baranskaya natalia b 1908 russian short story writer and feminist

... tobacco on the cleared table and set forth again the bottles and glasses; and I saw that I stood in a deep channel through which the long dammed flood of his discourse would soon be booming But ... most disquieting and evil-bringing is the snow By scientific analysis it is absolute beauty and purity so, at the beginning we look doubtfully at chemistry It falls upon the world, and lo! we live ... shelters the mountain traveler burrowing from the icy air and, melting morrow, drowns his brother in the valley below to-At its worst it is lock and key and crucible, and the wand of Circe When it corrals

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... jubilee and saw the Flatiron building, and missed seeing the Bronxless menagerie by about a couple of nights And then, at the ebb tide, we were walking up a street that parallels and parodies Broadway ... in her opinion, and we passed on Ten yards farther an old woman with dis- ordered white hair and her bankbook tucked well hidden beneath her tattered shawl begged Bridger stopped and disinterred ... known and see what you make of it." And so I cornered Bridger in a place where they have artificial palms and wine; and he told me the story which is here in my words and on his responsibility

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... was quite slim and small, and handled her potatoes as an old bachelor uncle handles a baby who is cutting teeth She had a dull shoemaker's knife in her right hand, and she had begun to peel one ... was back in the old Vallambrosa, starving and hoping And then I got numb, and didn't care And then I felt that somebody else was in the water close by me, holding me up He had followed me, and ... doesn't seem to be much in demand I have only these potatoes for my dinner But they aren't so bad boiled and hot, with a little butter and salt." "Child," said Hetty, letting a brief smile

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... plainly and truthfully what you think, and we'll all be the best friends in the world And now, because you've been so good to me, and understand so well how I dislike people who do nothing but pay ... was in the black-waxy country It was all willow rocking- chairs, and home-knit tidies, and albums, and conch shells in a row And a little upright piano in one comer Here Jacks and Bud and I or ... like the clothes bubbling in your grandmother's iron wash-pot Believe that she must have been beautiful when I tell you that it sounded like music to us "She Must Have Been Beautiful When I

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 18:15

... in a buckboard, with a big bundle, like clothes, tied up in the back of it He was drivin' the team he brought over with him from Muscogee They'll be hard to overtake right away." "And ... inquiries about the business of the town, and especially of the inhabitants cognominally He said he was from Muscogee, and he looked it, with his yellow shoes and crocheted four-in-hand I met ... rule, but I think that belongs solely to the West It yet lacked two hours to supper-time; but in twenty minutes Sam and I were plunging deep into the reheated beans, hot coffee, and cold beef

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 18:15

... "Two pearl-handled sixes, and a knife.” "Keep this for me, Billy,” said the ranger, handing over his Winchester Quixotic, perhaps, but i was Bob Buckley's way Another man and a braver one ... green, and yellow, and white Upon them you see an incoripetent presentment of the senorita in her professional garb and pose Irresishible, in black lace and yellow ribbons, she faces you; a blue ... quite onto his system, but he fights, like ‘Pybalt, by the book of arithmetic.” "Lnever heard,” mentioned Broncho, "about any of Dibble's ways of mixin’ scrappin’ and cipherin’.” “Triggernometry?"

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 18:15

... just visible above the back of No 9 Suddenly No 9 hurled a book to the floor between his chair and the window, Trang 2and, looking, I saw that it was The Rose-Lady and Trevelyan, one of the best-selling ... and he believes in cuff-holders and button-shoes He is as hard and true as anything ever turned out by the Cambria Steel Works; and he believes that as soon as Pittsburgh makes smoke-consumers compulsory, ... breath away when I looked up Up there in the biggest grove I ever saw was a tremendous house with round white pillars about a thousand feet high, and the yard was so full of rose-bushes and box-bushes

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 18:15

... hubbub a procession of human beings, which rounded the corner aid headed in his direction He perceived a salient hue of blue and a glitter of brass about a central figure of dazzling white and ... little table where she stopped, but Lorison slipped into the seat before him Their acquaintance began, and grew, and how for two months they had sat at the same table each evening, not meeting by appointment, ... cheaper theatres, and men who follow avocations sub- ject to quick vicissitudes; but at Antonio's name rich in Bohemian promise, but tame in fulfillment manners debonair and gay are toned

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 18:15

... Friday-night debating societies by way of culture and maybe of a good horseback rider But in our talks together, and in our visits and conversation with May Martha, neither Goodloe Banks nor I could ... father was a man hidden behind whiskers and spectacles He lived for bugs and butterflies and all insects that fly or crawl or buzz or get down your back or in the butter He was an etymologist, or words ... our friendship and influence with the ticket-agent, with livery-stable men, railroad conductors, and our one lone, lorn constable, but without results Then we became better friends and worse enemies

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 18:15

... sound of creaking axles, and then a slow cloud of dust, and then a bull-cart bearing Ransie Bilbro and his wife The cart stopped at the Justice's door, and the two climbed down Ransie was a narrow ... Trang 3to be able to divo'ce 'em This here office will issue a decree of divo'ce and abide by the decision of the Supreme Co't to hold it good." Ransie Bilbro drew a small tobacco-bag from ... other Ransie Bilbro and his wife listened to his reading of the document that was to give them freedom: "Know all men by these presents that Ransie Bilbro and his wife, Ariela Bilbro, this day

