for there are no buses or trains heading in that direction, though six days a week a truck from the Chuberry Turpentine Company collects mail and supplies in the next-door town of Paradise Chapel: occasionally a person bound for Noon City can catch a ride with the driver of the truck, S...
I had to wait for a bit while he helped his father Tzvika at the bar. By now a lot more military people had trudged in and the bar was full of them. They all carried machine guns and were dressed in standard-issue olive drab. The more devout among them even had matching green ...
“Well, good-bye, Fetinyushka,” she brought out at last, and trudged off. This conversation had an unpleasant effect on Akim. His love for Avdotya had cooled, but still he did not like what the servant had said. And she had told the truth: Avdotya really had gone out that ...
It’s safe at rest in Dead Man’s Creek, we’ll leave it lying still; A horse’s back is good enough henceforth for Mulga Bill.’ The Pearl Diver Kanzo Makame, the diver, sturdy and small Japanee, Seeker of pearls and of pearl-shell down in the depths of the sea, Trudged o’...
"'Oh, don't say that,' cried little Hans, 'I wouldn't be unfriendly for the whole world;' and he ran in for his cap, and trudged off with the big sack on his shoulders."It was a very hot day, and the road was terribly dusty, and before Hans had reached the sixth milestone ...
Problem: I’m still not entirely sure what the happenings under the hood are for this problem, but the gist of it is that when you are calibrating the camera (a single camera) with 3D points (this is what is meant by “non-planar calibration rigs.” In other words, the “Z” coordi...
Last spring, members of Alaska’s Troop 34, based in Fairbanks, trudged (跋涉) out into the snowy wilderness to take part in their state’s Take a Kid Trapping program. In many parts of the state, beavers (海狸)are pests and need to be controlled.The 10-to-12-year-old girls found ...
d be a wonder if I could stay awake for 90 minutes after baking in the sun for so long, let alone partake in strenuous sweaty exercise. The humidity levels in the hot room would probably be something approaching a scene from Dante’sInferno. But I trudged into that studio anyway, ...
I spent the first five miles contemplating (oh and cursing) as to why we keep going back as I trudged up the hills and slip slided all over the place in the sloppy mud, the sticky mud and the trainer sucking mud. Safe to say I had a complete sense of humour failure when directed ...
For myself this is the truth. War doesn’t ennoble: it degrades. The words of Barbusse placed at the beginning of this book should be engraved over the doors of every war office of every State in the world. While war is a possibility man is little better than a savage and civilisati...