My father could have worked with them; he could have worked with the landlords' mud, but he chose not to.
My father could have worked with them; he could have worked with the landlords' mud, but he chose not to.
'Ye can smell it. What came tae yon?'
The Dragon Charmer - Jan Siegel
And Five Properties loved to bring treats, cases of chocolate milk and flouncy giant boxes of candy, bricks of ice-cream and layer cakes.
How then could capitalism do so?
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Weber
One unifying thread in the Bible is its divine authority :D
~ESV Study Bible
I agreed with Papa, even before emancipation, that the West Indies would be irreparably ruined if the Emancipation Bill was passed.
Strange Music - Laura Fish
Missionary congregation 100 francs
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Fanny was too much surprised to do more than repeat her aunt's words, "Going to leave you?"
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
"An umpire appeared." - Slaughterhouse 5
One of the longest sentences I have ever seen.
Dictionary of Modern History - Penguin paperback (A.W. Palmer)
In the last years of his reign, Alexander encouraged the development of Russia's Far Eastern territories, backing the projects of Witte (q.v.) and authorizing construction of the trans-Siberian Railway (q.v.)
(Alexander III, Tsar of Russia)
I came through John F. Kennedy Airport in a long necklace and an Afghan coat, carrying a torn copy of Howl.
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann
For many years these houses presented first-class plays and were frequented by the aristocracy of the city, but in time, as the character of the street changed and the dives and gangsters made it a byword from coast to coast, they offered blood and thunder thrillers of so distinct a type that they became known as Bowery plays, and could be seen knowhere else.
Phew! From Gangs of New York
"They sauntered over to the Cabana Club and climbed the two short flights of stairs to the top deck"
Ian Fleming - "Goldfinger"
Going to cheat as I had two, one on top of each other...
Then once again Brendan decided our destiny. - Morality Play, Barry Unsworth
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. - Macbeth at his dissasembled best.
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and situation.
Persuasion by Jane Austen