Where I lived at Pencey, I lived in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing of the new dorms. It was only for juniors and seniors. I was a junior. My roommate was a senior. It was named after this guy Ossenburger that went to Pencey. He made a pot ofdough2in theundertaking3business after ...
It took six EMTs and two teachers — Mr. Varner and Coach Clapp — to shiftthe van far enough away from us to bring the stretchers in. Edwardvehemently refused his, and I tried to do the same, but thetraitor34toldthem I'd hit my head and probably had aconcussion35. I almost died...
US, or USA. On July 4, 1776,The Declaration of Independenceannounced that the thirteen North American colonies would be the United States of America, free and independent of Great Britain. It has a nickname, “Uncle Sam.”The image came from a meat provider named Samuel Wilson during...
She went for tests but they showed the hormone levels in her blood were so low that it would be impossible to conceive.“Strangely enough, the news didn't bother me,”she says,“Even though the doctors told me I would never have children, I found it impossible to believe.” Several wee...
Chapter3 别了,我的爱 Love's Farewell [英] 迈克尔·德雷顿 Michael Drayton 别无他法,让我们最后一次吻别, 我曾为你所做的一切,从此你再得不到; 我开心,是的,满心欢喜, 我彻底释放了自己; 握手永别,让曾经的誓言随风消散, 无论何时我们再见,
The flower smells good.这花很好闻。3. 情态动词情态动词是指表示说话人的语气或者情态的动词。情态动词没有人称和数的变化,在句中不能单独作谓语,必须和后面的动词原形合用。情态动词的否定形式,可以直接在后面加not。情态动词的一般疑问句形式,可以直接把情态动词提到句首,句中的其他成分不变,并且在句末加问号...
‐3‐ to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the army, where he was killed; and though he said he would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me, that if I did take this foolish ...
Franz and Albert were like men who, to drive away a violent sorrow, have recourse to wine, and who, as they drink and become intoxicated, feel a thick veil drawn between the past and the present. They saw, or rather continued to see, the image of what they had witnessed; ...
Like the water, the Walden ice, seen near at hand, has a green tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you can easily tell it from the white ice of the river, or the merely greenish ice of some ponds, a quarter of a mile off. Sometimes one of those great cakes slips ...
“Introspective by nature and never athletic, Robert spent his early childhood in the comfortable loneliness of his mother’s nest on Riverside Drive. The relationship between mother and son was always intense. Ella encouraged Robert to paint—he did landscapes—but he gave it up when he went ...