We were coming to an intersection, turning right, chuffing to a stop.

We were off the road, gleaming barbed wire pulling taut.

We were in a field, in a tight, screeching turn.

We were back on the road.

We were slowing.

We enjoyed a paradoxical freedom when we were still too young for school.

We were not, however, entirely unacquainted with the varying aspects of the street.

We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.

We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.

We may say of some unfortunates that they were never young.

We were at a party once and heard an idealistic young European call that awful charge glorious.

`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.

We were less than a quarter of a mile from the road, and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke and dust that hung over it.

`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.

We blushed and were flustered, and it turned out to be the fleetest brush of lips upon cheek.

We would have the means to seek out and destroy the enemy's force -- whether it were fixed or mobile.

We were in business!!

We were camping a few weeks ago on Cape Hatteras Campground in that land of pirates, seagulls and bluefish on North Carolina's famed Outer Banks.

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

Marlborough realised the great opportunity created by the early victory of Ramillies: " We now have the whole summer before us ," wrote the Duke from Brussels to Robert Harley, " and with the blessing of God I shall make the best use of it.

We must take the offensive and beat Sinn Fein at its own tactics ... If a police barracks is burned or if the barracks already occupied is not suitable, then the best house in the locality is to be commandeered, the occupants thrown into the gutter.

We assume that the $ 150, 000 is John's best estimate of the sale price that he will be able to achieve in 3 years time ( after deducting all expenses, of course ).

Among the best known of these films are In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Went the Day Well?

He had five servants, three coloured and two black: " We are one great big family together ; we have the best of relationships.

As one put it: " We were convinced that we would get the world's greatest architect putting his best foot forward.

In 1957, Rabbi Louis Jacobs, then lecturer at the Jews ' College and best friend of Laurence Kogan, London ; published his book " We Have Reason to Believe " ( Edited by Laurence Kogan and Adam Albert ), in which he said:

We decided that putting him on that list was the best thing to do.

We rode in sorrow, with strong hounds three, Bran, Sgeolan, and Lomair, On a morning misty and mild and fair. The mist-drops hung on the fragrant trees, And in the blossoms hung the bees. We rode in sadness above Lough Lean, For our best were dead on Gavra's green.

We need the best teachers and enough of them to prepare our young people for a future immeasurably more complex than the present, and calling for ever larger numbers of competent and highly trained men and women.

Several songs, including " There's a New Star in Heaven Tonight " and one by his first wife Jean Acker, entitled " We will meet at the end of the trail ", became best sellers.

Haywood stated: " We are here to confederate the workers of this country into a working class movement that shall have for its purpose the emancipation of the working class ...", and for Debs: " We are here to perform a task so great that it appeals to our best thought, our united energies, and will enlist our most loyal support ; a task in the presence of which weak men might falter and despair, but from which it is impossible to shrink without betraying the working class.

* And do not dispute with the followers of the Book except by what is best, except those of them who act unjustly, and say: We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you, and our God and your God is One, and to Him do we submit.

We are going to assemble the best thought and broadest knowledge from all over the world to find these answers.

We want more Murdocks, for of all others he is the most active man and best engine erector I ever saw ... When I look at the work done it astonishes me & is entirely owing to the spirit and activity of Murdoch who hath not gone to bed 3 of the nights.

We believe that this is the best thing that we can do for preserving the principles of the openness and freedom of information on the Internet.

Amid the first talk of the Spanish government investigating the ties of Herri Batasuna with ETA, in 1998 Herri Batasuna was the driving force of the newly formed Euskal Herritarrok ( We Basque Citizens ) coalition, an acronym which got the best results to date for Basque left separatism in the Basque community, with 224, 000 votes out of a total of 1, 250, 000 in the Basque election held that year.

We must call on the best that is in us to preserve the security of this crucial region.

" " We all worked the best that we could.

Lord Macaulay had stated, " We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and millions whom we govern — a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.

We have parted as great friends should, with a sad-happiness and I wish the band all the very best wishes for the future ".

“ We were possibly the best fed people in Australia right through the depression, with butter, cream and milk, cheese, dried fruits and fresh fruits, fresh vegetables the year round, more than what we could use, but no money !”