I think we might have something to eat first, don't you? Said her grandfather.
From Heidi by Johanna Spyri
I think we might have something to eat first, don't you? Said her grandfather.
From Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Your hand again.
- Chamber Music by James Joyce
Then she placed her hands, vertically, over her eyes and pressed the heels hard, as though to paralyze the optic nerve and drown all images into a voidlike black.
The two officers exchanged glances, and the next question brought a bemused look to the face of the bereaved man when he was asked to account for his own movements that day.
"There will be no food provided or permitted in the library" - The library book by Alan Bennett et al.
It was not the first time, nor the second, that I had gone away - as it seemed, permanently - but yet returned, like the bad half-penny; or as if Salem were for me the inevitable centre of the universe.
They run together toward the open doorway, awkwardly, bumping up against each other, the old Jew's fingers never once letting go of the woman's wrist.
"You must have a good record, a clean sheet." - Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
"Pero tampoco quise abrir ese día porque no estimo absolutamente a quienes se corrigen demasiado pronto"
"But I didn't want to answer the door that day either because I don't like those who change their minds too quickly"
Giovanni Papini, Historia completamente absurda
There is no boy, there are no footsteps when he leaves.
It is another, a worse kind of sickness.
The Knight had not travelled far, when he fancied he heard an effeminate voice complaining in a thicket on his right hand.
At nineteen her fine grey eyes looked challenge, and her warm complexion, her black hair looped up slack, enforced the sensuous folding of her mouth.
Her legs were too bad. -- from Selected Stories by Nadine Gordimer
He worked with fanatical intensity for twelve or fourteen hours a day, sinking into bed in the evening worn down by the crushing weight of numbers, to sleep dreamlessly.
Journey Into The Past (Stephan Zweig).
"The people were serious minded, and the reader finds scarce humor in their literature."
(My son left his high school British Literature text book on the desk. Talking about the Anglo-Saxon period historical context)
"Note that the last term has only two significant figures (the zero is significant)."
Essentials Of Applied Physics by John E. Betts
"My first interview with the manager was curious."
-Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
'What's the matter with you?' he drawled.
"That was very nice," she said and went back to the kitchen.
From the short story "The Barber": The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
"Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell."
-Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
"The wandering, murderous monster slew him in Heorot; and I do not know where that ghoul, drooling at her feast of flesh and blood, made off afterwards."
English Literature textbook of mine
Among others of this kind was Dr. Blifil, a gentleman who had the misfortune of losing the advantage of great talents by the obstinacy of a father, who would breed him to a profession he disliked.
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
"'Not one of them would have stopped her, even that little one almost old enough to be selfish and stone-hearted like the rest of them.'"
-As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Jenny was now summoned to appear in person before Mrs. Deborah, which she immediately did.
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
He was more nervous than he had thought and kept turning his head this way and that as if afraid he was being observed by thousands of eyes hidden in the darkness of the aisles between the shelves.
At last he could go no farther, and the stone tired him terribly; he dragged himself to the side of a pond, that he might drink some water, and rest a while; so he laid the stone carefully by his side on the bank: but as he stopped down to drink, he forgot it, pushed it a little, and down it went plump into the pond.
"Grimms' Fairy Tales" by Brothers Grimm - Tale: Hans In Luck
Mrs Nugent was his sister.
"His bald purplish head now looked for all the world like a mildewed skull." from Moby Dick
"Les plus sensés faisaient observer que monsieur Cruchot de Bonfons avait ses entrées à toute heure au logis, tandis que son rival n'y était reçu que les dimanches."
"The most sensible ones remarked that Mr Cruchot de Bonfons was welcomed in the house at all hours of the day, while his rival was only received there on Sundays."
Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac, 1833
"He was a remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached—evidently the man of whom I had heard."
"A Scandal In Bohemia" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I've observed him many times presiding over some official ceremony or in the salon of the Nesle sisters, and his demeanor has always been the same: timid, withdrawn, as though his role as king were too much for him.
Rasero - Francisco Rebolledo
They could surely be married in six months' time.
Birds squabbled over the cidery crush milled under by the cartwheels, and winds whisked their burden of scrapping, flying leaves, sharpened by frost off the peaks.
Which book Babyguile?
I mentioned what they had said about her, and she laughed, and told me they were impudent fellows who talked nonsense - but I knew it pleased her.
Ships of Merior by Janny Wurts. That line really demonstrates her writing style which is turgid at its worst but vividly descriptive at its best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ser Nevarc
A particularly sharp rise in food prices precipitated the strikes and popular demonstrations of July 1919.
As Conan Doyle insisted, Tit-Bits and its many imitators deliberately aimed at the audience created by the 1870 Education Act, readers who were "not sufficiently educated to study the deepest and thickest volumes" (quoted in McDonald 1997: 145).
‘Let’s go and sit in the gazebo,’ she continued, and ‘please, until I myself begin to talk with you, don’t mention…that book to me.’
Faust by Turgenev