Tài liệu LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY- The Rubber Plant''''''''s Story doc

... automobiles in the street and the dates on the labels inside at the same time. Well, then the angel that was molting for the musical comedy lost his last feather and the company broke up. The ponies ... SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY The Rubber Plant's Story We rubber plants form the connecting link between the vegetable kingdom and the decorations of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 12:15

... boy of Ned, the chimbley-sweeper’s! He kept him small on purpose, and let him out by the job. But the father gets lagged; and then the Juvenile Delinquent Society comes, and takes the boy away ... opened for the purpose of explaining the nature and properties of the various implements it contained, and the peculiar beauties of their construction, than he fell over the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 02:15

... so maddened the murderers with the sight, that in their horror they had confessed their guilt, and yelled for the gibbet to end their agony. Here, too, he read of men who, lying in their beds ... night, had been tempted (so they said) and led on, by their own bad thoughts, to such dreadful bloodshed as it made the flesh creep, and the limbs quail, to think of. The terrible...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 02:15

... pursuers. There was little to be made out, in the mist and darkness; but the loud shouting of men vibrated through the air, and the barking of the neighbouring dogs, roused by the sound of the alarm ... on these terms; and the party being somewhat re- assured by the discovery (made on throwing open the shutters) that it was now broad day, took their way upstairs; w...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... unexpected! In the silence of the night, too!’ The doctor seemed expecially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established ... drove up to the garden-gate: out of which there jumped a fat gentleman, who ran straight up to the door: and who, getting quickly into the house by some mysterious...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... and the other half, that poor Mr. Chickweed had gone mad with grief.’ ’What did Jem Spyers say?’ inquired the doctor; who had returned to the room shortly after the commencement of the story. ... rose from the chair by the bedside, and remarked, that if the officers had any doubts upon the subject, they would perhaps like to step into the next room, and have Brittl...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... too; like all the other days in that most happy time! There was the little church, in the morning, with the green leaves fluttering at the windows: the birds singing without: and the sweet-smelling ... wakened up within them by the sight of the sky, and hill and plain, and glistening water, that a foretaste of heaven itself has soothed their quick decline, and they ha...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... balance! Oh! the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it; the DESPERATE ... tolling for the funeral service. A group of humble mourners entered the gate: wearing white favours; for the corpse was young. They stood uncovered by a grave; and there was...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... coldly, mother,’ said the young man. ’Not coldly,’ rejoined the old lady; ‘far from it.’ ’How then?’ urged the young man. ‘She has formed no other attachment?’ ’No, indeed,’ replied his mother; ... days. The birds were once more hung out, to sing, in their old places; and the sweetest wild flowers that could be found, were once more gathered to gladden Rose with their beauty....

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... to the spot from which they proceeded, they found him, pale and agitated, pointing in the direction of the meadows behind the house, and scarcely able to articulate the words, The Jew! the ... what was the matter. On they all went; nor stopped they once to breathe, until the leader, striking off into an angle of the field indicated by Oliver, began to search, narrowl...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15