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 18:15

... his views and theories "One year more," said Bibb, "and I'll go back to God's country Oh, I know it's pretty here, and you get dolce far niente banded to you in chunks, but this country ... back on me, but don't look that way Am I a woman to be beaten? If I could show you here on my arms, and on my back are scars and it has been more than a year scars that he made in his brutal ... Trang 1SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The World And The Door A favourite dodge to get your story read by the public is to assert that it is true, and then add that Truth is stranger

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 18:15

... world, and the dates of all wars and battles, and how to restore drowned persons, and sunstroke, and the number of tacks in a pound, and how to make dynamite and flowers and beds, and what to before ... at a stick of candy Mine was a little book about five by six inches called "Herkimer's Handbook of Indispensable Information." I may be wrong, but I think that was the greatest book that ever ... or Gas. There is nothing better than flaxseed Place a few seed in the outer corner of the eye I shoved the Handbook back in my pocket, and grabbed a boy that was running by "Here," says I, giving...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 00:15

... The pig and the cabbage wrestled with hydrogen and oxygen Behind the bar Schwegel laboured with an assistant whose epidermal pores showed no signs of being obstructed Hot weinerwurst and sauerkraut ... great bundles of grey blankets, and a number of bales, bundles, and boxes A reasoning eye would have estimated the load at once as ranch supplies, bound on the morrow for some outlying hacienda But ... Also he buried a brother with a Curtis bullet in him on the bank of the lake at Cibolo And then the Kiowa Indians made their last raid upon the ranches between the Frio and the Rio Grande, and Truesdell...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 19:15

... was a middleweight, but could train down to a welter when necessary I boxed all over the West Side at bouts and benefits and private entertainments, and was never put out once "But, say, the first ... pretend to be one of us, and say they've just got in on the blind baggage from St Louis I can tell a reporter on sight Us park bums get to be fine judges of human nature We sit here all day and watch ... ring that I had beating up the best men outside of it, I'd be wearing black pearls and heliotrope silk socks to-day "One evening I was walking along near the Bowery, thinking about things, when...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 19:15

... wore robes robes; not clothes ample and fluent In her eye could be per- ceived the lambent flame of genius and soul In her hand was a green bag of the capacity of a bushel, and an umbrella ... trouble Seek, out Mrs Billings, and persuade her to abandon this distressing pursuit of her lamentable folly Tell her, Mr Gooch, that her husband is willing to receive her back to his heart and ... became unaccountably infatu- ated with him Her attentions became so open that the man felt the community to be no safe place for him, so he left it She abandoned husband and home, and followed him...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15

... round-crowned, broad-brimmed felt Stetson whenever he met them, and then hurry past to get back to his beloved berries And all this recitative by the chorus is only to bring us to the point where you may be ... hair and flashing dark eyes dodging in and out between the pickets, keeping tabs on the reddening berries Late one afternoon Dry Valley went to the post office When he came back, like Mother Hubbard ... Iberian bandits and Hibernian cattle raiders had swooped down upon his strawberry patch To the outraged vision of Dry Valley there seemed to be a sheep corral full of them; perhaps they numbered...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15

... may bring a me a little broth now, and some milk with a little port in it, and - no; bring me a hand-mirror first, and then pack some pillows about me, and I will sit up and watch you cook." And ... only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away An old, old ivy vine, gnarled and decayed at the roots, climbed half way up the brick wall The cold breath ... red-fisted, short- breathed old duffer But Johnsy he smote; and she lay, scarcely moving, on her painted iron bedstead, looking through the small Dutch window-panes at the blank side of the next brick...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... Widdup "The air's real warm And there's bockbeer signs on every corner And the park's all yaller and pink and blue with flowers; and I have such shooting pains up my legs and body." "'In the spring,'" ... own room, and you come in and drivel to me about ivy and hand-organs Get me an overcoat at once See that all doors and windows are closed below An old, fat, irresponsible, one-sided object like ... regular bill This is for your extra trouble." Miss Coulson tendered a ten-dollar bill The iceman bowed, and held his hat in his two hands behind him "Not if you'll excuse me, lady It'll be a pleasure...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... "Well, in about a week the pneumonia got the best of Uncle Cal They had the funeral over at Birdstail, and all of us went over I brought Marilla back home in my buckboard Her uncle Ben and his wife ... unwept and considerably unsung "But that Marilla girl was a benefit to the eye And she was the most elegant kind of a housekeeper I was the nearest neighbour, and I used to ride over to the Double-Elm ... was a professor of the weather and politics and chemistry and natural history and the origin of derivations Any subject you brought up old Cal could give you an abundant synopsis of it from the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15

... Heffelbauer "How long you dink a code live? Der reborters call him a maskeet But von day he butt mit his head der editor, und " "Oh, he's talking about a goat," said Boyd "Get out, Heffelbauer." ... He had a thirty- two-inch chest and wore a number fourteen collar; but his bright Scotch plaid suit gave him presence and con- ferred no obscurity upon his whereabouts He wore his hat in such a ... Heffelbauer," said the m e "He was here when Park Row was a potato patch." Heffelbauer was an institution He was half janitor, half handy-man about the office, and half watchman thus becoming...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15