Boys from the village made a habit of throwing stones through the windows of the Riddle House. They rode their bicycles over the lawns Frank worked so hard to keep smooth. Once or twice, they broke into the old house for a dare. They knew that old Frank was devoted to the house and ...
with that thread of a voice,which is always even,which is hardly audible,and she never speaks loud nor flies into a passion;but,nevertheless,she keeps the boys so quiet that you cannot hear them,and the most roguish bow their heads when she merely admonishes them with her finger,so that...
He slowly rose and walked away to the other side of the room. There was a moment's silence. "I have one thing to say," he began in a hardly audible voice; "one thing--to tell you---" He stopped and sat down by the window, hiding his face in both hands. "You h...
As he drew towards sleep various memorable words of theirs that he had just been conning seemed spoken by them in muttering utterances; some audible, some unintelligible to him. One of the spectres (who afterwards mourned Christminster as "the home of lost causes," though Jude did...
ˈstepping-stones noun plural large stones placed in a shallow stream etc, on which a person can step when crossing. in/out of step (of two or more people walking together) with, without the same foot going forward at the same time. to march in step; Keep in step!; He got out ...
The hosts of Planet Money even created an audio book, reading the entire book on the air. Last year’s entry of Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) into the public domain likewise sparked a range of creativity. The most publicity went to celebrity and incongruous reuses, from Ryan Reynolds’ “Winnie-...
ˈstepping-stones noun plural large stones placed in a shallow stream etc, on which a person can step when crossing. in/out of step (of two or more people walking together) with, without the same foot going forward at the same time. to march in step; Keep in step!; He got out ...
What is the Shelf Life of Science Fiction? My library constantly discards science fiction from its holdings. I know that because I see those books in the Friends of the Library book sale stamped DISCARD. Often, they are books I would consider SF blasts from the past. Evidently, if they ar...
It is too poor to repay the work of the plough; but the Sheep passes there in spring, when it has chanced to rain and a little grass shoots up. My harmas, however, because of its modicum of red earth swamped by a huge mass of stones, has received a rough first attempt at ...
“Heaven,” which may be the result of a journalist’s bad transcription—there is some electric piano audible at the edges—but the odd phrasing is nonetheless appropriate for the rare Stones song that works by suggestion rather than demonstration, a half-formed memory or fantasy of events ...