"Speak, sir, and pray begin at the beginning; I like order in everything."

"I am told, sir," Thursday began, "that the people at the mill have boycotted this paper."

Yes, sir, until he began shaking the ladder and then tried to shake me.

"Oh, sir, I've never been in this position before," she began, as she flopped into the chair they put for her.

Indeed, sir, if you're a praying man, perhaps you should begin right now.

"But, sir, what do you make of the fact that it hasn't rained in Jerusalem since those two began preaching?"

'I've been, thinking, sir,' began Lewis when he came back from the bar.

Then quite frankly, sir, I began thinking about the man.

He said, "Yes, sir," and began looking for a way to penetrate further into the tangle of metal surrounding him.

"I did my best to pick you up, sir," he began.