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, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

When he saw the expression in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on.

When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.

When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:

When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.

When he got closer to the tree, Matsuo noted the wild look on his face.

When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.

When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When you pass a church on an Irish bus, all the hands flurry in the sign of the cross.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.

When I returned to make my report, the Hetman did not remember having sent me on the secret mission.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

When the young biologist, Dr. Ballard, began to show interest in our daughter Elizabeth, this induced a corresponding interest, on our part, in him.

When he turns briefly to literary style, in the Third Book, he again looks to the effect on the audience.