The crowd stirred and whispered in awe as, on the stage, the horse slowly tapped out the beat.Everyone became tense and quiet as the number of taps neared the correct answer to the horse trainer"s question.After the final tap, the horse paused, seemed to look around and stopped.The crow...
aThe uneventful dignity of his life makes for a biography which it would be odd to be thrilled by and which it would be insensitive not to be stirred by. 他的生活牌子没有事故的尊严为它是奇怪的兴奋,并且是厚脸皮的不引起它的传记。[translate] ...
It had just been stirred and as the tea spun, and began to come to stillness, he thought: “What will I see before I die?” He downed the hallucinogenic mixture and his life began to flash before his eyes. He saw himself in the robes of a Setite Acolyte at the temple of Khemi....
The bizarre opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics have stirred discussions within the Christian community. Various interpretations of the “Pale Horse and its Rider” from both Christians and others have emerged, characterized by creativity, speculation, and a wealth of imagination in attributing sign...
"The polite incredulity in his face stirred my professional pride, and I said, 'If I let you go to the mills, pick out a dozen of those rivets just as they come from the rolls, and hammer them with your own hands, will you use that steel hereafter, if it comes ...
“), is loved by some, worshiped by one, and despised by another. She is the one who really got away from all this, removing herself from the tense engagements that linger, to go to the best schools she could get herself to, to become a successful entertainment lawyer in California. ...
Everyone was expecting me to go right, into the hornet’s nest I’d stirred up. I tossed the now empty rifle at her and ran left. This hallway was mostly empty. It curved gently around the outside edge of the bowl of the stadium, and as soon as I saw a door leading inwards, I...
Theirs have the same effect with other weak and ill-applied medicines; they have only set the humors they would purge more violently in work, stirred and exasperated by the conflict, and left them still behind. The potion was too weak to purge, but strong enough to weaken us; so that ...
Theirs have the same effect with other weak and ill-applied medicines; they have only set the humors they would purge more violently in work, stirred and exasperated by the conflict, and left them still behind. The potion was too weak to purge, but strong enough to weaken us; so that ...
I came into the bedroom and, as expected, found Grace to be sitting up in bed, nodding off, the television showing some forty-year-old rerun she had seen a hundred times. She stirred as I entered, but only to turn away from me, expressionless, and pull the sheets up over her. I ...