There are two kinds of New Year cake: the southern style and the northern style. Those made in Guangdong and Suzhou provinces are the best among southern style New Year cakes,because they are pure in fragrance, delicate in taste, and neither hard nor soft. They do not melt when cooked an...
Those contradictory two word phrases like 'jumbo shrimp' are the most common oxymorons, but some single words also present conflicting ideas. Check out this list of one word oxymorons.
the order in which a peal of bells can be rung, hence, the collective sound of the bells; Mathematics. a permutation for a different order in which a set or series of things can be changed. Examples: change or peal of bells; a change of clothing [modern]. Dictionary of Collective Noun...
Kuro of a Hundred Plans, also known by the alias Klahadore, was the captain of the Black Cat Pirates. After he faked his own capture and execution,[7] Kuro pretended to stumble into the Syrup Village, where he was taken in by Kaya's family[8] and acted a
Such an act as that of the great engineer, George Stephenson, who took the first one hundred and sixty dollars he earned, saved from a year's wages, and paid his blind old father's debts, and then removed both father and mother to a comfortable tenement at Killingworth, ...— From ...
In the year after that the Bobsborough people were rather driven into a corner in search of a clever young Conservative candidate for the borough, and Frank Greystock was invited to stand. It was not thought ...— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope Read full book for free! ... ...
It was New Year's Night. An aged man was standing at a window. He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake. Then he cast them on the earth, where few more hopeless people than himself now...
In folk culture, celebrating the Lunar New Year is also called “guonian” (literally meaning “passing a year”). It is said that the “nian” (year) was a fierce and cruel monster, and every day, it ate one kind of animal including human bein...
but to begin "The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'" and to go on with it without hesitation and without a pause. A comparison of any page of "The Rescue" with any page of "The Nigger" will furnish an ocular demonstration of the nature and the inward meaning of this first crisis of my writ...
... season of the year. Faces are however whipped clean by the drifting snow, but at the same time are generally swollen or sore from frostbite. On the whole, the disposition of the Chukches to cleanliness is slight, and above all, their ideas of what is clean or unclean differs consid...