"Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the stranger with deference." Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I have not had my rubber." "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes," that you ...
the elegant, white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger. “I’m from Mississippi too.” Without a second thought, the woman joined the Welty party. When her dinner partner showed up, she also pulled up a chair. “They began telling me all the news of Mississippi,” Welty...
nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore t...
This review is, in part, a public thanks to this stranger’s kindness. We, along with the iconic gargoyle chimeras that perched on the edges, looked out upon the city. I imagined how this view must have changed over the course of the cathedral’s long history, pondered how many had ...
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury)[2] is a collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.[3] The book presents the tales, which are mostly written in verse, as part of a fictional storytelling contest held by a group...
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Stranger’s mordant humor does not appear inI Confess(1953), in whichMontgomery Cliftplayed apriestinQuebec(where the picture was largely filmed) who is being blackmailed by a murderer whose confession, which the priest cannot reveal, shields him from exposure.Dial M for Murder(1954) was much ...
Their judgment is that, if they must trust to inexperienced persons, it is more becoming to them to use up a good round sum at their own pleasure than at that of a stranger” ([53], VI, para. 6). Vitruvius claimed that “nobody, therefore, attempts to practise any other art in ...
Our assumption should be that the total stranger about to do violence to an innocent person is (like David) or will be (like Saul of Tarsus) a brother in Christ. Jesus commands our love of the enemy. Not the destruction of the enemy.Is...
or even just seeing him briefly across a crowded room, he gave you a feeling you also got every now and then, catching sight of your own reflection in the bathroom mirror, where for just a moment, it seemed truly like you were looking at a perfect stranger whose life story—warts and ...