When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young, pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also. She was thin and gaunt, and nev...
The woods and forests became safe. When the Mayflower returned to England that summer, there were no colonists 35 .At the end of their first year in their new home, the Pilgrims wanted to celebrate with a real holiday. It was their first Thanks giving Day. 26. A. in their own style ...
was not growing quite deceitful. But there was no help for it. All I had to do was to be quiet, and I was as quiet as a mouse. They were as quiet as mice, too, so far as any words were concerned; but the innocent manner in which they relied more and more upon me, as they ...
4.They(the poor)are the first to experience technological proGREss asa curse which destroys the old muscle power jobs that previous generations used as a means to fight their way out of poverty. 5.So it was that the farm poor were caught in their own past,the double victim of technology:...
RED (V.O.):And that's how it went for Andy. That was his routine. I do believe those first two years were the worst for him. And I also believe if things had gone on that way, this place would have got the best of him.But then, in the spring of 1949,the powers-that-be de...
There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide, sweeping ones; narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump. Then there were doors that wouldn\'t open unless you asked politel...
Halfway up the slope there stands the Hall for listening to Orioles . The ancient Chinese liken the warble of an oriole to beautiful songs and melodies, hence the name of the hall which used to be a theater. Now the hall is one of the most famous restaurants in China, featuring imperial...