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Psyhea5 мая 2014 г.The husband's sacrifices, the wife's romance, are as though they had never been--'melted into air, into thin air'.
3266- Psyhea5 мая 2014 г.Читать далее
After tea there were sports, with races, high jumps, dipping heads into tubs of water to retrieve sixpences with the teeth, grinning through horse-collars, the prize going to the one making the most gtotesque face, and, to crown all, climbing the greased pole for the prize leg of mutton. This was a tough job, as the pole was as tall and slender as a telephone post and extremely slippery. Prudent wives would not allow their husbands to attempt it on account of spoiling their clothes, so the competition was left to the ragamuffins and a few experts who had had the foresight to bring with them a pair of old trousers.
2503 - Psyhea5 мая 2014 г.Читать далее
She even hinted that on the material plane people need not necessarily remain always upon one level. Some boys, born of poor parents, had struck out for themselves and become great men, and everybody had respected them for rising upon their own merits. She would read them the lives of some of these so-called self-made men (there were no women, Laura noticed!) and though their circumstances were too far removed from those of her hearers for them to inspire the ambition she hoped to awaken, they must have done something to widen their outlook on life.
2387 - Psyhea5 мая 2014 г.
There was no Victoria in the school, nor was there a Miss Victoria or a Lady Victoria in any of the farmhouses, rectories, or mansions in the district, nor did Laura ever meet a Victoria in later life. That great name was sacred to the Queen and was not copied by her subjects to the extent imagined by period novelists of today.
274 - Psyhea5 мая 2014 г.
Предупреждение не брать чужие книги. =)
Steal not this book for fear of shame,
For in it doth stand the owner's name,
And at the last day God will say
'Where is that book you stole away?'
And if you say, 'I cannot tell;
He'll say, 'Thou cursed, go to hell.256 - Psyhea5 мая 2014 г.
These had to be in pairs, and lovers' meetings lovers' partings, brides in their wedding gowns, widows standing by newly made graves, children begging in the snow or playing with puppies or kittens in nurseries were the favourite subjects.
256 - Psyhea5 мая 2014 г.
When King Arthur first did reign,
He ru-led like a king;
He bought three sacks of barley meal
To make a plum pud-ding.
The pudding it was made
And duly stuffed with plums,
And lumps of suet put in it
As big as my two thumbs.
The king and queen sat down to it
And all the lords beside:
And what they couldn't eat that night
The queen next morning fried.248 - Psyhea5 мая 2014 г.
The nickname of 'Old Monday', or 'Old Monday Morning', had been bestowed upon him years before when some hitch had occurred and he was said to have cried: 'Ten o'clock Monday morning! To-day's Monday, to-morrow's Tuesday, next day's Wednesday--half the week gone and nothing done!'
243 - Psyhea5 мая 2014 г.
"Poverty's no disgrace, but 'tis a great inconvenience..." was a common saying among the Lark Rise people.
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