20.12.2006, 23:43
Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P----, in Kentucky. There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subjec with great earnestness. (Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin)
Once on a dark winter's day, when yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares. (Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess)
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversation?' (Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. (Jane Austen - Emma)
Lorsque j'avais six ans j'ai vu, une fois, une magnifique image, dans un livre sir la Foret Vierge qui s'appelait <<Histoires Vécues>>. Ca représentait un serpent boa qui avalait un´fauve. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Le petit prince)
Once on a dark winter's day, when yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares. (Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess)
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversation?' (Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. (Jane Austen - Emma)
Lorsque j'avais six ans j'ai vu, une fois, une magnifique image, dans un livre sir la Foret Vierge qui s'appelait <<Histoires Vécues>>. Ca représentait un serpent boa qui avalait un´fauve. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Le petit prince)