United States or Azerbaijan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He was put into a cage and carried overland to a seaport. There the leopard in his cage was put on a ship to be taken to England. The cage was placed on the deck of the ship. The leopard was very wild and ferocious. If any of the passengers or crew came anywhere near the cage, he snarled with rage and leaped at the bars of the cage.
So, while she yet stared at me, I turned away, and, mumbling a good night, went into my chamber, and closing the door, leaned against it, for my mind was sick with dread, and sorrow, and a great anguish; for now I knew that Charmian had lied to me my Virgil book had been moved from its usual place. Is there anywhere in the world so damnable a place of torment as a bed?
At length, when his powers of sufferance were quite worn out, and he was about to implore them to leave him to his fate in the first cottage or shed or under a haystack or a hedge or anywhere, so he was left at ease, Collier, who rode ahead, passed back the word that they were at the avenue to Fairladies 'Was he to turn up?
"Most assuredly." "So am I. That absurd Chetwynd Lyle woman came to me this evening and asked me if I really thought it would be proper to take her 'girls' there," and Lady Fulkeward laughed shrilly. "Girls indeed! I should say those two long, ugly women could go anywhere with safety. 'Do you consider the Princess a proper woman? she asked, and I said, 'Certainly, as proper as you are."
And is there not a still greater impossibility in that which has no parts, and is not a whole, coming into being anywhere, since it cannot come into being either as a part or as a whole? Clearly. Then it does not change place by revolving in the same spot, nor by going somewhere and coming into being in something; nor again, by change in itself? Very true.
The man who had the jackanapes played upon a pipe and a tabor; and when he said, "Dance!" the jackanapes danced, for it was sorely afraid of the man. Yet when Nick looked around and did not see the master-player anywhere in the hall, he felt exceedingly lonely all at once without him, though he both feared and hated him.
The old woman, he said, could do her sewing here as well as anywhere, and she would stay all day for fifty cents. This plan pleased us, and we sent for Mrs. Old John, who came with three of her children, all too young to leave behind, she said, and took charge of the camp.
Perhaps the shape of the mouth in the two positions was really the same, and it was only the sound that led you to suppose that an open-mouthed person was singing. But perhaps the piano would supply the necessary suggestion; Olga would not sit down at the piano merely to yawn or sneeze, for she could do that anywhere.
It is enough for the purpose of the argument that nobody anywhere in any country pretended that there had been an improvement noticeable enough to make even a beginning toward that complete transformation in the human condition for the better, of which the great inventions by universal admission had contained the full and immediate promise and potency.
Why can't you ask anybody but clergymen, mother? There are whole lots of people would like to run down from London for a fortnight before getting into the thick of the season: there's the Pomeroy girls as good as offered to come." "But they can't come by themselves," Mrs. Trelyon said with a feeble protest. "Oh yes, they can: they're ugly enough to be safe anywhere.
Word Of The Day