I recollect him one day scrambling up Dr. Johnson's breast, apparently with much satisfaction, while my friend smiling and half-whistling, rubbed down his back, and pulled him by the tail ; and when I observed he was a fine cat, saying, ' Why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this ;' and then as if perceiving Hodge to be out of countenance, adding, ' but he is a very fine cat, a very fine cat indeed.

:" Why, yes ," the chaplain answered.

Mainstage Performance ; The Heart of the Festival: Why will say, yes, yes.

Mainstage Performance ; The Heart of the Festival: Why will say, yes, yes.

`` Why, I meant what I said '', Lord declared.

Why, he's going to kill me, he thought wildly.

Why she married him I do not know.

`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.

Why, that's his main reason for making the dive ''.

Why, we got dinner right here.

He cites with pleasure the comment of a lady, who exclaimed after a concert: `` Why, it's extremely interesting.

`` Why, Mick Shann went over and over the report with Alsing Andersen, trying to check them out.

-- Why, course I can.

Offer her a cup of tea and she would say, `` Why, these cups look just like a set I gave to the Salvation Army last year ''.

Hand her a chair and she would say, `` Why, it's a nice imitation of those Queen Anne chairs I inherited from Grandmother Delancy ''.

Why, I once used this machine to cure a woman with 97 pounds of cancer in her body ''.

Why, I can get them knocked off for half that much ''.

The middle-aged man said over and over, `` Why did I come here, why did I come here ''.

Why she doesn't charge him, I don't know.

`` Why the two damned fools got all excited when they saw the bottle, and knocked each other out cold '', Shayne said good-humoredly.

Why, Holden said to himself, surprised at his own sudden insight, I'll bet some of those people who enter are just as happy as can be.

`` Why, I'm not fit to touch the hem of her garment ''.

Why, that's what gave me the feeling, gave me as-it-were the spirit, the demoniac, evil spirit of this whole affair.

Why not open your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ now, accept Him as your Saviour and let Him fill you with peace that only He can give.

Ask each member to write a statement on such topics as: `` What Christ Means To Me '', `` What The Church Means To Me '', `` Why Join The Church '', `` The Duties Of Church Members '', etc..

`` Why of course not '', Zion said uncomfortably.

`` Why, to brush your teeth ''.

`` Why, what a lovely voice you have '', said one of the female visitors.

`` Dangerous, yes.

`` Hell, yes '', I roared back between dusty lips.

`` I agree, yes ''.

`` Hell, yes.

The short answer to those questions is `` yes ''.

The answer is, of course, yes.

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.

diversity of fact, yes.

but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.

Well, yes, perhaps in literature, since you could argue that you couldn't keep silent about your feelings against literature and so were involved in spite of yourself.

Every woman has had the experience of saying no when she meant yes, and saying yes when she meant no.

`` At home, yes '', they argued.

yes, they had let some reporters use their phone, but they would no longer.

And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.

He grunted a sort of `` yes '' answer.

Maybe yes, maybe no, but you can observe everything from the roof of a barrack we are building ''.

-- yes.

Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.

But yes, nineteen plus thirty was forty-nine, and she was forty-nine and she had been married at nineteen.

`` Oh yes '', Mama laughed.

`` Oh yes, the other day I reread some of Emerson's English Traits, and there was an anecdote about a group of English and Americans visiting Germany, more than a hundred years ago.

Simple `` yes '' or `` no '' answers do not reveal the different shades of opinion that the various respondents may have.

And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.