At that moment Christina looked up toward my window
The Angel's Game ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
At that moment Christina looked up toward my window
The Angel's Game ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Evelyn laughs, then claps as if delighted by Timothy's reluctance to vacate.
^ That sounds interesting.
Now try the full version of the C and G chords.
The pink cashmere kerchief stamped with red roses, was slipping to one side over her black and crimped hair.
The Virgin and the Gipsy by D.H. Lawrence
'Oh, it's not suprising, she's seven you know,' May paused for effect, 'It's a holy number, strange things happen in sevens, look at Elsie Norris.'
yeah! I can do it again, after finally finishing Hugo's book... :banana:
'On'y foreign tongues used in the days of the Tower of Babel, when no two families spoke alike.'
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy.
"Quiet and fixed on her back, she did not move or change her position, but she was breathing and snoring."
my novel (hehehehe)
Since I'm writing two at the same time, here's the other one:
"The pungent smell of the spices, according to the old medicine man who was always high on hash, could take away the breaths of the feared spirits and invisible creatures and would cause them to nosebleed."
'Isabella was very sure that he must be a charming young man; and was equally sure that he must have been delighted with her dear Catherine, and would therefore shortly return.'
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
"Now it is all about politics in the paper, he said."
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , James Joyce
'E. T. A. Hoffmann's words anticipate the phantasmagoria of Wagner's Venusberg.'
--Carl Dahlhaus, Richard Wagner's Music Dramas (Cambridge UP, 1979)
"So long as any of the race were to be found, they had been marked out form other men-not strikingly, nor as with a sharp line, but with an effect that was felt rather than sponken of-by an hereditary character of reserve."
The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Mrs Smiling's hopes were dashed."
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
I shall forget my own name soon, I suppose.
Persuasion by Jane Austen.
I wonder if this Flying Dutchman will ever be granted a 'redemption' anything like yours?
T Mann - Pro and Contra Wagner
I had my reservations, of course, but they were about other things, about more general failings, and all the time I was missing the obvious: he's untruthful.
We recognize that theories of history belong to a highly speculative and uncertain realm of thought, depending on the dangerous but necessary art of generalization.
Besides, recent inpatient studies at John Hopkins showed that grieving people were more responsive to external stimuli during the morning hours.
Auto-pilot control **** to OUT (clutches may be left IN), Superchargers to M (low) ratio, Air intakes to COLD and Brake Pressure to a Supply pressure of 250-300 lb./sq. in.
(Researching Avro Lancaster!)
"Her majesty always showed a great deal of interest in anything solid, especially if she could wear it-gold, silver, pearls or rare gems-and rewarded Captain Kennington with a knighthood."
We always hope calamity will not overtake us in this lifetime, rather like children trying to aviod difficult lessons.
Gatherer of Clouds ~ Sean Russell
And he did.
Mr Paradise - Elmore Leonard
Ah! Interesting: there isn't a second let alone fourth sentence on my 23rd page of Sodom and Gomorrah by Proust! The sentence began on page 21 and ended on 24.
Mr Stone and the Knights Companion (V.S. Naipaul)Quote:
He knew that the handling of children required a rare skill which was compounded of simplicity and complete honesty.
"No, no, Hedgemon," the arrested man said, straining all over in his wish to convince, "there's one with a goatskin parchment who follows me, follows me and keeps writing all the time..."
The Master and Margarita Bulgakov
Once more I was impressed by Elliott's knowledge and taste.
'This respect is owed to both your exploits and your name, although, like mine, your sanity's suspect.'
-Don Quixote
Did she still?
'Presently my mistress touched the bell, and in came a strapping maid-servant, who had let us in.'
Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John Cleland
Shame really, there could have been some very saucy stuff, if the pages would only have been bigger :D.
But in spite of this, each of them--as is often the way with men who have selected careers of different kinds--though in discussion he would even justify the other's career, in his heart despised it. ANNA KARENINA. Is it cheating if the 'book at hand' is what I'm reading on-line?
"Muslin can never be said to be wasted"
Northanger Abbey. Jane Austen
"Do you like being...an actor?"
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
New Orleans! Not a bad place to spend a year in prison--except in summer.
Lancelot ~ Walker Percy
'Well ought a preest ensample for to yive
By his clenness how that his sheep shold live.'
Something like 'A priest ought to give example to his sheep how they should live by his cleanliness. (meaning chastity of course)'
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue about the priest.
Hilarious :D
"Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I'm sure she's the best cat in the world!"
"All is 'sex'."
"Silas Marner could very likely do as much, and more; and now it was all clear how he should have come from unknown parts, and be so "comical-looking."
"But I will only say that you will give yourself unnecessary trouble, for I shall take the matter into my own hands now."
'I repeat to you, but for the last time, stop pretending that you're a madman, robber,' Pilate said softly and monotonously, 'there's not much written in your record, but what there is is enough to hang you.'
The Bible :]
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear so that I return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth."
The last thirty years seemed to have mellowed him out completely. Red Dwarf