... wants to hear the end of the story. She
knows stories for a thousand and one nights. The Arabic name for these stories
(Alf Leila wa Leila)
means The
Thousand and One Nights.
The stories in ... Salem could hear the sound of water and birdsong.
Then he heard other sounds. They came fromtheother old men .The men wore black, and they cried in their
rooms.
The first old man took Salem into ...
important. Thestories in
Tales fromtheArabianNights
are very old. People in Europe first read them in French
between 1704 and 1717. They don't come from one place, but from many different...
... to the potential extent and cost
of Large Area Lead Site cleanups. Other factors
being equal, the higher the bioavailability, the
lower the soil lead level indicated by the IEUBK
model for the ... Dioxin from Pulp and Paper and Lead in Soil at Mining Sites
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Abstract
Table of Contents
Introduction iii
A. Control of Dioxins (and Other Organochlorines) fromthe Pulp and Paper Industry
Under the ... acquisition and use of science in addressing dioxins (and other
organochlorines) fromthe pulp and paper industry under the Clean Water Act and lead in soil at
large Superfund mining sites. The common...
... colour as
they danced from room to room until the minute-hand on the clock came up to the
hour And then, when they heard the first sound of the clock, everything stopped as
before.
The dreams ... people in
his land were dead, he chose a thousand healthy and happy friends and took them away
from the city. He took them over the hills and far away, to his favourite house, in the
middle of ... easily. Then,
on the fourth day, the police came. I was not worried when they searched the house. They
asked me to come with them as they searched. They looked everywhere, several times.
Then they...
... very rich and since ruined. To tell
the truth, without false modesty, they pursued me and finally captured me. The mother
(the father was away) laid all sorts of traps, and one of these, a trip ... thousand.)
" ;And all know it, and pretend not to know it. In all the novels are described down to
the smallest details the feelings of the characters, the lakes and brambles around which
they ... cases—in reality, they are
innumerable—where they have killed, now a child in its mother's womb, asserting
positively that the mother could not give birth to it (when the mother could give...
... sons
and Wilde wrote a book of stories for the boys. The book was called The Happy Prince
and Other Tales (1888). Three of thestories in this book are taken from there. Theother
four stories ... for you. Ask my mother to speak to me.’
The star child’s mother put her hand on his head and said, ‘Stand up’.
He stood up and looked at them. Now they were a king and queen.
The queen said, ... Pearson Education 2001
The Young King and
other Stories
– 2 –
The Young King
and OtherStories
Level 3
Retold by Sue Harmes
Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter...
... about their lives? Will they be happy?
The Dream andOtherStories
Language in use
Look at the sentence on the right. Then
make these sentences into one in the
lime way. Use
who, whose
and
...
ã the Andes ã the River Amazon
2 Discuss in pairs why these are important in the story.
Miami
Portugal
the Yucatan
The Dream andOtherStories
Language in use
Loок at the sentence on the ... Dream andOtherStories
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Nothing came fromthe darkness. The rain andthe wind were blowing in, so
she entered and shut the door. She was conscious of the horses, though she could
not see them,...
... why the criminals were interested in
the cellar of the bank. What was the
reason?
Why were three policemen waiting at the front door of Wilson's
shop?
7
Watson andthe others waited in the ... doctor.
'Then
let's hear their
story,'
said Holmes.
The two women told their story very clearly. They had been
awakened from their sleep by a loud noise. A minute later, they
heard another ... noose. Then he threw the
snake into the iron safe and closed the door. The metal door
clanged shut.
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The Speckled Band
N
ext morning, we took Helen Stoner away from Stoke
Moran.
The poor girl was...
... reached the next station.
There the lawyer andthe lady went out, as well as the clerk. We were left alone,
Posdnicheff and I.
"They say it, and they lie, or they do not understand," ... them, and
then not love them; and when they love, they do not wish to feel fear for the child's
health and life. That is why they do not wish to nurse them. 'If I nurse it,' they ... far from these two travellers, and, as the train was not in motion, I
could catch bits of their conversation when others were not talking.
They talked first of the prices of goods andthe condition...
... fright, and to tell Siliavka to hold his tongue, but now the affair
had become public, and could not escape the cognisance of the
authorities.’
The Jew andOtherStories
3
‘But what’s the ... said the same evening to Fustov, on the way home with
The Jew andOtherStories
2
calm morning; the long lines of our fortifications were lost in the
mist; I gazed till I was weary, and then ... steps from him, there appeared from behind the slope
of an earthwork the whiskered countenance of the sergeant Siliavka,
and gradually the whole of his long clumsy figure rose up fromthe
ground....
... came in twos and threes, adults and chil-
dren, along the paths that led down fromthe colony perimeter road
through the farmlands to the park. Others emerged fromthe doors at the
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The woman ... that Carey and some others had used the
cover of the festival to sneak out of the colony onto the surface. The
“First Imprints Club.” In the dead lunar surface the marks of their urine
in the dust ... the shadow on the north side of the largest, she dug away the
top layer of regolith and stuffed the suit into the pit. She shoved the dirt
back over the suit. By the time she was done, her hands...
... from one end of
the room to the other, on which baby-clothes and a pair of big black trousers are hanging.
There is a big patch of green on the ceiling fromthe ikon lamp, andthe baby-clothes ... " ;The child is crying, and you are
asleep!"
He gives her a sharp slap behind the ear, and she shakes her head, rocks the cradle, and
murmurs her song. The green patch andthe shadows from ... baby-clothes and
the trousers throw long shadows on the stove, on the cradle, and on Varka. . . . When the
lamp begins to flicker, the green patch andthe shadows come to life, and are set in...