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which threw a broad shadow on the water. Here she would sit and watch the young prince, who thought himself quite alone in the bright moonlight. She saw him many times of an evening sailing in a pleasant boat, with music
William March only contributed two sketches to the story-a-day anthology 365 Days that Kay Boyle edited with her then-husband Laurence Vail and her friend Nina Conarain, but they are among the very best in the book. This one in particular is like a haiku of the Great Depression: brief, ...
The lines on a map help you find the best route from one place to another. You use lines to draw pictures. ▲ You can see lines in the grain (纹理) of a piece of wood or in the cracks on a sidewalk. You can see lines outside a building or in the field. Lines are used to ...
If you are outside, stay away from buildings and power lines (输电线). Stay under a desk, table, or other strong furniture. Hold on to it. Or stay in a corner of the building. Cover your face and head with your arms and cover your mouth with a towel or clothing. 3 Also ...
The lines I’d drawn on my maps weeks before we still there waiting too. This time I could adourn them with wind compensating tracks, 10 minute markers and a bunch of scribbles that give me inflight clues. The reason I was so excited about this flight was that it involved two ...
His wizened face broke into a broader smile, and the three young ladies laughed in musical echo to his pleasantry, swaying their bodies to and fro, with nervous jerks of their shoulders. The boldest said: “O, now, Mr. Browne, I'm sure the doctor never ordered anything of the kind.”...
In any of the burial-places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them As to this, his natural and not to be alienated inheritance, the messenger on horseback had ...
We need to help those on the bottom of our economic ladder because more and more of us are falling into poverty every day. Nearly half of Americans live in or near poverty (one small disaster away — someone gets sick or the car breaks down and you don’t have rent money). Democrats...
Sometime in the 2000s, romantic comedies stopped trying to be funny and started trying to say something meaningful, none more overtly so than (500) Days of Summer. This indie darling breaks from rom-com formula to tell a nonlinear story of a relationship coming together and falling apart. ...