it.

And she was made to fall in love with him again there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the cold fog, mad as she was at his going away when he really didn't have to, mad at their both having got older in a life that seemed to have taken no more than a week to go by.

From the back of the barn it was a simple matter to reach Black's house without using the street.

It was simply a matter of curiosity, a natural right to examine.

This was a slightly different matter.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

It is testimony to the deep respect in which Mr. Eisenhower was held by members of all parties that the moral considerations raised by his approach to the matter were not explicitly to be broached.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

`` Until this Hungarian Committee matter came up, Bang-Jensen was a fine and devoted individual.

`` The reason for that report was to settle the matter of the list.

As far as I'm concerned, it was a separate matter from the general Committee study of Bang-Jensen's conduct.

That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.

And I was to go to work on that odd matter.

At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.

With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.

He said it was stupid butchery to order men to make a charge like that, no matter who gave the order and what for.

He said the matter was urgent.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

No matter how devoted a man was, no matter how fully he gave his life to the Lord, he could never extinguish that one spark of pride that gave him definition as an individual.

Using privately-owned vehicles was a personal hardship for such employees, and the matter of providing state transportation was felt perfectly justifiable.

Why it was ever forgotten for even a moment I cannot say because it works perfectly for everyone, no matter whether he has short or long thigh-bone lengths!!

The matter was considered and reconsidered, and finally opposed, but in spite of many objections, the Court granted a charter on January 9, 1792.