There is Trompette, nineteen year old knitter and wearer of vintage fashions, her boyfriend Billy, drug taker, existing on the fringes of criminality and an amazing storyteller, the mysterious Arthur, and Owen who fixes narrowboats. This is a lovely novel about friendship and meeting challenges...
An old dog barks not in vain. 老犬不空吠。 An old dog bites sore. 老狗咬人痛得很。 An old dog cannot alter its way of barking. 老狗难改吠声。 An old dog will learn no new tricks. 老家夥学不出新名堂。 An old physician, and a young lawyer. 医生年老的好,律师年轻的俏。 An old...
old. he and his family were living in the walled english city of chester, near liverpool, and his mother had told him to go play in the garden. he turned over an old log and spotted several wood lice—small bugs with armadillo-shaped exoskeletons—moving about, he initially assumed, in ...
Just past Gold Beach, fishing boats, out for their limit of salmon. Dozens of them are spread out across the entrance to the bay. New white stripes painted on the roads are designed to make a musical sound when crossing over, a helpful noise when the road suddenly sinks into thick fog....
The next day Ricardo, our old diving guide, arranged a panga to take us diving and whale shark snorkeling. The best part of Bahía de los Ángeles is that it is so remote you don’t see many tourists or pangas out on the bay—I think we saw maybe four boats all day! So when ...
(Their only access now is by boats that Ho operates from Hong Kong.) China will take over Macao, which relies on gambling for about half its government revenues, in 1999. Says Ho, who is close to officials from the People's Republic: ''I really don't see Macao getting rid of ...
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old. he and his family were living in the walled english city of chester, near liverpool, and his mother had told him to go play in the garden. he turned over an old log and spotted several wood lice—small bugs with armadillo-shaped exoskeletons—moving about, he initi...