`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.

`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

There's someone there I have to see.

I have to think about it.

We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

I have it with me, right here.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

But, by gosh, I want him and I'm going to have him!!

Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.

`` I have a little job for you, Charlie.

`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

I wouldn't have known the difference.

I calculated first that there are about an octillion atoms in the average human body ; ;

Then I calculated that a million peas would just about fill a household refrigerator ; ;

For a steady flow of charge through a surface, the current I ( in amperes ) can be calculated with the following equation:

" From these principles and some additional constraints —( 1a ) a lower bound on the linear dimensions of any of the parts, ( 1b ) an upper bound on speed of propagation ( the velocity of light ), ( 2 ) discrete progress of the machine, and ( 3 ) deterministic behavior — he produces a theorem that " What can be calculated by a device satisfying principles I – IV is computable.

Laplace wrote of the ways men calculated their probability of having sons: " I have seen men, ardently desirous of having a son, who could learn only with anxiety of the births of boys in the month when they expected to become fathers.

France was also required to pay an indemnity ; the indemnity figure was calculated, on the basis of population, as the precise equivalent of the indemnity which Napoleon I imposed on Prussia in 1807.

" As to the hope that it may ... induce England to treat us better ," wrote Gallatin to Jefferson shortly after the bill had become law, " I think is entirely groundless ... government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated ; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals as if he could do it better than themselves.

The latter scale was modified by Soloviev, who calculated the Tsunami intensity I according to the formula

Bishop Richard Watson, forced to address this new audience in his influential response to Paine, An Apology for the Bible, writes: " I shall, designedly, write this and the following letters in a popular manner ; hoping that thereby they may stand a chance of being perused by that class of readers, for whom your work seems to be particularly calculated, and who are the most likely to be injured by it.

Bowdler announced his desire to make Shakespeare accessible " without incurring the danger of falling unawares among words and expressions which are of such a nature as to raise a blush on the cheek of modesty "; a character in Patience declares, " I believe I am right in saying that there is not one word in that decalet which is calculated to bring the blush of shame to the cheek of modesty.

** The orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket ( carrying Sputnik I ) is first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer by teams at The M. I. T.

can be calculated from the specific impulse, I < sub > sp </ sub >, where ( when I < sub > sp </ sub > is in seconds and g < sub > n </ sub > is the standard, not local, acceleration of gravity ), Using the J-2 on the S-IVB as a baseline design, we have P = ( 1014 kN )( 414 s )( 9. 81 m / s < sup > 2 </ sup >)/ 2

In the same way, when power gain is calculated using current instead of power, making the substitution ( P = I < sup > 2 </ sup > R ), the formula is:

" As to the hope that it may ... induce England to treat us better ," wrote Gallatin to Jefferson shortly after the bill had become law, " I think is entirely groundless ... government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated ; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals as if he could do it better than themselves.

* The thickness t is calculated as mfp * ln ( I / I < sub > 0 </ sub >).

Other scholars, however, state that Prince Chu accurately calculated not a well temperament but equal temperament — though only in his second treatise, Lii Lu Ching I, written in 1595 – 96 and probably first published in 1606 did he achieve the full chromatic complement of 12 notes ( Kutter 1975, 166 – 67 ).

During his investigation, Gently encounters exploding airport check-in counters, the gods of Norse mythology, insulting horoscopes, a sinister nursing home, a rhino phagic eagle, an I Ching calculator ( to which everything calculated above the value of 4 is apparently ' a suffusion of yellow '), an omnipotent being who gives his powers to a lawyer and an advertising executive in exchange for clean linen, and an attractive American woman who gets angry when she can't get pizza delivered in London.

The time, as I have calculated it, is now filled up ; and I expect every moment to see the Savior descend from heaven.

I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''

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

`` Damned if I will.

Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.

But Johnson couldn't quickly unwire the truck door, and if I escaped, he might suffer.

But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.

You must forgive me if I seem to dwell too much on her physical aspects but I am an artist, accustomed to studying the physical body.

I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

And I will greatly appreciate it if you will not tell your husband.

But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.

`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

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

`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.

and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.

I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.

I do not know if such a way of life can come to be a self-conscious challenge, but I suspect that it can.