From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on her wedding night; There, in that silent room below, The dead lay in his shroud of snow; And in the hush that followed the prayer, Was heard the old clock on the stair,– “Forever–never! Never–forever!” All are scatte...
Old Major (so he was always called, though the name under which he had been exhibited was Willingdon Beauty) was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose an hour’s sleep in order to hear what he had to say. At one end of the big barn, on a sort of ...
The Stairs (Poem).Presents the poem 'The Stairs,' by Sián HughesEBSCO_AspTlsHughesSián
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From there onwards it was almost impossible to get lost. We encountered an incredible variety of landscapes on our way; endless sunshine-yellow fields of rapeseed flowers; crumbling red sandstone rocks; ancient cliffs (some more than 100 million years old); cows grazing in green hills; blue sea...
wind - the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind" winding, twist rotary motion, rotation - the act of rotating as if on an axis; "the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music" Verb 1. wind - to move or cause to move in...
I have told her numerous times that I am a sixty-year-old woman, I have run a successful business and raised a brilliant child – what makes her think that I can’t make basic choices as we make our way out the door and on to our destination? I have never received an answer to ...
…In January 1824, Commodore Johann Bernard Elbers, the father of river navigation, had registered the first steamboat to sail the Magdalena River, a primitive old forty-horsepower wreck named Fidelity. More than a century later, one seventh of July at six o’clock in the evening, Dr. Urbino...
引导语:安徒生童话故事第10篇:幸运的套鞋The Goloshes of Fortune 1.开端 在哥本哈根东街离国王的新市场①不远的一幢房子里,有人开了一个盛大的晚会,因为如果一个人想被回请的话,他自己也得偶尔请请客才成呀。有一半的客人已经坐在桌子旁玩扑克牌,另
There was a mouse for want of stairs, ‘Ran up a rope to say his prayers.” Father was not amused and reached for the rod. Isaac fell to his knees and begged: “Father, Father, pity take, And I will no more verses make[1]!” ...