1 The population had cleared out a long time ago.
2 True, by this time it was not a blank space any more.
3 but I dare say you know what he will be in two years' time.
4 It was very fine for a time, but after a bit I did get tired of resting.
5 For a long time already he, sitting apart, had been no more to us than a voice.
6 Just at that time the manager was the only man supposed to have any right to candles.
7 They beguiled the time by backbiting and intriguing against each other in a foolish kind of way.
8 For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long.
9 They walked erect and slow, balancing small baskets full of earth on their heads, and the clink kept time with their footsteps.
10 He carried his fat paunch with ostentation on his short legs, and during the time his gang infested the station spoke to no one but his nephew.
11 Did it very well, too, no doubt, and without thinking much about it either, except afterwards to brag of what he had gone through in his time, perhaps.
12 He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in the sunlight, crossing his shins in front of him, and after a time let his woolly head fall on his breastbone.
13 Oh, it didn't surprise me in the least to hear this, and at the same time to be told that Fresleven was the gentlest, quietest creature that ever walked on two legs.
14 There had been a lot of such rot let loose in print and talk just about that time, and the excellent woman, living right in the rush of all that humbug, got carried off her feet.
15 All the carriers were speaking together, and in the midst of the uproar the lamentable voice of the chief agent was heard 'giving it up' tearfully for the twentieth time that day.
16 I wouldn't have mentioned the fellow to you at all, only it was from his lips that I first heard the name of the man who is so indissolubly connected with the memories of that time.
17 Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.
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