`` What would you have done in Montero's moccasins??

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.

An hour before, with the children asleep and nothing but the strange darkness, he would have appreciated company.

There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

A few days ago, she would have thought such an expedition as this utterly ridiculous ; ;

His presence would have interfered with her duty.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

An inch lower and it would have knocked him out.

Black would have little trouble getting out, but it might delay him a few minutes.

Yet had he not visited the girl at Saw Buck he would never have been involved in this latest tangle.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

Johnson never would have believed she had a son that age.

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

She'd driven around for a while, Joyce said, then, thinking Louis Thor would have calmed down by that time, she'd gone back to his home on Bryn Mawr Drive, parked in front, and walked toward the pool.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.

Without money or property, what would you have had at Baton Rouge ''??

Now we peered anxiously for any speck of land in the Pacific, for this interminable bailing would have to stop soon.

With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.

The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

Whenever he saw someone lying in the dirt, Ramey wondered what the person had been thinking and he would try out thoughts in his own mind.

And he would have enjoyed it just as much if he had been a Nazi.

Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.

and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.

Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.

And Hamilton, who felt it `` a religious duty '' to oppose Aaron Burr's political ambitions, would have been a better actuarial risk had he shown more literary restraint.

Without the decay of a sense of objective reference ( except as the imitation of mystery ), the stress on subjective invention would never have been stimulated into being.

In my own company, in effect a partnership, although legally a corporation, I have been able to do many things for my employees which `` normal '' corporations of comparable size and nature would have been unable to do.

Also, I am convinced that if my company were a sole proprietorship instead of a partnership, I would have been even abler to solve long-range problems for myself and my fellow-employees.

It would have been unwise policy, for instance, to apply the pound-of-flesh characterization to the thrifty Scotchman.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

Mr. Hohlbein was out for the day, but Mr. Garth would be free at one-thirty.

Garth was prepared to be helpful in what he referred to with fastidious distaste as this unfortunate Johnston affair, which would not, he said more than once, have ever come about if Mrs. Meeker had only seen fit to consult Mr. Hohlbein or him about it.