Laurel is gone, my men are gone, Ed is dead -- and you come to me, to help me.

Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.

Although my shot killed his horse, he rolled off the bale on top of me.

`` It wouldn't matter to my father, and not to me.

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

No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.

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

But he came toward me sedately enough, showed me around the counter, offered me a seat inside his office, then walked to a file cabinet and got out my application.

indeed, my scholastic qualifications were such that he, a college graduate himself, must envy me them.

Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.

To this effect I had already severed all connections which bound me to my former existence.

`` To me you'll always be the girl o' my dreams, an' the sweetest flower that grows ''.

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

`` In my place, you'd follow such advice as you give me ''??

Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.

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.

Gracias '', I hollered, my first long swallow filling me with confidence and immediately doubling the size of my Spanish vocabulary.

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 ; ;

When my Uncle offered me a part-time job which would take care of my normal expenses and give me time to paint I accepted.

Hell, in a year or five or ten, the boy will have forgotten me -- his own father ''!!

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.

Once or twice my father asked me if I wasn't overdoing a bit in my churchgoing.

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

By leaving me everything he wouldn't be doing me a favor, my father told him, and he didn't want to see his daughter involved in a lawsuit.

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

but a few seconds later she was standing directly across the room from me, looking me in the eyes and saying in a scathingly condemnatory tone, `` Your father despises you ''!!

Naturally, the patient does not say, `` I hate my father '', or `` Sibling rivalry is what bugs me ''.

Arius and his followers appealed to Bible verses such as Jesus saying that the father is " greater than I " ( John ), and " The Lord created me at the beginning of his work " ( Proverbs ).

When my father, who had been appointed by his country as public notary in the customs at Bugia acting for the Pisan merchants going there, was in charge, he summoned me to him while I was still a child, and having an eye to usefulness and future convenience, desired me to stay there and receive instruction in the school of accounting.

I am the first ; that is, I have no father, and I am the last ; that is, I have no brother, and besides me there is no God ; that is, I have no son '" ( Isaiah 44: 6 ; Ex.

The original posters showed Bennett himself ; a kindly looking old man offering guidance and support to would-be students with the phrase " Let me be your father " attached.

As God's chosen king over Israel David is also the son of God (" I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me ..."-2 Samuel 7: 14 ).

( After I left for college, my father would clip out that strip each year and send it to me just to make sure I didn ’ t miss it.

Cézanne said " he was a father for me.

Cézanne, although only nine years younger than Pissarro, said that “ he was a father for me.

After the battle there was some feeling that there would be conflict between Minucius and Fabius ; however, the younger soldier marched his men to Fabius ' encampment and he is reported to have said, " My father gave me life.

Our mother and father didn't glug over my two sisters and me.

In fact, his father was so incensed by his departure that, as Severn reported in a late memoir, " in his insane rage he struck me a blow which fell me to the ground.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Esther, mistaking my hesitation, assured me that the hospital expense would be taken care of by a leading merchant in Strasbourg whom she had already approached.

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

`` Groggins tells me she's started badgering already, wants to get out.

Galileo announced his discovery that Venus had phases like the Moon in the form " Haec immatura a me iam frustra leguntur-oy " ( Latin: These immature ones have already been read in vain by me-oy ), that is, when rearranged, " Cynthiae figuras aemulatur Mater Amorum " ( Latin: The Mother of Loves Venus imitates the figures of Cynthia the moon ).

For already my Lord Jesus Christ deigneth to invite me ; and to Him, I say, in the middle of this night shall I depart, at His invitation.

David remarked to his friends who visited his studio " this is what is killing me " such was his determination to complete the work, but by October it must have already been well advanced, as his former pupil Gros wrote to congratulate him, having heard reports of the painting's merits.

In 1895 he wrote, " I worked for six years perfecting and testing the language, even though it had seemed to me in 1878 that it was already completely ready.

At the end of the commentary Simplicius wrote: " Nor does my writing this commentary prove beneficial to others only, for I myself have already found great advantage from it, by the agreeable diversion it has given me, in a season of trouble and public calamity.

Sullivan had been satisfied with the libretto, but two months after Ida opened, Sullivan told Carte that " it is impossible for me to do another piece of the character of those already written by Gilbert and myself.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

* Major League Baseball games recommence kicked off by Jack Buck's riveting poem " For America " and speech where he said " I don't know about you, but as for me, the question has already been answered: Should we be here?

In March 1884, Sullivan told Carte that " it is impossible for me to do another piece of the character of those already written by Gilbert and myself.

Sullivan, reflecting on this, on his own precarious health, and on his desire to devote himself to more serious music, replied that " it is impossible for me to do another piece of the character of those already written by Gilbert and myself ".

He concluded by silencing critics who thought baseball had come back too soon: " I don't know about you, but as for me, the question has already been answered: Should we be here?

She clarified her meaning on the difference between speculative and science fiction, admitting that others use the terms interchangeably: " For me, the science fiction label belongs on books with things in them that we can't yet do .... speculative fiction means a work that employs the means already to hand and that takes place on Planet Earth.

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In July, Richardson sent Hill a complete " design " of the story, and asked Hill to try again, but Hill responded, " It is impossible, after the wonders you have shown in Pamela, to question your infallible success in this new, natural, attempt " and that " you must give me leave to be astonished, when you tell me that you have finished it already ".

There's a fucking guy here telling me I've got a schedule, asshole ," Norton replied, " You're using dirty language, asshole ," ( The show itself was already profanity laden ).

When the novel opens, Edek Zepler is an old man of 76 who certainly enjoys good food, a man living alone with his dog in the old house in Melbourne, feeling rather alone — in spite of an active Jewish community in his neighbourhood — and without any life in him since his wife's death in 1986 (" The saddest thing did already happen to me.

Brown himself never spoke much about what happened that day, claiming, " There is no point in me commenting, as the evidence is already out there ".

The material damage compounded a moral unease about the justifiability of the war ; John Evelyn already after Solebay wrote: " the loss of my Lord Sandwich redoubled the loss to me, as well the folly of hazarding so brave a fleet, and losing so many good men, for no provocation in the world but because the Hollander exceeded us in industry, and all things else but envy ".