When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.

Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.

When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.

When he was asked a question or addressed in such a way that some response was inescapable, he would answer ; ;

When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.

When a witness at court was asked if he had been kicked in the ensuing rumpus, he replied, `` No, it was in the stomach ''.

When a customer asked for alligator shoes, she said, `` What size is your alligator ''??

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

When asked how this was different from being a good Protestant, the boy answered, `` It's the same thing ''.

When I interviewed Kirby, who as a boy picked up pears in the Borden yard, I asked if anybody else in the household besides Lizzie and Morse had been under any suspicion at the time of the murders.

When Dr. Wallace Buttrick, wise in his judgment of people, declined to have the Science Building named for him, he wrote Miss Tapley ( April 7, 1923 ) `` If you had asked me, I think I would have suggested that you name the building for Miss Upton.

When I asked, `` Why didn't you go into the living room to see how Mrs. Buck was ''??

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

When that monk came down and approached him with a respectful salutation, he asked: `` Where art thou from ''??

When asked because of what, Hayakawa is said to have replied: " Words.

::" When it is asked, What is the nature of all our reasonings concerning matter of fact?

When again it is asked, What is the foundation of all our reasonings and conclusions concerning that relation?

When his friend, the British publicist William T. Stead, asked him to create a new organization for the goal of a peace and arbitration society, his reply was as such:

When the students were asked to comment on the accuracy of the test with a rating more than 40 % gave it the top mark of 5 out of 5, and the average rating was 4. 2.

" a Christian ( Minaah ) once asked Abbahu in a tone of mockery, whereupon he replied: " When you will be wrapped in darkness, for it says, ' Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the nations ; then shall the Lord rise upon thee and His glory shall be seen on thee ' lx. 2 ," ( Sanhedrin 99a ).

When Abdülhamid came to the throne the army asked for gratuities and the sultan claimed that: " There are, no longer, gratuities in our treasury, all of our soldier sons should learn ".

When asked later why he had stopped writing about Greek poetry, he responded, " I found that I could not attain to excellence in both.

When asked by a reporter after getting struck by lightning why they were flying a kite in a thunderstorm, the duo explained that they were inspired by a documentary about Benjamin Franklin.

When asked about the rumor during the launch of her endorsement of FLIRT!

When Ansgar asked if King Olof would permit him to establish the Christian religion in the kingdom during his second visit in 852, the king said to him:

When Hera learned that Semele, daughter of Cadmus King of Thebes, was pregnant by Zeus, she disguised herself as Semele's nurse and persuaded the princess to insist that Zeus show himself to her in his true form.

When Chiang penned the work, he believed that the Guanyin we know today was actually a princess called Miaoshan ( 妙善 ), who had a religious following on Fragrant Mountain.

When it is a princess ' time to die ( according to a preconceived reality ), Mort, instead of ushering her soul, saves her from death, dramatically altering a part of the Discworld's reality.

When John died, the barons passed her over and crowned Henry, leaving the beautiful and defiant princess still imprisoned at Corfe Castle at Dorset, guarded by Peter de Maulay.

When Bonnie finds Ribaldi giving a beautiful princess named Gabriella voice lessons, she realizes that he is a gifted musician and a kind, misunderstood person.

When a " princess " is discovered on board, he urges the crew to use her as a hostage to insure their ransom will be paid, as long as she remains " spotless and unharmed ".

When his editor, Mr. Hennessy ( Hartley Power ), asks why he is late, Joe lies to him ; he claims to have attended the press conference for the princess.

When his associate ( Snitz Edwards ) reminds the disconsolate Ahmed that a bygone thief once stole another princess during the reign of Haroun al-Rashid, Ahmed sets out to do the same.

When the princess became Queen, she stayed at Hanworth Manor several times, often hunting on the heath.

When Malcolm Canmore defeated and slew Macbeth in 1057 he married the dead king's relative Ingibiorg, a Pictish princess, an event which marked the beginning of the decay of Norse influence.

When the princess is fifteen or sixteen and her parents are away on pleasure bent, she wanders through the palace rooms going up and down and then chances upon an old woman who is spinning with her distaff in the garret of a tower and had not heard of the king's decree against spinning wheels.

When they awaken, the Imperial Guards decide that they will let the princess stay.

When the next session opened in October 1673, Ashley ( now Earl of Shaftesbury ), sensing the new mood, turned up at the House of Lords to loudly denounce the proposed marriage of James of York to the Catholic princess Mary of Modena.

When Zeus seduced the princess Europa in the form of a white bull, he crossed the sea and brought her to the beach of Matala.

When the queen discovers her husband's passion for this girl, she becomes infuriated and has Mālavikā imprisoned, but as fate would have it, Mālavikā is in fact a true-born princess, thus legitimizing the affair.

When he met Konohana-no-Sakuya-Bime ( Tree-Blossom-Blooming-Princess ), a beautiful princess he asked her father for her hand in marriage and her father agreed sending with her many gifts and her sister Ihanaga-Hime ( Eternal-Rock-Princess ), Ihanaga-Hime's father wanted to endow Hononinigi's children with long life like that of a rock.

When the king discovers that his daughter, the princess, has taken a lover far beneath her station, the fellow is an obvious candidate for trial in the arena.

When Liu heard this, instead of bringing his forces to Sima Ying's aid, he declared independence and entitled himself the Prince of Han — claiming rightful inheritance of Han Dynasty, as he claimed to be descended from a Han princess who had married a Xiongnu chanyu -- and thus establishing Han Zhao.

When Oranmiyan decided to go back to Ile Ife after a period of service in Benin, he left behind a child named Eweka that he had had in the interim with an indigenous princess.

When Philip de France, duc d ' Anjou, grandson of the French king, was declared heir by the will of Charles II, the princess took an active part in arranging his marriage with Princess Maria Luisa of Savoy, a daughter of the duke of Savoy.

" When Amelia was three, Fanny Burney, the Queen's Keeper of the Robes, commented that the princess could be " decorous and dignified when called upon to act en princess to any strangers, as if conscious of her high rank, and the importance of condescendingly sustaining it.

When he became chief, Reelfoot determined to marry a Choctaw princess, but her father would not permit it.

When the princess ascended the throne and took the name Queen Victoria there was some talk of changing the name of the lake to Lake Victoria, but the idea was dropped.