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All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west. - Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! [1855] Near the end of February 1857, I think about the 20th or so, though it don't much matter; I only know it was near the latter end of summer, burning hot, with the bushfires raging like volcanoes on the ranges, and the river reduced to a slender stream of water, almost lost upon the broad white flats of quartz shingle. - Henry Kingsley, The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn [1859] (ch. 1) Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed. - Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer [2000] (ch. 1) On a cool October day in the oak-forested hills of Lorena Province in Iran, a lost child was saved in an inconceivable way. - Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder [2002] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I was a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign. I'm not lying. He got stuck up there. About nineteen people congregated during the time it took for Norman Strick to walk up to the Courthouse and blow the whistle for the volunteer fire department. They eventually did come with the ladder and haul him down, and he wasn't dead but lost his hearing and in many other ways was never the same afterward. They said he overfilled the tire. - Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees [1988] The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing-fleet. - Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous [1897] He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher--the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that "fire-breathing dragon," hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror's loot. - Rudyard Kipling, Kim [1901] Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd are Privates in B Company of a Line Regiment, and personal friends of mine. Collectively I think, but I am not certain, they are the worst me in the regiment so far as genial black guardism goes. - Rudyard Kipling, Soldiers Three [1888] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The Navy is very old and very wise. - Rudyard Kipling, The Fringes of the Fleet [1915], a small booklet It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee Hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big grey nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. - Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book [1894] (ch. 1) "What do you think she'd do if she caught us? We oughtn't to have it, you know," said Maisie. "Beat me, and lock you up in your bedroom," Dick answered, without hesitation. "Have you got the cartridges?" "Yes; they're in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord?" "Don't know. Take the revolver, if you are afraid, and let me carry them." "I'm not afraid." Maisie strode forward swiftly, a hand in her pocket an her chin the air. Dick followed with a small pin-fire revolver. - Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed [1890] (ch. 1) Like the slow rising of the river after an early snow melt in the mountains, he seeped into my life, unhurried, almost without notice, until the strength and breadth of him covered everything that had once been familiar, made it different, new over old. - Jane Kirkpatrick, A Sweetness to the Soul [1995] To know me you have to fly with me. - Walter Kirn, Up in the Air [2001] My grandparents came from the two largest cities in Hungary-- Budapest & Debretzen--in 1903. - Robert Klein, The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue [2005] (ch. 1) I drank. I drank Fume Blank at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, and I drank double shots of Johnnie Walker Black on the rocks at a dingy Chinese restaurant across the street from my office, and I drank at home. For a long time I drank expensive red wine, and I learned to appreciate the subtle differences between a silky Merlot and a tart Cabernet Sauvignon and a soft, earthy Beaucastel from the south of France, but I never really cared about those nuances because, honestly they were beside the point. - Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story [1996] He was restless, curiously remote. - Fletcher Knebel, Vanished [1968] Archie DuPage opened the door, but a blast of trumpets rang down the corridor and drove him back inside the hotel room. California, here we come! - Fletcher Knebel and Charles Waldo Bailey II, Convention [1964] (ch. 1) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The parking lot stretched away to the north, cheerless and vacant. Its monotonous acres of concrete were unbroken except where the occasional shadow of a maple tree speared thinly across the pavement. In the nearby lagoon that opened out into the Potomac, small craft lay in rows at their moorings as though glued to a mirror. No ripple disturbed the surface of the water where it reflected the early-morning sun that was now rising over the silent domes and roofs of Washington across the river. - Fletcher Knebel and Charles Waldo Bailey II, Seven Days in May [1962] (Sunday) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK When spring was almost done the war began in earnest. - Eric Mobray Knight, This Above All [1941] I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before. - John Knowles, A Separate Peace [1959] The cell door slammed behind Rubishov. - Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon [1940] The day we won the lottery I was wearing wax lips that my father had bought for the Nose Picker and me at a truck stop. - Jim Kokoris, The Rich Part of Life [2001] (ch. 1) The shots were loud and dull, like a stripper I used to know. - Todd Komarnicki, Free [1993] In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate Praise be to God, Lord of the Universe, The Compassionate, the Merciful, Sovereign of the Day of Judgement! You alone we worship, and to You alone we turn for help. Guide us to the straight path, The path of those whom You have favoured, Not of those who have incurred Your wrath, Nor of those who have gone astray. - Koran, 1:1 ALIF lam mim. This Book is not to be doubted. It is a guide for the righteous, who have faith in the unseen and are steadfast in prayer; who give in alms from what We gave them; who trust what has been revealed to you and to others before you, and firmly believe in the life to come. - Koran, (Dawood translation), 2:1 The Cow Displaying page 48 of 95 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 [48] 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95
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