my words

• “So home, and find all my good company I had bespoke, as Coleman and his wife, and Laneare, Knipp and her surly husband; and good musique we had, and, among other things, Mrs. Coleman sang my words I set of”

  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan/Feb 1665/66

• “The horrid iced biscuits he pressed on me were too much, and I told him so, my words ending in a jaw-cracking yawn.”

  A Monstrous Regiment of Women

• “I go to Gascony, but my words stay here in your memory, and long after Etienne Gerard is forgotten a heart may be warmed or a spirit braced by some faint echo of the words that he has spoken.”

  The Adventures of Gerard

• “So many thanks are due to Melanie Votaw, who transcribed every interview for this book, and from about a hundred tapes put my words down on paper with meticulous accuracy.”

  Simon & Schuster: It Ain’t All About the Cookin’

• “I felt my words sink deep, through the flags of the Bull Court, and the vaults below, down through the rubble of the ancient Labyrinths, through the virgin earth and the living rock, down to the sacred cavern where the dark lord stands in his bull shape, long-horned and curly-browed, with great eyes glowing red as embers in the night.”

  The King Must Die

• “I took a match from the box, struck it, and applied it to my pipe, and, punctuating my words with interspersed puffings, I said carelessly:”

  Frivolous Cupid

• “At the same time I despair of making my words intelligible to any but those who are collectors, or mayhap to those others who are in the varioloid stage.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters

• “I am diffident and speak badly, but, perhaps because she was translating my words into her own Slavonic, I did not seem to bore her.”

  Jacob's Ladder

• “But as I looked out into the smoke at the seamed and unshaved and rouged faces of the people sitting around the long table strewn with AA pamphlets, my words seemed twice-told and melodramatic, removed from the problems of people who counted themselves fortunate if they had food to eat that evening or a place to sleep that night.”

  Simon & Schuster: Jolie Blon’s Bounce

• “Hearing my words he was filled with rage; and, dragging me off my horse (and I a very old man), beat me unmercifully with his fists and buffeted me with his palms till he left me as thou seest, and all this hath befallen me only because I thought to buy this damsel for thee!”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

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