You’ve got this broad valley with the river running down it, and the jungle forest, and the mountains... We used to sit by the river and watch the sun setting behind the mountains, sometimes, and say what a marvellous place it would be to come to for a holiday. However terrible a...
摇曳的火光,愈透露出姑娘的神圣。 O fair and stately maid, whose eyes Were kindled in the upper skies At the same torch that lighted mine; For so I must interpret still Thy sweet dominion o’er my will, Asympathy divine. Ah! Let me blameless gaze upon Features that seem at heart my o...
short paragraphs. “We have been living through years of great evil,” he said, “and great terror.” And during this time Franklin Roosevelt had been, “in an old and unperverted sense, our leader.” Characteristically, Oppenheimer turned to the Bhagavad-Gita: “Man is a creature whose su...
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Overhead, in the spring sunshine, the trees whispered together of the glory which descended upon them when the delicate blossoms and leaves began to expand, and the forest glowed the fair, clear colors, as if the dust of thousands of rubies and emeralds were hanging, in soft clouds, above...
This post shares 50 best chapter books to read aloud from that same survey, with titles that are suitable for children from kindergarten through middle grades, we suggest ages 6 to 12 years of age. I love that these are books that have been actually recommended by parents and teachers – ...
As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and ask myself why it will cherish those humble thoughts, and bide its head from me who might, perhaps, be its benefactor, and impart to its race some ...
hoped to win elections. Snobbish bigwigs, unhappy over the change, sneered at "coonskin congressmen" and at the newly enfranchised "bipeds of the forest." To them the tyranny of "King Numbers" was no less offensive than that of King George. But these critics protested...
Captain Nemo continued to plummet into the dark depths of thisforest, whose shrubbery grew ever more sparse. I observed that vegetable lifewas disappearing more quickly than animal life. The open–sea plants had alreadyleft behind the increasingly arid seafloor, where a prodigious number ofanimals...
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