`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

`` But that was war '', I said.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.

This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.

I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.

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

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I felt certain it was self-appointed.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

My first thought was how had it happened so soon, but I counted back on my fingers and sure enough we'd been living together six weeks.

Nothing in all the preceding years had had the power to bring me closer to a knowledge of profound sorrow than the breakup of camp, the packing away of my camp uniforms, the severing of ties with the six or ten people I had grown most to love in the world.

Retracing my steps to the Mosque of Sultan Ahmet, only one with six minarets, I entered the courtyard, with a gallery supported by pointed arches running around it and a fountain in the middle.

I can lead you to every one of the bodies, and there ain't four, nor five, nor six of 'em -- there's seven!!

And I suppose now that you've finally grown up, if a little late, you'd go on producing kittens every six months or so.

it was not quite six o'clock when we finished and Charlie said, `` Well, I guess that's it.

And I couldn't take six more weeks of this.

By comparison the Harvard Mark I could perform the same task in just six seconds.

As of 2012, less than 50 Apple I computers ( with only six in working order ) are believed to exist, making it a very rare collector's item.

* Battery holder ( six AA ) ~ 4 – 5 hours ( Lynx I ) ~ 5 – 6 hours ( Lynx II )

" God knows I go with a heavy heart ," he wrote six days later to his friend and political ally in England, Lord Godolphin, " for I have no hope of doing anything considerable, unless the French do what I am very confident they will not … " – in other words, court battle.

Said that I wouldn't last six months ".

* Cyril Lucaris ( Patriarch Cyril I of Constantinople ), reigned for six terms between 1612 and 1638

Although the college game has a much larger margin for talent than its pro counterpart, the sheer number of fans following major colleges provides a financial equalizer for the game, with Division I programs – the highest level – playing in huge stadiums, six of which have seating capacity exceeding 100, 000.

Cutter completed and published an introduction and schedules for the first six classifications of his new system ( Expansive Classification: Part I: The First Six Classifications ), but his work on the seventh was interrupted by his death in 1903.

But I must have done something right, for at one point The Journal of Higher Education named me one of the five or six best college newspaper cartoonists in the nation.

Spanning six decades, Eugene served three Holy Roman Emperors: Leopold I, Joseph I, and Charles VI.

The sentiment is summarized in a line from Ovid's Amores I. 1. 27 Sex mihi surgat opus numeris, in quinque residat-" Let my work rise in six steps, fall back in five.

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.

< p > I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of post-graduate studies in Naples, Italy.