He also had a cauldron inside and water barrel outside, both of which could talk.

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.

There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.

If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.

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.

He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.

There was talk of dragging old ex-President Cleveland out of retirement for another try.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

The Manchester Guardian wondered how anyone in a railway carriage would have an opportunity to talk to Mr. Lewis, since it was well known that Mr. Lewis always did all of the talking.

He was down, hard to talk to, and far too nonchalant on the field.

He had preached a short sermon, trying to talk man-to-man to the audience, to tell them who he was, what he had done in Macon and Birmingham, and what he proposed to do here.

I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

She was going to tell Bobby Joe about how mistaken she had been, but he brought one of the cousins home for supper, and all they did was talk about antelope.

It is a tribute to her talents that she was able to talk the District Attorney into having her removed from the prison to a hotel room, with her meals taken at Vesuvio's, an excellent Italian restaurant.

Yes, she had missed it after her talk with Emile, after dinner, just before Emile was shot.

The lawyer didn't know him very well although he saw him occasionally at some dinner party -- Thayer, like himself, Madden reflected, was the extra man so prized by hostesses -- and found him easy enough to talk to.

`` You often hear people talk about team spirit and that sort of thing '', Benington said in a conversation after the ceremonies, `` but what this team had was a little different.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

The feeling was that he would sense an inner core of toughness and determination in the President and that plain talk by Mr. Kennedy would give him pause.

in effect, he was practicing what he preached in his Berlin message two weeks ago when he declared: `` We shall always be prepared to discuss international problems with any and all nations that are willing to talk, and listen, with reason ''.

It was a session at which all the youngsters were told to express their fears, to get them out in the open where they could talk about them freely.

The early 1900s saw increasing civil disorder, despite reform talk by Cixi and the Qing government.

This is now considered mere superstition ( however one can hear old men talk of it ), as fruit production for a given summer is related to weather conditions the previous summer, with warm, dry summers increasing the amount of stored sugars available for subsequent flower and fruit production ; it has no predictive relationship to the weather of the next winter.

From 1995 to 2005, Infinity / CBS Radio was the home of controversial and top-rated talk show host Howard Stern, who left due to increasing FCC and station censorship.

Despite the promise of renovations, Georgia athletic director Vince Dooley was unswayed, so Austin widened the scope of the renovations, increasing their price tag to $ 49 million, and traveled to Athens, Georgia, to talk with Dooley in person.

The British company had high hopes for its newly acquired subsidiary at a time when, they reported to the UK press, Italian Innocenti sales were second only to those of Fiat, and ahead of Volkswagen and Renault: there was talk of further increasing annual production from 56, 452 in 1971 to 100, 000.

They added more issues-oriented talk shows, with an increasing number of conservative talk show hosts, although several liberals, including Colmes and Lynn Samuels, also hosted shows.

Some environmentalists have used " business ecosystems " as a way to talk about environmental issues as they relate to business rather than as a metaphor to describe the increasing complexity of relationships among companies.

With both major labels increasing the pressure to talk to the manager-less 52nd Street, bass player Derrick Johnson instead contacted ex-DJ Rob Gretton, co-owner of Factory Records, and Joy Division ’ s manager.

Throughout 2006, talk was rife of West Ham moving to the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Olympics, with speculation increasing after new club chairman Eggert Magnusson confirmed he was interested in a move there.

The final series ended when American originated talk shows that had been heard on Radio Luxembourg, began to give way to the increasing demand for sponsored record programmes ( which could be produced at a lower cost for higher revenue ), in order to satisfy the British demand for recorded music that was not available on the BBC.

There was increasing talk of abolition of slavery in the national capital.

There is talk of increasing cross-service training, especially in the field of special operations, with the possibility of forging a joint special operations command to facilitate operational flexibility and interoperability.

With increasing talk of peaceful Korean reunification beginning in the 1990s, there have been various efforts to reopen the Donghae Bukbu Line, together with the Gyeongui Line in the west.

`` We'll talk later.

He added, `` If this doesn't work out, the three of you barricade yourself in the house and talk terms with them ''.

She wished that she could talk to her mother about it.

`` We'll talk over at your office ''.

`` We ain't got nothing to talk about.

`` It's Ben Arbuckle we're going to talk about ''.

He had to make Jess talk, and he had to do it before Stacey Black got curious and came to investigate.

Then he took off his wet boots and dropped down into the water to talk with the beasts, needing their comfort more than they needed his.

`` Mough -- it's my mough '', the man said, trying to talk without moving his lips.

Nowadays, we talk as though the blitz were just a short skirmish.

she would talk to him in a soothing voice about things his mother would have said were not nice and put her hands on him and kiss him passionately.

I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.

The talk would not be in code, but neither would it ramble.

The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

We talk about national character in the same way that Copernicus talked of the compulsions of celestial bodies to move in circles.

His talk turns to what he calls `` the mess '', or sometimes `` this buzzing confusion ''.

People talk about `` the law of the land ''.

Drifting through a third illness, apparently without any provision for the handling of a major national emergency other than a talk with the vice-president, Eisenhower revealed the singularly static quality of his thinking.

`` You know '', the lawyer said, `` it's difficult to talk like this about a man who can't answer back ''.