'Don't look.'
'Don't look.'
"The bleached curl revealed its melanic root; the down turned to prickles on a shaved shin; the mobile moist mouth, no matter how I stuffed it with love, disclosed ignominiously its resemblance to the corresponding part in a treasured portrait of her toadlike dead mama; and presently, instead of a pale little gutter girl, Humbert Humbert had on his hands a large, puffy, short-legged, big-breasted and practically brainless baba."
'His mother was inconsolable and practically out of her mind with grief, and the feeling of guilt at being behind a desk while Clive had fallen in battle...'
Pro Bono Publico The Rise and Rise of a Very Liberal Democracy by Emil Miller
I enjoy it so far.
I'm glad you're enjoying it Olga and I look forward to your final verdict.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olga4real
"Any how he had a pair of old Pistolls, and he told me that they were a smuglar's once upon a time."
Unfortunately, the 23rd page of my book doesn't have sentences. If I were to chose an equivalent gathering of words it would be:
Know how it operates--
The question of our lost opportunity were now always present my mother could not leave it alone my father would sit solid in his chair and quietly rub the belly of his big black cat.
I hope the hotel has a decent bath.
What are you reading? A manual of some sort?Quote:
Originally Posted by Armel P
That made me laugh for no good reason whatsoever. :DQuote:
I hope the hotel has a decent bath.
Mine is very boring. -> "We haven't had time to make up a slide," she said, "so you will have to hand it round."
"Well, I spent the morning in my office, and in the afternoon I stood in for the director at a meeting with the Deputy Under Secretary. I'm a civil servant and I work for the Foreign Office."
The Fateful Circle by Emil Miller.
"Old Deacon Gookin was at domestic worship, and the holy words of his prayer were heard through the open window."
"Maybe it was the beer, but the absence of Cyprian was certainly part of it as well."
"You've just observed that, and everybody makes the same observation as you, and this machine, the guillotine, was invented for that."
Writing a paper on this book right now. I'm here to procrastinate, of course.
There were cattle cracking through the undergrowth, and the stillness of wild animals - all not to be seen.
"Harry så på ham." - Flaggermusmannen (book title in English: The Bat Man. It is originally a Norwegian book) by Jo Nesbø.
Freely translated: "Harry looked at him."
"His eyes lay dark and tunneled in a caved and haunted face and a foul stench rose from the wells of his boot tops."
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"ALQUIST: For peace of my soul."
From Karel Čapek's play - R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
Gg
The white quail stretched a wing backward and smoothed down the feathers with her beak.
"I suppose there's a pleasure in satirizing a failure." - Emily Climbs
'Men zocht naar een aanleiding voor zijn treurigheid en mevrouw Favrot, die het spel en de spelers door en door kende, begon tragische tonelen eindigende in zelfmoord te ruiken.'
'A cause for his sadness was looked for and Mme Favrot, who knew the game and its players through and through, started to imagine tragic scenes ending in suicide'
(Monaco, Three Types, Marcellus Emants, 1878)
From a translation I am making, hopefully to some avail :hurray:.
A spoonful for each drinker and one for the pot.
The natural light was enkindled in him.-Les Miserables
But the slightest word of real bitterness, which he was infallible in distinguishing from pretended anger, seemed to sink into his heart and poison all his enjoyments, till he became sensible that he was entirely forgiven.
The book right next to me, eh? Okay.
"Pressing the A button with a weapon equipped will attack by firing the gun, swinging the steel pipe, etc."
-- Deadly Premonition instruction manual
Go Tell It on the MountainQuote:
If she had lived, John thought, then he would never have been born; his father would never have come North and met his mother.
James Baldwin
Now this is a pretty intriguing sentence! It makes one wonder who the concerned personality might be that has so much influence on the lives of all these people! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by EricW
"These financial statements are the responsibility of the company's management."
Auditing and Assurance Services: A Systematic Approach by Messier, Glover, and Prawitt.
- my husband's book. go figure.
"He likes to tell them about fireflies."
"I will go and look for it," said the other gently.
FRANK: (Rising) Mrs. Warren, I cannot give my Vivie up even for your sake.
-"Mrs. Warren's Profession" from "'Man and Superman' and Three Other Plays" by George Bernard Shaw
No appointments, no invitations for dinner, no program, no dough.
- From "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller.
It was this last factor which provided its own solution to the problem of re-settling the migrant populations of the new Earth.
He will be a somebody in the Administration before long.
Oh dear. ""The position of guides can be adjusted in the image using the Move tool."
From "Adobe Photoshop CS5 Bible" by Lisa DaNae Dayley and Brad Dayley.
I was actually resting my elbow on it and couldn't resist...
The desire not to offend trade union officials took on an almost deferential air, with serious consequences for industrial relations at a time when communist activists were becoming more influential.
Pro Bono Publico by Emil Miller.
The methods of teaching most of the subjects in the curriculum have undergone considerable changes and been vastly improved, during the last decade.
Learning the Teach English in the Secondary School, 3rd edition. by Jon Davison and Jane Dowson (eds)
Je ne comprends pas.
(Trans. : I don't understand.)
"Pity! Why pity me!" Marmeladov suddenly cried out, rising with his hand stretched forth, in decided inspiration, as if he had only been waiting for these words.
From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
"Then again, some people might not like the identity of Jack the Ripper discovered." - Jack by Eric M. Black
'How did your friend blow the conch?'
Oh dear, trust me to find a line like that.