Acel brought out his tobacco sack. Hungry Men Edward Anderson
Acel brought out his tobacco sack. Hungry Men Edward Anderson
Shasta soon learned, when he heard Bree talking like that, to prepare for a gallop.
The Horse and His Boy -- CS Lewis
At that moment Bissett's entery interrupted us.
The Quincunx, Charles Palliser
"Each relieves his mind of the burden by recourse to his own stimulant and it is at such times as this that the real artist is capable of producing a masterpiece"
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
But as soon as their door was shut they rushed headlong through the dark apartment, bumping against the furniture, till they got to the dining-room where Monsieur Josserand was writing by the feeble light of a little lamp.
"Pot-Bouille" (Pot Luck) - Emile Zola
Floods with no rim or horizon, leewardings wholly free, as though the wind's direction were open forever; these intimate an available female presence beyond flirtation, dangerous because she incarnates the Oedipal trespass.
The Best Poems of the English Language
-From Chaucer Through Robert Frost-
-Harold Bloom
I have a lot of protective flesh over it but I carried a bruise there for some time.
"They hankered after the old familiar Paris of narrow streets and class mixing, where ramshackle workers' housing cluttered up the courtyards of the Louvre and the Tuileries Palace."
From Impressionism:Origins,Practice and Reception by Belinda Thomson.
"Over the subsequent nine years, she often amazed us, frequently astonished us, always delighted us, and in time evoked in us a sense of wonder that will remain with us for the rest of our lives."
A Big Little Life - Dean Koontz
I' mi ristrinsi a la fida compagna:
--Purgatorio
..."And I don't really have time for that because I have to push the president, and when I'm not pushing him, I have to sit in my room and look at my phone until somebody somewhere else dials my number and makes it ring...."
Buying Cigarettes For The Dog
Stories by Stuart Ross
"For two years I have only had insults and outrage from her."
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
"So back to the whitewashed library of the monastery--with that liver still in shrieking requisition, as it had been loudly, while they looked at the silent sight they came to see--and there through the merits of the case as summoned up by the Abbot."
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
"They don't think nothing of pulling a shot-tower up by the roots, and belting a Sunday-school superintendent over the head with it--or any other man."
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Folk believed, generally, that all I did was mix inks, prepare quills and keep the workroom tidy. Hearts Blood by Juliet Marillier.
the closest book i found, though it's on top of my comp. desk :p
Greg took a deep breath and pushed with all his hands.
this may seem odd, it is from R.L Stine Goosebumps "Say Cheese and die"..haha :rofl:
i really enjoyed those books, oh as when i was young :bawling:
'Skip the <table> tag for the page layout.'
CSS Manual was the closest book!
"The evocation settled the matter."
Lolita~ Vladimir Nabokov
"We may hope for a good deal or cruelty and unchastity"
C.S. Lewis- The Screwtape Letters
Seriously.
"Are you a Munchkin?" asked Dorothy.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
In the interior there was a smell of stagnant water, rodents, rotting wood.
Neat topic!
From L'Uomo che sapeva contare by Malba Tahan
Translation: The Man Who Counts demonstrates an original method for counting the camels from a big caravan. :biggrin5:Quote:
L'Uomo Che Contava mostra un metodo originale per contare i cammelli di una grande carovana.
the closest book to my hand was a dictionary...lol..let's see the goods :)
"afforest: To convert (land) into forest.
okay.....lol
The title seemed suggestive, and he was in the habit of reading something light on his train journey home.
That Shadow of the Wind ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Revelation can be more perilous than revolution.
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
They differ, again, in their length: for Tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time.
From Criticism: Major Statements 4th edition
Aristotle, The Poetics.
Boring literary criticism textbook! Lemme grab my fun read...
The knife hung beside the dead man's empty leather gun holster, from which Havermeyer had stolen the gun.
From Catch-22
A fiendish cloud of feathers and wings arose screaming, and Adela, like a furious maenad protected by the whirlwind of her thyrsus, danced the dance of destruction.
The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz
"What do you have in your mouth young man?"
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ~ Michael Chabon
"Ninety-nine point two."
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"There was no refusing, however inconvenient it might have seemed to fight a war with Meissen porcelain under one arm."
Atonement - Ian McEwan
'The lettuces are important to me,' she said, looking down at her bracelets and then across to him again.
And Why?
Under the Sun of Satan ~ Georges Bernanos
Do you?
She took it, her face pleased, warm, though not very much surprised.
William Faulkner- Light in August
You suffer horribly....Ah!
The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde
Actually the book beside my hand is Russian-English dictionary, bur right now I am reading 'Swejk' by Jaroslav Hasek and the sentence is: Ez a Stendler külonben is borzásztó peches ember volt, már magándetektív korában is.
Which means 'But even Mr Stendler had awfully bad luck as a private detective.'
Diez ańos antes, había una gran cantidad de retratos de lo que parecía una gran pelota rosada con gorros de diferentes colores, pero Dudley Dursley ya no era un nińo pequeńo, y en aquel momento las fotos mostraban a un chico grande y rubio montando su primera bicicleta, en un tiovivo en la feria, jugando con su padre en el ordenador, besado y abrazado por su madre...
From Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal
- Practicing Spanish using a well known story
It used to be a microphone, and you'd take polaroids.
"Yes, sir." Go Down Moses - William Faulkner
"World. Hast thou a Wife and Children?"
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
I like this thread. :)