We collected `` lucky stones '' -- all the creamy translucent pebbles, worn smooth and round, that we could find in the driveway.

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 had been walking quite briskly, for despite your being so small and me so tall, your stride in those days could easily match mine.

We got Dr. Glenn to him as quickly as we could, and we wired Tom of Papa's desperate condition.

`` We tried to settle this dispute '', he said, `` but could never come to an agreement.

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 came on as soon as we could ''.

We have the technology today with which to build aircraft shelters which could withstand at least 200 Aj.

We could put a portion of our strategic bombers in such shelters.

We quickly ran into the same trouble that plagued Bill Ruger in his first experiments: Three or four bullets would be placed well in a six-inch bull at 100 yards and then, unaccountably, one could stray far out of the group.

We could scarcely find eighty in our great land of over 180 million people.

`` We have tried to make both paths attractive, so that good men could find opportunity and satisfaction in either.

Says Clarence Thompson: `` We dealers must earn our mark-up by performing a service for the builder cheaper than he could do it himself ''.

We may conclude that all six points of information, ostensibly given by the dream priest, could have been furnished by Dr. Hilprecht's subconscious reasoning.

We could see maggots moving.

We planned ahead only one step, a rendezvous for tomorrow when we could swap notes.

We have to tell ourselves that when Parker spoke in this vein, he believed what he said, because he could continue, `` But the truth, which cost me bitter tears to say, I must speak, though it cost other tears hotter than fire ''.

`` We could put up cribs on the second floor sleeping porch and turn the front bedroom into a playroom where it's nice and sunny, but of course it would entail quite a bit of running up and down stairs and Chris said you were to be careful about that ''.

`` We had concluded that no race as ephemeral as yours could have had time to develop a sense of justice.

We could, alternatively, choose an encoding for Turing machines, where an encoding is a function which associates to each Turing Machine M a bitstring < M >.

We entered a small, narrow doorway, and went down two steps, but beyond those one could see nothing.

Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians " in the special effects department at Universal Studios in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: ' We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that.

' We may take this literally, understanding that by a purely mechanical process one which could be carried out by a machine.

We can distinguish two groups of computer-generated music: music in which a computer generated the score, which could be performed by humans, and music which is both composed and performed by computers.

We may take her with us -- to California.

We take the position, however, that the third choice still remains the only sane one open to us.

We must build a corps of highly professional teachers of interior design who have had education, experience in the profession and are willing to take on the usual accompaniments of teaching -- minimal income and minimal status among their confreres.

We have every obligation to take seriously their claims to being democratic and free countries ; ;

We have emphasized that the modernizing process in each society will take a considerable period of time.

We take leave of Pumblechook as he gloats over Pip's loss of fortune, extending his hand `` with a magnificently forgiving air '' and exhibiting `` the same fat five fingers '', one of which he identifies with `` the finger of Providence '' and shakes at Pip in a canting imputation of the latter's `` ingratitoode '' and his own generosity as Pip's `` earliest benefactor ''.

We had nearly decided that all the tales of Lao lethargy must be true, when we were invited to take a trip with the Prime Minister.

We may now take up for consideration a hard case which seems to require either no action employing economic pressure or else action that would seem to violate the principles set forth above.

`` We can't take a chance on that.

Mrs. Molvar, who kept reiterating her request that they `` please take a stand '', said, `` We must have faith in somebody -- on the local level, and it wouldn't be possible for everyone to rush to a school to get their children ''.

We cannot take the space to record all the efforts for the removal or alleviation of collective ills.

We don't want to take the world by storm.

We can run the algorithm a constant number of times and take a majority vote to achieve any desired probability of correctness less than 1, using the Chernoff bound.

An early statement appeared in Discourse of the Common Wealth of this Realm of England, 1549: " We must always take heed that we buy no more from strangers than we sell them, for so should we impoverish ourselves and enrich them.

We sure not tryin ' to take credit for swingin ' 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 may take ( 1 ) to mean

" When Robert B. Anderson, Eisenhower's first Secretary of the Navy argued that the Navy must recognize the " customs and usages prevailing in certain geographic areas of our country which the Navy had no part in creating ", Eisenhower overruled him: " We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step.

We are like travellers at an inn, or guests at a stranger's table ; whatever is offered we take with thankfulness, and sometimes, when the turn comes, we may refuse ; in the former case we are a worthy guest of the gods, and in the latter we appear as a sharer in their power.

In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.

We cannot take the risks and risk our hard-won freedom.

We may be permitted here to take as proven the unity of the author of these three writings handed down under the name of John and his identity with the Evangelist.

Loach, Laverty and O ' Brien subsequently wrote that: " We feel duty bound to take advice from those living at the sharp end inside the occupied territories.

After the signing of the Louisiana Purchase agreement in 1803, Livingston made this famous statement, " We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives ... From this day the United States take their place among the powers of the first rank.