the near leader violently shook his head and everything upon it-like an unusually emphatic horse, denying that the coach could be got up the hill. Whenever the leader made this rattle, the passenger started, as a nervous passenger might, and was disturbed in mind. There was a steaming ...
As I was growing up, we were often on the move. I had to admit that moving so often made me feel lonely. But my mother did everything she could to help me feel happy. In fact, so much traveling was really a good thing because it made us close. I respect my mother so much as ...
I was outside our classroom talking to the form teacher for the final year, the redoubtable Mr Hamlyn, when Roger swaggered up in his Teddy Boy outfit, his hair combed into a grand quiff, trousers so tight they had zips in the seams. Mr Hamlyn welcomed Roger with the weary patience of...
If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!" The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found aprecious stone and exclaimed: "If your owner had found thee, andnot I, he would have taken thee up, and...
but often those same people hastened to add that the free energy principle, at its heart, tells a simple story and solves a basic puzzle. the second law of thermodynamics tells us that the universe tends toward entropy, toward dissolution; but living things fiercely resist it. we wake up ...
I’d actually been trying to get this guy to block me for a long time by just making well-reasoned arguments against his political views. I can’t believe that this is what did it. But it turns out that just posting “FAKE” when conservatives post obvious parodies really sets them off...
It suggests that the events leading up to this moment were a fulfillment of divine warning or instruction, emphasizing the importance of understanding and obeying God's word. ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness,The phrase "come near Me" refers to the priests who serve in ...
Stories follow grammar, most of the time. But they also follow their own logic. The hero sets out, saves the world, and returns home again. The evil queen falls from the tower at the climax of the final battle. There are three princesses, and only the third can break the spell. ...
Magically, and weirdly, I did not have to let a few trains go by because not one appeared until the guitarist played the closing chords. All of us listeners got to soak up the full benefit. That was lovely, I told him and asked his name. Jessel, he said. Then he wished me a bea...
The truth of the matter is there were days I couldn’t get out of bed, I didn’t sleep more nights than I did sleep, because of the pain, just getting out of a chair or going up the stairs once did me in, And venturing out on a “good day” meant I spent two days in bed ...