"Add the chicken pieces and the chopped onion."
Making the Most of Chicken, Poultry and Game, John Carrier's Kitchen
(shame of the sentence, he can really write some tasty stuff!)
"Add the chicken pieces and the chopped onion."
Making the Most of Chicken, Poultry and Game, John Carrier's Kitchen
(shame of the sentence, he can really write some tasty stuff!)
He gave a faint sigh of satisfaction as he breathed in the pine-scented air of the garden and watched a ship making its way under an azure sky towards the port of Salerno.
A Tangled Web by Emil Miller.
With gloss on one end, tuberose and incense on the other, this rollerball is a jetsetter's dream.
Sephora Holiday 2010 Catalog
'Why, look around you: blood is flowing in rivers, and in such a jolly way besides, like champagne.'
- Dostoevsky, 'Notes From underground'
"They got company tonight." Versh said.
- Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury
"Well, then, it must be someone else."
"I'm relying on you, my dear friend," Anna Pavlovna said, also softly, "you'll write to her and tell me comment le pere envisagera la chose. Au revoir." And she left the front hall.
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Originally Posted by papayahed
I'm picturing a roller ball pen with incense burning at one end (?)
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"In the case of hyphens, I have regularized among the selections to the extent of inserting them wherever internal divisions appeared in the form of spacing."
Frank Hamilton Cushing - "Zuni -Selected Writings"
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Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
Lip gloss AND perfume in one stick!!
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The president quickly put away the dumbbells
and opened the door, saying, "I beg your pardon."
-Tolstoy- Resurrection
I found his carcass in my bed this morning.
Lost in Cat Brain Land, Cameron Pierce
Uma rede CTS formada por uma indutância L e uma resistência R, tem uma constante de tempo dada por t=L/R. (microeletrônica - sedra/smith, 5 edição)
I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age.
The Magus
John Fowles
jones--therfore do not be alarmed if you should hear of his having been to me.
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
"I'm only going to eat, you to conquer."
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
This Earth Of Mankind
That my answers are yours? -John Barth-The Floating Opera
You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?
My former book (I know it's agains the rules, but I am addicted to this topic and just HAVE to do it :D):
'Er werde gleich die Ehre haben zu erscheinen!' (Die Marquise von O... und andere Erzählungen, Heinrich von Kleist)
'He would soon have the honour of appearing!' (The Marquis of O... and other stories)
The book I'm reading now (pressie from my father for Christmas):
'Zijn hoofd was zwaar zoals altijd wanneer hij ontwaakte.' (Tussen Twee Paleizen, Nagieb Mahfoez)
'His head was heavy like always when he woke up.' (Palacse Walk, Naguib Mahfouz)
"The virtues, then, come neither by nature nor agaisnt nature, but nature gives the capacity for acquiring them, and this is developed by training."
-Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics (And I'd actually agree a good deal with that sentiment...)
The path tends west around small mountains, then climbs toward a village in the pass.
"The very picture of him indeed!" cried the mother--and "I should have known her anywhere for his sister!" was repeated by them all, two or three times over.
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
"Thanks but I'm afraid I have a prior engagement on Wednesday," said Jerome. He had never heard of Leader of the Pack but the title and the names of the stars mentioned by Mr Melrose bespoke the usual juvenile drivel that had been coming out of American studios for the past twenty years.
A Tangled Web by Emil Miller
"He was always willing to lend these, and he never asked for them back; similarly, he never returned to its owner a book that he had borrowed."
Taken from Aleksandr Pushkin's The Shot out of The Portable Nineteenth Century Russian Reader.
"Her pride, her freedom, but not freedom's shade"
---- To Hope - John Keats ----
Everything he did and said and even thought was wrong.
Shadow of the Giant - Orson Scott Card
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