I WAS JUST PASSING THE TIME OF DAY WITH OLD TROY O THE D.M.P. at the corner of Arbour hill there and be damned but a bloody sweep came along and he near drove his gear into my eye....
Now by this time Sancho had risen, rather the worse for the handling of the friars’ muleteers, and stood watching the battle of his master, Don Quixote, and praying to God in his h...
By the late summer the news of what had happened on Animal Farm had spread across half the county. — 到了夏末,动物农场上发生的事情已经在整个县的一半地区传开了。 — Every day Snowball and Napoleon sent out fl...
Night had fallen on that great and beautiful city known as Bagdad-on-the-Subway. — 在这个美丽而伟大的城市,被称为地铁上的巴格达,夜幕已经降临。 — And with the night came the enchanted glamour that belongs no...
Connie always had a foreboding of the hopelessness of her affair with Mick, as people called him. — 康妮心中始终对与人们所称之为米克的她的婚外情持有绝望的预感。 — Yet other men seemed to mean nothing to her....
Since morning Zoe had delivered up the flat to a managing man who had come from Brebant’s with a staff of helpers and waiters. — 早晨以来,佐伊把公寓交给了一位来自布雷班特的管理人员,他带着一群助手和侍者。 — Breban...
Once upon a time there lived a queen who had been the mother of a great many children, and of them all only one daughter was left. — 从前有一位女王,她生了许多孩子,但只剩下一个女儿。 — But then SHE wa...
“Second to the right, and straight on till morning.” “第二个到右边,一直向前直至早晨。” That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; — “彼得告诉温迪,这就是到梦幻岛的路。” — but even birds, carr...
THE felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke, that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew. —...