didn't

He certainly didn't want a wife who was fickle as Ann.

He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.

She didn't move or say anything.

Her eyes were glazed as if she didn't hear or even see him.

She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.

Why didn't you go there ''??

`` We didn't want town work '', Jones said.

I didn't understand why, Clay.

although we didn't expect the attack before dawn, the long cloudy night, filled with the sounds of the industrious insects, seemed endless.

I didn't catch a wink.

A second leaped from his horse to the top of the bale, firing four arrows in such rapid succession it didn't seem possible they were in flight.

It didn't seem to tell her anything.

Wilson didn't say anything.

`` Carwood didn't tell you that '', she said.

It was meant to insult him, and didn't quite succeed.

The half-breed didn't answer this time.

He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

I almost didn't tell you ''.

He knew that anything a brainy little lady like her had to say would be plumb important, as well as pleasin' to the ear, and he didn't want to miss a word of it.

He didn't want to put himself outside the law.

He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.

`` Everyone knew it, but he sort of acted like he didn't care who knew it -- even after them notes came, even after he'd heard about Lewis, even after he'd been shot at a couple o' times hisself ''!!

The fact that Jess's horse had not been returned to its stall could indicate that Diane's information had been wrong, but Curt didn't interpret it this way.

He drew back his arm to slash the gunbarrel across Jess's face, but didn't finish the motion.

The fingers of his right hand twisted into a claw, but he didn't reach for the gun.