As the Labor government lies embattled, ready for a substantial defeat at the polls today, facts about the Australian economy and overseas understandings of Australia's performance over the last six years are emerging. Far from being the basket-case fashioned by the opposition and much of the ...
I’m glad I’m finally back here with you. I’ve planned out our blogging days. First we make blog snow angels for two hours (I’d really last about a minute and someone would have to help me up), then we’ll go blog ice skating (which will consist of me falling down a lot),...
There was something rude and immoral in thrusting these recent facts of his life upon the mind of one who, to him, was so uncarnate as to seem at times impossible as a human wife to any average man. And yet she was Phillotson's. How she had become such, how she lived as such,...
I troubled ’em in Australia, and I trouble folk here. I wish I hadn’t been born!” “You couldn’t help it, my dear.” “I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to ’em, and not allowed to grow big ...
The Ohio farmer's law book : being a summary of laws which every farmer should be familiar with : together with answers to practical questions on obscure points : also an appendix of tables, rules and facts of every-day use for farmers ...
I couldn't bear deceiving him as to the facts of life. And yet I wasn't truthful, for with a false delicacy64 I told him too obscurely.--Why was I half-wiser than my fellow-women? And not entirely65 wiser! Why didn't I tell him pleasant untruths, instead of half-realities? It...
Quick Facts Born: June 2, 1840, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England Died: January 11, 1928, Dorchester, Dorset (aged 87) Notable Works: “A Changed Man” “A Pair of Blue Eyes” “Desperate Remedies” “Far from the Madding Crowd” “A Group of Noble Dames” “Jude the Obscure”...
Facts will eventually scotch these rumours.这种谣言在事实面前将不攻自破。 Italy was full of fine views and virtually empty of Scotch whiskey.意大利多的是美景,真正缺的是苏格兰威士忌。 57 soda n.苏打水;汽水 参考例句: She doesn't enjoy drinking chocolate soda.她不喜欢喝巧克力汽水。 I will fre...
"He has returned from Australia?" said Jude with languid curiosity. "Yes. Couldn't get on there. Had a rough time of it. Mother died of dys—what do you call it—in the hot weather, and Father and two of the young ones have just got back. He has got a cottage near the old ...
"Whenever I met him out for a walk, he used to say that he was much taken with my looks, and he kept pressing me to marry him. I never thought of coming back to England again; and being out there in Australia, with no home of my own after leaving my father, I at last agreed...