This sketch, from the the story-a-day anthology 365 Days that Kay Boyle edited with her then-husband Laurence Vail and her friend Nina Conarain, is one of the most powerful in the entire book. Pregnant with her third child, Boyle found herself with the burden of filling the many gaps i...
5.The new publicity manager is really on the ball.新的宣传部主任确实很内行.6.A phenomenal feat of memory.非凡的记忆力 7.I have a sneaking suspicion that he stole my wallet.我心想准是他偷了我的钱包.8.It is diligence that makes up for deficiency.勤能补拙。9.He listened to the music ...
Several feet below them is a layer of what was once moist wetland peat, rich with pollen from trees, aquatic plants and maize. At the end of the Preclassic (around 300 CE) and for the next 500 years, the soil was buried in successive layers of waterborne limestone clay. As the ...
– The American Crow attempts to steal an item from an enemy. If the attempt fails, or if the enemy has no items, a small amount of non-elemental damage is done instead. Murder– The American Crow sacrifices some of its hit points to deliver a powerful attack. If the sacrifice brings ...
Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well. From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are. His four...