the closest book i found, though it's on top of my comp. desk :p
Greg took a deep breath and pushed with all his hands.
this may seem odd, it is from R.L Stine Goosebumps "Say Cheese and die"..haha :rofl:
i really enjoyed those books, oh as when i was young :bawling:
'Skip the <table> tag for the page layout.'
CSS Manual was the closest book!
"The evocation settled the matter."
Lolita~ Vladimir Nabokov
"We may hope for a good deal or cruelty and unchastity"
C.S. Lewis- The Screwtape Letters
Seriously.
"Are you a Munchkin?" asked Dorothy.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
In the interior there was a smell of stagnant water, rodents, rotting wood.
Neat topic!
From L'Uomo che sapeva contare by Malba Tahan
Translation: The Man Who Counts demonstrates an original method for counting the camels from a big caravan. :biggrin5:Quote:
L'Uomo Che Contava mostra un metodo originale per contare i cammelli di una grande carovana.
the closest book to my hand was a dictionary...lol..let's see the goods :)
"afforest: To convert (land) into forest.
okay.....lol
The title seemed suggestive, and he was in the habit of reading something light on his train journey home.
That Shadow of the Wind ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Revelation can be more perilous than revolution.
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
They differ, again, in their length: for Tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time.
From Criticism: Major Statements 4th edition
Aristotle, The Poetics.
Boring literary criticism textbook! Lemme grab my fun read...
The knife hung beside the dead man's empty leather gun holster, from which Havermeyer had stolen the gun.
From Catch-22
A fiendish cloud of feathers and wings arose screaming, and Adela, like a furious maenad protected by the whirlwind of her thyrsus, danced the dance of destruction.
The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz
"What do you have in your mouth young man?"
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ~ Michael Chabon
"Ninety-nine point two."
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"There was no refusing, however inconvenient it might have seemed to fight a war with Meissen porcelain under one arm."
Atonement - Ian McEwan