"His eyes lay dark and tunneled in a caved and haunted face and a foul stench rose from the wells of his boot tops."
"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)
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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