United States or Armenia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
If I did it would all come out, and so far as the breaking off of my daughter's engagement to young Threepwood is concerned, it would be just as bad as though I had tried to get the thing back myself. "You've got to bear that in mind. You've got to remember it if you forget everything else. I don't appear in this business in any way whatsoever.
As early as I can remember I used to identify myself with every distinguished character I read about, but when I was fifteen or sixteen I noticed with some wonder that I could think of myself as Alcibiades or Sophocles more easily than as Alexander or Caesar. The life of books had begun to interest me more than real life. . . . . "My friend had a wonderful gift for listening.
The same active spirit seems to have operated in our ancestors, 500 years ago, that does in their descendants at this day: If a new scheme strikes the fancy, it is pursued with vigor. The religious fervor of that day ran high: It was unfashionable to leave the world, and not remember the Priory.
Sadly wind-blown, drunken and diseased they are, and the Square can remember when there were a number of them, hale and hearty young fellows, but drink and competition have been too strong for them. On Wednesdays there is sometimes a lady who sings ballads in a voice that can only be described as that contradiction in terms "a shrill contralto."
Though, for an old man who is getting stout, there is nothing much left but business and his dinner, eh?" "No. Do not say that," cried the lady. "Never say that. It is time enough to think that years hence when we are all white-haired. But I used to think that myself once, you know. When I first had my money. Do you remember?
"I feel afraid of something, I don't know what, and I was never afraid of anything before." "What superstitions?" he asked, apologetically. "I don't remember mentioning any." "There is no need for you to mention them, they ooze out of you. As though I could not read your mind!
You have been singing twice: three times! Opera singers, they say, eat hot suppers; they drink stout. And I never heard your voice more effective. Yours is a voice that... something of the feeling one has in hearing cathedral voices: carry one up. I remember, in Dresden, once, a Fraulein Kuhnstreich, a prodigy, very young, considering her accomplishments. But it was not the same.
Eldridge, "but there are some particulars which will wring my heart barely to remember; yet to one whose offers of friendship appear so open and disinterested, I will relate every circumstance that led to my present, painful situation.
The Socialists say, since the law organises justice, why should it not organise labour, instruction, and religion? Why? Because it could not organise labour, instruction, and religion, without disorganising justice. For, remember, that law is force, and that consequently the domain of the law cannot lawfully extend beyond the domain of force.
Indeed, now I remember it, he confessed as much to me the other day." "Where did he tell you this?" "You remember, my uncle, when you were sent for to the dying man? When you were gone, I kneeled down to pray for his soul; and when I rose from prayer, this young cavalier was sitting right here, on this end of the fountain.
Word Of The Day