Some fail, a handful endure with their lights a little fogged, but most thrive, and many return to work in some form; work -- the ultimate badge of health.
Saturday - Ian McEwan
Some fail, a handful endure with their lights a little fogged, but most thrive, and many return to work in some form; work -- the ultimate badge of health.
Saturday - Ian McEwan
Propped outside Chip's apartment was a clear-plastic umbrella that Chip recognized, with relief, as Julia Vrais's.
The consequence was that the Moriscos were growing richer and richer, and since they wrer exceedingly prolific were increasing in numbers.
Catalina - Somerset Maugham
"You're a thought-criminal!"
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All the victimes claimed Plogojowitz had come to their death beds at night and tried to strangle them.
'tis some book 'bout the vampire myth...
"In the slanting beams that streamed through the open doorway the dust danced and was golden." - The Picture of Dorian Gray
His mother kissed him.
James Joyce - A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
"But-but-but-let me pull myself together- there is also this vision of him emerging from the bathroom, savagely kneading the back of his neck and sourly swallowing a belch."
Portnoy's Complaint
"Agnarr läks Grimniri juurde ning andis talle sarvetäie juua, öeldes, et kuningas teeb halvasti, kui laseb teda piinata, asja ees, teist taga."
Poetic Edda, translation from Icelandic to Estonian by Rein Sepp.
The boy had bitten her.
We are living not only in the Age of America, but also in the Age of the Novel, at a moment when literature of a country without a first-rate epic verse or a memorable verse tragedy has become the model of half the world.
Leslie Fiedler - Love and Death in the American Novel
"'Yeah i don't think i'll put it exactly like that but i'll deal with it." -Paper Towns by John Green
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"And now all i ask is a good swift ship and a crew of twenty men to speed me through my passage out and back." The Odyssey by Homer
I hastened to reply; but I thought of it, after an instant, not opposed to this concession to pursue: "Did she die here?"
Henry James - The turn of the Screw
n before "hard" c, k, q, x = ng (zinc, u'ncle, tank, banquet,minx)
The Concise Oxford Dictionary.
But I shan't bore you with my studies now - Maya