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F. Scott Fitzgerald Flappers And Philosophers

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Englisch
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This Unlikely Story Begins On A Sea That Was A Blue Dream, As Colorful As Blue-Silk Stockings, And Beneath A Sky As Blue As The Irises Of Children's Eyes. From The Western Half Of The Sky The Sun Was Shying Little Golden Disks At The Sea--If You Gazed Intently Enough You Could See Them Skip From Wave Tip To Wave Tip Until They Joined A Broad Collar Of Golden Coin That Was Collecting Half A Mile Out And Would Eventually Be A Dazzling Sunset. About Half-Way Between The Florida Shore And The Golden Collar A White Steam-Yacht, Very Young And Graceful, Was Riding At Anchor And Under A Blue-And-White Awning Aft A Yellow-Haired Girl Reclined In A Wicker Settee Reading The Revolt Of The Angels, By Anatole France. [mehr]

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Henry Handel Richardson The Getting of Wisdom(fiscle part 3)

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Englisch
73911 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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The Four Children Were Lying on The Grass. ". . . And The Prince Went Further And Further Into The Forest," Said The Elder Girl, "Till He Came To A Beautiful Glade--A Glade, You Know, Is A Place In the Forest That Is Open And Green And Lovely. And There He Saw A Lady, A Beautiful Lady, In a Long White Dress That Hung Down To Her Ankles, With A Golden Belt And A Golden Crown. She Was Lying on The Sward--A Sward, You Know, Is Grass As Smooth As Velvet, Just Like Green Velvet--And The Prince Saw The Marks Of Travel On Her Garments. The Bottom Of The Lovely Silk Dress Was All Dirty----" "Wondrous Fair, If You Don'T Mind You'Ll Make That Sheet Dirty, Too," Said Pin. [mehr]

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"Mr. Doug" Tiny Tim the Little Barber

Kinder- und Jugendbuch
Englisch
146 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
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"Tiny Tim" - - The Little - Little Barber My Friend I got a story It's a hooter let me say Just had me an experience "A really Bad Hair Day" My handle in the old home town was Beautiful Bob - "The Hair" Flowing locks that felt like silk and I treated them with care Stroll I did to the Barber shop to get a wash and trim I got assigned a barber Whose name was "Tiny Tim" I sat down with a smile Happiness filled my heart All was seemingly perfect Till "Tiny" got his start He had to step on tip-toes to reach my head of hair Clippin' up and clippin' down I looked - my head was bare Now you've heard my story I've told you every bit That is why you see me In a hat that doesn't fit Mr. Doug [mehr]

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Phil Humor The lady on the Rolls-Royce

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
938 Wörter
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355
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David Thunder stopped his Rolls-Royce in front of another Rolls-Royce. “Do you need my helping hand?” he asked the lady, who was sitting on the hood of her Rolls-Royce. “It is getting dark and cold – and you wear just a thin, white silk dress.” “You describe very exactly my outfit. Good powers of observation, sir. I am waiting for you here. You are David Thunder – the famous TV talk show host. I have an offer for you. You should not reject. My offer is very attractive.” She smiled. David got out of his Rolls-Royce. “Are you not afraid, that the big bad wolf could come along here? This is not a busy road.” ... Coverfoto: http://www.alanayers.com [mehr]

Stichwörter: Rolls-Royce, lady, seduction, host, talk show

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alastair macleod Threads

Belletristik
Englisch
2378 Wörter
Ab 10 Jahren
228
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"“You see,” said her mother, picking up another ball of wool, men think they are in charge but it is us women who weave the fabric of life just as I knit this yarn into a jumper so we spin the yarn into a bairn in our wombs. Then we spin the bairns into a family with threads you cannot see.” Helga wanted an explanation.” Threads of love” her mother said, “Threads of healing and care.” “When you were born we wrapped you in a worn piece of silk that came down from my mother. She said it was lucky, a piece of faerie dress she said. You know I kept a piece of the umbilical cord.” “What? gasped Helga at this sudden revelation. “My own mother kept hers,” her mum continued. “It was believed that it was a sacred thing the thread between a mother and a child.” [mehr]

