In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in his greatness.
satya - Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:52:23 AM
Read the complete story "The Defeat of the City"
satya - Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:36:25 PM
what is Kilkenny struggle
satya - Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:46:50 PM
it is not clear what this means
it is not clear what this means
satya - Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:52:09 PM
a definition
A wild, dark blue berry which resembles the blueberry. Huckleberries have hard seeds in the center and a thicker skin than the blueberry. They are good eaten plain or in pies, muffins, and other baked goods. Recipe: Huckleberry Crisp
satya - Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:57:51 PM
definition
A dance at which young ladies are formally presented
satya - Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:15:05 PM
of pendant prisms
There was always something in her voice that made you think of lorgnettes, of accounts at Tiffany's, of sledges smoothly gliding on the trail from Dawson to Forty Mile, of the tinkling of pendant prisms on your grandmothers' chandeliers, of snow lying on a convent roof; of a police sergeant refusing bail
satya - Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:17:04 PM
a youth
A grinning, stentorian, sarcastic youth driving a mule to a spring wagon hailed Robert savagely.
satya - Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:19:44 PM
An Arctic wraith
An Arctic wraith
satya - Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:20:22 PM
Tom was stripped of his assurance
Tom was stripped of his assurance
satya - Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:22:48 PM
A homeward path
They drove homeward. The low sun dropped a spendthrift flood of gold upon the fortunate fields of wheat. The cities were far away. The road lay curling around wood and dale and bill like a ribbon lost from the robe of careless summer. The wind followed like a whinnying colt in the track of Phoebus's steeds.
satya - Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:25:49 PM
leaf, bud and blossom
Leaf and bud and blossom conversed with him in the old vocabulary of his careless youth - the inanimate things
satya - Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:35:39 PM
white spirit in the dusk
Through it all she sat immovable, a slim, white spirit in the dusk that no man might question or read.