He couldn’t stand things, I guess.

Things were getting forward in the town.

Horthy’s men had done some bad things to him.

I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things.

If Kerensky had shot a few men things might have been altogether different.

Into the water left in the kettle he put several things he unwrapped from a handkerchief.

—And we’ve produced all the things that go to make civilization⁠—oh, science and art, and all that.

It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.

She was very frightened and didn’t know how he was going to go about things but she snuggled close to him.

He sat down in the sand and puked and they held a cape over him while the crowd hollered and threw things down into the bull ring.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

I was rather literary in college⁠—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the Yale News⁠—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the “well-rounded man.”

Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.