And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
In the words of Alan Kay, whose 1968 vision of the portable computer, an environment where children could learn by 'making', seemed, at the time, wholly unrealizable: "You can go on working on an impossible project for a long time if it has a lot of romance in it."
Cultural Babbage essays edited by Jenny Uglow
'Ain't nobody been knifed there in a month.'
And someone was goggling through the bars at him: a freckle-faced, red-haired, long-nosed someone.
Back in the City Room, Duncan, my editor, asks, "Single or double sink?"
Stopping before a window display she said with great gusto: "je vais m'acheter des bas!" and never may I forget the way her Parisian childish lips exploded on "bas," pronouncing it with an appetite that all but changed the "a" into a brief buoyant bursting "o" as in "bot."
Lolita
"Sounds were deadened, shapes blurred." - The woman in black
On a late afternoon Nanny had called her to come inside the house because she had spied Janie letting Johnny Taylor kiss her over the gatepost.
He couldn't offer one a lift without offering all; he wanted the company of none. The Submission - Amy Waldman
"Everything he said was true and sincere; Finny always said what he happened to be thinking, and if this stunned people then he was surprised." A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Page 23, sentence 4:
Far back down time that was, straight though it be.
Knights Gambit by William Faulkner
"I don't think so," said Rabbit. "It isn't meant to be."
AA Milne: The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the- Pooh, pg 23
And feather'd clouds strew flowers round her head.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature (6th edition, volume 2)
"Figure 7. - First flight engine, 1903: cylinder, valve box, and gear mechanism; below, miscellanoeus parts. (Photos courtesy Science Museum, London, and Louis P. Christman)"
The quoted caption above is from a 1971 Smithsonian Annals of Flight publication on the Wright Brothers' engines and their design desribing two photos on the 23rd page.
I had spent the night with Sandra.