That is the sum of my brother Renly, who thinks he ought to be a king. I ask you, why did the gods inflict me with brothers?” “I cannot answer for the gods.” “You seldom answer at all these days, it seems to me. Who maesters for Renly? Perchance I should send for him, I might like his counsel better. What do you think this maester said when… （阅读全文）
Caonabo was a most handsome barbarian, strong and fierce and intelligent, more fierce, more intelligent than Guacanagari. All had been painted, but the heat of the lowland and their great exertion had made the coloring run and mix most unseemly. When they left Guarico they plunged into the river and washed the whole away, coming out clear red-bro… （阅读全文）
The next day it came to me that in that Journal which he meant to make like Caesar’s Commentaries, he might put down the change in the Santa Maria’s physicians and set my name there too often. I watched my chance and finding it, asked that he name me not in that book. His gray eyes rested upon me; he demanded the reason for that. I said that in S… （阅读全文）
She was returning: of course my heart thumped with impatience against the iron rails I leant upon. The carriage stopped, as I had expected, at the hotel door; my flame (that is the very word for an opera inamorata) alighted: though muffled in a cloak- an unnecessary encumbrance, by the bye, on so warm a June evening- I knew her instantly by her l… （阅读全文）
“Rain cold, you really don’t know them? Is this accident may have caused you, men and women to the dog also nearly died, now you are saying you don’t know them.” “My god, what are you babbling about, I really don’t know them!” Light rain and light snow dragged before I came to them, see that young boy frightened looked at me, right, is panic, I f… （阅读全文）
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Bill knew sporting figures too, and had a particular penchant for telling us about his latest encounters with local football players, , Jimmy Greenhoff or Denis Smith of Stoke City. “I saw Denis down Stoke the other day when I was going to the market,” the tale would begin HKUE DSE, “‘Denis’, I shouted, he saw me from across the street, ‘How… （阅读全文）
He arrived at an opinion neither hastily nor slowly, but at a moderate pace. He had the gift of stating his conclusion with admirable lucidity; and if he thought it desirable, he gave the reasons for his view of the matter with an equal clearness. But his reasons, like his conclusion, were in the nature of statements; they were not stages in an a… （阅读全文）
Some arguments are not easy to settle. For example, many people say Rebecca and Abigail Bates were real heroes of the War of 1812. Others think that’s just not so. What did Rebecca and Abigail do? They saved their town from a British warship. At least that’s what Rebecca claimed in 1874, the year St. Nicholas, a children’s magazine, published the… （阅读全文）
Once upon a time… Long, long ago, far, far away on the other side of the world, some young men left the camp where they lived to get some food for their wives and children. The sun was hot, but they liked heat, and as they went they ran races and tried who could hurl his spear the farthest, or was cleverest in throwing a strange weapon called a… （阅读全文）