been capable of a much more difficult sacrifice than the clavichord lessons merely not to run up against herintransigence11. During the graduation ceremonies she had the impression that the parchment with Gothic letters andilluminated12capitals was freeing her from a compromise that she had accepted ...
They had walked in single file down the path, and even in the open one stayed behind the other. Both were dressed in denim trousers and in denim coats with brass buttons. Both wore black, shapeless hats and both carried tight blanket rolls slung over their shoulders. The first man was sm...
About 3,000 years later, someone finally invented the buttonhole, and buttons were suddenly useful.Before buttons, clothes were bigger—they had no fixed shapes. Because of the buttonhole, the fashion moved closers to the body when we discovered uses for the button. It was the very way to ...
at roughly chest-height, is a protruding patch of shiny white metal, about the size of a postcard. Embossed upon it are nine squares, arranged as a phone's keypad and marked with deeply imprinted Roman numerals, I through IX. Pressing these "buttons" yields no effect. ...
There were only two buttons(纽扣) on it. My mother didn’t say anything at first. Instead, she buttoned up Mildred’s coat and tidied up her hair.“I’m Marion’s mother. I need your help, Mildred.” My mother’s hands held Mildred’s as she spoke. “Marion doesn’t have any ...
In February 2007, about two hundred paragliders were in Australia to prepare for the World Championship. They included Ewa Wisnierska, a German paragliding champion (冠军). One morning, as the ___ were getting ready to take off, they noticed that a terrible storm was coming. However,...
you can also control all of the CineBeam Q's functions with an included, ergonomically designed remote. Like the projector itself, the remote has a minimalist design with easy-to-understand button icons. I have only two complaints: The buttons are not backlit and the remote does not accept ...
IT RAINED FOR four years, eleven months, and two days. There were periods of drizzle during which everyone put on his full dress a convalescent look to celebrate the clearing, but the people soon grew accustomed to interpret the pauses as a sign of
Things like adding buttons, or modifying text on a page. Facebook Marketplace is fast becoming the only viable used item listing in my area. Which is annoying – It’s inferior to Craigslist in any way, but the latter is clearly dying a slow death. The best listing site seems to be ...
75. S___ still while I do up your buttons. 76. This teacher, who is strict with his students, sets high s___ for his pupils. 77. When it becomes dark, the s___ in the sky come out. 78. He sat outside the house, and s___ into space, thinking about something deeply....