Ha! would a madman have been so wise as this, And then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern cautiously—oh, so cautiously—cautiously (for the hinges creaked)—I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven...
Job 41 — "When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid" and "His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal" — suggest that the monster may have been a long-necked sea serpent, of which there are many sightings reported today off New England and California...
Originally published in 1915, this is a fictionalised tale of the true account of the testimonials of Isobel Gowdie, of course these testimonials may indeed have been fictionalised by Gowdie herself in the first place; so we have multiple layers of fiction and truth to pick through. To tell...
The essence of this bliss was to walk by yourself in the black night, the slide shut, the top-coat buttoned, not a ray escaping, whether to conduct your footsteps or to make your glory public,—a mere pillar of darkness in the dark; and all the while, deep down in the privacy of ...
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not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.” 4 So Moses[ep] cut out two tablets of stone like the first;[eq] early in the morning he went up[er] to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone....
Tie a bag to the back door, leave a note of what you wanted, wake up to crackling fresh rolls and baguettes. This is one the things I really missed when I moved here. Then I found bread machines, and made do.) The first couple of weeks were pandemonium and people were deeply ...
CASSIUSBut,soft,Iprayyou:what,didCaesarswound?CASCAHefelldowninthemarket-place,andfoamedatmouth,andwasspeechless。BRUTUS’Tisverylike:hehaththefailingsickness。CASSIUSNo,Caesarhathitnot;butyouandI,AndhonestCasca,wehavethefallingsickness。CASCAIknownotwhatyoumeanbythat;but,Iamsure,Caesarfelldown。Ifthetag...
For a few years, discs in multiple formats (DVD, HD DVD, and Blu Ray) were being released, skirmishing in homes and stores all around us, a silent battle few knew was raging. But Toshiba knew it, hemorrhaging money to the tune of $1B before eventually giving up on the format. Nook...
The mighty Saturn V rockets lay on their sides displayed like the funeral barges of vanished Pharaohs. The Moon rocks are shown in museums alongside other artifacts of vanished times. The Moon is receding from us and becoming another Pompeii whose artifacts we marvel at under glass cases. ...