The Tale of Ferdinand Frog
Category: Author:Arthur Scott Bailey
费迪南德青蛙的故事
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Squadron Leader Markham, O.C. of the famous Eighty-Fourth Squadron of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command, leaned back in his office chair, dug knuckles into his tired eyes, and heaved a long sigh of relief.
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Three o\'clock on a warm June afternoon. The great heat has caused something like a purple haze to cloud over the deep blue of the sapphire sky. There is not one breath of wind to stir the leaves or cool the flushed faces of those whose duties call them out on this sultry June day. Away in the deep green heart of the broad land broad s...
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They both were carefully folding garments—Nancy sort of caressed the few dainty little silk things while her mother placed tissue paper between the folds of her tan tailored skirt, and then laid it gently in the steamer trunk.
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The only part of my history which I regard as worthy of placing on record is confined to a few months. I was thirty-two years of age at the time, and had thus entered into the very summer of my life. At that age a man's position ought to be assured; at any rate his career should be marked out with tolerable plainness.
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Category: Author:瓦尔特.司各特 Sir Walter Scott
We have seldom found Sydney Smith giving higher praise, and nobody can deny the justice of the censure with which it is qualified. Scott himself explains, in his Introduction, how, in his quest of novelty, he invaded modern life, and the domain of Miss Austen. Unhappily he proved by example the truth of his own opinion that he could do...
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Category: Author:Tobias Smollett
You and I, my good friend, have often deliberated on the difficulty of writing such a dedication as might gratify the self-complacency of a patron, without exposing the author to the ridicule or censure of the public; and I think we generally agreed that the task was altogether impracticable.— Indeed, this was one of the few subjects o...
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Category: Author:Emma McLaughlin
Annie, 21 years old, is a New York university student, business and anthropology higher honors. After graduation, Anne in mother's pressure forced to put on being installed to the upper east side looking for work, but Anne hobbies or anthropology, therefore give up halfway interview. Annie in an accidental opportunity, met the upper ea...
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