Stichwörter: romance, folklore, goddesses, textiles, power of women

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Honoré Willsie Morrow The Heart of the Desert

Belletristik
Englisch
64321 Wörter
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163
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Rhoda hobbled through the sand to the nearest rock. On this she sank with a groan, clasped her slender foot with both hands and looked about her helplessly. She felt very small, very much alone. The infinite wastes of yellow desert danced in heat waves against the bronze-blue sky. The girl saw no sign of living thing save a buzzard that swept lazily across the zenith. She turned dizzily from contemplating the vast emptiness about her to a close scrutiny of her injured foot. She drew off her thin satin house slipper painfully and dropped it unheedingly into a bunch of yucca that crowded against the rock. Her silk stocking followed. Then she sat in helpless misery, eying her blue-veined foot. [mehr]

Stichwörter: The Heart of the Desert, Honoré Willsie Morrow, The Heart of the Desert By Honoré Willsie Morrow

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ANDREW KIPPIS NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD

Biografie/Autobiografie
Englisch
158538 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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The son of Robert Kippis, a silk-hosier, he was born at Nottingham. Having gone to school at Sleaford in Lincolnshire he passed at the age of sixteen to the Dissenting academy at Northampton, of which Dr Philip Doddridge was then president. In 1746 Kippis became minister of a church at Boston; in 1750 he moved to Dorking, Surrey; and in 1753 he became pastor of a Presbyterian congregation at Westminster, where he remained till his death. Kippis took a prominent part in the affairs of his church. From 1763 till 1784 he was classical and philological tutor in the Coward Trust's academy[1] at Hoxton, and subsequently in the New College at Hackney. In 1778 he was elected a fellow of the Antiquarian Society, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1779. [mehr]

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Charles Norris Williamson , Alice Muriel Williamson The Lightning Conductor Discovers America

Briefe
Englisch
109819 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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In the Oak Room, the "White Lion," Cobham, Surrey, November 12. Dear Shiny-headed Angel, I hope you won't mind, but I've changed all my plans. I've bought an automobile, or a motor-car, as they call it over here; and while I'm writing to you, Aunt Mary is having nervous prostration on a sofa in a corner at least a hundred years old-I mean the sofa, not the corner, which is a good deal more. But perhaps I'd better explain. Well, to begin with, some people we met on the steamer (they were an archdeacon, with charming silk legs, and an archdeaconess who snubbed us till it leaked out through that Aunt Mary that you were the Chauncey Randolph) said if we wanted to see a thoroughly characteristic English village, we ought to run out to Cobham; and we ran-to-day. [mehr]

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A. T. Quiller Couch (AKA "Q.") The Roll-Call Of The Reef

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Englisch
6467 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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Yes, sir," said my host, the quarryman, reaching down the relics from their hook in the wall over the chimneypiece; "they've hung here all my time, and most of my father's. The women won't touch 'em; they're afraid of the story. So here they'll dangle, and gather dust and smoke, till another tenant comes and tosses 'em out o' doors for rubbish. Whew! 'tis coarse weather, surely." He went to the door, opened it, and stood studying the gale that beat upon his cottage-front, straight from the Manacle Reef. The rain drove past him into the kitchen, aslant like threads of gold silk in the shine of the wreck-wood fire. Meanwhile, by the same firelight, I examined the relics on my knee. [mehr]

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ALPHONSE DAUDET TARTARIN DE TARASCON

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Englisch
25537 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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Alphonse Daudet (French: [dodɛ]; 13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the father of writers Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet. Alphonse Daudet was born in Nîmes, France[1] His family, on both sides, belonged to the bourgeoisie. The father, Vincent Daudet, was a silk manufacturer — a man dogged through life by misfortune and failure. Alphonse, amid much truancy, had a depressing boyhood. In 1856 he left Lyon, where his schooldays had been mainly spent, and began his career as a schoolteacher at Alès, Gard, in the south of France. The position proved to be intolerable and Daudet said later that for months after leaving Alès he would wake with horror, thinking he was still among his unruly pupils. [mehr]

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