also wrote his book not as an amusement but as a warning to England about the coming threat of Germany, and actually "The Riddles of the Sands" was written about 10 years before WW1 began. In this historical context too, the book is interesting, and the tediousness of the opening chapter...
Talakad | Riddles of the sandsByShamanth Rao
Some of the lanterns are small, and others are really big. Some look like beautiful flowers and lively animals.The lanterns are made of different materials (材料). There are plastic(塑料) lanterns, silk lanterns and paper lanterns. While mak-ing lanterns, people usually write riddles(谜语) on...
And yet my little man seemed neither to be straying uncertainly among the sands, nor to be fainting from fatigue or hunger or thirst or fear. 然而,我的小家伙既不像在沙漠迷路的样子,也没有疲惫、饥饿、口渴或恐惧的神情。 Nothing about him gave any suggestion of a child lost in the middle o...
狮身人面像几乎坐落在开罗的商业区TheSphinxisalmostindowntownCairo.这是迎面而来的都市大侵袭It'safullfrontalurbanassault.趁为时未晚两组科学家和建筑工人Beforeit'stoolate,twoteamsofscientistsandbuilders将去解开古老的狮身人面像之谜aretacklingtheage-oldriddlesoftheSphinx.也不是那么容易对吧It'snoteasy,isit...
Some knotted riddles tell, Some poems smoothly read. The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.I shattered your heart; now I limp through the shards barefoot. ―Vera...
of the range,11 when I could have lived contented with the false Polybus, and in the Phocian strait where three ways meet grappled with the aged king and cleft the visage of the trembling dotard, searching for my true sire; if by wit of the foreshowing I solved the riddles of the ...
"This novel is innovative, concise and enthralling. Fluctuating between present day and ancient Egypt, the pace never decelerates. The reader is treated to plausible theories regarding many riddles of this mysterious civilization. This time-honored culture is so clearly portrayed with characters which ...
VOLUME 5, NUMBER 11 ARTKIICLES AND tiVlEti§ NOVEMBE- R, 1976- _.._ Hugh MacLennan: Raddall of the Sands. In My Time. by Thomas H. Raddall ?l Pierre Berton: Playing from the Gallery. The Fw Side r!/ the Street, by Bruce Hutchison 6 Paul Stuewe: The Son Also Rises. A profile...
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